Home The legend of the Vegetable Man: How a bloodsucking alien left its mark on West Virginia Vegetable Man Encounter on Cover of 1976 Gray Barker Newsletter

Vegetable Man Encounter on Cover of 1976 Gray Barker Newsletter

In the wooded hills of northern West Virginia, Vegetable Main appeared in 1968.

The alleged encounter was immortalized on the cover of a Gray Barker newsletter.

Vegetable Man Childrens Book by Michael Strayer

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