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The city of Grafton hosted the first Grafton Monster Festival
The Grafton Monster, for many years one of the Mountain State's lesser-known cryptids, was first spotted by journalist Robert Cockrell (1946-2022) late on the evening of June 16, 1964, beside Route 119 along the Tygart Valley River near Grafton. T...
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