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Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Every West Virginia monster festival in 2025
CLARKSBURG, (WBOY) — Cryptid festivals are a staple in West Virginia and are some of the most well-attended events throughout the year; if you have a favorite West Virginia monster, it probably has its own special day. If you want to get a taste of West Virginia's mysterious side in 2025, here's a list of all the biggest cryptid festivals in West Virginia this year: The Grafton Monster Festival will be holding its second-ever event this year to celebrate West Virginia's most amorphous cryptid. In its first year, the festival had numerous vendors, a cryptid cosplay contest and a Grafton Monster calling contest. The festival begins on Friday, June 13 at 5 p.m. in downtown Grafton, and you can find the latest details and announcements on the festival on the official Grafton Monster Festival Facebook page. Another new addition to the West Virginia cryptid festival circuit is Veggie Man Day, held at the Frank & Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center at Fairmont State University. Though smaller than most other cryptid festivals in the state, attendees will be able to peruse several different cryptid and paranormal-oriented artists and listen to different guest lectures throughout the day. The event will be held on Saturday, July 12, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., but if you've never even heard of Veggie Man, you can read all about its legend here. What is the Vegetable Man of West Virginia? The West Virginia Bigfoot Festival is one of the largest cryptid festivals in West Virginia and is organized each year by the West Virginia Bigfoot Museum. The three-day event will have plenty of food trucks, vendors and live music, and is a great time to check out the Bigfoot museum if you haven't already. This year's festival will be held at Holly-Gray Park between Flatwoods and Sutton in Braxton County. You can find the most recent updates to festival plans at the official event page on Facebook. Although not technically a cryptid, Lurch Fest is a celebration of Addams Family actor and Philippi native Ted Cassidy, who plays Lurch in the 1960s sitcom. The festival has been previously attended by Cassidy's son Sean, as well as Christofer Cook, a Ted Cassidy biographer. The event will be held outside the Barbour County Historical Museum from noon to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 2. The Flatwoods Monster Convention will be returning to Braxton County on Sept. 13. at the Days Inn & Suites by Wyndham in Flatwoods. This year's convention will have a costume contest, a Flatwoods Monster photo op and guest speakers. Admission for the convention is $10 and will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 13. VIP tickets to the event on Sept. 12 are also available. The 3 most famous artworks inspired by West Virginia's Mothman cryptid The West Virginia cryptid calendar will end in a bang with its largest event, the annual Mothman Festival held in Point Pleasant. The event is attended by thousands of people each year who visit the town from across the country. Besides checking out the Mothman Museum, visitors can look forward to dozens of vendors, guest speakers, bus tours of the nearby TNT plant, live music and more. Mothman is easily the state's most popular cryptid, being the subject of two different movies (one of which was never released), a museum, a brick set, a variety of potato chips, a minigolf course and an escape room, along with much more. This year's Mothman Festival will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 20 in downtown Point Pleasant. You can find more information at the festival's event page here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Age
08-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- The Age
This regal kitchen has dramatic views of Hobart's skyline and the Derwent River
From the outside, an imposing Italianate Victorian mansion in Hobart has a regal look that is enhanced by slender elongated chimneys and fine filagree wrought iron lacework. But rather than a foreboding front entrance overseen by Lurch the butler from the TV series The Addams Family, the front door is to the side and visitors are met by frisky Labradors. Renovated for a couple with three children and two dogs, the family home in the northern suburb of Mount Stuart is neither eerie nor pretentious. 'Our clients had a certain vision in their minds but were not exactly sure how to achieve it – something that was quite layered and, importantly, liveable. From memory, a few keywords were 'being able to see both the garden and the sky',' says architect Shamus Mulcahy, who worked closely with colleagues Bek Verrier and Sophie Bence, a co-director of Bence Mulcahy Architecture. Neither the dramatic view of the Hobart skyline or the Derwent River was clearly visible from the house's former kitchen, a 1980s glass box that had been crudely tacked onto the back of the house with little consideration for either aspect or heat retention. About two by four metres in area, the old rudimentary kitchen was far from functional or desirable to be in. Another idea suggested by the owners was to create a kitchen that felt more like a 'potting shed', where souvenirs from travels could be displayed alongside kitchen utensils within reach. Vases and objects lovingly brought back to life by the owners, and flowers picked from the garden are scattered on the mild steel shelves. And rather than a slab of marble on the benches, Bence Mulcahy opted for brass – with the imprints and marks made over time. Combined with Tasmanian oak joinery, the kitchen is a place to enjoy the art of cooking or the views that extend beyond the back garden to the Eastern Shore and Frederick Henry Bay. The six-metre-high void of the new dining nook also magnifies the vista, with the steel and glass window in the ensuite to the main bedroom, directly above, also benefiting from this aspect. 'It was quite a challenging brief as providing a view from the bath tub meant creating a stepped or recessed effect,' says Mulcahy, who was also conscious of retaining the established cyprus and the mature pear tree that now almost reach the home's pitched slate roof.
Sydney Morning Herald
08-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- Sydney Morning Herald
This regal kitchen has dramatic views of Hobart's skyline and the Derwent River
From the outside, an imposing Italianate Victorian mansion in Hobart has a regal look that is enhanced by slender elongated chimneys and fine filagree wrought iron lacework. But rather than a foreboding front entrance overseen by Lurch the butler from the TV series The Addams Family, the front door is to the side and visitors are met by frisky Labradors. Renovated for a couple with three children and two dogs, the family home in the northern suburb of Mount Stuart is neither eerie nor pretentious. 'Our clients had a certain vision in their minds but were not exactly sure how to achieve it – something that was quite layered and, importantly, liveable. From memory, a few keywords were 'being able to see both the garden and the sky',' says architect Shamus Mulcahy, who worked closely with colleagues Bek Verrier and Sophie Bence, a co-director of Bence Mulcahy Architecture. Neither the dramatic view of the Hobart skyline or the Derwent River was clearly visible from the house's former kitchen, a 1980s glass box that had been crudely tacked onto the back of the house with little consideration for either aspect or heat retention. About two by four metres in area, the old rudimentary kitchen was far from functional or desirable to be in. Another idea suggested by the owners was to create a kitchen that felt more like a 'potting shed', where souvenirs from travels could be displayed alongside kitchen utensils within reach. Vases and objects lovingly brought back to life by the owners, and flowers picked from the garden are scattered on the mild steel shelves. And rather than a slab of marble on the benches, Bence Mulcahy opted for brass – with the imprints and marks made over time. Combined with Tasmanian oak joinery, the kitchen is a place to enjoy the art of cooking or the views that extend beyond the back garden to the Eastern Shore and Frederick Henry Bay. The six-metre-high void of the new dining nook also magnifies the vista, with the steel and glass window in the ensuite to the main bedroom, directly above, also benefiting from this aspect. 'It was quite a challenging brief as providing a view from the bath tub meant creating a stepped or recessed effect,' says Mulcahy, who was also conscious of retaining the established cyprus and the mature pear tree that now almost reach the home's pitched slate roof.
