VEGGIE MAN DAY 2025!

Name: VEGGIE MAN DAY 2025!
Start: 2025-07-12T11:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-07-12T17:00:00-04:00
Location: The Frank & Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center

Schedule

Sat Jul 12 2025 at 11:00 am to 05:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

The Frank & Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center | Fairmont, WV

Mothboys Podcast & ConjureDust Designs proudly present:
VEGGIE MAN DAY 2025!
Sponsored by Marion County CVB, Cryptid Strength, Spring Fox Studios, Spooky Appalachia, Loving WV, The Thrifty Mountaineer, Immortal Mountain, Cryptozoology Facts
When: Saturday July 12 2025
Where: West Virginia Folklife Center in Fairmont, West Virginia
Time: 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
FREE!
ALL AGES!
Join us for the second annual Veggie Man Day! A day to celebrate Fairmont’s very own strange legend. This event will include artist vendors, guest speakers, live music, food trucks, exclusive Veggie Man Day merch, and more. Don’t miss this out of this world event!
We are so excited to be holding this event at the beautiful WV Folklife Center. A place that is dedicated to the identification, preservation, and perpetuation of West Virginia’s rich cultural heritage.
Jennings Frederick and his encounter with the Veggie Man as told by West Virginia native and researcher Gray Barker in “Gray Barkers Newsletter” of March 1976:
"The encounter with Vegetable Man occurred in mid-July of 1968, just before he was to enter the Air Force. It was a beautiful day and he had been hunting unsuccessfully for wood chuck. As the sun was setting he decided to return home, and near his father’s property line he stopped under some maple trees. He removed the arrow from his 45-lb. bow and transferred both to his left hand to rest his arm. As he paused he heard a high-pitched jabbering, much like that of a recording running at exaggerated speed. He believed he could understand the words, but he may have experienced telepathic communication: “YOU NEED NOT FEAR ME. I WISH TO COMMUNICATE. I COME AS FRIENDS. WE KNOW OF YOU ALL. I COME IN PEACE. I WISH MEDICAL ASSISTANCE. I NEED YOUR HELP!” Stunned and puzzled, he reached with his right arm for a handkerchief in his hip pocket to wipe his perspiration. He winced. At first he thought his hand had become entangled in a wild berry briar and he quickly withdrew his arm. Attached to his wrist was what looked like a thin, flexible right hand and arm, of a green color like a plant, and the size of a quarter coin in diameter. The hand, which terminated with three fingers about seven inches long, and with needle-like tips and suction cups, grasped his arm more tightly and punctured a blood vessel. He heard a suction sound and knew blood was being drawn. Frederick turned to see a terrifying being with semi-human facial features, though there the resemblance ended. Its slanting eyes were yellow and it had pointed ears. Its body reminded him of the stalk of some huge ungainly plant, though it had remarkable physical power, coupled with the hypnotic effect the sing-song message imparted. He cried out in pain from the incisions and fright. Suddenly the eyes changed from yellow to red and seemed to rotate, and spinning orange circles emerged from them. His pain immediately ceased as the eyes created what obviously was an hypnotic effect, and he froze in his tracks, though his terror had also vanished. Frederick isn’t sure, but he believes the “transfusion” lasted only about a minute, after which the creature suddenly released him, turned and ran up the hill in great leaping jumps, covering 25 ft. or more in each leap, like a modern “Spring-heeled Jack”. He estimated the height of the leaps by noting it cleared a five-foot fence with about three feet to spare. At the hilltop it vanished into the woods. The pain in his arm returned as he stared in the direction of the creature’s spectacular exit. Then he heard a humming and whistling sound coming from the woods, as if the saucer the creature may have arrived in was taking off.”