Mothman of West Virginia

North America is full of unusual monsters, but none are so eerie and disturbing as the Mothman. This humanoid creature with red eyes and giant wings first showed up in November 1966, haunting locals in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

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Following are excerpts from an article by Nolan Moore at grunge dot com, entitled "The Untold Truth Of Mothman".

Mothman has been tied to UFOs, Men in Black, and a terrible tragedy that occurred in 1967.

According to the West Virginia Department of Commerce, Mothman was first seen on November 12, 1966. Five men were digging a grave near the town of Clendenin, West Virginia when they spotted a strange creature in a nearby tree. The gravediggers described the otherworldly entity as "a brown human being" with wings, and the witnesses claimed that after taking off from its perch, the monster flew above their heads.

But while that's generally regarded as the first "official" Mothman encounter, some folklorists claim that sightings go back for decades. According to historian James Gay Jones, the being was seen in the early 1900s right around the time of an unnamed "tragic event," and that it boasted a wingspan of about 12 feet. Mothman then allegedly appeared throughout West Virginia during World War I, and as Jones writes, its "dark reddish feathers which glistened in the sunlight cast fear in all who saw it."

The creature then supposedly popped up several times after World War II. In one incident described by podcast host Aaron Mahnke, two motorists were driving down a highway in 1961 when a gray creature covered in either feathers or fur stepped into the road before flying away. And just days before the gravediggers saw the humanoid thing-with-wings in 1966, a group of National Guardsmen allegedly spotted a brown creature hovering from tree to tree near Point Pleasant, the town that would soon come to know the Mothman only too well.

Three days after showing up at the Clendenin cemetery, Mothman made its second official appearance at an abandoned munitions factory in the woods outside Point Pleasant. Known as "the TNT area" or "the TNT plant," this facility closed down after World War II. By 1966, it served as a lovers' lane. That explains why two married couples — Roger and Linda Scarberry and Steve and Mary Mallette — were driving around the plant late at night on November 15.

Unfortunately, their evening was spoiled when the foursome saw a bizarre being lurking in the darkness. When the beams from their car headlights hit the mysterious creature, its eyes began glowing red, but at first, the eerie entity didn't pay the couples any attention. Still, the lovebirds were understandably freaked out, so they took off as quickly as possible...and that's when the beast started following them.

Driving away from the scene, the couples spotted the creature yet again, describing the monster as standing between six and seven feet tall. Scarier still, the being had wings sprouting out of its back. The creature began flying after the car, and a terrified Roger Scarberry claims that even though he was going 100 mph, Mothman kept up without breaking a sweat. Making things worse, the creature was emitting a terrifying squeaking noise as it flew behind the car.

It wasn't until the couples reached Point Pleasant that the monster disappeared. However, they weren't going to just go home and forget the whole thing. Instead, they went to the police, and when the cops decided to investigate, they supposedly saw something large flying through the air. Soon enough, a local newspaper called the Point Pleasant Register caught wind of the story and published the account under the headline "Couples See Man-Sized Bird...Creature...Something."

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