Point Pleasant held its first Annual Mothman Festival in 2002 and a 12-foot-tall metallic statue of the creature, created by artist and sculptor Bob Roach, was unveiled in 2003. The Mothman Museum and Research Center opened in 2005 and is run by Jeff Wamsley. The Festival is a weekend-long event held on the 3rd weekend of every September. There is a variety of events that go on during the festival such as guest speakers, vendor exhibits, a mothman pancake eating contest, and hayride tours focusing on the notable areas of Point Pleasant

The Mothman can still be seen in Point Pleasant, West Virginia today, in the form of a historical museum, open seven days a week, and also as a 12-foot tall chrome-polished statue, complete with massive, steel wings, and ruby red eyes.

A festival commemorating the Mothman’s visits has taken place every year for the past 16 years.

I’ve realized that all this information is anecdotal evidence and went on a editorial section of a local newspaper, but alas I’m still searching for him, this elusive Moth-man.

In 1975, author John Keel conflated supernatural events and other disasters with the Mothman sightings, as well as reported UFO activity, to create his book The Mothman Prophecies (which inspired the 2002 movie of the same name). Keel even went so far as to connect the creature to the collapse of the Silver Bridge on December 15, 1967, which resulted in the deaths of 46 people (despite the official reason for the structure’s demise: “failed” welding).

The idea that visitations from the Mothman predicted impending doom led some believers to make ties to the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, the Mexican swine flu outbreak of 2009, and the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, among others.

The Mothman also bears a striking resemblance to several demon archetypes found among those who have experienced sleep paralysis, perhaps suggesting that the visions are nothing more than the embodiment of humanity’s greatest fears, pulled from the depths of the collective unconscious.

We have multiple reports on Moth-man so you can’t pin crazyness on one person, it’s across the whole town

“Paul Yoder and Ben Enochs, two firemen, said they had seen Mothman in the TNT Area on the 18th. Richard West, of Charleston, called the police on November 21. A winged figure was sitting on the roof of his neighbor’s house, he said. The six-foot tall figure had a wingspan of six or eight feet and red eyes. It took off straight up, “like a helicopter.”

“Tom Ury was driving along Route 62, near the TNT Area, on the morning of November 25. He saw a large, grayish figure standing in a field. Then it spread two large wings, lifted straight into the air, and flew over Ury’s car at an altitude “three telephone poles high”–probably about 50 or 60 feet. The next day, Mrs. Ruth Foster of St. Albans said the creature was standing in her yard near her porch. Her description tallys with West’s. The same day, people in Lowell, Ohio, saw several large birds flying over Cat’s Creek. The three witnesses followed the birds in their car and said that they were “…dark brown with some light flecks. Their breasts were gray and they had five- or six-inch bills, straight, not curved like those of hawks or vultures.” The birds seemed to have reddish heads.”

We have a lead on the Moth-man! The 7 foot, moth & a man hybrid is going to be brought to the limelight. Another couple spotted the beast in a western West Virginia town called Point Pleasant.

The report goes as shown:

“Just three days after that initial report, in nearby Point Pleasant, West Virginia, two couples noticed a white-winged creature about six or seven feet tall standing in front of the car they were all seated in.

Eyewitnesses Roger Scarberry and Steve Mallett told the local paper, The Point Pleasant Register that the beast had bright red eyes about six inches apart, a wingspan of ten feet, and that it seemed to want to avoid the bright headlights of the car, likening it to a moth.

According to the witnesses, the Mothman was able to fly at speeds greater than 100 miles per hour, although he did make for a clumsy runner, all of which was witnessed after the creature allegedly chased their moving vehicle to the outskirts of town.”

The hunt for moth-man begins in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. It started in 1966, and came to a quick end in just the following year, but that didn’t mean people were still skeptical about his existence.

Throughout the entire year of 66′, there were reports on the local and national newspapers, sightings, on multiple occasions. Moth-man was introduced to a wider audience by a 1970’s author by the name of Gray Barker and later popularized by John A. Keel in a 1975 book “The Moth-man Prophecies”.

On November 12, 1966 in Clendenin, West Virginia, five gravediggers working in a cemetery noticed something that they described as a “brown human being” that flew over their heads, gliding from tree to tree. This was the first reported sighting of what would come to be known as The Moth-man, an elusive creature that, although now widely celebrated by the town it once terrorized, remains as mysterious as it was on the night that a few frightened witnesses first laid eyes on it.

A folklorist by the name of Jan Harold Brunvand notes that Moth-man has been widely covered in the popular press, some claiming sightings connected with UFOs, and others claiming that a military storage site was Moth-man’s “home”. Brunvand notes that recountings of the 1966-67 Moth-man reports usually state that at least 100 people saw Moth-man with many more “afraid to report their sightings” but observed that written sources for these stories consisted of children’s books or sensationalized or undocumented accounts that fail to quote identifiable persons.

I do so agree with the image, darkness does serve its purpose. Seeing the light, and showing us redemption through chaos. The article, I don’t know how to react to an article with only enumerations of definitions and people were used different approaches.

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