MOTHMAN
What is the Mothman and where did it come from? Many theories have been offered to the wondering minds.
Mothman was the name given to a strange creature sighted many times in the Point Pleasant area of West Virginia, on the border with Ohio between November 1966 and November 1967.
The Mothman has been described as a creature man-sized with wings and large reflective red eyes.
First sighting occurred in November 1966 but the first described to the media took place three days later. All were around the Point Pleasant area near an abandoned TNT factory.
In January 1967 sightings of the Mothman were reported over the Silver Bridge which connected the cities of Point Pleasant, West Virginia and Gallipolis, Ohio — In December that year the bridge collapsed and killed 46 people.
No sightings of the Mothman have been reported after the collapse of the Silver Bridge.
The largest collection of material about this creature is from the book “The Mothman Prophecies” written in 1975 by John Keel. In the book Keel lays out the events at Point Pleasant in chronological order and claims they are related to parapsychological events in the area, including UFO activity, Men in Black encounters, poltergeist activity and the collapse of the Silver Bridge across the Ohio River in 1967
THEORIES
There are several theories about the Mothman sightings.
In 2002 a book titled “Mothman and Other Curious Encounters was published by Loren Coleman. In the book he acknowledges Keel’s approach on demonology.
Many skeptics go the route of argueing on the side that the sightings were excited eyewitnesses and the allegeded creature was in fact a Great Horned Owl — the largest owl known in West Virginia — They also suspect it could have been other types of owls like a rare Great Grey Owl, although it’s a very rare sighting — It’s the largest owl in North America.
Whatever the creature may have been, it’s pretty clear that these sightings of the Mothman was no hoax. There were simply too many credible witnesses who saw “something.”
