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THIS STORY SOUNDS like the creation of
an overworked comic book writer. A
seven-foot-tall, well built, humanoid
monster with giant red, glowing eyes and
huge brown wings, a creature who can
ascend to the skies from a standing position,
and fly at astonishing speeds, and who
mutilates pets and instils instant fear in the
hearts of all those who see him. Yet, for over
a year in the mid 1960s more than 100
otherwise reliable residents of a small West
Virg***an town distinctly **w the horrifying
figure that terrorised their community. They
**w ‘Mothman’.
In early November 1966 various sightings
of a huge, strange ‘bird’ were reported
around Point Plea**nt, West Virg***a, U**.
On 12th November, five gravediggers preparing
a plot reported seeing a ‘brown
human being’ take to the air from some
near** trees and pass over their heads. It was
not until three days later that the creature
really terrified the community with a close
encounter.
On 15th November, two young couples
were driving together near the McClintic
Wildlife Preserve, just outside Point
Plea**nt. The area was known to locals as
‘TNT’, because it had been used as an
explosives depot during the Second World
War and there were many abandoned
chemical and industrial plants in the
vic***ty. Late in the evening, the two couples
approached an old generator plant and **w
that its door appeared to have been ripped
off. It was then that they noticed two huge
red eyes sh***ng out of the gloom at them.
These hypnotic, staring discs were attached
to what they **id was ‘shaped like a man, but
bigger, maybe six or seven feet tall. And it
had big wings folded against its back’.
As the creature approached, the young
group sped off, but as they looked back they
**w it take to the air, rising straight up
without flapping its wings. It had a giant 10-
foot wingspan, and kept pace with the car
despite the vehicle reaching speeds of 100
miles an hour. Eventually the group reached
the Point Plea**nt city limits, where their
aerial pursuer turned away and di**ppeared.
The couples drove straight to the local police
station and reported what they had seen.
Although local police found nothing at TNT,
they accepted the young people had seen
something.
Over the next few days reports of a giant
‘bird’ terrorising locals came into police
headquarters with increasing frequency. Car
passengers had experienced the creature
swooping down on them, and the reception
on television and radio sets were being
disrupted across the region. One man whose
television failed lived in **lom, 90 miles
from Point Plea**nt. At the exact moment
his television stopped working, his dog
whined from the porch. The man went
outside to investigate and spotted two red,
glowing lights in his hay barn, at which
point his dog ran off. The man, stricken with
fear, returned to his house, locked all the
doors and windows. That night, he slept
with his gun next to him. His dog was never
seen again.
Perhaps the most chilling story concerning
Mothman happened on 16th November
1966. A young mother was driving to see
some friends, who had one of the few houses
close to the TNT compound. She **id she
had seen a ‘funny red light’ in the sky, and,
as she arrived at her friends’ house, heard
something rustling near her car.
‘It seemed as though it had been lying
down. It rose up slowly from the ground.
A big grey thing. Bigger than a man, with
terrible glowing eyes,’
she **id. Horrified, she grabbed her small
daughter and ran into the house, locking the
doors behind her. The creature followed,

creeping onto the porch and staring in the
windows. The police were called, but ** the
time they arrived, Mothman had di**ppeared.
Over the next year, Mothman was seen **
many witnesses including firemen and
pilots. Gradually the reports altered into
cases of UFOs, strange lights and ‘Men in
Black’. At 17.00 on 15th December 1967 the
Silver Bridge linking Point Plea**nt to Ohio
suddenly collapsed, 46 people died as a
result, and the residents of Point Plea**nt
were forced to deal with real horror rather
than mythical beasts. Their creature’s reign
of terror paled into insignificance and he was
forgotten. However, many people still
believe the bridge di**ster may have been
Mothman’s terrible final act.

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