In the fall of1966, the sleepy little town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia became the home to a number of strange sightings. A large, winged man-like creature was reported by two young couples traveling together. Not even a week later, five grave diggers reported seeing a similar creature.
The creatures described in both of the sightings were eerily the same: about seven feet tall with glowing red eyes and a wing span that stretched at least to15 feet. Thus from these sightings, the Mothman legend was born.
For the last half century, people have theorized that the creature was everything from aliens to angels to a misidentified species of bird to an unidentified species of bird. However, one writer claims that the Mothman was nothing of the sort. His claim is that the Mothman sightings were a number of different men, the Green Berets.
From the initial eyewitness accounts on, reports of the Mothman continued to circulate. Then, when the Silver Bridge collapsed, killing 46 people, the Mothman was immediately associated with death and destruction. Once people began connecting the Mothman Read more...