The Legend of the Mothman: What Really Happened?
It appears that some of the most quiet and unsuspecting places harbor some of the most terrifying occurrences. In the town of Point Place, located in quaint West Virginia, one of the most awful years ever experienced by an entire town took place. The year was 1966 and the atrocities continued on for a year.
The events that took place were credited to none other than The Mothman. If you haven’t heard of him, you’re about to, and if you have heard of this creature and the grisly phenomena that was seemingly caused by him, you’re about to see how the stories that have circulated match up to the facts documented from that awful year and what science has to say about it.
The Legend
November 12th of 1966 was the first sighting of what the Mothman. Though this creature had not yet been coined as the Mothman as of yet, a pair of graveyard workers reported that they had noticed a creature that appeared to be half of a moth and half of a man flying overhead and rustling through the trees above them. The sight scared them so badly that they actually ended up leaving work that day, never to return again.
Within a week’s time, more and more sightings of the same creature came in a surge by phone and letter. Some citizens of Point Place had stated that they had heard strange noises outside of their house, and after investigating with a flashlight, saw a horrible half man, half moth creature with red eyes that were further illuminated by the flashlight.
Another account made by a couple traveling down a road stated that this creature, with his ten foot wingspan out, followed them in the air as they were en route to a former World War II base.
More and more sightings of the humungous winged man-creature with the red eyes that lit up when light was shone upon them. Residents of the town were also reporting that something was killing their family pets and leaving only empty skeletons and fur remnants, appearing to have eaten the innards of these little creatures. The Mothman was obviously blamed for this, and the sightings kept growing right along with the fear of the citizens of this tiny little town.
Teenagers who would park in the evenings in lover’s lane type of drives would abandon their vehicles as they stated that the giant winged man would jump on top of their cars and harass them. However, these teens, along with everyone else, remained unharmed.
Coming to a head in December of 1967, the Silver Bridge ended up collapsing and as a result, 46 people ended dying. The survivors of this terrible incident reported seeing the Mothman above the bridge right before it collapsed and as a result, the creature was blamed as the culprit for this. The road commission at the time stated that they had found nothing wrong with any of the bridge’s infrastructure and it appeared that crucial, industrial sized hinges had appeared to have been pulled out—something that could have only been done by way of machine. One man stated that after sighting the Mothman outside of his house one night, he had then since had premonitions of the collapse of this bridge, furthering the ties between the two.
The Mothman seemed to have simply flew away after that. As the years passed on, Point Place eventually even added a statue of the Mothman and opened up a museum of photographs of alleged sightings and evidence produced such as pieces of the bridge and so on.
The Truth
While all of these reports of family pet slaughters, the mysterious winged man stalking from the trees and in the streets, and of course, the bridge are verified to be as true accounts made by the eyewitnesses, science has quite a reasonable explanation.
After decades of thorough investigations performed on each and every piece of evidence that had been produced, it has been deduced that the reasonable explanation is that this was not actually some anomaly of a man, but rather—a massive bird called the green heron, otherwise known as the “Shitepoke” bird. In the night, they are black in appearance and when their eyes are illuminated, will show as red. Their wingspan is not quite ten feet, but fear and rouse of the general public is known to create exaggerations.
Scientists do not believe that the Silver Bridge collapse was correlated whatsoever with the Mothman—or, in actuality—a green heron. More recent tests have shown that the engineering during that time was less advanced than it is now and the collapse, as tragic as it was, was simply a result in faulty design.
Conclusively
Do you believe that the Mothman is real? Many will say that they certainly do, and though it is very seldom, there are still sightings of him being reported. The Mothman museum brings in millions of people each year to Point Place, and it’s definitely not because no one believes in it. Only time and advances in science will be able to tell us the definitive truth.
i belive it. theres a big difference between a large owl and a 7 foot tall being from inner earth