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Between 1966
and 1967, a creature known as Mothman haunted the town of Point Pleasant in West Virginia. This creature was described as
a cross between a human and a bat (or moth). It was between five and seven feet
tall, headless but with two large,
hypnotic,
red eyes, and large, bat-like wings.
 The strange
thing about Mothman is that it is apparently harmless although it usually
appears some time prior to a catastrophe. It is somehow an alarm or a signal. It
started appearing in Point Pleasant a year before the Silver Bridge suddenly
collapsed taking with it forty six victims. Forty four bodies were recovered
later but two are still lost. The Silver Bridge linked the town of Point
Pleasant to the city of Ohio.
Some people
believe that Mothman lives in an abandoned TNT mine near Point Pleasant. This
TNT mine was abandoned since World War II due to some tragic accidents and the
loss of three lives.
Roger
Scarberry, his wife, and two friends are just some of the great number of people
who reported seeing Mothman: “we were driving past a disused wartime explosive
factory close to Point Pleasant West
Virginia around 11:30 p.m. on November 15, 1966. This
strange creature gray in color, with a large pair of folded wings, which stood
6-7 feet (2 meters) tall on two humanlike legs stared at our car and started to
shuffle towards it with its blazing red eyes that seemed to peer out from the
top of its body because it had no head, or at least no discernible neck.
Petrified, we sped away at 100 mph. Later, we saw the same or similar creature
on a hillside near the road. It then spread its bat-like wings, rose into the
air, and followed the car. (The same creature - or a second one - flew after us,
emitting eerie high-pitched squeaks and effortlessly pacing our car without even
flapping its huge wings.) Once we neared Point
Pleasant, it vanished.”
Many
witnesses who saw Mothman when they were in their cars with the radio on,
reported that the radio started to emit the sound that Mothman emits. The same
night of the previously mentioned encounter, Newell Partridge, living in West
Virginia, was watching television when suddenly the screen blanked out, a "fine
herringbone pattern appeared on the tube, and at the same time the set started a
loud whining noise, winding up to a high pitch, peaking and breaking off, as if
you were on the musical scale and you went as high as you could and came back
down and repeated it… It sounded like a generator winding up." Partridge’s dog
began howling o n the porch, and even
continued after he turned the set off. Partridge stepped outside to investigate
and shined a light in the direction of the barn about 150 yards away. "It picked
up two red circles, or eyes, which looked like bicycle reflectors," but
apparently much larger. For some reason this deeply frightened him because he
knew they were not animal eyes. Partridge's dog then shot off in the direction
of the figure, and he ran inside to get a gun, but decided to not go back
outside. He slept that night with his weapon by his side, and his dog had not
returned in two days after this incident, and this is when Partridge read a
newspaper reporting the incidents in Point Pleasant.
Is Mothman
really an alarm telling us to watch out because a tragedy is going to happen? Or
is it just another case of ghostly hauntings or alien encounters? We’ll just
have to wait and see where it would be reported next perhaps we could avoid a
tragedy. Some people even claim to have seen Mothman before the Tsunami during
December, 2004.
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