The hulking humanoid figure known as the Mothman stands around 7-feet-tall with a massive wingspan and hypnotic glowing red eyes. A flood of witnesses across the world have claimed to have seen this creature. Sightings become more frequent in the days leading up to horrific events. Two bridge collapses, the Chernobyl Disaster, and even the 911 terrorist attacks all had Mothman sightings preceding each catastrophe.
But what is the Mothman? Some say it’s a cryptid while others believe it’s extraterrestrial in origin. Reports of strange lights in the sky, an unnerving humming sound, and electrical interference have all coincided with Mothman sightings. And like any good harbinger of doom, it allegedly emits a bloodcurdling shriek that’s been known to make those who hear it experience extreme nausea and vertigo.
The Mothman Haunted Point Pleasant Prior To The Silver Bridge Collapse
The first of the strange sightings actually took place about 85 miles away from Point Pleasant in Clendenin, West Virginia. Five grave diggers heard a rustling in the overhead trees and looked up to find what they claimed was a “flying man” directly above them.
Over the next few days, more reports started trickling in. Two volunteer firemen described a “large bird with red eyes”. At least a hundred reports from people of all ages poured throughout Point Pleasant between November of 1966 and December of 1967. All of the witnesses described the same bird-man with glowing, hypnotic red eyes and the wings of a bat. Apparently, the monster was also able to ascend straight up in the air “like a helicopter.”
Mary Hyre, a reporter at the time of the Mothman sightings, received over 500 phone calls, not only in regards to this mysterious creature, but also strange lights in the sky, electrical interference, strange humming sounds, and UFO sightings. Then, on December 15, 1967, a year after the Mothman sightings began, tragedy struck. During rush hour traffic the Silver Bridge collapsed, killing 46 people. The Mothman sightings stopped.
A Man In Salem West Virginia Claims Mothman Took His Dog
On November 13, 1966, in Salem West, Virginia, Merle Partridge hears a loud noise outside of his home (90 miles from Point Pleasant). During an interview in “The Eyes of Mothman,” he recalled his television making a high pitched whine sound and his dog began barking wildly.
After going outside to investigate, Partridge was startled by two glowing red eyes that belonged to no animal he’d ever seen before. He also described eerie flashing red lights that seemed to be dancing around. His hunting dog took off after the creature and that was the last he ever saw of either. He went out to search for his dog with friends the next day, but there was no trace.
Two Couples Claimed Mothman Chased Them Down Route 62
November 15, 1966, two couples, Roger and Linda Scarberry and Steve and Mary Mallette, were driving past the TNT plant when they saw a humanoid figure with glowing red eyes. Linda described what they saw on the side of the road as a man-bird-like creature with a large wingspan and fiery red eyes. She said it was about 7-feet-tall with wings folded against its back, “You could see muscles in its legs” she recalled.
The creature followed them as they drove back towards Point Pleasant on Route 62, before veering off into the fields and disappearing. The group went straight to the Mason County Police Department to share the terrifying account which soon made its way into local papers.
“I wish we had never seen it, I wish someone else had seen it.” Linda Scarberry was later quoted.
Mothman Was Hanging Around The Twin Towers The Week Of The 9/11
The few days leading up to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, several people reported sightings of a black winged creature flying near the Twin Towers. During the attack, as the second plane hit, eyewitnesses reported a creature flying parallel to the plane. In the days that followed, those reporting the creature were allegedly approached by “men in black” and warned to stop talking about what they witnessed.
The Mothman Tried To Warn People Of The Fukushima Disaster
Marcus Pules, an American visiting Japan, was out with a friend near the Fukushima plant when suddenly they heard a loud whooshing sound and a terrible screeching. As they looked back towards the plant they saw a figure Pules described as, “large and black, from the distance I was at it looked to be sitting on top of one of the squared shape buildings. It sat there for about 5 seconds then it unfurled a large set of what I could only describe as large, black wings.”
The creature took flight, circling the plant a few times before coming closer to them, “That’s when I noticed the two large red eyes. They seemed to glow from within and with a blood red hue. They were unblinking in the 3-4 seconds we saw them, we knew they were looking straight at us, we knew this creature knew we could see it and it made no attempt to disguise itself.”
The creature vanished as quickly as it appeared. Pules described an immense feeling of dread washing over him. It wasn’t until he was back home in America that news broke of the devastation left by an earthquake and explosions at the very same nuclear power plant. It was then he realized he may have seen the infamous harbinger of disaster, known as the Mothman.
The Mothman Saved The Lives Of Miners In Freiburg, Germany
On September 10th, 1978, miners heading to their stations in Freiburg, Germany came face to face with a seemingly headless creature with glowing red eyes on its chest blocking the mine’s entrance. At first, they thought it was a man in a trench coat but they quickly realized it wasn’t a coat, as it unfurled large black wings. The men remained in the mine entrance, stunned, staring at the creature. It let out a bloodcurdling screech that sent the miners scrambling out. About an hour later, the men witnessed a plume of dust shoot from the mine as it collapsed. If the men had gone into their stations within the mine, as usual, at least 36 of them would have died. The creature was later, named the “Freiburg Shrieker.”
The Mothman Is Also Connected To The Chernobyl Disaster
The Mothman is believed to have been around for the worst nuclear accident in history. Throughout 1985, many scientists and other workers at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine claimed to see a huge black bird-like creature with the body of a man flying around the plant. Those who saw the red-eyed beast also reported a series of strange, harassing phone calls and a string of nightmares leading up to the disastrous explosion in April of 1986.
April 26, 1986, the day of the accident, several people saw the ‘huge black bird’ actually flying around the smoke after the explosion. Even those in the nearby town of Pripyat claimed to have seen the strange creature that became known as the “Blackbird of Chernobyl” in the days leading up to the disaster. Pripyat was also affected and later evacuated because of the harmful radiation.
Mothman Showed Up For The I-35W Bridge Collapse
The Mothman was spotted at yet another bridge collapse in 2007. Eerily enough, the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota was opened for traffic in 1967, the same year the Silver Bridge collapsed. Then on August 1, 2007, after a month of Mothman sighting, the I-35W Bridge collapsed during rush hour, taking the lives of 13 people with it and injuring 145 more.
Reports of the Mothman began trickling in on June 27, 2007, preceding the collapse by a mere month. Many claimed to see the humanoid creature flapping its massive wings in the surrounding area and at the bridge itself.
An Illinois woman witnessed the creepy cryptid while driving just outside of Stewartville, MN on June 27, 2007, called George Noory on Coast to Coast AM and described the creature as having “ a huge wing about the width of a Ford.”
Mothman Sightings Correlated With The Swine Flu Outbreak in Mexico
It’s believed the large, hairy, flying creature the people of La Junta Mexico began to see stalking the area back in 2009 was the legendary Mothman. The sightings occurred just before the 2009 swine flu outbreak in Mexico.
Two witnesses, Angela Mendez and Viviana Ledezma experienced pure terror as they heard the creature’s screeches emanating out from an apple orchard near Miñaca Cemetery. A student who requested to remain anonymous, reported the Mothman chasing him for 15 minutes on the night of March 6, 2009. Despite the best efforts of local authorities to hunt down the entity, no traces of it were found.
Mothman Sighting Happened Just Before an Earthquake, Chicago, 1951
It was May 5th, 1951, when Chicago experienced a sizable earthquake, the only one since the city’s records began. Several days beforehand, people sailing on Lake Michigan reported a large black creature, bird-like in appearance, flying around the skyline.
The Dragon Man Of The Xiaon Te Dam Disaster In South-Eastern China
The region of South-Eastern China was plagued with sightings of a figure that resembles the Mothman in early January of 1926. Dubbed by locals as the “Man-Dragon,” the shadowy, ominous figure was seen hovering above the Xiaon Te Dam. Then disaster hit the surrounding farming villages in the form of 40-billion gallons of water. The dam collapsed, resulting in the deaths of 15,000 people.
An Eyewitness In Wisconsin Says The Mothman Attacked His Car
In September of 2006, in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Awohali, a Cherokee man and his son were driving down an isolated stretch of road at night when the Mothman attacked them. In an interview on “Monsterquest”, he shared his encounter.
The creature flew alongside and then directly in front of the windshield, close enough to touch. They got a really good look at it, describing it as “bat-like and fleshy with sparse hair and red eyes the size of road reflectors.”
He described the monster’s high pitched screech, claiming that gave them vertigo and made them sick to their stomachs. Once clear of the creature, the man’s son had to pull over and throw up on the side of the road.
After returning to the location a few days later (in the daytime) all they found left behind was a deer carcass that looked as if it had been filleted.
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