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What I'm about to tell you, I have been telling for over 30yrs and it is 💯% TRUE. I lived in Tennessee in the 90's, as a teenager. It was one summer night at about 9-ish, a girlfriend and I were standing in front of my house, near the driveway talking. Our house had a porch that was lit up and connected to a long driveway. We were standing close to the street. She was facing my house and I was facing her. Then she suddenly got a look of absolute terror on her face, which made me turn around. Standing about 20ft away was something that I had a hard time believing was real. In the darkness it appeared to be a human, walking with its arms behind his back but when he got in the light, we knew that it wasn't a human. It was about 5 or 5 1/2 ft tall, standing on 2 legs. It was dark in color, had a long nose and 2 big, bright red eyes. For a split second I was face to face with it. I was so afraid that I didn't really want to look at it. I didn't know what it wanted or was capable of. Hell, I didn't even know what it was. One thing I knew for certain is that whatever it was did not belong here, on earth and it damn sure didn't belong in West Tennessee. Then it started slowly coming closer to us. At that point my friend took off down the street but I was in complete shock and stuck in that spot. Then just when I was about to take off running, it suddenly spread his massive wings (that I hadn't noticed before) jumped straight up like a helicopter and flew after my friend. His wings were so huge that I could hear them flapping against the wind as he was flying over my head. I took that opportunity to run in the house to tell my dad. I couldn't get in that door fast enough. I saw my sister instead. Then we got into the car to go look for my friend and immediately saw a crowd gathering about a block away, in front of her house. When we got down there, all we saw were his big red eyes beaming down on us, from a tree. We could hear tree branches cracking, breaking and falling from his weight. As we all stood around, in shock, talking about what we had each witnessed, we looked up and he was gone, just as suddenly as he had appeared. Everything I just wrote is the 💯% truth. For 30yrs I have had that image in my head. I've searched through countless pictures of birds, looking for an animal that looked similar to what I saw and I've had no luck. It was a total mystery that I often thought about. I just happened upon this video by chance. I had never heard the story of the mothman until now and I have chills. I'm shaking as I'm typing this. I have absolutely no doubt that I saw that very same creature, in Memphis, Tn back in 1992 or '93.
I have seen the red eyes in some woods at a lake camping in 98, it finally took off I thought it was some kind of large owl until I saw it fly into the moonlight, it was huge! Still don't know what it was, but this video makes me wonder! This was in Ohio by the way
I grew up not too far from Pt. Pleasant and used to party out at the TNT area all the time. We saw something out there one night in 1994 , winged thing with the eyes. It was watching us from the treeline. It seemed to be afraid of light. Flashlights, headlights, etc. It would even back away when I took a draw off of my cigarette. At the time I sort of dismissed it because I had been drinking A LOT, but then I saw it again while I was deployed in Iraq in 2005. I was coming back from a mission in a Blackhawk and it suddenly appeared and easily kept pace with us. We actually fired at it because we were afraid that it would get in the rotor and bring us down. It didn't break off and go away until the lights on the flighline at Balad Airbase came into view.
These local legends are a great draw to small communities, or at least make them memorable to travelers. I live in a town with a few sasquatch stories and art. It's really interesting from a sociological viewpoint as well. These type of stories are found all over the world, and it's fascinating for both the stories and humans. Mothman has got to be one of my favorites.
I believe it. I had a similar experience with a ufo and abduction in 1995, didn't report it, but the next day cops and men in black were in the field across from my house
Visited this area last week. Saw the Mothman museum. It was worth the trip. Loved this town. People were friendly. The village inn Pizza had rhe best pizza I've ever tasted. There was a cute coffee ☕ shop across from the museum that made a black and white mocha for us even though it wasn't in the menu. There is a gift shop next to the museum with all kinds of cool paranormal souvenirs. We got donuts at a bakery called Mchappy s. Walked along the river and looked at the murals. We will definitely visit point pleasant again!
@@FLIPPER1439 I don't like believing everything in the bible all of it seems like sentimental nonsense. "Be kind and loving to your enemies" "revenge is never the answer" "the lord loves you" Plus it says there were no dinosaurs or other planets. So yeah I like to think outside the bible
A friend and I went to a graduation party in southern Ohio back in 2010 and decided to keep on heading south to see Point Pleasant and all the Mothman stuff. It's a great weekend getaway and the area on both sides of the river is interesting. First time I ever heard of Chief Cornstalk, too.
The first couple weeks were the most interesting; that and John Keel's discovering that his "secretary" was following him around and checking up on what the various witnesses had told him. Things got very strange there for awhile...
I live right across the river from Point Pleasant. I used to go to Criminal Records and Jeff Wamsley is a nice guy. I saw him shook his hand and said hello...
It’s an amazing trip! There’s so much more to PP than mothman but also you can check out the TNT area and go into the bunkers. There’s so many it would take a full day to walk the paths in the woods to them.
I was killing cultist in Point Pleasant and looking at the collapsed silver bridge and the mothman statue while watching this 😂 the game has definitely sparked my interest in the mothman
Dispute with settlers? Lord Dunmore the last royal governor of Virginia went up there to then Pt. Pleasant, then VA colony with the VA Militia. He went up there in the 1770s to put down an indian uprising done by Chief Cornstalk. That wasn't just a dispute, it was a massive battle.
Do read John Keel's book. He did not think it was a space alien. His theories were more complex. Keel's work is a strange combination of skepticism and Wanting To Believe A big influence on creators of the X Files
I've read Keel's book several times and plan to read it again. He did a superlative job of investigative reporting. He was very objective. He's also an excellent writer.
@@deborahchesser7375 true on the victim for sure.But I was joking around with the idea that maybe those who thought they had seen moth man might have been triping on mushrooms 🍄
Okay I'm from point and I have absolutely no clue who that lady is lol. Long story short it was a bird but there has been absolutely NO sightings of it after the first. The bridge falling / mothman connection was made up long after.
I remember this incident very well. I'm from New York State and I was born in 1952. I remember I think my mom mentioned it to me or I heard it on the news. It really freaked me out and for the next 50 years at minimum I would not stop on overpass on an interstate or if there was a bridge and the there was a traffic light and there were people on the bridge large or small I would stay off the bridge until the light turned and then I would go over the bridge it really freaked me out.
My sister could relate. She was in her car on San Francisco Bay Bridge in the San Francisco-Bay Area in the 1980s during that huge earthquake. She was terrified.
Well, here in England we have our own flying cryptid………The Cornish Owlman. I’ve never seen him but I’ve heard his very loud screech in the Lamorna valley.
@jasonboles7591 awesome, thank you! I'm from Point Pleasant. For us it's weird that so many come but that's why I was interested in what you thought of it. We have a lot of history, mostly creepy and mysterious lol
I’ll tell you what the Horror movie featuring a Monster who was part Moth and Man who carried a prophetic message. Actor Richard Geer was featured in it (aka)“The Moth-man sightings “. Pretty damn scary.
Ah I find skeptics so funny. They will come up with anything to disprove or debunk what people have seen or experienced all because they didn’t see it or experience it, to them it isn’t real. The thing I like to say to those skeptics is “you can’t see air but it exists and it’s all around us.” Just because you haven’t seen it or experienced it doesn’t mean it isn’t real.
Because people lie. And there town was small and slowing going under so what better back then to draw tourists than to make up some mothman. Especially back then then people really believed in ANYTHING.
Reminds me of where I live. I’m 9 miles from Cavanah Hill. We call it a mountain but it’s actually a few inches or something short so it’s known as the highest hill in the world. So everyone used to go there & party & lovers would go parking up there. So it came about in the late sixties that there was at least one, but likely more Sasquatches up there. One couple were parking & one actually pulled the boy out the window before he could start the car. But it was coming back at them when the guy put it in drive & punched it. He chased them a little ways. I knew this couple well & when they got back to town they were visibly shaken, crying & the guy had huge claw marks on his face, neck & arms. There have been many claims of sighting up there but I never saw it. Then again, after what I saw what he’d done to the boy, I never went back or looked for it. That guy was my best friends brother & I was staying the night with her when he came home. We took warm soaking wet wash cloths and got all of the dried blood off we could,,, it was a mess & he was hurting so bad. He had deep gashes not scratches. We cleaned him up & the next morning his dad came & took him to our Dr. & that man believed every word. He said he’d never seen anything like it in all his yrs. of practice. He gave him a tetanus shot & antibiotics & said he’d actually needed stitches but it was too late for that by then. People still come from all over & they camp up there & look for him. Not me!!! To this day there are reports all the time of sightings up there. Ooh I’m gonna go make sure my back doors are locked. He’s only like 3 miles or so from me as the crow flies. They say he runs very very fast & catches deer & such & eats it right on the spot, leaving some really wicked carcasses behind. Police, Game Wardens & everyone else in the area just chalk it to the resident Big Foot. Once investigators came out & poured plaster into the footprints he leaves behind & im telling you it’s a humongous foot making those prints. He’s usually on the move in Spring & Fall. A lot of folks deer hunt here & deer are running amuck up there & are found half eaten raw, mangled up & just left there. There’s lots of other game up there & I guess he eats it all at some time or another. Makes a believer out of folks more every sighting. I believe they’re out there. Pictures have been taken of him from time to time. Or them. 😮
@@Old_8_gauge very well could be. At 65 I’ve learned that anything is possible.Also I’d forgotten,,, my older brother reminded me just the other night that it was the Choctaw Indians who were here long before us who Always Always called it Sasquatch. I live in what was known as Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory. And legend has it that they communicated with them, leaving them food & such. Crazier things have happened in these hills.
What state are you in? I'm in the Pacific Northwest, in Portland. I've heard some things, from people hiking and camping in the rain forests. These forests are deep, and ancient. I believe anything is possible. 🌹
Moths are drown to fire so just build a humongous bonfire to draw it in and blast it. I'm sure there's plenty of people with large caliber rifles around up there that could get together and take it out.
I'm only 106 miles from Point Pleasant, and after seeing that movie, I ain't all that happy about it. Very charming little town though. Minus the bonechilling monster.
just came from visiting the museum monday 26 2024 ''amazing place ......... want to go back and visit the ammunision bunkers ........ and visit the town more ''stay few days and hopfully seen the mothman !
I was actually partying with friends out at the TNT area in 1994 and we saw something fitting the description of Mothman. At the time I attributed it to the amount of alcohol in my system, but then I saw it AGAIN while I was deployed in Iraq in 2005. It actually kept pace with the Blackhawk Helicopter I was riding in and we shot at it because we were afraid it would get sucked into the rotor and cause us to crash.
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Ironic that most people who believe in God, don't believe in things like Aliens, Big Foot, The Moth Man, etc. I guess these people's All Powerful God isn't quite so powerful afterall.
I used to Pastor a church in Point Pleasant being from there, and we would get into conversations about the paranormal all the time. Unfortunalty, and I hate to tell the truth of our small town but the mothman was a sand hill crane that was caught a few weeks after the original sighting. It was in a brick building, about a half a mile from where it was seen. Everyone called it the bird house bc of it. They tore it down years ago but we used to play in it when we went to the fair. Anyways, Bigfoot, a lot of us think it's real. UFOs, we believe bc many Christians have seen them (imcluding myself). Aliens...not so much. Conflicting thoughts there amongst us.
@@jediknightjairinaiki560 thats a good question, The first I had ever seen that picture was on a poster at the 1st mothman festival ( 2000 i think ) it was never circulated or from any source here in Point Pleasant. I did a science fair project on the bridge collapse in grade school ( almost every kid used to lol) and it was never a part of anything. I assume it was promotion for the 1st festival though. The mothman himself wasn't a widely known legend until it was mentioned on the X Files. We never even really talked about it here much, Chief Cornstalks curse was a bigger legend. We were all shocked that anyone else knew it. Later the movie came out, after that Jeff Wamsley started the festival so it grew from there. TNT is a creepy place though, I've heard many ghost stories out in there.
Am I the only one who really likes Greg ? He seemed so different to other skeptics. Normally skeptics just call people Bulls**ters. But he acknowledged that people probably believe they saw what they saw. But he just believes there is a reasonable explanation. I consider myself a skeptic but also a dead romantic. As I don’t necessarily believe in supernatural beings like Mothman,Bigfoot, Nessie etc etc. But am fascinated by the idea of them.
Greg Jenkins, Ph.d is given here as "skeptic", but during the interview he is asked what he thinks the creature is and he says he believes the creature exists and belongs to the field of "cryptozoology", and it is something unnatural. Wouldn't that mean he believes it is something paranormal and make him not a skeptic? Am I seeing this wrong?
Okay a good doc but its not pronounced Kan-uh-wall, its cun-awe-uh. Im from point pleasant and live about 15 min from TNT. Most won't like this bc it's not as fun but, it was a bird. There used to be a 2 or 3 story brick building next to the fair grounds, spitting distance to where the mothman was seen. Everyone called it the bird house bc an oversized Sandhill crane was caught in it a few weeks after the mothman sighted. As far as the bridge, I. Am friends with several ppl that were there when it fell. My grandma crossed it a few hours before after her shift at shoneys (long gone) going back to her home in ohio. There was 0 mention of the mothman. The 1st i heard the connection was at the first festival. The CIA agent stuff likewise, it came much later. So theres your mothman. Jeff Wamsley is awesome, he's done a lot for our little town and I recommend the festival (which just past last weekend) it's a lot of fun. TNT (Mclintic wildlife sanctuary) is a creepy place but ive been there many times at night, alone, in the woods, and nothing happened. unfortunately, the myth is just a fun myth.
Jeff Wamsley has the exact hair he had in high school... He loved to platy music & opened a couple record stores.. How he became entangled with this story Idk , but I grew up there ... Its 100% rubbish.
If it actually is Sandhill cranes ppl are seeing, i can say from personal experience that those things can freak you out. Ive spent plenty of time off the beaten path in central Florida, and those things will come sneak right up on you and the noises they make are crazy as hell, theyve scared me plenty of times, even in broad daylight lol. I can absolutely see how one of those things could terrify someone at night, plus with the red eye shine and some imagination. Honestly, even though its just a bird, i sure as hell wouldnt want to be in a room with one, and they are as tall as a full sized person, and i wouldnt say "aggressive" but definitely tough and not shy at all.
When I was a kid a friend and I both saw a big blue ball of light fly over us. It made no sound and it cast no light around it on the ground or the apartment bloc it flew over. It went by super fast and disappeared in less than a second. My friend and I looked at eachother trying to figure out if we imagined it or not. SO I asked him, did you see that? He said yes. What was it? I asked. I was old enough to know about fault lines and the corresponding light phenomenons when there is seismic activity but we did not live anywhere near a fault line and there was no earthquake before or any time after our experience. Suffice to say we didn't waste time talking about it as we couldn't understand what we saw, and calling it a ufo just didn't feel right as UFO was what people who pretend to see aliens spaceships call stuff. This was real and impossible to explain. We just went back to our daily kid activities and never spoke about it again. Sometimes I tell other people about this experience but no one can really explain it. I can still see it as if it happened yesterday. A big round blue light skipping across the black sky right above us, no sound, no light trail, no light cast around it.
@@47FT47 All blue. Brighter in the middle, with a sort of fuzzy glow around it. In any other context it wouldn't look impressive or with any particular kind of complexity to it. I remember in the moment I thought it had a sort of spherical aspect to it but it went by so fast It's hard to say after all these years. There was no outer black contour around it, just the blue glow. It looked like it was not very high in the sky, but the absence of any sound and the fact that the light didn't bounce off anything around it is what freaks me out to this day. If it was just me I would have probably dismissed it as a figment of my imagination, but my friend seeing it at the same time makes it real for me. Just wish I knew what it was.
Just want my suffering to end and start doing as much good as I can for the world with the time I have left in it. I’m so angry but the position they forced me in is preventing me from knowing who did it. Just want to be happy and loved
I lived in and around Pont Pleasant several times and was contacted a couple years ago by a filmmaker in Ireland making a documentary. It's a bizarre true story that originates from Point and relates to the Mothman saga. I had the opportunity to work with him on a part of the project. Here is the trailer, Mothman: The Film That Never Was ruclips.net/video/yguwNQiTtAI/видео.htmlsi=c2gS_JW-8xTBdBmH Come to Mason County West Virginia, he will be a guest speaker at this year's festival and premiering the film as well. Hope to see you there!
It's simple. It was a great horned owl. The have eyes that often glow red at night. Things always look bigger in the dark, our perspective is warped as the background isn't there for size reference. The first sightings spooked the witness, so the remembered it being bigger...if it flew after their car, well, they may have startled it and it's young. No one drives 90 down a country road at night... they exaggerated. The story grew from there...the suggestion was planted in the community so everyone who saw a big bird thought mothman. The mind can do tricks. I went to a funeral today, thought I saw his eyes move, and his fingers.... just stress and emotion...
@@TheRealBOOSTED my bad, the mothman was a double agent working under contract to the RAND corporation to both the CIA and the KGB to cover up the falsified moon landing so that LBJ could go on to create the top secret psy-ops division responsible for the robotic birds that now inhabit the skies ... because earth is flat. jUSt FoLLoW tHe MoNEy mAn!
LOL I've lived in this area for 60 years. I have my own take on this. The guy might be right about the hallucinogen part, You can turn a crane into a strange flying creature with some power of suggestion. lol
I don't believe in the Mothman legend because there's no evidence and I have discounted every eye witness testimony as a great case of mass hysteria or hallucination. Statue looks great though.
Mothman? That such creatures may exist, should not be a big deal for us. Isn't the greatest miracle: That WE are "here" and have no real idea who we really are and what all this is about...
Visited a couple of yrs ago. Bought a t shirt. Stopped at the old motel asked about the cost of a night’s stay. The clerk working was very rude only repeating it’s on the website you have to go to the website. Like she was soooo busy she didn’t have time. We were the only two outsiders in the place and she was too busy with her buddies.🙄. So avoid that place
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Wow, I feel stupid, I thought that was a memorial to Hillary Clinton
If you travel to Pt Pleasant, try the Ichibon Japanese restaurant. So good. If you don't find Mothman, you'll at least find some extremely good food!
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What I'm about to tell you, I have been telling for over 30yrs and it is 💯% TRUE.
I lived in Tennessee in the 90's, as a teenager. It was one summer night at about 9-ish, a girlfriend and I were standing in front of my house, near the driveway talking. Our house had a porch that was lit up and connected to a long driveway. We were standing close to the street. She was facing my house and I was facing her. Then she suddenly got a look of absolute terror on her face, which made me turn around. Standing about 20ft away was something that I had a hard time believing was real. In the darkness it appeared to be a human, walking with its arms behind his back but when he got in the light, we knew that it wasn't a human. It was about 5 or 5 1/2 ft tall, standing on 2 legs. It was dark in color, had a long nose and 2 big, bright red eyes. For a split second I was face to face with it. I was so afraid that I didn't really want to look at it. I didn't know what it wanted or was capable of. Hell, I didn't even know what it was. One thing I knew for certain is that whatever it was did not belong here, on earth and it damn sure didn't belong in West Tennessee. Then it started slowly coming closer to us. At that point my friend took off down the street but I was in complete shock and stuck in that spot. Then just when I was about to take off running, it suddenly spread his massive wings (that I hadn't noticed before) jumped straight up like a helicopter and flew after my friend. His wings were so huge that I could hear them flapping against the wind as he was flying over my head. I took that opportunity to run in the house to tell my dad. I couldn't get in that door fast enough. I saw my sister instead. Then we got into the car to go look for my friend and immediately saw a crowd gathering about a block away, in front of her house. When we got down there, all we saw were his big red eyes beaming down on us, from a tree. We could hear tree branches cracking, breaking and falling from his weight. As we all stood around, in shock, talking about what we had each witnessed, we looked up and he was gone, just as suddenly as he had appeared.
Everything I just wrote is the 💯% truth. For 30yrs I have had that image in my head. I've searched through countless pictures of birds, looking for an animal that looked similar to what I saw and I've had no luck. It was a total mystery that I often thought about. I just happened upon this video by chance. I had never heard the story of the mothman until now and I have chills. I'm shaking as I'm typing this. I have absolutely no doubt that I saw that very same creature, in Memphis, Tn back in 1992 or '93.
I have seen the red eyes in some woods at a lake camping in 98, it finally took off I thought it was some kind of large owl until I saw it fly into the moonlight, it was huge! Still don't know what it was, but this video makes me wonder! This was in Ohio by the way
I grew up not too far from Pt. Pleasant and used to party out at the TNT area all the time. We saw something out there one night in 1994 , winged thing with the eyes. It was watching us from the treeline. It seemed to be afraid of light. Flashlights, headlights, etc. It would even back away when I took a draw off of my cigarette. At the time I sort of dismissed it because I had been drinking A LOT, but then I saw it again while I was deployed in Iraq in 2005. I was coming back from a mission in a Blackhawk and it suddenly appeared and easily kept pace with us. We actually fired at it because we were afraid that it would get in the rotor and bring us down. It didn't break off and go away until the lights on the flighline at Balad Airbase came into view.
Thanks for sharing tyour story. You have to watch the movie, it will have a lot of meaning for you.
Sure buddy , sure..
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I grew up there & its 100% rubish.
These local legends are a great draw to small communities, or at least make them memorable to travelers. I live in a town with a few sasquatch stories and art. It's really interesting from a sociological viewpoint as well. These type of stories are found all over the world, and it's fascinating for both the stories and humans. Mothman has got to be one of my favorites.
I enjoy these stories and my five year old has latched on to them too. We are planning a family trip to the festival in two weeks.
My stepfather was born and raised in point. He told me after the sightings he himself seen men in black talking to locals.
Which probably mean a military experiment gone wrong or shall I say escape.
I believe it. I had a similar experience with a ufo and abduction in 1995, didn't report it, but the next day cops and men in black were in the field across from my house
Sure.
@@Huan-Bingle Idgaf if you believe me. I have absolutely nothing to gain from lying.
Creepy.
Visited this area last week. Saw the Mothman museum. It was worth the trip. Loved this town. People were friendly. The village inn Pizza had rhe best pizza I've ever tasted. There was a cute coffee ☕ shop across from the museum that made a black and white mocha for us even though it wasn't in the menu. There is a gift shop next to the museum with all kinds of cool paranormal souvenirs. We got donuts at a bakery called Mchappy s. Walked along the river and looked at the murals. We will definitely visit point pleasant again!
there is something about the world we haven't quite got figured out yet
That most humans are utterly stupid.
Finally someone with common sense! Instead of all the idiots write every unknown thing bullcrap.
Definitely, and Jesus explains it all in the Word -Bible 📖
@@FLIPPER1439 I don't like believing everything in the bible all of it seems like sentimental nonsense. "Be kind and loving to your enemies" "revenge is never the answer" "the lord loves you"
Plus it says there were no dinosaurs or other planets. So yeah I like to think outside the bible
My mom was a teenager back then. She said she never witnessed it herself but she knew several people who had.
It's a demon. They are 6 feet with red eyes and big black wings.
Exactly!
Always how it happens. Never any first hand accounts but everyone knows someone who seen it 🤦
Lmaooo I like how that lady was like “ I don’t believe in ufos 😐” “until one landed in my brothers backyard🤪” like bro pick a side
Love the Mothman I’d go to Point Pleasant just to take a picture of the Mothman statue
Same!
I've been there it's really cool and the stories that you hear if you find the right people are very interesting
They hold a Mothman festival in Point Pleasant every year. It's the 3rd weekend in september.
You should check it out.
I'm sure the town would love the business you bring. I would go too if I was closer!
I did. Took my grandson, he had never heard of Mothman. We stayed at the weird old hotel in town. The lady who runs it is an odd bird herself 🤨
A friend and I went to a graduation party in southern Ohio back in 2010 and decided to keep on heading south to see Point Pleasant and all the Mothman stuff. It's a great weekend getaway and the area on both sides of the river is interesting. First time I ever heard of Chief Cornstalk, too.
The first couple weeks were the most interesting; that and John Keel's discovering that his "secretary" was following him around and checking up on what the various witnesses had told him. Things got very strange there for awhile...
I live right across the river from Point Pleasant. I used to go to Criminal Records and Jeff Wamsley is a nice guy. I saw him shook his hand and said hello...
I am a huge fan of Fallout 76, and would love to visit Point Pleasant one of these days.
Got fallout 76 crunk up right meow 😅 I'm here after the bridge In Maryland incident though. Just...all weird
It’s an amazing trip! There’s so much more to PP than mothman but also you can check out the TNT area and go into the bunkers. There’s so many it would take a full day to walk the paths in the woods to them.
I was killing cultist in Point Pleasant and looking at the collapsed silver bridge and the mothman statue while watching this 😂 the game has definitely sparked my interest in the mothman
Thank you! I'd heard of Mothman but knew nothing about the story. It reminds me of the Bigfoot goings on in Pacific Northwest.
Dispute with settlers? Lord Dunmore the last royal governor of Virginia went up there to then Pt. Pleasant, then VA colony with the VA Militia. He went up there in the 1770s to put down an indian uprising done by Chief Cornstalk.
That wasn't just a dispute, it was a massive battle.
Flatwoods WV is not too far as a crow flies and there were strange sightings of aliens/monsters/ufos there.
Yeah, live about 1 mile from there ( Flatwoods). Strange stuff always going on here abouts.
Rubbish.
I grew up on Greer Rd & lived there for 30 yrs .
Cornstalk, was the only real thing mentioned ..
@@pdrphil8159just because you didn’t experience anything doesn’t mean it’s not true
He was on "Aqua Teen Hunger Force"(number one in the hood G)
Thank god someone finally did a video on the mothman…
Do read John Keel's book. He did not think it was a space alien. His theories were more complex.
Keel's work is a strange combination of skepticism and Wanting To Believe
A big influence on creators of the X Files
And his theories are being scientifically proven. Way ahead of his time. Sad he didn't get to see his theories proved.
Glad I’m not the only one who caught that error.
I've read Keel's book several times and plan to read it again. He did a superlative job of investigative reporting. He was very objective. He's also an excellent writer.
I think thats what creeped me out when I read The Mothman Prophecies. His writing style really brought me into the narrative.
A line from the movie " You noticed them and they noticed you noticed".
If I saw something like that coming at me I'd probably pull my pistol out and eat a round lol.
maybe lots of of mushrooms being eaten.
maybe it's jeepers creepers cousin
@@wademoore5833 by the monster or the victim? It sure wouldn’t help the victim
@@deborahchesser7375 true on the victim for sure.But I was joking around with the idea that maybe those who thought they had seen moth man might have been triping on mushrooms 🍄
@@wademoore5833 down in that area they absolutely could be tweaked out or whatever 😂 spice etc.
I wish I was a cryptid. No work on monday, no dealing with other people. Just fly around scaring folks.
Lmfao
" I saw two holes he breathed out of " 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I can't 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
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🤣🤣🤣🤣 smokin that crack will do that
Okay I'm from point and I have absolutely no clue who that lady is lol. Long story short it was a bird but there has been absolutely NO sightings of it after the first. The bridge falling / mothman connection was made up long after.
I remember this incident very well. I'm from New York State and I was born in 1952. I remember I think my mom mentioned it to me or I heard it on the news. It really freaked me out and for the next 50 years at minimum I would not stop on overpass on an interstate or if there was a bridge and the there was a traffic light and there were people on the bridge large or small I would stay off the bridge until the light turned and then I would go over the bridge it really freaked me out.
My sister could relate. She was in her car on San Francisco Bay Bridge in the San Francisco-Bay Area in the 1980s during that huge earthquake. She was terrified.
Jeepers creepers
It(wink wink) chose the munitions depot because it was hazardous and people needed to be kept away from the site.
Baltimore didn’t get a mothman to predict their bridge collapse
I got recommended this vid after looking at the Baltimore bridge collapse, but weirdly when I saw the first vid of the collapse I thought of mothman.
The thing most unbelievable on the movie was when he dived into the river and it was so clear and the current did not drag him away.
I love this story, I've watched the movie several times, it just fascinates me
The Mothman Prophecy movie is hella' scary 😮
I love it. I have watched 4 times, so far. I will watch it again
The studio ruined John Keel's book. The two have very little in common. Read the book!
Its not
Heard this Mothman Story before and it hovering over O'Hare Airport 🛫 🛬 in Chicago today 😳 😅😂
Well, here in England we have our own flying cryptid………The Cornish Owlman. I’ve never seen him but I’ve heard his very loud screech in the Lamorna valley.
That’s helluva name !
I'm from Sussex and not heard of this! I've not seen any giant owlmen. But I have seen 2 UFOs that to this day baffle me utterly.
I always find these events so fascinating.
September 2023 im planning on visiting Pt. Pleasant can't wait yay...
What did you think of it ?
Very surprised how big it was the amount of people was mind-blowing the city it's self is just beautiful..
@jasonboles7591 awesome, thank you! I'm from Point Pleasant. For us it's weird that so many come but that's why I was interested in what you thought of it. We have a lot of history, mostly creepy and mysterious lol
Loved the movie.
What made that movie good was the creepiness factor, just plain eerie ya kno? Something that could very well have happened or still does.
The voice on the phone calls got me. Indrid Cold. So chilling.
I’ll tell you what the Horror movie featuring a Monster who was part Moth and Man who carried a prophetic message. Actor Richard Geer was featured in it (aka)“The Moth-man sightings “. Pretty damn scary.
Ha, man I'm from point pleasant and everyone was so excited when the movie came out. I personally thought it was boring but it's a cult classic
RIP Carolin Harris
We live alongside other realities different from our own, sometimes in certain places, these realities overlap..
Beings in those other realities seem to be able to travel between at will.
Ah I find skeptics so funny. They will come up with anything to disprove or debunk what people have seen or experienced all because they didn’t see it or experience it, to them it isn’t real. The thing I like to say to those skeptics is “you can’t see air but it exists and it’s all around us.” Just because you haven’t seen it or experienced it doesn’t mean it isn’t real.
People are strange.
Because people lie. And there town was small and slowing going under so what better back then to draw tourists than to make up some mothman. Especially back then then people really believed in ANYTHING.
or frequencies - static and electricity. infrasound, infrared...
@@camerongonzalez1909respect the culture you freaker
Reminds me of where I live. I’m 9 miles from Cavanah Hill. We call it a mountain but it’s actually a few inches or something short so it’s known as the highest hill in the world. So everyone used to go there & party & lovers would go parking up there. So it came about in the late sixties that there was at least one, but likely more Sasquatches up there. One couple were parking & one actually pulled the boy out the window before he could start the car. But it was coming back at them when the guy put it in drive & punched it. He chased them a little ways. I knew this couple well & when they got back to town they were visibly shaken, crying & the guy had huge claw marks on his face, neck & arms. There have been many claims of sighting up there but I never saw it. Then again, after what I saw what he’d done to the boy, I never went back or looked for it. That guy was my best friends brother & I was staying the night with her when he came home. We took warm soaking wet wash cloths and got all of the dried blood off we could,,, it was a mess & he was hurting so bad. He had deep gashes not scratches. We cleaned him up & the next morning his dad came & took him to our Dr. & that man believed every word. He said he’d never seen anything like it in all his yrs. of practice. He gave him a tetanus shot & antibiotics & said he’d actually needed stitches but it was too late for that by then. People still come from all over & they camp up there & look for him. Not me!!! To this day there are reports all the time of sightings up there. Ooh I’m gonna go make sure my back doors are locked. He’s only like 3 miles or so from me as the crow flies. They say he runs very very fast & catches deer & such & eats it right on the spot, leaving some really wicked carcasses behind. Police, Game Wardens & everyone else in the area just chalk it to the resident Big Foot. Once investigators came out & poured plaster into the footprints he leaves behind & im telling you it’s a humongous foot making those prints. He’s usually on the move in Spring & Fall. A lot of folks deer hunt here & deer are running amuck up there & are found half eaten raw, mangled up & just left there. There’s lots of other game up there & I guess he eats it all at some time or another. Makes a believer out of folks more every sighting. I believe they’re out there. Pictures have been taken of him from time to time. Or them. 😮
COOL👍
Local lovers lane. Note that such things, like bigfoot like to watch. Could they be the legendary " watchers" or relted?
@@Old_8_gauge very well could be. At 65 I’ve learned that anything is possible.Also I’d forgotten,,, my older brother reminded me just the other night that it was the Choctaw Indians who were here long before us who Always Always called it Sasquatch. I live in what was known as Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory. And legend has it that they communicated with them, leaving them food & such. Crazier things have happened in these hills.
What state are you in? I'm in the Pacific Northwest, in Portland. I've heard some things, from people hiking and camping in the rain forests. These forests are deep, and ancient. I believe anything is possible. 🌹
I don't live but a rocks throw from point pleasant, thinking of going there to visit this weekend or next.
I just Visited it a little while ago, its awesome 😊
27:06 Explain all the other/different mothman sights within the world...
The aliens spotted in varginha Brazil (Brazils roswell) had glowing red eyes also...
I love the accent from that part of the country.
Moths are drown to fire so just build a humongous bonfire to draw it in and blast it. I'm sure there's plenty of people with large caliber rifles around up there that could get together and take it out.
And why take it out? Typical white male American reaction. If you can't identify it, shoot it.
@@maxalberts2003 Yep. If I seen you I might not be able to identify you either.
I can’t believe this 😂
William, you are definitely a problem solver.
@@Mjg503 lol.
I'm only 106 miles from Point Pleasant, and after seeing that movie, I ain't all that happy about it. Very charming little town though. Minus the bonechilling monster.
Well the movie about it was pretty good :)
Hahaha... The men in black item in this video was probably some Blue's brother Tribute.. lol Jake and Elwood causing havoc.
Kanawha is of native American origin and pronounced Kuh-naw-uh
Locally it’s pronounced Ka-naw.
@@risjenkins1467 I live in KC lol
@@rickeycallen I grew up in WV and now live in NC lol
@@Skinny79 me too !!! Lol
Lol yeah they butchered that right off the bat!
just came from visiting the museum monday 26 2024 ''amazing place ......... want to go back and visit the ammunision bunkers ........ and visit the town more ''stay few days and hopfully seen the mothman !
Jeff Wamsley wrote a Metal song about the Mothman back in the 80's. 😁
There have been sightings in recent years of pterodons/pterodactyls. I think that is what was seen.
Maybe it was a Ropen like the one the AF pilot saw over New Guinea during WWII
@@mjjumpshow can I find that story?
Yeah, this extinct animal was spotted. Trust me, guys.
I was actually partying with friends out at the TNT area in 1994 and we saw something fitting the description of Mothman. At the time I attributed it to the amount of alcohol in my system, but then I saw it AGAIN while I was deployed in Iraq in 2005. It actually kept pace with the Blackhawk Helicopter I was riding in and we shot at it because we were afraid it would get sucked into the rotor and cause us to crash.
This town really reminds me of alot of places in Vermont.
That guy at 20:00 sure is sure of himself, isn’t he?
Yes, Greg Jenkins ruined the entire show with that know-it-all attitude!
Mothman thinking to itself “am I a joke to you” 😹
Dear, United States Government,
For all of your top secret projects, can you please test them over Canada, Mexico, or low population areas? Thanks.
Tony
Ironic that most people who believe in God, don't believe in things like Aliens, Big Foot, The Moth Man, etc. I guess these people's All Powerful God isn't quite so powerful afterall.
I used to Pastor a church in Point Pleasant being from there, and we would get into conversations about the paranormal all the time. Unfortunalty, and I hate to tell the truth of our small town but the mothman was a sand hill crane that was caught a few weeks after the original sighting. It was in a brick building, about a half a mile from where it was seen. Everyone called it the bird house bc of it. They tore it down years ago but we used to play in it when we went to the fair. Anyways, Bigfoot, a lot of us think it's real. UFOs, we believe bc many Christians have seen them (imcluding myself). Aliens...not so much. Conflicting thoughts there amongst us.
@@pastorstephentucker4642 Regarding the Mothman, what is the image seen, in photos, that was on the bridge before the collapse?
@@jediknightjairinaiki560 thats a good question, The first I had ever seen that picture was on a poster at the 1st mothman festival ( 2000 i think ) it was never circulated or from any source here in Point Pleasant. I did a science fair project on the bridge collapse in grade school ( almost every kid used to lol) and it was never a part of anything. I assume it was promotion for the 1st festival though. The mothman himself wasn't a widely known legend until it was mentioned on the X Files. We never even really talked about it here much, Chief Cornstalks curse was a bigger legend. We were all shocked that anyone else knew it. Later the movie came out, after that Jeff Wamsley started the festival so it grew from there. TNT is a creepy place though, I've heard many ghost stories out in there.
@@jediknightjairinaiki560You are a fool aliens are demons
Ronnie Van Zant looks good!
The water must be super contaminated there.
Just a lil C8, no worries
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@@yoohoober9718 c8 and possibly raw sewage
So Pt. Pleasant is only two and a half hours from Wright-Paterson AFB which is the HQ for Project Blue Book
Am I the only one who really likes Greg ? He seemed so different to other skeptics. Normally skeptics just call people Bulls**ters. But he acknowledged that people probably believe they saw what they saw. But he just believes there is a reasonable explanation. I consider myself a skeptic but also a dead romantic. As I don’t necessarily believe in supernatural beings like Mothman,Bigfoot, Nessie etc etc. But am fascinated by the idea of them.
Better stock up on moth balls!
Greg Jenkins, Ph.d is given here as "skeptic", but during the interview he is asked what he thinks the creature is and he says he believes the creature exists and belongs to the field of "cryptozoology", and it is something unnatural. Wouldn't that mean he believes it is something paranormal and make him not a skeptic? Am I seeing this wrong?
@27min 'chemicals leached into the water causing hallucinations🤡🤣
The shy is calling
Looks a lot like the red lantern fly.
Okay a good doc but its not pronounced Kan-uh-wall, its cun-awe-uh. Im from point pleasant and live about 15 min from TNT. Most won't like this bc it's not as fun but, it was a bird. There used to be a 2 or 3 story brick building next to the fair grounds, spitting distance to where the mothman was seen. Everyone called it the bird house bc an oversized Sandhill crane was caught in it a few weeks after the mothman sighted. As far as the bridge, I. Am friends with several ppl that were there when it fell. My grandma crossed it a few hours before after her shift at shoneys (long gone) going back to her home in ohio. There was 0 mention of the mothman. The 1st i heard the connection was at the first festival. The CIA agent stuff likewise, it came much later. So theres your mothman. Jeff Wamsley is awesome, he's done a lot for our little town and I recommend the festival (which just past last weekend) it's a lot of fun. TNT (Mclintic wildlife sanctuary) is a creepy place but ive been there many times at night, alone, in the woods, and nothing happened. unfortunately, the myth is just a fun myth.
Jeff Wamsley has the exact hair he had in high school...
He loved to platy music & opened a couple record stores..
How he became entangled with this story Idk , but I grew up there ...
Its 100% rubbish.
@pdrphil8159 lol I've known him for around 30 years and I've never seen his hair change
If it actually is Sandhill cranes ppl are seeing, i can say from personal experience that those things can freak you out. Ive spent plenty of time off the beaten path in central Florida, and those things will come sneak right up on you and the noises they make are crazy as hell, theyve scared me plenty of times, even in broad daylight lol. I can absolutely see how one of those things could terrify someone at night, plus with the red eye shine and some imagination.
Honestly, even though its just a bird, i sure as hell wouldnt want to be in a room with one, and they are as tall as a full sized person, and i wouldnt say "aggressive" but definitely tough and not shy at all.
When I was a kid a friend and I both saw a big blue ball of light fly over us. It made no sound and it cast no light around it on the ground or the apartment bloc it flew over. It went by super fast and disappeared in less than a second. My friend and I looked at eachother trying to figure out if we imagined it or not. SO I asked him, did you see that? He said yes. What was it? I asked. I was old enough to know about fault lines and the corresponding light phenomenons when there is seismic activity but we did not live anywhere near a fault line and there was no earthquake before or any time after our experience. Suffice to say we didn't waste time talking about it as we couldn't understand what we saw, and calling it a ufo just didn't feel right as UFO was what people who pretend to see aliens spaceships call stuff. This was real and impossible to explain. We just went back to our daily kid activities and never spoke about it again. Sometimes I tell other people about this experience but no one can really explain it. I can still see it as if it happened yesterday. A big round blue light skipping across the black sky right above us, no sound, no light trail, no light cast around it.
Would you say it was a black ball with a bright blue light coming off it? Or just all blue?
@@47FT47 All blue. Brighter in the middle, with a sort of fuzzy glow around it. In any other context it wouldn't look impressive or with any particular kind of complexity to it. I remember in the moment I thought it had a sort of spherical aspect to it but it went by so fast It's hard to say after all these years. There was no outer black contour around it, just the blue glow. It looked like it was not very high in the sky, but the absence of any sound and the fact that the light didn't bounce off anything around it is what freaks me out to this day. If it was just me I would have probably dismissed it as a figment of my imagination, but my friend seeing it at the same time makes it real for me. Just wish I knew what it was.
@@TurboNym wow, wicked story bro! Definitely interesting 🧐
Could've been a angel
Happy reclamation day!
It Didn't happen like it would have on TV so that means it was the Mothman. 'It lean to the right then collapsed. Not like on TV. Mothman!"
Theres mothman pancakes , a mothman dance , damn.
20:00 "super" natural just means you haven't seen it before or often...its still NATURAL
Aliens 👽
Mothman actually saved that town. You have to laugh at the people claiming it was just a natural animal.
Fallen angel.
Cicada 3301 the more you know the less you understand.
Just want my suffering to end and start doing as much good as I can for the world with the time I have left in it. I’m so angry but the position they forced me in is preventing me from knowing who did it. Just want to be happy and loved
Did anyone else recognize the buzzfeed unsolved sound effects?
I lived in and around Pont Pleasant several times and was contacted a couple years ago by a filmmaker in Ireland making a documentary. It's a bizarre true story that originates from Point and relates to the Mothman saga. I had the opportunity to work with him on a part of the project. Here is the trailer, Mothman: The Film That Never Was ruclips.net/video/yguwNQiTtAI/видео.htmlsi=c2gS_JW-8xTBdBmH Come to Mason County West Virginia, he will be a guest speaker at this year's festival and premiering the film as well. Hope to see you there!
I'm from Pt Pleasant, NJ, down the shore.
I did a double take when I saw the headline.
have the police confront these men in black, they are armed
Good marketing 😂😂😂
It's simple. It was a great horned owl. The have eyes that often glow red at night. Things always look bigger in the dark, our perspective is warped as the background isn't there for size reference. The first sightings spooked the witness, so the remembered it being bigger...if it flew after their car, well, they may have startled it and it's young. No one drives 90 down a country road at night... they exaggerated. The story grew from there...the suggestion was planted in the community so everyone who saw a big bird thought mothman. The mind can do tricks. I went to a funeral today, thought I saw his eyes move, and his fingers.... just stress and emotion...
Well, I was standing maybe 15 or 20ft away from that creature and it definitely was not an owl, unless there are owls that stand about 5 1/2 ft tall.
Lol Facts!!!!!
A 6 foot tall owl?
spoiler alert ... turns out it was actually the mothman that shot jfk
Cia did that don’t kid yourself
@@TheRealBOOSTED my bad, the mothman was a double agent working under contract to the RAND corporation to both the CIA and the KGB to cover up the falsified moon landing so that LBJ could go on to create the top secret psy-ops division responsible for the robotic birds that now inhabit the skies ... because earth is flat. jUSt FoLLoW tHe MoNEy mAn!
Maybe Ryuk again forgot his notebook😅
39:55 - Baby Mothman :3
LOL
I've lived in this area for 60 years.
I have my own take on this.
The guy might be right about the hallucinogen part,
You can turn a crane into a strange flying creature with some power of suggestion. lol
Really? All of the ones reporting sightings are hallucinating? Right!!!
The Shenandoah Valley doesn't extend into WV. RE: County Roads
Maybe a fallen angel. 😨
Fallen angels, demons, and or even a nephilim animal hybrid
I don't believe in the Mothman legend because there's no evidence and I have discounted every eye witness testimony as a great case of mass hysteria or hallucination. Statue looks great though.
Mothman ain't real, but tourism based on mothman is cool!
29:00 a Thunderbird is a dragon... hallow bones don't fossilize
Mothman? That such creatures may exist, should not be a big deal for us. Isn't the greatest miracle: That WE are "here" and have no real idea who we really are and what all this is about...
The guys from the show Paranormal State came there with a psychic looking for him and they went out to the TNT sight just to find him
Nephilim?
I don't think that they can fly... they were giants
Visited a couple of yrs ago. Bought a t shirt. Stopped at the old motel asked about the cost of a night’s stay. The clerk working was very rude only repeating it’s on the website you have to go to the website. Like she was soooo busy she didn’t have time. We were the only two outsiders in the place and she was too busy with her buddies.🙄. So avoid that place