Mothman is a winged creature at the center of an iconic legend from a small town in West Virginia.
The Mothman is part of a local legend in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Made popular by “The Mothman Prophecies,” a book by John Keel, the Mothman is thought to resemble a cross between a man and a brown or reddish moth with wings.
Legend has it that the Mothman has been lurking around West Virginia since the 1960s. One of the first purported sightings of the winged creature was on November 12, 1966, when five men were working at a cemetery to prepare a grave for burial and spotted a “brown human being” emerge and fly out of the trees.
The story goes that a few nights later, two young couples spotted the mysterious Mothman creature during a night drive just north of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. The Mothman has been a local legend ever since, and the town draws thousands each year to the annual Mothman Festival.
