![]() ![]() Stealing dogs? The day before Mothman stretched his leathery wings above the couples’ car, it’s possible he made a stop at Newell Partridge’s home in Salem, West Virginia. With this initial contact, and according to written reports, Mothman would be responsible for a host of strange sightings and events in Point Pleasant and the surrounding areas-lurking outside homes, chasing cars, and stealing pet dogs. Rather than raising pitchforks and torches, for several nights, curious townspeople made hunting rifles their preferred weapon. The creature’s debut ruffled the town’s feathers, making for an unsure headline the next day in the Point Pleasant Registry: “ Couples See Man-Sized .” The stereotypical inclination for a small town to form an angry mob heightened. Though a “clumsy runner” as they saw at the power plant, it excelled in gliding, easily keeping pace, even as the car reached a hundred miles per hour. According to these first eyewitness accounts, the “thing” rose up like a helicopter. Roger, the car’s driver, sped away toward town.īut the creature followed. ![]() In the headlights, giant eyes shone bright red. Roger and Linda Scarberry and Steve and Mary Mallette were driving together on State Route 62 near the abandoned National Guard Armory building and power plant when they saw a menacing figure standing six to seven feet tall. The cryptid comeback not only brings exciting mysteries into the lives of outsiders but promotes pride of place to the residents of towns like Point Pleasant.Īccording to competing theories, it was here on November 15, 1966, that Mothman emerged from either the depths of hell or the upper echelons of space. Cryptids-creatures whose existence is unsubstantiated, like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster-are found in folklore throughout the United States and the world. Lovingly dubbed “Mothman,” the creature has risen from local appearances to the national stage as a leader in the cryptid revival of the last twenty years. The last of these local treasures is, of course, extraordinary. The town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, offers its residents a landscape once claimed for France by a seventeenth-century explorer, a namesake battle site many swear is the first of the Revolutionary War, and a bipedal, humanoid, mothlike creature with glowing eyes. ![]()
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