![]() ![]() It definitely wasn’t a flying saucer.” So we know that much. One of the young men narrowed down potential suspects for the creature thusly: “It was a bird … or something. They later told the Register that the thing, whatever it was, appeared to fly at speeds of about “100 miles per hour.” It followed them as they drove out, but it seemed afraid of the car’s headlights. Two young couples-Roger and Linda Scarberry and Steve and Mary Mallette-were driving together in Roger Scarberry’s car from the “TNT area,” a decommissioned explosives factory from World War II, when they spotted a six- or seven-foot-tall, white creature with red eyes and large wings standing near the road. The first sighting dates back to November 12, 1966, when five men, who were digging a grave in a cemetery at the time, said they saw a “brown human being” fly right over their heads from a grove of trees.įour days later, a second, more memorable sighting was reported in the Point Pleasant Register. It helps the Mothman’s case that it was first seen by a group rather than the standard lone eccentric. I so love the idea that a person can keep a whole store in business based solely on the idea that nearly 50 years ago, a couple of residents in Point Pleasant thought they might have seen a flying man with giant wings and eyes that glowed red in the dark. The Mothman’s bulbous red eyes were supposed to light up at night, but funding ran short and the statue’s football-sized eyes were left dull and glassy.Īcross the street is the Mothman Museum and Gift Shop, which sells copies of The Mothman Prophecies on DVD, as well as touristy schlock like Mothman t-shirts and keychains. The original plan-developed by the town in 2001, after the release of the movie version of the John Keel book The Mothman Prophecies brought national attention to what was once strictly a local legend- called for the statue of the hometown monster-hero to be a towering 20 feet tall. The statue was supposed to be even weirder. The spot it stands in used to be called Gunn Park, but the name was changed to honor the statue and the figure it represents. Just off Main Street in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, there is a 12-foot-tall stainless steel statue that looks like a chrome mosquito, but with bat wings and human legs and an incredibly chiseled abdomen. ![]()
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