Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia
WV-NDID case-1095030d0eAdded to map Nov 8, 2026
- Creature
- Mothman
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- Point Pleasant, West Virginiato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The author reports that between 1966 and 1967, there were 162 documented cases of people claiming to see the Moth Man in West Virginia.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Mothman
- Where
- Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, 25550, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Date unknown
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-1095030d0e
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- MOTHMAN & APPALACHIA'S MYSTERIOUS CRYPTIDS | Author David J. Hardie - Ep. 235 - 11/06/2026
YouTube · 2026-11-06
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- The Mothman Prophecies, John A. Keel (2001)
The 1966-67 Point Pleasant flap, by the investigator who covered it.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Mothman: The Facts Behind the Legend, Donnie Sergent Jr. and Jeff Wamsley (2002)
Local researchers' account of the Point Pleasant sightings.
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.