Mothman · Butler, Pennsylvania · 2011
PA-2011ID case-16d218b4b1Added to map Nov 3, 2026
- Creature
- Mothman
- When
- Mar 2011to the month
- Where
- Butler, Pennsylvaniato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A man driving on a rural road in March 2011 saw a 7 to 8 ft tall creature with a moth manlike structure.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Mothman
- Where
- Butler, Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Mar 2011
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 3, 2026
- Case id
- case-16d218b4b1
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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.
- My Personal Encounters with Sasquatch (RELOADED) - Ep. 194 - June 20, 2026
YouTube · 2026-06-24
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.