Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia · 1967
WV-1967ID case-258a1f3a6eAdded to map Oct 20, 2026
- Creature
- Mothman
- When
- Dec 15, 1967to the day
- Where
- Point Pleasant, West Virginiato town level
- Reports
- 3 documents2 independent
The account
A tractor trailer driver reported seeing the mothman fly around his truck before it vanished into the sky.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
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, generalized to a larger area - When
- Dec 15, 1967
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 2 independent sources (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 20, 2026
- Case id
- case-258a1f3a6e
Place lookups use data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via Nominatim. All credits
Source trail (3)
Down the rabbit hole → 3 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- The Mothman Mystery of Point Pleasant
Reddit · 2017-11-24
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - The Silver Bridge disaster and its connections to the mothman
Reddit · 2023-04-02 - The Silver Bridge disaster and its connections to the mothman
Reddit · 2023-04-20
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.