Mothman · Ohio
OH-NDID case-48088f2100First-hand accountFallback locationAdded to map Oct 20, 2026
- Creature
- Mothman
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- Ohiofallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator reports a past encounter with a creature they describe as superficially resembling the Mothman, noting its bobbing and arm-waving movements.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Mothman
- Where
- Ohio, United States
mapped to state level · from the account's own words, recovered by a model pass after the extractor's window missed them
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the account's own words, recovered by a model pass after the extractor's window missed them. - When
- Date unknown
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 20, 2026
- Case id
- case-48088f2100
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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.
- Finally want to come clean about an experience I had when I was younger, I pretty much kept this to myself most of my life. (Long Story)
Reddit · 2020-06-13
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.