Mothman · Tampa, Florida · 1970s
- Creature
- Mothman
- When
- the 1970sto the decade
- Where
- Tampa, Floridato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator's ex-girlfriend's father reports that he and his four brothers witnessed a winged, bipedal creature land on a road in the late teens or early twenties.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Mothman
- Where
- Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- the 1970s
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 20, 2026
- Case id
- case-5d9c656721
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Source trail (1)
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- Gargoyle looking humanoid seen in Florida? Maybe a mothman type being?
Reddit · 2017-05-30
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
Books that mention this place
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- In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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More on this creature
- 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.
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