Mothman · Bloomington, Indiana · 2008
IN-2008ID case-79eacd1ff4Added to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Mothman
- When
- Aug 26, 2008to the day
- Where
- Bloomington, Indianato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports two people saw a strange winged figure outside a trailer in Bloomington, Indiana, on August 26, 2008.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Mothman
- Where
- Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Aug 26, 2008
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-79eacd1ff4
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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.
- Bloomington, Indiana, 'MOTHMAN': Witness Reports Red-Eyed Figure Rising Through the Trees
pandm · 2026-11-05
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
Books that mention this place
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- Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
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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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