Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia · 1966
WV-1966ID case-9580a28884Added to map Oct 29, 2026
- Creature
- Mothman
- When
- Nov 1966to the month
- Where
- Point Pleasant, West Virginiato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Multiple witnesses reported seeing a winged creature with glowing red eyes in the Point Pleasant area leading up to the Silver Bridge collapse.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Mothman
- Where
- Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, 25550, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Nov 1966
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 29, 2026
- Case id
- case-9580a28884
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Source trail (1)
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- Phenomena connected to disasters (listverse)
Reddit · 2017-12-01
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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.