Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia · 1966
- Creature
- Mothman
- When
- Nov 15, 1966to the day
- Where
- Point Pleasant, West Virginiato town level
- Reports
- 8 documents7 independent
The account
Witnesses Roger and Linda Scarberry and Stephen and [name] saw a six-and-a-half to seven-foot-tall winged creature with giant red eyes near the TNT area in Point Pleasant, which then took off vertically and chased their car back to town.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
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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 15, 1966
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 7 independent sources (8 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-aa02f6e82b
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Source trail (8)
Down the rabbit hole → 7 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. - John Keel’s Classic Investigations Validate the Virtual Experience Model. This article is part of a series based on my chapter in Volume 2 of the 2022 book “A Greater Reality” co-authored and edited by Reinerio Hernandez. His compendium can now be viewed without
Reddit · 2024-07-02 - The Mothman: A Creepy Creature, UFOs, and a Deadly Omen
Reddit · 2025-01-29
Show 5 more sources
- Art Bell | Midnight in the Desert | Ken Gerhard - Flying Humanoids: Winged Creatures of the Night
YouTube · 2025-03-30 - Personal, euhemerist theory
Reddit · 2026-08-09 - Personal, euhemerist theory
Reddit · 2026-08-09 - Monstrous "Moth Man" Terrifies West Virginia Town | Ancient Aliens | History
YouTube - Search For The Mothman (2002) John A Keel
YouTube
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.
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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.