Mothman · 2024
XX-2024ID case-de2d1fcf48Added to map Nov 8, 2026
- Creature
- Mothman
- When
- Mar 2024to the month
- Where
- Place unknownno dependable place
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness retells a story of people seeing a short moth man with big round red eyes and bat wings stop in the middle of the road.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Mothman
- Where
- No dependable place
The account doesn't say where in words we can place, so it isn't drawn on the map; the map lists it under Cases with no resolvable place. Other Mothman reports with no place (57) - When
- Mar 2024
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-de2d1fcf48
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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.
- Bigfoot And Dogman Encounter Stories: Class A Dogman Encounter From The LBL
YouTube · 2025-02-03
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.