Undated Mothman reports
63 cases, best-documented first. Page 1 of 1.
We map claims, not creatures. A case is what some source says someone saw or heard, with the link to that source. It is not proof that anything was there, and a retelling counts once, not as a second sighting.
Mothman · Newton Abbot, England
Witness reports seeing a Mothman wearing black boots with downward facing triangles and bat-like wings in Newton Abbot.
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The narrator reports seeing an 8-foot-tall creature with glowing red eyes and pointed wings behind a tree while looking out a window at age 7.
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The narrator reports having a lucid dream where they saw the same creature staring at them from outside a window.
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Witnesses reported seeing the mothman, described as a flying humanoid with red eyes, before and during the Silver Bridge collapse.
Mothman · Mason County, West Virginia
Witness reports hearing a screech and seeing red eyes in a grove near Camp Conley while cutting through to their aunt's house.
Mothman · Southern Pointe, Oklahoma
Witness reports seeing a winged humanoid figure gliding above them in southern Oklahoma.
Mothman · Mason County, West Virginia
Witness reports seeing a 6-8 foot tall creature with grayish black skin and wings illuminated by headlights while driving home from Mason County.
Mothman · Middletown, Ohio
A witness driving in Middletown, Ohio, saw a massive black figure with glowing red eyes and curved masses standing near a white shed.
Mothman · The Pine Barrens, New Jersey
The narrator reports seeing a large winged creature with red eyes and hearing it flap its wings outside their cabin in the Pine Barrens.
Mothman · Tracy, California
Witness reports seeing a huge bird-like creature with legs and heavy wings while driving on back roads in Tracy.
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Shoe salesman [name] saw a huge bird with an estimated wingspan of 10 to 15 feet rise over the trees near the TNT area.
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Witnesses report seeing a dark figure with orange or reddish eyes on top of a bunker at the TNT area after hearing a loud screech.
Mothman · Middletown, Ohio
A witness looked out a window and saw a creature looking through the window of their brother's room.
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Witnesses report hearing a loud crash in a willow tree followed by a fast-moving creature running through cornfields and flying away with red dots visible.
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Witness reports seeing red circles in a tree and feeling dread while walking to work around 6:00 a.m.
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The narrator reports a dream where they saw red glowing eyes and a creature attacking their car in dark woods, followed by waking up to hear loud flapping and scratching noises on their roof that…
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Witness and daughter report hearing a huge screaming bird with heavy breathing and wing sounds on their metal roof before it hopped to an oak tree.
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Witness reports seeing a creature described as a bird sitting in trees that looked like a gargoyle.
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Witness reports seeing a winged creature with black leather-like skin and yellow eyes on their rooftop at age 19.
Mothman · Ohio
The narrator reports a past encounter with a creature they describe as superficially resembling the Mothman, noting its bobbing and arm-waving movements.
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The narrator reports being confronted by a winged humanoid creature with red eyes and four arms in a forest after getting lost near a KFC.
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Witness reports continuing to look for the Mothman after the regression therapy event.
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The narrator later identifies the creature they saw as a Mothman after looking up similar encounters online.
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Witness reports seeing a humanoid creature with bat-like wings and gray skin fly over their car on a desolate road.
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Witness reports being scooped up and carried by a creature with scaly skin and wings during a regression therapy session.
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The narrator reports seeing a large winged creature with glowing red eyes in a warehouse.
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Witness reports seeing a creature with giant glowing red eyes, sharp teeth, and tattered bat-like wings on top of a horse trailer roof.
Mothman · West Virginia
The narrator reports seeing a man-sized moth-like creature on telephone wires in West Virginia at night.
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Witness reports seeing a huge black flying creature with red eyes and a six-foot wing span while stopped at a red light in southern Michigan.
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Mr. [name] reports seeing an unidentifiable figure in his bathroom mirror that was not his reflection.
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The speaker mentions having looked for the Moth Man and reflects on what worked and what didn't during that search.
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Witness reports seeing a seven-foot tall, brown, leathery-skinned creature with a fifteen-foot wingspan flying at sixty miles per hour near a golf course.
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Witness reports seeing a bat-like creature with stretch skin, no feathers, big red eyes (claimed by others), shaped like a man with wings, arms, legs, hands, feet and toes.
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia
The author reports that between 1966 and 1967, there were 162 documented cases of people claiming to see the Moth Man in West Virginia.
Mothman · Louisiana, Missouri
Witness reports that there are Momo sightings up near Louisiana, Missouri.
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Two volunteer firemen report seeing a large bird with red eyes.
Mothman · Van Meter, Iowa · 1900s
Witnesses claim to have seen a bat-like pterodactyl looking thing with a horn that emits light terrorizing the town.
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia
The narrator's grandmother reports seeing a large black creature with glowing red eyes and massive wings in the T.N.T. area of Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Over 100 people reported seeing a 7-foot-tall, winged humanoid with glowing red eyes in Point Pleasant.
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Eyewitnesses in Point Pleasant reported sightings of the Mothman and physical effects such as strange burns and inflamed eyes.
Mothman · Garland County, Arkansas
Witness reports that [name] was paralyzed by a trance while staring at red eyes near old bunkers before a loud screech caused him to flee in terror.
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Witnesses report seeing a large bat-like creature with red eyes and enormous wings that could fly without flapping its wings.
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Some people blame the collapse of the Silver Bridge on Moth Man, suggesting he was a harbinger trying to warn them.
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Witnesses report a winged creature flying at high speed without beating its wings, making chirping sounds, and causing them to flee back to town before police were contacted.
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Two young couples report seeing a creature with glowing red eyes and ten-foot wings at a munitions site near Point Pleasant.
Mothman · Chicago, Illinois
Over 30 reported sightings of a winged humanoid creature dubbed the Chicago Mothman have occurred in the Chicago area since 2016.
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia
During a period called the 13 months of terror, there were 162 reported strange encounters attributed to the Moth Man phenomenon in Point Pleasant.
Mothman · Lyon County, Kentucky
Witness reports [name] and others saw a short moth man with big round red eyes and bat wings fly down in front of their car.
Mothman · West Virginia
[name] recounts his girlfriend [name] seeing a creature with red eyes that flew straight up from the side of the road.
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The narrator's friend reported seeing a creature with oblique-shaped eyes that looked angry.
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A marine reports seeing a winged man with red eyes on a roof in Afghanistan before being killed by an IED the next day.
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Three Marines observed a silent, glowing female entity with bat-like wings hovering above them near Da Nang.
Mothman · Missouri
Witness recounts [name] screaming that he saw red eyes and was chased by a creature while walking to the witness's house.
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The narrator states that a close friend had the same encounter with the creature after hearing similar noises.
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The narrator's brother and the narrator received creepy cryptic phone calls from an unnamed person shortly after a friend died.
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Witness reports a winged humanoid creature with red eyes and no head hit their car windshield in north Georgia.
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Witness reports his friend [name] saw red eyes in a ditch and later claimed to be chased by a creature with red eyes while walking home.
Mothman · West Virginia
A sheriff recounts seeing a black void with red eyes as a child in West Virginia.
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Investigators and the public conducted a monster hunt in the TNT area looking for the Moth Man but were unable to find it.
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Another marine reports seeing a dark winged half man half beast with red glowing eyes watching him before being killed.
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Witnesses describe varying physical appearances for the creature, with some saying it looked like a giant butterfly and others describing it as a headless bird.
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Witnesses on a Red [name] report being chased by a creature that hovered over them with claw-like things descending.
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Witnesses report seeing a dead German Shepherd on the road and then being pursued again by the Moth Man, leading them to finally go to the police.