Flap: Point Pleasant, West Virginia, Nov–Dec 1967
4 reports · 3 separate documents
Mothman (4).
In the 10 years either side we have 10 other reports within 37 miles of here.
The reports, in order
- Nov 1967 People in the area reported having dreams and nightmares about a coming disaster involving people dying in the water.
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia - Nov 19, 1967 [name] reported a nightmare involving people drowning and Christmas packages floating in the river.
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia · rabbit hole - Nov 27, 1967 [name] witnessed the Mothman on her way home from a church service and was traumatized by its devilish red eyes.
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia - Dec 15, 1967 A tractor trailer driver reported seeing the mothman fly around his truck before it vanished into the sky.
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia · rabbit hole
Sources: Reddit (4).
How we find flaps
- Plain rules, no model: reports within 37 miles and about four months of each other are grouped, and a group counts only when it is at least 5 times what that place usually sees over the 10 years either side.
- A flap needs at least 3 reports from at least 3 separate documents: one article listing six sightings is one telling.
- Copies are not confirmations: a story reprinted in thirty papers counts once.
- Investigator logs (BFRO, NAWAC, the Loch Ness Register) are left out, because a busy field season looks just like a flap.
- Only reports placed to a town or county and dated to the month are used. A flap is a burst of reports, not proof of a creature: panics, hoaxes and newspaper fashions make flaps too.