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Legendary animal

Mothman

Mothman Artist's Impression.png

Artist's impression of the Mothman
Other name(s) Winged Man, Bird Homo
Country United States
Region Point Pleasant, Due west Virginia

In West Virginia sociology, the Mothman is a humanoid animal reportedly seen in the Point Pleasant area from November 15, 1966, to December 15, 1967. The first paper written report was published in the Point Pleasant Register, dated November 16, 1966, titled "Couples See Human being-Sized Bird ... Creature ... Something".[1] The national printing before long picked upwardly the reports and helped spread the story across the United States.

The Mothman was introduced to a wider audience past Greyness Barker in 1970,[2] [three] and was later popularized past John Keel in his 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies,[four] claiming that there were supernatural events related to the sightings, and a connection to the collapse of the Silvery Bridge. The book was later on adjusted into a 2002 moving picture, starring Richard Gere.[5]

An annual festival in Point Pleasant is devoted to the Mothman fable.[6]

History [edit]

On Nov 15, 1966, two young couples from Point Pleasant—Roger and Linda Scarberry, and Steve and Mary Mallette—told constabulary they saw a large grey creature whose eyes "glowed carmine" when the car's headlights picked it up. They described information technology every bit a "large flying man with 10-foot wings", following their car while they were driving in an area outside of town known as "the TNT area", the site of a old Earth State of war Ii munitions plant.[7] [8]

During the next few days, other people reported similar sightings. Two volunteer firemen who saw it said it was a "large bird with scarlet eyes". Mason County Sheriff George Johnson commented that he believed the sightings were due to an unusually large heron he termed a "shitepoke". Contractor Newell Partridge told Johnson that when he aimed a flashlight at a creature in a nearby field, its eyes glowed "like bicycle reflectors". Additionally, he blamed buzzing noises from his tv and the disappearance of his German Shepherd canis familiaris on the creature.[nine] Wildlife biologist Robert Fifty. Smith at Westward Virginia University told reporters that descriptions and sightings all fit the sandhill crane, a large American crane almost every bit tall as a man with a seven-human foot wingspan featuring circles of reddish coloring effectually the optics. The bird may have wandered out of its migration route, and therefore was unrecognized at first considering information technology was not native to this region.[ix] [10]

Due to the popularity of the Batman Boob tube series at the fourth dimension, the fictional superhero Batman and his rogue's gallery were prominently featured in the public eye. While the villain Killer Moth did not appear in the bear witness, the comic book influence of both him and Batman is believed by some to have influenced the coinage of the name "Mothman" in the local newspapers.[xi] [12]

Post-obit the December fifteen, 1967, collapse of the Silver Bridge and the death of 46 people,[13] the incident gave ascent to the legend and connected the Mothman sightings to the bridge collapse.[9] [14] [15]

The Mothman Prophecies (2002) is a major movement picture show, loosely based on the 1975 book of the same name past John Keel.

According to Georgian newspaper Svobodnaya Gruziya, Russian UFOlogists claim that Mothman sightings in Moscow foreshadowed the 1999 Russian apartment bombings.[16]

In 2016, WCHS-Boob tube published a photograph purported to be of Mothman taken past an bearding human being while driving on Route 2 in Bricklayer County.[17] Science writer Sharon A. Hill proposed that the photo showed "a bird, perhaps an owl, carrying a frog or serpent abroad" and wrote that "there is zero reason to suspect it is the Mothman as described in fable. There are too many far more reasonable explanations."[10] [xviii]

Assay [edit]

Folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand notes that Mothman has been widely covered in the popular press, some claiming sightings connected with UFOs, and others challenge that a military storage site was Mothman's "habitation". Brunvand notes that recountings of the 1966–67 Mothman reports usually land that at least 100 people saw Mothman with many more than "agape to report their sightings" but observed that written sources for such stories consisted of children'south books or sensationalized or undocumented accounts that fail to quote identifiable persons. Brunvand institute elements in common among many Mothman reports and much older folk tales, suggesting that something real may have triggered the scares and became woven with existing folklore. He too records anecdotal tales of Mothman supposedly attacking the roofs of parked cars occupied by teenagers.[xix]

Conversely, Joe Nickell says that a number of hoaxes followed the publicity generated by the original reports, such equally a group of construction workers who tied flashlights to helium balloons. Nickell attributes the Mothman stories to sightings of barn owls, suggesting that the Mothman's "glowing optics" were actually ruby-red-eye consequence acquired from the reflection of light from flashlights or other brilliant low-cal sources.[eighteen] [seven] Benjamin Radford points out that the merely study of glowing "blood-red eyes," was secondhand, that of Shirley Hensley quoting her father.[xx]

According to University of Chicago psychologist David A. Gallo, 55 sightings of Mothman in Chicago during 2022 published on the website of self-described Fortean researcher Lon Strickler are "a selective sample". Gallo explains that "he'south not sampling random people and asking if they saw the Mothman – he's just counting the number of people that voluntarily came forrard to study a sighting." According to Gallo, "people more than likely to visit a paranormal-centric website like Strickler'south might also be more than inclined to believe in, and therefore witness the existence of, a 'Mothman'."[21]

Some pseudoscience adherents (such as ufologists, paranormal authors, and cryptozoologists) claim that Mothman was an alien, a supernatural manifestation, or a previously unknown species of animal. In his 1975 book, Keel claimed that the Point Pleasant residents experienced precognitions including premonitions of the collapse of the Silver Bridge, UFO sightings, visits from inhuman or threatening men in blackness, and other phenomena.[22]

Festival and statues [edit]

Indicate Pleasant held its kickoff Annual Mothman Festival in 2002. The Mothman Festival began later on brainstorming creative ways for people to visit Point Pleasant. The grouping organizing the result chose the Mothman to be the heart of the festival due to its uniqueness, and as a way to celebrate its local legacy in the town.[23]

Co-ordinate to the event organizer Jeff Wamsley, the boilerplate attendance for the Mothman is an estimated 10–12 1000 people per year.[23] A 12-foot-alpine metallic statue of the animate being, created by artist and sculptor Bob Roach, was unveiled in 2003. The Mothman Museum and Enquiry Center opened in 2005.[24] [25] [26] The festival is held on the third weekend of every September, hosting guest speakers, vendor exhibits, pancake-eating contests, and hayride tours of locally notable areas.[xiv]

See also [edit]

  • Apparitional experience
  • Belled buzzard
  • Bogeyman
  • Flatwoods monster
  • Goatman (urban legend)
  • Owlman
  • Popobawa
  • Jump-heeled Jack
  • The Mothman Prophecies (picture show)

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Couples See Man-Sized Bird...Creature...Something". Bespeak Pleasant Register. Point Pleasant, WV: WestVA.Net, Marking Turner. November 16, 1966. Archived from the original on October xi, 2007. Retrieved January 27, 2012.
  2. ^ Skeptical Inquirer, Volume 33 (Pennsylvania State Academy, Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. 2009)
  3. ^ Gray Barker, The Silver Span (Saucerian Books, 1970). Reprinted in 2008 entitled The Silver Span: The Archetype Mothman Tale (BookSurge Publishing). ISBN 1-4392-0427-half dozen
  4. ^ Keel, John A. The Mothman Prophecies (2007). ISBN 0-7653-4197-2 (Originally published in 1975 by Saturday Review Press)
  5. ^ Meehan, Paul (2009). Movie house of the Psychic Realm: A Disquisitional Survey, p. 130. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-3966-nine
  6. ^ "Mothman Festival".
  7. ^ a b Nickell, Joe (2004). The Mystery Chronicles: More Real-Life X-Files. Academy Printing of Kentucky. pp. 93–. ISBN978-0-8131-2318-9 . Retrieved August 21, 2011.
  8. ^ "Munitions Take a chance Closes Office of Wildlife Area Again". Retrieved Feb 8, 2012.
  9. ^ a b c Associated Press (Dec 1, 1966). "Monster Bird With Red Eyes May Be Crane". Gettysburg Times . Retrieved August 21, 2011.
  10. ^ a b Palma, Bethania. "Mothman About Town". Snopes.com. Snopes. Retrieved Jan 18, 2017.
  11. ^ Cassandra Eason (2008). Fabulous Creatures, Mythical Monsters, and Animal Power Symbols: A Handbook. Greenwood Publishing Grouping. pp. 15–. ISBN978-0-275-99425-nine.
  12. ^ Richard Moreno (Baronial 6, 2013). Myths and Mysteries of Illinois: Truthful Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 142–. ISBN978-1-4930-0231-3.
  13. ^ LeRose, Chris. "The Collapse of the Silver Bridge". West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly. Westward Virginia Partition of Culture and History. Retrieved September 24, 2014.
  14. ^ a b Associated Press (January nineteen, 2008). "Mothman' even so a frighteningly large draw for tourists". Toronto Star . Retrieved August 21, 2011.
  15. ^ "Eight People Say They Saw 'Creature'". Williamson Daily News. Williamson, WV. United Press International. November eighteen, 1966. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
  16. ^ Lobkov, Denis (May 23, 2002). Призраки катастроф. Zheltaya Gazeta via Svobodnaya Gruziya (in Russian). (English language translation of the article.)
  17. ^ Pierson, Fallon (November 21, 2016). "Human being photographs fauna that resembles legendary Mothman" of Point Pleasant" . WCHS-TV news. WCHS. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
  18. ^ a b Elbein, Asher (October 26, 2018). "Is the Mothman of West Virginia an Owl?". Audubon.org. Archived from the original on October 27, 2018. Retrieved October thirty, 2018.
  19. ^ Brunvand, Jan Harold (1994). The Infant Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends. W. Due west. Norton & Visitor. pp. 98–. ISBN978-0-393-31208-nine.
  20. ^ Radford, Benjamin (May–June 2020). "Investigating Mothman's Red Eyeshine". Skeptical Inquirer. 44: 29–31.
  21. ^ Terry, Josh (Jan 17, 2018). "People Go along Seeing the Mothman in Chicago". Vice.
  22. ^ Clark, Jerome (2000). Boggling Encounters: An Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrials and Otherworldly Beings. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-Clio, ISBN 1-57607-249-5, pp. 178–179.
  23. ^ a b "Mothman Festival returns Sept. 21–22". world wide web.mydailyregister.com – The Bespeak Pleasant Annals. September 6, 2019. Retrieved Oct seven, 2020.
  24. ^ Mothman Statue
  25. ^ Moran, Mark; Sceurman, Mark; Lake, Matt (2008). Weird U.Southward. The ODDyssey Continues – Your Travel Guide to America'southward Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets, p. 260. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 978-1-4027-4544-7
  26. ^ "Fable of the Mothman" plaque on the base of the statue

Further reading [edit]

  • Bullard, Stephan, et al. The Silver Bridge Disaster of 1967 (2012). ISBN 978-07385-9278-7
  • Coleman, L. Mothman and Other Curious Encounters. (2002). ISBN 978-one-931044-34-9, 1-931044-34-1)
  • Colvin, Andrew The Mothman's Photographer: The Work of an Artist Touched past the Prophecies of the Infamous Mothman (2007). ISBN 978-1-4196-5265-3
    • Colvin, Andrew The Mothman's Photographer II: Meetings With Remarkable Witnesses Touched past Paranormal Phenomena, UFOs, and the Prophecies of Due west Virginia's Infamous Mothman (2007). ISBN 978-ane-4196-5266-0
  • Fright, Brad A Macabre Myth of a Moth-Man (2008) ISBN 978-1-4389-0263-0
  • Keel, John A. The Eighth Tower (1977). ISBN 978-0-451-07460-7
  • Myers, Nib. Affections of Wrath: A Novel (2009). ISBN 978-0-446-69800-9
  • Myres, Rau & Macklin The Petty Behemothic Book of True Ghost Stories, pp.166–170 (2001) ISBN 0-439-33995-2
  • Ressel, Steve. Perverted Communion (2010). ISBN 978-0-9787483-five-7
  • Sergent, Jr., Donnie Mothman: The Facts Behind the Legend (2001) ISBN 978-0-9667246-vii-7
  • Schmidt, Westward.50. Threads of Faithfulness (2013) ISBN 978-1-62510-894-iv
  • Wood, Jen A. Point Pleasant (2013) ISBN 978-1492121602

External links [edit]

  • Media related to Mothman at Wikimedia Commons
  • Dunning, Brian (June 23, 2009). "Skeptoid #159: The Mothman Cometh". Skeptoid.

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