In the mid-1960s, a mysterious creature that became known as Mothman frightened residents around Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Described as having large red eyes and enormous, silent wings, the creature has become legend in the area, and sightings are claimed to this very day. In the summer of 2005, Matt and his stepsister encountered something unknown, and they wonder if it was the Mothman monster. This is Matt’s story:
My stepsister Lynn and I were visiting her grandparents in Virginia. Her grandparents’ house is in the countryside with a 20-acre cornfield next to it. About 50 yards behind the house lays miles of forest.
The first night we were there, we were unpacking and getting ready to go to sleep. There was a bunk bed in the guest room, which our younger siblings were going to sleep in. There was a couch and a pull-out bed in the living room, which Lynn and I decided to sleep in. We were channel surfing on the TV, and we flipped to a show about urban legends in the United States. Since my stepsister and I have always been interested in paranormal happenings, we decided to stop and watch for a few minutes.
Something came on about a creature called “Mothman.” According to the show, sightings of Mothman were said to be
mostly in Virginia (where we were) and Kentucky. So my stepsister and I looked at each other with our jaws dropped, because we always seemed to believe in these sorts of things.
The next morning, we were messing around with a soccer ball. My sister is on a soccer team, and she brings her soccer ball with her wherever she goes. My stepsister punted the ball into the cornfield.
“Oops,” she smiled.
We searched for hours and hours, but we could not find the ball, no matter how hard we looked. My sister was beside herself, because it was her favorite soccer ball.
Something returns the ball
The next night, Lynn, our siblings and I were all watching television in the living room. Suddenly, we heard a tremendous crash on the roof of the house. We all let out a yelp of terror and dashed under the hideaway bed’s covers. Then we heard footsteps – loud footsteps, as if something abnormally large was romping about on our roof.
Our parents came into the room with wide eyes and asked us if we had dropped or broke something, but froze when they too heard the footsteps on the roof.
My stepdad went over to the window and gazed out to the cornfield, which for some reason looked particularly ominous that night. As he looked, he saw our sister's soccer ball drop from the roof!
He looked down, not knowing quite what it was because it had fallen so quickly. He ran outside and brought the ball inside. My grabbed the ball, smiling from ear to ear, happy to have it back at last. My stepdad and mom went back into the other room, after saying goodnight.
Suddenly my sister looked at the ball and she frowned angrily. Furious, she yelled, “Look!” We all looked at the ball and saw four perfectly round holes in it. Two very large ones about the size of a quarter, and about half an inch from those holes were two little holes about the size of dimes. It gave me the chills. And suddenly I had a recollection of the show that Lynn and I had watched the previous night.
We looked at Josh and Ashley (our younger siblings) and told them to leave the room. Griping and groaning, they trudged off into their room. I looked at Lynn and said, “I know this sounds stupid, but could this be Mothman?”
She let out a snort and said, “Don't be stupid.”
Nothing else peculiar happened that night. But stranger things were yet to come….
BEING A PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR, it is my responsibility to report as accurately as possible and in as much detail as possible, any strange occurrence or sighting that happens my way. Over the last several years of doing this research, I have grown fairly adept at being able to discern small details in photos and videos. I use this same learned ability when doing ghost research, UFO skywatching, or any other research activity. It is in this same vein that I share this sighting that I personally witnessed on July 20, 2005. I will not state emphatically that what I witnessed was the actual “Mothman” creature, but what I did witness had the general overall appearance of the creature as described by others.
The time was around 10:30 p.m. The night sky had intermittent clouds, but I do not remember the fullness of the moon. I was traveling west on Bethesda Arno Road in the Thompsons Station / Bethesda / Williamson County area of middle Tennessee, about 25 miles south of the Davidson County line of Nashville. My speed was 40 miles-an-hour, though the road is posted for 50. Bethesda Arno is a typical country road, both curvy and straight, fairly narrow and bordered more by farmland than homes. At the exact spot of my sighting, there are three homes set back several hundred yards off the road on a fairly steep grade on the north side of the road. The south side of the road is bordered by a fairly steep slope with a thick hedge row of mangled brush and trees, and is offset some 20 feet from the road. There were no others vehicles on the road, and my headlights were on full brightness.
THE CREATURE
I first noticed the creature as I rounded a curve and continued onto a short straightaway with a slight rise in elevation. My estimated distance from the creature was 300 feet and I immediately began to slow my car. The creature was standing a foot or two off the side of the road on the south side. Behind him was the back side of a 7½-foot-tall road sign. The sign was attached to a grated metal pole, and the sign itself was diamond-shaped and 3½ feet in width from point to point, and attached some 3½ feet up the pole from the ground.
The top of the creature’s head was several inches above the sign, though its feet were on the ground. This would have put the creature at nearly eight feet tall. The creature’s body was covering about 1/5 of the triangular sign. The head of the creature was human in shape, but with a peculiar triangular appearance as well. The head seemed a tad too large for the rest of its body. The neck was normal in appearance and attached to narrow shoulders. The chest appearance was normal, though narrower than one would have imagined. The chest area tapered down to a very thin-looking waist. The legs of the creature were long and slender, almost skinny, especially the thigh area extending down to the knees. Both arms were long and thin, and connected to hands with four or five long, slender fingers. The face of the creature was shrouded in a shadow-like appearance. I could discern no facial features.
The creature’s arms were outstretched, and attached to the wrists of both arms was dark webbing that extended downward and attached at the knees, and also was attached to the torso of the body directly at the underarm and extending downward to the knees. The webbing was solid in structure, with a slight tapering that came to a point midway to the knees, and then continued to taper as above to the knees. From the shoulders down to the feet, with the exception of the arms and webbing, the color of the creature was bright, reflective red. The color reminded me of paintings that depict the Devil with his ever-present pitchfork, though I had absolutely no gut feeling that this creature was either the Devil or any other type of religion-portrayed demon. My gut feeling told me that this was some type of unknown species that modern day science insists does not exist.
The duration of my sighting was a brightly lit 7 to 8 seconds. The distance at its nearest point was not more than 7 feet from the open window of my car as I passed the creature. Never once did the creature move or make any type of hostile gesture toward me.
I managed to bring my car to a full stop some 100 yards past the creature. I immediately turned my car around in the middle of the road in the hopes of seeing the creature again, but it was for naught.
DOUBLE-CHECKING
Being a researcher intent on being accurate, I decided to retrace my path several times in the attempt to dismiss any status quo explanation for what I had witnessed. I have traveled down this road numerous times day and night, and have never once mistaken a tree limb, brush, road sign, or the rarity of nighttime walkers for a creature such as I witnessed. The rather tall and thick hedge growth on the south side of the road, and the distance from the road to the nearest house on the north side, precludes an attempt by someone playing a practical joke. The distance to run and hide in a matter of just a few seconds would have been impossible. The road sign is a typical road sign, and there was no mistaking that a very tall creature with a slender body and wings was obscuring part of the sign. There was no bright color hindrance reflecting from the headlights of my car to skew my vision since the creature was standing on the back side – the dark side – of the sign.
My conclusion then was simple to deduce: I had seen this creature in all of the details I have just shared.
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