Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. According to Wikipedia, Mothman was first spotted around 1966 and reported in ...

The creature has risen from local appearances to the national stage as a leader in the cryptid revival of the last twenty years. Gwen Mallow The town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, offers its ...

In November 1966, gravediggers working in a cemetery in Clendenin, West Virginia, spotted a strange, man-like figure in the trees above their heads. A few days later, two young couples from Point ...

For the uninitiated, Mothman first began to be speculated about in the late-1960s, with multiple people claiming that they saw a giant man-month hybrid flying nearby. The lore of The Mothman was then ...

POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — Every September, the streets in this tiny town along West Virginia's border with Ohio are taken over by Mothman, a mysterious creature that, like Bigfoot, has inspired books, ...

(Left) Mothman masks and other cryptid-related items are on sale at vendors' kiosks along Main Street at the Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant, W.Va. (Right) Selah Miller, of Charleston, W.Va., poses ...