| More than a film or the 12 foot tall, stainless steel | | | | tall, with big wings folded against its back". This |
| sculpture on display in downtown Point Pleasant in | | | | time the creature started chasing the couples, |
| West Virginia, Mothman is a strange creature | | | | who were terrified drove off in their car, heading |
| seen in the United States between November | | | | for Route 62 toward the Mason County |
| 1966 and November 1967, appearing several | | | | courthouse after finding the creature again |
| times in West Virginia, on the border with Ohio. | | | | standing on a ridge near the road. Later it was |
| Artist Robert Roach portrayed the creature in his | | | | revealed that a poltergeist attacked one of the |
| sculpture as people reported the sightings, a | | | | couples' home later the same night, after the |
| man-sized beast with wings and large reflective or | | | | encounter with Mothman. |
| luminous red eyes, that scientist tried to | | | | Apparitions of Mothman continued in West Virginia |
| associated with owls, but due to the size and | | | | during all of November 1966, and after the |
| characteristics, it is believed that Mothman was a | | | | reports, strangers dressed in black began to |
| paranormal phenomena, mostly see during the | | | | appear in the area. Nobody knew who the |
| 1966-69 years. | | | | Mothman, or the men in black were and where |
| However, some theories associate Mothman with | | | | they had come from or went, one year later. |
| visitors from outer space or a type of Alien | | | | Some neighbors of West Virginia believe that |
| never seen before or after his visit. Mothman | | | | Mothman was an alien and the men in black were |
| was first sighted in November 12, 1966, and | | | | government agents investigating the strange |
| named after the Batman TV series. The first | | | | occurrences, but most people are convinced that |
| apparition occurred in a cemetery close to | | | | Mothman was a paranormal being and the |
| Clendenin, West Virginia while a group of 5 men | | | | mysterious visitors were Catholic priests who |
| were preparing a grave. The workers described | | | | went to exorcise the demonic creature. |
| the being as a "brown human shape with wings" | | | | There is a website that describes this and |
| which lifted off from behind nearby trees and | | | | numerous other creatures of Cryptozoology in |
| flew over their heads. This sighting was kept in | | | | detail. The website is called: Unknown Creatures, |
| secret in the belief it would not occur again, but 3 | | | | and may be found at this address: |
| days later two young married couples from Point | | | | By Robert W. Benjamin |
| Pleasant, were out for a drive and saw two red | | | | Copyright © 2006 |
| lights in the shadows of a nearby World War II | | | | You may publish this article in your ezine, |
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| After stopping the car, their curiosity led them to | | | | reprinted in its entirety and without modification |
| see that the lights were the glowing red eyes of | | | | except for formatting needs or grammar |
| a large animal described as "shaped like a man, | | | | corrections. |
| but bigger, maybe six and a half or seven feet | | | | |