Mothman

Mothman
An Introduction
What is a Mothman?

Is he an exterminator? Someone who jumps out of planes? An entomologist?

A Mothman is a supernatural creature, of unknown existence, unknown capability, and unknown motive.

The Mothman is the name given to a creature reported in the Charleston and Point Pleasant areas of West Virginia between November 12, 1966, and December 1967. Most observers describe the Mothman as a winged man-sized creature with large reflective red eyes and large moth-like wings. The creature was sometimes reported as having no head, with its eyes set into its chest. A number of hypotheses have been presented to explain eyewitness accounts, ranging from misidentification and coincidence, to paranormal phenomena and conspiracy theories.

The Mothman phenomenon is sometimes associated with a mystery man named "Indrid Cold," although the relationship between the two varies from story to story, as well as in the big-budget movie "The Mothman Prophecies".

The character of the scholar in the movie, Alexander Leek, tells John Klein:

"Mothman. That's what the Ukranians called him. Rough translation, of course. There were sightings in Chernobyl the year the nuclear plant went down. Galveston, just before the hurricane."