Cryptid Series #4: Mothman Traditional Cache
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Cryptid Series #4: Mothman
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Plenty of parking within feet of the cache, please do not attempt to reach it from the highway. This would be a good cache to drop off trackables on their way to the north or south.
On Nov. 15, 1966, two young couples from Point Pleasant, West Virginia, Roger and Linda Scarberry, and Steve and Mary Mallette saw a large white creature whose eyes "glowed red" when the car headlights picked it up. They described it as a "flying man with ten foot wings' following their car while they were driving in an area of town known as 'theTNT area', the site of a former munitions plant. Two volunteer firemen who sighted it said it was a "large bird with red eyes".
Contractor Newell Partridge said that when he aimed a flashlight at a creature in a nearby field its eyes glowed "like bicycle reflectors", and blamed buzzing noises from his television set and the disappearance of his German Shepherd dog on the creature.
Mothman is perhaps four or five feet tall when standing. He can fold his wings and walk with a weird shuffle that many witnesses compare to a penguin. When he flies, he unfolds his wings and shoots straight up with great speed, then levels out to go wherever he wants to go. He has never been observed flapping his wings, not even on take-off. He just holds then straight and stiff. He can fly much faster than any bird should be able to fly, as measured by those victims who suffered from what seems to be Mothman's favorite activity: chasing cars.
The details of his face and his feet have never been adequately described. Only one witness ever saw the face clearly, and she could only say that the details were horrible and monstrous. She had terrible nightmares and nearly suffered a nervous breakdown. Anyone who gets a close look at Mothman seems to suffer from extreme fear and psychological distress, sometimes lasting for months or years afterwards, all out of proportion to how scared they ought to be. In particular, people say that a sense of pure evil overcomes them when they see Mothman's eyes.
The Mothman is reputed to appear before, during and after catastrophic events that claim several human lives. The Mothman was first seen when the Silver Bridge collapsed over the Ohio River in 1967 and killed 46 people. The Mothman was also seen before the Interstate 35 bridge collapse outside of Minneapolis in 2007, and before and after Chernobyl (to name a few). In all accounts, the Mothman appears (according to witnesses) near the time of the tragedies, then vanishes shortly thereafter. Many believe the mothman appears to warn of coming disaster or doom.
Since 2002 the town of Point Pleasant, WV has held the Mothman Festival each September. Visitors come to see the famous “Mothman Statue”, Mothman Museum, hear the "Mothman Band", to meet original eyewitnesses, authors and Mothman experts and eat mothman snacks. The festival attracts 4000 visitors each year. (See related webpage)
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