From a trip to Point Pleasant a decade ago.
(Source: karateinthewater)
Hide yo kids, hide yo wives cause the Mothman is creepin’ on everybody up here! Well…actually he’s creepin’ on just one woman, but still, hide. That’s right, the Mothman is back apparently and now he’s a perv. (I blame the internet!) So a West Virginia woman is claiming that she snapped a picture…
STREET TYPE PHILLY TRAVEL EDITION
For my friend’s senior Degree Project (it’s like our Graphic Design thesis, but it’s a project, not a paper) we had to travel to Point Pleasant, West Virginia (if you know of it, it can only be for one reason). We had a very specific shot list… but I had to take some sign photos along the way.
I apologize that these are all so different.
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This reminds me of the Mothman… Wikipedia sez:
Mothman is a legendary creature first reportedly seen in the Point Pleasant area of West Virginia from 15 November 1966 to 15 December 1967. The first newspaper report was published in the Point Pleasant Register dated 16 November 1966, entitled “Couples See Man-Sized Bird…Creature…Something”.[1]
Mothman was introduced to a wider audience by Gray Barker in 1970,[2][3] later popularized by John Keel in his 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies, claiming that Mothman was related to a wide array of supernatural events in the area and the collapse of the Silver Bridge. The 2002 film The Mothman Prophecies, starring Richard Gere, was based on Keel’s book.[4]
History
On Nov. 12, 1966, five men who were digging a grave at a cemetery near Clendenin, WV claimed to see a man-like figure fly low from the trees over their heads [5]. This is often attributed as the first known sighting of what would become known as the Mothman.
Shortly thereafter, on Nov. 15, 1966, two young couples from Point Pleasant, Roger and Linda Scarberry, and Steve and Mary Mallette told police they 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 ‘the TNT area’, the site of a former World War II munitions plant.[6][7]
During the next few days, other people reported similar sightings. Two volunteer firemen who sighted it said it was a “large bird with red eyes”. Mason County Sheriff George Johnson commented that he believed the sightings were due to an unusually large heron he termed a “shitepoke”. Contractor Newell Partridge told Johnson 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.[8] Wildlife biologist Dr. Robert L. Smith at West Virginia University told reporters that descriptions and sightings all fit the Sandhill Crane, a large American crane almost as high as a man with a seven foot wingspan featuring circles of reddish coloring around the eyes, and that the bird may have wandered out of its migration route.
There were no Mothman reports in the immediate aftermath of the December 15, 1967 collapse of the Silver Bridge and the death of 46 people [9], giving rise to legends that the Mothman sightings and the bridge collapse were connected.[8][10][11]
Claims of later sightings
UFOlogist Jerome Clark writes that many years after the initial events, members of the Ohio UFO Investigators League re-interviewed several people who claimed to have seen Mothman, all of whom insisted their stories were accurate. Linda Scarberry claimed that she and her husband had seen Mothman “hundreds of times, ” sometimes at close range, commenting, “It seems like it doesn’t want to hurt you. It just wants to communicate with you. “[12]
Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman claims that sightings of Mothman continue, and told USA Today he re-interviewed witnesses described in Keel’s book who said Mothman was “a huge creature about 7 feet tall with huge wings and red eyes” and that “they could see the creature flapping right behind them” as they fled from it.[13]
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This reminds me of the Mothman… Wikipedia sez:
Mothman is a legendary creature first reportedly seen in the Point Pleasant area of West Virginia from 15 November 1966 to 15 December 1967. The first newspaper report was published in the Point Pleasant Register dated 16 November 1966, entitled “Couples See Man-Sized Bird…Creature…Something”.[1]
Mothman was introduced to a wider audience by Gray Barker in 1970,[2][3] later popularized by John Keel in his 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies, claiming that Mothman was related to a wide array of supernatural events in the area and the collapse of the Silver Bridge. The 2002 film The Mothman Prophecies, starring Richard Gere, was based on Keel’s book.[4]
History
On Nov. 12, 1966, five men who were digging a grave at a cemetery near Clendenin, WV claimed to see a man-like figure fly low from the trees over their heads [5]. This is often attributed as the first known sighting of what would become known as the Mothman.
Shortly thereafter, on Nov. 15, 1966, two young couples from Point Pleasant, Roger and Linda Scarberry, and Steve and Mary Mallette told police they 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 ‘the TNT area’, the site of a former World War II munitions plant.[6][7]
During the next few days, other people reported similar sightings. Two volunteer firemen who sighted it said it was a “large bird with red eyes”. Mason County Sheriff George Johnson commented that he believed the sightings were due to an unusually large heron he termed a “shitepoke”. Contractor Newell Partridge told Johnson 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.[8] Wildlife biologist Dr. Robert L. Smith at West Virginia University told reporters that descriptions and sightings all fit the Sandhill Crane, a large American crane almost as high as a man with a seven foot wingspan featuring circles of reddish coloring around the eyes, and that the bird may have wandered out of its migration route.
There were no Mothman reports in the immediate aftermath of the December 15, 1967 collapse of the Silver Bridge and the death of 46 people [9], giving rise to legends that the Mothman sightings and the bridge collapse were connected.[8][10][11]
Claims of later sightings
UFOlogist Jerome Clark writes that many years after the initial events, members of the Ohio UFO Investigators League re-interviewed several people who claimed to have seen Mothman, all of whom insisted their stories were accurate. Linda Scarberry claimed that she and her husband had seen Mothman “hundreds of times, ” sometimes at close range, commenting, “It seems like it doesn’t want to hurt you. It just wants to communicate with you. “[12]
Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman claims that sightings of Mothman continue, and told USA Today he re-interviewed witnesses described in Keel’s book who said Mothman was “a huge creature about 7 feet tall with huge wings and red eyes” and that “they could see the creature flapping right behind them” as they fled from it.[13]
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Some Blogging/Background to this creepy video
Growing up in Cheshire, I was always interested in the Mothman stories as I was younger, with Point Pleasant and the TNT area being almost right across the river. my great grandma could tell you the day the Silver Bridge fell, the news stories, her crossing the river, etc. Granny and dad knew a few people around town who would tell stories of their encounters with what was thought was to be paranormal/UFO experiences. Most of these around the late 60s during the Mothman/Silver Bridge collapse period (activity slowed down later on). dad brought it all up again today and sparked some interest.
He told me about an older couple, the Gross’s, across route 7 from where I lived that experienced something weird at night during the time. The wife told the most compelling story, she woke up around 4 am to her dog barking, looked out of her window of the kitchen to see bright lights around an oblong shape hovering about tree-top level in the field. This small field, next to the Pepsi shipping warehouse, was RIGHT across the road from where I lived. Playing around in that field I remember stopping, numerous times and just kind of staring at this large, fine-edged circle in the field of lighter grass. The grass was always a brighter yellow/brown, especially during the summer. Enough with that story. My dad said he just saw them stop at my grandma’s house on the river shortly before she passed in 2008, kind and soft spoken, it would be great to talk to them.. But pretty much all of these stories in this area are from honest, soft spoken, kind, tight-knit community people. I can promise you that. It’s very hard for me to deny the stories.
On the topic dad told me that standing on the river bank talking to our uncle the dusk of one summer evening after a day of work, they both saw something strange over the river. He didn’t tell me when it was but I can tell you it was probably 2003-2008.. so it wasn’t anywhere near the time these strange events. He said he noticed my uncle “notice” something over his shoulder because his back was to the river, dad stopped talking to see what it was and they saw a steady source of bright white light moving along the middle of the river over the water and it just disappeared. Dad says they turned back to each other so wide-eyed.. This lead to dad bringing up this weird dude, always asking weird questions to the townsfolk, appearing along with the Men In Black in Point Pleasant.. as the stories go his name is/was INDRID COLD, i will just call him an alien, because this is basically what it seems. He was well dressed man, dark skin, straight black hair, point chin, nose, high cheeks, typical creep. He seemed, according to accounts, foreign and always so intrigued by simple things. But this raises so many questions whether these men were with the government, on the collapse of the Silver Bridge, of conspiracies, tests in mass hysteria, whether this man from another galaxy exists. They probably put Acid and shit in the water supply. NO ONE knows and that’s what’s so interesting
TL; DR this is a story of Indrid Cold in person, the man or alien apparently associated with strange events along the Ohio River in the 60s
