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Mothman statue located in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Over the next few days, more people reported similar sightings after local newspapers covered it. Two volunteer firemen who saw it said it was a "large bird with red eyes". Mason County Sheriff George Johnson believed the sightings were due to an unusually large heron he termed a ...
Grafton, West Virginia: A large, headless, hulking creature with smooth, seal-like skin. 7–9 feet [24] [25] Indrid Cold: Point Pleasant, West Virginia: A humanoid entity, claiming extraterrestrial origin, with an inhumanly large smile. 6 feet [26] Mothman: Point Pleasant, West Virginia: A large winged moth-like humanoid with glowing red eyes ...
Fouke, Arkansas, with a population of about 800, is known for the Fouke Monster, a cryptid synonymous with the town and surrounding area.Fouke holds an annual festival dedicated to the monster, is home to the Monster Mart store, and is the setting for the cult classic horror film, The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972), based around the alleged events within the town.
A sequel, The Mothman Legacy, also directed by Breedlove and produced by Small Town Monsters, was released in 2020. [9] [10] The Mothman Legacy explores alleged Mothman sightings dating from the 1960s to 2019, and that occurred outside of Point Pleasant, namely elsewhere in West Virginia, as well as Kentucky and the greater Appalachian region.
Several urban legends and horror stories have been rooted in the Appalachia region. Since the 1960s the Point Pleasant, West Virginia, legend of Mothman has originated and been explored in popular culture including the 2002 film The Mothman Prophecies loosely retelling the original tale. [82]
Mothman (1 C, 5 P) R. Reportedly haunted locations in West Virginia (2 P) Pages in category "West Virginia folklore" The following 15 pages are in this category, out ...
The enduring story of Mothman is the stuff of West Virginian legend. The red-eyed creature was reportedly first spotted in the winter of 1966, and the folklore has lived on thanks to books and ...
The Mothman Legacy is a 2020 American documentary film about the Mothman, a purported humanoid creature known for allegedly being sighted in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in the 1960s. Directed and edited by Seth Breedlove , the film is a direct sequel to the 2017 documentary The Mothman of Point Pleasant and a follow-up to the 2019 ...