This included two volunteer firefighters, who said they saw “a very large bird with large red eyes.” The Gettysburg Times reported eight additional sightings in the short span of three days after the first claims. However, they did print Mallett’s description: “It was like a man with wings.”īut more and more sightings were reported in the Point Pleasant area over the next year as the legend of the Mothman took shape. In the papers, they called the Mothman a bird and a mysterious creature. Marada/Flickr A statue of the infamous Mothman in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.Īt first, reporters were skeptical. He assured the paper, “If I had seen it while by myself, I wouldn’t have said anything, but there were four of us who saw it.” More Spooky Sightings Across West Virginia Knowing how absurd this must have sounded to a local paper in a small, Appalachian community in the 1960s, Scarberry insisted that the apparition couldn’t have been a figment of his imagination. They knew this only because it allegedly chased their vehicle to the outskirts of town in the air, then scuttled into a nearby field and disappeared. All of them agreed that the beast was a clumsy runner on the ground. Just three days after the gravediggers’ initial report, in nearby Point Pleasant, West Virginia, two couples noticed a white-winged creature about six or seven feet tall standing in front of the car that they were all sitting in.Įyewitnesses Roger Scarberry and Steve Mallett told the local paper, The Point Pleasant Register, that the beast had bright red eyes about six inches apart, a wingspan of 10 feet, and the apparent urge to avoid the bright headlights of the car.Īccording to the witnesses, this creature was able to fly at incredible speeds - perhaps as fast as 100 miles per hour. Army Corps of Engineers/Wikimedia Commons The small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, along the bank of the Ohio River.
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