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CASE #9R60DS · 2 entities · 1 connections
The Mothman of Point Pleasant
A winged, red-eyed creature terrorized a small West Virginia town for over a year — then a bridge collapsed and it was never seen again.
Beginning in November 1966, residents of Point Pleasant, West Virginia reported sightings of a tall, winged creature with glowing red eyes. Sightings stopped after the December 1967 collapse of the Silver Bridge, which killed 46 people — a connection many believers find impossible to ignore, though investigators found a purely structural cause for the collapse.
⇄disputed
Quick facts
- →The first widely reported sighting came from two couples who described being chased by the creature near an abandoned WWII munitions factory.
- →Sightings were concentrated in the roughly 13 months before the Silver Bridge collapse, then stopped.
- →The Silver Bridge collapse killed 46 people; a federal investigation found the cause was a single defective steel eyebar, not anything supernatural.
- →A 12-foot stainless steel Mothman statue was erected in Point Pleasant in 2003, and the town now hosts an annual Mothman Festival.
Entities on file
Mothman (event)
Winged creature reported around Point Pleasant, West Virginia from 1966 to 1967, now commemorated with a town statue.
→ sightings popularly linked to the collapse of → Silver Bridge~speculative
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Silver Bridge (location)
Point Pleasant bridge that collapsed in December 1967, killing 46; official cause was a defective steel component.
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