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Indrid Cold
He speaks without talking, you listen without hearing. Woodrow Derenberger was a typical Appalachian man and a salesman for a sewing machine company, who lived in Mineral Wells, West Virginia. On Wednesday November 2nd 1966 -
The Woodrow Derenberger Interview
The Woodrow Derenberger Interview is a 30 minute piece of audio about Indrid Cold aired on Live TV in Parkersburg West Virginia on November 3rd 1966 at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon and -
Men In Black
Watch Your Back For The Men In Black The Men In Black or MIB are mysterious strangers that reportedly attempt to threaten witnesses and reporters of strange occurrences, such as the Mothman, into silence. -
26 Unofficial Mothman Sightings
The following is a list of 26 first hand sightings of The Mothman that were submitted and displayed publicly on the Mothmanlives website. These are unconfirmed and unofficial witness testimonies from the internet. The text -
The Original Mothman Police Reports
The Scarberry and Mallette's wrote the following reports just days after their supposed Mothman encounter on November 15th 1966. The documents give incite into the earliest beginnings of West Virginia's Mothman legend. These -
The Mothman Timeline
This is a chronological listing of documented sightings and events with names, locations and dates. This page is useful for giving context to Mothman stories and keeping track of content on The Mothman Wiki. Sightings -
Chief Cornstalk
"Fighting" Chief Cornstalk (1720 - 1777) was a prominent leader of the Shawnee nation just prior to the American Revolution from 1775 to 1783. His name, Hokoleskwa, translates loosely into "stalk of corn" in English -
Scarberry and Mallette's Mothman Sighting
"I wish we had never seen it, I wish someone else had seen it." - Linda Scarberry, Mothman Witness, 1966 One of the most famous Mothman stories is the Scarberry and Mallettte sighting which is -
The Missing Thunderbird Photo
There is a story that in April 1890, two cowboys in Arizona killed a giant birdlike creature with an enormous wingspan. It was said to have had smooth skin, featherless wings like a bat and -
Jeff Wamsley
Jeff's (former) music store in Pt Pleasant - 2001 Jeff Wamsley and John Keel Jeff Wamsley and Linda Scarberry Mothman approves of this book! Jeff and his Co-author Donnie Sergent Jr. 1/29 Jeff -
John Keel
"The unknown is out there. The universe does not exist as we think it exists and we don't exist as we think we exist." - John Keel, Search For The Mothman 2002 Keel67.PNG -
The Silver Bridge Collapse
The Main Street in Point Pleasant, West Virginia led straight onto an eyebar-chain style suspension bridge named "The Silver Bridge", based on its aluminum paint, that went across the Ohio river to Gallipolis, Ohio -
The TNT Area
The former West Virginia Ordnance Works is a location that locals dubbed "The TNT Area". It is now an overgrown wildlife preserve located in Mason county about seven miles north of Point Pleasant. Its also -
That Mothman: Would You Believe A Sandhill Crane?
The following is an article from the Huntington Herald-Dispatch on November 19th 1966 titled'That Mothman: Would You Believe A Sandhill Crane?' By Ralph Turner The case of the Mason County monster may have -
Mary Hyre
1/10 Mary Hyre (1915 – February 15th 1970/ Aged 55) was a newspaper reporter for "The Athens Messenger". She was also the manager of their office on 6th Street in downtown Point Pleasant, West Virginia. -
TheMothman Wiki
Check out AppalachianOddity.Org| Mothman Archive (1966-67)! The Mothman is an important part of West Virginia art and folklore. This is The Mothman Wiki. It was created on February 10th 2016 and currently has -
Eight People Say They Saw 'Creature'
The following is an article printed on Friday, November 18th 1966 titled'Eight People Say The Saw'Creature'' POINT PLEASANT, W. Va. (UPI) - Eight people say they saw a flying near this Ohio River Community -
John Keel FATE Articles
The following is an article by John Keel from FATE Magazine's Vol. 44, No. 3, Published on March 1991. It was later reprinted in the January-February 2002 Issue. It was advertised on the -
Mary Hyre's Letters To John Keel (July - December 1967)
Mary Hyre of The Athens Messenger, kept regular correspondence with author John Keel during the events of the Mothman 1966-67 wave. Read more: March - June 1967 Mary Hyre's Letters To John Keel 1 -
Mary Hyre's Letters To John Keel (March - June 1967)
Mary Hyre of The Athens Messenger, kept regular correspondence with author John Keel during the events of the Mothman 1966-67 wave. Read more: July - December 1967 Mary Hyre's Letter To John Keel 1 -
Mothman Festival (2016 - 2019)
On Saturday September 17th and Sunday September 18th 2016, they celebrated 50 years of The Mothman and the festival's 15th anniversary. Visitors revisited the paranormal phenomenon that hit the town of Point Pleasant 50 -
Other Monsters
John Baxter in 1977, John Baxter with his sketch, John Baxter's Actual Sketch, Abby Brabham's Dover Demon Sketch 1/7 -
Mothman TV Episodes
"Mutant monster or figment of some overheated imaginations? What is this strange creature terrorizing West Virginia? Some call it the Mothman!" - Opening Narration Artist sketch shown in the Unsolved Mysteries episode, background imagery is -
Mothman Festival (2011 - 2015)
On Sunday September 17th and Saturday September 18th 2011, the 10th annual Mothman Festival took place downtown at Point Pleasant. The event was a celebration of the Mothman sightings in 1966-1967. It was also -
Mothman Festival (2002 - 2010)
Jeff Wamsley of the Mothman Museum and Carolin Harris of the Mothman Diner started the Festival in response to the increasing public interest and awareness of the Mothman mystery and to celebrate the release of
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