TheMothman Wiki

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The Mothman is an important part of West Virginia art and folklore. This is The Mothman Wiki, a place for all things Mothman related. It was created on February 10th 2016 and currently has 100 articles documenting and preserving all things about the folklore and the overall effect this character has on our culture.

The Legend Begins

The Silver Bridge Collapse

Bob Roach's Statue

The Mothman Museum

The Mothman has been described as a bipedal winged humanoid creature, half man, half monster. Hes been said to fly over 100 mph. Descriptions of his coloration vary from grey to brown but are typically grey. He is often reported to be about six or seven feet tall with a wingspan of about ten to fifteen feet. His most prominent features are his large bright red glowing, or at least reflective, eyes. Hes usually described as not having arms or a head. Most other details such as texture seem to differ between witnesses.

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		History
History	The Silver Bridge Collapse • Bob Roach's Mothman Statue • The Mothman Timeline • The Name: Mothman • Thunderbird • Known Animal Explanations • The Woodrow Derenberger Interview • Roger Scarberry's 1957 Chevy • John Keel's Point Pleasant Notebook • March 1967 Mary Hyre's Letters To John Keel • April 1967 Mary Hyre's Letters To John Keel • May 1967 Mary Hyre's Letters To John Keel • June 1967 Mary Hyre's Letters To John Keel • July 1967 Mary Hyre's Letters To John Keel • August - December 1967 Mary Hyre's Letters To John Keel • The Original Mothman Police Reports
People & Locations	John Keel • Mary Hyre • Jeff Wamsley • Charles Fort • Ivan T. Sanderson • Gray Barker • Chief Cornstalk • Rosemary Ellen Guiley • John And Tim Frick • Sherri Brake • Loren Coleman • Joe Nickell • The TNT Area • The Mothman Museum • Fort Randolph • Harris Steakhouse AKA The Mothman Diner • Village Pizza (Formerly Tiny's Diner) • WV Farm Museum • The River Museum • The Lowe Hotel • Navy Poster Museum • Grave Creek Mound and Criel Mound • Devil's Tea Tables • West Virginia State Penitentiary • Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum • Lake Shawnee, West Virginia
Newspapers	Couples See Man-Sized Bird...Creature...Something • Winged, Red-Eyed 'Thing' Chases Point Couples Across Countryside • Four Pt. Pleasant Car Occupants See 'Bird-Like Creature' • Owl? Goose? Prank: Or Take Your Choice • Mason Countians Hunt 'Moth Man' • City Getting 'The Bird,' Want It Or Not • Monster No Joke For Those Who Saw It • Couples Say They Saw 6-Ft. 100-mph ‘Bird' • Mason County has 'Flying' Mystery • Monster Returns To Mason • 'Flying Man' Seen Here, Man Claims • Eight People Say They Saw 'Creature' • 'Birdman' Could Be FHS Balloon • Could the 'Moth Man' Be Balloon? • Red Eyed 'Winged Monster' Sighted in W. Virginia • Night Rider In Sky Afraid of Lights • 'Red-Eyed Creature' Reported in W. Va. • Four More Claim Seeing Big Red-Eyed Bird • Wild Story Produced in Wildlife Preserve • That Mothman: Would You Believe A Sandhill Crane? • Our ‘Bird’ Has Law On Its Side • Mason Bird Monster Presumed Gone Now • Oh, That 'Bird!' It Was Seen Again • Haunting Creature Seen Twice • Strange plane turns out to be 'bird' • Giant Owl Killed On Area Farm • Not Mason Mothman, Is It An Owl? • Mystery Bird Seen Flying Over Avenue • Point Pleasant Area Sightings Continue • Where The Waters Mingle by Mary Hyre 1/22/67 • Where The Waters Mingle by Mary Hyre 1/29/67 • Where The Waters Mingle by Mary Hyre 11/16/67 • Where The Waters Mingle by Mary Hyre 3/5/67 • Where The Waters Mingle by Mary Hyre 4/2/67 • Where The Waters Mingle by Mary Hyre 4/9/67 • Where The Waters Mingle by Mary Hyre 4/30/67 • 25 Years At The Messenger Brought Laughs, Tears by Mary Hyre • Point Correspondent Mary Hyre Dies at 54 • Mason 'Mothman Prophecies' Author Keel Deicates Book to the Late Mary Hyre • Mason County 'Mothman' has his resurrection on TV • Reporter's night went by without Mothman sighting • Memories of Mothman • Return of The Mothman • 'Mothman' still a frighteningly big draw for tourists
Festivals	Mothman Festival 18th Annual Mothman Festival 2019 • 17th Annual Mothman Festival 2018 • 16th Annual Mothman Festival 2017 • 15th Annual Mothman Festival 2016 • 14th Annual Mothman Festival 2015 • 13th Annual Mothman Festival 2014 • 12th Annual Mothman Festival 2013 • 11th Annual Mothman Festival 2012 • 10th Annual Mothman Festival 2011 • 9th Annual Mothman Festival 2010 • 8th Annual Mothman Festival 2009 • 7th Annual Mothman Festival 2008 • 6th Annual Mothman Festival 2007 • 5th Annual Mothman Festival 2006 • 4th Annual Mothman Festival 2005 • 3rd Annual Mothman Festival 2004 • 2nd Annual Mothman Festival 2003 • 1st Annual Mothman Festival 2002

		Mystery
1966-67 Point Pleasant	Indrid Cold • Men In Black • Kenneth Duncan's Mothman Sighting • Merle Partridge's Mothman Sighting • Scarberry and Mallette's Mothman Sighting • Poltergeist Activity In The Scarberry Homes • Mothman On The Scarberry's Roof • Marcella Bennett's Mothman Sighting • Richard West's Mothman Sighting • Tom Ury's Mothman Sighting • Ruth Foster's Mothman Sighting • Shelia Cain's Mothman Sighting • Connie Carpenter's MothMan Sighting • Bob Bosworth's Mothman Sighting • Faye Dewitt-Leport's Mothman Sighting • Lawrence Gray's Mothman Sighting • Everett Wedge's Mothman Sighting • Abandoned Factory Mothman Sighting 9:00PM December 7th 1966 • Loretta Faye Campbell's Mothman Sighting • Mabel McDaniel's Mothman Sighting • Beau Shertzer's Bloodmobile Chase • Virginia Thomas's Mothman Sighting • Elderly Businessman's Mothman Sighting
Mystery	The Mothman Timeline • Cross-referencing Mothman's Attributes • The Flatwoods Monster • The Wednesday Phenomenon • The Number 13 • Klieg Conjunctivitis • Short MothMan Sightings • Darren Hayes' Mothman Sighting • Andy Colvin's Mothman Sightings • 26 Unofficial Mothman Sightings • Shirley Hensley's Sighting • Winged Humanoid Sighting In Northern Siberia 1968 • Winged Humanoid Sighting On Amur River In Russia 1968 • Unidentified Flying Objects • The Freiburg Shrieker • The NASA Gargoyle • Flying Machines• Winged Woman of Vietnam • Kentucky Goblins • Apples Devils and The Grafton Monster • Awohali's Flying Humanoid Sighting • Lamont Greer's Winged Humanoid Sighting • Bluefield's Gargoyle • Dover Demon • Flying Manta Rays • Cryptozoology • Elias Midkoff's Giant Bird Sighting • Thomas Downy's Bird Creature Sighting • Winged Humanoid Sighting Before Russian Apartment Bombings 1999 • Steven Moran's Winged Humanoid Sighting • Winged Humanoid Sighting Before 2002 Tbilisi Earthquake • Winged Humanoid Sighting Reported After Minnesota Bridge Collapse 2007 • Oscar Solar Valdebenito's Winged Humanoid Sighting • Owlman • Slip Hill • The Flying Chupacabra • The Missing Thunderbird Photo • The Thunderbird of Owl Head Mountain • Unidentified Motorist's Teratorn Sighting • White Things • Mothman Sighting In Point Pleasant 2010 • The Chicago Phantom 2011 • Marie's Flying Creature Sighting • Will Davis, Hank Miller and Susan Miller's Winged Humanoid Sighting • K. Brown's Mothman-like Sighting • Winged Humanoid Sightings In Singapore 2015 • Winged Humanoid Sighting on Taurid Meteor Shower 2015 • November 20th 2016 Mothman Sighting • The Chicago Phantom 2017

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