Welcome to The Mothman Wiki!
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 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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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 | ||
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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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Art |
FATE Magazine • Frank Frazetta • John Keel's March 1991 FATE Article • The Mothmanlives Website • Point Pleasant Interview With Actor Will Patton • Bob Roach's Mothman Statue • The Men In Black Comics • Mothman Comics • The Blackbird of Chernobyl • Dale Morton's MothMan Costume • 'John Keel On Mothman' September 2007 FATE Article • Mistaken Mothman Photos • Iron Spell - The Night of the Mothman • Fish Fisher - The Mothman of Point Pleasant • Mothman, What You Gonna' Do Now? • The Mothman Timeline • Mothman Painted Pillar |
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Books |
The Mothman Prophecies by John Keel • Mothman: The Facts Behind The Legend • Mothman...Behind The Red Eyes by Jeff Wamsley |
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TV & Film |
David Letterman Interviews John Keel • The X-Files: Detour • The Mothman Prophecies Film • Search for the Mothman Documentary • Mothman on Unsolved Mysteries • MonsterQuest's Mothman Episode • Mothman 2010 Film • Eyes of The Mothman Documentary • Small Town Monsters |