Mothman is kind of like Bigfoot, the Yeti, or the Loch Ness Monster -- all part of the cryptozoology mythos. He's supposedly about a six foot tall man/moth hybrid with red eyes. He has the wings of a moth and red eyes that shine in the darkness, but he is bipedal.
It is tradition up in West Virginia that he inhabits the old TNT plant near Point Pleasant, West Virginia. It was a complex that held high explosives during World War II. He was first sighted in 1966 and continued to fly and frighten the populace until December of 1967 (just before Christmas) when the Silver Bridge that connected West Virginia with Ohio collapsed killing 42 people. The traffic light was out on the end of the bridge, which caused traffic to back up all the way across. The bridge could not take the strain and collapsed. People on both sides of the river could hear the cries for help but couldn't do anything because of the extremely swift current and the frigid waters. People said that the Mothman was a harbinger of that disaster.
http://www.prairieghosts.com/moth.html The foregoing link can tell you more about it if you really want to know.
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Date: 2005-09-24 03:29 am (UTC)It is tradition up in West Virginia that he inhabits the old TNT plant near Point Pleasant, West Virginia. It was a complex that held high explosives during World War II. He was first sighted in 1966 and continued to fly and frighten the populace until December of 1967 (just before Christmas) when the Silver Bridge that connected West Virginia with Ohio collapsed killing 42 people. The traffic light was out on the end of the bridge, which caused traffic to back up all the way across. The bridge could not take the strain and collapsed. People on both sides of the river could hear the cries for help but couldn't do anything because of the extremely swift current and the frigid waters. People said that the Mothman was a harbinger of that disaster.
http://www.prairieghosts.com/moth.html The foregoing link can tell you more about it if you really want to know.