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with many more "afraid to report their sightings." However, he points out that these written sources for such stories consisted of children's books or sensationalized or undocumented accounts that fail to quote identifiable persons. Brunvand found elements in common among many
Mothman reports and much older folk tales, suggesting that something real may have triggered the scares and became woven with existing folklore. He also records anecdotal tales of Mothman supposedly attacking the roofs of parked cars occupied by teenagers.
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as well as the "reddish flesh" around the crane's eyes. Daniel A. Reed examined the migration patterns and historically reported sightings of Sand Hill Cranes in the area of Point
Pleasant, West Virginia and proposed that, in cases where eyeshine was not noted, it was statistically more likely that witnesses were seeing and misidentifying a Great Blue Heron instead.
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Mothman has been widely covered in popular press, with some claiming sightings connected with UFOs, and others suggesting that a military storage site was Mothman's "home". Brunvand notes that the recountings of the 1966â67 Mothman reports usually state that at least 100 people saw Mothman
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researcher Lon
Strickler are "a selective sample". Gallo explains that "he's not sampling random people and asking if they saw the Mothman – he's just counting the number of people that voluntarily came forward to report a sighting." According to Gallo, "people more likely to visit a
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points out that the only report of glowing "red eyes," was secondhand, that of
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According to the event organizer Jeff
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Pleasant held its first Annual Mothman Festival in 2002. The Mothman Festival began after brainstorming creative ways to attract visitors to Point Pleasant. The group organizing the event chose the Mothman to be the center of the festival due to its uniqueness, and as a way to celebrate its
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munitions plant. Linda
Scarberry described it as a 'slender, muscular man' about seven feet tall with white wings. However, she was unable to discern its face due to the hypnotic effect of its eyes. Distressed, the witnesses sped away, reporting that the creature flew after their car, making a
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Partridge told Johnson that when he aimed a flashlight at a creature in a nearby field, its eyes glowed "like bicycle reflectors". Additionally, he blamed buzzing noises from his television set and the disappearance of his
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Over the next few days, more people reported similar sightings after local newspapers covered it. Two volunteer firemen who saw it said it was a "large bird with red eyes". Mason County
Sheriff George Johnson believed the sightings were due to an unusually large
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proposed that the photo showed "a bird, perhaps an owl, carrying a frog or snake away" and wrote that "there is zero reason to suspect it is the Mothman as described in legend. There are too many far more reasonable explanations."
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says that a number of hoaxes followed the publicity generated by the original reports, such as a group of construction workers who tied flashlights to helium balloons. Nickell attributes the Mothman stories to sightings of
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opened in 2005. The festival is held on the third weekend of every September, hosting guest speakers, vendor exhibits, pancake-eating contests, and hayride tours of locally notable areas.
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1821:"The Mothman and the Crane: A Contemporary Perspective"
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1340:Cinema of the Psychic Realm: A Critical Survey
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1757:. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 98â.
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1780:"Investigating Mothman's Red Eyeshine"
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1478:Mothman: The Facts Behind the Legend
1389:Mothman and Other Curious Encounters
1253:Palma, Bethania (25 November 2016).
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2062:"Skeptoid #159: The Mothman Cometh"
1778:Radford, Benjamin (MayâJune 2020).
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1558:"The Collapse of the Silver Bridge"
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1386:Coleman, Loren (1 December 2001).
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892:) suggest the Mothman could be an
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630:An artistic impression of Mothman.
357:James Randi Educational Foundation
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1819:Reed, Daniel (JulyâAugust 2022).
1719:Elbein, Asher (26 October 2018).
1586:Associated Press (Jan 19, 2008).
2421:Ghosts of the American Civil War
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1529:Richard Moreno (6 August 2013).
1222:Associated Press (Dec 1, 1966).
996:(2024) - Volume 4, Episode 5 of
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1649:Lobkov, Denis (23 May 2002).
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735:Due to the popularity of the
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2688:American legendary creatures
2497:Mercy Brown vampire incident
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2708:Supernatural urban legends
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711:West Virginia University
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407:Apparitional experiences
28:Mothman (disambiguation)
19:Not to be confused with
2487:Lost Ship of the Desert
1189:Point Pleasant Register
1120:Apparitional experience
1038:(1997) â An episode of
978:(2017) â A documentary.
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612:Point Pleasant Register
465:Argument from ignorance
432:Out-of-body experiences
145:Extrasensory perception
2713:West Virginia folklore
2693:American urban legends
2477:Goatman (urban legend)
1319:The Mothman Prophecies
1145:Goatman (urban legend)
1089:Southern Gothic Oracle
988:Craig McDonald, author
949:The Mothman Prophecies
937:The Mothman Prophecies
797:The Mothman Prophecies
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1623:Williamson Daily News
1481:. Mothman Lives Pub.
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1338:Meehan, Paul (2009).
994:The Mothman Revisited
866:University of Chicago
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402:Anomalous experiences
382:Scientific skepticism
200:Paranormal television
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2053:at Wikimedia Commons
2021:lapantherestudio.com
1806:The Gettysburg Times
1751:Brunvand, Jan Harold
1255:"Mothman About Town"
912:Festival and statues
485:Cognitive dissonance
480:Begging the question
427:Ideomotor phenomenon
26:For other uses, see
1922:RoadsideAmerica.com
1808:. December 1, 1966.
1667:English translation
1364:mothmanfestival.com
1068:from another world.
880:adherents (such as
837:Jan Harold Brunvand
727:and his antagonist
535:Scientific evidence
377:Scientific literacy
16:Modern urban legend
2211:Theodore Roosevelt
1825:Skeptical Inquirer
1784:Skeptical Inquirer
1731:on 27 October 2018
1652:ĐŃиСŃаки каŃĐ°ŃŃŃĐžŃ
1626:. Williamson, WV.
1360:"Mothman Festival"
1281:Skeptical Inquirer
1196:on 11 October 2007
1165:Spring-heeled Jack
998:Unsolved Mysteries
983:The Mothman Menace
925:In popular culture
777:Svobodnaya Gruziya
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245:Spirit photography
195:Paranormal fiction
115:Demonic possession
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2472:Fountain of Youth
2305:Fur-bearing trout
2262:Fearsome critters
2225:Idiomatic figures
2106:American folklore
2060:(June 23, 2009).
2049:Media related to
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1764:978-0-393-31208-9
1542:978-1-4930-0231-3
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1488:978-0-9667246-7-7
1429:978-0-8131-2318-9
1399:978-1-931044-34-9
1348:978-0-7864-3966-9
1295:The Silver Bridge
1140:Flatwoods monster
1008:Other appearances
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755:Killer Moth
729:Killer Moth
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636:Gray Barker
550:Uncertainty
275:Telekinesis
225:Psychometry
105:Conjuration
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2632:Pecos Bill
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2592:Evangeline
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1698:18 January
1461:2012-02-08
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1265:18 January
1259:Snopes.com
1200:27 January
1171:References
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1081:Inside Job
1073:Fallout 76
886:paranormal
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140:Exorcism
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