Place
United States
38.84 N, 82.14 WView on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
2 events here, 1966 to 2003, in date order.
Two couples told police they saw a man-sized winged creature with red eyes near the TNT area outside Point Pleasant; local papers covered it for weeks. John Keel's 1975 book later tied the reports to UFOs and the Silver Bridge collapse. It remains folklore.
A stainless-steel Mothman sculpture by retired welder Bob Roach was unveiled in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, with author John Keel as guest of honor. It became a tourist landmark for the town's 1966-67 creature reports.
