The Mothman By Mike Mitch

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The MothmanBy Mike Mitch 09
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What is he?

• A man-sized bird
• Gigantic, Fuzzy Bird
• 9-foot-tall, black, winged creature with glowing
  red eyes

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Enter Mothman

• First sighted by two couples in an abandoned WWII
  TNT factory in Point Pleasant, West Virginia on
  November 16, 1966.
• They stopped their car when they saw two red
  glowing lights only to see that the lights were
  the eyes of a gigantic winged creature.
• Terrified, they drove away and claimed that the
  creature chased them at speeds in excess of 100
  mph.

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That Same Night

• Newell Partridge, a building contractor who lived
  in Salem, about 90 miles from Point Pleasant
• T.V. went dark and a weird shape appeared on the
  screen
• Loud whining noise that sounded like a generator
  accompanied the weird shape
• Heard his dog Bandit howling, went outside to
  investigate
• Saw two glowing red eyes the size of bicycle
  reflectors
• Bandit chased after the creature
• Bandit disappears never to be seen again

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Other Sightings

• November 16, 1966 - Family driving past factory
  spots a dark, red eyed creature watching them
• Nov. 24 4 people see Mothman flying above city
• Nov. 25 Man sees Mothman in a field, and said
  the creature flew alongside his car for awhile
• Nov. 26/27 Woman spots Mothman standing on her
  lawn only to watch the creature fly away. The
  next morning the creature chased a woman in her
  car and was later spotted flying by two children.
• 1967 There were many sightings throughout this
  year, but on December 15, the Silver Bridge in
  Point Pleasant collapsed, killing 46 people. The
  sightings ended after this incident.

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Curse

• Almost an Egyptian like curse that came with the
  Mothman
• Many involved with reporting and documenting the
  case died shortly after the bridge collapse

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Victims of Curse

• Mary Hyre she wrote the initial story on the
  first Mothman sighting in the local news died a
  year after the bridge collapse of a mysterious
  illness.
• Gray Barker he was beginning work on a Mothman
  book when he found a note on his door saying,
  Abandon your research or you will regret. You
  have been warned. He also died of a mysterious
  illness although it was close to 10 years after
  the incident.
• Other victims are reported, but the connections
  are much too far-fetched to truly believe.

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Theories

• Supernatural John Keel, the main Mothman
  documenter, claimed that it was related to
  parapsychological events that had happened in the
  area.
• Misidentified Birds Could have been a Sandhill
  Crane, which has up to a 7 foot wingspan, and
  reaches 40 inches in length. It has red marks
  around its eyes, which may be the red eye
  sightings. Could have also been an owl, and the
  red eyes come from the reflection of a
  flashlight or light.
• Hoax Story could have been created by the two
  couples, and mass hysteria followed with false
  sightings.

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Mass Hysteria

• Point Pleasant was a small town and not too much
  happened there
• After the first sighting many sightings randomly
  popped up
• Sightings happened at same times, voiding the
  truth of the sightings
• Could have been real, could have been all false
  hysteria