Mothman

Mothman is the red-eyed, winged figure reported around Point Pleasant, West Virginia in 1966-67, forever tied to the Silver Bridge collapse that followed. Since then, sightings of a tall winged silhouette with reflective eyes have been filed before other disasters, which turned the creature into an omen in popular culture. The first-person reports here are quieter: a shape on a water tower, wings with no sound, a feeling of being measured. Readers weigh misidentified cranes and owls against the fact that some witnesses stopped driving that road forever.

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