In 2002, a heavily-fictionalized film adaptation of The Mothman Prophecies starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney, and Debra Messing was released. He came up with the theory that the Mothman shows himself to warn people of impending doom. In 1975, writer and ufologist John Keel published The Mothman Prophecies, a book about his time spent studying the Mothman’s appearance in Point Pleasant in the 1960s. The Mothman didn’t disappear from the media, however. The Mothman is Point Pleasant’s most beloved citizen. | Photo: Anna Hider The stuff of legend Forty-six people died in the disaster, which was eventually found to be the result of a faulty eyebar.Īfter the bridge collapse, the Mothman disappeared from Point Pleasant. It’s thought that the sightings foreshadowed the 1967 collapse of the Silver Bridge, which once connected Gallipolis, Ohio to Point Pleasant. In the late 1960s, Mothman hysteria gripped the tiny Ohio River town as dozens of people reported seeing a tall, winged, red-eyed monster.

Despite his status as a harbinger of doom, many people go to Point Pleasant, West Virginia specifically to look for Mothman-which might be asking for trouble. Popular legend holds that the Mothman is a supernatural being who only shows himself to warn people of an impending disaster.

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