Mothman

In the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, there have been sightings of a mysterious creature called Mothman. The creature was first sighted in 1966 by the Scarberry family when they were out for a drive. Mothman is said to be seven feet tall with wings and glowing red eyes. On December 15, 1967, Mothman was spotted standing on top of Silver Bridge which connected Point Pleasant, West Virginia to Gallipolis, Ohio. Later that day, the bridge collapsed.

Some claim that Mothman is an alien due to reported UFO sightings around the time of the incidents. Mothman was most likely a misidentified bird. Skeptics of the Mothman legends suspect that the creature is actually a sandhill crane, a bird with red skin around its eyes.

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