The One Paranormal Festival In West Virginia That Will Spook You Into Oblivion

That night, two couples were driving down a road toward their homes in Point Pleasant when they encountered a humanoid creature with giant wings and glowing red eyes. For the next 13 months, the name Mothman became familiar to every resident in the area, and sightings were occurring all the time.
During that time, strange lights and objects were seen in the sky on such a regular basis, that every night people would flock to a hill in nearby Gallipolis Ferry to view them.
Then there were the Men in Black. Strange men with unusual features and mannerisms who would visit people who had reported personal experiences with these strange phenomena and warn them to not to speak about their experiences again. They did not claim to be government officials or to represent any governmental body. Some were short, others were tall. Some of them would exhibit strange behavior and behave in bizarre ways. A reporter named Mary Hyre recalled an incident at The Point Pleasant Register when she was visited by a short man dressed in black. He told her to stop writing about the strange occurrences in the city. The man wore a short sleeve shirt despite the 30 degree weather, kept one hand in his pocket the entire time and never blinked his eyes. Hyre later said she felt like she was speaking to an alien disguised as a human being.

It also includes a viewing room where folks can watch a documentary about those harrowing 13 months. The incidents were very common, reported by respected people from all walks of life who were not known for outrageous claims or eccentric behavior of any kind. These were normal people, thrust into a very abnormal series of events.

In 1777, Chief Cornstalk of the Shawnee was captured and later killed—along with his son and two other Native Americans—by soldiers at Fort Randolph, just a few miles from what is now Point Pleasant. As he lay dying, the legend says that Cornstalk cursed the land for 200 years.

The Mothman incidents are considered the strongest manifestations of this alleged curse—incidents that came to a sudden end with an unexpected tragedy. On Dec. 15, 1967, 13 months to the day that the Mothman first appeared, The Silver Bridge—spanning across the Ohio River between Point Pleasant and Kanauga, Ohio—collapsed, taking with it the lives of 46 people. After the bridge fell, the UFO sightings stopped, the Men in Black disappeared and the Mothman was never seen in Point Pleasant again.