The Mothman Mystery In West Virginia Still Baffles People Today

As they drove, their headlights bounced off what appeared to be red reflectors, but as they neared these reflectors, the couples discovered that they were actually the eyes of a large, gray creature with the physique of a man. As they passed the creature, two wings on its back snapped open and the creature took flight, pursuing them. The driver accelerated to 100 miles per hour, but the creature easily kept up. It even slammed itself against the roof of their car a few times. It eventually fell back, and the two couples made it safe and sound to Point Pleasant.

That was the first of many appearances that would plague the town for more than a year.

It was around the North Power plant in the TNT area (named so because it was once a munitions storage ground for the military during WWII) that people believe this creature roamed. Local police and residents of the town went searching for this creature — to perhaps solve the mystery of its existence — but found nothing.

These men wore black suits with black ties and white shirts. They had shiny black hair and perfect olive-colored skin, free of blemishes of any kind. Some witnesses even described their skin as "almost translucent." Some reports described the men as having Oriental or eastern European features. Their faces were apparently expressionless and their movements were described as robotic.

One woman, a reporter named Mary Hyre who frequently wrote about the UFO sightings, was visited by one of these men who kept one hand in his pocket the entire time and never blinked his eyes. The encounter terrified Mary, and she told a friend later that she felt like she was talking to an alien disguised as a human being.

This belief is supported by the way the sightings ended. On December 15, 1967, 13 months to the day the Mothman arrived in Point Pleasant, the city's busy Silver Bridge collapsed in the Ohio River, killing 46 motorists. The phenomenon of the Mothman, the UFOs, and the Men In Black ended when the bridge collapsed, leaving the residents of the town with nothing but questions and grief.

Even though the creature has not appeared in Point Pleasant since 1967, its legacy remains. But its appearances did not end entirely. People have claimed to see the creature numerous times over the years, and many have taken photographs. It seems that despite its frequent appearances, we may never know what the people of Point Pleasant saw during that time.