Mothman An Expos

Ed Grabianowski

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A bizarre creature terrorized a town in West Virginia in 1966 and 1967, leering at locals with glowing red eyes, flying over their cars and causing radiation burns and even the collapse of a major bridge over the Ohio River. Half man, half moth? Ultradimensional being? Alien from another planet? What was Mothman?

What began as a series of sightings of an unknown creature grew more complex and mysterious with each retelling. By the time the Mothman story made its way to a major Hollywood film, The Mothman Prophecies, Mothman was some sort of extradimensional harbinger of tragedy, an alien intelligence so bizarre we couldn't even begin to fathom its motives or methods. The movie weaves layers of creepiness and dread with personal grief and looming disaster, all as a backdrop for a positively Lovecraftian cosmic horror that drives men mad... and it is, of course, a work of fiction. But how did the Mothman legend get from "something weird some West Virginians saw late one night," to "entity from beyond time and space"?

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