mothman

This is the story of the mothman, a creature that was seen near my home town.I am not saying this is real but,no one know's.
    In the earlier part of the 1900's,an area outside of Point Pleasant
W.V. was set up as the Mclintic Wildlife Preserve, it was among other thing's,designed as a bird sanctuary. During world war 2,part of the preserve was ripped up in order to construct about 100 "igloos".These large mounds of earth were made to be unnoticed from the air.Deep inside each,cement and steel protected the content's :wartime explosives.After the war,it was sold to companies like the Trogan-U.S. Powder company,the LFC chemical company,and American Cyanamid.......Biochemistry enters the picture.
All the while,the preserve became known to area residents simply as T.N.T. the TNT area became a popular hangout for local youth,parking and partying at TNT became a norm.Now that you have your bearings,lets throw in one creepy creature.
           It was a cold November night,about 10:30,and suddenly the TV blanked out.A real fine herring bone pattern appeared on the tube, and at the same time the set started a loud wining noise...it sounded like a generator winding up.The dog was sitting on the end of the porch,howling down toward the hay barn,I shined the "flash" light in that direction,and picked up two red circles,or eyes,wich looked like bicycle reflectors.I certainly know what animal eyes look like, these were much larger,It's a good length of a football field to that hay barn,still those eyes showed up huge for that distance.It was an eerie feeling,I have never had this sort of feeling before,It was if you knew something was wrong,but couldn't place just what it was.
    Newell Partridge described the "intense",morbid fear that swept over him (on the night of November 14th 1966 in salem West Virginia) as a cold chill. The dog snarled and ran toward the eyes, but Newell ran inside, He slept with his "shotgun" all night.
The next day,he and his six-year-old son went searching for the dog,bandit,a large muscular German Shepherd.Newell said,Those tracks were going in a circle, as if the dog had been chasing his tail, though he never did that, there were no other tracks of any kind. Bandit was never seen again. The next night the creature take's a form......

At 11:30 the fallowing night (november 15th), a 57 chevy slowly creeps through the TNT area,Inside are two young couples, mr and mrs.Roger Scarberry and Mr and Mrs .Steve Mallette.
    They came to an old "generator plant on the preserve.
Linda Scarberry gasps....It was shaped like a man, but bigger. Maybe six and a half or seven "feet" tall.And it had big wings folded against it's back....But it was those eyes that got us. It had two big eyes like automobile reflectors....They were "hypnotic".for a minute, we could only stare at it. I couldn't take my eyes off it.
        Scarberry slammed on the accelerator pedal, trying to get to the highway. As they sped past a small hill, the creature appeared and took off straight up in the air.It was following them as they hit one hundred miles an hour, it kept up without "flapping" it's wings, it followed them for a bit, then near the city limits it broke it's pursuit .
     Later the police department reported that the two young couples were really scared. As the fervor over the sightings mounted,and more sightings were reported,Mrs.Mary Hyre, editor of the PT. Pleasant Register, had it put on the Associated press wire. The copy editor,since Batman was a popular series at the time, he dubbed the creature MOTH MAN. The description's of the creature were consistent,,,it was taller then a man, 6 or 7 feet perhaps taller, featherless wings spanning 10 feet across, RED, glowing eyes, some eyewitnesses were unable to recall seeing a head; These reports stated the eyes were actually in the "shoulder" area where the neck and head should be.Most eyewitnesses couldn't remember details about the type of feet the creature possessed.most every Question regarding the mothman will go forever unanswered. Did he live? or dose he still live? We may never know............

Mothman