The Mothman Prophecies (2002) is a major motion picture, loosely based on the 1975 book of the same name by John Keel. Īccording to Georgian newspaper Svobodnaya Gruziya, Russian UFOlogists claim that Mothman sightings in Moscow foreshadowed the 1999 Russian apartment bombings. įollowing the Decemcollapse of the Silver Bridge and the death of 46 people, the incident gave rise to the legend and connected the Mothman sightings to the bridge collapse. While the villain Killer Moth did not appear in the show, the comic book influence of both him and Batman is believed by some to have influenced the coinage of the name “Mothman” in the local newspapers. īatman and his antagonist Killer Moth are varyingly cited as influences for the term "Mothman"ĭue to the popularity of the Batman TV series at the time, the fictional superhero Batman and his rogue's gallery were prominently featured in the public eye. The bird may have wandered out of its migration route, and therefore was unrecognized at first because it was not native to this region. Smith at West Virginia University told reporters that descriptions and sightings all fit the sandhill crane, a large American crane almost as tall as a man with a seven-foot wingspan featuring circles of reddish coloring around the eyes. Additionally, he blamed buzzing noises from his television set and the disappearance of his German Shepherd dog on the creature. Contractor Newell Partridge told Johnson that when he aimed a flashlight at a creature in a nearby field, its eyes glowed "like bicycle reflectors". Mason County Sheriff George Johnson commented that he believed the sightings were due to an unusually large heron he termed a "shitepoke". Two volunteer firemen who saw it said it was a "large bird with red eyes". ĭuring the next few days, other people reported similar sightings. They described it as a "large flying man with ten-foot wings", following their car while they were driving in an area outside of town known as "the TNT area", the site of a former World War II munitions plant.
On November 15, 1966, two young couples from Point Pleasant-Roger and Linda Scarberry, and Steve and Mary Mallette-told police they saw a large grey creature whose eyes "glowed red" when the car's headlights picked it up.
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