ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) – It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s the Cryptid of the Week! Mothman! This elusive cryptid took West Virginia and Appalachia by storm after it was first sighted in 1966. Many believe ...

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A Saturday tweet posted by Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia wishing Mason County residents a happy Mothman Festival caught the eye of President Donald Trump – possibly because the tweet included ...

CHARLESTON, WV (WVNS) — The West Virginia Department of Tourism welcomes local families to take part in a special Halloween ...

The Mothman is a prime example of modern American folklore, a monster that hasn’t faded from public curiosity since its first appearance in 1966. What makes for a good modern American myth? Something ...

The Mothman Festival is held every third weekend in September in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. The festival features live music, vendors, food trucks, cosplay, speakers and more. 'In the know' ...

The Mothman statue in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. | Jimmy Emerson DVM, Flickr // CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The infamous cryptid’s popularity endured over the ensuing decades with the help of John Keel’s 1975 ...

Due to high demand, the Charleston Ballet added a matinee performance of The Legend of Mothman at 2 p.m. on Oct. 24, 2026, at the West Virginia Culture Center Theater in Charleston.

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 ...

THE myth of the Mothman has been part of American fokelore since the 1960s. Now a recent sighting of a what some people are saying is a winged man flying through the trees has sparked fears the ...

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