A creature born of radioactivity scared the bejesus out of two couples in 1966 on a dark road at midnight. Or was it a gigantic bird? Or Batpig? More likely it was the antihero of Point Pleasant: Mothman! Come listen to Emma tell Shannon about the feathered man bird and all of his "cousins" around the world.
Sources:
First report in the Point Pleasant Register
Second report in the Williamson Daily News
The Silver Bridge collapse and why it buckled
Photographic evidence of Mothman in 2016 and a fact check
The Chicago Mothman in Vice, NPR, and 2020
Petition for Mothman statues to replace stinky Confederate ones
