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Disasters foretold by scary apparitionsChris Lynch , Charger Staff Everyone has heard of Jack the Ripper and Son of Sam, some might
even remember Leopold and Lobe and Vlad the Impaler, but people
around Point Pleasant, West Virginia have another evil phenomenon
to deal with--a creature known as Mothman! Supposedly an all-white apparition with shiny red eyes that glow
in the dark like bicycle reflectors, Mothman has been sighted by
many local citizens, mostly near a power plant at the edge of town.
Reports indicate that when witnesses first encounter the phenomenon,
they are blinded by a bright light and their eyes turn blood-red
from the experience. Victims always come out of the experience drawing pictures of a
sketchy creature who is either entirely black or white. Those drawings
are the only pictures ever recorded about the Mothman. Speculation abounds that the creature has demonic roots. It has
been known to swoop down on traffic and create vehicular collisions;
it can predict natural disasters that are soon to occur; and it
generally scares the wits out of anyone who crosses its path. The
first sighting of the Mothman occurred in Point Pleasant in 1964.
There have been over 100 sightings alone in this small town in West
Virginia. In 1926 one of the worst engineering disasters occurred in China.
The Xiaon Te Dam collapsed sending over forty billion gallons of
water and killing nearly fifteen thousand people. The Chinese report
that they saw the Mothman. The most famous occurrence was the collapse
of the Silver Bridge in Point Pleasant, on December 15, 1967, a
disaster in which some forty-six people lost their lives. There was a malfunction with the traffic light on one side of the
bridge that allowed the bridge to be overweight with Christmas present-packed
vehicles, causing the forty-year-old bridge to collapse into the
river. Point Pleasant consists of devoted religious people who attend
church every week, therefore producing their personal theory of
the Mothman as an angel of good or evil. Other theories state that
the Mothman was a mutation or an UFO from another planet. The Mothman remains an enigmatic figure--sometimes determined to save certain lives, sometimes standing by to watch the death of thousands of innocent civilians. But whether or not we understand its motives, the Mothman is a fascinating and compelling mystery.
Article prepared for web by Joy Wheeler |