The Daily Yonder The Mothman Festival Is Returning to Point Pleasant, West Virginia While the festival celebrating the famous monster is coming back after a Covid-forced break, the sightings continue, indifferent to the pandemic.
The Mothman statue in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Source: Flickr(CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
After a year off for the Covid-19 pandemic, the Mothman Festival is hopefully back on again.
The festival, which centers around the legendary Mothman, will take place in late September (as long as Covid-19 stays at bay) in a place where the creature was most prominently spotted – Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
The creature’s rise from frightening flying monster to tourism draw includes everything from Point Pleasant’s Silver Bridge disaster to a Richard Geer movie. For years, it was a local legend that people told to each other, but it wasn’t something known throughout the country. But town leaders decided in 2002 that they needed a festiva