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
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The Silver Bridge. The two books, however, are very different in many ways. Before I get to the books, here’s a bit of background on the saga of Mothman. There can be few people reading this who have not at least heard of the legendary Mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, who so terrorized the town and the surrounding area between November 1966 and December 1967, and whose diabolical exploits were chronicled in the 2002 hit Hollywood movie starring Richard Gere:
The Mothman Prophecies, so named after the book of the same title written by Mothman authority John Keel. A winged monster with glowing, red eyes, Mothman’s appearance came quite literally out of nowhere and, some say, culminated in high tragedy and death. But what was the Mothman of Point Pleasant? And how did the legend begin? To answer those questions we have to go back to the dark night of November 12, 1966, when five grave-diggers working in a cemetery in the nearby town of Clendenin were shocked to see wha