The continuing impact of the Mothman on Point Pleasant , West Virginia , is laborious to overlook . The townsfolk plays host to astatue , amuseum , and an annualfestivalthat all celebrate the cerise - eyed flight animal who first showed up on the scene in 1966 .
In November of that twelvemonth , two couples spy a winged , mistily man - shaped monster near the so - called “ TNT area , ” a solicitation of give up bunkers where explosive were stack away during World War II . After thePoint Pleasant Registerreportedon their harrowing trial by ordeal , other sightingsstartedrolling in . When nearly four dozen multitude were belt down in a bridge prostration on December 15 , 1967 , manybelievedthe Mothman was somehow postulate .
The infamous cryptid ’s popularity tolerate over the ensuing decades with the help of John Keel ’s 1975 bookThe Mothman Propheciesand the 2002 movie adaptation starring Richard Gere and Laura Linney . While glimpses of the Mothman himself by all odds top out during the ’ 60s , close encounters with a strange creature in West Virginia still surface to this daytime .
In his new documentaryThe Mothman Legacy , director Seth Breedlove turn over into the history of the Mothman , inquire its long legacy in Pleasant Point and question more recent eyewitness . It ’s not Breedlove ’s first picture on the matter ; he also directed 2017’sThe Mothman of Point Pleasant , which focalise on the Mothman ’s heyday from November 1966 to the bridge circuit catastrophe a year later .
His latest project features Jeff Wamsley , who has written two books on the subject and also institute the town ’s Mothman Museum . As The Daily Beastreports , The Mothman Legacydoesn’t exactly essay to solve the mystery of the Mothman or debunk all the theories about it . Instead , it ’s more of a celebration of theurban fable , complete with spooky CGI reenactment and plenty of eery score of say run - ins with the freak . In short , it ’s ideal cannon fodder for yourHalloween moviemarathon — and as teller Lyle Blackburn direct out in the picture show , “ an absence seizure of evidence does n’t necessarily point an grounds of absence seizure . ”
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[ h / tThe Daily Beast ]
