The next day, a press conference was held and the local press began printing on the story, causing others to come forward with previous and future sightings. Two hours later, City Police began investigating the area, only to return empty-handed. This time when they arrived into town they went to the Mason county courthouse and told their story to Sheriff George Johnson and Deputy Miller Hallsted.
The couples now realized that their stalker was no bird, but in the instant that the car's headlights landed on the creature it lifted vertically into the air with tremendous speed and disappeared above the tree line. It wasn't long before they saw the creature again, apparently waiting on them beside Route 62. Roger parked his car at the edge of town and they discussed their encounter, eventually deciding that what they saw was nothing more than an aberrant bird, and in an attempt to face their fears they again drove towards the TNT Area. The four arrived in town, startled and confused, and with no sign of the mysterious bird that had chased them. The true horror began, however, when the creature spread its wings and pursued them down Highway 62 to the Point Pleasant city limits at speeds exceeding 100 mph. The four realized immediately that their spectacle was no ordinary bird. Roger stalled in the road for a minute, inspecting the strange creature. They soon learned that these eyes belonged to something that looked frankly human, about 7 feet tall with wings folded against its back. Roger and Linda Scarberry were driving in Roger's black '57 Chevy Bel Air with Steve and Marry Mallette through the area around midnight when Linda noticed, unbelievably, two large, glowing red eyes in the darkness beside the old North Power Plant, and screamed. It was here in the TNT Area on the cold night of November 15th, 1966, three days after the first sighting took place, that two young couples would encounter this bizarre creature. In 1979, fishermen in the TNT area reported that chemicals had been left to seep into the ponds, causing it to be labeled an environmental disaster.īy the year 1983, the TNT Area was among the country's most-polluted sites. A wildlife sanctuary, McClintic Wildlife Management, now encompasses the area. The area is also riddled with abandoned tunnels, most of which have collapsed, been sealed off, or become flooded with water. The surrounding area is mostly forest, dotted with numerous grassy clearings and thick concrete domes, called "igloos," that were used to store barrels of gunpowder. The facility, during its operation, manufactured ammunition and dynamite. West Virginia Ordnance Works is an abandoned munitions to the north of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, that dates back to World War II. The creature was sighted in many places across West Virginia and the surrounding states, but the largest number of sightings happened near the old West Virginia Ordnance Works, an area now known by locals as the "TNT Area."Īn igloo in the TNT Area, built thick to prevent a chain-explosion from the barreled gunpowder inside The men held to the fact that what lifted off beyond the trees was no bird it was a humanoid. Lifting off from the nearby trees was a brown winged creature. The first recorded Mothman sighting took place on November 12, 1966, near Clendenin, West Virginia.įive men were in a cemetery preparing a grave for burial when they saw something they couldn't explain.
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