The Mothman

The first recorded Mothman sighting took place on November 12, 1966, near Clendenin, West Virginia.

Five men were in a cemetery preparing a grave for burial when they saw something they couldn't explain. Lifting off from the nearby trees was a brown winged creature. The men held to the fact that what lifted off beyond the trees was no bird; it was a humanoid. - The Cryptid Wiki

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The Mothman is some kind of humanoid/moth hybrid creature first sighted in West Virginia, believed to be the product of some kind of environmental disaster stemming from the improper storage of chemicals in what locals refer to as "TNT Area." It appears at scenes of disasters, sometimes just appearing there, other times taking a more active role.

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Many similar cryptids and creatures have been seen worldwide. The sightings are similar to Mothman in many ways, including the fact that most of them seem to be heralds of impending disasters. Some of the places Mothman or its fellows have visited include a mine in Freiburg, Germany, where a mothman-like creature scared miners away shortly before a collapse. Another notable visit was to the nuclear plant at Chernobyl, where a creature haunted the facilities for a while before the famous nuclear meltdown. There were also two Mothman pictures taken in New York on 9/11 and multiple sightings before the Minnesota bridge collapse.

Some believe that the Mothman tries to warn people about disasters about to happen. Such as the Freiburg and Chernobyl sightings listed above. However, since there only seems to be one Mothman instead of a bunch of his kind, and since he seems rather paranormal, these sightings are not of much interest to cryptozoologists who want to discover new kinds of creatures. - The Cryptid Wiki

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If anyone has any evidence of sightings, let me know, I'm on Bluesky posting about whatever I find interesting that day.