Mothman Is Not A Joke

This is the greatest urban legend of All Time

[snowyfox]

ive seen the statue irl and whoever created it spent all their time sculpting his ass. its unreal.

[LandonYes]

As a man who lives in West Virginia I can confirm that moth man is real, we often see him drinking under a bridge while talking about himself in a third person perspective

[ultralm]

“Sounds like a villain Batman would square off with” you’re probably thinking of Killer Moth, an actual Batman villain

[manning]

When you started talking about a Sandhill Crane, my mind went straight to assuming that the people of West Virginia were mistaking mothman, for a 100ft steel crane that would presumably be on top of sandhills.

[camtheram]

As someone who has spent their whole life in West Virginia, the woods are fucking terrifying. No surprise folklore legends get stirred up

[nocapsync-]

As the average West Virginian, moth man is like family to me. He’s constantly around my grandparents barn and always has something to say at the family reunions.

[urbaezre]

I grew up near this town and there was a student who repeatedly told a story of her dad and uncle dressing as the mothman to scare passing cars. She told the story nearly yearly and didn't strike me as a liar but to this day I still believe her

[bloop]

I can see how these types of cryptid stories can form…

I was driving one day, not even in the middle of nowhere (pretty close to a busy freeway). And in my peripheral vision I saw what looked like a large rabbit with big bird wings stand up on its hind legs and fly straight up into the air.

It took me a second to register what I had just seen, and I was alone in the car audibly saying “wtf was that wtf did I just see”

I rationalized it by deciding I must have seen the exact moment a large bird started airlifting a rabbit it caught. And then when it started flying, it was facing me for that split second, so even though it wasn’t flying straight up, it created the illusion that it was. And maybe since it was in my peripheral, my brain filled in some blanks and made it look like one cohesive creature.

But the weird thing is that when I was in high school I had a friend who said that once when he was driving he caught a glimpse of a weird small animal that couldn’t exist. It like genuinely scared him. And I think it had something to do with a rabbit too. A connection I didn’t make until way later.

But if a few people had this similar experience within a shorter time frame and all within the same area. There you go. It would just snowball into Birdrabbit Man.

[Marsdog]

I like how the mothman’s appearance has drastically changed from a giant roundish bird creature to an actual man with moth like features and bird wings. I still think what happened during the first witness account is that they were probably just driving fast and saw the glint in an owl’s eyes in a tall tree as they drove by, and it gave the illusion of a creature. I like to think in the middle of the night residents hear loud thuds as mothman hits against porch lights lmao

[sorayaya]

"A pair of invisible hands pulled my steering wheel and made me crash" is a great excuse for when you are driving recklessly late at night

[reverzdevil]

I can confirm the moth man is real. He spends most of his time in his garage working on an old pickup truck. A bit scary the first time you see him due to the glowing red eyes and whole moth thing but hes actually quite nice once you get to know him.

[thatonefnaffan]

"He sounds like someone Batman would fight"

Killer Moth left the chat

[Arisato-Yuki]

"He sounds like a villain batman would go up against"
Killer moth:Am I a joke to you?

[haggerhag]

Something people fail to mention is that the entire "Mothman" craze in point pleasant was ended by an absolute tragedy when the silver bridge collapsed, this was even related to the mothman, people stating that he's a bad omen that appears before disasters. I believe that 46 people unfortunately died during the collapse.

[BSJINTHEHOUSE]

Mothman is a true gamer he only comes out when food is ready.

[unklechase]

As a North Central West Virginian, I have been terrorized on multiple occasions by Mothman and Charlie saved my life every time.

[quinn]

I feel like mothman is like Absol, where he's not actually evil, he's just trying to warn us but we can't understand him.

[atdcaffeine]

As a life long West Virginia resident my favorite part of the Mothman lore is when he says "it's mothin time" and completely moths on everyone. Really inspiring shit right there.

[Mr.Nobody]

I can 100% confirm that Moth Man is in fact real. I saw him last night drinking and playing poker at the nearest casino. He won every round. He's chill, and a badass.

[TheAwesomes]

Mothman is the only cryptid that I don't disbelieve completely. I was packing in groceries one night in southern West Virginia with my cousin and my sister. We were all young, maybe 11-12 yo and had never heard of mothman before. As we got to the door, we all looked across the creek and saw the huge creature with glowing red eyes, wings and all, and freaked out and ran inside.
In hysterics, we describe to my dad what we had seen and he just waved us off and told us we had seen a big owl. In all fairness, we do see a lot of great horned owls and they do have massive orange eyes that glow red if you shine a light at them, but these eyes were several inches apart and the body was much bigger than a person, so we all knew that wasn't right.
It wasn't until about a year later that I walked through the living room as my dad was watching a mothman documentary, and happened to see a drawing of him. I immediately recognized the creature as the one we saw, and even confirmed with my sister and cousin. It was a wild moment, and my bedroom window faced the area we had seen it at, so it was great nightmare fuel for me.
I'm a very skeptical person, but the fact that 3 of us clearly saw it, all with the same details, and we'd never heard of Mothman before, I just don't know.