Mothman

I watched "The Mothman Prophesies" this weekend. Not a great movie by any means. The only reason I watched it was that it was "based" on events that supposedly took place in Point Pleasant W.Va. back in 1966-67. If you want the scary version of those events, click here. If you want to read how a few puzzling events can be used to create a hoax read this. (It is an insider's account by a journalist who knew the chief hoaxer.)

I was intrigued when i heard of the movie and its inspiration because i went to school in southeast Ohio and yet had never heard of Mothman. No one I knew from the area around Point Pleasant ever mentioned it that i recall. The same is true for the Kecksburg UFO. It wasn't a topic of local conversation for twenty years but then Unsolved Mysteries features it and "witnesses" come out of the woodwork. Of course, their accounts all fit neatly into the TV storyline.