![]() He was very tall and hairy, with two expansive wings and wide, bloodshot eyes. On April 10, 2009, residents of La Junta in the Mexican state of Chihuahua began noticing a strange creature in their midst. ![]() It is a bit of movie fiction that has, unfortunately, moved into pseudo-factoid cryptozoology.” But there is not one thread of evidence that any winged weirdies were witnessed before the Chernobyl accident. In 2010, the author said that reports of the Mothman Chernobyl sightings were entirely based on fictional accounts from the 2002 Mothman Prophecies movie: “The Chernobyl story, the Galveston Hurricane-Mothman tie-in, and other examples given in the 2002 movie were pure fiction right after the movie was released, various websites posted the Chernobyl/Mothman reports as factual. Many claimed the creature resembled a man-like bird with red eyes, and some came to refer to it as “the Black Bird of Chernobyl.” Was the Black Bird of Chernobyl the same creature as the one seen prior to the Silver Bridge disaster? Or was it, as some have suggested, merely a rare black stork?Īccording to Loren Coleman, it was neither. Even stranger, those who claimed to have seen the creature were reportedly plagued by nightmares and harassed by incessant, threatening phone calls thereafter. A few workers at Chernobyl also allegedly saw the same creature hovering over the plant. Reportedly, a bizarre winged creature was seen flying over the town on numerous occasions. RELATED: 5 Recent UFO Sightings That Defy Explanation In the decades following the disaster, rumors have flown on cryptozoology-inclined corners of the internet that Chernobyl workers and residents of Pripyat saw something very eerie in the days prior to the explosion. The nearby town of Pripyat served as a base for the first responders but was later evacuated due to the presence of harmful radiation. On April 26, 1986, in the Soviet Union, the world’s worst nuclear disaster occurred when an explosion took place during a routine systems test of Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear plant. RELATED: Here's the Creepy Mothman Documentary You Need to Watch Tonight As the Mothman story gained notoriety in pop culture, rumors of other times when the beast appeared prior to tragedy striking began to swirl. The Point Pleasant incidents have been recounted in various media, including the 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies, written by John Keel, who was on assignment in West Virginia during the height of the Mothman phenomenon the 2002 movie adaptation of the same name and the 2002 book by cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, Mothman and Other Curious Encounters. As the legend grew, the question surrounding Mothman’s intentions remained-and so has public fascination with the mysterious creature. Others hypothesized that, despite the Mothman’s frightening appearance, he might have been sent to warn the town of impending tragedy. Some wondered if the Mothman was responsible for the Silver Bridge destruction. Theories arose that Pleasure Point might have been a portal to an alternate realm-and that the Mothman creature, coupled with reports of UFOs, poltergeists, and bizarre light phenomenons in the area, was somehow connected to the Silver Bridge tragedy. The destruction was blamed on a dysfunctional eyebar in the suspension chain, but some locals felt that something more sinister was at play and that it might be connected to the recent reports of the eerie creature. Forty-six people died when the bridge, which connected the city with Gallipolis, Ohio, collapsed during rush hour. The mystery and fear surrounding the strange bird-like monster came to a head on December 15, 1967, with the tragic collapse of the Silver Bridge. The sightings continued for months throughout the Point Pleasant area. ![]() Scarberry said that had he seen the creature by himself, he wouldn’t have said anything, “but there were four of us who saw it.” “It wasn’t anything like you’d seen on TV or in a monster movie.”Īnother witness, Roger Scarberry, described the creature as having red eyes about two inches in diameter and six inches apart. “It was like a man with wings,” he recounted to the Point Pleasant Register. Steve Mallette was one of those witnesses. Days later on November 15, in nearby Point Pleasant, West Virginia, a small city located at the meeting place of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers, two couples both spotted a white-winged, human-sized creature with fiery eyes standing in front of their car headlights. The first Mothman sighting occurred on November 12, 1966, in Clendenin, West Virginia, when five gravediggers claimed to see a human-like figure soaring just above them in the autumn trees.
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