The mothman - From the first time the Mothman appeared in Point Pleasant, West Virginia in early 1964, - Horror

The Collapse of the Silver Bridge

In the months before the collapse of the Silver Bridge, the town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia was racked with bizarre events. There were over 100 sightings of the Mothman, UFOs of a wide variety, and disturbing olive-skinned men. Some felt the Mothman was there to warn them of something. But no one knew what until just before Christmas that year.

The Silver Bridge itself was an oddly constructed bridge, held up by an eyebar chain suspension. It was nearly 40 years old in 1967 and because of its construction the failure of even one link in the chain would cause the collapse of the entire bridge. This is exactly what happened on December 15, 1967, an event attributed to corrosion and simple age. The bridge was also under a great deal of strain due to heavier Christmas traffic but especially because a traffic light on one end of the bridge was malfunctioning. The cause of this malfunction was never determined.

On the evening of December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge collapsed in rush-hour traffic. Some forty-six people died in the disaster when their cars plunged into the ice-cold Ohio river just before sundown. It was the biggest disaster ever to hit Point Pleasant, a town of fewer than 6000 people.

One lucky survivor drove onto the bridge moments before the disaster. Explaining "an unshakable feeling that something wasn't right. I couldn't ignore it," she put her car in reverse and backed off the bridge, watching in horror as seconds later the bridge collapsed in front of her. Perhaps the Mothman, who had a special affinity for children, knew something she didn't - she was pregnant with twins.

Though some claim it was the steel of the bridge snapping, many reported seeing lights flashing in the darkening sky over the bridge just before it collapsed.

Chernobyl

In April 1986 a rumor was running the ranks of workers at a power plant in southern Ukraine. Almost a dozen different men and women had reported seeing unsettling and strangely similar things. Some had been having nightmares, some received threatening phone calls. At least 4 had actually seen the creature that everyone kept talking about - a huge dark man, headless, but with massive wings and glowing red eyes. That particular morning, however, rumors would have to wait. A routine test of Reactor 4 was scheduled to prepare for the event of a power loss. Officials were apparently worried about some disaster happening at the plant, having received several mysterious warnings, especially in the most recent few days. They wanted to be prepared for anything. Reactor 4 was known to be unstable at low power levels and when it went on generator power on the morning of April 26, 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. 30 people were killed that morning, 10 more as a result of radiation exposure. The graphite of the reactor burned for 9 days - doing most of the radioactive damage to the area. And as helicopters circled, dropping 500 tons of sand, clay, lead and other chemicals on the fire, the surviving workers watched in disbelief as a huge 20 foot black bird circled in the smoke of the fire.

China

In 1926 one of the worst engineering disasters in history occurred in the southeastern foothills of China. There stood one of the largest dams in the world (though only the second largest in China) - the Xiaon Te Dam. The dam collapsed in the middle of the afternoon on January 19, 1926, sending over 40 billion gallons of water crashing over the peaceful farmland below. Over 15,000 people died as entire towns were demolished in the torrential flood. In other cases, houses were picked up and swept sometimes miles downstream completely intact. Of those that survived, nearly everyone had a story of either seeing or hearing about the black "man-dragon" who had appeared to victims of the disaster and around the doomed structure. Eyewitness accounts of this particular disaster are scarce because most newspaper records were destroyed when the Communist regime came to power in China.

Bermuda

On June 3, 1983 Alison McCarrey was making plans for a dream getaway with her husband, Eric, to the shores of Bermuda. She laid down for a beauty nap the day before their departure and was awakened by a strange phone call. She described it as sounding like Morse Code only shrill and full of interference. She thought of recording the phone call to play it for her husband who happened to know Morse Code, but the call was too short. She returned to her nap but when she awoke later that evening, she found she had been asleep for more than 6 hours. All she could think of was a disturbing dream she'd had in which a grey figure with black wings was watching over her as she drowned in the middle of a vast ocean. Her husband arrived home shortly after but she didn't mention any of it.

Later that night, she was having trouble sleeping and heard her dog, a Scotch terrier, growling and scratching at the front door downstairs. She went down to investigate and when she looked outside, she later said, "I wanted to laugh because I didn't believe it. But I couldn't laugh. It was like there was a hand around my throat, I was so terrified." On her front lawn stood the huge winged man from her dream. The man flew straight at the window where she stood. "But he didn't move any part of his body, he was just flying toward me all of a sudden." Her "bloodcurdling" scream woke her husband who found her standing in the front hallway shaking. She explained the whole story to him through sobs and whimpers. The next day she still appeared so shaken that he decided to postpone their trip.

They discovered later, when friends called them wondering if they were still alive, that the plane they were supposed to board disappeared in a storm in the Bermuda triangle and was never heard from again.

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(All from http://www.themothmanlives.com)

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Germany

Another case seems to point in favor of the Mothman, a case in which he saved at least 21 lives. Workers reported for duty on September 10, 1978 at a coal mine Freiburg, Germany to find the entrance to the mine shaft blocked by a mysterious terrifying black figure with huge outstretched wings. Several of the men tried to approach the creature and enter the mine, thinking it might just be an apparition. They were forced to retreat when the creature let out unbearable piercing shrieks "like 50 people screaming" or "the brakes of a train." After an hour or so of waiting, the men busied themselves with cleanup outside the mine hoping the creature would go away. At around 8 am the ground shook with the force of a huge underground explosion. The Mothman was gone - replaced by a huge column of flame coming from the entrance of the mine, a fire that surely would have killed them all.

6 months later only about a third of the men still worked at the mine. Some moved on to other careers, many were unemployed and apparently unemployable. Two dedicated themselves to discovering what happened and telling the world about it. Both died unusually young, in poverty and disgrace.All from http://www.themothmanlives.com

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