I've just been reading about mothman and I know it's a man like creature with moth like wings. Was it the creature in Jeepers Creepers 1 and 2?
Maybe that was based on him?!

Nobody really knows what or who he is

bit of a pointless thread this then!!

The story of Mothman originated here in West Virginia in Point Pleasant(just a little town). People from the whole town were awakened at night by hideous shrieks and some people claimed to see huge red eyes. Many pets ended up missing or massacred during the time of the sightings of Mothman. There have been no more sightings of Mothman since the collapse of Silver Bridge in Point Pleasant, so some considered Mothman to be an omen of that event. Although now people are claiming that they've seen something unexplained in the town of Point Pleasant again. It's possibly a hoax, but there's also been a lot of pets coming up missing there...

Yes, but how many Chinese restaurants have opened up lately?

I'm actually half serious. We had a wave of disappearing pets in the neighborhood when I was young, that the police traced to a chinese restaurant..
In any case, Point Pleasant has made a huge amount of money off Mothman Mania..
If it starts to die down the economy will suffer there, as has happened before. It's only natural that someone would start seeing it again..

just as openpalm01 said

no one knows what it was, and where it is now. it was tracked down to the TNT plant there, but when they searched there, they didn't find anything, but there was reports from people who stayed behind of seeing IT flying back to the area when they left. there have been reports in other places of Mothman, but no one is sure if its the same thing

Around about the same time as the Mothman appearences there were other strange things happening in Point Pleasant. examples are: that there were a wave of UFO sightings around the town and districts (there were even suggestions that the Mothman came from a spaceship, some people have seen it disappear then see a spaceship right after it disappeared) there were reports of people that were abducted by aliens , there were reports of strange visitors in the town (mostly men in black, but also aliens taking the shape of humans), strange phone calls ( suppoosedly by aliens when the person picked up the phone there were strange noises etc and messages) this can be verified by an investigator who came to the town to see if all these incidents were true he himself started to get strange and threatning phone calls, visitations etc it's all very interesting to me i suggest watching the movie the mothman prophocies or reading the actual book which gives a very good documented account of all the incidents that happened in the town.

The Mothman Prophecys was a Hollywood made film. I wouldn't look to it for any credible source of events or insight into what happened.

Actually I would Sprinkles, I saw the movie yesterday, and it really gives a good account of the situation that was happening in West Virginia! the movie does not take it too far with the Mothman, the movie really does show respect for this phenomena. Its a good movie, so WATCH IT! lol

I agree with Pinowawa, it's information was actually pretty accurate as to the claims of these people. As for the Jeepers Creepers thing, I never heard of that being based on Mothman, but I did hear that it was based on the Jersey Devil.

yeah we dont know what moth man is for sure, is he an alien, an omen sent by some "unknow forces" or some thing else. We kinda know what he looks like thanks to the people who have seen it.

ACTUALLY.............. the movie was based on the book written by the investigator who witnessed MANY of the events himself.

I wanna say this opinion is a buncha crap, but its partly true. The movie didn't depict the true events as they unfolded in Point Pleasent very well; they created a fictional story about a newspaper reporter, his wife, and his acceptance that she's gone, regardless of what otherworldy forces can offer him for his own life.

The actual reports and accounts are bizarre and creepy enough as it is; fabricating their own from these events I thought was pointless.

GIVE THE PEOPLE THE TRUTH!!

i have to agree with this comment i was slightly dissapointed when i saw the movie after reading the book as it was nothing like it agreed that the accounts and events are really bizzare and down right creepy!