[font="Impact"][/font] The Point Pleasant Register has recently printed a newspaper story stating that a mysterious skull was found. Nobody can tell what the remains are, and they speculated it to be one of three things: (1) A Giant Turtle. (2) A Bird. (3) The Mothman. I believe that it can be a giant turtle, but a bird? You'd have to be a moron to believe that! Check out the following link and tell me what you think it is:

http://www.mothmanmuseum.com/MothmanLives/.../mothskull1.jpg

Mothman skull? I find that unlikely, to me the skull looks like it's from a turtle than anything else. No, it doesn't look like a bird. But really, I don't think it's mothman, but inresting skull nontheless.

Yeah Im thinking Turtle.

Here are some turtle skulls.

agree - and they do get big. Scroll down about 2/3 of the way on this page to see a pic of a park ranger holding one about that same size..

http://homeiswhereweparkourhouse.com/adven...vnt04part1.html

Ima go with everyone else and say it's a turtle.

Haha. Nice, Aztec.

Maybe or maybe not. That'll be cool if it's Mothman's skull. :3 Thanks for the picture.

Turtle.

Is it just me, or does that skull looked "pieced-together"? Compared to the photo's of the turtle skulls, that supposed "Mothman skull" just looks to.....clean/nice.....*shrugs* maybe it's just me.

Yep, turtle...

as much as I would love to say Mothman, its pretty obvious its a turtle from the other pics posted

So you'd have to be a moron to think it's a bird, but it's plausable to be Mothman?
Yeah, that makes sense.
Sure looks like a Turtle or Tortoise to me.

Sea turtle skull, no question.

It looks like a loggerhead sea turtle skull... IMO


Joanna Taylor displays a loggerhead sea turtle skull.

LINK-> Sea Turtle Walk

I have to agree with the majority on this and say it is a Sea Turtle.. probably a loggerhead although it does look like a clean version of PaxUnum avatar..?

pax unum skull ??

LOL, interesting thought, but the eye sockets don't look alike...

I looks like a turtle skull to me, although a very large one. The turtle it belonged to must have made somebody, or something a great meal.

Good Journey.

Kyle Rajasthan.

Ok one more time, I'm from this part of WV and i hate to break it to you guy's, But the MM was a tourist trick to get people into the area there never was a MM nor will there ever be a MM......

meh, i have seen this article before. the skull looks more turtleoid than mothmanoid.

There isn't supposed to be just one mothman, but many that appear as different things across time.
plus they are not supposed to be mortal or even physical.

a mothman wouldn't leave a skull anyways

At least the guy stated that he didn't believe in it. To me it is an exact, though cleaner, replica of the Loggerhead's skull.

Uh isis 999,

I hate to disagree with you.... but I'm from this neck of the woods too and no it wasn't. What earthly good would it have done people in Point Pleasant Wv in 1965 - 67 to make up a story like that be harassed for seeing something unusual and how did it profit them then? The people who saw this haven't made money nor is it a BIG tourist attraction. They do have a Mothman statue and festival for it now approximately 40 years after the sightings. So if it was a hey lets make up a monster and get some tourist in here, they were patient for a s-l-o-w return on their scheme.

Mabon.

Thanks for the link... great pic... Turtles are very interesting creatures.

THAT SUCKS! THE MOTHMAN IS FAKE??!?!?!?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHY!? no no no no no!

Definitely a Turtle, but not a Loggerhead... I can see an unusual vertical bone process ( a ridge I think) on the rear - top of the skull. Not found in Loggerheads.

I'll follow the herd on this one.

Survey says...'Turtle!!!'

I think the original picture of the 'turtle' skull is tipped forward showing the 'ridge'... IMO


the difference in size between the loggerhead (the bigger skull) and a green turtle (to the left).

So how'd they find a sea turtle skull in West Virginia?

Where did the while "mothman is fake" come from..

I mean surely that's not mothmans skull...because i share the belief of others on this thread and agree that mothman shouldn't just be leaving skulls around since his like...wierd and mystical and what not...and thats a damn turtle skull...mothman does NOT leave around skulls...

Dang. . . The people who started the myth, probably were fishing, found a sea turtle, killed it, took it's skull, and kept it until this moment!

No. The Mothman legends been around since the 70's. Waaaaaay before the skull was found, Nessie.

The Mothman's glowing red eyes were first reported on November 14th, 1966 in Salem, West Virginia.

Oh. I was close enough, Finsup.

Mothman's Dead? This is just like when they told me there was no Santa. Some people are so cruel.

If the Mothman is a giant bug guy, than he can't have a skull cause bugs don't HAVE skulls.

He's not dead, he just smells that way!

Am I the only person here who finds it the least strange that there are SEA TURTLE skulls in WEST VIRGINIA?

The article states "The skull currently on display at the barbershop during the hours of 8am - 5pm".


I'm thinking hoax / marketing ploy to drum up business.

What's that sound?? A nail right on the head??

Thanks Spirit Wolf and Pax, solved down to the species I'd say

Unexplained Mystery explained

I know nothing of West Virginia, and it may sound strange to find a sea turtle skull there, as a guess, perhaps rivers?

Well since they tried to pass it of as a possible mothman skull it's possible they lied about where/how it was found. Just a thought.

I was imagining the skull was "imported," yanno? I got nuthin.

I was hoping it might be a skull of a sleestak from "Land of the Lost"


But I think the skull in the OP doesn't have the ridge on top. So, I'll have to agree with logger head turtle.

Sea Turtle Society at the National Conservation Training Center near Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

Loggerheads are the most common sea turtle to nest in the United States. With the largest concenration of nests in south Florida they nest from Texas to W.Virginia