Over the years, I have become a tasty morsel for predators like this Mothman. There is a story behind this picture, one that Charlene took and offered no assistance to me in my escape from being eaten.
Charlene and I were watching Netflix, and there was a new season of Unsolved Mysteries. One of the episodes was that of the Mothman. I knew about the Mothman years, actually decades ago. I cannot recall how I learned of this fabled, most likely made-up creature. I was familiar with Mothman even when the Mothman Prophecies came out in 2002.
But Charlene had no clue what this was until we went to a museum two years ago.
The Mothman Museum was one of our stops on our West Virginia trip. This was our first major vacation and the farthest south Charlene had ever travelled. Point Pleasant had gained notoriety from Mothman sightings. The Mothman is even blamed for the collapse of the Silver Bridge that spanned the Ohio River. So many bad things became attributed to the Mothman that seeing it meant something terrible would happen.
We paid the small admission fee to see the museum dedicated to this cryptozoological creature that the area is famous for. There were no artifacts except for those involved in movies. Most of the evidence that the museum presented, the only evidence collected about Mothman, was newspaper clippings and a few drawings.
I said, “Uh-huh,” when I first heard of Mothman.
I said, “Uh-huh,” after visiting the Mothman Museum.
I still say, “Uh-huh,” even after watching the updated report on Mothman on the Netflix series Unsolved Mysteries.
The museum did nothing to convince Charlene, and she remained a skeptic, which is probably why she did not help when the Mothman itself “attacked” me.
- We did have a real live Bigfoot encounter!
- Find this place, and many others, on my favourite map, All The Places We Have Been To.
