MOTHMAN MONSTER - Real or Fake?
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
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Mothman is a moth-like creature reportedly seen in the Point Pleasant area of West Virginia from 15 November 1966 to 15 December 1967. The first newspaper report was published in the Point Pleasant Register dated 16 November 1966, titled "Couples See Man-Sized Bird...Creature...Something".
Mothman was introduced to a wider audience by Gray Barker in 1970 later popularized by John Keel in his 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies, claiming that Mothman was related to a wide array of supernatural events in the area and the collapse of the Silver Bridge. The 2002 film The Mothman Prophecies, starring Richard Gere, was based on Keel's book.
On November 12, 1966, five men who were digging a grave at a cemetery near Clendenin, WV claimed to see a man-like figure fly low from the trees over their heads.[5] This is often identified as the first known sighting of what became known as the Mothman.
Shortly thereafter, on November 15, 1966, two young couples from Point Pleasant, Roger and Linda Scarberry, and Steve and Mary Mallette told police they saw a large white creature whose eyes "glowed red" when the car headlights picked it up. They described it as a " large flying man with ten-foot wings following their car while they were driving in an area outside of town known as 'the TNT area', the site of a former World War II munitions plant.
During the next few days, other people reported similar sightings. Two volunteer firemen who sighted it said it was a "large bird with red eyes". Mason County Sheriff George Johnson commented that he believed the sightings were due to an unusually large heron he termed a "shitepoke". Contractor Newell Partridge told Johnson that when he aimed a flashlight at a creature in a nearby field its eyes glowed "like bicycle reflectors", and blamed buzzing noises from his television set and the disappearance of his German Shepherd dog on the creature. Wildlife biologist Dr. Robert L. Smith at West Virginia University told reporters that descriptions and sightings all fit the sandhill crane, a large American crane almost as high as a man with a seven foot wingspan featuring circles of reddish coloring around the eyes, and that the bird may have wandered out of its migration route.
There were no Mothman reports in the immediate aftermath of the December 15, 1967 collapse of the Silver Bridge and the death of 46 people, giving rise to legends that the Mothman sightings and the bridge collapse were connected.
Folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand notes that Mothman has been widely covered in the popular press, some claiming sightings connected with UFOs, and others claiming that a military storage site was Mothman's "home". Brunvand notes that recountings of the 1966-67 Mothman reports usually state that at least 100 people saw Mothman with many more "afraid to report their sightings" but observed that written sources for such stories consisted of children's books or sensationalized or undocumented accounts that fail to quote identifiable persons. Brunvand found elements in common among many Mothman reports and much older folk tales, suggesting that something real may have triggered the scares and became woven with existing folklore. He also records anecdotal tales of Mothman supposedly attacking the roofs of parked cars inhabited by teenagers.
i remember being absolutely terrified of this video
I was always scared to look out a window at night
Me too you have no idea how this traumatized me
Got me obsessed with the Mothman, dude.
@@echo9774same
FRRRRRRRRRRRR
"Maybe it is just a bird that ate too much McDonald's"
Best line ever from Bill
So true, happy new year..
It really is the best line from Bill
I THINK I saw it in the uk, I saw glowing red eyes on a house when I was younger.
Edit: Hahaha, omg, I haven't checked in on this for so long, one of these replies make no sense
I saw one to in mah bhadroom it was like big fat bird whit tomatoes eyes......^^ "tomaTOES"
Ok
Don’t you dare say that you’re gonna terrify me
Was it scary?
I saw it to but it had yellow eyes it was like siren head
Mothman after the bridge collapsed and he got accused: Naw man it wasn't me I swear
Idk but he is sus
I love how everyone is watching it now, even tho it was uploaded 4 years ago
Zelfer 1 so true
Zelfer 1 IKR
Hey, it's the most famous Urban Legend.
Not to be mean tbh these eyes look like tomatoes.
6*
I don’t think there is a bird with red eyes so I think it’s real
yep
Lol
asian glossy starling is a bird with red eyes
@@lenoj glowing red eyes*
@@alexhs0804 hey they didnt specify
I think it's UNKNOWN because the story sounds real but I don't think that moth man is real
OK I'm right
Maybe someone just banged a moth a bam mothman was born i have no idea but we havent use dana scaners to scan everything on earth for big foot so there maybe a possibility of people having illusions but more than hundreds of people saw it and the inciddent on the bridge i think the one standing on the bridge is not mothman but bird and the was there in coincedince
I remember watching this when i was a kid over and over again thanks for the memories bill🥹
We never did find out what mothman was huh? Guess he’ll remain,
*U N K N O W N*
@@ChrisHinners008 yea he came back to it
i don’t know why but i randomly thought of this channel today and i used to watch it every day years ago can’t believe it was 8 thank you bill for the hours of entertainment you gave me and many others
Mothman is CLEARLY just a bird who had too much McDonalds.
XD
Lol!!! XD
or had that one White Castle order.
why do you put scary pics 😠 watching this in midnight is scary as hell
+Saud Lahiq Did you think it wasn't going to be scary?
+billschannel i think the moth man is a guy with costume and did the moth man appear on halloween night? if it did it is a BIG FAT FAKE
+billschannel Its NOT scary
+billschannel yep I did...well I think it had to be scary so it can be more enjoyable gg
+Danny Wanny watching it alone in the midnight no one with you is scary
Why is this video getting so many recent comments then 5 years ago comments? I watched this when I was 8
It’s fake because I can’t be bothered thinking it’s real and giving me nightmares sake that
This video used to scare me so much when I was younger especially at 6:42 the music and build up was too much and 6:10 with that almost alien jumpscare
I would love to say its fake, but what do I know? What do WE know? There are so many undiscovered places in the world, so many undiscovered animals... It remains unknown.
My aunt believes that the Mothman could be a fallen angel
Why is this video getting a lot of traction recently, I remember watching this video when I was like 8
UA-cam recommendations?
@@lordgustav6227 maybe, the algorithm has a mind of its own.
Last time I watched this was when I was like 7 haha
Yes I was like 6
real but the creature is shy and dose not like being seen and died but his/her/its body has not been found like if you agree
Bill in 2015: is it real or fake!
People in 2087: glances behind them to see their pet moth man.
Very good my sir! Very good!
nice one!
I actually live in West Virginia, so I'm always lookin' for the Moth Man...
If you saw a monthman please let me know, because I have NEVER touch in West Virginia for A YEARS.
@@marxinz101 Unfortunately they're elusive in the mountains
@@roguerayquaza2547 just now? In West Virginia?
Maybe it's an Atlas Moth....no one knows if it's extinct or not..but if it is,it could've just evolved from it
+XxIllusionGamingxX interesting idea!
billschannel Agree with you
+billschannel i agree
+XxIllusionGamingxX The Atlas Moth is definitely not extinct and that's not how evolution works. An animal wouldn't grow such a to such a dramatic height. Also if you think this is caused by gigantism, that's not how that works either. Gigantism doesn't cause animals to grow 3x their size. It leads to numerous health problems, because while the body gets bigger the heart stays the same making it have to work twice as hard. Animals with gigantism often die while young and hardly even survive until adulthood.
This is kinda creepy..... I hope it doesn't happen in NZ where I live.....
It's nick crompton
Adnane Berrada it all makes sense now 🤔
Adnane Berrada england is my city
my collar stay poppin
Adnane Berrada city is my england
LMAO
When I was 18 in 19666, living in Garfield hts Ohio, one summer night I heard slow, heavy footsteps outside my window. They seemed to stop and then I heard the sound of flapping wings, as if something flew up level with the window and then back down. Then the foot steps started, and within a few steps, the flapping, at my brother's bedroom window. Both of us flew out of bed, threw on t-shirts and went outside. Nothing was found, but when we told our neighbor about it, he said he'd been scared witless one night when he went to close his drapes in the bedroom. A pair of red eyes were looking at him. His window sill was a good seven feet off the ground, mine was six feet. What ever it was and we think it was Mothman, it was big. This is a true story.
juan matey You must've been in the future. What's it like in 19666?
SluskerHusker He meant 1966
Bill: but it flies faster than any bird we know
Me: how about birds we don't know?
it's real cause
no bird can have abs like that
lol
No its a big fat fake
fake Photoshop!
+Yvania Romero it's not a Photoshop mom man is real why don't you go to point Pleasant and you'll figure it out yourself
No lol its an owl that are so big and i Said its an owl it has an flat head and owl eyes glows in the dark and the wings have a feather that Look liked an owl feather so its a big fake
Bill.
Your voice sounding excited while narration is fun to listen.
I can't be the only one eh?
Canadian?
It Harry the moth from theodds1out edit: wow this is my most likes ever thanks!
You Watch the TheOdd1sOut I love that channel.
Lol
Yah
Lol
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahah
I am pennywise, I know everything.
So for the answer, it's REAL.
The mothman has multiple sightings, standing at 8 feet tall in height.
He is completely real.
TRUST ME OR YOULL FLOAT TOO AND (REDACTED)!
I didn’t know that you are smart 🧐🧐🧐🧐
Don’t talk about my servant like that damn it*take motheus with me*
Motheus(mothman):”mree??”
I believe I actually once saw the mothman once (I think), so it was a couple years ago, about 2014, and I was sitting down on the couch at grandmas house, and I was waiting for dinner to finish cooking, and I had my face in my 3ds, when suddenly, I heard a THUMP(!!!) just outside the side window (nearly the whole wall is one huge window) and I jump up, thinking "What the F*** was that?!" now I said that out loud, so that got grandma and grandpa's attention, they run into the living room, saying "what happened?" "we heard a thump, then you cursing, are you hurt?!" ( my grandma was REALLY specific about what she hears) so she asks that, but I don't respond, because I'm too busy paying attention to the HUGE RED EYES STARING IN THE WINDOW!!!! Then they see it, then we make a safety hug (I was scared to near death!) Then, it slowly turns towards grandpa, and just stares at him, then after about 10 minutes of just watching the thing to see I'd its gonna break the window and kill us, grandpa gives away (faints) and the creature flies away, without making a sound (I'm getting the jitters just thinking about this, guys) I kept wondering "what did it want with my grandpa?!" Just a few weeks later, grandpa died of heart failure......
+Jesse Bouman dude, I WISH(!!!) I could say I'm making this up
I have to
My family was riding in a car to my house then a black thing hit the glass of the front car
I got a notification while reading this and it scared the hell out of me. Alone in my house almost 2 in the morning
that is long L:
i remember being absolutely terrified of this video
good times those were
Mothman is real he sold me weed behind Walmart
That metal statue of moth man looks like a power rangers villain
Omg you are so right, it does look straight outta Power Rangers, that is hilarious
Omg you’re so right!! I see it now hahahahaha😂😂
Mothman was real. I believe it wasn't a physical being, more like a fallen angel, maybe even an angel sent by God himself. All I know is that it can't have been biological since no species have ever been close to being similar. Sorry for all the butthurt atheists, but I believe in God AND science.
The Archer Frog why can't ppl be like us
That's what I was thinking, like a spiritual being
because god doesn't make any sense
Did everybody come here after they went to Point Pleasant? West virgincan,
I can't belive this was 8 years ago.I remember watching this like it was yesterday
2020 end of feb?
YouKnowBroccoli hi
Heya
I'm in March
Honestly I think this channel should be number one!
Why call him a MothMan if the light doesn't attract him?
Wow very true
+Luminary Sniper cause he looks like a moth.
Yeah you have a good point
He looks like a giant moth..? Good point though.
Actually, it was a newspaper who named the creature that, in reference to a Batman villain. Eyewitnesses never described it as anywhere near insect-like.
And don't get me started on that awful statue in Point Pleasant.
I believe in moth man. *Edit: he's not from the human realm. I also believe in every cryptid.
My great grandfather crossed that bridge every day to work in the mines. He was stuck in traffic and missed the collapse. We just bought property a few miles from the bridge.
December 2017!? :)
will tomorrow is gonna be 2018
Brian Garcia me
Wolf Lover93862. 😂😂
Wolf Lover93862
Hi
I remember as a kid being terrified when bill said unknown
Idk why
Goosebumps
Hell yes it's real! I saw it when I was 12 in 1994! Scared the hell outta me! At that age I knew nothing of the Mothman. I live in southeastern Ohio. Point Pleasant is just a few hours from me. I can still visualize it as if it happened yesterday! It is forever embedded in my memory! It wasn't until many years later that I realized what I had actually encountered! Mothman is in fact absolutely real! 🦇🤤
wow, i guess he real
@@user-em2xl4tf7v yes without a doubt he is indeed real as real can be!
I hope this is a joke.
@@ChromaticFlare definitely not a joke! I'm a joking type of gal but I promise it's no joke!
Proof
7:31
"Or maybe it's just a bird that ate to much mcdonalds"
I did get a little laugh out of this
This is my the first video I’ve seen of yours, really enjoyed it. I can see how much work went into it and I will definitely watch more of your videos!
I''ve seen a creature just llike Mothman.
I was camping and I was walking to my tent when I heard screaming and people loudly talking. I went to go check when I saw a huge moth, but it wasn't a moth, it was mothman.
He was on the arena roof. I'm saying it's mothman because his wings were long, but I don't know if it's mothman because it's the same shape, but it doesn't have red eyes. When I've seen it, I ran to my tent and just slept. I woke up because I heard flapping and loud talking, but I put my pillow over my ears and slept. When I woke up, I checked outside and I saw garbage everywhere and prints all around the camp. I never went camping again.
So you see a creepy monster and just go sleeping?! :D
I'm kidding
It was pretty obvios, your reactions were not so realistic, atleast I would do something different. And you go camping right next to an arena? Nope, I knew you were kidding man :D
No. I do actually camp with an arena, and a food court, and lots of RVs, also cars. It's called Batouche.
i agreemothman is real
Who still watching this
I watched this 6 years ago when I was 8 and I had nightmares. I’m now 14, this video still scares me…
Not me nothing is scary and I am 8 (brave me)
@@SimsimWwW ooh look who’s brave!
Hm
Hey bill is big foot real or fake
This video is pure nostalgia
Mothman also believe in alot regions i think. Im an asians. I live in malaysia. I think my grandmother saw mothman lol idk. But my grandmother once says when she wana go home at night. That time was 90s. She saw red eye stare at her. And the creature had big wing. When she goes to throw rock at the creature. The creature quickly fly from top of the tree. I think its mothman. Idk, but in my village there is strange occurance where chicken suddenly died when we woke up at morning. The chicken blood were sucked. Idk man if feels creepy. What creature doesnt eat the meat but suck the blood? To these day i still believe in the urban legends. Sorry for my bad grammer.
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@@Sreyneangmusiccs why?
@Ikram Zulikram yes
Epicjames Boi No
I think the reason after the bridge collapsed the sightings stopped is because the moth man lived under it and hid in the shadows and when it fell he was under it and drowned from the water and not being able to get up from the bridge weight so that is my theory why the moth man WAS real, I also think the moth man is real because how many dinosaur and prehistoric animals looked a lot like these cryptids? I mean Bigfoot=G. blackie, Loch Ness= Last dinosaur, Jersey devil= Lab experiment (not sure on that one), Chupacabra=Dog ancestor. my point is that the moth man used to live among us humans.
look mothman is unknow i read a book about him it seems like moth man goes to a lot of locations so that means he can be fake but i think he's real
I think the mothman is a fallen angel and he allways appears during disasters and i think he tries to warn people
RuffelsPvP what do you think about it
i remember watching this when i was 9, im turning 16 in 1 month
He just wants some lamp, guys. He doesn’t wanna hurt anyone.
Sadly we'll probably never know if it's true or not
Personally, I think it's most likely fake
I remember watching this video as a child in 2014
fr
thought i was the only one
1:35 this one image scared me so bad when i was younger lol🤣
I miss this channel from childhood I have been thinking of it and wanted to come back I now i have and I love all ur content and I haved watched u basically my hole child life so thank you
If bill can't solve this ain't nobody can
check my explanation if it can
that's not true I know who can God can read the bible we did not evolve god created us and monster's are not real
Amy Jones i know about God especially i am a Christian but apparently what am i saying isnt about monsters and i am not saying about evolving i am saying about experiments to human body which is cruel
+Night Assasin yea like human experimentations or something like a escaped test subject or something right?
Charlie Pride exactly thats what i am trying to say
What if moth man was just trying to tell people to fix the bridge
Hey Bill what's you earn enough money you should make a TV show on animal planet
Donald Uwanawich Good idea! Thanks
Its just an entertainment channel, people on here like to play along and get involved.I don't understand how you haven't warmed to Bill,I think this channel is very entertaining Bill has a great personality,these crypto vids are just fun,he has a ton of very cool animal,diving,insect,location videos.I think your being very critical,do you have something to prove?I think all the viewers on here know difference between fact and fiction,fun and boring, your being boring! try the other thing FUN you might like it!
No worries.
Chen Lau Are you female?
Dammit i'm making him want to anal me but she or he could be female so if yo have a vagina i'm all for you but a dick... NO!
Some things aren't made to be discovered real or fake they will always be 2 steps away
Me who’s watching this 7 years later 😃
Same
me
Yep lol
me lol
I remember this from when I was little, good times.
True
Factual my friend
I remember when this first came out lol, now I’m about to graduate
I’m 100% sure it’s real I was up sick and I heard something that sounded like a bird flapping its wings I looked out the window cus it was like 6 I couldn’t see well but I saw 2 red eyes and when I looked at it I heard a screech and then I saw it take off I was up for the next few days I had a knife under my desk and I got my mom to buy me a flashlight I stayed on my ds and if I heard anything I looked out the wind and I also every few seconds looked outside my mom found the knife asked about it and I told her she told me I need to sleep and if I see it aging tell her and my dad will get his gun and go outside I would be lying if I said I heard the flapping aging or I saw red beady eyes I saw nothing after this it wasn’t until 10 years later I saw it aging but this time in my car it stared at my car for some stupid reason I turned on the lights and blasted my horn it worked it took of the fastest I ever saw it flew so fast now I’m 25 and I have a gun now I haven’t seen or heard from it sense call me crazy but I never told the police I figured they would think I’m crazy and send me to a hospital so I’m Alive and the only thing I worry about is he’s watching so I’m sure he’s real call me a liar all you want but it haunts me to this day and I would be careful if you come across this thing
I believe you
Where did u live in then
@@falco2296 I made this when I was like 10 lmao. I have no clue what I was thinking
@@cyberbread5969 Lmfao. I never thought u would reply lol😂
The world has alot more to discover. We aren't the only ones in this world that exist. Including me I'm a Donkey..one day these Legends will come to the crowd and say: "it's my time to shine.." they will eat us all and that would be the end.
It might have been a bird but no bird of significant size can go over 100mph. Peregrines and Gyrfalcons can, but they're about the size of a crow, don't have red eyes, and are not active at night.
woo we got a bird expert over here👍👍👍
Bravo good
So we basically solved nothing with your comment
Captain Sum Ting Wong Simply clarifying that if what the first witnesses said is true, then it's not a known creature
GET REKT SKEPTICS
It's a bird that ate so much McDonald's
Lol
hah got emmmmmmmm
Lol
Mothman
fake
Oh my god the memories I want to cry!!! 😭
I used to watch this everyday when i was little
The moth man is real he just wants friends but everyone runs away from him
All these recent comments made by people who are in lockdown?
THIS WAS 7 YEARS AGO
He/she watched it 4 years ago
I'm 9
fax bro
Fallout 76 actually put this into the game Point Pleasant very interesting
I can't find a comment with over 2 likes.
How is it a bird if it stands taller than a man????
VORTEX MASTER 90000 The human brain is known to play tricks on you in the darkness, they could've overestimated the size of the bird or 'Moth-man'.
JesseJorgo 139
VORTEX MASTER 90000 big bird
DowgFish so that means elmo and the gang is real? DUN DUN DUUUUUUUNNNN!!!!
VORTEX MASTER 90000 :O
Well mothman is a friend.
He jus alert to everyone in point pleasent to move away.
But many people believe he is a monster.
Omg I use to bing watch this, I can’t believe I refound this
mothman is a bird that found a big Mac from mc Donalds and ate it and became fat
this is my opinion but I think Mothman is real, because a normal earth bird wouldn't follow some kids and then turn off as soon as there in town, so I think it is real, and plus there's been tons of sightings, it is possible that it is real.
^^ genius tbh.
No clear images or videos, no DNA or anything. 99% not real
Let me ask that guy a question how does those descriptions look like anything on earth hmm? I mean the feet might have looked different from a birds but that’s nothing from earth.
This video is how I discovered this channel . I also bought one of those Moth Man tshirts
I bet mothman is goin' to be in avengers soon 😂✌
KOOKIE IS ABDUCTED BY ALIEN V hopefuly
Sammy D Lol yeah sure 😂
4:35 it’s real do you see how this guy doesn’t know what to say they’re covering it up through the whole video he does not know what to say
It has to be real, who thinks so to?
I don’t think the mothman is an alien he’s more like a grime reaper as stated in the video. Kind of like an inter-dimensional being. Like the crystal skull in Indiana Jones lol. Can’t prove it’s real there is something creepy about the Mothman
He is a omen/sign for disasters
This guy needs a TV show
He landed in front of dat car and he was like "hey, I'm batman!"
Lol
Hahaha
!!!!!!! AHHHHH
my name is JEFF
AHHHHHHHHHH
I love your channel so much but I can't watch it until I finish my homework 📚
It is real I saw it my self
Creepy
Details please
"maybe its a bird that ate too many McDonald's".
Melanie Rivera. That's funny
Ohh sorry man that was my cousin frank.ha that prankster's always doin something
5% of the oceans have been expored. 9 % of earth have been explored
Gina Khan 💯 percent of ur butt is exsplored
@@HunterOnThat 🙆🏼♀️
Exactly
Bills, I wanted to tell you a story. I actually dream of Mothman. Mothman doesn't has red eyes. He does, but I saw him in just white eyes. When I stared at him, his eyes turn red and fly around my dad's car. Then, my mom and dad was like possesed and turn red. Eventually, I broke the Mothman's spell and woke up from my dream. SO SCARY!!!
I believe you but that’s scary
Well what if at night his eyes glow red,and in the day there white
bird ate too much mcdonalds now that got me chuckling a bit
a hate macdonalds
Me to
Lol
Bird eats Macfries, mutates into monstrous creature.
+Matthew Mccabe me to
I remember watching this when it was released and being scared of it for a while
The new Scooby doo mystery
vans987productioms bob dude I fuckin wish Scooby-Doo would feature the mothman
I feel like the kids were just drunk and then the locals just wanted it to be real so they just made up stories and then they blamed the bridge collapsing on him too