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Is the mothman of urban legend real? There are people in the United States who believe in its existence and adapt it into a movie

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On the evening of November 12, 1966, at the cemetery outside Charleston, West Virginia, several gravediggers were preparing for a funeral. Suddenly, a huge black shadow passed over the woods, the black figure was the size of an adult, flapping its wings and making a terrifying whistling sound.

Is the mothman of urban legend real? There are people in the United States who believe in its existence and adapt it into a movie

Everyone present was terrified and inexplicable, afraid that the black shadow that looked like a bird would swoop down. Fortunately, the black shadow didn't seem to want to hurt them, but just circled back and forth in the sky a few times and flew away.

These gravediggers were particularly familiar with the cemetery's surroundings. They had never seen a bird the size of a dark shadow here before. If the black shadow is not a bird, then what will it be? Several people remembered the legendary Mothman.

Is the mothman of urban legend real? There are people in the United States who believe in its existence and adapt it into a movie

Mothman was first spotted in 1926 by a young boy in the United States. In the young boy's account, the mothman looks like a man whose head has been cut off, with eyes that reflect red light embedded in the chest, covered with black or brown hair, and makes a buzzing sound when flying.

Is the mothman of urban legend real? There are people in the United States who believe in its existence and adapt it into a movie

Just two days after the gravediggers saw the unknown creature, at 10:30 p.m. on November 14, a local construction contractor, Newell. Petrigi was watching TV in the house, when suddenly many unknown patterns appeared on the TV screen, accompanied by a huge roar that resembled both birdsong and an engine.

Then Petrigi's dog, Bandy, also ran out and barked. Petrigi quickly ran out of the house to check, and saw Bandy shouting at the hay warehouse 150 meters away. Petrigi lifted the flash and stepped forward to check, and suddenly saw two round things like huge eyes or bicycle reflective lights, standing in front of him.

Petrigi turned around in fright and ran back into the house. Who expected that the next day, Petrigi's dog Bandy disappeared. It wasn't until two days later that Petrigi saw news reports that a man named Roger . The man of Scarberry, near the explosives factory, saw a strange big bird flying into the Point Pleasant border, and at the same time he saw a large dog lying on the side of the road, but after a few minutes, the dog left.

Petrigi speculates that the dog in the report may be Bandy, but why didn't he come home? Why play Missing?

Pleasant is 90 km from Charleston.

Is the mothman of urban legend real? There are people in the United States who believe in its existence and adapt it into a movie

On the afternoon of November 15, Roger, who was staying in Pleasant Town. Scarberry and his wife, Linda, made an appointment with another couple, Steve's, to go to another friend's house in the state for a party.

Along the way, Scarberry drove while talking about the news of flying monsters in the town next door.

"It's ridiculous, you will believe this kind of news!" Wife Linda responded disdainfully.

"Maybe this thing may be an unknown new species, haven't you heard of Darwin's theory?"

While the four of them were chatting for a while, the night had quietly darkened, and their car had driven into an abandoned factory area.

There was silence all around, and the ruins of the broken walls looked so gloomy and cold. Linda suddenly realized that something was wrong, and quickly rolled down the window and said: "Scarberry, why did you drive the car to the TNT area?" ”

Is the mothman of urban legend real? There are people in the United States who believe in its existence and adapt it into a movie

It turned out that the "TNT area" in Linda's mouth was once a famous northern power plant in the United States, but it was stopped operating due to an accident and is now an abandoned area that is inaccessible to people.

Scarberry then realized that he was lost and quickly reversed to get out of here. Steve, who was in the same car, accidentally glimpsed two strange red dots above the front window: "Oh my God, there seem to be two lights floating in the sky ahead." ”

But Steve immediately realized that he had misjudged that the two glowing red dots were actually the eyes of some kind of animal. The mysterious animal is about 7 feet tall, with dark gray fur and unimaginably large wings on its back, but its body is somewhat human-like, and its leg muscles are faintly distinguishable under the light of the headlights.

Is the mothman of urban legend real? There are people in the United States who believe in its existence and adapt it into a movie

The monster stood on the roof of an abandoned factory building, and his body swayed slightly. The two women in the car were so frightened that their voices were crying: "Is that human, or what?" ”

"Isn't that the mothman reported by the media? It is said to be very dangerous! Scarberry couldn't help but shiver, so he didn't dare to think about it, stepped on the accelerator to the end, and the car rushed onto Route 62 like an off-string arrow.

Scarberry drives a 1957 Chevrolet that can reach speeds of up to 160 km/h. After the car drove out for a while, Scarberry thought it was okay and could slow down. But as soon as the car entered a fork in the road, I saw the ghostly Mothman standing on the billboard on the right side of the road.

Is the mothman of urban legend real? There are people in the United States who believe in its existence and adapt it into a movie

When the Mothmen saw their car, they spread their huge wings and pounced on them. Scarberry had to fly the car, but the mothman clenched on to it, showing no sign of being left behind.

Steve sat in the back seat, turned around and saw two big red eyes through the rear window, staring at him deadly, and shrunk under the back seat in fright.

The pair of wings with a wingspan of 3 meters hit the tail of the car from time to time, making a harsh sound of metal rubbing. Scarberry had to speed up and accelerate again.

This thrilling chase lasted more than 20 minutes. It wasn't until the car drove near the Pleasant border that the moth chirped a few times and then turned around and disappeared into the vast night sky.

But Scarberry still did not dare to relax, still holding the steering wheel deadly, until the car came to the center of Pleasant town, completely relieved.

Scarberg and his party went to the police station to call the police. Officer Millard on duty did not believe their thrilling encounter at all, believing that there were many things that defyed scientific common sense in their story. But Millard looked at the rear of their car and did have new scratches.

Millard didn't know why, so he went to the abandoned factory area to find out. However, Millard arrived at the scene of the incident, and there were no suspicious signs in the sky except for the coal ash emitted by the nearby coal factory.

Is the mothman of urban legend real? There are people in the United States who believe in its existence and adapt it into a movie

On the morning of the same day, the police announced the mothman sighting, and the newspapers and media also took the opportunity to create momentum.

"West Virginia's Mothman" immediately became a hot news in the United States, not only the Associated Press's "Pacific Star-Spangled Banner" published news about the Mothman, but even the US military in Vietnam received the news.

As news of the Mothman spread, in the winter of 1966, there were two mothman sightings in three days, mostly in the Pleasant Town area, and the whole of West Virginia was shrouded in fear of the Mothman.

Some people think that the Mothman is a secret human experiment conducted by the United States, others believe that the Mothman is an envoy of extraterrestrial civilizations to visit the earth, and some people even dangerously say that the Mothman is a sign of disaster.

All kinds of rumors were circulating, and no one expected that the curse of the Mothman would one day fall on the heads of the people of Pleasant Than.

At 5 p.m. on December 15, 1967, many Pleasant residents were driving across the Silver Bridge to Galipolis, across the Ohio River. At that time, about 100 cars were jammed on the silver bridge, making the old bridge, which has been built for more than 40 years, a little overwhelmed.

I only listened to the sudden sharp sound of metal breaking from the bridge below the bridge, followed by the entire silver bridge, which broke from the middle with a bang, and instantly collapsed into the rushing river below, and dozens of cars on the bridge also fell into the river.

Despite emergency rescue, 46 people were killed, 9 injured and 2 missing. The sudden collapse of the Silver Bridge not only became the worst bridge accident in American history, but also reminded Pleasant residents of the Mothman rumors.

Is the mothman of urban legend real? There are people in the United States who believe in its existence and adapt it into a movie

Because two days before the incident, many people claimed to have seen mothmen near the silver bridge. But strangely, after the collapse of the Silver Bridge, there were no more mothman sightings in the Pleasant area.

In fact, through scientific analysis, we will find that the design of the Silver Bridge is old and can no longer meet the existing traffic carrying capacity, coupled with people's neglect of maintenance, so the Silver Bridge has long been full of hidden dangers.

More critically, the suspension cable of the silver bridge is only supported by two high-strength steel bars. If one bar breaks, all the tensile force is transferred to the other bar, which can easily cause the entire suspension cable to break.

Later, after careful investigation by the US transportation safety department, it was found that an iron chain on the 13th suspension cable of the silver bridge cracked due to long-term friction, and accumulated to form a 2.5mm wide crack.

The investigation by the relevant departments in the United States proved that the collapse of the silver bridge was caused by the inconspicuous crack, and there was no relationship with the mothman at all. But the public does not like such boring scientific analysis, but prefers the legend of the mothman.

Is the mothman of urban legend real? There are people in the United States who believe in its existence and adapt it into a movie

If people want to prove the existence of Mothman, they must first clarify the Mothman sighting. Although hundreds of people have claimed to have witnessed the Mothman, none of them have been able to produce convincing evidence. And although there are many similarities in the appearance of the mothmen they described, they cannot avoid the influence of various rumors.

In addition, these people are all mothmen found in the dark and windy night of the moon, and it is difficult to ensure that they have transformed into the image of mothmen due to fear.

Writer John Smith, known for writing about paranormal phenomena. Kiel, convinced of the existence of the Mothman, went to Pleasant to conduct field investigations. After investigation, in addition to summarizing the main characteristics of the Mothman, Gere also found that there were paranormal phenomena such as UFOs in West Virginia.

Gere thought that West Virginia was probably a link to the strange world. Of course, skeptics are very dismissive of Kiel's view, because UFOs are something that has yet to be proven, and how can they be used to confirm the existence of Mothman?

But Kiel did not refute these doubts at all, instead publishing a new book, "Wonders of Time and Space", which includes a chapter on mothman sightings. Later, Kiel published a new book called "Mothman Prophecy", which combined Mothman and UFO to create a complete set of supernatural theories.

The American film company also took Kiel as the prototype and shot a sci-fi film "Mothman's Prophecy". Since then, the mothman has become a harbinger of disaster in the minds of Americans.

In the sixties of the last century, American media newspapers were always full of "lizardmen" and mystical articles such as "Bigfoot". Various paranormal creature legends seem to have become popular culture elements in the United States at that time.

Is the mothman of urban legend real? There are people in the United States who believe in its existence and adapt it into a movie

So through our analysis of known scientific knowledge, does Mothman really exist? Is there a rare large creature that has been mistaken for a mothman?

The largest extant bird with a wingspan is probably the wandering albatross. However, although the largest wingspan of the drifting albatross is recorded, up to 3.7 meters, its size is not too large, its body length is more than 1 meter, and its weight is more than 10 kilograms.

It can be seen that the wandering albatross and the moth man are 7 feet long, and there is still a certain gap, so it should rarely be mistaken for a mothman. Besides, drifting albatrosses live all year round in the waters near Antarctica, thousands of miles away from West Virginia, and should not appear there.

Of course, there have been two species of birds in the history of the earth that are larger than the wandering albatross. One is the Pseudotoothed Mulberry found in South Carolina with a wingspan of 7.4 meters. There is also an Argentine giant eagle that stands 2 meters tall, plus the tail, which can exaggerate up to 3.5 meters.

The pseudotoothed bird is a close relative of the dinosaurs, not only flying fast, but also diving down from the height of the cliff to prey, which does have some similarities with the legend of the mothman.

The Arabian giant eagle has a huge size of about 80 kilograms, which can also fit the daunting description of the mothman.

But so far, there has been no evidence that these two long-extinct creatures have reappeared.

Some people also think that the mothman is a flying mammal, but the largest flying mammal in the world, the Malay Great Fox, although the maximum wingspan is 2 meters, but the weight is too light and less than 3 pounds, and the gap between the giant mothman is huge, so it is difficult to be mistaken for the mothman.

Is the mothman of urban legend real? There are people in the United States who believe in its existence and adapt it into a movie

Of course, some people think that Mothman will not be a human being that can fly? Because after the twentieth century, some new species were discovered, such as the "zombie frog" in the Amazon basin of South America, and the emergence of new types of hares and bison in the Mekong Delta.

This hypothesis is indeed brain-opening, but after scientific verification, human bones do not have the characteristics of bird bones hollow, so even if humans can stretch the trunk fat and then remove the ribs to piece together wings, it can only be a meat wing model, and real flight cannot be achieved at all.

So if Mothman really exists, it cannot be a new species of mammal with wings similar to humans.

Is the mothman of urban legend real? There are people in the United States who believe in its existence and adapt it into a movie

So what mysterious creatures did Scarberry and others encounter? It's not practical to say that the four of them conspired to weave the story. So some scholars think that what Scarberry and others see is actually a large bird ~ dune crane.

Dune cranes are mainly distributed in East Asia, Siberia, North America and other regions. Adult dune cranes have a wingspan of about 2.3 meters and can reach a height of more than 1.2 meters. What's more, in addition to the gray-brown plumage of the dune crane, which is exactly the same as the characteristics of the mothman, its orange-red iris and bright red markings around the eyes can easily be mistaken for red eyes on dark nights.

What's more, dune cranes are in small stock in West Virginia and are very scarce. Perhaps because of this, the local people suddenly saw the huge dune crane and showed some excessive fuss.

Is the mothman of urban legend real? There are people in the United States who believe in its existence and adapt it into a movie

And scientists have another point of view. During World War II, there were more than 100 places where ammunition was manufactured and stored. After the war, 18,000 pounds of high-performance explosives were dumped indiscriminately in field ponds, causing serious pollution of local soil and groundwater.

As we all know, environmental pollution can not only cause biological lesions, but also cause biological gene abnormalities. It is said that in some fish with strange patterns in the local area, the content of TNT has been seriously exceeded. Therefore, the US environmental protection department has designated this area as a key monitoring biochemical disaster area.

Is the mothman of urban legend real? There are people in the United States who believe in its existence and adapt it into a movie

Therefore, scientists believe that the mothman in urban legend is actually a dune crane that has been genetically mutated by environmental pollution. As for the bizarre details of what happened to Scarberry and others, it is likely to be excessive hallucinations under extreme psychological fear. And those illusions were passed down by word of mouth, further processed into fiction, and finally became terrifying urban legends.

So far, there is still not enough key solid evidence to confirm what Scarberry and others saw that night, but this does not affect the legend of the Mothman to become a popular talkpoint, perhaps this is the commonality of human beings like to hunt.

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