The new documentary “The Mothman Legacy” investigates the myth of a giant man-bird which is believed to have stalked the Point Pleasant, West Virginia, area for decades. Entertainment Critic America ...

What makes for a good modern American myth? Something where a quick Google search can’t dissuage its origins. Something that permeates the minds of the people inflicted and the communities that branch ...

It's a busy time to be Jeff Wamsley, the owner and creator of the world’s only Mothman Museum in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. But the Mothman was well known long before the popular Netflix reboot ...

A bizarre creature terrorized a town in West Virginia in 1966 and 1967, leering at locals with glowing red eyes, flying over their cars and causing radiation burns and even the collapse of a major ...

Just off Main Street in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, there is a 12-foot-tall stainless steel statue that looks like a chrome mosquito, but with bat wings and human legs and an incredibly chiseled ...

What (or who) is the Mothman? That's what many people are asking themselves after reports have been flooding out of Chicago of sightings of what they call "The Mothman." The Mothman has been described ...

Twenty years ago, on Jan 25, 2002, The Mothman Prophecies opened in movie theaters. Starring Richard Gere and Laura Linney and directed by Mark Pellington, the movie was a critical and commercial ...

Bigfoot. Mothman. Skunk Ape. Chupacabra. These are strange names, though perhaps you’ve heard of a few. They are some of America’s more famous local monsters. They are “cryptids,” which can be defined ...

Moth – a chiefly nocturnal insect related to the butterflies. Man – an adult male human being. Throw those two things into a blender and what do you get? A mess in the kitchen and a visit from your ...