Mothman Archives

Annotated by; Madison Brock As the research for this mysterious creature continued, I stumbled across an article on  cryptozoologynews.com . I was intrigued by the URL as I flew to a quick conclusion that this article would be a credible source. But as I  analyzed  it, I did a complete  180-degree  turn. Although this website is based on the news of cryptozoology, the study of unknown animals, and could be deemed as credible source due to  being  a place strictly for that, this article is not credible due to the lack of reliable information and its short length.   This article could be argued to be credible due to the website’s overall content and purpose as well as its layout. The overall purpose of the website is to discuss all sorts of creatures that could be considered in the cryptozoology category such as UFOs,  pterodactyls, bigfoot and more.  Mothman  can most definitely be associated with unknown things such as tho...

This source talks about an encounter with the so called mythical Mothman. An encounter described from Linda Scarberry states “We were doing between 100 and 105 mph down that straight stretch and that thing was just gliding back and forth over the back end of the car...To me it just looks like a man with wings.”  This encounter seems very real and that Linda and the person she was with actually did encounter a true Mothman. A key factoid from the article states there are no bars in Point Pleasant, West Virginia where everyone in the car claims they see a Mothman. Everyone in the car claims they were sober when they had an encounter with this creature, and I think that is important to add. I think that that is worth noting because based on previous encounters I have had with people under the influence, they tend to exaggerate the truth or simply make stuff up. A story as far fetched as Mothman does not seem like a made up tale, and the encounters of Mothman tend to agree wit...