Solved Murders - True Crime Stories - The creature that foretold misfortune the case of the Mothman PART2 #34

Episode Date: September 12, 2025

#horrorstories #reddithorrorstories #ScaryStories #creepypasta #horrortales #mothman #cryptidhorror #paranormalencounters #ominousomens #shadowcreature  In this second installment, the story expands with more detailed encounters of the Mothman—shadowy figures glimpsed at night, unexplained noises, and the growing dread among communities affected. The link between the creature’s appearances and impending disasters becomes more undeniable. As witnesses share their terrifying experiences, the line between myth and reality blurs. This part heightens the suspense, exploring the possibility that the Mothman isn’t just a legend, but a supernatural omen with a dark purpose.  horrorstories, reddithorrorstories, scarystories, horrorstory, creepypasta, horrortales, mothmanencounters, cryptidhorror, paranormalactivity, shadowyomen, eeriephenomena, supernaturallegend, tragicomens, mysterioussightings, urbanlegend, cryptidcase, fearanddread, unexplainedevents, horrorseries, darknesslurks 

This story is very sinister, so the next morning the sheriff holds a press conference. Curious journalists arrive, people from the newspaper, and in their words there is panic, there is fear. The headline of the following days was the following, eight people say they have seen a, quote, creature. With the description, people couldn't believe it. It was a giant moth, a moth man. At the time, the Batman series was very well known.

This creature was called the mausman. The mothman. In Point Pleasant, nothing ever happened. It was a very quiet place, everyone knew each other, it was a very routine environment. And this news delighted them because finally something different was happening, finally there was excitement, something new, something completely different, and hundreds of people decided to hunt the mazman. People went out into the streets with flashlights, with weapons.

They all went to the TNT area, and in the following year more than 100 people believed they had seen it. On November 16th of that same year, a group of friends decided to meet up. They were Victoria and Raymond Bumsomsemsley, Marcella Bennett and her baby Tina. The group went to the home of the Thomas family, made up of Virginia, Ralph Thomas, and their three children. Their farm was near the TNT area and the gathering was during the day, in the afternoon. They arrived by car, parked at the door, got out, greeted each other, gathered, had a snack, had a good time. The atmosphere was very calm, without worries, without scares, and they had such a good time that night fell. It was then when they said goodbye.

Raymond, Victoria, Marcella and her baby went out, walking towards the car almost in the dark, and as they were walking, in the distance they heard gunshots. but they were in the United States, West Virginia. They were near the woods, there might be people hunting, fooling around. It could have been anything. But then a sinister figure fell from the sky just behind the car. It was a huge, dark mass. They didn't know what it was and immediately froze.

It was then that the being stood up and they all saw it was the mausman. It was a being about two meters tall with wings, with glowing red eyes. Its eyes were hypnotic, paralyzing, and Marcella, who was holding her baby in her arms, dropped her baby. She stood completely still with the baby on the ground. She couldn't scream, she couldn't move, but Raymond reacted quickly. He grabbed the baby, pushed Marcella and Victoria back inside the house, shut the doors and windows. Absolute panic spread through that place.

In that exactly nine o'clock, Raymond grabbed the phone and called the police. Meanwhile, that thing was strolling around the porch. It was looking through the windows, spying on them. They could hear how it walked, how it strolled around there, and finally they heard its wings and it disappeared. When the police arrived, there wasn't a trace of the Mosman, but the witnesses were terrified. They swore and swore again that that thing was real, that it had been there and that it chased them. And in the following days, sightings multiplied. On November 17th, two people

saw this thing. In the morning, a music teacher saw it flying over her backyard, and in the afternoon, a teenager in a car saw how this thing chased him. On the night of November 18th, two firefighters saw it in the TNT area. Again, the description was the same, a two-meter tall being with red eyes, with wings. And on the 20th, five teenagers in a car were chased by that same thing. Everyone was seeing exactly the same thing. Same figure, same circumstances, always following them, always in the dark. A couple of stories happened during the day, but the essence remained the same. A thing that looks at you, observes you, chases you. Red eyes that are hypnotic, that paralyze you. And on November 27th, another sighting turned everything upside down.

A shoe salesman, Thomas Surrey, was a victim of the mausman. His sighting was in broad daylight while he was on his way to work. He got in his car, started the engine, and when he passed near Route 64, on the side of the road, that thing appeared. A tall, headless being with red eyes, with wings, passed next to him. He thought it was someone in a costume, but then the beach. being stood up, jumped and started to fly. It flew alongside the car, chasing him, and Thomas didn't know exactly what to do. He accelerated, tried to escape, but for several minutes

that thing pursued him. That thing rose directly from the field next to the road. It spread its wings and followed my car. I was going over 100 miles per hour and it kept up. It gave me the scare of my life. The newspapers didn't let go of the subject and every day there was a new story, a new sighting, a new suspicion, and the hypotheses were on the table. The first was that this had some sort of explanation, something rational. Biologist Robert Smith told the press that he thought it wasn't a monster but rather a Canadian crane, a large American crane almost as tall as a man. According to him, it was possible that this bird had deviated from its migratory route

and maybe people were now seeing it. It could have been something strange and striking, but according to the witnesses, this didn't fit. That thing wasn't a crane, it was a monster. Which led to the second hypothesis that this thing was something paranormal. The story reached the years of investigator John Keel, and on December 7, 1967, he decided to travel directly to West Virginia to investigate it. He arrived in Point Pleasant, spoke with the police, asked for information and realized, that nothing they had made sense. A tall, sinister being with red eyes, that flies, that appears to a person, and when it appears, radios experience interference and devices go crazy.

And another very striking thing was that the people who had looked directly into its eyes later developed eye problems, irritation, conjunctivitis, blurred vision. Those who had looked at it had vision problems, which fit with a UFO sighting. According to his hypothesis, the Mosman was an extraterrestrial. And if he was right, there could be UFOs in the area. Maybe there were related stories, strange lights in the sky, flying objects. He had to confirm it, find testimonies. And then he met journalist Mary Hire, who used to report on this kind of events in a local newspaper called Where the Waters Meet. He spoke with her, mentioned the subject of the Mosman, she gave him information and also informed him that there

had been sightings in the area, that there were people who had seen UFOs or at least believed they had seen them. In fact, she put him in contact with a man named Tad Jones. Tad, on January 19th of that same year, encountered some kind of spacecraft on Route 64. It was around 9 in the morning and he was on his way to work, driving calmly with the radio on, and halfway down the road he came across a strange craft. It was around aluminum thing with a window, but as he got closer he saw that this thing wasn't stationary but rather floating. The vehicle approached, didn't stop, and that thing rose and flew away. Sadly, Tad went to the police station. With everything he had seen, the officers didn't believe him, but at least he had warned them.

And the next day, in his mailbox, he found a letter that said the following, we know what you've seen. Keep your mouth shut. And this threat wasn't the first nor the last that people who saw strange things received. Mary Hire was also threatened. Mary constantly talked about what was happening with UFOs, the lights, the mosmen, she collected everything, published it, and one day she received a visit from two men dressed in black, who politely asked her to stop talking, to not publish more things, to drop the subject. And after this visit, no one ever reported anything again, no one called her, no one told her anything. It was as if strange things had stopped. It was as if strange things had stopped happening. Do you remember the Thomas family? At this point, you probably

don't know who they are because there have been so many people in this story. However, the Thomases were among the first people to see the Mosman. Friends had come to their house, they spent the afternoon together, and at dusk the Mosman appeared. And on November 2, in broad daylight, Virginia was alone at home. She was doing chores, cleaning the kitchen, and then she heard a kind of screech in the backyard. She thought it might be some kind of mouse, a rat, a cat, so out of curiosity she peeked outside. There, standing in the yard, she saw none other than the mausman himself. He was at the far end of the yard, far from her, several meters away. But Virginia was sure it was him, a tall, dark being with red eyes and wings. After staring

at her intently, he jumped and disappeared. But from that day on, every night, Virginia had strange nightmares. In all of them, the same thing always happened, she was walking across a bridge, it was full of cars, full of people, and then the ground gave way. All was screams, chaos, pain, water, floating boxes. Floating everywhere, people screaming, and then, silence. She would wake up every night sweating, her heart pounding, unable to shake the feeling that the dream meant something. And then, on December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge collapsed. The tragedy struck at 5.04 p.m. The bridge, which connected Point Pleasant, West Virginia, with Gallipolice, Ohio, was packed with cars. It was rush hour during the Christmas shopping season, and people were

heading home. Suddenly, the suspension bridge began to shake violently. Without warning, the main I-bar failed, triggering a catastrophic chain reaction. The entire structure crumbled into the freezing waters of the Ohio River below. In total, 46 people lost their lives. Vehicles were swallowed by the river, and dozens of families were shattered forever. Virginia's nightmare had come true. In the aftermath, something even stranger happened. After the bridge collapse, all sightings of the mothman stopped. It was as if the creature had vanished completely.

For some, this was proof that the moth man was a harbinger of doom, a prophetic entity that appears before great tragedies to warn, or perhaps to cause, disaster. Others believed it was merely a coincidence. But for the people of Point Pleasant, the terror never fully left. Many insisted that what they saw was real, a creature almost seven feet tall, with enormous wings, and glowing red eyes that seemed to pierce your soul. Even years later, they spoke of the Mothman in hushed tones, afraid that acknowledging it might bring it back.

The legend of the Mothman grew beyond Point Pleasant. Writers, researchers, and conspiracy theorists speculated about what it really was. Some said it was an alien, others a demonic spirit, and others still believed it was a government experiment gone wrong. John Keel, the investigator who had visited the town, documented his findings in his famous book The Mothman prophecies, linking the creature to UFO sightings, strange phone calls, and even the ominous men in black who allegedly threatened witnesses into silence. To this day, no one knows for sure what the mothman was, or is.

But for those who were there in Point Pleasant during those cold months of 1966 and 1967, one thing is certain, something terrifying came to their quiet town, something that defied explanation, and it changed their lives forever. When the silver bridge fell into the icy waters of the Ohio River, 46 people died. It was one of the worst tragedies in West Virginia's history. But for some, the horror didn't end there. Many began to ask the same haunting question. Was the mothman connected to the collapse?

After all, the creature had been seen dozens of times in the year leading up to the disaster. And then, nothing. No more glowing red eyes in the woods. No more wings blotting out the moon. No more sightings at all. It was as if the mothman had disappeared, its mission complete. Some locals whispered that it had come to warn them of the catastrophe. Others were convinced it had caused the collapse itself, feeding off the fear and death like

some supernatural parasite. And then there were people like Mary Hire, the journalist from the Athens Messenger, who covered the strange events. She reported being harassed by mysterious men in black suits who warned her to stop investigating. One even told her, in a chilling monotone voice, what happened at the bridge, that was was just the beginning, theories exploded in the years that followed. Some claimed the mothman was a demonic harbinger, tied to ancient curses or Native American legends of the land. Others said it was a time traveler, trying to alter the course of human events. And there were even those who

believed it was an alien scout, sent to observe humanity's response to chaos. Whatever the truth, Point Pleasant would never be the same again. Today, the town embraces its dark history. A 12-foot stainless steel mothman statue stands downtown, its menacing wings spread wide. Every year, the mothman festival draws thousands of curious visitors. But for the people who lived through those months of terror, it isn't just a legend or a tourist attraction. For them, the glowing red eyes in the dark, the screeching that echoed through the trees, and the nightmarish visions are all too real. And deep down, many believe that if the Mothman ever returns, it will only be to warn of another tragedy.