Mysterious World of Cryptids Blog Series Deep in the heart of Appalachia, nestled along the Ohio River, the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, became the epicenter of one of the most chilling cryptid phenomena in modern history. The legend of the Mothman began on a cold November night in 1966, when two young couples driving near the abandoned TNT area – a former WWII munitions site – reported encountering a seven-foot-tall winged creature with glowing red eyes and a wingspan stretching nearly ten feet. Descriptions painted a nightmare: a gray, humanoid figure capable of keeping pace with speeding cars, its piercing gaze inducing paralyzing terror. Within weeks, dozens more witnesses came…