[ex-Texan]

This is for real, folks. There is a real Mothman if witnesses are to be believed.

That being said, calm down and rent the "Mothman" video. If any Freepers live near Point Pleasant, I expect you to drop in tomorrow and send us all a full report.

[MedicalMess]

Or better yet..., rent the movie Mimic if you want moth like bugs.

[oiljake]

I wish someone would tell the truth it ended up in someones pot or over a fire place

[MedicalMess]

How about the old Japanese sci-fi Mothera? Or is it Mothra?

[jlogajan]

There is a real Mothman if witnesses are to be believed.

Elvis is still alive and living at the mall, if witnesses are to be believed.

[Jonathon Spectre]

Why "Mothman"? Moths don't exactly inspire either terror or awe.

[Common Tator]

Point Pleasant.... !!!!!

I have several relatives that live in or near Point Pleasant. But I have never held that against the town.

Back in the depression my father contracted to paint the bridge over the Ohio at Point Pleasant. A local came up looking for a job. Dad asked him if he could climb. The local said like squirrel. Dad sent him topside and when he looked in few minutes the local was frozen at the top of the bridge tower with his eyes closed. Dad had to rig a bosons seat. It took 5 guys to pry this local off the bridge tower and get him on the ground.

When dad got him on the ground, he said to the local, " I thought you told me you could climb like a squirrel." The local replied, "That must have been a ground squirrel."

For decades in our family the excuse for failing to do some task was, "That must have been a ground squirrel."

[bzrd]

Point Pleasant is about 45 minutes down the road [down the road in WV-speak means the direction water poured out of a jug onto the road would flow e.g., if one is going in the same direction as the water--one is going down the road. Conversely, if one were to go up the road, one would be going in the opposite, or retrograde direction, relative to the poured water] from me.

My in-laws grew up very near there and though they didn't personally witness the mothman they knew people who did.

Brian.

[L.N. Smithee]

This weekend, Point Pleasant will host the first Mothman Festival in its downtown with rides for children, props from last year's hit movie "The Mothman Prophecies"

"Hit movie?" Like heck it was a hit!

According to the Internet Movie Database, Mothman was a flop, opening in January 2002 (not 2001) with an $11 million weekend. That was only good enough for third behind pop star Mandy Moore's A Walk To Remember and a whiz-bang remake of The Count of Monte Cristo.

By the end of March 2002, word of mouth had killed Mothman, and it was yanked from US theaters after a paltry $49,000 weekend brought the gross to only $35 million domestically. The film's budget was $42 million.

[tallhappy]

That being said, calm down and rent the "Mothman" video.

No. Read the book. John Keel could use the money. They certainly didn't pay him for the movie.

It's all bogus, of course.

Keel is an interesting writer. He also invented or at least popularized the Men In Black as MIB. I'm sure he never got any money for that either.

He's a pulp writer who had a huge but essentially invisible impact on pop culture or society.

[EggsAckley]

There was a time when a myth of a sea monster was circulating around Santa Cruz. "Our" monster was called "BoBo." Haven't heard much about BoBo for years.

[Constitution Day]

If any Freepers live near Point Pleasant, I expect you to drop in tomorrow and send us all a full report.

Paging WVNan!

[far sider]

I live near there. I would not cross the street (or the river) to see a "Mothman." I cannot think of a more boring way to spend a day than to spend it in Pt Pleasant.

[Wondervixen]

I attend the drive-in across the river from Pt. Pleasant a few times every summer (Located a half mile north of where the Silver Bridge disaster occurred), and I was told what Hollyweird and Richard Gere did to the story of the Mothman was not dissimilar to Ben Affleck's take on Pearl Harbor.

How do you take a story that allegedly happened in 1967 and NOT portray it as 1967?

[boris]

I'm worried about Springheels Jack, too.

[Timesink]

If any Freepers live near Point Pleasant, I expect you to drop in tomorrow and send us all a full report.

It's only about 40 miles north of here, but I'm not going anywhere near that nutbag convention. I deal with enough losers and freaks every day of the year here in Huntington. And at least at Star Trek conventions, the attendees know it's fictional. Well, most of them anyway.