For the next thirteen months, over 200 individuals had some interaction with some strange phenomena – and about a hundred of those said they actually saw Mothman.' And why that bizarre name – Mothman? Apparently, it was the work of 'some copyeditor at the local newspaper.

They took off and the creature followed them right up to the city limits of Point Pleasant.' The incident was reported to the local sheriff, who went to the lovers lane and 'searches around, sees a puff of smoke in a nearby area from possibly this creature taking off and landing again.' While Coleman reports that the account was 'ridiculed in the local press,' something very strange began to happen: 'More and more people started seeing this creature. 'These two couples saw two giant red eyes, and it very much scared them.they didn't know what to make of it.' This, then, was the first reported sighting of the 'Mothman,' which Coleman goes on to say 'was described as 6-to-7 feet tall with red eyes and no head, as if the eyes were in the breast area, and with huge wings.' The creature 'came toward them. 'On November 15, 1966, four individuals – two married couples – were at what was essentially a lovers lane in Point Pleasant, West Virginia,' explains Coleman, who has been researching so-called 'Fortean Phenomena' (from Charles Fort) since 1960.

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