{"id":46292,"date":"2016-12-05T16:07:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T21:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=46292"},"modified":"2016-12-05T16:15:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T21:15:30","slug":"mothman-sighting-picture-taken-point-pleasant-west-virginia-true-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/mothman-sighting-picture-taken-point-pleasant-west-virginia-true-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothman Sighting – Picture Taken In Point Pleasant, West Virginia, True Or Hoax?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mothman, the giant supposedly human-like flying creature first spotted in Point Pleasant, West Virginia back in the 1960s has made its return to the popular consciousness once again it seems — with images recently taken (on 20 November 2016) by an unidentified man now making the rounds on the internet.<\/p>\n

While certainly nowhere near as crane- or heron-like as the first pictures released back in the mid-1960s, I have to say that the new image looks fairly ambiguous and\/or heavily manipulated.<\/p>\n

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Despite the fact that the sightings are, as most such sightings are, likely the result of a wide variety of different personalities, animal sightings, psychological projections, and also likely lingering folk beliefs\/memories of the regions in question, coming together in a bizarre form\/mix, the Mothman sightings are<\/em> particularly interesting.<\/p>\n

Mostly because of how ambiguous the ties between reported sightings of the Mothman, and it’s supposed victims (including those associated with the Silver Bridge collapse over the Ohio River<\/a>) are.<\/p>\n

As with all such ambiguous stories and sightings, one always seems to be able to find corollaries that match the reported creatures or spirits fairly easily when one looks back into the earlier history of the regions in question, or into prehistory (the stories concerning the unicorn, elasmotherium<\/a>, for instance, or those concerning various human-like figures — e.g. the Denisovans and Neanderthals<\/a>).<\/p>\n