A winged humanoid roughly seven feet tall with a ten-foot wingspan and eyes described in every credible account the same way: two burning red circles, set directly into the shoulders, with no discernible head.
Thirteen months of concentrated sightings around Point Pleasant ended abruptly with the collapse of the Silver Bridge on December 15, 1967, which killed 46 people. This timing established the entity's reputation as a harbinger — a being whose appearances precede disaster. Similar winged figures were reported before the 1986 Chernobyl accident and other catastrophes, though documentation for those accounts is thin.
The archive classifies Mothman sightings as priority reports. If you see it, we want to know within twenty-four hours.