SciFi Investigates - This week: Mothman

[Anarky]

Originally Posted by www.scifi.com

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They promise big things, they just fail to deliver. But then again, it's kind of hard to deliver answers in matters that are as mushy and twisted and incredible as UFOs, cryptozoology and other apparitions.

And it gives us paranormal-fanatics and UFO-nuts another subject to talk about every week.

This week, they were talking about the Mothman. You know, the entity that was seen in Point Pleasant, Virginia, before the Silver Bridge collapsed. Richard Gere was even in a movie about it, which I don't think is supposed to have anything to do with the real Mothman. I mean, where did they get "Indrid Cold" from? He or she was never mentionned in any eyewitness accounts. So let's just leave the movie be a movie and concentrate on the real world. If you ask me, Mothman is real. Not that it's necessarily a big flying creature with glowing red eyes, but there was or still is something out there. I mean, let's not forget that the military was out there and the military does need to try out new systems somewhere. And they have 6000 square miles of territory to test their stuff there. So the Mothman, about six feet tall (about the size of an average male) and "of a slippery texture, as if he was wearing a wetsuit" (Eyewitness) could have been a soldier trying out a new hangglider-thing or nightvision-goggles, which would explain the red eyes. The sudden disappearance could mean that the experiment was halted or that it was relocated and never made it into production. Thing is, that wouldn't explain the whole "Appearing before disasters"-thing. Then again, it could be the strange creature from godknowswhere.

Now it's up to you: Do you believe that the Mothman is or was out there? What do you think he is?