A half-day loop through Point Pleasant, West Virginia, retracing the three sites at the center of the most famous cryptid sighting wave in American folklore: the museum downtown, the abandoned TNT Area where it began, and the Silver Bridge site forever linked to the legend.
On November 15, 1966, two Point Pleasant couples said a winged, red-eyed creature chased their car at up to 105 mph near the old TNT Area. The Silver Bridge fell 13 months to the day later, and the federal investigation traced the collapse to a flawed eyebar. The museum, opened in 2006, displays the eyewitnesses' handwritten police depositions.
Start here for exhibits, witness accounts, and the 12-foot stainless steel Mothman statue across the street.
On the evening of December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge's 1,460-foot suspended span fell into the Ohio River with rush-hour traffic on it, killing 46 people. Investigators traced the collapse to a single cracked eyebar, and writer John Keel later tied it to the Mothman sightings of 13 months earlier.
The bridge collapsed 13 months after the first sightings, and John Keel's book made the link permanent in popular culture.
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Point Pleasant Riverfront Park, Main Street, Point Pleasant, WV 25550
