Though it remains unexplained, the Mothman has become a kind of mascot for Point Pleasant, where there is a Mothman Museum and an annual Mothman Festival in the autumn. The small community surrounding the church deals with the traffic of curiosity seekers for a period of time and then sees the parade of cars subside again.

Suddenly that night he took a rest in his hammock, he was cut down, wrapped up and dragged away to some unknown location. Set in and around the real Western Maryland town of Burkittsville, the marketing for Blair Witch was so successful, people actually believed the story of a group of college kids lost in the woods was a documentary. As this myth illustrates, stories sometimes have a deeper purpose; are meant for more than just an exhilarating jolt of fear.Instead of being the first-ever people to witness aliens, they were witnesses to a tall man-like figure with a round, red face who wore a pointed hood. talking to People who have had experiences, it feels like there is something supernatural happening in this region. The area has long been a source of myths and legends which have been passed down the generations from the early settlers. It was Thursday and there was no class on Friday and I wanted to get in bed early so I could go out into the woods and go hiking early tomorrow morning and watch the sun come up.

As we were walking back through the darkness, I started to feel the same feeling I had felt the night I hit the creature in my truck. Some residents claim the area is inhabited with shadowy cryptids and ghosts, claiming they’ve seen these nightmares with their own eyes, in their own backyards. Suddenly, he was left shocked when he saw a man standing near his firewood with his (the other man’s) hands and body badly burned and a smoking face. Hiking alone along the Appalachian Mountain Trail might bring up some inner fear and imagination of being followed or pursued by some unseen human or animal. No longer in use, and haven't been in years, but the fence is still there and the concrete pad is still there.Maybe there were a few supernatural sightings that occurred in the early 1800s; in fact, I will go as far as to say that I believe most things leading up to John Bell’s death occurred. A 1977 newspaper article in the Desert Sun titled “ A Busy Ghost Haunts This Small, Virginal Church” describes the haunting. Most parts of the trail are desolate, and remote, cutting through mountains and thick forests which have brought about some chilly encounters for the hikers. Some people believe that the town was abandoned because the residents who stayed there soon went insane or committed suicide after claiming they were possessed by demons. I grew up hearing my father read excerpts from a book about the ghosts and hauntings in North Carolina, and this one always scared me the most.