An Update on the Legendary Chicago Mothman

Winged humanoid and harbinger of death? Or a large bird? You be the judge.

The Mothman is the stuff of urban legend, with the first well-known sighting occurring in a small town in West Virginia in the 1960s. Since then, the Mothman has sometimes been called a “harbinger of cataclysmic events.”

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Jennifer Geer

Writer, blogger, mom, owner of pugs, wellness enthusiast, and true crime obsessed.