An Update on the Legendary Chicago Mothman

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

Mothman Sculpture in Point Pleasant, West Virginia/Image by billy liar via Flicker.com (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

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.”