My favorite West-by-god-Virginian

[SoxFan]

Mothman is the name given to a being reported in the Charleston and Point Pleasant areas of West Virginia between November 12, 1966, near Clendenin, and December 1967. Most observers describe the Mothman as a winged man-sized creature with large reflective red eyes and large moth-like wings. The creature often appeared to have no head, with its eyes set into its chest. A number of hypotheses have been presented to explain eyewitness accounts, ranging from misidentification and coincidence, to paranormal phenomena and conspiracy theories.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothman
http://www.mothmanmuseum.com/

[Alhena]

1. They actually made a real statute for that thing?

Please tell me that's some 6-inch model photographed up close to make it look big.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. What is it with WV and goofy monsters?

[SoxFan]

7. Flatwoods, right?

The fact that I knew this off the top of my head is probably a genuine cause for concern...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. yup.

[SoxFan]

9. Boy, I'm pathetic

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. Dude, it's cool.

That's kind of a funky monster to have roaming around your backyard.

All we've got is sasquatch.

[SoxFan]

15. I grew up next to Exeter, NH

Exeter was the epicenter of a major UFO flap in the mid-1960s. The witnesses included several police officers and a Coast Guardsman. Something was also picked up on radar at Pease AFB.

Also, famed abductees Betty and Barney Hill were from the NH seacoast. My parents have purchased a plot in the same cemetery where the Hills are buried, which is cool in a very weird sort of way.

[theboss]

12. I was in Flatwoods ten years ago but don't remember that

When did it go up?

[nemo137]

11. What exactly is that?

Local scare story?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. Yup.

An alien back from when people put a little originality into their meth driven hallucinations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatwoods_monster

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Mothman was found dead in a ditch in 1969.

The apparent victim of a shotgun blast.

His custom Harley Davidson motorcycle was found several hundred yards down the road.

[Egnever]

3. Mine is

Nick Nolte (1940- ) had a home in Charleston and was formerly included in the list of famous West Virginians in the World Almanac. Nolte was married to two West Virginians, Sharyn Haddad and then Rebecca Linger. Rebecca's father, Dr. Thomas Linger, was a consultant on several of Nolte's films. When he was studying for Down and Out in Beverly Hills he is said to have hung out with Charleston's eminent street person, Bill Dunn, known as Aqualung. In an interview, Nolte said that to beef up for a role, he told the director of the movie that he'd just go to West Virginia and eat. Nolte was born in Omaha.

[SoxFan]

6. Might be the same guy

[oldpol]

5. going to the hoop!

[NJSecularist]

13. The Logo was brilliant.

He is definitely my favorite West Virginian.