Oh boy, I don’t even know how to start this one. Prepare yourself for a roller coaster of stories and locations.
Let’s start on November 16th, 1966 in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Police officers were called to some abandoned buildings to investigate claims from some panicked workers of a strange encounter they had a few hours before. According to the men, who claimed to be ‘hard to scare’, they were terrified when they encountered a strange man in the darkness near a power plant. Normally they would’ve asked him what he was doing out so late, but this was no ordinary man.
His eyes were glowing bright red. The ‘man’ started walking towards them, clumsily stumbling as if he barely knew how to walk. Maybe he was just a drunk man playing some sort of trick? Nope. He could fly. Fast. According to the men, the creature, while bad on foot, could fly at unbelievable speeds. He hovered above the car of the men as they frantically made their way back to town to find a sheriff. This was just one of many strange encounters with the so called ‘mothman’ that terrorized Point Pleasant for nearly a year.
Other reports of the Mothman described the creature as nothing people had ever seen before. Strange, monster-like, and apparently able to fly at about 100 miles per hour, this odd creature was spotted doing all kinds of weird things. People claimed to have been followed by it while in their cars, seen it looking in their windows at night, picking up dogs, sheep, etc. There was even one report of a sheep being tossed onto a power line.
Okay, let’s stop there. Most of this stuff could be faked or blamed on delusions caused by mass panic and fear. But how could the animal be carried and dropped on a power line? That’d be one heck of a hoax. Or maybe it wasn’t a mythical creature that tossed the sheep at all – because it has happened several times since.
In North Dakota a few years ago, there were claims that their electricity kept flickering on and off, and according to the phone call, it was because of the “deer on the power line.” Well…that’s not normal. Further investigations into this and the image to go along with it provide mixed results, meaning that case may be a hoax as well. Some reports are that it was caused by a train hitting the deer and knocking it into the air. Others say it’s simply Photoshop. But not all of them are so questionable.
In Alaska, an Elk was found hanging from a power line over fifty feet in the air. Yes, an ELK was FIFTY FEET in the air. Now how does that happen? The main theory for how this happened is that the elk got his antlers tangled in the wires while they were on the ground. Then, when the construction crew began hoisting the wires up, he was lifted into the air as well. So that explains that one. But what about Point Pleasant?
Moving on to Montana (I told you we’d be going all over the place), a small deer carcass was found on the power lines. He had knocked out the power of nearby residences, and there had been a witness! Finally, some rock hard evidence as to how the deer got up there. So what was it?!
A bald eagle. What?
Yes, a bald eagle. Apparently the eagle had picked up the deer from the nearby field, carried it briefly before losing its grip, and dropped it on the power line. Other reports of bald eagles picking up large animals are rather common. While normally they stick to fish and small animals like rabbits, it’s not uncommon for them to try their luck at larger creatures. There are reports of eagles picking up sheep (weighing up to 130 pounds), knocking mountain goats off cliffs, and even attacking small dogs. Considering the average weight of a bald eagle is around 9 to 14 pounds, this is rather incredible and easily explains how one could pick up a small deer.
But wait. Did we just come full circle? Is it possible that the entity seen in Point Pleasant could possibly have just been a large eagle?
I guess we might never know. I’m going to put this back into the file marked “X”.
Totally Useless Research 