Unsolved Mysteries is taking a deeper look into West Virginia’s most famous cryptid.
The cryptid known as The Mothman is a popular topic in West Virginia folklore, but the ominous entity isn’t exclusive to the Mountain State.
There have been sightings across the midwest in cities as far away as Chicago, where tales of the black-flying humanoid creature have been spotted both during the day and night.
According to Tudom by Netflix, paranormal investigator Tobias Wayland noticed an increase in Mothman reports coming out of the Windy City and decided to do a little digging into the tales.
Tudom reports that Wayland reached out to colleague and native of Chicago, Lon Strickler, who says Chicagoans have been reporting sightings of a flying entity with bat-like wings spanning 12 to 15 feet for years.
The creature is known to the people as the Chicago Phantom, but Wayland suspects the Phantom and Mothman are one and the same.
According to Tudom, Strickler has found as many as 161 sightings in the Chicago area, many at the Chicago O’Hare airport, where employees have reported seeing a large, winged, humanoid figure.
Tudom describes the creature as a dark figure with red eyes and a large humanlike body that appears shiny or wet. The ominous figure is thought to be an ill omen, bringing death and destruction at each sighting.
Reports of the nightmarish entity have come out of the world’s worst disasters, such as Fukushima, the Chernobyl meltdown, and the collapse of the Silver Bridge in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
The Mothman is no stranger to mainstream media. In 2002, Richard Gere starred in the horror thriller Mothman Prophesies, which follows the tale of a journalist who researches the history of the cryptid.
Tudom reports that Unsolved Mysteries also aired a segment of the winged entity, and since then, many more stories have come to light.
The revamp of the long-running show is taking a deeper look into the history of the Mothman, examining more than 50 years of sightings in the upcoming Unsolved Mysteries Volume 4, Episode 5, “The Mothman Revisited.”
Todum offers an inside look at “The Mothman Revisted” with evidence and a map of where sightings have been recorded.
https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/unsolved-mysteries-volume-4-episode-5-mothman-revisited