Mothman is indeed real. he just showed up outside my aunt's house, seeing a 6ft tall moth fight a bunch of teenagers and shout racial slurs gave me the shivers

ive seen the statue irl and whoever created it spent all their time sculpting his ass. its unreal.

When you started talking about a Sandhill Crane, my mind went straight to assuming that the people of West Virginia were mistaking mothman, for a 100ft steel crane that would presumably be on top of sandhills.

I can see how these types of cryptid stories can form… I was driving one day, not even in the middle of nowhere (pretty close to a busy freeway). And in my peripheral vision I saw what looked like a large rabbit with big bird wings stand up on its hind legs and fly straight up into the air. It took me a second to register what I had just seen, and I was alone in the car audibly saying “wtf was that wtf did I just see” I rationalized it by deciding I must have seen the exact moment a large bird started airlifting a rabbit it caught. And then when it started flying, it was facing me for that split second, so even though it wasn’t flying straight up, it created the illusion that it was. And maybe since it was in my peripheral, my brain filled in some blanks and made it look like one cohesive creature. But the weird thing is that when I was in high school I had a friend who said that once when he was driving he caught a glimpse of a weird small animal that couldn’t exist. It like genuinely scared him. And I think it had something to do with a rabbit too. A connection I didn’t make until way later. But if a few people had this similar experience within a shorter time frame and all within the same area. There you go. It would just snowball into Birdrabbit Man.

“Sounds like a villain Batman would square off with” you’re probably thinking of Killer Moth, an actual Batman villain

As a man who lives in West Virginia I can confirm that moth man is real , we often see him drinking under a bridge while talking about himself in a third person perspective

"He sounds like someone Batman would fight" Killer Moth left the chat

Mothman is the only cryptid that I don't disbelieve completely. I was packing in groceries one night in southern West Virginia with my cousin and my sister. We were all young, maybe 11-12 yo and had never heard of mothman before. As we got to the door, we all looked across the creek and saw the huge creature with glowing red eyes, wings and all, and freaked out and ran inside. In hysterics, we describe to my dad what we had seen and he just waved us off and told us we had seen a big owl. In all fairness, we do see a lot of great horned owls and they do have massive orange eyes that glow red if you shine a light at them, but these eyes were several inches apart and the body was much bigger than a person, so we all knew that wasn't right. It wasn't until about a year later that I walked through the living room as my dad was watching a mothman documentary, and happened to see a drawing of him. I immediately recognized the creature as the one we saw, and even confirmed with my sister and cousin. It was a wild moment, and my bedroom window faced the area we had seen it at, so it was great nightmare fuel for me. I'm a very skeptical person, but the fact that 3 of us clearly saw it, all with the same details, and we'd never heard of Mothman before, I just don't know.

As someone who has spent their whole life in West Virginia, the woods are fucking terrifying. No surprise folklore legends get stirred up

"A pair of invisible hands pulled my steering wheel and made me crash" is a great excuse for when you are driving recklessly late at night

As a North Central West Virginian, I have been terrorized on multiple occasions by Mothman and Charlie saved my life every time.

“He couldn’t see the hands, only the hair” I literally woke up my whole family laughing, thank you

As the average West Virginian, moth man is like family to me. He’s constantly around my grandparents barn and always has something to say at the family reunions.

I like how the mothman’s appearance has drastically changed from a giant roundish bird creature to an actual man with moth like features and bird wings. I still think what happened during the first witness account is that they were probably just driving fast and saw the glint in an owl’s eyes in a tall tree as they drove by, and it gave the illusion of a creature. I like to think in the middle of the night residents hear loud thuds as mothman hits against porch lights lmao

7:57 Sounds like a teenager didn't want to admit to crashing his mom's car and the rumor caught on

My take on Moth Man is more that he's a warning. He would be seen under bridges a few days before it collapsed, sweeping down on people driving in cars. What if he is just trying to scare people away from the place so they didn't get hurt rather than him being the cause?

I can confirm the moth man is real. He spends most of his time in his garage working on an old pickup truck. A bit scary the first time you see him due to the glowing red eyes and whole moth thing but hes actually quite nice once you get to know him.

Mothman is a true gamer he only comes out when food is ready.

"so it's a Digimon we're dealing with eh? Its worse than I thought" THAT KILLED MEEEE

Mothman showed up at my house last night He ate my sandwich and stole my lamp

"He sounds like a villain batman would go up against" Killer moth:Am I a joke to you?

I grew up near this town and there was a student who repeatedly told a story of her dad and uncle dressing as the mothman to scare passing cars. She told the story nearly yearly and didn't strike me as a liar but to this day I still believe her

When Mothman said "It's Mothin time" it was truly a beautiful moment

As someone who's recently played some fallout 76 and did a mothman mission, I can confirm that the mothman is infact real

Something people fail to mention is that the entire "Mothman" craze in point pleasant was ended by an absolute tragedy when the silver bridge collapsed, this was even related to the mothman, people stating that he's a bad omen that appears before disasters. I believe that 46 people unfortunately died during the collapse.

I feel like mothman is like Absol, where he's not actually evil, he's just trying to warn us but we can't understand him.

Mothman is real he needs to pay his child support for our kid

As a West Virginian I can confirm that Mothman always makes his once-weekly rounds of terrorizing solely those of us who have yet to invent the toothbrush. He just wants some real West Virginians to be filmed for once! Edit: Yes, we also haven’t moved beyond 1940s infrastructure. This keeps Mothman happy, he is not a fan of human societal progress.

I like how every time Charlie talks you can't actually tell if hes being serious or hes joking that's what I like about Charlie

As a life long West Virginia resident my favorite part of the Mothman lore is when he says "it's mothin time" and completely moths on everyone. Really inspiring shit right there.

I love cryptid stories especially the more obscure ones. When I was a kid people always told of a creature/man, similar to Tahm Kench, a catfish man who would appear as an unrecognizable old man and offer you some sort of assistance but after helping you, something unfortunate would happen after. I guess to celerity, this isn’t a cryptid because it’s not an animal, just pointing out most places have some kind of urban legend. In most cases those stories are being lost.

Mothman literally tore down an entire bridge. Fuck goat mans bridge

The mothman is actually the result of a scientist who was developing a teleportation device when a moth flew into the transporter without him knowing and fused their DNA together which resulted in his slow transformation into a moth like humanoid creature

I can 100% confirm that Moth Man is in fact real. I saw him last night drinking and playing poker at the nearest casino. He won every round. He's chill, and a badass.

When I was a kid I was dead set to become a Cryptozoologist .. I had planned to go overseas and study Cryptozoology.. I ended up going to college for Veterinary science 😂

I got up one night and right there standing in my bedroom. "What are you doing here?!" I said. Mothman: "the light was on".

Finally, the respect that Mothman deserves.

My favorite part of the Mothman lore is where he says “I’m Mothing” and proceeds beat the crap out of BeserkerBee.

The moth man is one hundred percent based on “the horned owl” I live in small town USA too and I know how “pants on head” locals try to spin folklore, we had a “black panther” in our woods turned out to be an oversized black bobcat

Seeing two different channels I have followed for years together in the same video is like a personal crossover made just for me

When mothman shouts "it's man mothing time" as he viciously defends his light bulb against kid insect, I broke into tears

"He sounds like a villain Batman would square off against" Don't get him mixed up with Killer Moth, now! Edit: wow I never comment on KZfaq and now I've got almost 2k likes, thanks guys! Don't forget to have a good day!

terrifying indeed, mothman flew into my AC more than once

I DIED when he said " So we have a digimon problem huh?" I was thinking the same thing.

"Moth man is real and he's not to be taken lightly." Proceeds to treat the whole thing like a joke. Come on Charlie! This shit is well documented!

West Virginia is filled to the brim with Cryptids and folklore. Mothman, Snallygaster, Grafton Monster, the flatwood monster. There’s so much interesting stuff there.

when i was little my dad would try to traumatize me by telling me that moth man and the “Bumble” from rudolph the red nose reindeer would kill me if i didn’t clean my room. Good times

Btw, the Mothman Prophecies is a really good film. Very atmospheric, understated horror.

I choose to believe he’s out there watching over us and operating in the background to ensure our safety. Mothman a true hero.

There's something kind of funny that there's like 3 local monsters within like driving distance of each other, they're all in the state of West Virginia, and none of them are even remotely alike in terms of description. The Mothman of Point Pleasant, the Flatwoods Monster of Flatwoods, and the lesser-known Grafton Monster (a kind of Bigfoot-like creature, two notable differences, it's described as being hairless with skin like an elephant and also having no head).

I remember in my creative writing class the teacher played the music from a mothman musical. I don’t really remember what happened in it, but I remember that some people walked past our classroom and just stared for a bit.

I remember the old Mothman movie about the phone call and the bridge accident. I remember watching it as a kid via vhs or dvd and watching one of the scenes (a car accident) frame by frame and it scared the shit out of me. It happens in a flash in regular speed but if you watch it frame by frame you can see the Mothman charging and flying in to the car causing the accident. That was the realest shit to me as a kid because watching it frame by frame it felt like I was watching/discovering something I was not supposed to see XD

In all seriousness, he's a really odd yet interesting urban legend that seems to more recently be something like a Harbinger. Preceding disaster in some way. Idk, I'm always fascinated in a childish way.

Mothman wasn't described by the original eyewitness reports as looking like a man. They stated he had no head, but 2 large, red eyes on his chest, gray feathers, wings, 2 legs, and stood just under the height of a man... thus, a sandhill crane with its head pointed forward.

Now I’m imagining a scene where Mothman walks into a library and starts annoying people by flicking them with his curly proboscus. *flick “Ow…” *flick “Quit it.” Sheer terror.

As a West Virginian, he sometimes comes to my window at night cause i don’t have tome to turn my light off before the floor becomes lava

As a West Virginian I can confirm, we are all friends with mothman.

Mothman is definitely one of the urban legends of all time. When he said 'Its Mothin time', chills went to my spine.

I grew up around the Point Pleasant area, so hearing Charlie talk about the area and Mothman was hilarious.

I like to think in my own head canon that Mothman is a local vigilante, protecting the people of Point Pleasant

Not a joke, the moment Charlie said "I'm a fan of Mothman" a little moth flew across my screen

“Sounds like a villain Batman would square off with” *killer moth crying in a corner*

Mothman ate my ass behind a Denny’s about 6 months ago and I survived, it was a truly harrowing experience, I’ll never forget it

The fact that i live in west virginia, and am for some reason greatly intrigued by shit like mothman and the braxton county monster and what not, i just wanna say that if i ever see mothman we gonna be chill. No pictures or anything, just a drink and a convo, he seems like a great guy.

Being a West Virginia native, moth man is more idolized than feared. We genuinely don’t have anything else in the state to be happy about besides a giant moth human hybrid. Very sadge

Mothman finally getting the fame and adulation he deserves. My faith in humanity has been restored

Mothman Fest is coming up soon. Point Pleasant is pretty cool to visit if you're ever in the area, it's all good fun.

Funny story, Batman actually has a villain named killer moth.

I’m a native West Virginian; been to Point Pleasant multiple times. It is kind of a time capsule but we have some other towns that are very similar in being frozen in the era that they thrived. If you enjoy cryptids you should look up one of our other cryptids who is one of my favorites which is the Flatwoods Monster. Also there’s a moth man festival sure the town would explode if you came up as a guest for the festival lol.

So glad someone like Charlie is giving attention to west Virginian culture, and that culture is rich.

Can confirm, mothman recently went on vacation and came to England... Saw him fighting Boris outside Aldi

Goatman ain't got shit on mothman. Mothman brought down an entire bridge with telepathic powers

“It’s West Virginia, surely one of them can lean out and start shooting” as a WV native, I agree this is the most likely scenario

As a lifelong native here I can say that Mothman is real. However you can think of him like Bojack in the sense that he’s washed up and hasn’t really done much in 30 years. Hoping he makes a return but somewhere cool like Morgantown 🤷🏿‍♂️

Every time holloween comes around theres a local place with actors in a haunted corn patch and everyone cheers when mothman appears

Mothman is not evil. It says that it brings foretelling of disasters. If you weren't so busy talking and not listening instead you'd know this.

As a person born and raised in West Virgina, i can confirm that moth man is indeed… not a joke

As a West Virginian, I can say that moth man actually visits every resident of this state once per year. Cool guy.

Mothman hold dear God where is Batman when you need them

Mothman and the Ogopogo are my favorite cryptids.

"A man with all the powers of a moth or a moth with all the powers of man, such as literacy and the love of rock n roll music" Oh Lord I've never laughed so hard 😂

As a kid my great grandmother was known as a “voodoo woman” and would often tell me stories of the Mothman and the Rougarou and that crap scared me shitless as a kid and still does. I don’t even like moths

Bus driver fr said he’d rather encounter a wild mothman than a snake

6:36 funny because i saw a documentary that said people reported seeing the mothman before the silver bridge collapse

Mothman was one of my actual nightmare producing urban legends when i was a kid lmao

Love the part where Mothman says: "Its mothin time" and just starts mothin.

A bit more about the sandhill crane situation. Mothman is known to bring devastation wherever he is seen. People swore they saw mothman on a bridge near point pleasant before it collapsed. Pictures taken before the collapse show that it was just a group of cranes.

I'm surprised a family-friendly Mothman movie hasn't been made yet. Like, turns out Mothman was just trying to help people, but he has incredibly bad timing.

“He sounds like a villain Batman would square off against” Killer Moth rn: 👀

I've lived in West Virginia my whole life and I can tell you for sure that mothman is the least scary thing in this state

The only context clue I have is the name, "Mothman." Since moth comes first, it seems to describe the type of 'man', meaning it is indeed a man with all the powers of a moth.

Mothman is definitely real. My buddy Eric had an encounter with him

I really want to go to this town dressed as Mothman and mess with people.

I’ve been told a few stories about Mothman, and a part of the story that wasn’t talked about was the fact that multiple times, people claimed to have seen him in places right before something bad happened there, like when a bridge collapsed, people claimed to have seen him there right before it did

I was introduced to this creature through a tv series called Mountain Monsters, starring the AIMS team. I heard that mothman was sighted perched on a bridge at night, and the next day the bridge collapsed and 45 people died.

“If he can use a phone… He can dodge a ball”

Moth Man isn't chasing the car, he's chasing the headlights.

imagine you're driving in virginia and a 7 foot tall creature with the features of a emo butterfly and glowing red eyes flies towards you at a literal 100 miles an hour. Freaky as hell.

if you've ever been to point pleasant, I'm sorry, just keep driving

Yes Mothman is definitely a local celebrity here in WV. We all know and love him. He is not seen as evil or dangerous. He keeps to himself most of the time but you’re more likely to catch him at night roaming around although I feel these days he’s probably hiding out more than anything or dead :( thanks for covering this Charlie! Also loved when you got a glimpse of the WVian experience of having to specify West Virginia any time you wanna google something about us lol we are definitely disconnected from the rest of the country and we like it that way! No 5G hereeeeee