Mystery AtlasWest Virginia
The US state whose Ohio River town of Point Pleasant is the setting of the Mothman legend.
This is a knowledge-graph entry: what our data records about West Virginia and how it connects to the rest of the atlas. It does not have a full article of its own yet.
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Related Mysteries
- Greenbrier Ghost CaseJanuary-July 1897
West Virginia was the site of Greenbrier Ghost Case.
Places
West Virginia is located in United States.
West Virginia contains Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
West Virginia contains Fayetteville, West Virginia.
West Virginia contains Flatwoods, West Virginia.
Explored on these pages
Did a Ghost's Testimony Really Convict a Murderer?
A West Virginia marker calls it the only murder a ghost helped solve. The 1897 trial record shows the autopsy, not the ghost story, convicted the killer.
What Landed at Flatwoods, West Virginia in 1952?
On 12 September 1952, seven witnesses near Flatwoods, West Virginia reported a fiery landing and a hissing, red-faced creature. What investigators found.
What Is Mothman?
What Mothman is: the 1966-67 Point Pleasant sightings, the Silver Bridge collapse that followed, and the leading bird-misidentification explanation.