Mothman Festival and statue

Point Pleasant held its first Mothman Festival in 2002; a stainless-steel statue of the creature by Bob Roach followed in 2003 and a Mothman Museum in 2005.

2002 CE · 38.84, -82.14 · status: legend

The account

The festival draws tens of thousands of visitors each September and shows how a short-lived 1960s scare became the identity of a small river town.

Connections in the atlas

• Silver Bridge collapse
• Mothman

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Mothman Festival