Mothman

Reports cluster within a four-mile radius of a decommissioned munitions
facility north of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in country that is mostly
access road, scrub, and concrete storage domes left over from the war.
Witnesses describe a standing figure between six and seven feet tall, a
wingspan they consistently estimate at more than three meters, and
two red lamps set at head height rather than in a face. The
figure is almost always reported at the edge of headlight range, and almost
always reported as rising rather than taking off.

What holds the file open is not the description but the arithmetic. Between
November 1966 and December 1967 the company logged one hundred and three
separate accounts from witnesses with no evident connection to one another —
different roads, different weeks, several who had not read a newspaper report
before filing. Their estimates of height and wingspan fall within a range
tighter than the estimates witnesses usually give for a deer at fifty yards.
Nobody produced a photograph. Several produced drawings, and the drawings
agree.

Reports fell to zero in the third week of December 1967 and did not resume.
No physical trace was ever recovered — no feather, no cast, no tissue — and
the facility itself was surveyed twice with nothing to show for it. The file
stays active because the arithmetic has never been explained away, and because
witnesses in the county still occasionally file, decades late, describing the
same two lamps at the same height.