Mothman Statue

Point Pleasant, West Virginia, United States

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The Mothman Statue is a stainless-steel sculpture about 12 feet tall on Main Street in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, beside the Mothman Museum. Bob Roach made it, and it was unveiled in 2003 after the town commissioned it following the 2002 film The Mothman Prophecies.

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Before sculptor Bob Roach built the Mothman, he went looking for people who said they had seen it.

The statue stands on Main Street in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, beside the Mothman Museum. It is stainless steel and about 12 feet tall. Reports of a large winged figure around Point Pleasant drew attention in November 1966, according to West Virginia Explorer, and John Keel's 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies later became a 2002 film. WV MetroNews reports that Point Pleasant officials commissioned Roach a year after the film's release; West Virginia Explorer says Charles Humphreys, then executive director of Main Street Point Pleasant, wanted a permanent attraction that would keep drawing visitors once interest in the movie faded. The statue was unveiled downtown in 2003.

Roach was a professional welder who had worked at power plants. His daughter told West Virginia Explorer that he built the Mothman in a dirt-floor garage and told MetroNews it took about a year. With no portrait to work from, he located members of about five families who reported encounters and interviewed them separately; his daughter went with him to some of the interviews, according to West Virginia Explorer, and Humphreys described a similar process. West Virginia Explorer notes that such interviews cannot establish what people saw in the 1960s, only why the statue looks as it does.

Roach doubted anyone would care about the statue after a couple of years, his daughter recalled. He died in 2015. West Virginia Explorer reports that Mothman Statue LLC owns the design.

WV MetroNews calls the statue one of the "crown jewels" of the annual Mothman Festival, held every third weekend in September.

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An outdoor stainless-steel statue, about 12 feet tall, on Main Street beside the Mothman Museum, with a plaque. The annual Mothman Festival takes place on the third weekend of September, and WV MetroNews calls the statue one of its 'crown jewels'.

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Main Street, Point Pleasant, West Virginia, next to the Mothman Museum. An outdoor public sculpture; the museum keeps its own hours.

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