@Flyover yes the Mothman! That actually happen in Mason County Wva @Point Pleasant, across from Gallipolis, Ohio. My mom is from Mason County. I also grew up hearing those stories, although I have never been able to recount them effectively. I will say though, from the stories I heard to the movie, there really wasn't much similarities. Most sightings happened in the TNT area of Mclintic wildlife management area. There were munitions bunkers on the property somewhere and those were thought to have been the mothmans "caves". It is actually a nice area, there are some ponds you can fish. I havent been there in about a decade, there isnt much there. However, the Mason County fair is held yearly a couple of miles from where this is.
More folklore about the area:
There is a state park, it is called Tu Endie Wei, that means "the point between two waters" the Battle of Point Pleasant was fought there and some say it started the revolutionary war. I always did horribly in History class so IDK. There are alot of artifacts there and rooms set up with authentic furniture and a kitchen set up exactly as it would have been in the 1770s. (I *believe* the log home at the state park is original). The Shawnee Chief Cornstalk is who led the efforts. It has been said that that area will never prosper until it becomes a dry area (alcohol), supposedly as a curse.
You would think that because is has 2 different rivers surrounding the western and southern (I'm directionally challenged) sides of the small town of Point Pleasant, that it would have become more prosperous in the 1800s and 1900s.
I have always been told I was related to Chief Cornstalk but idk about that. I am of British, European, Scottish and Irish decent per Ancestry DNA. I dont think the British and Shawnee were that "friendly" with one another, but I could be wrong.
Another childhood weirdness:
My mom played with a Ouija board when she was a teen/young adult, I used to love listening to her stories when I was little but when I became an older teenager I started getting creeped out by the story she told where the Ouija board they used always said its name was Nancy
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So.... what I am saying is that I heard creepy stories about different things my entire childhood lol