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DATE: 12/04/72 TIME: 1 AM LOCATION: USA

ID: 1754 STATEMENT: 856

There are a handful of creatures that, when sighted, require a full agency-wide alert. The ‘Mothman’ is such a species.

It was 1972, I was a young agent and like many greenies, I was placed on the night shift. It was early in the morning when the call came in. A farmer on his way back home had stopped at a payphone and called the local sheriff's office. He claimed to have sighted a strange black creature around the height of a tall man, with large wings and glowing red eyes.

As soon as the description came through my supervisor hit the alarm, waking everyone up on site. I of course didn’t know what was going on but was later told that these creatures are ‘harbingers’ and only turn up at the sites of terrible disasters. We had to move quickly in order to prevent whatever was about to happen. The last time this was ignored was December 15, 1967. The Silver Bridge crumbled into the Ohio River during rush hour, killing 46 people without warning. A Mothman had been sighted days earlier and our team discovered one hiding close to the tragedy. Ever since that day, the agency mobilized as quickly as possible and had, at the time, averted 16 catastrophes.

We were lucky and found the creature perched on an old bridge leading into town, it was captured and taken in for study. Upon searching the area an unexploded WW2 bomb was discovered and diffused.

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ASSET ANALYSIS: Mothman

THREAT LEVEL: 4 (DANGEROUS)

Though the name suggests a type of insect, Mothmen are in fact a very large and very rare species of owl. They have an innate ability that allows them to sense when large disasters are going to happen. Our scientists dubbed the species as ‘Precognitive Scavengers’, arriving and waiting for a calamity to happen in order to feed on the dead. Despite being classed as a level 4 threat, the bird themselves are very shy and hibernate for long periods of time in mountain caves. Their level is purely based on the fact that whenever they are sighted, death is sure to follow. In the early days, many were rereleased and used as an early warning system in the wild. Only now are they being bred in captivity in the hopes of training them to hunt down disasters all over the world.

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I know a few of you might be confused why I went for owl over a moth, but in my research, most of the cases describe it as a bird and I felt like the shape fit an owl best. Hope you like it!

Description

DATE: 12/04/72 TIME: 1 AM LOCATION: USA

ID: 1754 STATEMENT: 856

There are a handful of creatures that, when sighted, require a full agency-wide alert. The ‘Mothman’ is such a species.

It was 1972, I was a young agent and like many greenies, I was placed on the night shift. It was early in the morning when the call came in. A farmer on his way back home had stopped at a payphone and called the local sheriff's office. He claimed to have sighted a strange black creature around the height of a tall man, with large wings and glowing red eyes.

As soon as the description came through my supervisor hit the alarm, waking everyone up on site. I of course didn’t know what was going on but was later told that these creatures are ‘harbingers’ and only turn up at the sites of terrible disasters. We had to move quickly in order to prevent whatever was about to happen. The last time this was ignored was December 15, 1967. The Silver Bridge crumbled into the Ohio River during rush hour, killing 46 people without warning. A Mothman had been sighted days earlier and our team discovered one hiding close to the tragedy. Ever since that day, the agency mobilized as quickly as possible and had, at the time, averted 16 catastrophes.

We were lucky and found the creature perched on an old bridge leading into town, it was captured and taken in for study. Upon searching the area an unexploded WW2 bomb was discovered and diffused.

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ASSET ANALYSIS: Mothman

THREAT LEVEL: 4 (DANGEROUS)

Though the name suggests a type of insect, Mothmen are in fact a very large and very rare species of owl. They have an innate ability that allows them to sense when large disasters are going to happen. Our scientists dubbed the species as ‘Precognitive Scavengers’, arriving and waiting for a calamity to happen in order to feed on the dead. Despite being classed as a level 4 threat, the bird themselves are very shy and hibernate for long periods of time in mountain caves. Their level is purely based on the fact that whenever they are sighted, death is sure to follow. In the early days, many were rereleased and used as an early warning system in the wild. Only now are they being bred in captivity in the hopes of training them to hunt down disasters all over the world.

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I know a few of you might be confused why I went for owl over a moth, but in my research, most of the cases describe it as a bird and I felt like the shape fit an owl best. Hope you like it!