"Where History Meets Mystery" - Mothman mural in Point Pleasant, WV, USA
The McClintic Wildlife Management Area, "home" of the Mothman entity, is located in Mason County, West Virginia. Before this area was a Wildlife Management Area, it was home to the West Virginia Ordnance Works (WVOW).
WVOW had the capacity to manufacture up to a staggering 720,000 lbs. of TNT daily between 1942-1945, in support of the World War effort. WVOW was one of 23 new American plants cranking out massive amounts of TNT. Historical reports mention that the WVOV never fully realized its awesome production potential, probably reaching a peak of around 500,000 lbs. of TNT per day.
"War is Hell" - Sulfur melting pits and sulfur furnaces were created at WVOW
The May 15, 1942 edition of The Jackson Herald: Hundreds of area graves were disturbed in the process of creating the explosive landscape of the West Virginia Ordnance Works.
The not-so-final resting place of "Fighting" Chief Cornstalk was among the graves that were disturbed for the creation of the WVOW. Cornstalk was a main antagonist in 1774's Battle of Point Pleasant, a bloody and brutal conflict between Native Americans and Virginia Militiamen.
Note: Adena tribes in ancient West Virginia were known to have created "clusters' of burial mounds and circular earthworks.
The West Virginia Ordnance Works was also known locally as "The TNT Area". Approximately 100 TNT storage "igloos" were clustered on the premises. Each concrete igloo was camouflaged with a layer of earth, the diameter of each storage igloo is 45 feet. These storage magazines for explosives bear a remarkable resemblance to Native American burial mounds.
A bird's eye view of what the TNT Area looks like in recent times.
We are told these storage igloos were "designed not to be noticed from the air". This certainly makes sense. Could the design also have been some kind of inside joke or tip of the cap to the history of the area? Could anything else be at play with the decision to create a cluster of 'mounds' within the TNT area?
After World War II, the West Virginia Ordnance Works became a surplus area, some territory dedicated to private concerns, the rest claimed by Mason County. The area also served as a recreation spot for local adults and teenagers to explore, hunt and fish. Throughout the 50s and most of the 60s the area had a relatively low profile. On November 15 of 1966, an incident at the TNT Area would soon become first regional and then national news.
The sighting of a man-sized , flying humanoid creature was witnessed by four people in the TNT Area on November 15, 1966. Interestingly, there were other additional sightings of a flying, man-sized entity in the days leading up to the 15th. When the Scarberrys and Malletttes reported their encounter to law enforcement it became headline news, inspiring other witnesses to come forward with their recent experiences.
Roger Scarberry's eyewitness description of the creature he encountered.
The "Mothman" moniker was applied to the cryptid creature due to the popularity of the hit TV show "Batman" that was a bonafide pop-culture smash in 1966. The "masked" Batman character, along with The Lone Ranger and Zorro, are often observed in association with 'black' or masked intelligence operations.
Exactly 13 months of similar "Mothman" sightings and other high strangeness occurred in the Point Pleasant area, culminating in the tragic collapse of the Silver Bridge on December 15, 1967, which claimed 46 lives and devastated the local community.
Author/researcher John Keel took an exceptional interest in the "Mothman" phenomenon. Keel spent many hours interviewing residents of Point Pleasant and was the author of "Strange Creatures From Time And Space" and the "The Mothman Prophecies".
THE OCCULT TECHNOLOGY OF MOTHMAN REVEALED ?
Illustrations by Willoughby depicting the copper ceremonial headdress/apparatus worn by a Hopewell shaman, excavated from a burial mound. Copper plates cover the head, and also extend over the ears, sometimes referred to as "deer ears" by researchers. A remarkable find was a tube laying near the shaman's head. The tube was fashioned from a human femur bone. The standard explanation for the carved imagery on this bone-tube, is that it depicts the head of the buried shaman. I believe that it may, but it also seems to simultaneously illustrate a humanoid figure bearing an uncanny resemblance to eyewitness descriptions of the Mothman entity.
Elements of the shamanic headdress configuration , enabling the shaman to serve as psychopomp
Tube made from section of a human femur beside head of shaman skeleton excavated from Great Mound, Hopewell Group, Ohio.
I can certainly accept that this art-schematic depicts elements of the ceremonial headgear worn by a shaman. It also might simultaneously depict the goal of what the shaman was striving to communicate with or confront. The architecture of the 'shaman's face' here is confusing, the mouth seems misplaced, the copper 'ears' are too long in proportion to the 'body' and seem to take on the appearance of wings. What are perhaps supposed to be the shaman's arms are curiously undefined and seem fused to the body.
I suggest that this is a depiction of a shaman transforming into a nature spirit or spiritual entity of some kind.
Eyewitness descriptions of Mothman by the Scarberrys match the carvings on the shamanic ritual device carved from human bone.
It may be a temptation for a 21st Century mind to make the case that the carved depictions on the bone tube simply illustrate a shaman's head with antlered headdress. A person might even make the bold claim that "this was the best likeness a primitive artist could achieve". This would be false, as there are many examples of Adena/Hopewell carvings that show ancient artists and craftsmen capably rendering figures with remarkable accuracy, proportion and scale when they wanted to. A significant example of this is the Wray Figurine, which also depicts a human with headdress/shamanic motif:
The tube carved from a leg bone may point to occult technologies used by other ancient civilizations, whose shamans strove to communicate with unseen forces. Below is an illustration of an ancestor God or Patron, growing from the leg of the Mayan God K'awiil:
Burial Mound technology via the "femur bone tube" may have a correlation to Egyptian funerary magic. A calf's leg "held to the lips" painted on coffins was a symbolic step in Egyptian "Opening of the Mouth" ceremonies:
The foreleg of Seth was the instrument with which Seth killed Osiris.
Leg as sacred relic
Is it possible that 'unseen forces' were beckoned by someone in or near the TNT Area? Is it too far a stretch to imagine that maybe in addition to standard weaponry production, other technologies are sometimes employed by The United States (and Others) in attempt to gain an advantage over adversaries?
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