Thread: My first encounter with the paranormal: Mothman

I was about twelve years old when I had my first experience with anything supernatural. It was at church camp and we were playing capture the flag with water balloons. I was hunched down behind a log waiting for the opportune moment to take the flag. Then start sprinting like crazy back to my base. When out of nowhere. Something swooped down in front of me.

It had huge glowing red eyes, a gray body and what appeared to be wings that were almost bat like. As it stood up on its hind legs, I froze. This thing was no owl, despite some of reports people make. I had seen owls. Growing up in the hills of West Virginia, I had seen a lot of woodland creatures and owls don’t stand as tall as full grown adult. I have even worked with owls when I attended my first college. They had a nature center where I volunteered.

As it moved toward me, it seemed to be insubstantial. Almost as if reality itself were blurring around its form. Then a voice entered my mind that for some strange reason I knew was coming from it. It said my name. Needless to say I was unfrozen and ran like hell to the nearest camp counselor.

Later, I managed to put a name to its existence. The Mothman or Owlman or whatever else you would like to refer to them as. Trust me they have many names throughout history. Strangely, I have found a kinship with these beings, not a guardian type of kinship but an understanding. I know how that might sound but it’s the truth. Some people don’t believe me and at church camp they chalked it to the devil trying to steal my soul, which I knew was total bs.

Originally Posted by Cassandra

we have a paranormal section at our sister forums esoteric magick. i am a paranormal researcher and cleaner of haunted houses. so this is nothing new to me.

Have you ever had experience with the Mothman yourself? Just curious.

Interesting, although not related to the mothman I had a scary experience when I was 13, one night I was in bed at about 12-130am and I could sleep because I kept hearing a strange single tapping noise that seemed to be coming from my hallway, it was annoying more then anything but I thought nothing of it, eventually it turned into this indescribable noise of something like a snake hiss mixed in with a grunt moving extremely fast up and down with incredible speed, shitting myself and in terror I covered my self under my blanket and blocked my ears only to hear my door being knocked on... The lower half, I prayed In my heart surahs of protection i learnt from the Quran and hoped for the best ( I was still a Muslim when i was younger) and eventually the sound subsided, I had the courage to remove my blankets from over my head only to see a white 7 ft or so tall spirit thing standing next to my bed, I covered my head again continued praying while staining my bed sheets yellow until I fell asleep, the next morning I looked at my door and strange marks were on my door....

Whatever it was it has never come, i know it sounds lame but it was terrifying and definitely not something from this plane, btw I didn't piss myself literally LOL.

Originally Posted by SecretsOfTheHeavens

Interesting, although not related to the mothman I had a scary experience when I was 13, one night I was in bed at about 12-130am and I could sleep because I kept hearing a strange single tapping noise that seemed to be coming from my hallway, it was annoying more then anything but I thought nothing of it, eventually it turned into this indescribable noise of something like a snake hiss mixed in with a grunt moving extremely fast up and down with incredible speed, shitting myself and in terror I covered my self under my blanket and blocked my ears only to hear my door being knocked on... The lower half, I prayed In my heart surahs of protection i learnt from the Quran and hoped for the best ( I was still a Muslim when i was younger) and eventually the sound subsided, I had the courage to remove my blankets from over my head only to see a white 7 ft or so tall spirit thing standing next to my bed, I covered my head again continued praying while staining my bed sheets yellow until I fell asleep, the next morning I looked at my door and strange marks were on my door....

Whatever it was it has never come, i know it sounds lame but it was terrifying and definitely not something from this plane, btw I didn't piss myself literally LOL.

Can you give a description as to what it looked like. I probably know what it was. According to what you told me here it could be one of two things.

Jesus. Deliver me from the delusional.

Originally Posted by Iza

Jesus. Deliver me from the delusional.

Are you stating that I'm delusional.

I can't give you a description of what was outside my door because I didn't see, the white thing in my room was just a mass.

Lol im not delusional this is my first paranormal exp, if you do not believe us/ me it is up to you!

I've seen a cockatrice, Was only ten...

I've never heard of Mothman