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 |  |  | Point Pleasant - Mothman area ?
< on 9/21/2004 4:48 PM >
|  | | | Anyone ever been to this place? The discription is from the 1975 book "The Mothman Prophecies" by John A. Keel, so probably it has changed a lot since then:
High explosives were manufactured in Point Pleasant during World War II. Seven miles outside of town part of the 2,500-acre McClintic Wildlife Station, an animal preserve and bird sanctuary, was ripped up. Miles of underground tunnels were dug, linking camouflaged buildings and factories. One hundred "igloos" were scattered across the fields and woods—huge concrete domes with heavy steel doors where the finished explosives could be safely stored. Dirt and grass covered the domes so from the air the whole area had a harmless, pastoral appearance. A few scattered buildings linked by unimproved dirt roads with no suggestion of all the activity going on below ground. It looked like nothing more than what it was supposed to be, a haven for birds and animals in the Ohio River valley.
After the war most of the explosives were carted away. The factories were dismantled. The entrances and exits of the tunnels were plugged with thick concrete slabs. Some of the igloos were given to the Mason County government as possible storage vaults. They still stand empty. Others were sold to the Trojan-U.S. Powder Co. and the LFC Chemical Co. Some were leased to American Cyanamid.
The years washed away the camouflage and now the igloos stand out starkly on the landscape, row upon row of white mounds with deer and rabbits running between them. The old factory buildings are broken shells. The big generator plant near the entrance to the area still stands, its boilers rusting, its windows gone, water dripping shyly across its floor while the wind rattles the high steel catwalks and pigeons flutter in its rafters.
Local teen-agers use the decaying dirt roads for drag strips, and further back, where the woods thicken, lovers park in the deep shadows during the summer mating season. While the TNT area had witnessed many biological events over the years, it had no reputation as a haunted place. The local police cruised through it every evening, occasionally flashing their lights into a darkened car. Everyone raised in the area knows every corner of the place. Sportsmen clubs have built an archery range and picnic area there.
[last edit 9/21/2004 5:14 PM by uair01 - edited 1 times]
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MothMan
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Location: The Gem City
Gender: Male
If you didn't bring back any pictures with you then you obviously weren't there!
| | Re: Point Pleasant - Mothman area ?
<Reply # 1 on 9/21/2004 6:02 PM >
| | | | Yeah, the place sounds REAL cool. Not sure, but I believe the entire area has been leveled. I don't think there is anything left of the silos, etc. Google for some websites that talk about the MothMan and you should find some that describe the area as it looks today. The North Power Plant, where the Mothman was first sighted by Linda Scarberry in 1966, is now demolished.
See this for more info.
By the way, didja catch the flick with Richard Gere in it? Good movie. Hard to swallow, but entertaining.
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Turd Furgusen
  
Location: Charleston, WV
Gender: Male
I think marijuana is just nature's way of saying high!
| |  | | Re: Point Pleasant - Mothman area ?
<Reply # 2 on 9/21/2004 7:34 PM >
| | | | There is already a thread on this:
http://www.uer.ca/...d=1&threadid=13094
Everyone has a dark side, mines just a little more illuminated. |
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