Reece was a fisherman living in the small community of Addison, West Virginia, in the early 1970s. Most days, you could find him out on the Ohio River in his old boat, working the water for a good catch. Like everyone else, he’d heard the strange stories coming from nearby Point Pleasant back in ’66…
In April 1967, I was a teenager living in Pomeroy, Ohio, right across the river from Mason, West Virginia, about 20 miles north of Point Pleasant, where the Mothman legend began. Growing up in the 1960s, life was laid-back, and kids like me had the freedom to explore. The previous November, stories of a winged…
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