The crew
Mothman: The Point Pleasant Legend and Our Mothman Designs
Anxious, earnest and always leaning toward the nearest light.
The legend
Mothman comes from Point Pleasant, West Virginia. In November 1966 several people reported a tall, winged figure with large glowing red eyes near an old World War II munitions site outside town, and more sightings followed over the next year. Writer John Keel collected the reports in his 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies, which later became a film, and the legend has belonged to the town ever since.
Today Point Pleasant has a Mothman statue, a museum and a Mothman Festival every September. He is one of the best-known American cryptids, and one of the few who gets a parade.
In the RaccoonVerse
In the RaccoonVerse, Mothman is less of a warning and more of a coworker. He is lanky and fuzzy, with a cream ruff, feathery antennae and wings he wears like a cloak, and he cannot resist a light source: the glow of an espresso machine, a buzzing fluorescent tube, a lit-up sign on the overnight shift. That makes him a natural for night work, which is where the Raccoon usually finds him.
He runs the coffee bar after midnight, points the way for the night shift crew, clings to the lights in the backrooms and handles the abyss for a corporate goth. Funny rather than frightening, which is how we like our cryptids.
