Hello once again R. L. Stein Story Club members.

I'm Ivy. You're mostly ghostly host and caretaker of those strange and spooky tales from the hidden vault of R.L. Stein.

Today is another chilling tale.

This eerie tale story club members might make you shut the doors and turn on all the lights.

It's one I call Flight of the Moth Man.

In Charleston and Point Pleasant West Virginia in the mid-1960s, a bizarre creature was spotted.

Eyewitnesses described it as man-sized with glowing red eyes and the gossamer wings of a moth.

It also shrieked an unusual, ear-splitting cry that could be heard from a mile away.

Others claim to see this being lifting objects as heavy as cars.

The creature, later dubbed the Moth Man, was first seen on the evening of November

12, 1966, by two couples driving out by an abandoned World War II explosive storage igloo.

As they approached the area, they observed two red lights glaring by the ground's gates.

They discovered that the lights were the glowing red eyes of a large

being, shaped like a man but bigger, maybe six and a half or seven feet tall, with big wings

folded against its back, according to one of the witnesses. Terrified, they sped off down the road

where the creature supposedly chased their car at speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour. The frightened couple sped off down the road, where the creature supposedly chased to their car at speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour.

The frightened couple sped to the nearest police station to describe the alarming event they witnessed.

Days later, multiple eyewitnesses described a similar creature,

a large dark form with glowing eyes and a wide wingspan lurking around the abandoned explosives factory.

A year later, on December 15, 1967, the mothman was sighted again just before the collapse of the silver bridge during rush hour traffic, where 46 people died.

The silver bridge, named for its aluminum paint, was a suspension bridge that

connected Point Pleasant to the state of Ohio over the Ohio River. The collapse of the bridge,

...