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Mothman fever descends on West Virgina town

By Bill Chappell
Published September 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM CDT

Locals and visitors celebrate the sighting of a red-eyed creature first spotted nearly sixty years ago.

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Bill Chappell is a writer and editor on the News Desk in the heart of NPR's newsroom in Washington, D.C.
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