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Sorry about the huge graphics, but some photos are worth it. In no particular order . . .
Not the silver bridge! It fell down, but there's Point Pleasant in the background.
Yikes. Hope this bridge is a good one.
Chief Cornstalk supposedly cursed the town for 200 years when he was unjustly killed. Some blame the Mothman on him.
A view downtown from the Silver Bridge Memorial. Too bad the movie wasn't filmed here.
The infamous flood wall. The Mothman was sited sitting on it - that never showed up in the movie. Just down here was where the Silver Bridge used to be.
A view looking from PP toward the bridge out of town.
Where the bridge would've spanned the Ohio river - check out the barge.
We found it odd that city council and the mayor would put their names on a plaque above the victim's names on the bricks below. 46 dead. Some townsfolk reported seeing mysterious lights around the bridge supports before it fell, and men-in-black supposedly were on the banks after.
The hayride through the TNT area
Check out the orbs - not dust, it was muddy.
CBS national news was there. It was on Sunday morning 9/29/03
In the background is a guy dressed like the Mothman, but note the orb in the lower left.
The line. By pure luck we ended up being in the front.
In the distance beyond the bleachers is the site of the old power plant where the sighting first took place. The county has turned it into a nature preserve and wouldn't allow the hayride to go there :-(
Movie props.
Harris' Steakhouse. The movie restaurant was patterned after this place. You gotta' eat here! Super friendly people.
The man in white is John Keel. He's the reporter that wrote "The Mothman Prophecies". If you've read it you can guess why he's dressed in white.
Hmmm, doesn't look a thing like Richard Geer.
Haunted, so they say.
Everyone needs a 1500 lb stainless steel Mothman statue in their backyard, eh?
More movie props.
The local bank manager on the left, and a strange woman that kept jumping in my photos on the right. Sorry, honey your not really that strange, but then again you did go to a Mothman festival with me. Nice lady, wish I'd gotten her name - the bank manager that is. I already know my wife's name. (Celesty kindly emailed me the name: Virginia "Jenny' Shaw of the Peoples Bank located at 421 Main Street Point Pleasant, WV --- Thanks -- May 13th, 2005)
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