According to popular lore, the Mothman is (or was) a winged creature with glowing red eyes that haunted the farmland along the Ohio River near Point Pleasant, West Virginia. However, the encounter alleged at Point Pleasant followed on the heels of a similar strange report of a “flying man” seen in a graveyard along the Elk River near Clendenin, West Virginia, fifty miles away. Whether or not the sighting was that of the Mothman or a native flying squirrel spooked out of its treetop nest, no exploration of the Mothman in West Virginia would be entirely complete without a visit to the Koontz Cemetery at Clendenin.