It's the 2025 Mothman Festival, and many attendees are in costume, walking beneath giant inflatables ranging from Mothman — with filigreed wings and bulging red eyes — to the Ghostbusters Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. But its effect on Point Pleasant, its residents and economy — and its many fans — is undeniably real. Rich-Joseph Facun for NPR With the historic Lowe Hotel as a backdrop, attendees of the Mothman Festival 2025 congregate along Main Street. It's the first Mothman Festival for Maddux, who has wanted to come here since she was a kid, in the 1990s. Rich-Joseph Facun for NPR (Left) "Monster Bag" cotton candy is one of the sweet treats available at Mothman Festival 2025.