January 31, 2015

“Swift Peter” – The Mothman

Mothman Prophecies

Paul Seaburn has a new article at Mysterious Universe that begins as follows:

“A recent story in Cryptozoology News caught my eye because it referred to a creature I had never heard of before. A woman in Mississippi claimed that in 2013 she saw a large creature with wings that scared her dogs and reminded her of the stories her grandparents told of a Mothman-like creature they called a Swift Peter.

“Marie (no last name) says she saw the creature near Arkabutla Lake in Tate County at around 11 pm on a night when a storm knocked out the electricity. Hearing dogs barking everywhere, she investigated and saw a shadow of something that was ‘large and could fly.’ She and her mother found a set of 7-toed footprints the next morning.”

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