[Cryptomundo]

A York woman discovered the following image in her photos from Nuremberg, Germany.

“I was taking lots of photos to show people where we’d been, but when I got back into the car I noticed there was something on this one,“ said Abbey, who is currently studying at Newcastle University “I just though, ‘What it that? That looks weird’, and couldn’t work out what it was.”

Abbey has shown the picture to friends and family, including a photography student, and nobody has yet come up with a clear explanation.

“I thought it looked like a cherub,” said Bev, Abbey’s mother.

“I also thought it looked a bit like a naked Buzz Lightyear toy, but could be a bee or an insect or something.”

Many have pointed out that the image look very much like West Virginia’s famous Mothman. Has the MM migrated? Or maybe, like the woman who photographed him, he was just on holiday?

[YorkPress.co.uk]

It’s happening again. This time, though, it’s all about the Mothman.

You have already been acquainted, albeit briefly, with the drill: I look up a popular American cryptid (e.g., the Mothman) on three foreign language Wikipedia pages and summarize the results (including the requisite [sic]-implied Google Translate nuggets). You try to match each of the three versions to the Wikipedia site on which you believe it originated.

If you want to. Otherwise, proceed straight to the answers. There’s no reward for right answers, good effort or savvy investment advice. And if there were, it would be something packed with asbestos and covered in blood, and nobody would want it.

(If you’re unfamiliar with the standard American telling of the Mothman, read this English-language Wikipedia article.

As a jazz-dancing midget in a Twin Peaks dream sequence once said, “Let’s rock!”:

Your Language Choices:

a.) Russian
b.) Japanese
c.) German

Mothman:

1. After repeatedly referring to Point Pleasant’s red-eyed antagonist as “man-moth,” this brief account of the flying humanoid’s spooky spree ends with several possible real-world explanations, including the popular notion that the man-moth was a misidentified bird and a theory that “in the 60-s test of a new type of weapon that causes hallucinations in humans.” The page’s final hypothesis, titled “hypothesis of genetic errors,” makes the lofty suggestion that the man-moth “appeared during the experiment in a secret lab, and ran all three of these creatures, which then allegedly capture.” The page also cites a supposed 1980 “New York Times” article that described three New Yorkers’ encounter with a creature similar to the man-moth. “Witnesses said that he had a hard face.”

2. This Wikipedia’s Mothman page admits there’s a possibility that, given the creature’s occasional linkage to cattle-mutilating aliens, the Mothman “may be a Vampire To act or he would be a Rite been invoked with animal blood.“ The page also recounts a thrilling Illinoisan Mothman encounter: “1951 being the correct description of the Mothman, was allegedly seen on Chicago, and this flying.“ One day later? The Chicago Earthquake. Coincidence? This Wikipedia article says, “No way!“ – “Allegedly wanted the Mothman help people to get out of their houses to safer outside.“ Chief among this page‘s rational explanations for the winged, bird-taloned monstrosity? Some kind of bear.

3. Chock full of familiar Mothman history and wholly unfamiliar possible explanations, this site lovingly refers to the creature as the “Mossman” (occasionally, “Mosman”) and explains that “Many of the witnesses, but did not see a moment Mossman, Mossman was face to remember is not much more, with glaring red eyes shine.” The page’s subsequent list of Mothman theories includes the “Curse of indigenous theory,” which claims that there’s an “interesting and conformity” between legends of the Thunderbird and Point Pleasant’s “area onceIndian, Shawnee TribeCurse”; and the “Pet Alien Theory,” which identifies the Mossman as “the idea of animals for experiments on Earth.”

ANSWERS AFTER THE JUMP!
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