Mothman

Mothman is the twelfth of the first season of the thriller horror docudrama found-footage television series Lost Tapes. It originally aired on Animal Planet on February 10th, 2009, that also included Skinwalker, and was directed by Douglas Segal. This remains to be the only episode, that took place in the late 1960's.

Plot
On December 18, 1967, following the collapse of the Silver Bridge in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, the FBI arrested a man named Roy Kirby who had filmed the collapse and events preceding it. They suspect him of being involved in the collapse.

They begin to question him, and it is revealed that his marriage has recently become a bit strained because of Roy's apparent obsession with the mothman. He claims that the mothman came to warn them all of the impending collapse, and that, two weeks prior, he heard something outside his home and saw the mothman outside his window, filming it long enough to catch a brief glimpse of its silhouette, though his wife thinks it was just a bird, having not seen the creature herself.

Roy attempts to describe the creature, but the agents do not believe him. He continued to see (and film) the creature as time progressed, but his wife does not believe him, instead attributing to vandalism in their house to mischievous children. The day before the collapse, Roy filmed himself at the site, claiming that something drew him to the bridge and thinking that the mothman is trying to tell him something (which he later concludes is the collapse of the bridge). He becomes increasingly exasperated as the agents refuse to believe him, and eventually reveals that he and his wife had an argument just prior to the collapse of the bridge.

On the day of the collapse, he managed to capture the mothman on tape in a tree near the bridge, though it is obscured by branches and the camera being out of focus, and shortly afterwards witnesses the collapse of the bridge. After all this, the agents still do not believe him, and news footage reveals that he rescued a woman from the river who also claims to have seen the creature. Following an extensive investigation by the FBI, no charges were brought against Roy and the collapse was officially attributed to a structural flaw. He returned home to his wife and vowed never to speak of the creature again, and the FBI confiscated his tapes. Following the collapse, there were no further sightings in the area, though a woman claimed to have seen it (or a similar creature) before the I-35 collapse.