The Moth Man. Norway

Very amazing story was published in may 1992, the famous American tabloid "Weekly World News". The newspaper was extremely popular due to the fact that in its pages was told so many stories about the supernatural and unexplained phenomena. Due to the fact that to prove the reality of such paranormalen journalists sometimes could not were edition of skeptically and dismissively called it "yellow journalism".

However, from this story not in a hurry to dismiss, as from the obvious fiction and fake. Many prominent cryptozoologists felt that the events described below could take place in reality. Too plausible given the story to outright forgeries. Moreover, there is indirect scientific evidence that all this happened actually. Mysterious story gained a kind of cult status and was many times reprinted and added to various collections and encyclopedias on monsters.

So, the staff of "Weekly World News" wrote that in January 1992, the moth of colossal proportions, which had a wingspan of at least 10 meters, flew up in the night to the existing coastal lighthouse and burned it. "As the moth hit the light of a street lamp," analogy is the only witness to the startling incident. It happened near the Norwegian city of Bodø in the region of Salten in the Arctic circle.

Carl Fridenson working in 90-e years the caretaker of this lighthouse, first took a huge sci-Fi monster of the plane. When Norway realized that this is no aircraft, and the flying living creature of unimaginable size, the man was struck with excessive terror, not knowing what to think.

Of course, it could not be a plane, told reporters anxious to witness. The plane would not flutter its wings and to swing from side to side in the spotlight. But my brain just couldn't admit that it was a moth with a wingspan like an airplane".

Friedensen told me that was the moment at the foot of the tower. From the darkness of the night suddenly saw a giant winged creature began furiously to rush in the light of the lighthouse. In the end, a monstrous moth crashed into an electric radiator. The blow was so strong that the lighthouse seemed as if there was an intense quake, and now an earthquake hit. Carl hurried up the spiral staircase.

What he saw there literally shocked Norwegian. Cryptid who broke the powerful glass Fresnel lens, turned on the heated electrodes and was burned alive, stop in charred dust. The stench was so strong and pungent that our hero almost lost consciousness.

It was like a scene from a horror movie. And the stench was unbearable. I held my breath and had to shoot back down into the fresh air, recalls Fridenson.

The lighthouse, of course, quickly repaired and cleansed from the remains of the creature. However, Charles managed to take samples of charred monster and sent them to entomologists. The researchers conducted a thorough analysis of the tissues and concluded that they in fact belonged to an unknown representative of the order Lepidoptera. However, to determine what exactly was not possible. After hearing the story of Fridenson, surprised scientists have suggested that the moth flew here from the virgin forests of South America, which have not yet been fully explored. Perhaps these strange creatures live in the jungle, where no foot of man.

There are other interesting versions of the origin of cryptid. Some experts believe that the monstrous moth was a mutant. Others assume that we are talking about a creature from a parallel world - about the legendary man-moth. According to the third, it was the representative of extraterrestrial civilizations, or even organic "flying saucer" aliens. Fourth tend to believe that the reason the secret government experiments on human beings. In a word, interesting theories have a car and a small truck, but to say anything with precision is impossible. Maybe someday in Europe again will be such a monster, and this time it will manage to catch alive?

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