Another Mothman

This one's a painting—well, a photo of a painting—created and shared with me by EDILW reader and frequent commenter, David Rhay Patty.

His Mothman certainly fits the witness descriptions of the creature, and has has a ghost-like, not-quite-there quality to it. In this image, Mothman seems to be abandoning the carcass of a dog as a car approaches, sort of filling in the blanks between a couple of sightings (The farmer whose German shepherd Bandit disappeared after it chased a pair of big, red, reflector-like eyes into a field, the dead dog on the side of the road that the couples in the first publicized Mothman sighting saw as they sped into town to seek the police).

Here's a sketch Patty did while preparing for the painting:

Obviously the sketch is much more abstracted, but I like the cloud-like quality of this one, with the specks of black informing the shape, as if Mothman is a composite entity formed by a swarm of regular-sized moths.