August 8, 2025 • 12 mins
In Mexico, sightings of the Mothman have been happening for decades. Is the creature real?
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Speaker 1 (00:34):
Welcome to Mexico Unexplained, where we will explore the magic,
the mysteries and the miracles of Mexico. This series presents
information based partly on theory and conjecture. The podcaster's purpose
is to suggest some possible explanation, but not necessarily the
only ones to the subjects we will examine. Here is
your host, Robert Bitto.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Welcome and we bian beneath thos to episode number one
hundred and fifty three of Mexico Unexplained, where we examined
the magic, the mysteries and the miracles of Mexico. I'm
your host, Robert Pido. On the June ninth, twenty nineteen
episode of the Mexican Paranormal YouTube show, in Solita Experientia
(01:17):
or Unusual Experience in English, host Jonan Vargas played an
interesting audio track recorded in the wilderness outside of Mexicali.
(01:50):
The sounds were taped by paranormal investigator Estalin Baye Osuna
while he and others were searching for a creature spotted
in the remote area of northern Mexico. In an interview,
Osuna told Bargas that he had several testimonials from people
all over the border lands of gigantic flying humanoids that
(02:11):
have striking similarities to the Mothman, a mysterious winged creature
that first appeared in West Virginia in the mid nineteen sixties.
Roger and Linda Scarberry and Steve and Mary Mollette were
some of the first people to see the Mothman in
West Virginia. In November of nineteen sixty six, the local
(02:33):
news published the two couples account quote it is a
large gray creature whose eyes glowed red when the car's
headlights picked it up. They described it as a large
flying man with ten foot wings, following their car while
they were driving in an area outside of town known
as the T and T Area, the site of a
(02:55):
former World War II munitions plant endote. Other people in
West Virginia reported sightings of the creature coincidental to a
whole host of bad things happening around them, from missing
dogs to bad television reception. Locals blamed the mothman for
the December fifteenth, nineteen sixty seven, collapse of the Silver Bridge,
(03:19):
which caused the deaths of forty six people. The creature
was immortalized in the nineteen seventy five book the Mothman
prophecies by author John Keel. In the year two thousand
and two, a movie came out based loosely on the books,
starring Richard Gere and Laura Lenny. Some have argued that
(03:39):
the West Virginia mothman was really a gigantic crane, a
bird that somehow went off its migratory route. Other researchers
believe it is a true cryptid or legendary creature, previously
unknown and undescribed by science. Others point to a more
otherworldly or supernatural explanation for the creature. Could it be
(04:02):
a creature from another world or another dimension. Stories of
a mothman type creature in Mexico apparently date back several decades.
Sightings of beings like the one described in West Virginia
have been occurring in the northern part of the country
for quite some time. Some stories of the Mexican mothman,
(04:25):
also known in Spanish as elmbre Polia, have even been
carried by the mainstream Mexican media. On January eighth, twenty seventeen,
ABC Radio out of Mexicali, Baja California, Lavos de la
Frontera or in English, the Voice of the Borderlands interviewed
(04:45):
Ernesto Compa, who had several encounters with the Mexican mothman
dating back over twenty years. When he was a boy
living in the Colonia Orisava neighborhood of Mexicoli, Compa saw
a large wind creature fly over him at night and
land a short distance from him. The being was about
(05:06):
two meters tall, with very long leg and had red eyes.
The fur was either dark gray or black. The young
Ernesto Kampa could tell from the anatomy of the creature
that it was male. It was also slender, but very muscular.
He saw the same mothman type creature many years later
in the Santa Barabara neighborhood of Mexicoli, just north of
(05:29):
his boyhood home. The creature appeared very late at night,
when only the gas station and a pharmacy were open
and there were very few people out and about. Compa
and eight other witnesses saw the flying humanoid pass over
their area and then land upright near the neighborhood primary school.
(05:50):
The description was the same dark fur, red eyes, tall
athletic body, and a massive wingspan. Another encounter found found
in the local press happened in the Pacific coastal city
of Ensenada, in the Mexican state of Baja California in
the spring of twenty sixteen. Yessenia Busto's Brown was working
(06:12):
laid at a bar and was closing for the night.
She heard a rustling or flapping sound and looked out
the window to see a large winged figure standing on
top of a small shed located behind the bar. The
creature had glowing red eyes and looked squarely at her
before it spread its wings and flew away off into
(06:35):
the direction of the desert. To an interviewer, Yennia said,
at first, I thought it was a very large bird,
like a pelican, but it was too big and looked
too human. It had dark brown or gray fur covering
its whole body, and it had gigantic wings about four
meters across. It had legs and feet like a human.
(06:58):
It had hair all over its face, but it had
a bald forehead. I was alone at the bar and
no one else saw it. This was not a bird.
I thought it was the devil. Ysenia called her mother
the next day to tell her of her encounter. Yessenia's
mom told her that when she was a little girl
(07:19):
living on a small rancho in the state of Sonora
that a similar creature was reported there and even allegedly
attacked a young girl. This happened either in the late
nineteen sixties or early nineteen seventies in the northwest corner
of the state. Yessenia's mother, recalled. Paranormal investigator Stalin Vayeosuna
(07:43):
has tracked the Mexican mothman for the past few years
and said on the Insolita Experientia show that it is
not uncommon for the creature to attack children or to
carry away dogs or small livestock like baby sheep. Many
sightings of this being occur in rural areas and are
connected to missing livestock, the investigator claimed. Baye presented the
(08:08):
taped testimony of two more witnesses, two men known as
Alejandro and Javier, who worked as ranch hands at a
place called Cerro la Mesa just outside of Tijuana near
the Mexican border with the United States. The two ranch
hands described the creature as being three to four meters
tall and having the body of a human but covered
(08:29):
in fur and with the mane of a lion. When
the creature landed It crouched on the ground and moved
like a crab from side to side. Nothing seemed to
bother it, and even though it made eye contact with
Alejandro and Javier, the creature was not afraid of the
presence of humans. The two spoke to the local police,
(08:50):
and a police artist drew a small sketch of what
the two saw on a piece of yellow lined notebook paper.
Its head looked more like a bat's, but with a
human's body and larger feet. In Osuna's compilations of various
mothman sightings, he claimed that it is not uncommon for
witnesses to dream about the creature before seeing it in
(09:12):
real life. According to several researchers, the Ahido de San Lorenzo,
near the town of San Pedro in the state of Coahuila,
has been plagued by mothman sightings for at least two generations.
The locals believe that families of these creatures live in
the remote desert hills nearby. According to San Lorenzo resident
(09:35):
Sinuea Balenzuela, she describes the creature as quote a species
that is one point eight meters tall, which instead of feathers,
has fur its face is semi human, and at the
moment you see it, it paralyzes you. It has consciousness,
It has some mental power that makes you feel what
(09:56):
it wants you to feel. End quote. It's interesting to
note that Sinueo Balenzuela's first encounter with the Mexican version
of the mothman occurred at four o'clock in the afternoon
in broad daylight, and she was not the only witness
in one encounter. According to Balinzuela, someone shot at the
(10:17):
creature while it was flying away but missed. To date,
no body of the Mexican Mothman has ever been recovered. Additionally,
no fur or other physical evidence has been left behind
by the creature for scientists to study. All that exists
are eyewitness testimonies, some blurry photographs, and the sound recorded
(10:39):
by one paranormal investigator, which may or may not have
come from this mysterious flying humanoid. On his show about
the Mexican Mothman, johann and Bargas noted that it seems
like the range of the creature is limited to the
northern states of Mexico, as there have been few sightings
outside the seven Mexi Mexican states that border the United States.
(11:03):
These sightings seem to cover the same geographical area as
two other gigantic flying Mexican cryptids, the man bat and
the Litusa. For more information about the man bat of
northern Mexico, please see Mexico Unexplained episode number fifty one.
For more information about the sinister owl like creature known
(11:25):
as the Lichusa, please see Mexico Unexplained episode number twenty two.
Perhaps the territories of these creatures really don't overlap. Could
the mothman, the man bat, and the Litusa be the
same cryptid? Could they be variations in the same unknown
and previously undescribed species. Perhaps time will tell. Thank you
(11:50):
once again for listening to another episode of Mexico Unexplained.
Remember to like and subscribe to us on YouTube and
follow us on Twitter. Tell your friends by sharing a
new show with others. Please go to our website Mexico
and Explain dot com for references, illustrations, and for free
access to transcripts of past shows. Please visit Amazon dot
(12:10):
com purchase the book Mexico and Explain to get a
hard copy of The Magic, the Mysteries and the Miracles
of Mexico. We appreciate your kind attention. Once again, until
next time, Thank you and gracias.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Thank you for listening to another episode of Mexico Unexplained
with host Robert Bitto. For show summary, relevant links, and commentary,
please check out our website at Mexicouanexplained dot com, Like
us on Facebook and be a part of the conversation.
Addie on sant Haste la Vista
Welcome to Mexico Unexplained, where we will explore the magic,
the mysteries and the miracles of Mexico. This series presents
information based partly on theory and conjecture. The podcaster's purpose
is to suggest some possible explanation, but not necessarily the
only ones to the subjects we will examine. Here is
your host, Robert Bitto.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Welcome and we bian beneath thos to episode number one
hundred and fifty three of Mexico Unexplained, where we examined
the magic, the mysteries and the miracles of Mexico. I'm
your host, Robert Pido. On the June ninth, twenty nineteen
episode of the Mexican Paranormal YouTube show, in Solita Experientia
(01:17):
or Unusual Experience in English, host Jonan Vargas played an
interesting audio track recorded in the wilderness outside of Mexicali.
(01:50):
The sounds were taped by paranormal investigator Estalin Baye Osuna
while he and others were searching for a creature spotted
in the remote area of northern Mexico. In an interview,
Osuna told Bargas that he had several testimonials from people
all over the border lands of gigantic flying humanoids that
(02:11):
have striking similarities to the Mothman, a mysterious winged creature
that first appeared in West Virginia in the mid nineteen sixties.
Roger and Linda Scarberry and Steve and Mary Mollette were
some of the first people to see the Mothman in
West Virginia. In November of nineteen sixty six, the local
(02:33):
news published the two couples account quote it is a
large gray creature whose eyes glowed red when the car's
headlights picked it up. They described it as a large
flying man with ten foot wings, following their car while
they were driving in an area outside of town known
as the T and T Area, the site of a
(02:55):
former World War II munitions plant endote. Other people in
West Virginia reported sightings of the creature coincidental to a
whole host of bad things happening around them, from missing
dogs to bad television reception. Locals blamed the mothman for
the December fifteenth, nineteen sixty seven, collapse of the Silver Bridge,
(03:19):
which caused the deaths of forty six people. The creature
was immortalized in the nineteen seventy five book the Mothman
prophecies by author John Keel. In the year two thousand
and two, a movie came out based loosely on the books,
starring Richard Gere and Laura Lenny. Some have argued that
(03:39):
the West Virginia mothman was really a gigantic crane, a
bird that somehow went off its migratory route. Other researchers
believe it is a true cryptid or legendary creature, previously
unknown and undescribed by science. Others point to a more
otherworldly or supernatural explanation for the creature. Could it be
(04:02):
a creature from another world or another dimension. Stories of
a mothman type creature in Mexico apparently date back several decades.
Sightings of beings like the one described in West Virginia
have been occurring in the northern part of the country
for quite some time. Some stories of the Mexican mothman,
(04:25):
also known in Spanish as elmbre Polia, have even been
carried by the mainstream Mexican media. On January eighth, twenty seventeen,
ABC Radio out of Mexicali, Baja California, Lavos de la
Frontera or in English, the Voice of the Borderlands interviewed
(04:45):
Ernesto Compa, who had several encounters with the Mexican mothman
dating back over twenty years. When he was a boy
living in the Colonia Orisava neighborhood of Mexicoli, Compa saw
a large wind creature fly over him at night and
land a short distance from him. The being was about
(05:06):
two meters tall, with very long leg and had red eyes.
The fur was either dark gray or black. The young
Ernesto Kampa could tell from the anatomy of the creature
that it was male. It was also slender, but very muscular.
He saw the same mothman type creature many years later
in the Santa Barabara neighborhood of Mexicoli, just north of
(05:29):
his boyhood home. The creature appeared very late at night,
when only the gas station and a pharmacy were open
and there were very few people out and about. Compa
and eight other witnesses saw the flying humanoid pass over
their area and then land upright near the neighborhood primary school.
(05:50):
The description was the same dark fur, red eyes, tall
athletic body, and a massive wingspan. Another encounter found found
in the local press happened in the Pacific coastal city
of Ensenada, in the Mexican state of Baja California in
the spring of twenty sixteen. Yessenia Busto's Brown was working
(06:12):
laid at a bar and was closing for the night.
She heard a rustling or flapping sound and looked out
the window to see a large winged figure standing on
top of a small shed located behind the bar. The
creature had glowing red eyes and looked squarely at her
before it spread its wings and flew away off into
(06:35):
the direction of the desert. To an interviewer, Yennia said,
at first, I thought it was a very large bird,
like a pelican, but it was too big and looked
too human. It had dark brown or gray fur covering
its whole body, and it had gigantic wings about four
meters across. It had legs and feet like a human.
(06:58):
It had hair all over its face, but it had
a bald forehead. I was alone at the bar and
no one else saw it. This was not a bird.
I thought it was the devil. Ysenia called her mother
the next day to tell her of her encounter. Yessenia's
mom told her that when she was a little girl
(07:19):
living on a small rancho in the state of Sonora
that a similar creature was reported there and even allegedly
attacked a young girl. This happened either in the late
nineteen sixties or early nineteen seventies in the northwest corner
of the state. Yessenia's mother, recalled. Paranormal investigator Stalin Vayeosuna
(07:43):
has tracked the Mexican mothman for the past few years
and said on the Insolita Experientia show that it is
not uncommon for the creature to attack children or to
carry away dogs or small livestock like baby sheep. Many
sightings of this being occur in rural areas and are
connected to missing livestock, the investigator claimed. Baye presented the
(08:08):
taped testimony of two more witnesses, two men known as
Alejandro and Javier, who worked as ranch hands at a
place called Cerro la Mesa just outside of Tijuana near
the Mexican border with the United States. The two ranch
hands described the creature as being three to four meters
tall and having the body of a human but covered
(08:29):
in fur and with the mane of a lion. When
the creature landed It crouched on the ground and moved
like a crab from side to side. Nothing seemed to
bother it, and even though it made eye contact with
Alejandro and Javier, the creature was not afraid of the
presence of humans. The two spoke to the local police,
(08:50):
and a police artist drew a small sketch of what
the two saw on a piece of yellow lined notebook paper.
Its head looked more like a bat's, but with a
human's body and larger feet. In Osuna's compilations of various
mothman sightings, he claimed that it is not uncommon for
witnesses to dream about the creature before seeing it in
(09:12):
real life. According to several researchers, the Ahido de San Lorenzo,
near the town of San Pedro in the state of Coahuila,
has been plagued by mothman sightings for at least two generations.
The locals believe that families of these creatures live in
the remote desert hills nearby. According to San Lorenzo resident
(09:35):
Sinuea Balenzuela, she describes the creature as quote a species
that is one point eight meters tall, which instead of feathers,
has fur its face is semi human, and at the
moment you see it, it paralyzes you. It has consciousness,
It has some mental power that makes you feel what
(09:56):
it wants you to feel. End quote. It's interesting to
note that Sinueo Balenzuela's first encounter with the Mexican version
of the mothman occurred at four o'clock in the afternoon
in broad daylight, and she was not the only witness
in one encounter. According to Balinzuela, someone shot at the
(10:17):
creature while it was flying away but missed. To date,
no body of the Mexican Mothman has ever been recovered. Additionally,
no fur or other physical evidence has been left behind
by the creature for scientists to study. All that exists
are eyewitness testimonies, some blurry photographs, and the sound recorded
(10:39):
by one paranormal investigator, which may or may not have
come from this mysterious flying humanoid. On his show about
the Mexican Mothman, johann and Bargas noted that it seems
like the range of the creature is limited to the
northern states of Mexico, as there have been few sightings
outside the seven Mexi Mexican states that border the United States.
(11:03):
These sightings seem to cover the same geographical area as
two other gigantic flying Mexican cryptids, the man bat and
the Litusa. For more information about the man bat of
northern Mexico, please see Mexico Unexplained episode number fifty one.
For more information about the sinister owl like creature known
(11:25):
as the Lichusa, please see Mexico Unexplained episode number twenty two.
Perhaps the territories of these creatures really don't overlap. Could
the mothman, the man bat, and the Litusa be the
same cryptid? Could they be variations in the same unknown
and previously undescribed species. Perhaps time will tell. Thank you
(11:50):
once again for listening to another episode of Mexico Unexplained.
Remember to like and subscribe to us on YouTube and
follow us on Twitter. Tell your friends by sharing a
new show with others. Please go to our website Mexico
and Explain dot com for references, illustrations, and for free
access to transcripts of past shows. Please visit Amazon dot
(12:10):
com purchase the book Mexico and Explain to get a
hard copy of The Magic, the Mysteries and the Miracles
of Mexico. We appreciate your kind attention. Once again, until
next time, Thank you and gracias.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Thank you for listening to another episode of Mexico Unexplained
with host Robert Bitto. For show summary, relevant links, and commentary,
please check out our website at Mexicouanexplained dot com, Like
us on Facebook and be a part of the conversation.
Addie on sant Haste la Vista
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