From the Loch Ness monster to Bigfoot and the Abominable Snowman, the world is full of many legendary 'creatures' never proven to exist.
Now, a new series of Netflix's 'Unexplained Mysteries' is set to look at one of the most terrifying 'cryptids' of all – the Chicago Mothman.
Allegedly witnessed in Chicago and Point Pleasant, West Virginia, the horrifying figure is described as a 'human with wings' and massive glowing red eyes.
Linked to fatal bridge collapses, it's the subject of a 2002 film starring Richard Gere and Laura Linney – but what could the monster actually be?
MailOnline spoke to an academic and a 'cryptozoologist' – someone in the outlandish pseudoscientific field dedicated to finding such fantastical beasts – to find out the truth behind the Chicago Mothman.
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