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The West Virginia Ammunition Mounds look like sealed concrete igloos; graves pushed into the earth. Built to store explosives during World War II, the old TNT igloos now sit half-hidden in the woods north of Point Pleasant, where silence, contamination history, and cryptid folklore overlap. The site is most famous for its connection to the Mothman, the red-eyed winged figure reported around the former munitions area in the 1960s. Visitors describe the TNT Area as eerie and watchful, as if something still moves between the bunkers after the war, the workers, and the warnings have all faded. Today, paranormal visitors know the area as the TNT Area—a maze of overgrown roads, wetlands, ponds, ruined industrial traces, and earth-covered storage bunkers. Reports and folklore center on a heavy watched feeling, strange lights, shadowy movement near the bunkers, and most famously Mothman, the red-eyed winged entity reportedly seen around Point Pleasant beginning in 1966. Several accounts place early Mothman encounters near the abandoned munitions plant, and the legend’s connection to the Silver Bridge collapse has kept the site in the darker corners of American paranormal lore

The TNT Area was once part of the West Virginia Ordnance Works, a massive World War II industrial site near Point Pleasant that manufactured and stored TNT for the U.S. military. After the facility closed in 1945, portions of the land became McClintic Wildlife Management Area, while contaminated sections remained part of a long-term federal Superfund cleanup. The concrete igloos survived as remnants of wartime production: practical structures built for explosives, later reclaimed by trees, water, wildlife, and one of America’s most enduring cryptid legends