I need to thank that superchatter for reminding me about the Mothman thing in Virginia. I've known about it for forever and kept fucking forgetting to bring it up.
There's an old (and possibly partially true) legend about Chief Cornstalk cursing the land of Virginia with his dying breath. Along with the Mothman happenings, the Dead Man Walking tornadoes are often attributed to this curse. If you don't know anything about either one and enjoy spooky topics, I highly recommend looking into them. The Mothman is an absolute rabbit hole that I dearly with Knudsen had covered before he went insane and became an even scarier cryptid, while Dead Man Walking tornadoes are a real phenomenon named for the illusion their multiple vortex anatomy often causes.
TL;DR - Virginia is long cursed to produce monsters of varying kinds, but CWC is just crossing the line in comparison to the others.