Woodrow Derenberger was a sewing machine salesman who experienced a profound and highly publicized contact event near Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1966. He claimed an anomalous craft intercepted his vehicle on the highway, and a human-looking entity named 'Indrid Cold' communicated with him telepathically. Derenberger's key contribution is his deeply detailed, lifelong narrative of ongoing contact with these entities, which heavily intertwined with the broader Mothman flap of th
Woodrow Derenberger was a sewing machine salesman who experienced a profound and highly publicized contact event near Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1966. He claimed an anomalous craft intercepted his vehicle on the highway, and a human-looking entity named 'Indrid Cold' communicated with him telepathically. Derenberger's key contribution is his deeply detailed, lifelong narrative of ongoing contact with these entities, which heavily intertwined with the broader Mothman flap of the region. He authored a book describing the extraterrestrial society from which Cold originated, which generated significant public fascination. His case is a primary example of the contactee phenomenon shifting into highly complex, prolonged psychological interactions.