Keeping Tabs Weekly, Editor’s Note, 2025: In the spring of 2024, Keeping Tabs Weekly investigative reporter Kami Robertson came across a police report of a violent encounter between “a mythical figure,” the so-called Mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and an individual who Chicago’s Mt. Sainai Hospital identified as twenty-one-year-old Romeo Vincenzo. Kami then traced Vincenzo’s known movements through credit card, ATM, and cell phone records to dovetail his travels with other reports of so-called Mothman sightings across Eastern and Central US.
“Even if we consider Mothman stories to be imaginative fiction,” Kami wrote in her notes in March 2024, “what makes these reports especially weird is that the Mothman is exclusive to West Virginia sightings. For this creature to be identified in Washington D.C. or Indianapolis, Indiana, is like someone saying they saw the Loch Ness Monster in Lake Michigan. Why would anyone do this?”
Keeping Tabs Weekly’s managing editor last year elected to spike the potential article as “insufficiently researched,” and so Kami’s notes have been filed since then. However, with her sudden disappearance last month, those notes and her later filings have been reviewed, and a separate investigative team has come to a disturbing conclusion: Kami likely had a confrontation with someone impersonating the Mothman, presumably the same individual who pursued and ultimately attacked Romeo Vincenzo. Kami was last seen on security footage taken from the parking garage of her apartment complex in St. Louis, Missouri, where a “sizable shadow, one that seemed to be wearing a costume with feathers” blocked the camera and blackened the garage’s fluorescent safety lighting, according to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department official report of the incident. When the recording was restored, Kami was gone, though her purse, phone, and other personal belongings were recovered from her car.
“We believe Ms. Robertson could have been involved with a criminal organization and that she was possibly holding an illicit substance for one of the group’s members,” SLMPD said. “Her email records indicate she was in contact with one Romeo Vincenzo and had arranged a meeting with him the day before her disappearance. We suspect either Vincenzo himself or someone seeking Vincenzo confronted Ms. Robertson in an attempt to recover whatever Vincenzo passed to her during their meeting.”
Below are select excerpts from Kami Robertson’s notes on Romeo Vincenzo. Anyone with knowledge of her whereabouts are encouraged to reach out to their local law enforcement or contact the Keeping Tab Weekly’s newsroom.
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A dude named Romeo Vincenzo got the snot beat out of him by what a witness called “a big dude that kind of looked like a moth.” Yeah, that’s about right. But only one witness? There were forty people around that night! I guess you see what you wanna see. The Mothman got Vincenzo coming out of a bar and grill called Billy Goat Tavern on Lower Michigan Ave. Witness said they fought over a book, so I guess Mothman was trying to steal it from him?? Was it a copy of Lord of the Flies? The Very Hungry Caterpillar? Haha! In any case, Romeo kept ahold of it.
This isn’t the first time I’ve heard about Mothman showing up in weird places in the last couple of months, but I thought it was a WV legend. Gonna dig into this one.
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Okay, so I was right. Mothman showed up in Indianapolis outside the rooftop bar at the Hotel Indy, according to a drunk patron. He called it “the Butterfly Guy.” And who was a guest at the Hotel Indy? Romeo minus Juliet. I’m positive Romeo was in the bar. So, just a short while before they got into it in Chicago, this Mothman impersonator tried to get Romeo Vinchenzo in Indiana. Is this a stalker? A MYTHICAL stalker?? What am I onto here?
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A US representative (who sure as hell isn’t going on the record with a KTW reporter) claims she saw Mothman chasing a young man down the sidewalk outside The Monocle on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. She called it “Birdman,” and she was quick to tell me she had a “lot of respect for that movie’s ending,” but I just assumed she meant Mothman because Romeo was at The Monocle that night, trying to get autographs out of a couple of hammered senators. But that ended when he bolting out of the men’s room with a book under his arm and scratch marks all over his arms and face.
Something is clearly out to get Romeo Vincenzo and has been for quite a while. I might be making a mistake to keep backtracking this story down some dark alley.
I also have two observations to make at this point: First, Romeo has clearly just turned twenty-one because this kid spends WAY too much time in bars. Second, I’m starting to think he took something from Mothman or whatever it is, and Mothman wants it back. Maybe it’s the book. I remember making jokes about a book Romeo had on him in Chicago, but it’s not funny anymore. Maybe the book is the equivalent of a holy scripture? That would explain the fanaticism.
In the end, I think Romeo Vinchenzo crossed someone or something, maybe stole something from it, and it’s been trying to kill him ever since. So, I’m going back to where I think this all began.
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I found it. Romeo poked the wasp’s nest in West Virginia, the Mothman’s stomping grounds. He celebrated his birthday—the big twenty-one—at the local Moose Lodge in Point Pleasant. After four or five appletinis, he drunkenly announced he was going to go out and “map the Mothman” and stumbled out of the lodge. None of the people I talked to who were there have any idea what that meant, but whatever it was, it clearly was not something the Mothman wanted to have happen to it. (I’m not so sure I’d like being “mapped” either; it sounds kinky or illegal or both.)
I think he must have succeeded—and now, whatever he “mapped” out in those woods is mapping him back.
From West Virginia to Washington D.C. to Indianapolis to Chicago. Where is this going to end?
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So, I tracked down an email for Romeo Vincenzo from his mother, who is worried about him to no end, and I’ve reached out to him. I offered him some cash for his story. Maybe I can get him to show me whatever it is he’s been chased all over creation for. Did he steal a book from the Mothman? Did he “map” it? What’s it going to take to make this all stop?
I’m absolutely positive this is a good story, but I don’t know if it’s a story I should try to tell anymore.
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Romeo responded and says he’s here, in St. Louis, where I live. He says he’s got a story to tell me about the thing that’s following him, and he has a “card” to prove what he’s going to tell me is true. We’re meeting tomorrow night.
If he took a card from the Mothman, I’m going to tell him to give it back before something bad happens to him.
But I want to see it first.
God, I hope that’s not a mistake.
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Kami Robertson’s notes end here.
