December 06, 2023

A Bridge Too Far: The Mothman Visits Point Pleasant

44 minutes

EPISODE 99 | A Bridge Too Far: The Mothman Visits Point Pleasant

The strange events of 1966-1967 in and around Point Pleasant, West Virginia gave rise to one of America's most enduring legends - the Mothman. It made the headlines and also the careers of Gray Barker and John Keel. But it was more than just a large winged creature. There were visits from the Men in Black, UFOs aplenty, poltergeists and other high weirdness.

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SECTIONS

02:52 - I'm a Believer - A pair of couples see something; cranes, owls and shitepokes; Mary Hyre writes it up, Mothman is named

07:00 - Cold Sweat - Woodrow Derenberger meets Indrid Cold, Newell Partridge has his TV watching interrupted (plus his dog Bandit goes missing), three women see a demon, Mary Hyre has an odd visitor, Donna Kenmore and Norma Ashley see a pendulum, later Kenmore is also kidnapped

15:30 - Paperback Writers - Gray Barker and John Keel arrive, with ideas of their own; they get more info about Indrid Cold and friends, a nudist trip to Lanulos

23:04 - Strange Days - The TNT area becomes party central, the town swells in population, local oddballs William and Martha Bateman invent TV for angels

25:42 - The Men in Black are everywhere, so are UFOs, so is Mothman; the sense of doom builds

29:28 - 13 Steps Lead Down - The Silver Bridge collapses, Mothman Math

35:43 - Knock on Wood - Mothman as the Freiberg Shrieker and Black Bird of Chernobyl, Mothman hits the road

40:25 - Where History Meets Mystery - the Mothman Museum, the Mothman Statue, the Mothcam, the Mothman car wash, the Mothman Festival and more; Keel really got a Mothman boost

Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

The Notorious M.I.B. episode

A View to Vril episode (Valiant Thor bit at 21:29)

The Mothman Wiki

The Mothman Cometh on the Skeptoid Podcast

Mothman on Cryptid Wiki

Folk Tale Turned Urban Legend: Mothman (Pt 1)

The True Story Behind The Legendary Mothman Said To Terrorize West Virginia on All That's Interesting

The true origin of the Mothman legend article by Justin Mills

Misignwa Legend of Mothman

Thunderbird Cryptid: Bird with a 70ft Wingspan

The Untold Truth of Mothman on Grunge

Three facts about West Virginia's Mothman legend few know on West Virginia Explorer

Local Lore: Woodrow Derenberger and the Legend of Indrid Cold on The Daily Yonder

Indrid Cold on Cryptid Wiki

Indrid Cold aka The Smiling Man on Villains Wiki

The True Story Behind the Mothman of West Virginia on US Ghost Adventures

10 Fascinating Things You May Not Know about the Mothman

The Silver Bridge And The Men In Black! on Rip Jagger's Dojo

When the Silver Bridge Came Crashing Down in Popular Mechanics

Mothman: The Hidden Truth paper

Mothman: A West Virginia Folklore on Ohio State's The Psychology of Extraordinary Beliefs

What Is the Mothman and Why Are We so Obsessesed? on The Nerdist

10 Horrifying Facts About The Legend of the Mothman: The Harbinger Of Doom From The 1960s on Groovy History

Legend of the Mothman-Point Pleasant Sightings video of CryptidSpot

A Contactee Canon: Gray Barker’s Saucerian Books paper by Gabriel Mckee

Men in Black: The Secret Terror Among Us by Gray Barker on Amazon

John Keel's Mothman Casebook

Convincing Stories of People Who Claim They Saw the Mothman in Real Life

The Freiberg Shrieker

The Black Bird of Chernobyl on Paranormal Catalog

The Black Bird Of Chernobyl: True Story Of The Chernobyl Mothman on Morbid Kuriosity

The Legend of the Mothman: Agent of Destruction or Harbinger of Doom? on Curious Historian

Mothman Math: Dates, Disasters, and Deaths

Mothman: Evil Incarnate by Loren Coleman on Amazon

List of deaths related to the Mothman

Mothman Lives website

Mothman Museum

Mothcam stream

Mothman Festival 2024

The Mothman cometh? I went searching for Point Pleasant’s prophet of doom and all I got was a T-shirt

The Real Story of The Mothman Prophecies on IGN

Behold the Mothman on SYFY

Based on a True-Life Story, but Was That Story for Real? in the Los Angeles Times

Truth vs fiction in the Mothman Prophecies movie on Chasing the Frog

The Enduring Legacy of The Mothman Prophecies on Den of Geek

Mothman: Behind the Red Eyes by Jeff Wamsley on Amazon

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