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» Jack’s Mothman article: Mothman, The Silver Bridge Collapse, and the Folklorization and Commemoration of Actual Events – https://journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse/article/download/2599/1841

» The Migration of a Local Legend: The Case of Mothman - Ellie Haskin:https://www.proquest.com/openview/57c18a0cf28b0bbd58c534caa36fd893/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

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