A Bridge Too Far: The Mothman Visits Point Pleasant

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

1. 02:52 - I'm a Believer - A pair of couples see something; cranes, owls and shitepokes; Mary Hyre  writes it up, Mothman is named
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 25:42 - The Men in Black are everywhere, so are UFOs, so is Mothman; the sense of doom builds
6. 29:28 - 13 Steps Lead Down - The Silver Bridge collapses, Mothman Math
7. 35:43 - Knock on Wood - Mothman as the Freiberg Shrieker and Black Bird of Chernobyl, Mothman hits the road
8. 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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