The Mothman Returns: Point Pleasant Legend to Chicago Terror

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being chased by a tall man with wings. and glowing red eyes more and more. people would report seeing a creature. that stood on two legs was at least. eight feet tall and had wings some said. it was half man half bird others said it. was half man half bat but the name that. stuck was the Mothman though the Mothman. terrorized hundreds of people for a year. it never physically harmed anyone but 13. months later that would change and 46. men women and children would end up at. the bottom of the Ohio River.

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what guys where are you going. [Music]. [Laughter]. nestled along the banks of the Ohio. River Point Pleasant West Virginia. words take me home. to please.

[Music]. okay okay that's enough take me home. Country Roads. well I'm sorry but if I don't finish it. that song will be stuck in my head all. day less than three miles from one end. to the other Point Pleasant is the type. of town where everybody knows everybody. it's a peaceful place quiet but Point. Pleasant has a Dark and Bloody past in. 1774 a few local tribes including the.

Mingo and the Shawnee tried to stop. American settlers from encroaching on. their territory on October 10th a fierce. battle was fought between the tribes led. by Chief cornstalk against about a. thousand Virginia militia led by Colonel. Andrew Lewis the battle raged for hours. and eventually became a hand-to-hand. combat the Shawnee Warriors fought. bravely but they were outnumbered two to. one cornstalk had no choice but to. surrender and sign a peace treaty with. the militia three years later in the. fall of 1777 cornstalk and his son.

traveled to Fort Randolph which had been. built at the site of the battle. cornstalk wanted to inform the fort's. commander Captain Matthew Arbuckle the. colonists were violating the treaty and. to warn Arbuckle that the British were. trying to recruit tribes to fight. against the American settlers Arbuckle. placed cornstalk and his son under. arrest they were imprisoned along with. two other shawnies that were taken. hostage a few weeks earlier the four. shawnies were well treated but they were. not permitted to leave Arbuckle felt. that as long as he had the hostages the. Shawnee wouldn't attack the fort a few.

weeks later a young American was killed. by natives nearby though nobody knows. why or what tribe did it when word. reached the fort a mob of militiamen. shoved Captain Arbuckle aside and. stormed the fort's jail they brutally. executed cornstalk his son and the other. two shawnies but just before cornstalk. died he cursed the settlers and the land. I came to the Fort as your friend and. you murdered me. you have murdered by my side my young. son for this may the curse of the great.

spirit rest upon this land. May It Be blighted by Nature may it even. be blighted in its hopes May the. strength of its peoples be paralyzed by. the stain of our blood soon a town. emerged in the area but few settlers. knew their homes were built on top of. mass Graves the skeletons of the battle. of Point Pleasant nor did they realize. their land was cursed over the years. Point Pleasant would indeed be hit with. natural disasters but it would be in. December 1967 when Chief cornstalk. murdered while on a mission of Peace.

would take his ultimate Revenge. foreign. the Silver Bridge was a Marvel of. engineering and a source of Pride for. the local community it connected Point. Pleasant West Virginia to Gallup police. Ohio and thousands of vehicles crossed. every day it was Rush Hour on December. 15 1967 and the bridge was packed it was. Friday night and commuters were rushing. home to get a jump on the weekend. holiday Shoppers had cars filled with. Christmas gifts as the sun set and. Twilight descended over the bridge.

traffic slowed to a halt suddenly. allowed crack Was Heard and then an. unnatural screeching sound before anyone. realized what happened. people in their cars watched in horror. as the bridge buckled and began to shake. violently the sound of Steel twisting.

and tearing was deafening the scene was. something out of a nightmare people. screamed and ran in all directions. desperately trying to escape the chaos. but for people on the bridge it was too. late in just a few moments the entire. Bridge collapsed into the icy waters of. the Ohio River 36 cars and trucks fell. into the river dragging their passengers. down with them the water was freezing. and the current was strong rescue. attempts were almost impossible we heard. this terrible boom and my boys looked. around and saw the bridge starting to. fall.

in the aftermath 44 bodies of men women. and children were pulled from the river. and another two people were never found. in the days leading up to the Silver. Bridge collapse people in the area. reported a feeling of unease that they. couldn't quite explain two photos of the. bridge were taken about a week before. the disaster whoa what the hell is that. people passing through the area saw a. bat-like creature hovering near the. bridge a creature that locals called the. Mothman.

the TNT area of Point Pleasant got its. name because during World War II it was. the location of the West Virginia. Ordinance Works a large weapons Factory. after the war the factory was abandoned. and not long after that the area became. a Dumping Ground for toxic waste and. dangerous chemicals and not long after. that the area became a center of strange. activity UFOs were often seen in the. area some people's dogs would become. agitated by something run out to the. woods to investigate and then disappear. on November 2nd 1966 Woodrow derenberger.

is driving through the area on his way. home he sees some kind of craft landed. in the middle of the road derenberger. stops his car and a door on the craft. opens out walks and ordinary man. derenberger describes him as having. average height and build and dark hair. but he did wear an unusual and a natural. looking broad grin The Strange man tells. derenberger telepathically that his name. is injured cold from a planet called. lanulus over the next few years cold.

would visit would roderenberger several. more times that very same night two men. had to stop their vehicle when a craft. landed in the road directly in front of. them batcraft opened and out walked an. ordinary man with a wide grin the men. said the stranger asked them odd. questions then got back in the craft and. took off into the sky again on that same. night a woman in the next town over sees. a bright flash in the sky then a. cylinder-shaped craft lands in a parking. lot it opens and two men come out they.

asked her strange questions in an odd. dialect then they got back in their ship. and flew away all these people seem to. be describing injured Cole and the story. of injured cold is a wild one so let me. know if you want me to cover it the area. around Point Pleasant was suddenly. flooded with Paranormal Activity not. just UFOs but other lights in the sky. poltergeists and ghosts were being seen. electrical disturbances were burning out. people's televisions telephones were. ringing at all hours day and night but. there was nothing on the line but static. and it all started happening when on.

November 1st 1966 the night before the. grinning man appeared a national. Guardsman reported seeing a half-man. half-bird watching him from high in a. tree after a minute it disappeared two. weeks later the Birdman was seen again. four men were working in a cemetery. digging a grave as the sun set they saw. a flying man hovering right over the. cemetery three days later on November. 15th Roger and Linda scarberry decided. to go for a drive they picked up their. friends Steve and Mary Millette and.

cruised through the TNT area driving. past an old Power Plant they saw a tall. man standing in the road. but as they got closer they realized it. wasn't a man at least not a normal man. it was a humanoid creature at least. seven feet tall pale with wings folded. on its back. one of the witnesses Linda scarberry. said its eyes glowed red and were. hypnotic and disturbing as they got. closer it ran toward the power plant and. disappeared in a panic Roger floored it.

and tore away down the Dark Country. Roads. Take me home I'm trying to build tension. and you're making it really hard pal I. know I'm sorry but it's stuck in my head. now you have to admit that song is a bit. of a near worm it is but we have work to. do can we try to get back to the drama. you're right you're right that's my. fault keep going all right uh where am I. you made me lose my place yeah they were. flying down the dog country road right. okay uh Roger floored it and tore away. down the Dark Country Road.

what now you were humming was I. well demeanor well they lost the. creature and had a second to gather. their thoughts Roger Linda and their. friends decided to go to the Sheriff's. Department to warn the town they didn't. expect anyone to believe them but they. felt they had to try then a few miles. down the road they couldn't believe. their eyes perched on a billboard was. the creature it was following them when. they drove past it the creature spread.

its wings and launched straight up into. the air. and no matter how fast they drove or. what turns they made the creature stayed. with them they hit a straightaway and. gunned the engine 70 miles an hour the. creature could keep up 80 miles an hour. and it was still with them. every so often it would swoop down. toward their car and let out a. terrifying Screech. they had to go faster when they hit 90. they thought they lost it but a few. minutes later they heard the Screech it. was flying about 50 feet behind them but.

gaining it had to go faster. now pushing a hundred miles an hour on a. dark Road they were worried about. crashing or flipping the car but as they. approached the lights of the town the. creature slowed its Chase and. disappeared when they arrived at the. sheriff's department they were surprised. to hear that people were seeing the. creature all over the area and this was. only the beginning. the day after the flying creature chased.

the scarboroughs and the malets away. from the power plant Marcella Bennett. was visiting her brother in the same. area around 9pm Marcella left her. brother's house with her four-year-old. daughter when she reached for the handle. of the car door she saw what looked like. legs then she heard her brother yelling. for her to get back in the house as her. eyes slowly moved up she saw a humanoid. creature at least seven feet tall with. wings as soon as Marcella saw its red. eyes she was frozen her brother kept. yelling but she couldn't move after a. couple of seconds she snapped out of it.

stumbled dropped her daughter and fell. her brother ran out grabbed them both. and bolted for the door the creature. unfurled its wings and pursued but they. were able to make it inside they locked. the door the creature banged on the door. a few times and even tried the doorknob. a few seconds later it was gone word. quickly got around and the local papers. picked up the story they call this tall. human-like creature with wings and red. eyes the Mothman on November 20th 15. people saw the Mothman on 4 four. different occasions on November 21st.

another sighting on the 25th another on. the 26th seven people saw the Mothman on. five different occasions on November. 28th fayla port and her brother drove. out to the TNT area they stopped at the. old Power Plant to see if they could. find the Mothman hey did they find it. Well it found them first. now Faye was face to face with the. Mothman a few feet from the car window. care for what you wish for her yep she. said it had glowing red eyes nothing.

like she'd ever seen she didn't see any. wings but it was running fast enough to. keep up with the car they screamed at. her brother to drive faster but no. matter how fast they went they couldn't. lose it they whipped around a turn. slammed on the brakes and the Mothman. jumped on the hood of their car and. stared at them they and her brother. stayed completely still terrified to. move Faye and her brother looked for the. Mothman but they didn't see it but. finally they saw it perched on the roof. of an abandoned building nearby so. Faye's brother slowly gets out of the. car what is he nuts and he's picking up.

chunks of coke he was picking at him. just throwing it and going shoo shoo. yeah he's nuts then the Mothman opened. its wings and flew off into the darkness. the following week three more separate. sightings the week after that the. Mothman is seen four times by 18. different people I saw. you know this big. bird looking thing. go over top of my car. I could see it wasn't a man that it. looked more like a bird instead of arms.

they were like wings. I had a huge wingspan I was at least 10. feet I was paralyzed I just and I just. thought well yeah I'm gonna die people. describe the Mothman the same way over. seven feet tall with glowing red eyes a. grayish Brown body and huge Wings these. descriptions matched even before the. news reported on the story speculation. went wild nobody had ever seen a. creature like this anywhere on Earth. that's when a new theory was proposed.

that the Mothman was from somewhere else. foreign. was a prominent ufologist and paranormal. researcher he's most well known for the. movie The Mothman Prophecies which is. based on his novel of the same name when. the Mothman sightings read their height. Keel traveled to Point Pleasant to. investigate he spent months interviewing. Witnesses and local reporters he studied. police reports and legends and myths. from the area John Keel was trying to. unravel The Mystery of the Mothman but.

he soon became a Target he started. having headaches and episodes of extreme. paranoia cryptic messages would appear. on his answering machine sometimes. without the phone ever ringing he was. constantly followed by mysterious men in. dark suits exactly in fact John Keel is. the one who coined that term he noticed. his mail is being opened and resealed. his phone was tapped where some people. theorized that the Mothman wasn't. extraterrestrial John Keel thought the. creature could be what he called an. ultra-terrestrial this is an entity.

that's from Earth but lives in a. different dimension a dimension that we. can't perceive and that exists outside. of time these entities can materialize. and dematerialize any place in any time. they want they do this by adjusting. their energy to match different. wavelengths on the electromagnetic. spectrum Kiel said these beings Go by. different names in different cultures. some call them Spirits or fairies or. angels in the Middle East they're called. Jinn you may have even seen one yourself. because they're also called the dark. Watchers the hatman Shadow People.

what grad kit it's half crib and a half. cat I know what it is but what does it. happen they simply Whispering its name. it can be summoned from its evil. Dimension with fish are used for food. fish are food in this Dimension you take. heed Guppies and fear the crib kit okay. the area around Point Pleasant is a hot. spot for paranormal phenomena like the. Mothman and UFOs John Keel said there. are a few locations like this on the.

planet he called them window areas in. these window areas human consciousness. itself can summon these beings or even. conjure a UFO some UFOs are directly. related to the human consciousness just. as ghostly apparitions are often the. product of the precipient's Mind there. are deeply rooted psychic and. psychological factors in the UFO. phenomena and the sudden appearance of a. light in the sky triggers and releases. the human energy that stimulated. seemingly Supernatural events this.

cosmological system of control has been. in effect since the dawn of humanity oh. so humans are the ones creating all the. weird stuff yep and John Keel didn't. just invent the theory out of the blue. the way to conjure a gin is to think. about one same with shadow people there. are many theories and philosophies that. say everything in the universe including. human consciousness is energy. a few weeks ago we did an episode on the. Gateway process which is a technique to. tap into this energy and once you're. tapped in you can conjure anything you.

want simply by thinking about it now. this may sound like Hocus Pocus but the. CIA and the American Military spent. years researching this well that. explains the Men in Black it could men. in dark suits were visiting local. residents asking them to describe the. things they saw John Keel also thought. The Mothman and beings like it were. Omens of impending doom this is why he. called this book The Mothman Prophecies. these entities would often show up. before a terrible event but he didn't. know if they wanted to warn people or. simply observers or were actually the.

ones causing the event the Silver Bridge. collapsed was one of the worst disasters. the town ever endured every person in. Point Pleasant was affected everyone had. a friend on the bridge a loved one A. co-worker a child it wasn't until after. the bridge collapsed the people started. connecting the event to the Mothman in. the days and weeks leading up to the. disaster Mothman sightings were becoming. more and more frequent and as soon as. the bridge came down and dragged 46. people to icy Graves sightings of the. Mothman stopped did the Mothman.

accomplish what it set out to do nobody. really knows why the creature arrived or. why it left the fact that it was finally. gone was good news for the people of. Point Pleasant but it was bad news for. the people of Binghamton New York. because eight years later the Mothman. was back. [Music]. after the collapse of the Silver Bridge. in 1967 the people in Point Pleasant. stopped seeing the moth band UFO. encounters reports of ghosts the Men in. Black all these suddenly stopped. whatever the Mothman was doing in West.

Virginia it must have served its purpose. but that wouldn't be the last we hear of. the moth ban not even close in 1975 in. Binghamton New York a group of children. reported seeing a large creature they. described as a man with bat wings and. glowing red eyes. three years later a group of minors in. Freiburg Germany came face to face with. a creature with glowing red eyes at. first they thought it was a man in a. trench coat but then it unfurled large. black wings the men stared and stunned. silence until the creature let out a.

blood curdling Screech that sent the. miners running about an hour later the. men felt the Earth shake that a plume of. dust shot from the mine as it collapsed. if the men had gone to their stations as. usual most of them would have been. killed the creature they called the. Fryeburg Shrieker actually saved their. lives throughout 1985 workers at the. nuclear power plant in Chernobyl claimed. to see a huge black bird-like creature. flying around the plant it had the body. of a man and red eyes they called it the. Blackbird of Chernobyl people in the.

area started receiving strange phone. calls with nothing on the line but. static even more people had nightmares. and these incidents got worse and worse. until the Chernobyl explosion in April. 1986. there was a Mothman scene and. photographed near the Twin Towers in. 2001 before the 9 11 attack in August. 2007 after a month of Mothman sightings. the I-35 bridge collapsed during rush. hour a large red-eyed creature. terrorized the people of La Junta Mexico. in 2009 shortly after there was a swine.

flu outbreak in 2011 people started. seeing a giant flying humanoid creature. all over the Chicago area like all over. for example what the heck is this. foreign. [Music]. there have been hundreds of Mothman. sightings around the airport including. photos and some crazy video what the. hell is that it looks like Khaleesi is. coming to burn King's Landing whatever. it is the way it's flying it's big. Skeptics say that's a bird but it.

doesn't look like a bird to me the. website phantomsandmonsters.com has been. tracking all the sightings in the area. they even have an interactive map and. I'll link it below if you want to check. it out they've been compiling emails. phone calls and interviews from. eyewitnesses working at the airport I. had just left work at the USPS shorting. facility at O'Hare International Airport. I was walking out to my car when I saw. something standing at the far end of the. parking lot where I usually park at. first I thought it was a very tall. person with a long coat as I got closer.

to my car I unlocked my car which caused. my headlights to come on my headlights. hit the person standing about 20 to 25. feet from my car causing it to turn and. looked right at me I saw that this was. not some person but some red-eyed being. and what appeared to be a coat were. actually Wings which had spread out as. it turned to look at me this thing then. started making some kind of chirping. sound almost a half chirp and half click. like someone was clicking their tongue. but much faster it Finn made some type.

of screeching sound and took off running. toward me it got to within 10 feet of me. and took off into the air and flew above. me I got home and told my husband who. also works at the same facility and he. was the one who told me about the. sightings of this thing I was scared. shitless and I hope I never see this. thing again there are all kinds of. stories like this by reliable Witnesses. including airport security officers who. have a lot to lose by sounding crazy my. name is and I'm a security guard at. O'Hare I'm reluctantly writing to you to.

report something that I saw a week ago. on the night of Tuesday December 3rd. 2019 I was heading toward one of the. Airport cargo hubs I was approaching the. creek and headed toward Montrose Avenue. but I saw this large person standing. down in the creek bed I stopped thinking. it was maybe a trucker who decided to. wander down there to relieve himself I. put on my lights and stopped my vehicle. and Was preparing to get out when this. man turned toward me and I saw two very. bright red eyes this thing appeared to.

be looking straight at me and it had. turned away and walked away as it did it. unfurled a set of wings it took off into. the air and was gone into the darkness I. was left there wondering what in the. hell it just happened and what I had. just seen I'm going to be blunt here I. don't believe in hobgoblins and Little. Green Men and I'm sure that there must. be a rational explanation for this I. have worked too hard to get where I am. and to have all that trash by saying. that I saw a red-eyed flying man yet. that is what I saw I'm torn between. reporting this and keeping my mouth shut.

to protect my retirement if I do report. this I want everything to be done to. protect my identity Pilots even saw it. my name is Bruce and I'm a pilot for and. I've been with since 2008. the incident. I'm about to tell you happened on. Thursday August 8th 2019 at O'Hare. International Airport at approximately. 1800. I'd flown into O'Hare the previous. day and it stayed at a hotel for the. night I was due to fly out at 2000 to. the UK I was taking the airport shuttle.

toward the terminal as I looked out the. window I saw a large human with Enormous. Wings and glowing red eyes perched upon. a rail and looking straight at me I was. startled and I'll admit it very. frightened it did not move or attempt to. hide itself as we approached knowing. that it could be clearly seen team it. just stay put and washed as we passed. when we passed I tempted to look back. and see if we still perched there I saw. nothing and can only assume that it must. have flown off when we passed it's even. been seen by air traffic control I've.

worked at O'Hare for the last seven. years as a member of the air traffic. control team I was working the late. evening at traycon and have just walked. away from one of our mandatory breaks I. was walking toward one of the terminal. buildings when I noticed some movement. out of the corner of my eye I turned in. the direction of the movement and. noticed a large black shape coming to a. rest on the ground near a light pole. this thing was at least six to seven. feet tall and jet black and it looked. like a very big bat but was also very.

human-like in appearance it sported a. large set of black wings that also. looked like the wings of a bat they were. open to their full length and must have. did at least 12 feet it kept its head. down looking at the ground until an. approaching vehicle startled it that is. where I saw that a Ted was short and. squat but had a pair of piercing red. eyes it looked in the direction of the. approaching vehicle and then began to. flap its wings and took to the air it. disappeared above the building in a span. of one to two seconds and was gone out. of sight I personally know of three.

other controllers who have had sightings. of this thing and just as many pilots. who have either reported sightings in. and around the airport. and the Chicago Mothman sightings are. still coming in as recently as a few. weeks ago multiple Witnesses reported a. red-eyed humanoid with wings it was. pursed on top of a building staring at. them when it spread its wings its. wingspan was according to the witnesses. wider than a car it made a chirping. sound then flew over them and up and out. of sight now the Chicago Mothman has.

been seen for at least 12 years so. luckily it doesn't seem to be predicting. Doom for the city oh I take it you. haven't been to Chicago recently. [Music]. oh. the Mothman is one of the most seen most. widely reported cryptids in the world. it's been seen in every country and. often by reliable Witnesses so what is. the moth ban is it really a flying. humanoid with glowing red eyes and giant. Wings well there are a few theories one. is it's an alien I like it in the Point.

Pleasant area Mothman sightings. coincided with UFO reports so naturally. people connected them that would also. explain why the Men in Black showed up. some locals thought the Mothman was an. angel I like it trying to warn people. about the bridge collapse an interesting. theory is that the Mothman is a new. species one that mutated from the toxic. waste and chemicals dumped in the TNT. area I love it to Skeptics this may. sound unlikely but scientists recently. discovered that wild dogs in the. Chernobyl area are mutating and evolving. faster than other dogs you know what.

they say extra dogs are an x-man's best. friend well I don't know if any dogs. have been discovered with superpowers. but exposure to radiation has made their. DNA different and distinct from regular. dogs now in an area that's supposed to. be highly toxic these X dogs are. flourishing but there are a few. non-supernatural explanations in The. Point Pleasant area specifically during. the first Mothman sightings sandhill. cranes were migrating sandhill cranes. are big birds they can grow to almost. five feet tall and their wingspans can.

easily reach six feet or more they also. have red markings on their heads which. could explain why people see what they. think are red eyes but even the biggest. crane is not big enough to fit the. description of the witnesses unless it's. a mutant expert right unless it's that. another common explanation is that what. people thought was the Mothman was an. unusually large barn owl barn owls have. large eyes and in the dark their eyes. shine red this is from a layer of eye. tissue that reflects light around the. retina multiple times allowing them to. see extremely well in the dark it's.

called tapedum lucidum in fact almost. all nocturnal creatures emit an eye. shine headlights on dark roads in the. woods would reveal all kinds of animals. with eye Shine from something as large. as a bear all the way down to a spider. now barn owls don't get anywhere close. to large enough to fit the description. but there have been studies that show. when humans are in motion it's difficult. for us to determine the size of an. object the faster we're moving the. harder it is zooming along at 70 miles. an hour past a five foot tall bird with. a 10-foot wingspan that bird might look.

huge and in forensic psychology there's. something called the weapon Focus effect. it says that when people are under. stress specifically fear their memories. are unreliable for example when someone. is a victim of armed robbery they tend. to focus on the weapon and not other. details of the scene that would explain. all the sightings in Chicago. martialic found that when people view a. disturbing image they were highly. confident in their memory of that image. even if their memory was wrong.

we know that human memory is already. unreliable if we recall an event a. certain way our brains will eventually. create the memories to fit even if our. recollection is completely wrong so when. four people start telling each other. they saw a seven foot tall Mothman it. won't take long for the memories to be. created when these false memories are. shared by multiple people it's called a. transactive memory and then you have. mass hallucination and mass hysteria. where people think they're seeing a. threat but they only see it because they. were already afraid of it so we have all.

these Mothman sightings happening around. Point Pleasant and then John Keel comes. along and writes a book about it the. book becomes a runaway hit the. information in the book then adds to the. group's memory the problem with that is. John keel's book was a fiction novel The. Connection of the Mothman to the Silver. Bridge Keel made that up because it. makes the story more interesting same. with the weird phone calls and. electronic disturbances Keel invented. those too if you go back and read. eyewitness testimony you'll see that. nobody reported weird phone calls until. after the book came out John Keel also.

made up the part about the Men in Black. the witnesses who say they saw Men In. Black they didn't mention it before the. book's release John keel's notes and. letters have been thoroughly analyzed. the information in the Mothman. Prophecies is vastly different than the. notes he took during his investigation. now the legend says that over a hundred. people saw the Mothman in Point Pleasant. but the actual number of incidents is. just six or seven now that's still. something but clearly lots of people. wanted to jump on the attention. bandwagon if you read the later witness.

reports some of them are ripped right. out of scary children's stories and. other urban legends now why did the. Mothman sighting stop right after the. collapse of the Silver Bridge because. the people in Point Pleasant now had a. real tragedy to deal with it snapped. them out of their group memory and gave. them something very real to focus on but. even with all these attempts to explain. the Mothman Skeptics still come up short. the sightings in Chicago are real maybe. not all of them but some of them are and. back in Point Pleasant before the. newspaper reported anything about the. Mothman I eyewitnesses who didn't know.

each other described the creature the. same way if you follow this channel you. know I don't like doing stories about. Cryptids this is because there's rarely. compelling evidence and there are never. any good pictures but in the process of. researching The Mothman I might have. come around if just a little I don't. know if the Mothman exists but people. are seeing something so if you're ever. driving at night through the Rolling. Hills of West Virginia or stumbling to. the car rental after a red eye to O'Hare. pay close attention listen for an odd. clicking or chirping sound coming from.

the Shadows look for two glowing red. eyes watching you from the dark but. don't be afraid the Mothman has never. hurt anyone but if I were you I'd stay. away from Bridges for a while just in. case. thank you so much for hanging out with. us today my name is AJ there's. hacklefish this has been the y-files and. if you had fun or learned anything do us. a favor like comment subscribe share I. know I'm a broken record but that stuff. really really helps like most topics we. cover on the channel today's was.

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