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Click on tap now to shop at M&M. I'm going to be. The year is 1967. It's a cold December evening. Indeed the kind of cold you still feel deep in your bones even from within the

relative comfort of your car. You find yourself traveling across a bridge, a

slender thread of steel spanning over the Ohio River below, connecting West Virginia and Ohio.

Officially it's called the Point Pleasant Bridge, but the locals call it the

silver bridge. You've just left the office, your tired eyes straining

against the setting sun. It's getting dark, but as you

drive across the bridge, a sudden glimmer arrests your gaze. This time, it's not the

glint from the silver paint that gives the bridge its name.

You see a spectral figure perched on the bridge above with something almost resembling grace.

Its silhouette shackled by the winter sun setting behind it.

Large ornate wings frame it, giving it an otherworldly

visage. Its eyes, like twin embers, pierce your soul to the point of near hypnosis. They bring

with them a local story from earlier in the year, it immediately surging into your mind as your eyes lock, the mothman.

You feel compelled to leave, your heart, or at least what feels to be your heart,

thrums a frantic rhythm as you push your car forward

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