Hey, strangers. This month, Laura, that's me, is going to be traveling for work.

And so we're going to be re-releasing two of our very favorite episodes in the main feed.

But don't worry, if you're subscribed to our premium episodes, either on Apple or over on Patreon,

you'll still be getting your premium releases.

And don't fret, there'll be fresh new episodes for you on the main feed in June.

I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing.

The show where we search the nation's news archives for stories that can't quite be explained.

As followers of the divinely weird and craftily creepy, you are no doubt familiar with one of the

world's most famous cryptids, the mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

He is, without a doubt, one of the big ones, right up there with the Loch Ness Monster,

Bigfoot, and Chupacabra, and the list of the world's most

recognizable cryptids. Now, you might know that Mothman, despite his penchant for screaming,

portending doom, and terrifying teens in the woods, has his very own statue in Point Pleasant,

West Virginia. Not only that, he has a festival,

he has merch. But his story, however fascinating, has been told and told well, and even made into a few motion pictures, major or otherwise, upon which we will

withhold judgment.

This is a podcast about the nation's lesser-known creatures, and today we want to bring you

a moth and a man, a very manly moth or a very mothly man, who we feel has not gotten his

due. Not yet anyway. Perhaps it will just take time. Hopefully, it won't take a tragedy.

But as of now, there just hasn't been enough attention on a certain flying phenomena known

variously as the Chicago Mothman or Chicagoland Mothman or the Lake Michigan Mothman.

Now, there's a pretty big difference between a Chicago area cryptid and a cryptid that, like Lake Michigan,

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