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I wanted to get a couple of these emails.

One person emailed and said they believe Mothman is an omen that appears when death is near.

Any indication that sometimes unrelated things

are happening behind the scenes of a sighting,

maybe when you're talking about this,

there's certain tidbits that come out

that you recognize as patterns?

Yeah, I mean, the first thing I would love to say, Ryan,

is that when it comes to Mothman or any kind of subject like this,

there are no real experts, right? So my opinion is just an opinion, and it doesn't invalidate

that of any of your listeners that are checking out the show. So that being said, one of the big

things I wanted to challenge with the book, and my co-author did too, is the idea that Mothman

is a harbinger of doom and disaster.

And a lot of that comes down to the link with the silver bridge collapse, which happened in Point Pleasant,

you know, claimed, I believe it was 44 or 45 lives and was an absolute disaster that

changed the way we inspect and construct bridges in the United States

ever since. It was tragic, but the Mothman sightings had actually ended before the Silver

Bridge collapse. However, if you saw the movie and if you read the books, Mothman Prophecies

and the Silver Bridge by Gray Barker, they kind of tied the idea in that mothman

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