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Mothman Prophecies - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 2/14/26

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

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Society & Culture, News, Science

4.12.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Guest host Connie Willis and phenomenology researcher Bill Kousoulas discuss Mothman and the 1967 Silver Bridge collapse.

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0:00.0

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0:02.6

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0:04.4

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0:09.1

I've always been a fan of the Mothman, but I've never understood it.

0:12.2

I've heard people talk about and describe that it was, that Mothman had this like seal,

0:18.9

you know, like a, like a seal skin skin a dolphin skin kind of thing and that you know

0:25.1

they were winged they would but it wasn't all just to do with the the bridge even though that

0:32.4

came up later somebody said that they believe when they saw them at the bridge that it was a bad

0:36.9

luck thing that

0:37.7

these were not good these were all bad and they caused a lot of trouble did you what do you got

0:44.9

about those good bad and are are i want to know your theories after studying at all afterwards

0:52.0

because you know a lot of the stuff we read is somebody else's theories,

0:55.8

but you've been roaming around and really investigating it for real.

0:59.7

Correct.

1:00.4

So I would say, Connie, that, you know, based upon the research that we've done,

1:04.5

and as I've mentioned John Keel's name, at least a half a dozen times already,

1:09.1

obviously he's a huge influence on me. And the way that

1:13.2

Keel had postulated that he thought, what he thought Mothman was, was first off, the Thunderbird.

1:21.6

And I'm using the term the Thunderbird because that's one that is, I think, a little bit more,

1:26.9

really a lot more that people are culturally aware of.

1:30.6

But in the Eastern tradition, there is a very similar concept to the Thunderbird, which is the Native American tradition.

1:38.3

And that's what they call the Garuda.

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