The Mothman

Strange Matters Podcast

Campfire Audio Productions

Science, History, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.4 • 987 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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“It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Wait what is that really? Oh no it’s following us, run for your lives!” This is probably what a young couple was thinking in Point Pleasant, West Virginia back in the sixties when they first encountered what is now well-known around the world as the legendary Mothman. There were practically no reports of similar creatures until 1966, when suddenly there were dozens of sightings of this horrific, flying abomination. Residents of this small town were so petrified they actually held a town hall meeting so that citizens could publicly express their concerns and share tales of their encounters. Since then similar sightings have been reported all over the world; all to often the sightings precede some sort of cataclysmic event, leading some to think that it is an omen of bad things to come. While it is not one of the most popular cryptids of our time, it certainly produces arguably more convincing evidence then others of its kind. Explanations for these sightings range from large cranes or owls all the way to angels, genetic hybrids and flying military machines, however we must accept that mankind may never know the true identity of the Mothman.

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0:00.0	And the What's up everybody? This is Eric with the Strange Matters podcast. Here at Strange Matters
0:27.0	we discuss all that is bizarre, mysterious, unexplained. I'm your host for this episode
0:32.3	and I'm joined by Sean.
0:34.0	Hey everybody.
0:36.0	So on this episode of Strange Matters will be starting a two-part series
0:40.0	talking about some of the most popular and highly debated legends and mysteries in recent American history, the mothman and Indred cold.
0:48.0	In this episode we will be focusing on the mythical mothman and in the follow-up episode we will be talking about the strange entity
0:55.8	known as Indred Cold and how the two legends are possibly related.
1:14.3	These two enigmas of both the mothman and injured cold come from the same region, and some have come to believe the two stories influenced each other and perhaps are even directly intertwined. Yeah, Mothman is very well rooted in popular culture.
1:20.0	It's been made popular by movies such as The Moth Man prophecies starring Richard Gere.
1:26.0	That was how I was first introduced to The Moth Man.
1:30.0	And really just a ton of other books, games, and even some TV series.
1:36.0	And as a creature that's often associated with tragedy, as we'll describe,
1:41.0	many people from its hometown actually managed to exploit it as a means of attracting
1:46.7	tourism as they host festivals about the mothman and stuff like that.
1:50.9	Yeah there's an annual moth man festival and the
1:54.2	of the statue and everything there so pretty cool. So in this episode we'll be
1:58.0	going over the history and story of the moth man and the theories behind it and then our personal thoughts on the legend itself.
2:06.0	And we actually recently posted a poll to our Patreon page and our patrons voted on their favorite cryptid that they wanted us to investigate for an episode.
2:16.0	And mothman actually won out by a pretty narrow margin.
2:20.0	However, we have several other cryptids coming along in the near future.
2:24.0	And speaking of Patreon, we have a few announcements at the end of the show to tell you guys about.
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