Today on the Grave Talks, the Lake Michigan Mothman.

Long before the Lake Michigan Mothman, his story was being told.

In the 1960s, the Point Pleasant West Virginia area was a setting for multiple horrific encounters

with what was known as the Mothman. After a giant bridge disaster,

the sightings ceased. Many assumed that somehow the mothman was connected to the collapse.

Were the troublesome sightings and omen of the tragedy that was about to take place?

As time would pass, memory and stories of the mothman would subside. Then in 2017,

sightings of the creature began to pop up around the states that surround Lake Michigan. A large,

dark-winged creature with glowing blood-red eyes as a thing of nightmares. For many who witnessed

it, though, it's become a horror of reality.

Today we discuss the Lake Michigan Mothman with Tobias Wayland.

November of 1966 is when those sightings began.

And so people started reporting a strange winged humanoid. You know, the description varied somewhat between eyewitnesses,

but it was consistent enough to have a general profile.

And so that was essentially this humanoid winged being with glowing red eyes that would fairly consistently

strike fear into whoever was unlucky to see this thing.

And there were dozens of sightings between 1966 and 1967, mostly covered by a fairly well-known euthologist

at that time, well for people who were into UFOs and things named John Keel.

And he had famously written a book about it sometime afterward called the Mothman prophecies.

And in that, the narrative sort of goes that these sightings culminated with the collapse of the Silver Bridge,

which spanned from Point Pleasant to Gallipolis, Ohio, across the Ohio River there,

in December of 1967. And so since then, people have associated these particular winged humanoid

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