The Mystery of the Lake Michigan Mothman, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC

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🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!

The Mothman first spread its wings over Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in the 1960s—an era of fear, mystery, and tragedy. After a wave of sightings and supernatural panic, the terror culminated in the catastrophic collapse of the Silver Bridge, cementing Mothman as one of America’s most chilling legends. For decades, the creature vanished—until whispers of its return began to surface near Lake Michigan in 2017.

Researcher and investigator Tobias Wayland joins the conversation to uncover the truth behind this winged enigma. Are the modern-day encounters with Mothman mere folklore reborn, or is the creature an ancient harbinger of doom following humanity through the decades?

From eyewitness accounts to eerie coincidences and mass sightings over the Midwest, this is a story that refuses to fade. Because when the Mothman appears, history suggests tragedy is never far behind.

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0:00.0	Welcome to part two of our interview with Tobias Wayland about the Lake Michigan Mothman.
0:06.1	With the sightings of the mothman, were there any commonalities amongst the individuals
0:14.5	who were reporting the experience of seeing this in your research, whether it be stage of life, things going on in
0:25.1	someone's life, anything that you could kind of look at and go, this is interesting. There's a
0:30.6	trend here amongst all these people that are running across the mothman. You know, i really wish that there was um and and i've i've looked
0:42.7	i i really have these witnesses run the gamut um from you know young to to old uh they come from
0:53.1	every socioeconomic class.
0:57.6	You know, a lot of these people, and I think people would be very surprised at how many of
1:02.8	these people want to make sure that their name isn't attached to their report because they are a professional.
1:13.6	You know, like we're talking about lawyers, minor politicians.
1:19.6	I kid you not. Like these are people that, you know, you might see in the grocery store
1:25.6	or in your office or, you know, as a member of your church congregation or whatever.
1:31.1	And you wouldn't look at them twice.
1:33.6	But no, it literally is, you know, everywhere from, you know, young adults to, to, to, you know, retired people to, um, to, to, you know, retired people, uh, from, from every, every major
1:51.0	socioeconomic class as far as income and education. And, uh, and really even as far as things like ethnicity or any other, you know, demographic that you want to look at.
2:10.7	I mean, yeah, I mean, ethnicity, gender.
2:16.9	Just all across the board with your experience. I mean, ethnicity, gender.
2:20.6	Just all across the board with the experience. Yeah, even like sexual orientation, like all of this stuff, it's seemingly random.
2:27.3	And I don't know if that is part of the sort of interrupted journey aspect that I was talking about before, where it could just be
2:37.7	anybody on the street seemingly will just suddenly stumble upon this thing, doing whatever
2:44.8	indecipherable business it happens to be outdoing.
2:49.2	Are there still sightings taking place in the Lake Michigan region?
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