This week Morgan tells Ari the story of the internet's favorite cryptid, Point Pleasant WV's very own Mothman!
Citations:
-An Ode to a Hometown Creature: Mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, Gwen Mallow
https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/mothman-point-pleasant-west-virginia
-Mothman Festival
https://www.mothmanfestival.com
-Point Pleasant Register
https://web.archive.org/web/20071011230219/http:/www.westva.net/mothman/1966-11-16.htm
-Fabulous Creatures, Mythical Monsters, and Animal Power Symbols: A Handbook, Cassandra Eason
-From Disaster to Prevention, T. R. Witcher
https://ascelibrary.org/doi/epdf/10.1061/ciegag.0001250
-American Society of Civil Engineers 1993-11: Vol 119 Iss 4
-Gray Barker's Book of Bunk, John C. Sherwood
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2002/05/gray-barkers-book-of-bunk/
-The Portsmouth Times, Claims in Disaster Denied
https://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=cJ1eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MVMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4537,3056163
-The Blackbird of Chernobyl: Was it a warning? Lauren Dillon
https://www.historicmysteries.com/unexplained-mysteries/chornobyl-blackbird/35908/
Credits:
Modern Mythos Network intro and outro written and performed by Sean McNeilly
Album art: Ben Harrison
Hosts: Morgan Benek and Ari Graves
Producer: Nick Kizina
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