Eyes of the Mothman The Podcast

Eyes of the Mothman The Podcast

Eyes of the Mothman is a critically acclaimed documentary feature film produced by Red Line Studios and directed by Matthew J. Pellowski. It is known for being one of the most thorough, expansive, and exhaustively journalistic approaches to the subject matter known as the "Mothman sightings" that took place in Point Pleasant, West Virginia during the late 1960s. This podcast is a compilation of the uncut raw interviews with the eye witnesses, specialists, and experts featured in the documentary.

Episodes

April 29, 2025 61 mins

This is the 50 minute audio version of the shortened television broadcast of Eyes of the Mothman.  This version originally aired on the Discovery Channel in the United States and internationally on a variety of foreign broadcast stations.  It is a compartmentalized edit of the original director's special edition cut of the film.          

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This raw field tape interview is with Jeff Wamsley.  Jeff is one of founders of the Mothman Festival, an accomplished author and artist, and the proprietor of the Mothman Museum in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.  A long time resident of Mason County he is an expert on the local region's traditional and paranormal history. 

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April 29, 2025 53 mins

This raw field tape interview is with James Beichler.  James is an Associate Professor of Physics at West Virginia University. He discusses some of the scientific theories that have been speculated about Mothman being an interdimensional being or possibly used ultraviolet light refraction as a means of disguising itself.  

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April 29, 2025 74 mins

This raw field tape interview is with Donnie Sergent.  Donnie is a long time resident of Point Pleasant who has fished and explored the McClintic Wildlife Preserve at length.  He once caught what he describes as a "mutated" fish, and he is also a former employee at a chemical plant in the area.  

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April 29, 2025 124 mins

This raw field tape interview is with Tim and John Frick.  These brothers and paranormal investigators are experts when it comes to all things Mothman.  They have spent years studying the paranormal incidents surrounding Point Pleasant including Mothman, UFOS, Indrid Cold, and the Men in Black.  

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April 29, 2025 22 mins

This raw field tape interview is with Lea Wilson.  Lea is a West Virginia native who witnessed a Pterosaur outside of her window while living on a farm.   

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April 29, 2025 79 mins

This raw field tape interview is with Susan Sheppard.  Susan is a psychic medium, ghost hunter, UFO Investigator, and an expert in the Woodrow Derenberger and Indrid Cold contactee case.  A long time resident of Parkersburg, West Virginia, she was not only an on camera interview subject, but also a consultant on the Derenberger scenes used in the film.  

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April 29, 2025 50 mins

This raw field tape interview is with Roy Cross.  Roy was the head editor at the Athens Ohio Messenger, the major news publication at the time that reported regularly on the Mothman incidents and many UFO sightings that occurred in Point Pleasant and the surrounding areas during the 1960s.  He was also who journalist Mary Hyre reported directly to.  

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April 29, 2025 80 mins

This raw field tape interview is with Faye Leport.  Faye is one of the last living eyewitnesses of the Mothman.  Her sighting was at an incredibly close distance and lasted for several minutes in length at the abandoned TNT Plant.  Although she was just a child at the time, her story has never changed or wavered over the years that have passed since.

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April 29, 2025 114 mins

This raw field tape interview is with Chad Lambert.  Chad is an author and independent researcher who through circumstance, became an expert on the incidents of Point Pleasant including Mothman, The Silver Bridge, UFO Sightings and the Men in Black.

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April 29, 2025 59 mins


This raw field tape interview is with Merle Partridge.  Matt considered this interview one of the most important and essential interviews he conducted for the film.  Merle was a key figure in the Mothman story.  He had multiple close encounter UFO sightings, as well has his infamous run in with the Mothman, when it allegedly killed his dog Bandit.

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April 28, 2025 53 mins

This raw field tape interview is with Scott Simonton.  Scott is a professor of Environmental Science at Marshall University and speaks to the potential environmental effects the chemical spills at McClinticcould have on receptors. 

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April 28, 2025 23 mins

This raw field tape interview is with Rick Meadows from the Army Core of Engineers. Rick also assisted in the environmental clean up of the McClintic Wildlife Preserve performed by the EPA and the USACE.

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April 28, 2025 36 mins

This raw field tape interview is with Ken Woodard from the Army Core of Engineers. Ken assisted in the oversight of the EPA clean up of the McClintic Wildlife Preserve area,also known as the "TNT Plant." This area is where the first reported Mothman sighting took place by the Scarberry's and Mallette's on November 15th 1966.

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April 28, 2025 84 mins

This raw field tape interview is with Dennis "Denny" Bellamy, director for the Mason County Tourism center. Denny is also a long-time resident of Point Pleasant who not only experienced the Mothman incidents first hand, but also the fall of the Silver Bridge.

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April 28, 2025 82 mins

This raw field tape interview is with Dave Peyton.  Dave was a reporter with the Herald Dispatch from 1965 to 2000 and covered numerous UFO sightings and Mothman stories from the Ohio River Valley area.

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April 28, 2025 65 mins

This raw field tape interview is with Ruth Fout.  Ruth worked at the River Museum and is an expert on the Silver Bridge. She is also a long time local resident and recounts her experiences growing up during the time of the Mothman sightings.

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April 28, 2025 44 mins

This raw field tape interview is with John Sauer, member of the Sons of the American Revolution.  John explores in detail, the Battle of Point Pleasant, the origin of the Cornstalk Curse, and recounts his first hand experience of the fall of the Silver Bridge.  He is a revolutionary war historian, an expert in Point Pleasant history, and a long time local resident.

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April 28, 2025 71 mins

This raw field tape interview is with Captain Charles Stone.  Captain Stone worked the riverboats on the Ohio River for years and was a long time resident of Point Pleasant.  He shares his first hand accounts of Mothman, The Silver Bridge, and the many unusual events that have occurred throughout the town during his time living there.

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April 28, 2025 47 mins

In this raw field interview John Dailey sheds light on the Battle of Point Pleasant, Thunderbird Legends, and the murder and origin of the curse of Chief Cornstalk.  John is a distant relative to Chief Cornstalk and is Chief of the Middle Island Creek people in Northwestern, West Virginia.

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