1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:23,260 Hey everybody. 2 00:00:23,260 --> 00:00:26,520 Welcome back to another episode of Cryptic Cocktail Party, a show where we have a few 3 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:29,080 drinks, share a few laughs, take a dive into the unknown. 4 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:33,680 I'm your host Dave and I'm joined once again by the most beautiful boy in the world, Colby 5 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:34,680 Clark. 6 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:35,680 How's it going buddy? 7 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:37,320 Oh, that's very sweet of you. 8 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:38,320 I'm doing good. 9 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:39,320 How are you? 10 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:40,320 I'm doing all right. 11 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:41,320 The glasses were a nice touch though. 12 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:42,320 I wish you would have kept them. 13 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:43,320 You looked handsome. 14 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:44,320 Right? 15 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:45,320 I know. 16 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:46,320 And they're not, they're zeros. 17 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:47,320 You know? 18 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:48,320 I don't know what that means. 19 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:49,320 There's no prescription. 20 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:50,320 Yeah. 21 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:58,320 They just help with looking at screens for a long period of time. 22 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:02,080 Oh, they're like the, those blue light glasses or something like that. 23 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:15,680 And my, my sexual attraction is a heightened to dad level and it matches my, my pun output. 24 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:17,320 Hold on. 25 00:01:17,320 --> 00:01:20,360 Your sexual attraction or your sexual attractiveness? 26 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:21,360 Right. 27 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:22,360 Right. 28 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:23,360 I didn't, yeah. 29 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:24,360 I didn't know where you were going with that first. 30 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:28,960 I was like, you put on the glasses and your sexual attraction to what Colby? 31 00:01:28,960 --> 00:01:31,160 It heightens to what? 32 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:34,760 When I put on the glasses. 33 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:37,080 No one cared before I put on the glasses. 34 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:38,080 All right. 35 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:40,520 I become a sexual Superman. 36 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:41,520 I don't like that. 37 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:42,520 I hate that. 38 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:43,520 Uh, yeah. 39 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:45,920 But how you doing buddy? 40 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:46,920 I'm doing good. 41 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:47,920 I'm doing good. 42 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:48,920 Yeah. 43 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:49,920 Um, yeah. 44 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:50,920 Yeah. 45 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:51,920 Just got a little fur baby. 46 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:52,920 Yeah. 47 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:53,920 You got a new little kitten. 48 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:54,920 You don't have a name for it though. 49 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:55,920 Yeah. 50 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:56,920 We got it. 51 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:57,920 We got to name them. 52 00:01:57,920 --> 00:01:59,280 Should we, should we leave it up to the audience? 53 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:01,320 Should I put it out there? 54 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:02,680 Absolutely. 55 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:04,320 Listen up cryptid lovers. 56 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:06,360 I need you to name this beast. 57 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:11,240 Well, it's just, it's an all black cat, right? 58 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:12,240 Just a little baby. 59 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:13,240 Yeah. 60 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:14,240 Yeah. 61 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:15,240 Bad ass. 62 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:16,240 Yeah. 63 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:20,800 So if anything, I need, I need something edgy, but cool, but you know, like it's, it's gotta 64 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:24,440 hit all the, all the, uh, check all the boxes for me, you know? 65 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:25,440 Gotcha. 66 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:26,440 Gotcha. 67 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:30,040 So anyone listening, if you have a good name for a black kitten, let us know. 68 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:32,040 I will make Colby choose one of them. 69 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:36,920 I'll, uh, I'll put like, I'll find like the top ones and then put a poll or something 70 00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:37,920 out. 71 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:38,920 We'll figure it out. 72 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:39,920 We'll figure it out. 73 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:40,920 Done. 74 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:41,920 Done. 75 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:42,920 We'll figure it out. 76 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:43,920 Just like us trying to figure out murder at the end of the world. 77 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:44,920 It'll be fine. 78 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:45,920 And, and life. 79 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:46,920 Yeah. 80 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:47,920 All right, Colby. 81 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:48,920 How are you Dave? 82 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:49,920 Uh, I'm fine. 83 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:50,920 Uh, I'm good. 84 00:02:50,920 --> 00:02:54,480 As I told you before, we've recorded, started recording, I'm getting really bad, really 85 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:56,000 big back into like dinosaurs. 86 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:01,840 Just, you know, this is a bunch of dinosaur documentaries out there and they're all phenomenal. 87 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:06,520 The one on Apple TV narrated by David Attenborough is my favorite because I love that man. 88 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:13,000 He he's not, he's rarely on screen during his documentaries, but for like the prehistoric 89 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,560 planet on Apple TV, they show him at the beginning. 90 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:21,880 And for some reason this man always looks like he was late to the recording of the episode. 91 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:28,200 Like I know he's like 180 years old, but like his hair's all disheveled. 92 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,480 Like it looks like he just like threw on a suit jacket, didn't put a tie, like, you know, 93 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:34,400 he's just like, and just was like, Oh fuck, fuck, fuck. 94 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:35,400 And just runs in. 95 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:42,560 I was going to ask if he was as soothing to look at as his voices to listen to. 96 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:44,600 No, but he, he, 97 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:55,400 in a word, he, he looks like someone who is very distressed about the environment as cause 98 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:56,400 he is, you know what I mean? 99 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:00,620 But like he looks like he's in a constant state of panic. 100 00:04:00,620 --> 00:04:03,560 His face doesn't show it, but like his hair's all disheveled. 101 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:07,040 Like he's, oh, he looks like, he looks like a cool grudge. 102 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:08,040 Yeah. 103 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:10,480 He, he knows way more than either of us ever will. 104 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:12,520 He's been doing it for like 80 years. 105 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,160 I mean, exactly. 106 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:22,360 He's seen the rise and the fall of many species. 107 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:23,560 And he's just over it. 108 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:24,560 He's like, you know what? 109 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:26,080 I'll get there when I get there. 110 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:27,080 All right. 111 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:28,920 That's, that's a hundred percent true. 112 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:30,600 That's probably exactly what's going on. 113 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:32,400 But it was wild. 114 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:33,400 Yeah. 115 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:34,400 So that's, that's what I've been up to. 116 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:40,520 Just, you know, you got nice velociraptors were small and covered in feathers. 117 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:44,360 I found out that mammals did exist during the time of the dinosaurs. 118 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:45,360 Didn't know that. 119 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:46,360 Oh shit. 120 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:47,360 Yeah. 121 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:54,520 Well, the sea was more terrifying back then than it is now. 122 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:56,320 And it's pretty already fucking terrifying. 123 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:03,800 But yeah, no, I mean, it makes sense logically, but more terrifying than the sea now is just 124 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:04,800 unfathomable. 125 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:05,800 Yeah. 126 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:11,880 I think that's one of my, one of my deepest fears is open water. 127 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:12,880 Oh yeah. 128 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:17,720 It's not, I, if I, I don't like water where I can't see and or touch the bottom. 129 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:18,720 Fuck that dude. 130 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:19,720 Exactly. 131 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:20,720 No, exactly. 132 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:21,720 I'll go on a boat. 133 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:22,720 I used to go tubing as a kid. 134 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,520 And now I like if someone's like, Hey, you want to go tubing or like knee boarding or 135 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:26,520 something like that? 136 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:27,520 Like, Nope. 137 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:31,640 I, if I fall off and something touches my foot, I'm just gonna, I'm going to give up. 138 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:34,320 I'm just gonna exhale and just sink to the bottom. 139 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:35,320 I'm done. 140 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,960 You can catch me on the beach. 141 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:41,960 Having a yin. 142 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,280 Oh, all right, Colby. 143 00:05:45,280 --> 00:05:51,300 So if you remember last week, we discussed some of the history of point pleasant. 144 00:05:51,300 --> 00:05:56,880 We had Lord Dunmore's war, battle of point pleasant in chief corn stock who cursed the 145 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:58,840 land and all its inhabitants. 146 00:05:58,840 --> 00:06:07,440 And as he was being actively murdered by the American settlers, you know, curse the land 147 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:08,720 and the people there ever since. 148 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:09,720 You remember all that? 149 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,600 Oh, how could I forget? 150 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:13,600 It's terrifying. 151 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:14,600 Yeah. 152 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:15,600 The curse wasn't good. 153 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:21,800 It involves or people claim it was involved from everything's from like floods to fires, 154 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:24,680 explosions, tornadoes, mine collapses. 155 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:28,840 And of course the infamous silver bridge collapse that happened on December 15th, 14th, uh, 156 00:06:28,840 --> 00:06:29,840 14th, 1967. 157 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:33,760 I mean, it made my mind collapse. 158 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:35,760 That's for sure. 159 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:39,240 Uh, and that sadly, uh, claimed the lives of 46 people. 160 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:43,200 But in the year leading up to the collapse, a lot of strange happenings were going on 161 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:48,560 at point pleasant and the surrounding area that may or may not also be another unfortunate 162 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:51,360 bright byproducts of a corn stocks curse. 163 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:59,480 And one of those is the arrival of the moth man who from 1966 to 1967 terrorized the community 164 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:03,320 and not only point pleasant, but the surrounding areas. 165 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:04,320 Okay. 166 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:05,320 All right. 167 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:07,440 So it was a precursor, the curse. 168 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:14,000 It was, it was the or it was, yeah, yeah, that's right. 169 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Yeah. 170 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,840 It was the, I was going to say origin story, but precursor for the curse works way better. 171 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:21,920 It was a pre precursor. 172 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:24,120 It was, I, yeah, I appreciated it. 173 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:26,120 Uh, this was not rehearsed. 174 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:31,040 No, according to John keel, the author of the moth man prophecies, there were over a 175 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,720 hundred sightings of the moth man that occurred in point pleasant. 176 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:38,720 So I figured what we would do today is just go over the more well known ones and the ones 177 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:42,240 that I think are like the best because known as time for all that shit. 178 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:47,000 And a lot of them were just like, I saw it's eyes in the woods and then that's it kind 179 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:48,000 of thing. 180 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,000 So yeah, you ready? 181 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:50,000 You ready to dive in? 182 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,000 Yeah. 183 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:52,000 Given the nitty gritty. 184 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:53,000 All right. 185 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,360 Now the official first sighting of the moth man, or at least the first reported to the 186 00:07:56,360 --> 00:08:02,000 police and then picked up by the media happened on Tuesday, November 15th between 1130 and 187 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,920 midnight in an area of point pleasant known as the TNT area. 188 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:10,840 Uh, and for those of you wondering what the TNT area is, I'm just going to give a short 189 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:12,280 little brief history lesson. 190 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:13,520 Cause I know how much you love those Colby. 191 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:14,520 You like to learn. 192 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:15,520 Yeah. 193 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:16,520 Uh, 194 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:24,800 I'm imagining, uh, the road runner and the coyote and, um, uh, Ka-boom like right now. 195 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:26,880 Are you thinking of like the Acme company? 196 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:27,880 Cause this is not that. 197 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:28,880 Oh, okay. 198 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:29,880 Okay. 199 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:35,680 Uh, see during world common misconception during world war two, uh, the Americans built 200 00:08:35,680 --> 00:08:40,680 dozens of munitions plants all across the country, kind of like pop up restaurants, 201 00:08:40,680 --> 00:08:46,640 but for instruments of war, uh, and point pleasant was chosen as the site, uh, for, 202 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:47,640 uh, TNT manufacturing. 203 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:52,400 Uh, and it also stored a lot of munitions there from 1942 to 1945. 204 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:57,840 Uh, once the war was over, the government just kind of, uh, abandoned it kind of like, 205 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:03,160 like a Walmart and, uh, they started using it for chemical waste storage before giving 206 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:08,620 it back to the state and is now known as the McClintic wildlife management area. 207 00:09:08,620 --> 00:09:12,120 So it's like a wildlife reserve, which is, holy smokes. 208 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:13,120 Yeah. 209 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:18,120 It's kind of fucked up considering the site where the TNT area sits was named one of the, 210 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:23,320 one of the 10 most polluted sites in the entire country in 1983 and is considered a super 211 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:27,400 fun site that's still undergoing cleanup to this day, as far as I'm aware. 212 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:31,560 And it's also a leaking toxic waste into the groundwater of point pleasant. 213 00:09:31,560 --> 00:09:33,520 So not ideal. 214 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:35,400 You know, who else knows about all this? 215 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:36,400 Who? 216 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:37,400 Dave Attenborough. 217 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:41,040 I mean, he's passed. 218 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:45,840 Uh, Oh, did you know, did you know that there's a super fun site in Dover? 219 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:46,840 Really? 220 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:47,840 Yeah. 221 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:49,000 Yes, actually that, that does ring a bell. 222 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Yeah. 223 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:51,240 The old landfill is on Toland road. 224 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:55,800 Uh, it was apparently it was like seeping chemical waste and arsenic into the groundwater. 225 00:09:55,800 --> 00:10:01,440 And then also in Placetown, Placetown, New Hampshire, uh, there's a place there called, 226 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:05,840 um, I forget what it's called, but it was like a waste oil storage and recycling plant 227 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:12,200 and is currently number 19 on the list of most hazardous places in the U S. Damn. 228 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:13,200 Yeah. 229 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,960 New Hampshire apparently is Fox. 230 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:17,960 You look concerned. 231 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:21,120 Man, there's, and there's gotta be some pretty hazardous places. 232 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:22,120 Yeah. 233 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:25,360 In the U S. Number 19 on that list. 234 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:26,360 Yeah. 235 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:29,320 But anyways, we're 18 next year. 236 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:32,320 We're, uh, we're going off topic a little bit. 237 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:40,560 Uh, again, November 15th, 1966, uh, two couples, Linda and Roger Scarberry and Mary and Steven 238 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:41,560 Mallette, Maletti. 239 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:43,560 I don't say Malette. 240 00:10:43,560 --> 00:10:49,840 Uh, we're joy riding around the TNT area in, uh, Roger Scarberry's 1957 Chevy. 241 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:53,760 Uh, and back then, and maybe, I don't know, it might still be now, but the TNT area back 242 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:58,040 then was like a place where kids would go like a lover's lane type deal. 243 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:00,680 Uh, or they would just go around to like race their cars. 244 00:11:00,680 --> 00:11:04,960 Cause it's just like a fucking winding track of just dirt roads, you know? 245 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:10,040 So they would go, they would fucking make out race cars. 246 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:17,760 I mean, it is often referred to as point pleasure, but it also seems like a great place to like 247 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:22,560 just absorb all sorts of like rare and exotic cancers into your body considering how fucking 248 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:24,520 toxic the area is. 249 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:29,560 But anyways, uh, as the couples were driving down past the old generator building, they 250 00:11:29,560 --> 00:11:32,960 noticed two large red glowing eyes. 251 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:37,440 Steve was the first to notice and to the rest of the group was like, yo, you guys fucking, 252 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:39,080 you fucking seeing this shit? 253 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:42,760 And that's when they noticed just what those eyes were like attached to. 254 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:48,520 They saw what they described as a six to seven foot tall manlike figure with a pale gray 255 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:51,600 complexion and wings folded behind its back. 256 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:57,280 Uh, the creature either unaware they were there in the moment or noticed it noticing 257 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:00,960 them decided to duck around the corner of the generator building. 258 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:06,560 But according to the witnesses, it didn't run, uh, but kind of like penguin walked out 259 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:09,720 of sight, like just kind of hobbled along, which it was kind of cute. 260 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:10,720 Cute. 261 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:11,720 Yeah, it's cute. 262 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:14,000 Uh, the couples didn't seem to think so though. 263 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:18,760 And they fucking high tailed it out of there as they were, uh, as they were barreling down 264 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:24,400 route 62, they saw the creature again by a large billboard as they rounded the corner. 265 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:29,720 And this is where they said they saw it spread its 10 foot wide wings, uh, which they described 266 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:33,300 almost as like angelic, like it was like feathery kind of wings. 267 00:12:33,300 --> 00:12:36,360 And then it just fucking shot straight up into the air. 268 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:41,480 Didn't flap its wings or anything, just unfurled and fucking just up. 269 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:42,480 Not cool. 270 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:45,040 Uh, this made everyone in the car obviously. 271 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:46,040 Yeah. 272 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:47,040 Cool. 273 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:48,040 Yeah. 274 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:49,560 This, uh, this made everyone in the car freak the fuck out. 275 00:12:49,560 --> 00:12:52,760 They're all yelling at Roger to drive faster and he got his car up to speeds. 276 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:55,120 They said of almost a hundred miles per hour. 277 00:12:55,120 --> 00:13:01,000 Uh, but this thing was just gliding right along with them, just like right over the 278 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:02,000 back end of their car. 279 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:06,100 They even said that they could hear the wings hitting the top of the car as it flew back 280 00:13:06,100 --> 00:13:07,840 and forth over the top. 281 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:14,140 Um, and this thing was so big that they could see its shadow casting down over the car. 282 00:13:14,140 --> 00:13:15,140 That's pretty big. 283 00:13:15,140 --> 00:13:16,140 It's not ideal. 284 00:13:16,140 --> 00:13:17,140 Yeah. 285 00:13:17,140 --> 00:13:18,640 It's pretty fucking terrified. 286 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:19,640 Yeah. 287 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:20,640 Yeah. 288 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:21,640 Absolutely. 289 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:24,240 So the moth man is not a moth. 290 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:25,240 No, no. 291 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:32,880 So, uh, the moth man got its name because, uh, one of the, like a reporter or someone 292 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:38,320 writing an article about them during the time, uh, it was really big fan of like Batman, 293 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,920 but you couldn't call it Batman because of Batman. 294 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:45,680 So he thought of the next best winged creature, I guess, and called the moth man. 295 00:13:45,680 --> 00:13:47,480 That's how the moth man got its name. 296 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:50,400 The moth man didn't like introduce himself as such. 297 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:53,160 He's like, Hey everybody. 298 00:13:53,160 --> 00:14:01,160 Uh, I just like to say, uh, I like to be referred to as, uh, but I'm getting a very like demonic 299 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:04,240 like, but I'm sure the Jersey devil was already around. 300 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:05,520 So like, well that's taken. 301 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:06,520 Yeah. 302 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:07,520 And he had the wings of a bat. 303 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:12,960 So it's not like, yeah, yeah, that's cool as fuck. 304 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:18,480 What the Jersey devil or the moth man or both the, well, yeah, but no, just like the wings 305 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:23,040 band, just picturing the wings band, just like unfurling and then like not flapping them, 306 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:25,440 but just fucking shooting straight up in the air. 307 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:26,440 I will lose my shit. 308 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:27,440 I don't think I'd be okay. 309 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:28,440 Hell yeah. 310 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:32,000 And you want to hear something worse about this is that the entire time it was doing 311 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:36,960 this behind their car and over their car, it was making this high pitched like squeaking 312 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:42,000 sound like the sound of like a mass mouse or a rat just like caught in a trap. 313 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:47,100 So damn, I went for it right now just to entertain me. 314 00:14:47,100 --> 00:14:49,200 I want you to make the sound that you think it was making. 315 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:53,400 I don't know if I can go that high, but I'm envisioning. 316 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:59,640 Do you hear the bulb, the bubbling gargling? 317 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:00,640 That was good. 318 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:01,640 That was added. 319 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:06,520 I didn't even mean to do that, but I feel like gargling would be part of it. 320 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:12,640 That's actually pretty close to the exact sound that I had assumed it was going to make. 321 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:13,640 That's good. 322 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:14,640 Right. 323 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:15,640 Killed it. 324 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:16,640 Hell yeah. 325 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:21,280 They were only able to get free from the Mothman when they reached the edge of Point Pleasant 326 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:22,280 proper. 327 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:27,440 The TNT area is like seven miles outside of downtown or something like that. 328 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:31,760 In the police statements, they believe that the thing may be afraid of lights, which is 329 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:33,920 pretty much the opposite of a moth. 330 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:38,560 But once in town, they stopped at the local Dairyland to come up with the game plan. 331 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:39,560 I don't know what Dairyland is. 332 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:40,560 I tried to look it up. 333 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:43,360 It's either like a malt shop and or an insurance company. 334 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:44,360 I don't know. 335 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:45,360 Dairy Queen. 336 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:48,520 It could have been maybe. 337 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:52,320 But they stopped there to come up with like figure out what they were going to do next. 338 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:57,960 Linda said they should go to the police while Steve and Roger, Steve Roger, Captain America. 339 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:01,360 I just don't worry about it. 340 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:02,360 It's just in my head. 341 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:03,360 I just saw it written down. 342 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:07,560 I was like, Steve and Roger, Steve and Roger, Steve Rogers, Captain America. 343 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:09,280 They decided that they should go. 344 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,360 So you're hiding stuff in here for me to. 345 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:12,360 Okay, there's Easter eggs. 346 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:13,360 All right. 347 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:14,360 I wasn't sure. 348 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:16,360 As I was reading it, I guess. 349 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:22,880 But yeah, they know that I know I'll prepare. 350 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:26,400 They decided that they should go back and make sure that this thing was still there 351 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:30,240 before going to the cops because they assumed the police would just laugh at them, which 352 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:35,240 I mean, it's kind of a safe assumption given like the year and the state that this took 353 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:36,240 place in. 354 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:37,240 Sure. 355 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:42,640 So as they turned around, they noticed a dead dog on the side of the road. 356 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:47,000 The mothman jumped out as they passed the dead dog, went over the top of the car and 357 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:51,600 over to the field on the side of the road, which promptly made them go, fuck this. 358 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:54,840 And they just drove over to a diner and called the police. 359 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:57,800 Deputy Halstead responded and took their statements. 360 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:01,680 Obviously he didn't believe them because fucking who would. 361 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:02,680 But he knew the kids. 362 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:04,860 He knew that they weren't like delinquents or anything like that. 363 00:17:04,860 --> 00:17:10,020 So he and the couple drove back out to the TNT area, but weren't able to find anything. 364 00:17:10,020 --> 00:17:14,160 And even the dead dog was missing when they returned. 365 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:15,560 So pretty weird. 366 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:18,020 But yeah, so that's the first sighting. 367 00:17:18,020 --> 00:17:20,240 How are you feeling about the mothman right now? 368 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:34,080 I'm feeling like it's it's pretty scary, pretty badass, pretty pretty like kind of typical, 369 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:38,960 you know, like like cryptic sighting though, you know, like like these are usually the 370 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:42,600 timeline events, you know, there's something scary happens. 371 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:45,320 Somebody takes it in and something dies. 372 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:46,320 Right. 373 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:49,320 Like there's something dead around. 374 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:53,120 And then it's either, you know, we pose the questions, do we go to the police or not go 375 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:55,480 to the police? 376 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:56,480 And then. 377 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:00,400 Here we are. 378 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:06,480 You said so much stuff, but at the same time, nothing. 379 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:17,920 It's a debate tactic that like politicians use, like you said a lot of things, but I 380 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:21,320 don't really know what you said. 381 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:24,280 It's the glittering generalities that I'm going for in life. 382 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:25,800 You know, it's it's a skill. 383 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:26,800 Oh, good. 384 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:27,800 Oh, oh, shit. 385 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:32,000 Well, what's a little wrap up? 386 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:33,400 You know, just your spark notes. 387 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:34,800 Yeah, no minutes in. 388 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:35,800 That's good. 389 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:41,400 Well, so it's wild about that story is that there may be a connection between it and an 390 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:46,800 encounter that happened to a man named Merle Partridge not long before this, just over 391 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:47,800 90 miles away. 392 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:48,800 Name Merle Partridge. 393 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:51,800 Yeah, it's not a bad name. 394 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:59,160 But yes, so this happened to a man named Merle Partridge and he lives in Salem, West Virginia, 395 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:02,160 which is about 90 miles away from Point Pleasant. 396 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:05,880 Merle Partridge, who for some reason goes by Newell Partridge and some of the sources I 397 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:08,600 looked at, and I don't know why. 398 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:13,640 But either way, he was relaxing at home watching TV when suddenly his TV started going like 399 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:14,920 haywire. 400 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:19,040 The image shifted to what he described as a herringbone pattern and it started emitting 401 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:22,560 a high pitched sound that just kept getting louder and louder. 402 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:26,080 He said that the sound reminded him of like a generator turning on and then like winding 403 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:29,080 up, which I don't know what that sounds like. 404 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:33,400 He said it was so loud that he had to get up and turn his TV off because it was hurting 405 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:34,400 their ears. 406 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:38,120 Now at the same time, you ready for this? 407 00:19:38,120 --> 00:19:43,960 His dog, a German shepherd named Bandit, was out on the porch and just started going apeshit, 408 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:48,360 howling and barking like crazy in the direction of the pump house that he had out in the field. 409 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:52,120 It was almost like the dog could sense something was out in the fields that surrounded the 410 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:54,800 home but you couldn't see it. 411 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:58,600 Merle stepped out onto the porch to see what the fuss was all about and that's when Bandit 412 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:02,520 just took off into the field in the direction of that shed. 413 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:06,760 Merle hollered for Bandit to come back but by now the dog was already out of sight. 414 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:11,240 That's when Merle noticed red glowing lights circling around where the shed and the dog 415 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:12,240 were. 416 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:15,760 He said the lights hung around for a minute or two, then they disappeared. 417 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:21,560 He continued calling out for Bandit but sadly the dog never returned and they never saw 418 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:22,560 it again. 419 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:23,560 Oh Bandit. 420 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:25,920 Bandit's a badass though, are you kidding me? 421 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:26,920 Red at it? 422 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:28,560 That's fucking right. 423 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:31,680 But the reason why it's connected to that story is that the dead dog on the side of 424 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:35,480 the road could have been Bandit. 425 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:40,280 I don't want to think that Mothman would kill a dog because he has no reason to. 426 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:46,840 But you said that there was no dead dog after they had told the cops and the cops had came 427 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:47,920 and taken statements, right? 428 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:48,920 Was that? 429 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:49,920 Yeah. 430 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:50,920 So we don't know. 431 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:51,920 Well no, because they didn't find the dog. 432 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:52,920 So it might not be a dog. 433 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:54,480 It's just a dog. 434 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:56,720 It's West Virginia in the 60s. 435 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:58,040 It's probably just dead dogs. 436 00:20:58,040 --> 00:20:59,040 Sure. 437 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:00,400 I don't know why I think this is. 438 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:04,560 I keep talking about West Virginia like it's a fucking like it's a third world country. 439 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:07,920 It's just dead dogs and the water's all poisoned. 440 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:10,920 It's funny. 441 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:14,520 I was going to just go along with it, but now that you're questioning it, like why are 442 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:17,960 there dead dogs everywhere in West Virginia at this time period? 443 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:18,960 You know? 444 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:19,960 I don't know. 445 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:26,320 Anyways, the next the next sighting that we're going to go over is it's not funny. 446 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:30,400 It's kind of. 447 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:37,240 So the next the next night on November 16th, Raymond Wamsley, his wife, Kathy and Raymond's 448 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:41,720 sister, Marcella Bennett and Marcella's infant daughter were going to visit some friends 449 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:45,200 who live just outside the TNT area. 450 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,360 Once it started to get a little late, Ray, Kathy and Marcella decided it was time to 451 00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:50,000 go and head home. 452 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,200 So they went out the front door. 453 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:58,960 Well, as they were approaching the car, they must have startled the moth man who I don't 454 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:03,040 know if he was crouching down behind the car or if he was like napping on the ground behind, 455 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:06,840 you know, like after you turn a car off and it's warm, like cats will go underneath it 456 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:08,720 and like sleep under there. 457 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:09,720 Maybe that's a city thing with stray cats. 458 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:13,760 But yeah, I don't know if that's what the point was, but if reading the paper or something. 459 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:18,240 But apparently they startled them because the moth man slowly rose up from behind the 460 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,440 car like a fucking nightmare jack in the box. 461 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:26,760 Marcello said, Marcello said that it that's what happens to him when he gets startled. 462 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:27,760 He slowly rises. 463 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:32,000 You know, you know, shocked or anything. 464 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,760 It's just like, fuck, excuse me. 465 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:35,760 Yeah. 466 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:40,200 You know, when you're startled, you just react slowly to things as a thing, right? 467 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:41,200 Yeah. 468 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:49,360 Marcello said that quote, it rose up slowly from the ground, a big gray thing bigger than 469 00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:51,800 the man with terrible glowing red eyes. 470 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:53,000 End quote. 471 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:57,320 And as the mothman stood there and I don't know how true this is, but one source said 472 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:01,080 that it tilted its head to the side and I like, I think it was like new metal guitar 473 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:02,080 players. 474 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:03,080 Like, come on. 475 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:08,080 You know how like new metal. 476 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:09,080 Yes. 477 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:10,880 No, I pictured it. 478 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:11,880 Yeah. 479 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:12,880 So absolutely. 480 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:17,240 So as the mothman stood there, tilting its head to the side and just kind of observing, 481 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,480 almost more curious than threatening, like it wasn't like trying to like scare. 482 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:23,040 I don't think it was trying to scare her. 483 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:27,040 Marcella tried to run, but she was so overcome with fear and shock that she just kind of 484 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,840 froze almost like she was like hypnotized. 485 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:34,420 When she finally made the move to start running, she turned around and immediately fell right 486 00:23:34,420 --> 00:23:38,280 on top of her infant daughter that she was holding in her hands. 487 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:42,240 Oh no. 488 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:49,040 It's not funny. 489 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:50,280 That was a real reaction. 490 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:56,520 I just, I heard it as I was saying it and it sounded sarcastic. 491 00:23:56,520 --> 00:24:00,600 This seemed to like kind of break her out of her hypnotic spell and she scooped up her 492 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:05,120 daughter and booked it into the house with Raymond slamming a door behind her. 493 00:24:05,120 --> 00:24:07,200 Now luckily the child was unharmed. 494 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:08,480 It was totally fine. 495 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:17,000 Let's get to quote Jack's Brooks article on the sighting from his, uh, from his article. 496 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:24,640 The fall had quote badly fucked up, fucked Marcella up and quote, uh, she had, uh, she 497 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:28,400 had scraped knees, bruises, her face got a little bloody. 498 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,520 It also said that she suffered a burn from a cigarette. 499 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:34,100 So I don't know if she was holding this cigarette while also holding her infant child while 500 00:24:34,100 --> 00:24:37,120 also trying to flee from the mothman. 501 00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:39,680 It sounds about that, that time era. 502 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:40,680 Yeah. 503 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,560 They, they didn't say anything about the, the bud heavy that was spilled on our head 504 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:51,400 either, but it was there for sure. 505 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:56,920 The, uh, the family immediately called the cops as the mothman started stalking around 506 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:57,920 on the porch. 507 00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:58,920 This is where it gets kind of creepy. 508 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:03,080 Uh, he was stalking around on the porch, peering in through the windows, just like watching 509 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:04,080 the family. 510 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:05,360 And he was also prodding at the door. 511 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:07,840 I don't know if he was trying to get in, but I think he was trying to figure out how like 512 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:09,580 doors worked or something. 513 00:25:09,580 --> 00:25:10,580 I don't know. 514 00:25:10,580 --> 00:25:11,580 Nightmarish. 515 00:25:11,580 --> 00:25:18,040 But the time that the police arrived, they had their guns drawn, just ready to fucking 516 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:19,440 fuck mothman up. 517 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,800 Strapped, stay strapped. 518 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:28,000 But by this time he had already fucked off, presumably to go terrorize someone else at 519 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:29,000 this point. 520 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,120 Um, figure out a window. 521 00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:32,120 Yeah. 522 00:25:32,120 --> 00:25:35,480 So things like this continued on for like 13 months. 523 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:40,160 People reported seeing the mothman in and around the area of the old TNT plant, uh, 524 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:44,600 flying over roads and houses all around town and not just reports of mothman. 525 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:48,240 There are some seriously fucking weird shit going on at point pleasant at this time. 526 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:53,140 You got poltergeist activity, demonic entities, strange men dressed in all black that were 527 00:25:53,140 --> 00:25:57,520 questioning witnesses and reporters, which we'll talk about on the next episode. 528 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:01,720 Uh, people were getting really bad pink eye from looking into the mothman's eyes. 529 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,280 So I'm sure the pharmacist in town wasn't having like a great time. 530 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:06,880 Uh, oh yeah. 531 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:12,040 So when you look into the eyes of the mothman, apparently you get something, I forget the 532 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:17,360 exact name, but it's a, it's a form of conjunctivitis and it's the same kinds you get when your 533 00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:18,360 eyes are exposed. 534 00:26:18,360 --> 00:26:19,360 I think it like UV radiated. 535 00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:22,280 Like if you look in the sun long enough, you'll get conjunctivitis. 536 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,440 So it's like that kind of, it's not good. 537 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,960 I don't know if you've ever had conjunctivitis or pink eye, but it's not fun. 538 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:28,960 Right. 539 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:29,960 It's a nightmare. 540 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:34,640 It's like a psychic feces straight to the eye. 541 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:35,640 Yeah. 542 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,520 You don't even have to touch you. 543 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:42,080 You shits in your eyes. 544 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:43,080 So yeah. 545 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:47,820 So for a year, the residents normally had to deal with this, you know, like normal everyday 546 00:26:47,820 --> 00:26:48,820 life bullshit. 547 00:26:48,820 --> 00:26:52,120 Now they got to worry about demons, aliens and monsters. 548 00:26:52,120 --> 00:26:57,160 But all this came to a head on December 15th, 1967. 549 00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,400 It was around 5pm rush hour. 550 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,900 People were getting off to get off of work, heading to go do some Christmas shopping or 551 00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:04,200 just heading out for the evening. 552 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,040 It was a Friday night, you know, so they're just going out. 553 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:11,840 But whatever the reason for people's commute that day, it's safe to say that there was 554 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:16,000 an unusually like heavy amount of traffic that day. 555 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:17,720 And the silver bridge was loaded. 556 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,040 The entire length of the bridge was loaded with traffic. 557 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:25,280 Now unbeknownst to not only the people on the bridge, but the people in charge of maintaining 558 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:30,640 the bridge, it was suffering from a faulty eye bar that had begun eroding over time. 559 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:35,240 And due to where this eye bar was located, it was missed time and time again by those 560 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,920 who were responsible for like catching such a fault in the construction. 561 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:43,600 So with all this extra weight, the faulty eye bar gave out creating a chain reaction 562 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:45,680 and the bridge started to give way. 563 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:50,480 Eyewitnesses remember the bridge starting to, quote, fold like a deck of cards. 564 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:56,080 And from the point of like the critical failure of that I-beam, it took less than 20 seconds 565 00:27:56,080 --> 00:28:02,680 for the 1460 foot suspension portion of the bridge to collapse completely into the Ohio 566 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:08,760 River, taking along with it 32 vehicles and claiming the lives of 46 people, two of which 567 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:10,560 their bodies still have never been found. 568 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:14,880 I'm safe to assume it was probably, probably swept away by the river or the moth man or 569 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:15,880 the moth man. 570 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:16,880 So the opportunity. 571 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,440 I don't think he was trying to go after people. 572 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:21,440 We'll, we'll, we'll. 573 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:22,440 Right. 574 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:23,440 Well, don't worry. 575 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,560 We'll get to what the moth man might be, what his intentions were. 576 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,160 Not on this episode, but we'll get there. 577 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,600 So was this accident caused by the moth man? 578 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:35,720 People did claim they saw the moth man perch atop of it just a few days prior. 579 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:39,320 Others claim they saw men in black climbing around on it, possibly to sabotage it for 580 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,720 some unknown reason. 581 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:46,080 Or it's just, you know, this could have just been another unfortunate disaster that, you 582 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:51,760 know, America's infrastructure as much as we love it, not the best, but after this incident, 583 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,640 the moth man sightings just kind of ended. 584 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:59,680 I don't know if the moth man vanished or, you know, like the town and its people are 585 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:04,040 probably in such a state of mourning and grief that stories of incitings of like winged men 586 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:10,560 just didn't seem to matter as much anymore after like such a huge tragedy and like a 587 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:11,560 real tragedy too. 588 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:13,680 Like this is something that happened. 589 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:17,720 You know, people seeing the moth man, that's whatever you might have, you might have not, 590 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:19,280 but I don't know. 591 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:20,780 But no one can really say. 592 00:29:20,780 --> 00:29:23,000 There was a bridge there and now there's not a bridge there. 593 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:27,320 We can say definitively that something happened to the bridge. 594 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:31,640 I'm glad you're here to put things in perspective. 595 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:37,100 You know, if there's one thing I could do for this podcast, it's, you know, just point 596 00:29:37,100 --> 00:29:39,200 out the facts here, folks. 597 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,480 No, and it's greatly appreciated. 598 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:44,760 I'd be lost without you. 599 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:50,720 And that's as we're going to leave off on this episode and we'll continue on next week 600 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:54,280 with the stories of some other weird stuff that happened during the moth man drain over 601 00:29:54,280 --> 00:30:00,160 Point Pleasant, specifically the men in black and if time allotted, injured Colt. 602 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:01,960 We're definitely talking about injured Colt though. 603 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:02,960 He's a fucking weird dude. 604 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:09,280 So yeah, Colby, so those are some of the sightings and the unfortunate end of the moth man sightings 605 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:10,280 in Point Pleasant. 606 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:11,840 What do you think? 607 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:12,840 How are you feeling? 608 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,800 What do you just give me something? 609 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:17,840 Well worth the wait, I will tell you. 610 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:25,480 You know, I feel like that the slow burn of episode one was, you know, really ramping 611 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:27,360 up for something, something good. 612 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:28,360 Yeah. 613 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:33,440 And fuck a, you know, winged beast shooting straight up in the sky. 614 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:34,920 That's all I needed. 615 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:35,920 That's all I needed. 616 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:43,000 It was just destroying, maybe destroying bridges in people's lives. 617 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,000 Damn, damn. 618 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,000 Super cool. 619 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:50,280 Big corn curses the earth, the land and moth man. 620 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:51,800 It's cool as fuck. 621 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:52,800 It's corn stock. 622 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:53,800 It's fine. 623 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:54,800 Corn. 624 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:55,800 Damn. 625 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:56,800 What did I call him? 626 00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:57,800 Big corn. 627 00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:58,800 That's what I said, right? 628 00:30:58,800 --> 00:30:59,800 You said big corn. 629 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:00,800 Yeah, it's not. 630 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:01,800 It's corn stock. 631 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:02,800 Corn stock. 632 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:03,800 Got it. 633 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,400 Oh shit. 634 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:07,400 All right, man. 635 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,080 Well, yeah, next week's going to get his name right. 636 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:10,080 Next week's going to be weirder. 637 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:11,080 I promise you. 638 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:12,880 It's going to be like uncomfortably weird. 639 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:13,880 Cool. 640 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:14,880 Yeah. 641 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:15,880 So look forward to that. 642 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:21,840 Colby, is there anything you want to plug before we scoot on out of here? 643 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,560 I mean, you know, the band's doing good. 644 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:29,720 You know, we got some songs that we've been nailing down with a new drummer. 645 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:30,720 Check us out, Lanterns. 646 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,720 Yeah, we got to change that. 647 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:34,720 That's Spotify name. 648 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:38,160 I just realized that that's like the last piece of the puzzle. 649 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:40,680 But yeah, we're going to start playing out soon. 650 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:41,680 Yeah. 651 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:43,520 So it's Lanterns Last Light on Spotify. 652 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,600 Check out their single they have out now called Mitochondria. 653 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:48,360 Ah ha ha. 654 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:51,360 What's he called? 655 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:52,360 Ah ha ha. 656 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:53,880 Maki Hiki, come on. 657 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:54,880 That's what it is. 658 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:56,400 Then follow them on Instagram. 659 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,360 It's lanterns 207, but there's no vowels. 660 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:03,880 So it's LNTNRS 207, I believe, on Instagram. 661 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,400 Yeah, we said I will not take a vowel. 662 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,520 Alex, is that the host of? 663 00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:10,520 Nope. 664 00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:11,520 That's Jeopardy. 665 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:12,520 Damn it. 666 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:13,520 Thanks a lot, William Brady. 667 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:14,520 Pat Sajak is Wheel of Fortune. 668 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:15,520 That's what you're thinking of. 669 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:16,520 I don't think he's hosting. 670 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:17,520 I don't know. 671 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:18,520 He's like 180 years old. 672 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:19,520 He's as old as David Attenborough at this point, I feel like. 673 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:20,520 Yeah. 674 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:21,520 Oh shit. 675 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:22,520 Can we just start comparing people's names? 676 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:30,280 He's like father time at this point. 677 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,280 I love it. 678 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:33,280 It's great. 679 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:34,280 All right. 680 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:43,280 If you want to follow us on Instagram, Crypto Cocktail, follow us on TikTok, Crypto Cocktail 681 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:44,280 Party. 682 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,920 If you like what you're hearing and want to support the show, just head on over to 683 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,200 patreon.com slash Crypto Cocktail Party. 684 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,840 That's five dollars a month and you will get things when I get to them. 685 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:57,520 But with that, Colby, do you want to say goodbye to everyone? 686 00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,920 Bye Crypto lovers and listeners. 687 00:32:59,920 --> 00:33:22,920 Love you.