Mothman

Creep Me Out: A Podcast of True Crime, Urban Legends, & the Weird

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

https://books.google.com/books?id=s4AP30k4IFwC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PR15&hl=en&source=newbks_fb

-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

https://archive.org/details/sim_american-society-of-civil-engineers-collected-journals_1993-11_119_4/mode/2up

-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