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What makes for a good modern myth? Is it something that seems to permeate pop culture and the minds of conspiracy theorists alike, but can’t be proven or disproven? Something that defies explanation yet so many attempt to explain it anyway?
The red-eyed, winged, bipedal, humanoid, bird creature known as the Mothman has intrigued the public for decades and his legend only continues to grow.
SOURCES
https://www.singularfortean.com/news/2017/6/10/a-timeline-of-the-chicago-flying-humanoid-sightings-so-farhttps://www.audubon.org/news/is-mothman-west-virginia-owl
Eyewitness account by Anthony Munger
https://u.osu.edu/vanzandt/2019/02/11/mothman-a-west-virginia-folklore/“
Couples See Man-Sized Bird…Creature…Something.” Point Pleasant Register, 16 Nov. 1966.
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The red-eyed, winged, bipedal, humanoid, bird creature known as the Mothman has intrigued the public for decades and his legend only continues to grow.
SOURCES
https://www.singularfortean.com/news/2017/6/10/a-timeline-of-the-chicago-flying-humanoid-sightings-so-farhttps://www.audubon.org/news/is-mothman-west-virginia-owl
Eyewitness account by Anthony Munger
https://u.osu.edu/vanzandt/2019/02/11/mothman-a-west-virginia-folklore/“
Couples See Man-Sized Bird…Creature…Something.” Point Pleasant Register, 16 Nov. 1966.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/autumn-s-oddities--5307439/support.
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