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Celebrating My One Year Anniversary by Talking About Mothman · Pinky Boo Hauntings

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Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome back the Pinky Boo Hauntings. I'll be
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Speaker 1: your witchy host Shy, and I'll be your guide to
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Speaker 1: all things paranormal, weird and spooky. Guess who finally got
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Speaker 1: to this episode? I know I should have done it
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Speaker 1: like a month ago, but with the retrograde throw at
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Speaker 1: me for a loop the last week of it, and
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Speaker 1: just some personal life stuff that was going on, it's
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Speaker 1: kind of made it hard to sit down and write
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Speaker 1: the whole script. While I was excited for this deep
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Speaker 1: dive and still I am, I guess everything in my
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Speaker 1: life was making it hard to actually focus on this,
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Speaker 1: at least in a way that I was happy with. Oh, also,
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Speaker 1: it's my one year anniversary and it's my birthday. Well
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Speaker 1: technically this will be coming out the day before, but
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Speaker 1: still I can't believe I've been doing this for a
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Speaker 1: whole year now. I also still can't believe anyone is
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Speaker 1: listening to me. I really do want to thank you
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Speaker 1: guys from the bottom of my heart or deciding to
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Speaker 1: check out my podcast and for sticking around. I hope
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Speaker 1: you continue to hang out enjoying the cove and meetings
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Speaker 1: every week, and I hope I don't end up scaring
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Speaker 1: you too much along the way. I'll try to keep
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Speaker 1: improving with my content so that I can bring you
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Speaker 1: the best episodes every week i possibly can. Anyways, I
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Speaker 1: know you've already seen the title, and if you follow
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Speaker 1: me on my socials, you might have saw my post
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Speaker 1: hinting at it. We're talking about Mothman today. Mothman has
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Speaker 1: been getting a lot of attention for years now. He's
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Speaker 1: gotten so much love lately that I think when it
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Speaker 1: comes to cryptos, he's probably up there with Bigfoot now.
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Speaker 1: He even has his own build a bear now, and
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Speaker 1: people love him so much that thing sold out fast
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Speaker 1: every time he came back into Stock, which as someone
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Speaker 1: that wanted him like day one, it drove me crazy
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Speaker 1: trying to get my own because every time he come
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Speaker 1: back into stock I was always too broke to get him,
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Speaker 1: so I think it took me a few tries to
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Speaker 1: finally get him. Also, being a little financially irresponsible, and
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Speaker 1: I just ended up using my credit card. Okay, I
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Speaker 1: know that isn't like the worst thing I could have done,
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Speaker 1: but I do try to only use my credit card
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Speaker 1: for emergencies, so I always beat myself up when I
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Speaker 1: do stuff like that. Anyways, back to the man of
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Speaker 1: the hour, mob man, we're going to talk about what
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Speaker 1: he might be, where he came from, and of course sightings.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of sightings, why don't we begin this deep dive
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Speaker 1: off with the one that started it all. It's a cold,
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Speaker 1: peaceful fall night in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. It's the
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixties, in the middle of November, when two couples
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Speaker 1: decided to take a drive around the town. You're all
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Speaker 1: enjoying a midnight drive in your friend's black fifty seven
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Speaker 1: Chevy bel Air. You're joking, laughing, listening to music, and
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Speaker 1: just enjoying each other's company. While you are cruising around
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Speaker 1: outside of town in what is known as a TNT area,
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Speaker 1: something in the air seems to shift. You see what
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Speaker 1: appears to be a person standing on the side of
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Speaker 1: the road, which is strange because this isn't a place
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Speaker 1: people are known to hang around, especially at this hour,
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Speaker 1: So you keep your eye on them, Not sure what
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Speaker 1: to think of them, you study them, and the more
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Speaker 1: you do, the more you realize something is definitely wrong here.
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Speaker 1: The car is getting closer and closer to this being.
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Speaker 1: The more it does, the more you notice more of
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Speaker 1: its features. This thing looks humanoid, but not At the
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Speaker 1: same time, it's tall, probably around six to seven feet.
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Speaker 1: That's not all. This thing on the side of the
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Speaker 1: road appears to have wings. No, that's impossible, you think
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Speaker 1: to yourself, how could something so large and human like
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Speaker 1: have wings? If that wasn't enough, you also see red eyes,
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Speaker 1: piercing red eyes, and they're glowing. Your friend that was
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Speaker 1: driving stops the car. He's so shocked by what he's seeing.
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Speaker 1: He feels the knee to examine what is before his eyes,
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Speaker 1: probably out of disbelief. You all are in disbelief, and
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Speaker 1: while you all are looking at this thing, time slows down.
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Speaker 1: Seconds feel like minutes, and it feels like you've been
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Speaker 1: staring at this being forever now. Then suddenly you all
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Speaker 1: snap back into reality when your friend that was driving
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Speaker 1: hit the gas in a panic, he pushes his car
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Speaker 1: to its limits. At this point, you think you must
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Speaker 1: be in the clear of this thing. Right, the car
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Speaker 1: is going as fast as it can, and you figure
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Speaker 1: nothing could meet that speed even if it had wings. Right,
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Speaker 1: while you are driving away from this being, you look back,
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Speaker 1: hoping it's staying back where you saw it. That's when
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Speaker 1: you see it spread its wings. It begins to flap
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Speaker 1: its massive wings, lifting itself into the air. Its wingspan
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Speaker 1: is huge and nothing like you've seen before. But the
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Speaker 1: scariest part of all of this is when you realize
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Speaker 1: it was heading right for you. You want to believe there
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Speaker 1: is no way this thing could ever catch up to you,
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Speaker 1: even if it is heading your way. You want to
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Speaker 1: believe you were safe. Unfortunately, you don't get to live
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Speaker 1: in that denial for too long. You all see this
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Speaker 1: thing picking up speed and closing the gap between you
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Speaker 1: and it. This thing has to be going over one
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Speaker 1: hundred miles per hour. This thing has made its way
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Speaker 1: to the car and is following close behind, making a
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Speaker 1: screeching sound all the while. It continue to terrorize the
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Speaker 1: four of you in the car down Route sixty two,
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Speaker 1: at least until you make it past the city limits.
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Speaker 1: For some strange reason, it won't pass into town. This
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Speaker 1: is what two couples, Roger and Linda Scarsbury and Steven
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Speaker 1: Mary Mollett, have said to experience on November fifteenth, nineteen
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Speaker 1: sixty six. Their encounter is accounted as the first sighting
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Speaker 1: of mo Offman. They were just outside of the city
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Speaker 1: limits heading back home to Point Pleasant, and when they
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Speaker 1: were just about to pass by the t Inty area,
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Speaker 1: their night switched from a fun night out into a
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Speaker 1: nightmare no one would ever want to experience themselves. Once
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Speaker 1: they were in Point Pleasant, rogers stopped the car on
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Speaker 1: the side of the road. They all were so confused
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Speaker 1: and scared, not understanding what they saw or how to
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Speaker 1: process it. They also wonder if they should call the police,
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Speaker 1: but came to the conclusion that no one would believe them.
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Speaker 1: So the teenagers did what teenagers do. They decided to
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Speaker 1: do something crazy and reckless. They decided to turn around
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Speaker 1: and see if they could find the creature again, probably
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Speaker 1: figuring that if they came in contact with it once again,
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Speaker 1: they'd be able to truly believe what they saw just
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Speaker 1: a moment ago, so they bravely went back out to
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Speaker 1: the T and T area. When they got back to
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Speaker 1: that area, they unfortunately saw Mofman once again. It leapt
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Speaker 1: over the car and disappeared into a nearby field. I
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Speaker 1: know this would be so scary if you were having
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Speaker 1: to actually experience this yourself, but from an outsider's perspective,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like mofman really meant them any harm.
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Speaker 1: He just seemed like he wanted to be left alone,
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Speaker 1: especially from the second encounter. But with that said, the
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Speaker 1: two couples were once again scared out of their minds
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Speaker 1: and sped back to town. This time they drove to
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Speaker 1: a diner called Tiny's Diner. And I just know that
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Speaker 1: a large, mean looking man that is actually a teddy
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Speaker 1: bear on that place. That's usually who has a nickname
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Speaker 1: like Timing. Once the teenagers got into the diner, they
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Speaker 1: told the person working there to call the police. Sheriff
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Speaker 1: George Johnson and Deputy Miller Holston came out to talk
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Speaker 1: to the teenagers. They told them all about what they
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Speaker 1: saw and endured. They told them how they saw a
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Speaker 1: huge black figure with glowing red eyes. Linda Scarsbury, being
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Speaker 1: in the front seat, described it as a slender, muscular
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Speaker 1: man who had to be around seven feet tall and
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Speaker 1: had large white wings. She also said that she couldn't
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Speaker 1: make out a face because of its hypnotic glowing eyes.
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Speaker 1: Roger Scarsbury also drew them a picture of what he saw.
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Speaker 1: I'll try my best to describe this thing, or you
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Speaker 1: could just go look it up. I won't judge you.
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Speaker 1: This picture looked like a strange black figure with very
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Speaker 1: little details. It was slender with a little meat on it.
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Speaker 1: Like Linda explained, it also didn't seem to have a
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Speaker 1: face or head per se. Where you would expect a
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Speaker 1: head to be, there seems to be mirrored wing like
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Speaker 1: shapes draping down to its legs, and within the arches
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Speaker 1: of what I presume to be the wings are two
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Speaker 1: very large circles. I do pretty much understand what he
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Speaker 1: was trying to draw, but this drawing has always annoyed me.
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Speaker 1: I think it's because what is supposed to be the
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Speaker 1: eyes makes no sense with the rest of the body.
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Speaker 1: It makes it seem like the eyes are in the
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Speaker 1: wings and that this thing has no head, which I mean,
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Speaker 1: I guess could have been possible, but it still annoys me.
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Speaker 1: Oh you know what else, This drawing a mofman has
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Speaker 1: always made me think of cousin it but with eyes.
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Speaker 1: All right, I'm done. I just need to get that
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Speaker 1: off my chest. Since I'm talking about the drawing, I'll
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Speaker 1: get back on track now. The artists and me just
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Speaker 1: needed event. After hearing their accounts, the two went down
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Speaker 1: to the TNT area to investigate. After a good search
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Speaker 1: of the area, they came back empty handed. Point Pleasant,
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Speaker 1: being a small town, word got out fast about the
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Speaker 1: four being attacked by a winged creature that night. In
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Speaker 1: the very next day, they held a press conference. On
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Speaker 1: November sixteenth, nineteen sixty six, the Point Pleasant Register published
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Speaker 1: an article titled Pupple see man sized bird creature something.
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Speaker 1: This article seemed to open the floodgates, and people started
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Speaker 1: reporting their past sightings as well as future ones. The
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Speaker 1: report seemed to make others feel safe in talking about
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Speaker 1: the strange things they have seen as well. So while
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Speaker 1: the couples are credited as the first sighting, there were
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Speaker 1: definitely sightings before them. Those people just seemed too scared
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Speaker 1: to come forward until after they found out they weren't
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Speaker 1: alone in their experience. This point, the locals were just
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Speaker 1: calling the being the bird. It wasn't until the Herald
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Speaker 1: Dispatch in Huffington, West Virginia, that Mothman officially got his name.
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Speaker 1: Inspired by the hit show at the time, Batman sixty six,
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Speaker 1: they printed their article with the title bird Plane or Batman.
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Speaker 1: Mason countyons hunt Mothman. From there, Mothman had fully been
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Speaker 1: born as we know him today. The legend of the
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Speaker 1: Mothman continues to spread and reports continued to come in,
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Speaker 1: and just over a year after the original reported sighting,
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Speaker 1: on December fifteenth, nineteen sixty seven, a travesty fell upon
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Speaker 1: Point Pleasant. The Silver Bridge was put under pressure that
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Speaker 1: it wasn't built for. When the bridge was first constructed,
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Speaker 1: it was built with model teas in mind. These cars
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Speaker 1: were lighter than modern cars, weighing around fifteen hundred pounds
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Speaker 1: instead of over four thousand pounds. The engineers in charge
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Speaker 1: of this bridge also didn't seem to have the foresight
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Speaker 1: to think of what might happen if a part of
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Speaker 1: the bridge was to fail. If one part of it
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Speaker 1: was to collapse, the whole bridge was going to follow soup.
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Speaker 1: So when the bridge was packed with cars, it couldn't
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Speaker 1: withstand the overbearing weight, and eventually it finally gave out.
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Speaker 1: It started with an eyebar cracking near the top of
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Speaker 1: the bridge on the Ohio side. Not long after, the
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Speaker 1: chain snapped and the bridge gave way. Cars and people
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Speaker 1: plummeted into the icy waters of the Ohio River below.
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Speaker 1: Forty six people died from drowning, hyperthermia and being crushed
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Speaker 1: by falling debris. This horrible incident was the second thing
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Speaker 1: that put Point Pleasant on the map, with Mockman being
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Speaker 1: the first. It was easy for some to blame him
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Speaker 1: for what happened on that bridge, though others seemed to
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Speaker 1: believe he was more like a warning of what was
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Speaker 1: to come. They also could not be related at all.
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Speaker 1: After all, the engineers clearly did a shit job with
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Speaker 1: the planning of this bridge. It makes the most sense,
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Speaker 1: and Moufman shouldn't be blamed for it. At most, he
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Speaker 1: could have been there as a warning, but no matter what.
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Speaker 1: Mofman started becoming known for being able to predict disasters
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Speaker 1: right before they happened. People saw that he would be
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Speaker 1: seen on top of the newly built bridge that replaced
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Speaker 1: the original Silver Bridge. Two times people have claimed to
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Speaker 1: see him perched atop the bridge, was two thousand and
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Speaker 1: nine before the Mexican swine flew and in twenty eleven
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Speaker 1: before the nuclear disaster and Rejima Japan. So now when
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Speaker 1: Mofman is spotted, people become fearful of what disaster might
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Speaker 1: be lurking around the corner, which sadly makes people fearful
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Speaker 1: of the Mofman. Himself if you can't tell. I think
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Speaker 1: Mafman might be misunderstood. I know that he chased those couples,
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Speaker 1: but what if he was just trying to get them
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Speaker 1: to go away. People say the TNT area is his home,
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Speaker 1: so it wouldn't be that hard to believe he's trying
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Speaker 1: to make them leave his home alone. I mean, most
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Speaker 1: times when he's seen, he's just sitting on a bridge
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Speaker 1: after all, so it's very likely he's just trying to
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Speaker 1: exist and even tries to help warm people the best
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Speaker 1: he can. That's right, you came here for a deep dive,
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Speaker 1: and instead I'm going to convince you that Mafman isn't
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Speaker 1: actually bad, that he's just a misunderstood being and maybe
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Speaker 1: he just wants to help. With all that being said,
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Speaker 1: who is Mofman and where did he come from? Obviously
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Speaker 1: we won't come out of this with any real answers,
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Speaker 1: but we can at least go over some of the theories.
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Speaker 1: And the best place to start is actually where you think,
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Speaker 1: the T and T area. Before we can get to that, though,
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Speaker 1: what is the TNT area? The TNT area was a
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Speaker 1: relic of its time. Its official name is the Clifton
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Speaker 1: f mcclinic Wildlife Management Area. I don't know who decided
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Speaker 1: to name it that, but we got beef, now, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I've got beef with a dead guy. Won't be the
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Speaker 1: first time and probably won't be the last time. I
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Speaker 1: don't blame the locals for giving it a shorter nickname,
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Speaker 1: and that's what I will be calling it for the
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Speaker 1: rest of this episode anyways. The T and T Area
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Speaker 1: is a naturalized area located in Masson County, just five
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Speaker 1: miles away from Point Pleasant. It was actually located within
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Speaker 1: the old wartime industrial land on three thousand, six hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty five acres. Now it is the home of farmlands, woodlands,
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Speaker 1: and wetlands. But the strangest thing within this area, and
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Speaker 1: probably the origins of its nickname, is that there are
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Speaker 1: still explosives stored here. And I'm sure you can guess
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Speaker 1: the next part, but where these explosives were stored is
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Speaker 1: actually in the former World War Two mumissions plants and
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Speaker 1: built around that area are dome shaped bunkers that were
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Speaker 1: built under the earth. The entrance was above ground with
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Speaker 1: a simple door in the The man made heel is
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Speaker 1: actually one of those bunkers that the two couples first
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Speaker 1: saw Mofman. It could have been where he was staying
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Speaker 1: at the time. Maybe he even hops between the bunkers
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Speaker 1: to keep from being seen most of the time. No
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Speaker 1: one is really sure where he comes and goes for sure.
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Speaker 1: But with so many bunkers scattered around the T and
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Speaker 1: T area, is it really that hard to believe he
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Speaker 1: could be doing just that If he's scared of people,
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Speaker 1: I could see him wanting to stay away from people
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Speaker 1: for the most part. Well, now we have an idea
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Speaker 1: of where he's living, But what about the Man of
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Speaker 1: the Hour himself? What could he be? There are a
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Speaker 1: few theories people have of what Mofman is. The first
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Speaker 1: is the most popular for those who don't believe in Mofman.
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Speaker 1: They claim that every sighting of this creature was actually
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Speaker 1: just a large bird that people mistake for a monstrous being.
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Speaker 1: This theory first seemed to appear not long after the
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Speaker 1: most known sighting. Sheriff Johnson believed that what the teens
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Speaker 1: saw that night was actually just an unusually large green heron.
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie when I saw this, I had
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Speaker 1: to see what this bird even looked like, because I
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Speaker 1: figured it must have been a large bird naturally, but no,
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Speaker 1: these birds are small, like really small. They're about seventeen
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Speaker 1: inches in all and with a wingspan of no more
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Speaker 1: than twenty seven inches wide. Even if this was an
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Speaker 1: abnormally large one, I can't imagine it ever got to
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Speaker 1: six feet tall. I mean, I understand they could have
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Speaker 1: been wrong about Mofman's height, but again I can't understand
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Speaker 1: how he thought it could have been such a small bird.
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Speaker 1: I think he just wanted to find a more normal
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Speaker 1: explanation to maybe ease his own fears. I do understand
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Speaker 1: what people like to use this as the explanation, and
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Speaker 1: could easily make sense of the glowing eyes too. Animals
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Speaker 1: can have very reflective eyes that when hit with light,
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Speaker 1: couldn't make them seem like they're glowing. But the other
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Speaker 1: things people describe in their sightings, I don't think they
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Speaker 1: really line up with the bird even if it wasn't now,
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Speaker 1: I just don't see this as a solid explanation, at
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Speaker 1: least like those that want to brush people's encounters off
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Speaker 1: think it is another theory that people have of what
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Speaker 1: Mofman could be. Is more connected to the land's path
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Speaker 1: with such a strange and huge creature. There is really
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Speaker 1: only one explanation for how something like that could be.
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Speaker 1: It was a mutated animal or a freakish experiment gone wrong. Okay, well,
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Speaker 1: I guess that was more like two things it could be,
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Speaker 1: but both come from the same idea, so I'm counting
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Speaker 1: it as one. See people believe that something shady might
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Speaker 1: have been going on in the TNT area. Back during
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Speaker 1: World War Two. It said that there was a secret
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Speaker 1: laboratory that the government was doing experiments to help aid
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Speaker 1: in the war, that they were making monster like creatures
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Speaker 1: in that lab. After the war, the land was abandoned,
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Speaker 1: which of course would mean the lab with the experiment
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Speaker 1: still inside would have been too. Mofman would have been
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Speaker 1: one of those experiments that had been abandoned as well.
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Speaker 1: Maybe he was supposed to be taken care of before
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Speaker 1: the government left, but somehow he made it. Anyways, some
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Speaker 1: of the people gone in the experiments assumed to be terminated,
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Speaker 1: no one was there to realize one of them actually
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Speaker 1: made it. This led to the creature known as Mofman,
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Speaker 1: finding his way out of the lab and outside a
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Speaker 1: point pleasant city limit. From there, He's stayed in that area,
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Speaker 1: not knowing where else to go. While this one could
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Speaker 1: explain the look of Mofman, it still doesn't make sense
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Speaker 1: how he is able to predict those tragedies, or could it.
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Speaker 1: The government has been known to do research on psychic
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Speaker 1: powers and abilities, so who is to say if they
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Speaker 1: didn't do something to Mofman to give him the ability
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Speaker 1: to see the future. What helps people believe Mafman was
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Speaker 1: created by the government is that the men in Black
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Speaker 1: seem to pop up when people say they have seen them.
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Speaker 1: Another theory that is also connected to the Men in
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Speaker 1: Black is that some say Mofman could be an alien.
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Speaker 1: That's right. Some believe he is from outer space. And
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Speaker 1: I got to say this was the only one that
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Speaker 1: I was kind of surprised by. I don't think I've
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Speaker 1: ever heard this theory, so when I saw it on
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Speaker 1: the list of possible things Mofman could be, I couldn't
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Speaker 1: believe it at first. Apparently this theory gained traction after
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Speaker 1: paranormal researcher John Kill noticed strange phenomenon that seemed to
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Speaker 1: accompany sightings of the flying creature, things like glowing ords,
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Speaker 1: weird animal behaviors, mysterious energy fields, technical failures, time loss, disappearances,
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Speaker 1: and of course, the Men in Black. All of these
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Speaker 1: phenomenon are associated with UFO sightings, so it wasn't hard
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Speaker 1: for people to connect Moufman with aliens. People came to
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Speaker 1: believe this theory as well, thanks to the fact that
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Speaker 1: the residents of Point Pleasant have been victims of electrical problems.
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Speaker 1: Do I believe this theory? Not really, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I know people like to jump to aliens every time
26:30
Speaker 1: the Men in Black are said to be seen, but
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Speaker 1: I just don't think Mafman is an alien. Plus, it
26:37
Speaker 1: still doesn't make sense how he knew of the tragedies beforehand.
26:42
Speaker 1: But did you think that was the only theories about
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Speaker 1: what Maufman could be. You're wrong. With how much Moufman
26:50
Speaker 1: captures the imagination of people that hear his story, it's
26:55
Speaker 1: no surprise that everyone has their own thoughts on what
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Speaker 1: he could be. I will say that these theories are
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Speaker 1: probably the ones I really don't believe in the most,
27:07
Speaker 1: but we are doing a deep dive here, so I
27:10
Speaker 1: still wanted to add them as well. There are people
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Speaker 1: that believe Mofman could be a transdimensional being, an angel
27:18
Speaker 1: sent by God to warn us, or even a ghost
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Speaker 1: I can't understand why people would believe it's an angel,
27:27
Speaker 1: since he does seem to warn people of tragedies to come,
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Speaker 1: But it still doesn't seem to account the times he's
27:33
Speaker 1: been seen hanging around the city limits. The ghost theory
27:38
Speaker 1: is a crazy one, for sure. I'm not even sure
27:41
Speaker 1: why people would think he's a ghost. It just doesn't
27:44
Speaker 1: make sense for anything we've been told about the sightings
27:48
Speaker 1: of them. Now, with the transdimensional being theory, I think
27:56
Speaker 1: I could get behind that one. It could explain his
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Speaker 1: strange apparents, why he's not seen around Point Pleasant for
28:03
Speaker 1: years at a time, and even explain how he can
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Speaker 1: know when certain events are going to take place. How
28:11
Speaker 1: it could even explain his hypnotic glowing red eyes. Maybe
28:16
Speaker 1: is something beings like him can do, maybe even to
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Speaker 1: help protect them if they are seen while traveling. Transdimensional
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Speaker 1: beings are not locked into time and space the way
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Speaker 1: we are. They can travel across and beyond the two.
28:35
Speaker 1: But what do you think? Do you believe one of
28:38
Speaker 1: these theories or do you have another theory of what
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Speaker 1: Mothman can be. I will say one thing you can
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Speaker 1: take from all of these theories was that Mothman has
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Speaker 1: captured the imagination of many around the world, so much
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Speaker 1: so that people are known to flock the Point Pleasant
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Speaker 1: to this day hoping to find out the truth. But
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Speaker 1: don't worry. If you're too scared to go out to
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Speaker 1: the TNT area, you can look for the truth in
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Speaker 1: the Mofman Museum. That's right, there is a museum dedicated
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Speaker 1: all to the Man of the hour. They first open
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Speaker 1: their doors to the public in two thousand and five
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Speaker 1: and they are open seven days a week, So no
29:26
Speaker 1: matter when you decide to take a trip to Point Pleasant,
29:29
Speaker 1: you'll be able to visit the museum. You'll be able
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Speaker 1: to see the original newspaper clippings of reported sightings, as
29:38
Speaker 1: well as the largest collection of memberabilia and props from
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Speaker 1: the movie The Mofman Prophecies. But if that's not good
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Speaker 1: enough for you, you can walk right out the doors of
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Speaker 1: the museum and see Moffman himself. You can even give
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Speaker 1: his ass a slap. Okay, don't actually do that, because
30:00
Speaker 1: it's a salt. Even if the Moffman outside of the
30:03
Speaker 1: museum is a statue, don't be that person. I do
30:08
Speaker 1: need you, guys to look up this statue because the
30:10
Speaker 1: person who made it was doing too much giving him
30:14
Speaker 1: a nice ass. You know, you don't have to look
30:17
Speaker 1: up Moffman's statue. Ass, just look up Moffman's statue, and
30:20
Speaker 1: I promise most of them are just his backside. I
30:26
Speaker 1: even saw someone put a dollar bill between his cheeks.
30:30
Speaker 1: People be disrespectful for no reason. You know what, who
30:35
Speaker 1: have made this? I'll be right back. Bob Broach, Bob Bob,
30:41
Speaker 1: which just why why did you need to give him
30:44
Speaker 1: the cake like that? It's just such a weird choice. Sorry,
30:50
Speaker 1: Ever since I found out about the Moffman statues, but
30:53
Speaker 1: it's all I ever think of when I'm talking about it,
30:57
Speaker 1: because I thought it looked crazy in the front. I
31:00
Speaker 1: just want to know what his thought process was. I
31:04
Speaker 1: get the feeling it would be funny to listen to
31:07
Speaker 1: him explain it. Oh but if a big booty Mockman
31:13
Speaker 1: statue and museum isn't enough for you, you can also
31:17
Speaker 1: join the Mockman Festival they have every year. It happens
31:21
Speaker 1: every year on the third weekend of September, which means
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Speaker 1: it will be happening this weekend. I wish I could
31:29
Speaker 1: afford to go this year because it would be so
31:31
Speaker 1: cool to do for my birthday. Also, while I decided
31:36
Speaker 1: to schedule this episode for today, I did not realize
31:39
Speaker 1: until after I plan that that the festival was actually
31:43
Speaker 1: this week as well. The universe works in insane ways
31:48
Speaker 1: and it continues to blow my mind, but I love
31:51
Speaker 1: it at the same time. So if you're at the
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Speaker 1: festival this weekend, tell me how it went. I want
31:59
Speaker 1: to live like curiously through you. Anyways, this festival was
32:05
Speaker 1: started back in two thousand and two after they were
32:09
Speaker 1: brainstorming ways to help bring in more tourism to Point
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Speaker 1: Pleasant and what better way to bring people in than
32:17
Speaker 1: the creature that put the city on the map in
32:19
Speaker 1: the first place, And it was the smartest move they
32:25
Speaker 1: could have made. Now it is estimated to bring in
32:29
Speaker 1: around ten to twelve thousand people per year. People that
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Speaker 1: are curious about Mothman are those that want to celebrate them.
32:40
Speaker 1: Mockman truly has captured the hearts and minds of many people,
32:44
Speaker 1: growing from a lesser known cryptid to now having a
32:48
Speaker 1: festival dedicated to him and even getting his own build
32:51
Speaker 1: of beer plush, something even Bigfoot hasn't gotten yet. So
32:57
Speaker 1: while he might have a scarier appearance, don't let that
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Speaker 1: fool you. He seems to be here to help warn
33:05
Speaker 1: us of tragedies, but maybe don't get too close. I
33:10
Speaker 1: fear he likes his face and might let you know
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Speaker 1: in a less than friendly way, so as always be
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Speaker 1: respectful and maybe keep an eye out for danger if
33:21
Speaker 1: you see him. And if you have ever encountered Mofman
33:26
Speaker 1: before or know someone that has, why not send me
33:31
Speaker 1: an email. I'd love to hear your stories. Send them
33:35
Speaker 1: in to Pinky Boo Hauntings at gmail, and don't worry,
33:39
Speaker 1: we also have a link in the show notes and
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Speaker 1: a description below. Guys, I really hope you enjoyed the
33:49
Speaker 1: deep dive of Mofman. I was so excited back when
33:54
Speaker 1: I decided to do this one, and very upset when
33:57
Speaker 1: writer's block got the best of me. I am sorry
34:01
Speaker 1: it took me so long to actually get to it,
34:04
Speaker 1: but it would seem that the universe was looking out
34:06
Speaker 1: for me, because it was clearly meant for me to
34:10
Speaker 1: wait on this episode until today. After all, How perfect
34:17
Speaker 1: is it that this weekend is the Mothman Festival. I
34:22
Speaker 1: love when things work out like that, and what a
34:25
Speaker 1: way to celebrate the podcast one year anniversary, as well
34:30
Speaker 1: as my birthday. It truly was meant to be. Oh
34:37
Speaker 1: but as I've said a few times already, it's my birthday.
34:42
Speaker 1: And if you'd like to get me a gift you
34:47
Speaker 1: could rate and review and like and subscribe, it really
34:51
Speaker 1: would be the best gift I could get this year.
34:55
Speaker 1: And if you feel compelled to, could you also share
34:58
Speaker 1: the word of the coven? Help a girl out? It
35:03
Speaker 1: is my one year anniversary and my birthday. After all,
35:09
Speaker 1: what have I mentioned that already? It's not like I'm
35:13
Speaker 1: trying to guilt you, guys or anything. For real, though
35:19
Speaker 1: I can't believe it's already been a year. I am
35:22
Speaker 1: so grateful for you guys, and for you sticking around.
35:26
Speaker 1: It means the world to me, and I will never
35:29
Speaker 1: have the words to express how much I appreciate you all.
35:34
Speaker 1: I hope we can keep growing this coven, and I
35:37
Speaker 1: promise to keep bringing you scary and strange stories. I
35:42
Speaker 1: love being your host and your guide to all things paranormal,
35:45
Speaker 1: weird and spooky. But for now, the Coven is ajoren.
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