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Mothman: The Dark Secret West Virginia Tried to Forget · Ryder Lee

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Speaker 1: Once every year, thousands of people come from across the
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Speaker 1: United States and from other countries to visit this little
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Speaker 1: town in West Virginia with the population of around three
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Speaker 1: thousand people, to check out the site of the most
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Speaker 1: well documented crypted sighting of all times, the Mothman.
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Speaker 2: Hello Mothman? Where is the Mothman?
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Speaker 1: Rogers Scarberry, Linda Scarberry and two others. There were two
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Speaker 1: young couples from Point Pleasant driving around late at night
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Speaker 1: on November fifteenth, nineteen sixty six, at around round eleven
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Speaker 1: thirty pm, near the T and T area, which is
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Speaker 1: a large stretch of eighty three hundred acres of land
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Speaker 1: north of Point Pleasant. It had already had a reputation
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Speaker 1: for being eerie with rumors of strange lights, noises, wild
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Speaker 1: animals even before the Mothman stories, full of abandoned concrete igloos,
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Speaker 1: underground tunnels, and overgrown forests. The couples were driving along
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Speaker 1: Round sixty two near the old T and T Plant
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Speaker 1: and suddenly their headlights illuminated a large gray man shaped
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Speaker 1: figure standing near the road by the old North Power
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Speaker 1: Plant building. They described it as six to seven feet tall,
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Speaker 1: human leg but with wings that folded against this back
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Speaker 1: like a large bird, glowing red eyes about two inches
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Speaker 1: wide six inches apart, and a strange hypnotic or as
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Speaker 1: morizing quality. Frightened, they stepped away, the creature took flight,
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Speaker 1: spreading its wings about ten feet wide, and chased their
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Speaker 1: car down Route sixty two, reportedly keeping pace at speeds
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Speaker 1: of nearly one hundred miles an hour. It followed them
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Speaker 1: all the way into Point Pleasant before veering off into
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Speaker 1: the surrounding woods. Shaken by what they had just seen,
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Speaker 1: the four went directly to the sheriff's office and told
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Speaker 1: Millard Halstead what they had seen. Halstead knew them personally
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Speaker 1: and said that they were not prone to making them stories.
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Speaker 1: They were pale, visibly frightened and adamant about what they
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Speaker 1: had witnessed. Sheriff George Johnson and Halstead drove out there
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Speaker 1: to the teen inter area with them that same night,
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Speaker 1: but found nothing unusual except for odd scratch marks in
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Speaker 1: a dust cloud near the old power plant. The story
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Speaker 1: was then reported to the Point Pleasant Register the next day,
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Speaker 1: November sixteenth, nineteen sixty six, under the headline couple seas
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Speaker 1: man sized bird. The article was the first time the
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Speaker 1: story went public and From then on, sightings exploded all
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Speaker 1: around Point Pleasant. Over the next year, over one hundred
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Speaker 1: reported sightings followed, some involving multiple witnesses. Many came from
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Speaker 1: the T and T area, which became the home of
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Speaker 1: the Mothman creature. But this small town just is in
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Speaker 1: the spot of the Mothman sightings. It's also home to
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Speaker 1: a very rich history. According to some historians, the first
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Speaker 1: battle of the Revolutionary War was fought in Point Pleasant,
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Speaker 1: many disasters, including floods, the deadliest bridge collapse in US history,
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Speaker 1: large military bases, and is also the town where some
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Speaker 1: of the first transorbitales were performed on over one hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty people. So stay tuned. West Virginia is no
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Speaker 1: stranger to the cryptid phenomenon or the cryptid sightings they have.
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Speaker 1: The Flatwood Monster reported in flat Woods, Braxton County in
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Speaker 1: nineteen fifty two, mini reports all over West Virginia of
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Speaker 1: Bigfoot like creatures, dog man reports, hell hounds, wampus cats,
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Speaker 1: and the Smiling Man, which is synonymous with the most
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Speaker 1: famous of the bunch, the Mothmaan, which has an entire
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Speaker 1: event held in its name. The annual Mothman Festival takes
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Speaker 1: over the small populated town once a year in September,
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Speaker 1: and I stopped by it this year to have a
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Speaker 1: look around. The downtown area was packed with people. It
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Speaker 1: was hard to walk in some areas. But what a
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Speaker 1: lot of people don't know is that this town has
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Speaker 1: a very rich history, not just with the month, but
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Speaker 1: the first battle of the Revolutionary War was fought in
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Speaker 1: Point Pleasant. Now some will argue this, but if you
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Speaker 1: ask any local historians, they will tell you that the
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Speaker 1: Battle of Point Pleasant, which took place on October tenth,
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Speaker 1: seventeen seventy four, in what is now known as Point Pleasant,
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Speaker 1: West Virginia, was part of Lord Dunmore's War, a conflict
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Speaker 1: between the Colonial Virginia Militia and the Shawnee Native forces
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Speaker 1: led by Chief Cornstock. And they will tell you that
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Speaker 1: this battle should be considered the first battle of the
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Speaker 1: American Revolutionary War. But officially it was Lexington in Concord
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Speaker 1: in Massachusetts on April nineteenth, seventeen seventy five. But the
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Speaker 1: Battle of Point Pleasant happened just a few months before
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Speaker 1: the Lexington and Concord. But hey, it would be too
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Speaker 1: much to go back and rewrite all those history books, right,
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Speaker 1: But This is where the story really begins with Point
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Speaker 1: Pleasant is with the colonial forces and the Shawnee Native
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Speaker 1: Americans led by Chief Cornstock in this Battle of Point Pleasant. Now,
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Speaker 1: the story goes that right before Chief Cornstock's brutal death,
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Speaker 1: being tied to wagons and ripped apart limb by a limb,
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Speaker 1: he put a curse on the town of Point Pleasant
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Speaker 1: and doomed the town to tragedy for as long as
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Speaker 1: people live there, which led the locals to believe that
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Speaker 1: this story had some sort of backing during the Great
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Speaker 1: Flood of nineteen thirty seven, in January of nineteen thirty seven,
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Speaker 1: the Ohio River overflowed its banks after weeks of heavy
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Speaker 1: rain water. The levels crusted at over fifty five feet
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Speaker 1: over Point Pleasant. Thousands were displays, businesses were destroyed, and
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Speaker 1: the entire town was nearly underwater. It was so bad
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Speaker 1: that the people Point Pleasant decided in nineteen thirty eight
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Speaker 1: to get funding from Congress to construct a permanent floodwall
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Speaker 1: along the Ohio River under the Flood Control Act of
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Speaker 1: nineteen thirty eight. The actual construction of the Point Pleasant
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Speaker 1: Floodwall began in the late nineteen forties and was completed
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Speaker 1: in the fifties. The system included concrete walls, levees, and
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Speaker 1: pumping stations designed to protect the town from a repeat
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Speaker 1: of the nineteen thirty seven disaster, barricading the entire town
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Speaker 1: with huge floodwalls that still stand to this very day.
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Speaker 1: But it wasn't the only disaster, along with many other
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Speaker 1: floods that subsequently happened after that flood that wreaked havoc
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Speaker 1: on the town, the Great Bridge collapse on December fifteenth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven, at approximately five pm during rush hour.
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Speaker 1: The incident resulted in the deaths of forty six individuals,
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Speaker 1: with two bodies never recovered, known as the deadliest bridge
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Speaker 1: collapse in US history. Now, many people blame the Mothman
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Speaker 1: for the collapse of the Silver Bridge, saying that it
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Speaker 1: was an omen or a warning to the town, because
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Speaker 1: after the Silver Bridge collapse, the Mothman was never cited
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Speaker 1: again in Point Pleasant Now. The official explanation of the
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Speaker 1: Silver Bridge collapse was that the bridge was a chain
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Speaker 1: suspension bridge made of eyebars, which means that there's flat
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Speaker 1: steel bars with holes in the ends that connected all
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Speaker 1: the bars with pins, and one of the eyebars failed
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Speaker 1: in the suspension chain that calls the bridge to collapse
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Speaker 1: in less than twenty seconds during rush hour, plunging vehicles
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Speaker 1: into the Ohio River and killing forty six people. Was
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Speaker 1: a very tragic event, so close to Christmas as well,
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Speaker 1: and I don't really believe that the town ever really
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Speaker 1: recovered after that. Now the lore goes, this is just lore.
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Speaker 1: It's rumor that the state sent in scuba divers to
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Speaker 1: try and locate the missing bodies, and when they got in,
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Speaker 1: they came up very quickly and looked very shocked and
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Speaker 1: startled by what they had just seen. And the rumor
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Speaker 1: was that what they witnessed got them to their core.
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Speaker 1: The men instead that they had seen fish the size
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Speaker 1: of school buses down there, and that they refused to
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Speaker 1: search anymore. Hey, that's just the rumor. Don't quote me
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Speaker 1: on it, just from what I've heard. But it's not
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Speaker 1: the only time Point Pleasant has been subjected to these
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Speaker 1: kind of mega animals weird mutations. It's long been rumored
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Speaker 1: about the teen the area and the large forested area
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Speaker 1: outside the outskirts of town where the mothman was first
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Speaker 1: spotted had weird discolored wildlife. Three and four eyed frogs
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Speaker 1: glow in the dark fish and this was due to
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Speaker 1: contamination and pollution of the lakes and ponds in the
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Speaker 1: T and T area. So in nineteen forty two, the
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Speaker 1: army began construction and operation to produce T and T
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Speaker 1: munitions and storage of sub munitions and explosives such as
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Speaker 1: bombs for the war effort. They also used the eighty
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Speaker 1: three hundred acres for military training as well. And then
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Speaker 1: they would dump all of that radioactive material and waste
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Speaker 1: and undesirable materials into the ponds and the lakes of
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Speaker 1: the T and T area, polluting the eighty three hundred
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Speaker 1: acre site. This area is huge. You could quite literally
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Speaker 1: get lost out there. Some parts of the TNT area
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Speaker 1: is still heavily polluted and is under surveillance. They would
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Speaker 1: store their ammunition in these large underground igloos so that
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Speaker 1: enemy forces can see it from above. These iglu like
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Speaker 1: structures are all over the place in the TNT area.
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Speaker 1: I don't think that there is even an accurate account
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Speaker 1: of how many there actually are. Some of them have
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Speaker 1: sunken into the lakes and into the ponds, and some
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Speaker 1: are still locked can't get into them, but others are
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Speaker 1: open for the tourists and the locals, and you can
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Speaker 1: go inside them and look around. The walls are around
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Speaker 1: two feet thick, very echo in them. You can hear
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Speaker 1: the slightest bit of movement inside them. I couldn't imagine
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Speaker 1: this being the most practical way to store AMMO and explosive.
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Speaker 1: You could drop a box of anything. Heck, you can
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Speaker 1: even drop a pin or a pencil and your ears
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Speaker 1: would be ringing, let alone a stick of dynamite going
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Speaker 1: off in there. That's precisely what actually happened around ten
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Speaker 1: years ago. One of the igloes blew up. It launched
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Speaker 1: a huge fireball into the sky, and it blew the
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Speaker 1: whole top of the igloo off. And it was never
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Speaker 1: really said how or why it happened or who did it,
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Speaker 1: but it was rumored that someone was storing explosives inside
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Speaker 1: the bunker, or some leftover explosives from the army that
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Speaker 1: was still inside that exploded. It's really strange, but this
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Speaker 1: is what's left of it. The entire top has been
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Speaker 1: completely blown off. I would not recommend trying to get
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Speaker 1: into one of these locked iglues. There might still be
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Speaker 1: dynamite and TNT stored in them. It's also been rumored
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Speaker 1: that there's miles and miles of underground tunnels beneath the
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Speaker 1: t and the area that's been sealed off and concreted
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Speaker 1: over so that no one can get in. There's been
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Speaker 1: people that's claimed to know how to get in through
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Speaker 1: a sewer system leading to a creek from the Ohio River.
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Speaker 1: But if there is, it would be damn near impossible
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Speaker 1: to find. No one could tell you where the entrance is.
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Speaker 1: But I have seen pictures of an above ground hatch
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Speaker 1: entrance that's been sealed off, So something has to be
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Speaker 1: under there. Whether it's an extensive underground system, who knows
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Speaker 1: at this point, but I'm pretty sure it's safe to
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Speaker 1: say that there is something underground in the TNT area.
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Speaker 1: Now for the human experimentations that was going on in
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Speaker 1: Mason County, Lake and State Hospital was established in nineteen
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Speaker 1: twenty six right outside of Point Pleasant but still in
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Speaker 1: Mason County and housed in African American population. It was
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Speaker 1: one of the only two known psychiatric institutions in the
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Speaker 1: United States that was entirely rammed by black staff and
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Speaker 1: served an all black patient population. Doctor Walter Freeman, the
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Speaker 1: father of the transorbital lobotomies, performed some of his first
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Speaker 1: procedures at Laken State Hospital during the early nineteen fifties.
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Speaker 1: This was a part of a state sponsored lobotomy initiative.
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Speaker 1: The programs, sometimes referred to as Operation ice Pick, involved
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Speaker 1: Freedman conducting two hundred and twenty eight procedures over a
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Speaker 1: two week period in West Virginia in nineteen fifty two.
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Speaker 1: These surgeries were performed using the transorbital method, where an
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Speaker 1: instrument resembling an ice pick was inserted through the eye
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Speaker 1: socket to sever connections in the frontal lobes of the brain.
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Speaker 1: Over one hundred and fifty people received these lobotomies from
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Speaker 1: doctor Walter Friedman at Lake and State Hospital. The hospital
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Speaker 1: ultimately closed this door in nineteen seventy nine and was
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Speaker 1: repurposed as an utterly care facility, and now it's a
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Speaker 1: state run minimum security women's prison called Lake in Correctional Facility. Now,
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Speaker 1: the reason that I bring that up is the human
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Speaker 1: experimentation aspect and the lobotomy aspect of this that people
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Speaker 1: would rather not talk about and pretend like it didn't
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Speaker 1: exist and didn't happen in this town and definitely not
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Speaker 1: experimentation on black people, right, Let's keep that hush hush.
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Speaker 1: Let's forget that we had that facility with nothing but
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Speaker 1: an African American staff and African American patients and a
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Speaker 1: psychiatric facility where we would stick them with a damn eye,
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Speaker 1: spick through their tear duct of their eye, and scramble
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Speaker 1: their brain. And that we had a black school just
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Speaker 1: across the road from this psychiatric facility that was eventually
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Speaker 1: tore down so no one could ask any questions, and
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Speaker 1: replace the hospital with a woman's prison. This is all
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Speaker 1: historical fact, and no one wants to talk about it.
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Speaker 1: But that's okay. I'd still I'll still speak for those
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Speaker 1: people that were experimented on by the state, turned into zombies,
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Speaker 1: had their damn brains scrambled and tortured on a daily basis.
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Speaker 1: Fuck you, fuck you, you sick fucks. Anyway, the experimental
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Speaker 1: aspect on human beings lead people to believe that the
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Speaker 1: mockman was an escaped government experiment, which would make sense
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Speaker 1: if there really are underground facilities beneath the T and
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Speaker 1: T area. Okay, let's steal it up. Whatever kind of
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Speaker 1: screwed up chimera hybrid shit we got going on down there.
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Speaker 1: They'll just die because they can't escape. What a lot
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Speaker 1: of people don't know is that from the very beginning
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Speaker 1: until nineteen seventy five, the Mothman wasn't called the mothmam.
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Speaker 1: It was called the Birdman. It wasn't until popular ufologist
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Speaker 1: John Keel wrote the book The Mothman Prophecies that the
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Speaker 1: name started to catch on. It was named Birdman up
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Speaker 1: until that point. John Keel's book The Mothman Prophecies even
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Speaker 1: inspired the Hollywood movie of the same name. The Mothman
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Speaker 1: Prophecies in two thousand and two started Richard Geer, this
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Speaker 1: isn't just a message that it's a prediction.
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Speaker 2: I can stop this.
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Speaker 1: For a long time after the Silver Bridge collapse, no
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Speaker 1: one spoke about the Mothmaan. They were scared to talk
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Speaker 1: about the golf Man. They had been threatened not to
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Speaker 1: talk about the Mothman, formerly known as the Birdman. They
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Speaker 1: had to change the name because Birdman wasn't as popular
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Speaker 1: of a name as the Mothman. Right, Everyone was really
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Speaker 1: scared to talk about the Mothman. They had been threatened
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Speaker 1: not to talk about the Mothman by the men in
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Speaker 1: Black that appeared in Point Pleasant shortly after the first
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Speaker 1: sighting and warned witnesses to not talk about what they
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Speaker 1: had seen and if they did, tragedy would befall them.
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Speaker 1: This reminds me of the Murray Island incident, where a
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Speaker 1: man and his son claimed that while out on their
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Speaker 1: boat on Murray Island near Tacoma, Washington in nineteen forty seven,
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Speaker 1: along with two crewmen, in the sun and the other
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Speaker 1: men saw six large doughnut shaped flying objects hovering over
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Speaker 1: the water. One of them appeared damaged and spewed out
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Speaker 1: molten flag like material down onto the boat. The hot
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Speaker 1: debris injured his son's arm. His dog was killed by
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Speaker 1: falling debris. The boat sustained heavy damage. She took photographs
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Speaker 1: of the object and collected debris samples. The next day
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Speaker 1: he got a mysterious visit by a man in black.
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Speaker 1: The man described the incident in detail, though the man
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Speaker 1: had not told anyone yet, and warned him not to
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Speaker 1: talk about it or tragedy would befall him.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: This encounter of the Murray Island incident is considered one
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Speaker 1: of the first reported men in black sightings in Ufo lore.
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Speaker 1: Now here's the Strange Part. Two Air Force officers William
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Speaker 1: Davison and First Lieutenant Frank Brown were sent to Tacoma,
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Speaker 1: Washington to investigate the Murray Island UFO incident after they
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Speaker 1: had claimed that debris had fallen from a saucer onto
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Speaker 1: their boat and injured their son's arm and killed their dogs.
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Speaker 1: They interviewed the two men and examined the slaglike debris
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Speaker 1: and collected samples to bring it back to California, but
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Speaker 1: on their way back, on the evening of August first,
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Speaker 1: nineteen forty seven, they boarded a B twenty five bomber
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Speaker 1: with a crew of four in total, including the pilot
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Speaker 1: and the crewmen. They were carrying the evidence from the UFO,
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Speaker 1: the debris, and shortly after takeoff, the B twenty five
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Speaker 1: inexplicably caught fire in the air. Okay, Davison and Brown.
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Speaker 1: The two Air Force officers were unable to escape and
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Speaker 1: were killed in the crash, but the pilot and the
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Speaker 1: crewmen survived by a parachuting to safety. Okay, So you're
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Speaker 1: telling me that there wasn't more than two parachutes in
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Speaker 1: the craft and the two people that had evidence of
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Speaker 1: the UFO to be examined just happened to die because
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Speaker 1: of an inexplicable freak accident. It almost sounds like another
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Speaker 1: inexplicable freak accident of an I beam breaking and a
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Speaker 1: bridge collapsing, right, kind of sounds familiar to me. That
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Speaker 1: story of Murray Island incident and Washington sounds erily similar
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Speaker 1: to the Mothman story. Some people see something very strange,
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Speaker 1: they see something they probably shouldn't see. They contact law
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Speaker 1: enforcement men in black up tell them not to talk
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Speaker 1: about it. Death follows with the moth Man it was
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Speaker 1: a silver bridge collapse, but the Murray Island incident, it
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Speaker 1: was the two Air Force officers perishing in a plane
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Speaker 1: crash after they went to get the evidence to confirm
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Speaker 1: the story of the two gentlemen that saw the UFOs,
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Speaker 1: which would be a perfect distraction if something really was
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Speaker 1: going on out in the TNT area, right, because you
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Speaker 1: got to take yourself back to that time. The people
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Speaker 1: of Point Pleasant was really pissed off at this thing.
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Speaker 1: They were Once Linda Scarberry and her husband went to
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Speaker 1: the police department and filed this report, and people found
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Speaker 1: out about it, and it was printed in the newspaper.
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Speaker 1: People were in an uproar about this. They were going
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Speaker 1: on into the TNT area with pitchforks guns to try
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Speaker 1: and find this thing and kill it. Okay, So if
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Speaker 1: it was a government experiment, just like people have concluded
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Speaker 1: that some of these cryptids are indeed government experiments, the
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Speaker 1: best way to get people to shut up about it,
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Speaker 1: which the men in black basically warned all the witnesses
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Speaker 1: to shut up about it, stop talking about it, and
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Speaker 1: if you continue to keep talking about it, something bad
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Speaker 1: is going to happen. Well, the bad thing that happened
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Speaker 1: was the Silver Bridge collapse. Hey, the public of Point
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Speaker 1: Pleasant wouldn't ever talk about the Mothman for years and
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Speaker 1: years after. Okay, they were scared after the Silver Bridge collapse.
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Speaker 1: So if you create this distraction right of this tragedy,
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Speaker 1: the forty six people dying and perishing in the most
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Speaker 1: deadly bridge collapse in US history, it's going to do
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Speaker 1: a lot of things. One is going to get people
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Speaker 1: to shut up about the Mothman, if that's really what
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Speaker 1: your intention was to do. Two, it's going to give
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Speaker 1: you enough time to go out into the T and
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Speaker 1: T area and take the military or some black ops
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Speaker 1: team to go out there and take care of whatever
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Speaker 1: governmental experiment was on the loose for years, and it's
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Speaker 1: just a coincidence that no one ever seen the Mothman
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Speaker 1: after that. So it wasn't until the Mothman statue was
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Speaker 1: erected in two thousand and three in the center of
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Speaker 1: downtown that people started to open up about it again,
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Speaker 1: and of course when the Mothman Festival started the year
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Speaker 1: prior in two thousand and two. For years this wasn't
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Speaker 1: a huge event. It was just a local event, but
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Speaker 1: it has grown into something really special over the years
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Speaker 1: that attracts thousands of people every year and brings good
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Speaker 1: business to the small town with vendors and local shops,
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Speaker 1: food trucks and guest speakers, paranormal investigators alike every year,
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Speaker 1: with people dressing up ready to believe you and we
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Speaker 1: will be patiently awaiting the return of the Mothman. Maybe
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Speaker 1: next year he'll show up to his own festival. But
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Speaker 1: a side note, the Chief Cornstock putting a curse on
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Speaker 1: the town before his death by the Virginia Militia turns
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Speaker 1: out was a part of a local school play. The
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Speaker 1: curse never really happened, that it was drummed up to
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Speaker 1: make the school play more dramatic, so hope you guys
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