November 1966. Two couples are chased through the West Virginia night by a humanoid creature doing 100 mph. Then over a hundred more witnesses come forward. Then the UFO sightings start. Then Men in Black show up to warn people into silence. And thirteen months later, a bridge collapses, 46 people die, and every single Mothman sighting stops. Cold. This week on Yeti to Rumble: the full deep-dive Mothman episode. The sightings, the researchers, the theories, and the question no one has answered: why did it all stop the day the bridge fell?

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Sources:

1. Keel, John A. The Mothman Prophecies. Saturday Review Press, 1975.

2. Wamsley, Jeff. Mothman: Facts Behind the Legend. Mothman Press, 2001.

3. Wamsley, Jeff. Mothman: Behind the Red Eyes. Mothman Press, 2005.

4. Barker, Gray. The Silver Bridge. Saucerian Press, 1970.

5. Barker, Gray. They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers. University Books, 1956. (Early Men in Black documentation.)

6. Strickler, Lon. Mothman Dynasty: Chicago's Winged Humanoids. Independently published, 2017.

7. National Transportation Safety Board. Highway Accident Report: Collapse of U.S. Highway Bridge, Point Pleasant, West Virginia, December 15, 1967 (NTSB-HAR-71-1). U.S. Department of Commerce, 1970.

8. American Society of Civil Engineers. Silver Bridge Collapse and Creation of National Bridge Inspection Standards. ASCE Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.

9. The Mothman of Point Pleasant. Documentary. Director: Seth Breedlove. Small Town Monsters, 2017.

10. The Mothman Legacy. Documentary. Small Town Monsters, 2020.

11. The Mothman Prophecies. Film. Director: Mark Pellington. Starring Richard Gere and Laura Linney. Sony Pictures, 2002.