Ep 50: Mothman Part 1
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Photo Gallery:
## **Photos:** 1 ) Indrid Cold as portrayed for Astonishing Legends by Chad Lewis (all rights reserved) 2) The original article detailing the incident at the TNT plant. 3) John Keel as he looked back then. 4) The UK cover of Keel’s Mothman Book 5) Woodrow ‘Woody’ Derenberger being interviewed. 6-7) Various sketches by eyewitnesses and authors including Loren Coleman
Background:
All legends are local in a way, and when one local person tells a tale of a strange encounter, it can be a cause for skeptical snickers from the townsfolk. When more than a hundred people from the same region all see the same thing, it can lead to books, a major Motion Picture and even an annual festival. Such is the case with Point Pleasant, West Virginia and the Ohio River Valley’s own “Mothman” — whose local sightings turned into national legend. There are several elements that contribute to the intense curiosity that still surrounds the stories of the Mothman, himself described as a winged, humanoid creature with glowing red eyes and a sympathetic, if mysterious nature. One of them is the sudden appearance of a friendly, inter-dimensional road tripper named Indrid Cold who just wants to get to know you better and may be searching for a cryptid on the loose . Another is the unsettling thought that these encounters may have portended a disaster that took the lives of 46 people exactly 13 months later.
Tonight’s Quote:
“Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of deception.” –
— Jacques Vallée, Computer Scientist, Venture Capitalist and noted Ufologist
Show Links:
We’ve found that some sites are not showing these links as clickable unless they are URLs, so until those outlets improve their show notes section, we are providing actual URLs next to the clickable description of each link to make things easier for our listeners!
- The Mothman Prophecies – A True Story by John A. Keel https://amzn.com/0765334984
- The Mothman Prophecies – The Movie https://amzn.com/B0000648X0
- The Woodrow Derenberger interview with Ronald Maines, Gen. Mgr. of WTAP https://youtu.be/5HxY4suVjSo
- Point Pleasant, West Virginia http://bit.ly/2euHGdZ
- Gallipolis, Ohio basecamp for John Keel and the Mothman Prophecies movie crew http://bit.ly/2e3aZpU
- Visit the Mothman Museum! http://bit.ly/2enKY4d
- Attend the Mothman Festival in beautiful Point Pleasant, WV! http://bit.ly/1pjsSMO
- Scott always stays at the Lowe Hotel when searching for Mothman! http://www.thelowehotel.com/
- Point Pleasant’s “TNT Area” where the Mothman dwells http://n.pr/2drLM5A
- Explosion and munitions risk at the “TNT Area” http://bit.ly/2eIfuJD
- Inside the Eerie TNT Storage Bunkers of West Virginia on Wired http://bit.ly/2e8qeyV
- The Mothman and Indrid Cold story on WeekInWeird.com http://bit.ly/2eI4OuC
- Mothman on Wikipedia http://bit.ly/2dQ3dhn
- 1st sighting of the Mothman according to the WV Dept. of Commerce http://bit.ly/2drIzTK
- The Grinning Man on TheNightSky.org http://bit.ly/2ej1G76
- The Case of Indrid Cold on Forteania http://bit.ly/2ej0hNV
- Assessing Wikipedia’s Accuracy on NPR http://n.pr/2elZZaH
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Credits:
Episode 050 – “Mothman” Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess; Edited by Sarah Vorhees, Ryan McCullough Sound Design; Research Assistance by Tess Pfeifle and the astonishing League of Astonishing Researchers, a,k.a. The Astonishing Research Corps, or “A.R.C.” for short. Special thanks to Jordan Pickering, Rey Castañeda and Sarah Cozzemero. Copyright 2016 Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess. All Rights Reserved.