Mothman Returns: Point Pleasant Legend to Chicago Terror
Added 2023-04-20 02:37:58 +0000 UTCThis legend beings as so many do.
Three gravediggers, working in a cemetery hear something overhead. They look up and see a creature: almost ten feet tall with massive wings perched on a high tree branch; staring at them with glowing red eyes. Then in an instant, it's gone.
Three days later, just a few miles away, two young couples burst into the local police station. Terrified, they report being chased by a tall man with wings and glowing red eyes.
More and more people would report seeing a creature that stood on two legs, was at least 8 feet tall, and had wings.
Some said it was half-man, half-bird; others said half-man, half-bat. But that name that stuck was "The Mothman".
Though The Mothman terrorized hundreds of people for a year, it never physically harmed anyone.
But 13 months later, that would change. And 46 men, women, and children would end up at the bottom of the Ohio River.
Comments
It made my entire month receiving an email saying the why files had done a Mothman episode! Thank you for listening to your fans and taking the time to research all of these topics so fully!
Veruca Dulce
2023-05-27 12:59:09 +0000 UTCDefinitely more on Indrid Cold. And a suggestion about Skinwalker Ranch??
Lou Ann Barrera
2023-04-24 22:46:29 +0000 UTCJust watched this properly for the first time - love it! Wasn't keen on the film and I'd not heard about the later sightings. For me, I think it's a mutant owl. All the (actual!) descriptions do sound like an owl - all the reasons you put forward, plusd the various memes showing us owls with their feathers hitched up, revealing incredibly long legs! And if dogs can mutate or even evolve fast in the presence of nuclear waste, why not owls? America can support large predatory birds - so can Germany. I could believe this without much difficulty at all. Not so much the alternatives....
Paula Unger
2023-04-24 15:58:12 +0000 UTCA great story and episode! Thank you, AJ!!
David Parisi
2023-04-23 03:00:59 +0000 UTCAnd what was the music from the Fallout 76 trailer?
Tim Harris
2023-04-22 16:59:41 +0000 UTCGreat video mate. I remember the film that came out, it was scary.
Daniel Nye
2023-04-21 23:25:16 +0000 UTCGot that all done. A tee and hacklefish stickers
Ed Keighron
2023-04-21 20:36:05 +0000 UTCDon't know how to change profile pic and name, also can't you donate yet
Ed Keighron
2023-04-21 17:25:39 +0000 UTCNew here, just checking that everything works
Ed Keighron
2023-04-21 17:21:38 +0000 UTCAs an Estonian-American I’m ashamed to admit I missed Hecklefish’s Estonian lines - his pronunciation was excellent! Always cool to see Estonia mentioned 🇪🇪🇺🇸🇪🇪🇺🇸
Peter Anniko
2023-04-21 11:34:56 +0000 UTCYou know I haven’t read the comments I’m sure it’s been mentioned but I wanna say Indrid Cold is in some way connected with the Kelly/Hopkinsville encounter in Ky which is a border state to WV. Wild story there as well which I’ve mentioned to you in a super chat a couple of episodes back. You said it was on the list. I don’t do Patreon or anything of the sort really but had To support you the best way I could. Keep up the good work guys.
Alexander Hill
2023-04-21 11:34:17 +0000 UTCYou mentioned the men in black! Very exciting! Thank you!
Chris Abraham
2023-04-21 11:30:19 +0000 UTCMan this one was just fkn fantastic you handsome bastard! Usually Andrew deflates my blow up doll at the end before I even get to use it with how he explains how the stories aren’t true but THIS ONE even has AJ questioning the reality of it. Dammit this channel is the best. By the way who made your funk song that you guys play at the end? I love it. I’m a musician/composer/producer and I want to make a version of it with some words and a brass section, if nothing else, just to play around with it. This is the ONLY Patreon I’ve ever done. AND you guys got me to sign up with Aura because your ad for it was so damn great.
John Hobart
2023-04-21 03:29:14 +0000 UTCI’m from Elmira NY which is close to Binghamton…. and never heard that part of the moth man legend
Robert Smith
2023-04-21 00:22:01 +0000 UTClooks like mothman works out.
Deirdre a greene
2023-04-21 00:06:45 +0000 UTCGreat work as usuall A.J. , still hoping that you do a "paul is dead" episode though
Shaun Baltes
2023-04-20 23:10:34 +0000 UTCI love the MOTHMAN idea. And enjoyed the movie also. Great episode, thank you!!!
GIFT REVOLVER
2023-04-20 23:10:31 +0000 UTCCool episode yet again with HF in fine form as usual. Very interesting subject as I haven't heard much about Mothman, nor seen the movie etc. Indrid Cold would probably make a great episode too, I love anything otherworldly and you cover those topics pretty well. I feel like there's a bunch of tin foil hat moments for HF also 😂 10/10 WF team! ❤️
SGW4K
2023-04-20 21:32:27 +0000 UTC+5
Sam
2023-04-20 21:28:16 +0000 UTCI love Thursdays just for this.
Whiskey Tango-Foxtrot
2023-04-20 21:23:30 +0000 UTC+4
Nicholas Case
2023-04-20 17:35:05 +0000 UTCAn theme song would be great but, AJ has a great way to introduce every subjects and the wishes at the end are also very important to all. Maybe a theme song for the after files? Just imagine: a holidays song, a New Year song, a birthday song, a fear the crabcat song and so on and so forth… Hecklefish Greatest Hits vol. 3,…(time to hit the sack!!!)
Benoit Dube
2023-04-20 17:09:43 +0000 UTCalways love each installment. Thursdays are great. Q: Is “beings” supposed to be “begins”? located in first sentence of description.
Michael Young
2023-04-20 16:06:22 +0000 UTCChupacabra?
StinkinChickin
2023-04-20 14:56:32 +0000 UTCVery good episode, but I wish Hecklefish would learn some manners. He said "damn John Denver," which upset me. John was a good man, who cared about the planet and its people.
Kazren
2023-04-20 14:42:14 +0000 UTCAnother great episode...glad I got to see it early as I will be working when it airs later.
Melissa Taylor
2023-04-20 14:37:32 +0000 UTCGreat video... your handling of a cryptid was spot on for your channel
kevlee68
2023-04-20 14:08:49 +0000 UTCGreat episode...better than the movie! Except, now "Country Roads" is going to stuck in my head all day...thanks Hecklefish! 🎶
Mellie
2023-04-20 14:01:25 +0000 UTCYESSS! your videos rock
Mike McLoud
2023-04-20 13:58:57 +0000 UTCAmazing video!!
Canadian Redhead
2023-04-20 13:43:22 +0000 UTClast summer my family and I visited Point Pleasant as we passed through. The Mothman Museum is a MUST VISIT....silly, dedicated, educational, and fun!
Scott Baker
2023-04-20 13:37:32 +0000 UTCLoved it!
Val Andrews
2023-04-20 13:04:54 +0000 UTCGreat video!
Zachary Chehi
2023-04-20 12:46:58 +0000 UTCGreat video - don’t remember ever hearing the UFO connection before - keep up the great work AJ and team!
Peter Anniko
2023-04-20 12:30:23 +0000 UTCBeautifully covered, AJ, thanks! And yes, I'd love to see you cover Indrid Cold. Fascinating stuff, cheers!
thormusique
2023-04-20 12:19:06 +0000 UTCI loved the use of the Tribble sound in the video. Not sure if u used the same sound Star Trek did, or a similar one, but all I could think of were Tribbles the whole episode… 🤣 Love it, as always. Great show!
Jeremy Shorter
2023-04-20 11:33:53 +0000 UTCIndrid Kohl lol. More please, however it’s spelled
Mark william lane
2023-04-20 11:30:52 +0000 UTCI got my husband hooked on your channel now as well! I would love to see a story on Indrid Cold because that to me is the creepiest part of the whole Mothman lore--is Indrid Cold an anagram for something? I loved the movie Mothman Prophecies. There is much about our world we don't know still or perhaps we just don't see, recognize or acknowledge. Great episode!
Summerkat
2023-04-20 11:05:56 +0000 UTCOutstanding episode!
Jeff Pierce
2023-04-20 09:36:13 +0000 UTCLove this story. So glad you covered it. Just ordered a moth man t shirt and a fear the crab cat one. Keep up the great work. Your videos are the best part of Thursday. Long live Lord Hecklefish
rob denton
2023-04-20 08:57:12 +0000 UTCLove this… great episode
Patch
2023-04-20 08:45:29 +0000 UTCHa! I tried to tell him I’d play everything but sing - and that’s where hecklefish came in, so we could do a whyfiles theme song, but I think they thought I wanted to steal him for a different band to play songs elsewhere.
Anthony LaManna
2023-04-20 08:25:43 +0000 UTC+3
Brian Jackson
2023-04-20 06:20:50 +0000 UTC+2
Maff Bowers
2023-04-20 05:47:13 +0000 UTCChief cornstalk ffs
Brian Jackson
2023-04-20 05:45:33 +0000 UTCAnd, great episode!
Jay White
2023-04-20 05:12:28 +0000 UTC+1 for Ingrid Cold
Jay White
2023-04-20 05:12:04 +0000 UTCSame. Well, Thursday man in my case! I enjoy getting the episodes in advance, but that's never a substitute for also taking in the premiere. I suspect we're not the only two. : -)
MikeD
2023-04-20 05:01:47 +0000 UTCThe beauty of TWF is I will sit and watch an episode about something I really wasn't interested in because I know AJ will make it interesting. I had heard of the Mothman, I even watched the movie with Richard Gere a decade or so back, but the topic never really grabbed me. It didn't seem even vaguely real. I left this episode considering for the first time that maybe there is something to the Mothman. Maybe. And, oh yeah, definitely voting for an episode on Indrid Cold, aka the grinning man, who I had never heard about until I watched this show.
MikeD
2023-04-20 04:50:02 +0000 UTCLike a google search. So many people search one thing it becomes trending or popualr.so it’s life right? btw as awesome as it is watching Wednesday is weird I’m a Thursday girl. Be watching tomorrow too. Keep up the good work
tammy trotchie
2023-04-20 04:37:29 +0000 UTCwanna say so much. Its information overload only half way through but I heard that a group of monks.Made a little man just through group thought. It’s said if enough people think about one thing at once it becomes reality. That’s where big foot and every other thing comes from. So it seems to me it’s a simulation.
tammy trotchie
2023-04-20 04:28:01 +0000 UTCI remember the news stories when the bridge went down (yes, I’m really that old!) I was a teen and for a long time after that I was terrified whenever I had to cross a bridge. When I heard about the Mothman stories years later the fear of bridges came roaring back with an added component. Wonderful video and great research! Thank you!
Kat Gamage
2023-04-20 04:25:15 +0000 UTCThis story always reminds me of the Jeepers Creepers monster. I always wondered - how did he get a personalized license plate on his car: BEATNGU. Be Eating You. Was he in line at the DMV? LOL.
DS_the_RN
2023-04-20 04:00:33 +0000 UTCWhat a story, and so many people involved! I play Fallout 76 and they included the Mothman and Ingrid Cole in that, so I would love to see an episode based on him too please... Thank you for all your hard work investigating and bringing us all these stories, I love them!
Jay D
2023-04-20 03:46:29 +0000 UTCWatching tonight’s show gave me a wide grinning smile😁…Great piece of work AJ, Hecklefish should be in a band!!!
Benoit Dube
2023-04-20 03:43:28 +0000 UTCI am so excited for this! Thank you for doing this story!!!
Veruca Dulce
2023-04-20 03:36:16 +0000 UTCAwesome episode! Cover his story for sure!
Brian Mcandrew
2023-04-20 03:32:54 +0000 UTCYes!!!
Seth Reed
2023-04-20 03:28:49 +0000 UTCI want more about smiley face and the spaceship
Nom de Why
2023-04-20 03:21:14 +0000 UTCAJ night comes early, way before 3:30 am Eastern, my heart, my heart......................
John Edgeworth
2023-04-20 03:18:08 +0000 UTCYES! Love these Wednesday night surprises!
Chase Schleich
2023-04-20 02:59:20 +0000 UTCI lived in Mason Co and worked there. I am from Gallipolis, Ohio. I remember the day the bridge fell. Jeff wamsley has a mothman museum and there is a Mothman Festival. My neighbor made the Mothman statue in Pt.Pleasant,WV. The mm is just life there.🤣👍
Kim Zerkle-Chance
2023-04-20 02:57:22 +0000 UTCAll is right in the world, then.
Zachary Jones
2023-04-20 02:55:12 +0000 UTCIf Mothman is going to Chicago I will pray for him.
Derek Rushing
2023-04-20 02:55:07 +0000 UTCyes! Cover his story!
Joe Comstock
2023-04-20 02:49:35 +0000 UTCGreat. Now “Country Roads. Take me home” is playing over and over in my head!!
Chip Snyder (chiphappened)
2023-04-20 02:48:02 +0000 UTCWhen Thursday night comes early. Love it!
MikeD
2023-04-20 02:43:51 +0000 UTCYay! AJ night!
Adrian Kemp
2023-04-20 02:42:51 +0000 UTCYay finally! But what about “spring healed jack” the Victorian England equivalent??
julian faulkner
2023-04-20 02:40:07 +0000 UTC
