At 5:00 p.m. on December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge which
connected Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and Gallipolis, Ohio,
collapsed. Being rush hour in mid-December, the bridge was full
of commuters on their way home from work and holiday shopping
trips. The collapse sent 32 vehicles into the frigid waters of
the Ohio river and 46 people lost their lives, with 2 bodies
never to be found. The cause was as prosaic and understandable as
it was tragic - a minute defect causing stress corrosion in a
suspension eye-bar. However, what we may never understand is a
connection some claim between the collapse and the first
sightings of the Mothman, widely thought to be 13 months
previously, to the day. Was there a warning that no one could
comprehend? Even if a warning could be interpreted by someone who
was starting to put all these strange puzzle pieces together,
would their findings even be believed? Could this tragedy have
been prevented, or was it inevitable? It might behoove us all to
start taking notice, as correlations to sightings of bizarre
creatures and catastrophes around the world continue to this
day.
Tonight's Quote:
They’ve done it again. Those lousy bastards have done it again.
They knew this was going to happen...and when. And they gave me
all that bilge about a power failure. They knew. They just didn’t
want me to be able to warn anyone.
— John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophecies
Show Links:
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the clickable description of each link to make things easier for
our listeners!
Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs http://bit.ly/1lTtPgh Search for
the Mothman documentary http://bit.ly/2fzoaPa Aperture hatch on
the Millennium Falcon http://bit.ly/2fDuho9 NBC News article on
Infrasound http://nbcnews.to/2g0fdkW Vic Tandy and infrasound on
Wikipedia http://bit.ly/2fzhEYP Vladimir Gavreau and his
infrasound experiments http://bit.ly/2fEtCiO The Haunted Hum
(infrasound) on Mythbusters http://bit.ly/2eMp1xr Adam Savage's
Indiana Jones Sankara Stone stolen! http://bit.ly/2eE2vmM NICAP's
The 1967 UFO Chronology - The Mother of All Sighting Waves
http://bit.ly/2eUVIpL The Silver Bridge disaster - the collapse
rendered in computer animation http://bit.ly/2eMl1gq Report on
the Silver Bridge collapse by the West Virginia DOT
http://bit.ly/2fExe4f Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse
http://bit.ly/1VFh2T2 Colorized footage of the Tacoma Narrows
bridge collapse http://bit.ly/2fExTma Radiolab episode on Dreams
http://bit.ly/2eUWQK4 Wake Up and Dream on Radiolab - confronting
your fears with Lucid Dreaming http://bit.ly/11CdB5C Project
MKUltra http://bit.ly/1ihJLqO Could a sonic weapon make your head
explode? http://bit.ly/1un5Uty "Gaslighting" on Wikipedia
http://bit.ly/1sUQyvs Gaslight the movie (1944)
http://imdb.to/2fDurvM Origin of the "Time exists" quote
http://bit.ly/2g0gDfA Weather report for the day of Mrs. Roy
Grose’s 4:45 a.m. UFO sighting http://bit.ly/2fcSyCx Linda
Scarberry's obituary on Cryptomundo, one of the 4 original
teenagers to see Mothman http://bit.ly/2eW9DwQ Silver Bridge
http://bit.ly/2flwFjC Riverside Golf Club where Connie Carpenter
saw the Mothman, formerly the Mason Co. Golf Course
http://bit.ly/2eMpLDl I Love Lucy entertains the cosmos
http://n.pr/2eh2I0c How far have human radio broadcasts reached
into our galaxy? http://bit.ly/1qAd9iI Can our TV signals be
picked up by other planets? http://bbc.in/2eW80PC Actinic
Conjunctivitis http://bit.ly/2dRkXIu Defense Logistics Agency
website http://www.dla.mil/ Defense Logistics Agency on Wikipedia
http://bit.ly/2dRmAWv Chief Cornstalk http://bit.ly/2eMmVhW Chief
Cornstalk's curse http://bit.ly/2dRmDl2 Lord Dunmore's War
http://bit.ly/2eXAs2l Fort Randolph, West Virginia
http://bit.ly/2fcSDGp The late Beau Shertzer, whose Bloodmobile
was almost carried off http://bit.ly/2eBAQqh Men In Black in a
Niagra Falls hotel lobby? http://bit.ly/2eBCIiR The 1966 Cadillac
De Ville http://bit.ly/2dRoxSM Gallipolis Ferry, West Virginia
http://bit.ly/2eXF6NS Gallipolis, Ohio
http://www.cityofgallipolis.com/ Morse Code, for when you want to
communicate with a UFO using your flashlight
http://bit.ly/1zxQZNV Mothman and Other Curious Encounters by
Loren Coleman https://amzn.com/B00AWBQF88 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 052 - "Mothman Part 3" 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 Adam
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