Red eyes in the dark. Wings that blot out the stars. A car chase at a hundred miles an hour. 🦇
For the very first episode of Creature Feature with Nyx, we're heading to Point Pleasant, West Virginia, to meet the most famous winged cryptid in America: the Mothman. (He's also my friend. I'm completely unbiased. Mostly.)
In November 1966, two young couples driving past an abandoned WWII explosives plant saw a tall gray figure with glowing red eyes, and it followed their car all the way to town. Over the next year, dozens more people reported the same creature. We'll dig into the gravediggers who saw something glide over their heads, the dog who chased two red eyes into the dark and never came back, the night that started it all, and how a hit 1960s TV show gave the creature its name.
Then it's investigation time: the sandhill crane and owl theories (which I have feelings about), John Keel and The Mothman Prophecies, the Men in Black, and a smiling stranger who called himself Indrid Cold. We'll also talk, respectfully, about the Silver Bridge collapse of December 1967, the 46 people who lost their lives, and why the Mothman legend became tied to it.
Plus the very first Monster Rating, and our first ever Tales from the Imps with two real listener stories: a knock on a hotel window that left one listener with scratches he still can't explain, and a fireball that visited a house in Hopetown, South Africa on the same day every year. Thank you to Alistair and Vill47 for sharing them! 🖤
📚 SOURCES AND FURTHER READINGJohn A. Keel, The Mothman Prophecies (1975)Joe Nickell, writing on Mothman in Skeptical InquirerNational Transportation Safety Board report on the Silver Bridge collapse (1970)West Virginia Encyclopedia (e-WV) entries on Mothman and the Silver BridgeLocal newspaper coverage from November 1966, including the Point Pleasant Register
📬 SEND ME YOUR STORIESSeen something strange? Have a hometown legend? Did your cat stare at nothing for twenty minutes? Email creaturefeaturewithnyx@gmail.com and tell me whether to use your name, a nickname, or keep you anonymous. Your story could be on a future episode!
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Next week: the Jersey Devil, and Nyx has a bit of a history with him...
Stay curious, stay spooky, and don't stare into the void... she's staring back.
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