Do Go On - 98 - The Mothman with guest NICK MASON

Episode Date: September 6, 2017

In West Virginia in the 1960s a small town was terrorised by a mysterious large winged creature that came to be known as the Mothman, this is its story!Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPodTwitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. And we should also say this is 2026. Jess, what year is it? 2026. Thank God you're here. Right now, I'm in Melbourne doing my show with Serengy Amarna 630 each night at the Cooper's Inn Hotel, having so much fun. We'd love to see you there. Canada, we are visiting you in September this year.

If you've somehow missed the news, we are heading up Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto for shows. That's going to be so much fun. Tickets for all this stuff, I believe, are online. And I'm here too. This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit planetbcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates. To another episode of Do Go On, my name is Dave Warnocky, and I'm here with my regular chum, Matt Stewart. Hello, Matt.

Just a regular chum. Just a regular chum. No Pee, just a chum. And we are joined by our... Jess Perkins. I'm afraid that Jess is away. So we've had to sub in an irregular chum. That's just looked at our...

guest and you were really shocked. Yep. I've been in the room the whole time. I know, that's the weird thing about it.

I was like, anyway, Jess. Why'd you keep responding to Jess? In a really jessy voice. Well, that's true. I do generic dumb guy voice. Playing the role of generic dumb guy

if I can introduce you properly. It is our friend and frequent guest and collaborator. It's Nick Mason. It's me, guys. I'm the Zepo Marx of this. of this podcast.

Zepo, Marx. He's the one. He's, I guess he's the replacement one. He's the replacement one, who do you come in for? Is he the funny one? No,

he's not the funny one. He's not the funny one. He's not the, he's renowned as like the, well, he's renowned as like the, the, like the background Mark's brother.

He's just, he's just there sometimes. Right, making up the numbers. Mm-hmm. Did someone die or something? I think he was the, he was one of the original Marx brothers. So he's a,

he's died. Right. Yeah. genuine brother so there is I don't think yeah look I don't have any more information we've been

I was a very short report this week I was hoping you guys had done a Marks Brothers episode and you fill in the blanks it is in the hat I'm pretty sure I put it up to the vote once but they didn't choose it

got defeated by what Charlie Chaplin or something it was another brother's episode the Wright brothers Smothers brothers Smothers brothers yeah the Smothers brothers

murderers well that's good anyway it's great to be here it's great to have you back Thank you. It's great to be out of the house. That's great. You've been on some holidays, though?

I had a little week off. It's been great. What do you've been up to? Sleeping and doing other podcasts. Wow. Sounds like a pod for life. Sounds like a great holiday. Yep.

You don't really holiday. No, I'm a staycation man. You take a big holiday at comedy festival time and just you work harder than anyone at the festival because you see all our shitty shows. They're great shows. great shows. Yeah, back yourself. You can take a holiday to go see my show with Alastair Trombo Bertrander from Two on the Think Tank,

another planet broadcasting podcast, which you are like the head honcho of, sort of. Yeah, not really, but yeah, let's... You're like a figurehead. In this, yes, exactly. I'm like the mascot. Yeah. I'm like the Mr. Sparkle of, uh... Yeah, you can buy an official light bulb that does form your face.

That's exactly right. Oh, Mr. Sparkle, as they said in The Simpsons. Matt's favorite Simpson's quote is just the two words Mr Sparkle No oh Mr Sparkle Three words pardon me Yes This is a rock solid start

Look it's very early in the morning We normally do this show at night Yeah I'm normally I've normally been awake for more than a couple of hours Look on the one hand This is probably the earliest anyone's ever recorded a podcast on a Saturday But on the other hand Maybe this is like the golden hour for podcasting

Like once we get into it, we produce the best podcast anyone's ever recorded. So we just got to push through it. Got to push through, yeah. It's always, yeah, I've heard that. There's sort of a mythical thing, the golden hour of podcast thing. Yeah, that's right. It's nine o'clock on a Saturday morning. And once you get through the first tough five minutes of awkward banter, it really opens up.

What are we up to? Here it is. Oh, jeez. Four minutes 30. We are about to open up. Get ready, everyone. All right. Feeling good.

I'm going to kick off the report, should I? Well, I think we should wait for the opening up, but sure. Well, I think it might coincide with this question. So the way the show works, Dave, for those new to it, Mesa, you might be a bit rusty. You haven't been on in a little while. That's right. But it's great to have you back, I've got to say. We do miss Jess, but, you know, it's nice to have a break sometimes.

Everybody needs a little holiday. Wow. Except Nick Mason, who doesn't go on holidays. No. Never. Always on. What? Oh, okay, yeah.

So what I was saying is, the way the show starts, is with a question. To get us onto a topic that you've reported on, Mesa and I don't know what topic this is. And I traditionally ask the best questions, which I'm going to continue on today. Why break with tradition? I thought about asking a shitty question with an open-ended answer that could be like many different things. It takes us about 15 minutes and people at home are yelling. I've already read the iTunes description. I know what you're talking about.

But I'm like, no, I'm not going to do it. that I'm once again going to ask a rock-solid question, only possibly one answer. Are you thinking of the question right now? Is that why you're feeling? What winged creature's presence is believed to foreshadow tragedy? Winged creature's presence.

Tragedy? Is it some sort of black bird? See, all right. So maybe there's two different answers. Okay. What, too? That's still a fairly narrow. playing.

Yeah. That's not a hundred. The other one, obviously. All the best trivia questions have two possible answers. So you can argue it later. Yeah, it makes it more fun. So it's not a blackbird. This is a creature that sounds more like a character from some sort of a comic book that Mesa might like.

But it's a real life thing. Superman. But real. I mean, look, I think you've confused correlation and causation there. He's often at the scene of disasters. But he's stopping the disaster. He's not causing the disaster. No, I reckon Superman's like one of those fires.

bugs that's actually in the fire brigade. He's doing all of the crimes just so he can save the day. He's always thrown an asteroid at Earth so he can stop it. Yes. Son of a bitch. Are you, wait, you, Mesa, you know that Superman doesn't have wings, right? How else does he fall? No, he's got those big red wings, right?

How does he fly, Matt? Oh, fuck, I don't know. All right, I think you guys, sounds like you guys might not know this. Have you heard of the Mothman? I'm aware of a film called The Mothman Chronicles. Yes. But I don't know anything about it. Or is it's it's the Mothman Prophecies?

Yes, that's what it is. That's what it is. I said yes. Evidently, I'm not familiar with it. I'm going to say, how many Mothman movies can that be? Have you guys seen that movie? No. Richard Geer?

Yes, Richard Geer. No, I haven't. Well, that's, it's based on this true event. Oh my goodness. I really hope that we talk about Richard Gear. Same. Well, I mean, you've already, the extent of what I've got written down is it was turned into a movie starring Richard Gear.

Hey, we talked about Richard Gear. That's all I needed to do. In a lot of ways, we've already covered that. one off. So this was suggested. This is weird, right? You know in the hat how we have written down everyone who suggested it? Yeah.

The column was blank. I'm like, what the fuck? Anyway, I searched through Twitter and found these names, but there may be others from email and other things. I'm really sorry. Including Richard Gere. Who asked to be your own, man? I don't want to start with the conspiracy theory, but I think the Mothman may have deleted people's names.

Scratch them out from the hat. From the hat, but also possibly from life. I don't know that for sure. These people no longer exist. I've got to stress that. I don't know that for sure. You can't confirm it either way. No, but I think it probably definitely has.

Probably definitely is that, yeah. Okay, so these are the people who I did find to have suggested it. Elvis Nalasco. That is not a real name. But it's a great name. The Mothman has changed someone's real name, James Smith, to Elvis Narasco. He's at Chris.

But only the kryptonite is spelled with a zero and a three and an underscore. Right. You said that kryptonite. I thought, wow, he got in early. He did not get it. He got in super late. Superman. Super late.

Jesus. Guys, it's another Superman episode. Let's do it. Woo! You just got people excited. Mesa, don't do that. No, but Mothman. Is Mothman a superhero?

It's like a shitty superhero? There's a character called Killer Moth. He's a Batman villain. Oh, no. But he's like a terrible Batman. He just... He's like an evil. low-rent Batman.

But does Batman just put the bat signal into the sky? And the moth's like, damn it! And he starts flapping towards it, and he's done. That's funny, Dave. That's a comic book joke. I can't believe I've got one.

If you say something funny than that today, I would be very surprised. That was really good. I'm trying really hard now. Guys, the podcast's opening up. We've hit the golden moments. Yeah, exactly. We're opening up.

This is good. We're peeking at the right time. Who else suggested this? Fidel Rays. He got in quicker. At Fidel Rays. underscore Tyler Thompson

at Tyler Thompson 23 and Chesley Russell and I double check that I'm like they've got the L and the S around the wrong way there but

not Chesley Chesley Russell at Chesley Scott I like that name Chesley sounds posh doesn't it though yeah

Chesley that's my posh hmm Chezley Guys I'll do it in my dumb guy voice I won't That's a very good

chance that's being edited out. Yeah, sure, right? I'm going to keep referencing it. You really? You want that in. You want that in. All right. No, I won't.

I won't. It's gone. In West Virginia, on November the 12th, 1996, the year the Saints won their only premiership. I won't say a good year because Jess is not here. But it was a good year.

It was a good year. I think it's the second time I've referenced 1966. You love it. And the second time you've referenced the Saints. Only the second. Emma. Yeah.

And yeah, never talk about them. They didn't make the finals this year, and I'm pretty happy to just leave that where it is. On the 12th of November, 19665, grave diggers were working at a cemetery digging a grave of grave diggers. This is a spooky episode. Seems spooky already. I mean, this probably is as spooky as it gets. I mean, it's grave diggers. What else do you want?

Then all of a sudden, they saw a winged human-like creature fly over their head. heads. This is thought to be the first known siding of the creature now known as the moth man. Wow. They saw wings, they saw someone flying and they thought, that's a moth. Well, no, they didn't name it. It wasn't named till later. Later that week, on November the 15th, a couple of couples, Stephen, Mary Millett, and Roger

and Linda Scarberry were they digging graves. Were digging graves. Very good. On a romantic double date. Afterwards, they went for a drive. maybe to a make out point probably not I don't know someone said that

lover's lane but I did maybe the street was just called Love's Lane and I interpreted that as being like a like a old school 60s you know dogging scenario is that what dogging means someone explained dogging to me not that long ago anyway um

where were you when they were explaining it were you in the car I think I was on gaming gamey game the show about anyway this is are we still in the golden hour I don't know Because they were out of the golden hour. I'm sorry.

The golden minute. So they were from Point Pleasant in West Virginia also. They were out on a drive. When they saw what they later described as a large flying man with 10-foot wings whose eyes glowed red and he was standing on the road. They're obviously a little scared by it. So they swerved around and quickly drove away. At least they attempted to because seconds later, the creature was back in front of the car.

No. that scared the shit out of them so they floored it and traveled up to 100 miles an hour back towards the township of Point Pleasant but they didn't run it over they didn't run it over as they drove though

the creature followed behind them cruising along I saw some people saying it was just like running at a cruising space along the road but keeping up with them at 100 miles an hour others said it was flying overhead other people said that he was driving a Dats in 1600 I thought you said you didn't see the movie A lot of the movie is a guy with big wings driving around and a Datson.

Dutton, beep, boom. It's a rom-com. What do you reckon, scarier? Someone flying in 100 miles or someone running at 100 miles behind you? Because if they're running, I'd be really scared. Yeah, running feels scary. That's so quick. That's like five times as fast as you've seen.

But also, 100 miles an hour, that seems like, that seems like a made-up speed. Like we got out of there at 100 miles a hour. I know you didn't. You can't even do 100 miles. You drive a Datson. You're driving Datson. You're not in 60s Datson? Yeah.

They drive 55 back in the day. Yeah. Old 55. Look, I think this story's full of holes already. I'm the skeptic. I'm the, I'm the Gilly this time around. Well, I'm the fucking Mulder and I'm so on board.

All right. Then I guess I'm... You're Doggett. Doggett. See the narrator? No, Doggett was the David Dockney Replacement in the later seasons. Okay, yeah, I'm dogged.

Well, you could be... And I'm a believer then as well. Uh, yes. Yeah. He could be our Walter Skinner. Could be Skinner. There's our boss who seems skeptical, but actually he's on Mulder's team the whole time. Maybe I'm that worm guy who goes in through the drums.

Oh, you can be the fluke man? Fluke man. Yes. Can I be the fluke man? You can be the fluke man. Okay. I want to be a recurring character. Like, you are on this show.

Oh, yeah? You're the fluke man to our show. Guys, I'm going to the voice. It's my fluke man boy. It doesn't matter. Anyway, I think this story's full of holes already, but... Well, so they're probably drunk. knowing

back in the 60s driving everybody in this episode thus far is drunk the grave diggers are drunk the couples are drunk the mothman is drunk the mothman is definitely drunk

he's got those red eyes you can't drive 100 miles per hour drunk you just can't so I think they weren't drunk and that there is no holes in this story classic dekhovny I'm going to fill in the holes not Scully

as the car turned Classic romantic tension between Mulder and Scully will they will they Will they, will they? It's so inevitable. No one even doubted it for a second. As the car turned a corner,

the creature once again blocked their path. So this is after, you know, driving 100 miles an hour. Around a corner. Approximately. But rather than standing this time, it lay on the road. To the couples.

You'll never go around. Like a protester. Mothman rights now. He chained himself to the front of the their car. To the couples, it kind of resembled a lump, like a dead dog or something. But they knew it was the creature. Still on board over here.

And they figured it was some sort of a trap, like it wanted them to come closer and investigate. This creature could seemingly move at the speed of light, they thought it had turned into a lump on the road to trick them. It was clearly a wily beast. Wow, they are no longer drinking alcohol. They are now extremely high. I love the idea of thinking that this thing can just, it can move basically as fast as anything, but somehow it's planned

to pretend to look like a dead dog on a road. Yep. So that they... They'll get out and investigate. Get out and investigate. Oh, look at those dead dogs. As soon as you start thinking... Pursuing them didn't work, so...

Yeah. I mean, I kept standing in front of them, and that didn't work, whatever my mysterious objective is. As soon as you start thinking like that, you'll start turning on each other. Like, Mary in the back seat hasn't said anything for a while.

Mary's the moth! I knew it. Have you seen the moth and mary at the same time? I've never have. But I've been looking straight out the window because I've been driving this whole time. It's hard to look and see the moth up in the sky and Mary in the back seat at the same.

Very hard to do. Also, in the sky, how high is the sky? You know what I mean? Yeah. Foot off the ground. Doesn't count. It doesn't count. It could just been jumping.

They're talking about 50 feet off the ground. That's significantly higher. I'd be more scared if it was managing to fly just one foot off the crown the whole time. That's true, actually. It's like hugging the road. Early hoverboard. Incredibly. Or it's just waiting for you to blink.

And it just pops. Hops. Hops in between blinks. Have you seen there? Sometimes people do those photos online where they're jumping onto a broom. Yes. You get the photo that looks like they're flying. Very fun.

Very fun time. Let's do it after the show, guys. Let's do it after the show. Let's pause. All right, we're back. We've just taken those photos. It didn't work, so you'll never see them. Snaps several brooms.

Worth it. We snapped so many. I couldn't even pronounce the word several anymore. I now have a bad injury that's distracting me. The broom went up me. Wow, it's that romantic tangent we were talking about earlier. Scala, you're a doctor. Can you get this broom out of my ass?

Will they, will they? Will they? So they didn't fall for the trap, the well-constructed dead dog lump trap. and they continued driving back to town at speed heading straight to the cops to report the incident on speed as well yeah they're a real cocktail of drugs they were on later that night they returned back to the spot

where the beast lay on the road this time with the deputy sheriff in tow it's a long drive out there with the sheriff isn't it I know the pressure I promise he's a dog but it's not a dog it's a moth man it's a moth man playing a trick another prank by the bloody tricks the moth man

I mean we didn't go near to exactly because that's part of his trick. Yeah, we're not idiots. But when, look, if you could just, we'll get there, just pump some bullets into it, and then we'll leave. Then don't examine it. Please don't examine it. Because that's what it wants.

And if you can provide us with some males, just give us the key to the city. Yes. Ticket tape parade. It just wants attention. It does, so far as that is what it sounds like. It's like standing in front of the car. Ha?

Fuck off, moth man. No one's interested. I just want a friend. When they arrived, the lump was nowhere to be seen. And a mysterious pile of dust was in its place. Like a moth? Possibly. Is that what happens to moths?

Well, that's what happens. Mothra, he makes, like, poison dust. So that's probably, it's my closest reference. I don't know anything about moths, but I know a little bit about mothra. Is he like Godzilla's friend? He's like Godzilla's friend, yeah. Wow. Do you think Godzilla's involved? Probably.

Wow. I mean, I didn't, that's not in this report. Oh, well. But I, this almost, already I feel like there's a sequel coming on to this. Godzilla Man. Yeah. Flying 50 feet feet. Yep.

Over the coming days, many more sightings were reported, and the sightings began getting traction in the local press, mainly being ridiculed. Sightings bullshit. Hey, they wrote about our moth. But it was in one of these news reports that the creature was dubbed Mothman, possibly, um, I read that it was possibly because Batman was popular at the time and they needed a name to differentiate.

Is that, would the TV series have been around there? Batman, that was 1996-ish? Yeah, I think, yeah, the movie was 66. So, yeah, apparently that was it was big time back then. But what was the, what was your Batman's moth? Oh, kill a moth. Killemoth. Wasn't in the TV series.

Too threatening. Oh, yeah. Mr. Freeze, he was in there. I really feel like. Egghead. Egghead. That sounds great. Mr. Freeze is in the TV series?

Yeah. Arnold, like the Arnold Schwarzenegger, similar at all to him? No, he was more, he was just a, he was just a, like a delightfully pleasant man with a freeze gum. Right, right. It's very non-threatening. Did he have a thick Austrian accent? No, just a regular accent. Stick to the character.

Was he Super Camp? Yeah, oh yeah. And the suit was orange, I think. Great. Yeah. Tights? Oh, yeah. Not like a beekeeping outfit than a...

I so want to derail this episode, just talk about Batman now. Louis the lilac was another Batman villain Louis the lilac and what he wore lilac just wore lilac that was his

that was his thing they're really running out of ideas yeah costume department's got a lilac pants and matching jacket got a louis were any

any bad guys created specifically for the show that weren't from the comics uh Louis the lilac that's King Tutt King Tart the curse

the Pharaoh's curse that's right it's come back to Hornet I don't even hear that guys but the doorbell is just wrong at the studio. Is it some sort of moth? Man. You had me at moth. You had me at man.

What if it's a man at the door? What if it's a moth? I'm not going to get it. It's very threatening. To me especially if there's a man at the door. But if you just opened the door and there was just a moth sort of hovering at eye level, I'd be terrible. I hadn't connected that moths hover as well.

Do you think that could be related? It's a coincidence or do you think that's something? It's a coincidence. Oh, my God. My blood just ran cold. Like a moth's. Oh! Can I confirm a moth's blood temperature?

You can't confirm it. You may as well, bloody, be moth man. I miss that golden out. One of us is the moth man. We're all trapped in this podcast studio. one of us is the mothman and find out who it is by the end but it can't be me

because I've pointed out the theory that it could be one of us that's definitely not man he's a trick stuff no no guy this is lump on the road all over again in a few seconds you'll be a dead dog in that chair

and then we'll know oh man got a really focus at not being a dead dog and then you'll be a mysterious pile of dust if I can quote the earlier part of that Nick don't during the next

few days other people reported similar sightings some say they were there were more than a hundred sightings but this number seems to be greatly exaggerated the people the big believers in mothman always talking about this number of a hundred sidings 100 miles an hour 200 people have been affected by the mothman 100 seen him directly some of them just felt his presence oh my goodness and then but yeah then um other more skeptical sources are like nah that's not right at all this silly fucking believers But I mean, I don't know. Who's really silly in that situation?

The people who believe in a large moth man, creature, or the people who think that that's bullshit. Clearly the latter. Yeah, you open your heart, you know. Open your heart to new ideas. You're only on this earth for, you know. I mean, if you're the moth man. Three days.

Several hundred years. Oh, no. I went the wrong way. That's the thing about mothman. No one knows. No one knows. I mean, moth. um, moths would only live for three days.

But men, as a guess. Who knows how long they is? Man up to a hundred. So moth man, obviously you multiply. 100, 300 years. 300 years. Yeah, I think that's how it works.

So Batman, that's why he has lived. But I found out recently on your podcast that there's new betmen. New Batman. New Batman. That's the plural of, Yes, Batman. Batman, yes. You change all the A's to E's to pluralise of words.

That's right. Like the Italian. Yep. Maltobeni. Melto Benny, because I wanted to. But yeah, so, all right, this is a sidetracked again. Sorry to the people who don't give a fuck about Batman and just want to hear about Mothman,

because there's probably some people who are listening to this podcast for the first time because they're really fascinated about Mothman. If you've made it this far, I'll be very surprised, to be honest. But still, I apologize, but I've got a question about Batman. I'm ready. So Bruce Wayne isn't the only Batman. How so? Robin becomes Batman.

Correct, at some point. And some other guy becomes Batman. Oh, there's been heaps of Batman's. What? Yeah. He had a little back injury in the 90s. He was replaced. And you reckon that...

What did he have back injury? Do you sub someone in? Yeah, he subs that guy in. I can't go on, my back's to sore. You can be Batman. Hey, Rando. You could just get in there. The guy's name was Rando?

No, it was not... It wasn't Rando. Wow, that would have been great. We'll talk about off air But it's been so many bettmans No, this is a sizzle for when you come back and do a Batman episode You gotta do a Batman episode If we get at least three tweets about it

Settling that by a high A man named Newell Partridge Newell No, I'm not questioning it I'm just praising it Some of these sorts Because the partridge is the natural enemy of the moth

So whatever he's going to say Is going to be very suspect That's true Well he said he came across the creature And when he shined his torch at it Its eyes glowed red like bicycle reflectors Some say Then he turned his indicators on and left

I can still hear the moth man Ring ring ring ring His eyes glowed red like bicycle reflectors And his wings spun around His wheels spun around He put her into fourth gear With spoky-doke He also believed the creature was to blame for buzzing noises from his TV

and the disappearance of his German Shepherd Oh man you can blame a lot of things on it My dinner was cold last night That's so good I wrote I'm like I assume you're going to make a funny joke there But I wrote the same one just in case Was it also cold dinner? Well I said he also blamed his chicken cacciatore

For being a little bland We both went food very good Do you reckon Noel is in West Virginia is eating chicken gacetotero in the 60s. I picked the in very short amount of time the thing that sounded

the funniest to me. That is funny. It's a classic it's a comedy meal. If you want to real pick behind the curtain, I change it from Parmesan and I went,

I reckon I can do better than this. Maybe I spent too much time on that one word. Not on the report. Many attributed... Imagine if he built the entire report the funny,

the funny chicken dish in the middle. Everything spun out of that. I think I was thinking about birds a lot because a lot of the, a lot of the skeptics say what people were seeing were birds. They made that I try to singing chicken. Bikes and birds.

They'd never come across a bird in West Virginia in that time. They hadn't migrated that far west. A couple of volunteer firemen had said it. They'd seen what they thought was the moth man, but it was, they were pretty sure it was just, It's a large bird with red eyes.

The county sheriff, George Johnson, believed the sightings were due to an unusually large heron, which is another kind of bird. And a West Virginia university biologist, Dr. Robert Smith, from the Cure. I was going to say from the cure. Said that the descriptions were all consistent with that of a large bird called the Sand Hill Crane

with a seven-foot wingspan and reddish coloring around its eyes. Though they are not native to the area. unlike the moth man that's right Robert Smith took some time out from his ongoing thesis that boys don't cry

and well that's I'm looking at pictures of the heron that doesn't look that scary if I'm honest with you it's got a weird little neck no one's thinking that's a narrow little neck and that's standing in the middle of the road

yeah that doesn't look like a man and that can't turn into a dog and then a mysterious I reckon that could become a lump could definitely become a long if you hit it with your car, sure. In an interview with IGN, if you know with IGN?

It's like a gaming. The video game website. So a pretty good source. Yeah, they've been around longer than I thought. Yeah, so no one of this. I mean, 66. This was around the time the movie that we did talk about before in 2002 was coming out. They interviewed Lauren Coleman, a cryptozoologist.

Which is like a, I think it's like an expert in mystery animals. Jackalopes and such. So the ones that believe in bullshit. Yeah. Yeah. And spread it around. But if you have ologists at the end, like UFOologists, UFOologists. Yeah, like our friend Stanton fried man.

Yeah, the fried man. Remember Stanton? From a, who was a big Roswell believer. Anyway, Lauren Coleman talked about how Kiel, if I mentioned Kiel yet, no, so that makes it. All right, let me try that again. I've moved a few things around. So in an interview with IGN, Lauren Coleman was talking about this man, John Keel, who was called to the air at a report on the sightings.

He was a journalist, but also a bit of a believer, a bit of a UFOologist, etc. And he was... Yeah, let's throw UFOs into this as well. He did. Nice, good. I don't go on to it too much, but there was a bunch of UFO sightings at the same time as well. He was like, it's a bloody hotbed for paranormal activity. West Virginia.

Keel was like, this is... It felt like he was talking about. about it like it was that you ever watch Buffy? Yeah. The hellmouth. He was talking about it like Oh sure.

Yeah, right. Yeah. Just crazy shit's happening here. According to that IGN report and Coleman's interview, as Kill began to gather information, he found himself getting more deeply involved in the events. To the extent that according to Coleman,

there were entities that communicated with John by phone. Oh. The mothman, he's a phone. What do you mean? I don't know what that means. Bring, bring. No! An entity.

Yeah. Someone's talking to me on a phone. Well, he can interfere with the TV broadcast. He can make it a bit fuzzy. Yeah, so maybe you can talk on a phone off. But he's part man. These just sound like people that are just terrified by technology. Oh no, the fridge.

It kept my chicken cacciatore quite cold. Coleman went on to say that Keel found Point Pleasant be a vortex of phenomena, the hell-mouthed of idea, and couldn't really tell one from the other, one phenomena from another. Phenomena. It was a scary situation for John, according to Coleman. Yeah.

He'd begun to give, he'd begun to be given prophecies by the entities. Via the phone. By the phone. I assume he means people, just people are, entities sounds funer. Yeah. He would begun, he'd begun to be given prophecies by the entities he was dealing with in point, One of these said that when President Johnson turned on the Christmas lights at the White House, the whole Northeast was going into a blackout.

Oh no, they did not check the fuse box. That was one of the prophecies, right? And then on December 15th, oh no. When President Johnson turned on the Christmas lights, John Kiel was in his apartment in Manhattan, New York City, I believe. Waiting for the blackout with his bottled water and his batteries. Nothing happened. So he just enjoyed some bottled water battery soup and he got on with his life. No.

Six minutes later, on the TV said across the bottom it said, Bridge collapses across Ohio River and he just freaks out apparently. That's just like a blackout. It's just like a blackout across the whole northeast. Yeah. Kiel freaked out because the bridge in question was the Silver Bridge, which crossed the Ohio River between Galapagos. between Galapolus, Ohio

Shout out to Ohio And crosses from Ohio to Point Pleasant West Virginia Oh no It's a coincidence I mean it's a More What's a coincidence

It's more like A big coincidence A big coincidence Yeah It's the moth man Taking out the only bridge in town So you can't leave But I love the idea that he's gone

That he's gone He's waiting for one thing he's like, oh, this other thing, this could be what it, this is what it was. See, if he wasn't in his apartment waiting for the blackout, he wouldn't have seen it on the TV. So that was the

it was like a coded message. I think so, yeah. It was a decoer to get him to watch the TV. I mean, the prophecy could have been hey, over the phone, hey mate, watch the TV tonight at 806. Yeah, but that would have been too straightforward. That wouldn't have been cryptozoology enough.

It feels like we're almost all playing a skeptic. Can one of you guys believe in this? I'll be a believer now. Thank you, man. Okay. I'm, because I do as well, but I need one of you two. I thought one of you was. I was the skeptic.

I'm the believer. I am the believer. Oh, sorry. I just wish that the prophecies were a bit more straightforward. Okay, great. You can believe, but also ask for a better product. It's very true, yeah. I think that's like apple.

You know? Yeah, exactly. Like my apple product. They're a bit better. Better in life, you know? Believe in them. Tell me about that. But, no, no.

It's probably, I'm a bit better. When the, unfortunately, like, tragically, the bridge collapsed during peak hour, 67 people fell into the river, 46 died. Two of those bodies were never found. According to Coleman, several people who died in that small town bridge accident were related to witnesses of Mothman. Oh my goodness. In that very small town.

Some of the people who died were related to. to people who had seen mothman. Yeah, the mothman knows what's up. That is amazing. Isn't that amazing? Dave? I'm out. Yeah, wow.

Wow. Thank you. But just, give me a sec. Thank you. I just needed to process that because I'm just mind-blown. I'm just going to say I'm blown. I got excited, okay? When the bridge collapsed, people started connecting the moth man to the tragedy,

which, you know, makes sense, because it was clearly connected. Keel, John Keel, wrote a book in 1975 called The Mothman Prophecies. Oh my goodness. Claiming that the sightings were reckoning that the sightings were precognitions and premonitions that the Silver Bridge was going to collapse. Since that time, some have claimed that the Mothman has been cited before in other cities, before other big tragedies.

Some saying it was cited before 9-11 Finding very little evidence to back that up Apart from a couple of people saying Some say They saw the Moth Man Yeah They saw a big winged Creature in the sky

Traveling Just before the 9-11 Traveling one foot off the ground At 100 miles per hour Yeah but I don't I haven't found nothing to back that up But anyway So that was the book that was turning into the movie

Imagine if you did find something to back that off what would become of me exactly that's right good thing you didn't good thing you didn't find anything to back that up next thing I know I'd be going over a bridge I don't know I haven't seen the Mothman prophecies much like you guys but I do hope there is a scene with Richard gear holding a bunch of batteries

and a 600 mil bottle of water watching TV going it's happening I look at the way wrote the book later going yeah yeah it was a sign they told me that the bridge was going to collapse by the batteries. It was all definitely a little bit of rewriting history there.

I think it was pretty easy to get your book made into a film about 15 years ago. I mean, did Hollywood run out of ideas? No, now they've run out of ideas. I think Hollywood's got endless great ideas. That's what I meant. Oh, yeah.

I phrased it weird. They turned a book about a guy watching the TV and saying, that's what I meant. And they made that into an hour and half Richard Kier movie. I think maybe that was the year of where

they, Mothman prophecies does sound like the kind of movie that your grandma gets tricked into buying because she knows you like the, you like the Batman movies and she's like, oh, the Mothman,

that's gonna like that as well. That's why that movie exists. It's a $2 shop. Yeah. Yeah, it looks kind of like Batman, but you look closer. It's Mothman. With a 7 meter wingspan

and it converts, it transforms, into a lump. A lump on the road. On the road. You have to buy the road separately, but... Bloody hell. Hot cakes.

While Keel believes that the mothman sightings were warnings of the bridge collapse, another theory suggests that the mothman may have actually been part of a century's old curse. I love a good curse. This is the other big theory. In the late 18th century, a Shawnee chief name Hokolesquah, sorry about the pronunciation there anglified into that translates basically to

chief corn stalk and was he was brutally executed with his son and a few others when visiting Fort Randolph on a diplomatic mission this guy apparently a real good guy initially he was like

fighting white settlers off but then sort of came he was trying to bring peace diplomatic mission some a-hole knocks him off. There's a story, admittedly again, not heaps of evidence to back us up, that when he lay dying, the chief said,

I came to your house a friend, and you murdered me. You have murdered by my side, my son, and for this, may the curse of the great spirit rest upon this spot. May it be blighted by nature, its enterprises blasted, and the energies of its people paralyzed by the side. stain of our blood. And that curse has become known as the curse of Chief Cornstalk. It's incredibly articulate as you lay dying.

I know, right? He had a lot of time. They just let him... Yeah, I don't think there's any references of the time of that quote. I think it's sort of come around later on. But anyway, this website, blumhouse.com. Oh, yeah. You know that one?

No. I think it's like a... It's like some sort of horror movie... I see. Blumhapathouse.com. So I've gone to some pretty rock-solid... You've gone to some dark places. Are you ever going to emerge?

Is the question. Have you ever accidentally visited bumhouse.com? Because I have. That's great. All right. I'm looking at up. Here we go. I love, um, this is my mothman prophecy.

I reckon that this is a sexy, sexy website. Bumhouse.com, you reckon? No, it doesn't exist. Bumhouse. You guys have to buy it now. Oh, damn it. We'll have to get that. If there's any internet savvy people on there.

Why would that be the weirdest name for a porn site and bumhams? That seems like the Aussiest name for a porn site. Bumhouse. All right, well, if anyone out there is... Bumass dot com. If you're an internet savvy person, you want to get that website, that would be so good. Bumhouse. Anyway, so they listed tragedies that have occurred in and around the area.

These include December 6, 1907. in the nearby county of Marion, the worst coal mine disaster in American history took place killing over 360 miners. So this curse is so rampant, it's going to other towns now. Yeah, it's going to nearby towns. Wow! We said this, I mean, at the time, maybe he didn't know...

He didn't know where the lines were, the county lines were going to be. That's true, yeah. Yeah. April 21st, 1930. Fire rips through the Ohio State Penitentiary in Columbus, less than 80 miles from where cheap cornstalk was killed. Reports say the prison has burned to death in their cells as guards refused to let them out

while the fire engulfed their penitentiary. By the time the flames were extinguished, 320 people were dead. Whoa. They just locked them up. They didn't let them out. Yeah, what a... That's a nightmare.

That's brutal. June, 1944, the region was rocked by a series of deadly tornadoes. The incident, which lasted two days, left 134 people dead. August 10th, 1968, nine months after the Silver Bridge collapse, Piedmont Flight 230 crashed on its landing approach to Canawar Airport,

located 30 miles from Mason County. 35 people were killed. November 14, 1970, a southern airways DC-9 crashed into a mountaineer Huntington, West Virginia, just over the Mason County border. All 75 on board were killed. March 2nd, 1976, a man walks into the Mason County Jail in Point Pleasant with a shotgun and a bag full of dynamite. That is a recipe for disaster.

He asked to spend the night with his wife who was being held after murdering the couple's two-month-old baby. He detonates the explosives, leveling the jail and killing five people, his wife and himself. January 1978, a trained derail. The evidence just continues to build.

Wasn't it, though? In Point Pleasant, dumped thousands of gallons of chemicals. The toxic mess seeped its way into the ground, poisoning several wells. Oh, this mothman's in everything. Wow, he's a shapeshifter. This is on the moth. moth man, this is the chief's curse.

The curse. And the moth man was somehow manifestation of the curse. The curse, yeah. In one moment, potentially. April 27th, I don't know if we need to keep going through. A cooling tower being constructed at the Willow Island Power Station collapsed, killing 51 construction workers. So there's a bunch of different things. I mean, I imagine if you looked at any place, not to play the role of the skeptic here, I know that's your role.

I'm a believer. But you could probably find a series of tragedies in any place if you went like they did over a century or more. No. No. Sorry. We're flipped here. Yep, that's right. No tragedies.

Okay. This is a crazy outlier. According to the article, the Chief's Curse was believed to have a lifespan of 200 years, which explains why no other disasters have been attributed to the Chief since 1978. Wow. How are you guys feeling about this? I know you started out, skeptic, you started out believer. How do you feel about it now?

You're going any way, any theory? I mean, I've sort of thrown a couple of theories at you. Curse. Curse, sure. Coming to warn about a bridge collapsing. Yep. Propheising. Or birds.

Why not all three? That's a good point. That's a good point. Yeah, that is a good point. Okay. I'm thinking it. He was warning about the bridge. Because has he been seen since?

Since the bridge. So they still continue to see the mothman. Do you think the mothman was trying to warn them about the bridge the whole time? Yeah. Maybe he's the hero in this. Because the mothman wasn't killing anyone. That's kind of what they're saying. Yeah, they're saying.

He was just sort of trying to flag down a car. That's the keel theory. It was a keel appeal. Keel theory is that he was prophesizing. He was warning the town. Yeah, because he wasn't hurting anyone. He was just sort of stalking. I mean, he could have used his words.

That's why I'd say, use your words, mate. Do you think you being a weird moth man in front of a car is going to make people think a bit over a year later, a bridge is going to collapse? I mean, of course they should. Absolutely they should. But you're trusting people too much. Mary in the back seat was yelling that over and over again, but people were so paranoid they thought she was the moth. Yeah. So they didn't trust her.

Tragically, the bridge collapsed. Maybe the lump, maybe the lump was some sort of interpretive dance situation. I love a lumpy dance. And then they're supposed to go, okay, if we run him over like a bridge. Right. And then they would have connected all the pieces. They would have worn in a place. And if you run over the lump, it will turn to dust, much like the bridge collapsing.

This guy's good. How could they not see that? They were so stupid. And high. Yeah, well, that was probably why. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Those fools.

Driving 100 miles per hour. According to skeptic Joe Nickel, a number of the hoaxes followed the original reports. Oh, well, that's a bit of it. Using the word hoax, that's a bit of a spin there. Yeah, sorry to denigrating. Yeah. Classic skeptic.

Showing his true colors there. I don't know if he realized it, but he sounds a little bit like he's got a bloody dog in this fight. Sounds a bit like a skeptic. Not the right phrase he's there? Yep. Yep. I heard David Letterman say that a lot, and I really always liked it,

and I've always wanted to say it out loud. That was your chance. He used to be like, I don't have a dog in this fight. And that would mean that he didn't have a dog. Like, he was talking about dog fighting. Oh, yeah. Yeah, well, what a noble man. That famous David Letterman segment, dogfight.

Yeah, and he would always say, I don't have a dog in this fight. The famous David Letterman segment, do I run a dog fighting rink. Every week you do it. him everyone can be like, no, goodnight everyone. I can confirm, good night. The new album is out now. Is this anything?

No, I do not have a dog in this fine. It was when they merged two classic segments. Top 10 list in dog fighting. Dave's top 10 times he didn't have a dog in the fire. So according to Joe Nicol, these hoaxes included one time a group of construction workers tied flashlights to helium balloons. He also attributed other reports.

He basically said the mothman doesn't exist at all, which I don't even think we're discussing, right? Obviously, it exists. Yeah, I've been turned around. He definitely exists. And what level does he exist? Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Why does he exist? Yeah. Like, we've moved beyond whether or not he does exist. It's about why. We've proved it beyond reasonable doubt. But this joker, Joe Nicol, he's stuck. He's stuck on level one. Still trying to figure out if he exists or not.

And he seems to think that the mothman reports are all due to pranks, misidentified planes. No one's thinking. a plane as a moth man. Absolutely not. And also sightings of a bard owl. A Shakespearean owl? Yeah, the bard.

Wow. Yeah. It was doing sonnets. And I think that's why I thought maybe it was a man. But interestingly, it was actually a man dressed as a woman, because at that point, women were not allowed to play owls. That's right. Thank God, we're in a more progressive society now.

Women can be owls. It's 2017. The town of Point Pleasant isn't an idiot. I'd like to say that. Okay, if I may. They've begun cashing in on the Mothman phenomenon. In 2002, the year that the Mothman Prophecies movie came out, Point Pleasant held its first annual Mothman Festival.

If you want to get involved, it's on in a couple of weeks. Really? Yeah, it's on the third weekend of September every year. What kind of fun can you expect is what your eyes were sort of asking that? I'm so keen. Well, there's a variety of events, and these include guest speakers. Great. Richard Geer.

Guest moths. Hayride tours, obviously focusing on the notable areas of Point Pleasant. And also a mothman pancake eating contest. Very nice. Wow, sticking true to the story, I love it. They won't invent crazy little gimmicks. They'll only focus on moth-related events. Exactly.

Where did the mothman get his strength? A pancake eating. Several hundred pancakes. A short stack. That's how he got him. After the Ignorogrual Festival in 2003, they unveiled a 12-foot statue of the creature by sculptor Rob Roach. Bob Roach. Bob Roach.

Moth Man. Oh. Do you think he is? I think he's the mothman, yeah. Bob Roach. I didn't even see that, but that's so clear now. Mm-hmm. I want a 12-foot statue

even though all the report said he was a 10-foot man See that's classic Bob Roach behavior Just just a little bit bigger Tooting his own horn, you know what I mean I think because if I reckon he was probably 12 And a great lover That's probably what is

If he built it to the right size When he stood next to it People would have been like He's the same Yeah, that's right And he's got big moth wings So Bob Roach is 10 foot tall Yeah 10 foot tall sculpture

Builds 12 foot tall statue He couldn't possibly be me I'm two foot shorter than this In 2005 The Mothman Museum and Research Centre was opened So this town It's basically stripped out any other industry

Yeah right It is now a Mothman town The milk bar is now the Moth bar They live in a moth In a Moth economy Moth Connalls If you'd heard of Yeah Moth Connolds

I think yeah If you would have heard the The term Moth Moth a comedy? Yeah, absolutely, yeah. Well, that's where it comes from. That's amazing.

There's now there's moth economies everywhere. Yeah, moth economies. Yeah. I think it's one of the single largest moth economies in the entire world. It is, yes. I'm always ordering Uber Moth, you know, for transport and also late-night food. Do they record the Moth story slam there? They do, yes.

Every week. Every week. Every day. Yeah, Uber Moth, yeah, you can shoot Uber Moth and then Uber Moth black. Yep. when you can fly. Incredible. For Uber Moth X, you just cruise really fast on the ground.

Right. But Uber Black is obviously a lot less dusty. Yes. Uber Moth X, you also occasionally will have to turn into a lump. That's right. So it does take a little longer to get from A to B. But it's cheaper, so. Yeah.

So I think it is worth it. Even for the lumpy moments. If you turn this way too much, you do lose a little bit on the mic. All right. I'll look this way. That's good. I'll never look this way, Dan.

Never look at me. Thank God an excuse to never look this way ever again. Woo, don't worry. I'll, uh... No, no, I don't like this. I like how on the weekly planet, uh, you just, you leave in any sort of, any chat about can you just move close to the mic? Yeah, right.

That's better. Yep. Like that. Uh-huh. So good. Feels real, man. I'm just, I'm like, could we get away with that? Here's a little peek behind the curtain.

He's a little peek behind the curtain. He's a little peek behind the curtain. Sometimes we add those things. in. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine at the level of microphone I am, but we're like, guys, we've got to be more relatable, you know? We're sitting there in our golden tuxedos and we're like, how do we relate to the common man? Let's pretend we're having microphone issues. That's very good. We have to pretend we don't. A little different, slightly different angle, but we're no pros. We haven't done 200. We've only done. 98. 98. Yeah. So that's pretty

much the report done. But before I finish up, I'll just talk briefly about the bridge again. So this bridge, some say that it collapsed because of the curse and the moth man had something to do with it. And others say the moth man was warning against it. So after the bridge collapsed, an investigation of the wreckage was carried out. It pointed to the cause of the collapse being a moth man. That's all, yeah, that's all I got on it.

Well, that's pretty conclusive. I feel, yeah, I mean, yeah. You could have just, if you started with that, I would have been much more of a believer the whole time. If you just said,

listen, this was Mothman cause. Yeah, I wanted to keep that up my sleeve because, yeah, I thought a little suspense. No, that's good. You feel the good story.

But, May so, I believe you were the Scully there, and what happens on the X-Files is despite irrefutable evidence that aliens exist, including several encounters and abductions of yourself personally. That's true.

You still remain skeptical, 10 years after the first episode. It is tricky that she does that. How does she do that? Mulder, aliens, I don't know about this. It's like you've been abducted. You know that. Anyway.

That's a good skeptic. That's classic. Yeah, you're so skeptical. You can't be tamed. Just like bloody Joe Nicol all over again. But also, sorry, I mean, that was sort of a subsection of the report. I did read another report into the wreckage. that I've really contradicted myself very quickly there

subsection then another report just go with me the mothman's making me say this and that report said that the collapse was due to a failure of a single eye bar in the suspension chain which was due to a small defect it was also found that the bridge was carrying much heavier loads

than it had originally been designed for and had been poorly maintained by the mothman. So. I wonder, like, if that's the case, then maybe the moth man rather than saying it's going to collapse, just say,

get the trucks off there. Make the cars and bikes only. Check the suspension. Get a go bloke out there with a welding torch and maybe fix that eye bar, whatever an eye bar is. Get a new eye bar maybe. Yeah, that's all.

I just, why didn't the moth man just bring a new eye bar? Yeah. At a hundred miles an hour. Minimum. Yeah, real selfish prick.

This guy travels at the speed of light apparently. The bridge was replaced by the silver memorial bridge, which was completed in 1969. Is it... Very good here. It's still there. It's still there. Oh, thank you. But if you think the mothman is done, you were wrong.

Oh, I definitely thought it was done, especially because about five minutes ago, you said, that's the end of the mothman report. Well, I was wrong. We were all wrong. We can all admit we're wrong. There have been sightings around the place or around the world of the mothman. But this year...

It's gone global. This year, the Chicago Tribune has reported that it has had the largest amount of mothman's sightings since Point Pleasant in the 60s. Wow. Paranormal researcher Lon Strickler has chronicled 21 alleged mothman sightings in Chicago this year alone, 2017.

I cannot find any other grouping like this, Strickler has said. This is according to the Chicago Tribune article I'm just finishing up on this here The earliest of these sightings was on April the 7th in Oz Park Strickler said it was reported to a colleague Manuel Navarette at UFO Clearing House We've got too many UFOs

We're busting them out the door at crazy prices It's on the floor, it's out the door And it's a UFO I mean We've identified them They're not flying. It's still an object. It's an object.

Look, I won't lie to you. They're rugs. They're too many rugs. They're flying carpets. Make us an offer. A woman walking her dog, this is the first of these. I'll just talk about it. I won't go through all 21.

I'll just go through this one. I thought it was fun. A woman walking her dog claimed she encountered a creature standing in the park. Oh no. This is what she said. I saw a large man. probably seven feet or taller standing on the ground.

Oh no. Jeez. So you've seen a big, big man. It was solid black, but what really stood out were the large, and I do mean large, pair of wings that were folded behind him. I imagine that made him sort of out of sight to her.

And what does she mean solid black? Did she perform some sort of biopsy to see that he wears black all the way through? Yeah, solid black. How does she know? I don't know anyway I'm just quoting a very reliable source of Your quote is so believable

I thought you became her and I got angry at you and I apologize That's okay That wasn't your fault The account said the creature Looked at the woman Before spreading its wings

And flying off I guess that's when she probably saw the wings Probably twiged yeah I should have read the next sentence And this is her again I'm sorry Dave So I'm acting Right sorry sorry

I mean feel free to go with it But You're a stupid woman! Oh, sorry. Sorry, didn't mean that at all. I felt like this thing could see right through me. Read me. It knew what I was thinking.

Like it could stare right into my very soul. It was the most terrified I had ever been in my life. Wow. I just wish people could see the acting that went into your eyes. That was just a couple of months ago. Jeez. Has Chicago checked all their bridges and their T-Bone suspensions? I don't think so.

Do they have enough bottled water and batteries just in case? No. Are they... Do they have one eye on the television at all times? To find out after tragedy is struck. Do they have a lover's lane to get high at? Yes. Oh, good.

Okay, that's all right then. We'll be fine. Anyway, that was the Moth Man. Jess was meant to do the report this week. She's not here. No one knows where she is. Question, my... Jess is the mothman

Jess is the mothman I've never done a report about the moth man And seen jess Looking at me at the same time That's absolutely true isn't it So many questions So now I believe neither of you are the moth man But if the mothman is in this room

Speak now Forever hold your dust It's look to your left Is they the moth man Look to your right Are they the moth man If not, then you are the moth man. Oh my goodness.

Do that at home as well, everyone. If you could, yeah. There's, yeah. Is this the worst episode we've ever done? No, that was great. That was a spooky, spooky story. It's very spooky. Matt, can you just say, you wrote this late last night,

slash you this morning, alone in a motel room? Yeah. Is that terrifying? Yeah. So I'm staying in a motel room over the weekend. This is a pre-organized. writing weekend for the upcoming Fringe it starts in a week

interesting so I did that not thinking I'd have to end up spending my time writing about a moth man how could you not to see that out so if you come to the Fringe show I may have a bit about moth men but I so I'm saying this motel

alone I'm watching these documentaries about and stuff that are like really hyped up towards trying to make you feel spooked out and I was feeling weird not as weird as I felt as I checked in to this motel, two suburbs away from my house, and I had to sign in at 10.30 p.m.

and had to write my address of two, and just be like, man, I'm not here on some sort of a sex thing. I know you think this is a sex thing, or that I've been divorced or something. Trouble at times. I'm here for writing. I'm here to pursue the creative arts. And he just winked at me.

Nice. We get 20 a you a night. Yeah, people come in. I'm a comedian. Yeah. They're all bloody comedians, mate. I'm on a one-hour research project for comedy. I've got my friend coming over.

She's helping me with the research. About the mothman. About the mothman. You said that to the manager of this motel. Mate, they all talk about the moth man. They just check, you just check the box. It says I'm here for the mothman. The mothman special?

Business pleasure or mothman? Mothman, okay. Oh, I love the mothman, and I do believe. I want to believe. I did want to believe at the start of the episode, and now I do believe. Yeah. Well, yeah, I... At the start of the research, I'm like, Mothman, well, this will be fun.

But it turns out it wasn't fun. It was bloody amazing. Terrifying. And terrifying. And life-changing. Now I'm going to be... I'm looking out for the Moth Man. And when I see it, I'll know.

Tragedy follows after. It's a little silence there so you can think about the Moth Man in your own time. And how he's affected your life. That's what I was doing. that time and he's affected me thusly just at an awkward encounter at a motel and now I've made the worst

do you go on report on record No I thought that was a great report Matt so we thank you thank you we'd also like to thank everyone that supports the show via Patreon Have you heard of the Patreon Love a bit of a Patreon

Love a bit of a Patreon I'll show how we do it here I get some Patrions May sir Yes I'll thank a couple Okay and then you can You can find inspiration Maybe you can if you have

Think of anyone to thank. Okay. That'd be great, but no pressure. Okay. Because this is not, you don't have a dog in this fight. I don't have a dog. This is not the hill I want to die. Yeah.

You don't have a moth in this, man. I'd love to thank from a place that apparently is real, Penekech, Midlothian, which sounds like... Lord of the Rings. Is that the name of the place or the person? That's the name of the place. Oh, right. The name of the person is Ryan Watson.

Oh, Ryan Watson from Mordor. I love that guy. What a guy. So, yeah, I'd really like to thank him because I like him a lot. What are we doing anything this week to them? Dave, Joe. I don't know. If they were a something man, what would they be?

I think Ryan Watson would be a... An every man. He'd be an every man. He'd be your every man. And I'd also love to thank from Missouri City, Texas. Matt Lass. Matt Lass. I reckon Matt Lass is an ass man.

Lass the ass man. Last the ass man. Very nice. And I reckon he'd love The bumhouse.com Hey, that's, apparently it's up for grabs If you want it, if you want it, Lass Thanks so much Lassie

He's the dog man Good dog, dog, dog, dog boy He's gone from arseman to dog boy Take your pick Yeah, you're your own sidekick Uh, May so, would you like to think? Oh, I'd love to thank some people From the great

I was going to say state of Virginia Is that correct? Virginia estate? Yeah, I reckon. We were just talking about West Virginia. That's true, we were. In West Virginia, born and rose. Don a moth man.

I just, wow, this person lives as closer to the mothman that we do. Holy shit, I didn't even put that together. Yeah. They live a lot closer. Wow. Well, just in original recipe, Virginia, thank you for supporting the show.

John Shearer. John Sheetman. Sheep man. Sheep man. She a sheep man. Good on you, Johnny. And I'd also like to thank. Look, he's from the, he's from Miami, Florida.

So you'd think he's American as apple pie or whatever they have in Florida. But I feel he's one of your most Australian Patreon supporters because he's Stephen Sammo. Stevie Sammo. Samo. Samo. Samo House.com. What a Samo short for, Stephen? Do you know?

He can't talk to us. He's not really here. Forget that. It's not a call in. I forget that. Stephen Simon, going out from Miami. It could be the Heat Man.

Could be the Heat Man. That's the basketball team in... Oh, very nice. Or the Dolphin Man. I think that's their football team. Yep. Miami Dolphins, it is. Well, I'd like to thank.

A long-time supporter of the show, and we couldn't work out whether we'd thank you out loud on the show before, because he's one of the longest supporters on Patreon. So we do apologize if we never have. But if we double up, hey, this person is worth it. They came to the live show last week.

They supported us in Sydney. They bought a damn t-shirt. And I would like to thank Cecil Hops. Seesle Hops. Beer Man. Beer, man. Oh, because of hops. I was thinking Bunny Man because of hops.

Oh, I would have... Drunk Bunny Man. I actually think that Cesar would be a pony man. Because my little pony was the topic that he suggested. Oh, yes. Pony Man. Pony Man. Sparkle man.

Oh, Sparkle. Mr. Sparkle, man. Mr. Spackle. That's good. So thank you, Cecil, for a... all your support over the years, all the months. And we'd also like to thank all the way from London, James Marshall. James Marshall, Copman.

Tommy Lee Jones Man. Tommy Lee Jones Man. Eminem Man? Oh, US Marshals. And also the fugitive, I believe he was in the Marshals. That's right, yeah. Marshall Manors. Yes.

Mathers? No manners. Yeah, but the man. Manners. Oh, yeah, I'm with you. M&M Man. James, you've got so many to choose from there. you choose your favourite.

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blame the moth man he left your names in a pile of dust on a road somewhere out in West Virginia but the people I do know Elvis Nalusco Fidel Rays Tyler Thompson and Chesley Russell

I can if you put those together that's forming a warning about something that will happen in Melbourne If anyone can figure that out let us know The Zodiac style In the meantime Just stay off the West Cape Bridge

Just in case They're doing road works You'll be on there for hours Yeah Just in case you want to be on time Yeah I would like to thank Nick Mason for being our very special guest this week. You're welcome, guys.

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We do. Any of you are the moth man? Please drop us a line. Please. What you've been up to? Yes. Give me a call. Give me some prophecies.

Give us a curse. Are you an entity? What are you? Yeah. What are you? Are you a pile of dust? Are you a big tall? man called Bob Roach.

I forgot we uncovered it during it. I think we uncovered it, yeah. So he's like, do you think, so he puts on the wings? Is he like an Ironman guy with a suit of technology? Or does he convert somehow? More like one of those ones that converts. I think he just has the wings, but he distracts with his art. Right.

You know what I mean? You're like, hey, what's the thing? And he's like, look at this sculpture. I've made out of tin cans. And they're like, what? This guy's good. I want to find a photo of him and then an illustration. of the Mothman and I reckon that'll be

merged them together, yeah, I think so, yeah. All right, keep an eye up for that guys. Until next week, we'll be back and we will say goodbye. Later. Bye, that's what Jess says. Oh, nailed it. This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network.

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