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Last night, a strange and eerie thing happened.

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He went right in the treetop.

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He was going real fast, straight ahead.

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Big wings, got around his head.

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I'd never seen anything like that before.

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About that time, the news came on and showed the bridge had fell.

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She scared it after this bridge.

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And I said, blind.

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She said, I'm just afraid it's gonna fall.

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That was 13 days before the bridge fell.

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The island snapped.

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The rest was a chain reaction.

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Now improvised search parties are attempting to find if.

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Just what it is, no one is sure.

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All I caught was those red eyes.

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But new technology makes us question what is real.

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If our eyes see it.

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If our cameras capture it.

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Does it exist?

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Into a realm where fact meets fiction.

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Science meets legend.

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Where nightmares come to life.

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Do you believe?

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Lost tapes.

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Mothman.

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In 1967, following the collapse of the Silver Bridge over the Ohio River,

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the FBI brought in one man for questioning in connection to the disaster.

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Following hours of interrogation, as well as a review of his home movie footage,

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they were left with a mystery that extended far beyond their expectations.

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These are the tapes.

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It doesn't say much, does it?

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Shipped here today in local authorities, Adam.

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Didn't get anything.

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Nothing.

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Caught him with that camera, though, right near the bridge.

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Yeah.

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Wonder why.

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Why don't you give me a minute with him?

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See you. Talk to me.

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Hi, Roy. How are ya?

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I'm Agent Tom Williams.

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Some coffee or...

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Yeah, it's a terrible tragedy.

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All those people died.

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We're just trying to find out what happened.

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You were there, Roy.

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You can help us.

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Just wanna know why you were there and why you were filming.

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See, the thing is, Roy, that bridge crossed state lines and...

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...that puts it under federal jurisdiction.

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That's why I'm here.

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So if you can just tell me everything you saw and why you were filming, I can help you.

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Help me piece this together and I'll help you.

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This small, unassuming Southern community has recently become the site of some rather unworldly reports.

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Three boys last night near Glen, West Virginia in Clay County,

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witness what they describe as a weird and perhaps unearthly unidentified flying object.

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But perhaps the most intriguing of these reports surrounds the appearance of a mysterious moth-like creature.

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John, can you tell me what happened last night?

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We got around and we thought it was a car light.

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So we stopped the car and I think we were over top of the car.

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I've never seen anything like that before.

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Mrs. Payne's daughter saw the object actually land, didn't she?

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All of a sudden, just, you know, it just sort of sank right into the trees, you know,

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and it kind of moved around a little and then looked like, you know, it's time to get away.

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It can be seen from a distance within the treetops.

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However, search parties have been unable to find it.

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Hi, Roy.

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This is my partner, Carl Montgomery.

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Now, Roy, if you could just tell us what happened, what you saw.

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Roy.

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Why'd you do it?

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Oh, you gotta give us something, Roy.

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How are things at home, Roy?

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How's the wife?

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How are things between you and Nancy?

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I love my wife.

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I love my wife.

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Gotta give us something.

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It was a warning.

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Excuse me.

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It was a warning.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I have just arrived at the site of a terrible tragedy.

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The devastation here is overwhelming.

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Its horrible scene is total chaos and confusion,

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as the rescue personnel are trying to help many, many, many victims of this just awful situation.

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I know people said they saw it on the bridge before it fell.

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Some even blame Offman for the collapse of their bridge, which killed 46 people.

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A giant, woth-winged creature that many witnesses claim has descended upon this once quiet town.

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It happened about two weeks ago.

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It was late at night.

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My wife and I were sleeping.

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I thought I'd heard something.

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So I went to the window.

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I saw something.

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I grabbed my camera and I pointed it out the window and it started filming.

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Roy?

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What's wrong?

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I thought I saw something.

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Honey, I'm sure it was just a bird.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, maybe.

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Come on, sweetie, come back to bed at play.

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Anyway, that was the first time I saw it.

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Saw what, Roy?

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Look, I know it sounds crazy,

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but it was...

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it was this thing.

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It was huge, like a giant bat or a moth.

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Roy.

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You have to believe me.

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I'm telling the truth. Why would I make this up?

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No sir and turner was about halfway down that road when it was running beside our car.

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After we got here that night, though, everything changed.

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We'd come up on us so quick, we didn't even know what it is.

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We threw over some bushes. That's when I saw the wings.

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The big wings kept around its head.

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Between six and seven foot tall, we took off towards town.

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It kept right up with us. It was right over top of the car, all the way down the road.

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It was just so red that the eyes drew my attention more than anything.

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The eyes are described as looking like two bright red bicycle reflectors.

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They are not glowing eyes, but they are shining eyes.

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It was not a color of red I've ever seen before.

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After that night, I saw it a bunch more times.

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It was massive and fast. I think, completely moved.

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Roy!

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What are you doing?

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I saw it. Up on the roof.

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What happened here?

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Did you do this?

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No.

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Who would do such a thing?

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It must have been the creature.

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It must have been kids, Roy. That's what it was.

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That's what you've seen running around here.

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It's not some creature.

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Nancy!

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I saw it!

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The Mothman sightings begin at the TNT area.

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It's an old World War II munitions area.

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It still has lots of bunkers there where munitions are restored.

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If you look at all the descriptions of Mothman,

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large wings and these eyes shining very bright red,

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there's actually a creature that looks just like this,

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except it's not as big.

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The Bard Owl.

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Very common in the TNT area,

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which just happens to be the TNT area.

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Which just happens to be a wildlife preserve.

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It's December 14th.

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I'm back here at the Silver Bridge.

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Over the past week or so, I've been drawn to this place.

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This is where I've seen multiple sightings of the creature.

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I don't know why, but I think it's trying to tell me something.

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I have this sick feeling in my stomach.

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I don't know.

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The day of the collapse, I just...

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I just knew I had to be down there.

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I just...

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I just had a feeling that something bad was going to happen.

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Something bad did happen.

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Why did you kill all those people Roy?

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Fire, police,

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civil defense officials work round the clock in the search for victims.

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An incredible disaster which shocks the nation

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and touches hundreds of families with tragedy.

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Okay Roy, why don't you tell us again what happened that day?

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Are you serious?

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From the beginning.

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How many times do I have to tell the same story?

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There's nothing more.

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Please Roy, from the beginning.

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I woke up in the morning.

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And I had this...

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This sense of dread.

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And my wife came home from the market and we got in an argument.

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What was that about?

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He's spending so much time at the river.

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Test.

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I...

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What are you doing Roy?

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Just listen.

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Just say this. I don't want to hear it.

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All you do is talk about this creature.

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I can't take it anymore.

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This is important.

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Get some help Roy!

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Nancy!

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I left the house.

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I had my camera with me and I went down to the bridge.

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And that's when I saw it.

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I keep seeing this thing.

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I don't know what it is.

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But it's some kind of creature.

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And it's...

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It's massive. It's got to be 6 feet, 7 feet tall.

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It has wings.

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It's like a giant moth or a bat.

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It's there!

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There it was!

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Oh my God.

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Oh!

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We'd be out driving. We'd be sitting along the roads.

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Sitting there staring.

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Like it was kind of wanting us to see it.

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It seemed like it knew where we were going to be.

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The collapse came at the heat of the evening rush hour.

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While traffic was lined up, bumper to bumper.

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Something just kept weighing on my shoulders.

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Not to go. Something would happen if you go.

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The quarter mile suspension bridge suddenly plunged 100 feet into the water with a tremendous roar.

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No reason for the collapse has yet been found.

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By the time the news came on it showed the bridge had failed.

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We would have been on that bridge when it failed.

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It's December 15th.

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All day I've been seeing the creature like crazy.

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I've never seen it this much.

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I don't understand what's going on.

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Oh my God!

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I see if I can get this on film.

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Oh God, this is awful.

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Those people. Oh my God.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I am coming to you now from the site of what can only be termed as a disaster.

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At roughly 5 p.m. in the midst of the evening rush hour commute, the silver bridge inexplicably collapsed.

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From where I am standing right now I can see several vehicles submerged in the Ohio River

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with a dozen or more so above that will be mangled along the body of what is left of the bridge.

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There are countless people here in need of medical assistance.

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I have no idea how many fatalities there may be.

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The number would have to be quite large because the vehicles and the commuters were trapped in the river once they fell off of the bridge.

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Why'd you do it Roy? Did you think Nancy was going to be on the bridge?

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All day I've been seeing the creature like crazy.

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Oh my God!

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Well you're working alone. Why'd you do it Roy?

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All you do is talk about this creature.

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The devastation here is overwhelming. It's a horrible scene.

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There's total chaos and confusion.

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This is important. Get some help Roy!

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Nancy!

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Seems to be a commotion behind this lady's murder.

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But it looks like someone maybe attempting a rescue. Can we get any closer on that? Yes!

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Oh this is incredible!

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What is that worth this is all about?

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Did you blow up that bridge so you could look like a hero?

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So your wife wouldn't think you were such a loser?

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That woman she said...

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She saw it too.

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She said it was trying to warn us.

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Following an extensive FBI investigation, no charges were brought against Roy Kirby.

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The cause of the bridge collapse was officially determined to be a structural flaw.

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Roy gratefully returned home to Nancy and vowed never to speak of the creature again.

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The FBI retained custody of his film reels.

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After the tragedy, there were no further sightings of the mothman in the area.

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Some believed the creature was taken away by the military.

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However, in 2007, a Minnesota woman reported seeing a mothman like creature

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about a month before the August 1st I-35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis.

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And so we are left to wonder, does it live among us?