1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:19,600 I've heard stories about Mothman for years. 2 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:22,280 Every day that I got off and worked we're going to the GT area, we're going to look 3 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:23,280 for Mothman. 4 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:24,280 Do you know anyone who's seen Mothman? 5 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:25,280 Yeah, several people. 6 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:28,760 That thing just jumped right on top of the hood of the car. 7 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:31,840 He was boss and just long enough for us to see it. 8 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:33,640 That's when I saw wings. 9 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:35,800 They describe it as a big, little bird. 10 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:38,760 Most people tell me that they seem big, red, bloody, like an ice. 11 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:39,760 You think Mothman exists? 12 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:41,880 I believe anything's possible. 13 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:43,480 I really never believed in the Mothman. 14 00:00:43,480 --> 00:00:44,480 I believe it's real. 15 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:51,120 I've heard a real story that's a heck of a lot scarier than the movie. 16 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:55,160 My name is Ryan and I'm a paranormal investigator. 17 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:59,320 When I was a kid, my experiences with the supernatural terrified me and I've been searching 18 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:00,820 for answers ever since. 19 00:01:00,820 --> 00:01:05,360 When I got to Penn State, I realized I wasn't alone in my quest. 20 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:09,280 So I founded the Paranormal Research Society dedicated to helping those who were haunted 21 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:11,040 like I was. 22 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:13,040 We are students. 23 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:14,040 We are seekers. 24 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,040 And sometimes we're warriors. 25 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:22,040 And each time we help someone, I feel like I'm one step closer to finding the truth. 26 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:26,040 This is Paranormal State. 27 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:32,880 Guys, I know it's spring break, but thanks for showing up. 28 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:34,640 Bigfoot. 29 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:36,640 Loch Ness Monster. 30 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:37,640 The Yeti. 31 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:43,200 Which, while these pictures have in common, they're all legendary paranormal myths. 32 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:45,440 And for the most part, they've all been debunked. 33 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:48,080 The only one that hasn't in my mind is Mothman. 34 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:52,560 For me personally, Mothman is the holy grail of the paranormal. 35 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:57,280 The first sighting of Mothman was in November 1966 in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. 36 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:02,120 Two newlywed couples were driving through Route 62 when they saw red eyes and something 37 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:03,120 fly away. 38 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:05,080 Dozens were reported soon after. 39 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:09,080 A year later, a major disaster hit the town of Point Pleasant. 40 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:13,520 And the Mothman has been sighted just before other major world tragedies. 41 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:14,520 Chernobyl. 42 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:15,720 The tsunami in India. 43 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:16,720 September 11th. 44 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:20,320 Are these sightings merely coincidental or is it something else? 45 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:23,760 Ever since I was little, I've been interested in the Mothman stories. 46 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,960 And I've always wanted to go to Point Pleasant, West Virginia, where the whole Mothman legend 47 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:28,960 began. 48 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,880 And we'll go and research the history of the Mothman Museum. 49 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:35,400 But beside just a field trip, I do want to actually find out what's going on. 50 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:37,400 Maybe we can come up with our own theory. 51 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:51,720 Hi, are you Mr. Jeff? 52 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:52,720 Hi, I'm Jeff. 53 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:53,720 Nice to meet you. 54 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:54,720 I'm Ryan. 55 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:55,720 Ryan, nice to meet you. 56 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:56,720 How you doing? 57 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:57,720 Good. 58 00:02:57,720 --> 00:02:58,720 Good. 59 00:02:58,720 --> 00:02:59,720 See the one who runs the shop? 60 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:03,960 Yeah, I'm pretty much the curator and keep track of all the Mothman stuff here. 61 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:05,960 All the different archives and things like that. 62 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:09,320 Do you ever get people who come in here reporting Mothman sightings? 63 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:11,040 I get emails almost every day. 64 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:12,040 Really? 65 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:13,040 Yeah. 66 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,560 I had grown up beside two of the people that were in the car that first night. 67 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:19,360 These are the original police reports about the Mothman. 68 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:21,720 This would be Linda and her husband and the other couple. 69 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:25,640 They sit down, wrote these out for the Sheriff's Department describing exactly what happened. 70 00:03:25,640 --> 00:03:27,920 Each one of their stories are the same. 71 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:32,600 Director's log, Jeff Womsley at the Mothman Museum has given us several leads of eyewitnesses 72 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:33,600 we should talk to. 73 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:35,400 So we're heading out to do that now. 74 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:37,920 How many times did you see the Mothman? 75 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:38,920 Hundreds. 76 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:39,920 Hundreds? 77 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:43,520 The first night we saw it, we were just driving around by the powerhouse and it was standing 78 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:44,520 there. 79 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:46,960 The wings caught in these cables and couldn't get loose. 80 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,600 And when it finally got loose, it took off and run into the powerhouse. 81 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:55,040 We took off down the road down Route 62 and it was waiting on us in a curve. 82 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:58,960 My brother thought it was a hoax and a joke and he was going to go out there and prove 83 00:03:58,960 --> 00:03:59,960 them wrong. 84 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:05,840 All I could remember is turning off the main road and it was running beside the car. 85 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:12,880 You know, looking in the my side of the car window and all I caught was those red eyes. 86 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,120 The wings went out and it went straight up. 87 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,320 It all just cleared down in through town. 88 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:20,280 Keeping right up with us, we were going pretty fast. 89 00:04:20,280 --> 00:04:22,960 We came right to the courthouse down here. 90 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:27,240 This police officer come out and he said, well, I reckon we're going to have to check 91 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:31,400 into this because too many people are saying they saw this thing. 92 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:33,880 You know, we all wrote the same thing. 93 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:37,560 I think that's what made him believe us because all of our stories were the same. 94 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:42,360 There was just too many people at the same time that didn't know each other and described 95 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:44,400 the same thing, the same mannerisms. 96 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:49,280 I don't think it could have been that organized of a scam or a hoax. 97 00:04:49,280 --> 00:04:52,920 When the Silver Bridge collapsed, it took a lot of the attention and the focus off of 98 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:54,420 the Mothman sightings. 99 00:04:54,420 --> 00:04:58,240 This section right here on the Silver Bridge, my father compiled all this stuff when it 100 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:03,440 happened in some rare eight millimeter footage right after the bridge collapsed. 101 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:05,200 Where were you when the Silver Bridge collapsed? 102 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:06,200 All the time. 103 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:07,440 It's when I was pregnant. 104 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:08,440 I heard it. 105 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,520 It just sounded like a huge boom in the whole house. 106 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:14,680 They sit down, turned on TV, and there it was, the bridge you fell. 107 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:18,280 Do you remember the bridge falling? 108 00:05:18,280 --> 00:05:19,280 Oh yeah. 109 00:05:19,280 --> 00:05:20,880 Did you know anybody that was involved? 110 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:23,040 Yeah, the girl in my class was. 111 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:24,920 They never did find her body. 112 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,960 What do you remember about the Silver Bridge collapse? 113 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:33,840 I can remember it very well, but that's something I don't really discuss. 114 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:36,440 My first husband and my son was on the bridge. 115 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:39,040 This is such a small town. 116 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:41,440 I think 46 people died. 117 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,080 I must have just torn this whole town apart. 118 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:45,080 They did. 119 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:48,280 Yeah, they sure did. 120 00:05:48,280 --> 00:05:52,440 They said that the Mothman had seen it over the Silver Bridge and not collapsed. 121 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,160 We didn't see it anymore after that. 122 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:56,640 Do you think that it might come back? 123 00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:00,120 Do you mean I think it will? 124 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,000 Would you feel better if you knew what happened, at least? 125 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:04,000 We'd like to know. 126 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,000 I'm sure. 127 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:06,000 I can speak for myself. 128 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:10,800 I'd like to know what it is. 129 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:12,280 This made world news, didn't it? 130 00:06:12,280 --> 00:06:13,280 The bridge? 131 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:14,280 Yeah. 132 00:06:14,280 --> 00:06:15,800 It was like the disaster of its day. 133 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,040 There's 67 people on the bridge at the time. 134 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:19,040 Total. 135 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:20,040 Total. 136 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:22,520 And then nine injured, 46 death. 137 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:27,840 Witnesses that came to the shores described the people in the water as sounding like cows, 138 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:32,080 because they were so cold that they couldn't really make out distinct voices. 139 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,080 That'd be like ice water. 140 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:35,080 Yeah. 141 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:39,080 It was 40 degrees, they said. 142 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:44,920 Tonight I've decided we should do dead time at the site of the tragic Silver Bridge collapse. 143 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:49,600 I've invited Chip Coffey, a medium and frequent PRS consultant to join us there. 144 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:54,040 If we're to find out more about the Mothman's role in the tragedy, we may need him to communicate 145 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:55,440 for us. 146 00:06:55,440 --> 00:07:00,760 Alpha, you said that it was this way? 147 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:01,760 Yep. 148 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:02,760 There's the gate. 149 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:03,760 Where? 150 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:04,760 There. 151 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:05,760 Wow. 152 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:12,280 So I think it was over here somewhere. 153 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:13,280 Yeah, the bridge was. 154 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:14,280 Oh, wow. 155 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:18,040 You can imagine right here, 40 years ago. 156 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:20,040 Holy cow. 157 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:22,040 Getting chills. 158 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:26,840 What do you feel? 159 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:29,120 All the people knew they were going to die. 160 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:33,080 As soon as it happened, there was something that a lot of the people knew they were going 161 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:34,080 to die. 162 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:39,080 You can absolutely feel the fear that they felt and the cold that they felt. 163 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:43,480 Lots of sadness, lots of fear. 164 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:52,040 Really an overwhelming sense of a lot of different, very intense emotions. 165 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,960 And it's almost like a resignation to what's going on. 166 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:55,960 There's a release. 167 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,560 That's the only word I can use. 168 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:00,400 Just a release. 169 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,120 And maybe that's the soul leaving the body. 170 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:04,120 Maybe that's what it is. 171 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:06,360 It's almost like this is okay. 172 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:11,200 And letting go and not, it doesn't matter. 173 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:14,040 And the funny thing about it is it feels very quick. 174 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:18,280 So maybe that's a real blessing for the people whose families died right here in this river 175 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:20,160 is the fact that it was quick. 176 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:22,320 The whole process was fast. 177 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:23,560 I understand what's going on. 178 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:24,560 It's fearful. 179 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:25,560 I'm scared. 180 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:26,560 Oh my God. 181 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:32,360 It's over. 182 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:34,560 If I die, I hope it's that way. 183 00:08:34,560 --> 00:08:38,960 Chopra, you feeling anything? 184 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:44,360 I just, I'm real drawn to that area down there. 185 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:46,360 You mean down there by the water? 186 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:47,360 Yes. 187 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:52,240 Getting really hit very badly right in the solar plexus with a lot of energy just right 188 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:53,240 here in this area. 189 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:57,720 So he must be really close to the, how much the exact spot worth was. 190 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:01,680 A lot of confusion and a lot of fear and a lot of anxiety of what's going on. 191 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:04,680 What was that? 192 00:09:04,680 --> 00:09:07,360 I just talked to Dysol Red Elite. 193 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:08,360 So did I. 194 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:09,360 Dysol Red Elite. 195 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:10,360 So did I. 196 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:11,360 Anybody else notice? 197 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:12,360 You did. 198 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:13,360 So. 199 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:14,360 Interesting. 200 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:31,440 I don't know why, but I'm just getting something about Native American. 201 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:34,880 Something very interesting about the whole Native American tied to the thing, some sort 202 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:39,560 of a ritualistic Native American something. 203 00:09:39,560 --> 00:09:44,080 Director's log. 204 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:48,240 Last night's dead time at the Silver Bridge really made an impact on us emotionally. 205 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:52,080 Some people fear that the Mothman may have had something to do with the bridge's collapse, 206 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:55,000 which makes this legend even more important for the town's history. 207 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,240 I've decided to look at this case like any other investigation. 208 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:01,760 Maybe we're on to something that no one else has seen or thought of. 209 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:05,960 Ship gave us a couple of things that I think we should research. 210 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:09,280 The Native American mythology and lore. 211 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:13,840 I think this would be a great opportunity for us to look at it in a whole new light. 212 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:15,880 Yeah, we are investigating the Mothman. 213 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:26,200 There's all kinds of pieces to it. 214 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:30,440 We studied things about Chief Cornstock all through school and we have his monument behind 215 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,520 the flood wall and he's buried right down the end of the street. 216 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:36,120 What do you know about the Cornstock curse? 217 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:37,120 I don't know. 218 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:38,120 I don't believe in curses. 219 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:39,120 You don't think the town is cursed? 220 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:40,120 No, I don't. 221 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:42,120 Well, I firmly believe in that. 222 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:45,120 Yeah, October the 10th, 1777. 223 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:50,200 Cornstock, his oldest son, Lipso and Red Hawk was locked in the stock cage supposedly 224 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:54,040 some of Lewis' men had started the stock cage killing all three of them. 225 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:58,760 History has it that while Cornstock was dying, he placed a 200 year curse upon the area. 226 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:01,480 He said that this town would never prosper. 227 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:03,320 Three well true, there's nothing here. 228 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:05,560 Stories are all closed down. 229 00:11:05,560 --> 00:11:08,720 This little town's had a lot of stuff happened to it. 230 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:12,800 After that bridge fell, it's kind of left this little town lying, nothing big going 231 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:15,200 on anymore. 232 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:17,960 Everybody in the town that I interviewed knew about the Cornstock curse. 233 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:23,040 From what I was told, Chief Cornstock was someone that the new United States government 234 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:24,040 wanted dead. 235 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:25,040 Really? 236 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:27,480 And someone killed him. 237 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:34,120 Pretty much upset a lot of tribes because they were original plans to try to make peace. 238 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:36,200 No area was full of Indians. 239 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:40,760 Anywhere where two rivers meet, the Shawnee Indians believed that was sacred territory. 240 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,160 That's why they fought so much to keep everybody out of this area. 241 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:45,280 The barrigrants were in this area too. 242 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:47,920 The graves, you shouldn't disturb them. 243 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:52,680 That area was to my understanding and doing some research, that area was originally three 244 00:11:52,680 --> 00:11:56,720 Indian burial grounds prior to them ever putting the TNT plan out there. 245 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:00,640 This was a government facility that made high supplies right before World War II. 246 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:03,840 It was a secret facility. 247 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:06,920 And you've heard of the igloos, some of the igloos that are out there. 248 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:09,480 So what does this have to do with Mothman though? 249 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:12,360 This area right here that the Mothman was spotted. 250 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:17,200 The TNT area today is still exactly the same as it was 40 years ago. 251 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:19,960 That's almost like the crash site that Roswell would be. 252 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:22,080 That right there is the Mothman story. 253 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:27,520 The hot spot there, it would just put the hairs on your neck standing straight up. 254 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:31,480 Directors log, we've learned that a Native American chief named Cornstock was killed 255 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:36,840 by early settlers, causing him to put a 200 year curse on the town of Point Pleasant. 256 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:41,320 To add insult to injury, the US government demolished his tribal burial grounds a century 257 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:44,800 later to make way for a top secret weapons facility. 258 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:50,600 This it turns out is the exact same location as the original sighting of the Mothman. 259 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:55,400 So now, I'm taking my team out to the sermon potentially dangerous area to look for clues 260 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:56,400 first hand. 261 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,920 I have to admit, I'm a bit nervous. 262 00:12:59,920 --> 00:13:03,680 Not only are we entering a site where powerful explosives were built and tested, but we're 263 00:13:03,680 --> 00:13:08,280 also treading upon a fascinating American burial site, which could be the home to thousands 264 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:11,280 of angry spirits. 265 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:18,840 We're heading to the site where Linda Scarberry and other friends were riding. 266 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:24,480 They're coming up the road towards us when they saw Mothman in this area. 267 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:25,680 What's down that way? 268 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:31,040 Down that way about maybe half a mile is where some of the igloos are, but it's really dense 269 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:33,360 to get to some of those igloos. 270 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:34,840 I'm real drawn to that area down there. 271 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:35,840 You want to go down there? 272 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:36,840 Yes. 273 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:41,840 The adventure begins. 274 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:49,840 What do you feel? 275 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:51,320 I can't even explain it. 276 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:53,840 It's like something knows we're here. 277 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,000 Look at those bird feathers. 278 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:00,000 What are they? 279 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:01,000 What kind of feathers? 280 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,000 Feathers, an old bird. 281 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,000 And there's like long pieces out of here. 282 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:07,000 Where are all you on? 283 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:08,000 Sarge! 284 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,000 Get over here. 285 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:14,000 You want to go in the woods, it's fine, but have somebody with you. 286 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,000 Did you guys get near it? 287 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,000 Well, we got as close as we could. 288 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,000 Yeah, I mean, do you guys want to go there? 289 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,000 We'll take a look and we're already out here. 290 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:25,160 You have to go to the right. 291 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:26,160 Careful, it's sick. 292 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:29,160 And you have to step on the mounds. 293 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:30,160 Or the dead bodies. 294 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:34,660 Well, we came out here because we saw the two geese flying away from here, and we're 295 00:14:34,660 --> 00:14:39,160 thinking geese usually fly in flocks and they shouldn't be out here for the winter, 296 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:40,160 right? 297 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:41,160 Did you hear this? 298 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:42,160 Um, something. 299 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:43,160 Yeah. 300 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:44,160 We're just going to see. 301 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:45,160 I did. 302 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:46,160 I can't see. 303 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:47,160 Oh, wait. 304 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:48,160 Sarge, you have a flashlight? 305 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:49,160 Can I see? 306 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:50,160 What did you guys hear? 307 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:52,320 What did you guys hear? 308 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:53,320 This is crazy. 309 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:56,320 It's probably just a deer, maybe. 310 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:57,320 Hopefully. 311 00:14:57,320 --> 00:14:58,320 Please. 312 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:01,320 Oh, shit. 313 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:03,320 It was just a deer. 314 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:06,320 I'm going to get it. 315 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:08,320 I'm going to get it. 316 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:10,320 I'm going to get it. 317 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:12,320 I'm going to get it. 318 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:14,320 I'm going to get it. 319 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:16,320 I'm going to get it. 320 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:18,320 I'm going to get it. 321 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:21,400 It was just some geese. 322 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:23,400 Let's keep moving, guys. 323 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:28,120 Tonight's dead time has led us to a remote cluster of abandoned bunkers in the woods. 324 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:32,440 Against my better judgment, I've led my team to this location, giving into my obsession 325 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:37,720 with finding answers to this legend and possibly seeing the moth man himself. 326 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:42,920 Despite some weird noises along the way, I'm still taking my team deeper into the woods. 327 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:46,680 Oh, wow. 328 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:47,680 Whatever were these for? 329 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:51,680 These were for storing the team food or the team. 330 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:53,680 Wow, it's open. 331 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:54,680 Holy cow. 332 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:56,680 We want to talk about creepy. 333 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:58,680 Look at this place. 334 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:03,680 So these are like domed buildings, and all they were used for was to store TNT. 335 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:04,680 TNT. 336 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:06,680 I don't believe that. 337 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:18,680 Is this it? 338 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:24,680 The last one's really dark. 339 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:26,680 Wow. 340 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:28,680 What's wrong? 341 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:34,680 I walked over to this one spot and this weird stabbing pain just hit the side of my head 342 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:36,680 because I felt really dizzy and off-center. 343 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:37,680 Over here? 344 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:43,680 Yeah, somewhere over there. 345 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:44,680 Surgery's low on batteries. 346 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:46,680 I checked and that's good to go. 347 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:48,680 It's saying it's low on batteries. 348 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:52,680 The guy at the shop today said if you come out in certain areas, that here it sucks. 349 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:53,680 Your batteries dry. 350 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:56,680 Yeah, these are new batteries and they've been going dead today. 351 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:59,680 I always try contacting Mr. Moth Man himself. 352 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:01,680 He's free. 353 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:05,680 Let's try to imagine a protection circle of white light around us. 354 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:11,680 If anyone here is listening, we do not want to be harmed and we do not want to harm you. 355 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:14,680 But we would like to communicate if you'd be willing. 356 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:17,680 Can you make a sound that we can hear with our human ears? 357 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:21,680 Please make a sound that we'll know that you're here. 358 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:23,680 Hello. 359 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:25,680 What's that? 360 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:27,680 Ashley. 361 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,680 Anything? 362 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:35,680 I just feel... 363 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:41,680 there was something here. 364 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:43,680 Are you tapped into whatever it is right now? 365 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:45,680 I think so. 366 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,680 Some sort of energy that I don't know exactly what it is. 367 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:53,680 And it feels like the only thing I get, and I've never encountered this, all I get is intelligence. 368 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:55,680 That's the only word I get is an answer. 369 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:58,680 And that's not a word I've ever heard. 370 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:02,680 I've heard spirit, I've heard ghost, and I hear intelligence. 371 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:05,680 Is it doing this because we asked, or would it have done it regardless? 372 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:06,680 Yes. 373 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:07,680 Because we asked? 374 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:08,680 Yes. 375 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:10,680 Are we going to regret it? 376 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:14,680 Hmm. No harm. 377 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:17,680 But the question is, did it cause all those horrible events? 378 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:20,680 Did it cause the Silver Bridge collapse? 379 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:24,680 I can give you the answer to that. 380 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:29,680 If you want to know the answer to did that energy, whatever that collective energy is, 381 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:32,680 caused the Silver Bridge collapse, I can give you the answer to that. 382 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:36,680 Sure, I think everyone in this town wants to know. 383 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:46,680 Absolutely not. 384 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:54,680 How come they didn't try to stop it? 385 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:55,680 They can't. 386 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:57,680 What do you mean they can't? 387 00:18:57,680 --> 00:18:58,680 They can't. 388 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:05,680 They themselves can't stop it as the way that it feels. 389 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:06,680 They're... 390 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:13,680 I think that they tried to get somebody's attention in the best way that they could. 391 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:16,680 So you mean the moth men were these creatures? 392 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:18,680 They're here to warn us? 393 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:19,680 I think so. 394 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:21,680 They couldn't physically stop it. 395 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:23,680 They couldn't make it not happen. 396 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:28,680 They just, in their own way, wanted to try to stop it from happening. 397 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:30,680 That's what I get. 398 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:36,680 Dead time is over. 399 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:40,680 And along with it, the last shred of hope for my lifelong dream of finding the moth men. 400 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:42,680 I keep thinking about what ship sensed, 401 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:46,680 that the moth men was not responsible for the Silver Bridge disaster. 402 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:48,680 Or the lives that were lost there. 403 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:54,680 It all brings me back to the idea that these sightings could very well be some kind of attempt to warn us of an impending tragedy. 404 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:58,680 A sign that something horrible is about to happen. 405 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:00,680 So long ago, that's the problem. 406 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:03,680 And other than some sightings here and there now, 407 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:06,680 there's really no proof other than people seeing it. 408 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,680 So unless some real evidence comes out. 409 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:11,680 And it's kind of hard to say what it was. 410 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:14,680 It was at night, your imagination runs. 411 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:19,680 I want to believe that there's something here in Point Pleasant. 412 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:22,680 And with all the eyewitness accounts, 413 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:24,680 and all the serious research, 414 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:29,680 you almost can't find it in your heart to disbelieve. 415 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:32,680 Because so many people's lives have changed. 416 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:36,680 So I want to believe the moth men exists. 417 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:42,680 Final Directors Log for Case File 2007.03.36 418 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:49,680 Over the last 48 hours, we followed the moth man's trail. 419 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:52,680 From the Silver Bridge to the Native American burial grounds 420 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:56,680 and former top-secret weapons facility deep in the woods. 421 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,680 Although we never saw the mysterious creature for ourselves, 422 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,680 something deep down tells me that he's out there. 423 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:05,680 And in a way, I think this town hopes he exists. 424 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:09,680 Because the story of the moth man is very much a part of the story of Point Pleasant. 425 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,680 So from now on, I'll keep my eyes on the skies. 426 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:16,680 And if I ever see anything, I'll know to be prepared for the worst.