TDW 1495 - Is THE MOTHMAN Still Alive ?
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo
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here. It's foggy
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today. Just cruising down the road and
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there's a lot of fog out. It's not as
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thick as pea soup. Maybe I should get
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out there and lap up some of this
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It's my second channel, daily vlog
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channel. It's uh Yeah, the daily
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woo. Hello, West
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Virginia.
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Yes, there's an old abandoned IG grocery
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store. Someone has smashed in the front
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doors.
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Hillbilly Hot Dogs. Hillbilly Wedding
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Chapel. And look up there, there's a van
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my size up in the tree.
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Step on the party
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bus. This is
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awesome. This cylinder is spitting out
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hillbilly moonshine. And look inside the
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tub. There's two ducks in there just
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chilling. And you can stick your head
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through one of these cutouts. I sure do
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like hillbilly hot
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dogs. Off the side of the road. There
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are three crosses on the side of the
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hill. And story is told years and years
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and years ago, there was a guy who
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traveled all across the United States
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asking permission of different towns to
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put these crosses up. There aren't many
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that remain, but there's some right
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there. It's pretty neat. There's
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something here in West Virginia that I
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have wanted to see for a very long time,
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and it is adorning the front of this
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tourist magazine.
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The Moth Man. The tale of the Moth Man
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started in the 1960s in a town just a
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couple miles ahead by the name of Point
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Pleasant, West Virginia. There's a
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Piggly Wiggly. I haven't seen one of
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those in years. The first recorded
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accounts of the Moth Man were in
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November of
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1966 when five gravediggers spotted the
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creature flying above them. But it
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really didn't come to the town's
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attention until 3 days later when a
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couple were driving on the outskirts of
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town and the moth man was chasing their
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car. And what a bizarre coincidence that
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the mutated creature would first be seen
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and documented near those
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Imagine driving through here at
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night and a creature with a 10-ft
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wingspan in the form of a moth attacks
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your
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car. I honestly don't know where I'm
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going. I'm just kind of, no pun
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intended, winging it.
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Whoa. Is that a door? So, the story goes
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in November of 1966, the government was
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keeping things they shouldn't have been
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kept inside these
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bunkers.
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echoey. Don't
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go.
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This could have been where the moth
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man mutated.
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That was the weirdest
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experience. Over the next 13 months,
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there were numerous accounts of people
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who had runins with the Moth Man. But
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all that came to an end on December
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15th,
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1967 when the bridge that used to sit
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right there where the Silver Memorial
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Bridge now sits collapsed, killing over
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40 people. As the legend goes, some of
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the town folk said they saw the Moth Man
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up on the rafters of the old bridge that
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fell down into the river. But since
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then, the Moth Man has never been seen
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again. And this question still remains
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if this was the demise of the Moth Man.
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Was he trying to save the people or was
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he trying to destroy the bridge? The
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only way to really find out is to go to
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the source
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itself, the Moth
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Man. How about it,
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buddy? What was your
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mindset with the bridge? He's behind me,
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isn't he? And here in downtown, they
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have the world's only Moth Man Museum.
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I got to check this out, Doc.
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There have been so many sites around the
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world prior to that were just beyond our
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comprehension.
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This is a replica of the car driven by
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Roger Scarberry on the night of November
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15th, 1966 when the couple was driving
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and the Moth Man chased their vehicle. A
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lot of different interpretations of what
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the Moth Man looked like. He seems like
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a pretty cool guy.
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Wow, this is crazy. This is a 1960s
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school book that someone drew what looks
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to be like the Moth Man in their school
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book. It's creepy.
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That place was awesome. I got some
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stuff. I got this t-shirt and this book.
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It has a lot of the letters of the
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personal accounts of people who saw the
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Moth Man, as well as a lot of the
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newspaper articles from some of the
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local papers. Here's one of the original
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eyewitness
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sketches of the Moth Man.
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droppings down
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paint that building inside of us. But
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I'm going to scrap them.
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They got some really cool stuff on the
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wall. People that come in here and eat,
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they draw the moth man on the back of
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their place mats. Some of these are
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really, really cool.
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Man. One thing cool about West Virginia,
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there's a lot of really old, awesome
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looking bridges.
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That sign over there says Italian
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meatball. Try
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one. Is that the entire sub or they want
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you to just try one meatball? Oh, check
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that
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out. Got to loop back around and get a
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better view at that. That's Paul Bunan
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right
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there in that ox. Such a
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babe. Sky over there is looking pretty
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beautiful this evening. And off over
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here to the
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left is some sort of museum which looks
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to be themed around the fast food
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restaurant Big Boy. The way it appears,
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however, you cannot walk inside this
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museum. All it is is this little
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circular area with some windows that you
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can peer into.
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There's an old menu down here. Oh, whoa,
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look. There's a shown bear in
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here. Is there some kind of crazy
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connection with big boy and
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shownies? Are they in
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cahoots? I never knew that.
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Wow. Yeah. Look, this is an old shown
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menu and they sell the famous Big Boy at
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Shownies. Okay, this is making a little
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more sense now. On this spot in
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1947, there was a Shownies Big Boy
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created and started right here where
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this
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monument now sits.
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That's interesting. I had no idea it
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started in West Virginia. There's one
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thing I've noticed about the drone. It
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definitely is a conversation piece. The
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guy that owns this property came out and
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watched me fly it. We were talking about
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how it worked and the uh specifics of it
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and things like that. But I got some
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cool shots not only of the big boy, but
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also the sunset and the river and the
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bridges and things like that. And I am
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closing out this vlog in Charleston,
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West Virginia. Look how majestic that
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looks. The
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beauty of the
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sunsets. Vlog over.