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Mothman Returns: Point Pleasant Legend to Chicago Terror

2023/4/21
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AJ (Y-Files): 本集探讨了蛾人传说，从西弗吉尼亚州Point Pleasant的最初目击事件到芝加哥的持续目击事件。节目中回顾了Point Pleasant的Silver Bridge桥梁坍塌事件，以及与之相关的超自然现象，包括不明飞行物目击事件和当地居民的超自然经历。节目还探讨了超自然研究者John Keel的理论，他认为蛾人可能是来自不同维度的超自然生物，并且是灾难的预兆。节目最后讨论了对蛾人目击事件的不同解释，包括大型鸟类、集体幻觉和人类记忆的不准确性等。 Hecklefish: Hecklefish在本集中主要负责插科打诨，对AJ的叙述进行补充和调侃，穿插了一些与主题相关的玩笑和评论，例如对歌曲《Country Roads》的调侃以及对“蟹猫”的虚构描述。他的角色主要在于活跃节目气氛，并不会对蛾人事件本身的解释提供实质性的内容。

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The Mothman legend begins with gravediggers encountering a tall creature with massive wings and glowing red eyes, followed by multiple reports of a similar creature terrorizing locals without causing physical harm.

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This legend beings as so many do.

Three gravediggers, working in a cemetery hear something overhead. They look up and see a creature: almost ten feet tall with massive wings perched on a high tree branch; staring at them with glowing red eyes. Then in an instant, it's gone.

Three days later, just a few miles away, two young couples burst into the local police station. Terrified, they report being chased by a tall man with wings and glowing red eyes.

More and more people would report seeing a creature that stood on two legs, was at least 8 feet tall, and had wings.

Some said it was half-man, half-bird; others said half-man, half-bat. But that name that stuck was "The Mothman".

Though The Mothman terrorized hundreds of people for a year, it never physically harmed anyone.

But 13 months later, that would change. And 46 men, women, and children would end up at the bottom of the Ohio River.

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