1 00:00:11,678 --> 00:00:13,680 [unsettling music plays] 2 00:00:15,682 --> 00:00:17,434 [woman 1] I saw it 3 00:00:18,893 --> 00:00:20,311 with my own eyes. 4 00:00:21,813 --> 00:00:24,357 I'm still afraid to go outside at night. 5 00:00:25,567 --> 00:00:26,776 [man] I get scared 6 00:00:27,777 --> 00:00:29,946 that behind the closed curtains, 7 00:00:30,030 --> 00:00:33,158 there is a face staring at me. 8 00:00:33,908 --> 00:00:35,910 [woman 2] I don't know how to explain it. 9 00:00:36,911 --> 00:00:39,581 I just know… there's something out there. 10 00:00:39,664 --> 00:00:41,332 [unsettling music continues] 11 00:00:41,416 --> 00:00:44,127 [woman 3] There's only so many times 12 00:00:45,587 --> 00:00:47,547 people can say the same story, 13 00:00:48,631 --> 00:00:50,258 the same sightings, 14 00:00:50,341 --> 00:00:52,343 the same creatures. 15 00:00:53,261 --> 00:00:55,263 Eventually, you're gonna have to start believing. 16 00:00:56,890 --> 00:00:58,308 [woman 4] I know what I saw. 17 00:01:00,060 --> 00:01:01,269 It was the Mothman. 18 00:01:01,352 --> 00:01:03,354 [unsettling music continues] 19 00:01:38,765 --> 00:01:39,766 [music fades] 20 00:01:43,770 --> 00:01:45,772 [insects chirrup] 21 00:02:03,623 --> 00:02:06,126 [woman 1] It was about five o'clock in the morning. 22 00:02:06,209 --> 00:02:08,211 [garage door creaks] 23 00:02:15,218 --> 00:02:17,929 I started walking out to the curb 24 00:02:19,389 --> 00:02:21,224 to take my garbage out. 25 00:02:23,434 --> 00:02:24,978 And when I glanced up, 26 00:02:26,813 --> 00:02:31,901 this creature just appeared out of nowhere 27 00:02:31,985 --> 00:02:33,736 across the street from me. 28 00:02:34,571 --> 00:02:37,866 Making noises the whole time, guttural noises. 29 00:02:37,949 --> 00:02:39,951 [rasping] 30 00:02:40,827 --> 00:02:43,955 It would have been about seven, eight feet tall. 31 00:02:45,832 --> 00:02:49,002 It had normal-looking legs, human legs. 32 00:02:49,627 --> 00:02:53,298 And it seemed to be covered in fur or feathers. 33 00:02:55,300 --> 00:03:00,722 I couldn't shake the feeling that it knew that I saw it. 34 00:03:02,015 --> 00:03:06,394 And I sensed that it was trying to get me to go over there. 35 00:03:08,271 --> 00:03:09,814 I was so afraid. 36 00:03:09,898 --> 00:03:10,982 [screeching] 37 00:03:11,065 --> 00:03:14,277 [Paula] I started going back towards the house. 38 00:03:14,986 --> 00:03:18,573 And I just kept thinking, "Please let me get in there." 39 00:03:18,656 --> 00:03:20,241 I didn't turn around, 40 00:03:20,325 --> 00:03:24,662 but I knew that it was coming towards me. 41 00:03:24,746 --> 00:03:26,164 I could feel it. 42 00:03:27,707 --> 00:03:29,834 I ran inside. 43 00:03:31,044 --> 00:03:33,004 I looked out the front window, 44 00:03:34,088 --> 00:03:35,006 and… 45 00:03:36,716 --> 00:03:38,384 nothing. It was gone. 46 00:03:41,346 --> 00:03:45,183 So, as quickly as that appeared, 47 00:03:45,975 --> 00:03:47,268 it disappeared. 48 00:03:50,355 --> 00:03:53,274 After the sighting, I told family. 49 00:03:53,358 --> 00:03:55,902 I told just a couple of friends, 50 00:03:56,402 --> 00:03:59,155 but even they didn't believe me. 51 00:03:59,239 --> 00:04:00,657 I didn't blame them, 52 00:04:00,740 --> 00:04:03,493 but I wish they would have believed me. 53 00:04:03,576 --> 00:04:05,954 I wish someone else was with me that night. 54 00:04:08,164 --> 00:04:10,375 So I did some research. 55 00:04:12,585 --> 00:04:16,047 And I discovered there's a lot of people out there 56 00:04:16,130 --> 00:04:19,717 that have seen very similar sightings. 57 00:04:21,177 --> 00:04:23,596 I found out there was a name for this. 58 00:04:25,139 --> 00:04:26,599 The Mothman. 59 00:04:32,146 --> 00:04:34,148 [unsettling music plays] 60 00:04:34,857 --> 00:04:36,359 My name is Tobias Wayland, 61 00:04:37,068 --> 00:04:42,156 and my interest in the paranormal began at a very young age. 62 00:04:42,907 --> 00:04:46,035 A series of strange phenomena 63 00:04:46,744 --> 00:04:51,124 inspired me to actually investigate the… the paranormal myself. 64 00:04:52,125 --> 00:04:56,170 When I was younger, I would sometimes see strange figures at night. 65 00:04:57,338 --> 00:05:00,758 They were humanoid in shape, but appeared to be made out of shadow. 66 00:05:02,677 --> 00:05:08,016 And as I grew up, those types of phenomena didn't go away. 67 00:05:08,641 --> 00:05:12,603 In fact, they seem to intensify. 68 00:05:13,688 --> 00:05:18,359 And so now I study the entire width and breadth of paranormal phenomena. 69 00:05:18,443 --> 00:05:21,487 Everything from UFOs to ghosts and hauntings. 70 00:05:22,405 --> 00:05:25,199 I investigate everything. 71 00:05:26,701 --> 00:05:28,119 In the world of the paranormal, 72 00:05:29,037 --> 00:05:33,166 Bigfoot and UFOs are the most commonly talked about and researched. 73 00:05:34,208 --> 00:05:36,544 Close behind, you have winged humanoids. 74 00:05:37,253 --> 00:05:39,339 Part human, part avian beings, 75 00:05:40,173 --> 00:05:42,550 which have been witnessed for centuries. 76 00:05:44,218 --> 00:05:46,804 Incredibly, present-day sightings of winged humanoids 77 00:05:46,888 --> 00:05:49,057 are becoming more and more common. 78 00:05:51,434 --> 00:05:57,690 In 2017, I noticed a number of winged creature sighting reports 79 00:05:57,774 --> 00:05:59,192 from the Chicago area 80 00:05:59,275 --> 00:06:02,028 coming through this website, Phantoms and Monsters. 81 00:06:02,904 --> 00:06:07,909 This creature is something that they can't explain 82 00:06:07,992 --> 00:06:09,786 and clearly scared them. 83 00:06:12,163 --> 00:06:15,291 I got in touch with Lon Strickler, who manages the website, 84 00:06:16,334 --> 00:06:18,795 and found out he'd been tracking these Mothman sightings 85 00:06:18,878 --> 00:06:20,713 in the Chicago area since 2011. 86 00:06:22,882 --> 00:06:27,136 I got involved with the paranormal back in the '70s. 87 00:06:27,220 --> 00:06:30,264 This wasn't a time when paranormal investigation 88 00:06:30,348 --> 00:06:32,141 was mainstream like it is now. 89 00:06:32,725 --> 00:06:34,685 I started out of high school, 90 00:06:35,353 --> 00:06:38,606 and then I had a Bigfoot encounter in 1981. 91 00:06:39,148 --> 00:06:42,402 And I really didn't know what I was dealing with or what I was seeing, 92 00:06:42,902 --> 00:06:44,612 but it inspired me 93 00:06:44,695 --> 00:06:48,783 to start looking into all kinds of different phenomena. 94 00:06:49,283 --> 00:06:54,122 Eventually, I was doing investigations all up and down the East Coast. 95 00:06:55,415 --> 00:06:57,667 Tobias contacted me 96 00:06:57,750 --> 00:06:59,544 after we had started reporting 97 00:06:59,627 --> 00:07:02,964 some of these winged humanoid sightings in Chicago. 98 00:07:05,091 --> 00:07:08,594 In the paranormal, we always believe that there are hotspots 99 00:07:09,387 --> 00:07:11,180 because it does seem that certain areas 100 00:07:11,264 --> 00:07:14,642 get more and more sightings of different phenomena. 101 00:07:14,725 --> 00:07:19,188 And seeing what we've been getting the past 11 years, 102 00:07:19,272 --> 00:07:23,192 there is something definitely going on all around the Chicago area. 103 00:07:27,447 --> 00:07:31,200 The sightings in and around Chicago are very unique 104 00:07:31,909 --> 00:07:34,662 because it's a huge city, 105 00:07:35,163 --> 00:07:39,500 and you don't get winged humanoid sightings in urban areas. 106 00:07:39,584 --> 00:07:41,085 It just does not happen. 107 00:07:42,420 --> 00:07:44,672 Now, why is it happening? 108 00:07:45,423 --> 00:07:46,257 I don't know. 109 00:07:48,176 --> 00:07:51,220 [Tobias] Reports from the witnesses in Chicago 110 00:07:51,304 --> 00:07:56,559 consistently describe encounters with this large, winged creature. 111 00:07:58,478 --> 00:08:00,646 Somewhere between six and eight feet tall 112 00:08:01,731 --> 00:08:04,859 with a wingspan between 12 and 15 feet. 113 00:08:06,068 --> 00:08:11,657 The being was described as black in color, very emaciated looking, 114 00:08:11,741 --> 00:08:13,618 shiny, like it was wet. 115 00:08:15,870 --> 00:08:18,498 The creature looked more human than it did ape. 116 00:08:19,582 --> 00:08:23,252 But people saw wings that looked like that of a bat. 117 00:08:23,336 --> 00:08:26,047 Typically, these beings were seen at night, 118 00:08:26,797 --> 00:08:30,676 but we've also had reports from witnesses who've seen them in the broad daylight. 119 00:08:31,969 --> 00:08:33,846 When we started reporting on it, 120 00:08:34,514 --> 00:08:36,432 we called it the Chicago Phantom, 121 00:08:36,933 --> 00:08:38,851 because we didn't know what it was. 122 00:08:39,560 --> 00:08:43,898 But the press in Chicago, they were calling it The Mothman, 123 00:08:45,149 --> 00:08:46,567 making it sound 124 00:08:47,693 --> 00:08:51,030 like it was something similar to what had happened at Point Pleasant. 125 00:08:57,995 --> 00:09:00,915 [Robert Stack] These crumbling buildings are home to one of the most bizarre 126 00:09:00,998 --> 00:09:03,543 and terrifying creatures ever to walk the earth. 127 00:09:05,002 --> 00:09:07,129 They call it The Mothman. 128 00:09:07,213 --> 00:09:09,215 [tense music plays] 129 00:09:16,389 --> 00:09:20,601 [Tobias] Roger and Linda Scarberry, and Steve and Mary Mallette, 130 00:09:20,685 --> 00:09:24,647 they were young couples at the time, and they were out at the old TNT area. 131 00:09:25,273 --> 00:09:29,485 [Lon] It was an old World War II munitions factory, 132 00:09:29,569 --> 00:09:32,863 and it was in an area called the West Virginia Ordnance Works. 133 00:09:33,364 --> 00:09:36,951 It's been abandoned for many, many years. Even back in the '60s, it was abandoned. 134 00:09:37,034 --> 00:09:40,580 What is that? Did you guys see that? What is that? Just… 135 00:09:40,663 --> 00:09:46,002 And they saw this very dark, uh, humanoid figure with wings 136 00:09:46,085 --> 00:09:48,796 and these piercing red eyes. 137 00:09:48,879 --> 00:09:50,047 [screeching] 138 00:09:50,131 --> 00:09:51,340 Go! Drive! Get out of here! 139 00:09:51,424 --> 00:09:53,718 Go! Get out, get out! Just go! 140 00:09:57,013 --> 00:09:59,390 [Tobias] And when they fled, it chased them. 141 00:09:59,473 --> 00:10:02,852 And they said that it chased them at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour 142 00:10:02,935 --> 00:10:04,687 as they fled back in town. 143 00:10:11,736 --> 00:10:15,823 More than 100 people witnessed Mothman in the dead of night 144 00:10:15,906 --> 00:10:17,491 and during daylight conditions. 145 00:10:19,285 --> 00:10:22,371 [man 1] It looked like a helicopter coming over the trees at first. 146 00:10:23,205 --> 00:10:26,584 But every time it would make a loop, it would get lower and lower, 147 00:10:26,667 --> 00:10:28,294 and I'd get a scare. 148 00:10:28,878 --> 00:10:32,089 [Robert Goerman] It was an enormous and frightening apparition 149 00:10:32,173 --> 00:10:34,175 that terrified everyone that saw it. 150 00:10:36,594 --> 00:10:39,639 [woman] I could feel the presence of it. I knew it was there. 151 00:10:40,264 --> 00:10:41,849 But I could not move. 152 00:10:41,932 --> 00:10:43,059 [growling] 153 00:10:43,142 --> 00:10:45,394 [Marcella] I was petrified. I just froze. 154 00:10:46,604 --> 00:10:48,397 [man 2] It was, uh, sheer pandemonium. 155 00:10:48,481 --> 00:10:50,566 The world had focused its attention 156 00:10:50,650 --> 00:10:53,527 on a small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. 157 00:10:53,611 --> 00:10:55,738 The press was everywhere, 158 00:10:55,821 --> 00:10:58,282 and everyone just seemed to be on edge, 159 00:10:58,366 --> 00:11:01,744 just waiting to see what the outcome of the sightings would be. 160 00:11:02,912 --> 00:11:05,331 [Tobias] Those sightings in Point Pleasant 161 00:11:05,414 --> 00:11:10,503 ostensibly concluded in December of 1967 162 00:11:10,586 --> 00:11:13,923 with the famous and very tragic collapse of the Silver Bridge. 163 00:11:14,006 --> 00:11:16,884 [reporter 1] Today marks 55 years 164 00:11:16,967 --> 00:11:19,929 since the deadliest bridge disaster in modern history. 165 00:11:20,012 --> 00:11:22,306 [reporter 2] There've been many claims that Mothman was seen 166 00:11:22,390 --> 00:11:25,685 right before the Point Pleasant Silver Bridge collapse. 167 00:11:25,768 --> 00:11:27,269 Many people tell us they believe 168 00:11:27,353 --> 00:11:30,106 the winged, red-eyed creature is a bad omen, 169 00:11:30,189 --> 00:11:33,359 only appearing when catastrophe's about to strike. 170 00:11:34,819 --> 00:11:38,155 That event didn't actually signal any real ending 171 00:11:38,239 --> 00:11:40,408 in the Mothman phenomenon itself. 172 00:11:41,701 --> 00:11:44,203 There are people today throughout West Virginia 173 00:11:44,286 --> 00:11:46,205 and the Ohio River Valley there 174 00:11:46,288 --> 00:11:49,125 who continue to report winged humanoids. 175 00:11:49,208 --> 00:11:50,918 [tense music plays] 176 00:11:51,001 --> 00:11:55,423 And now the sightings in the greater Chicago metropolitan area 177 00:11:55,506 --> 00:12:01,262 really began to come out in large numbers in the spring of 2017. 178 00:12:01,345 --> 00:12:03,431 [tense music continues] 179 00:12:03,514 --> 00:12:05,808 Lon created this live sighting map 180 00:12:06,684 --> 00:12:11,230 to track all of the documented winged humanoid sightings to date. 181 00:12:12,481 --> 00:12:17,570 It gives people a sense of the scope of these sightings. 182 00:12:18,863 --> 00:12:23,868 And you can see, uh, just the… the sheer territory that's covered. 183 00:12:25,703 --> 00:12:28,497 But also begin to see the general shape 184 00:12:28,581 --> 00:12:32,084 of how they're clustered around Chicago and Lake Michigan. 185 00:12:32,168 --> 00:12:33,294 [tense music continues] 186 00:12:33,377 --> 00:12:36,005 [Lon] There's 161 sightings on there right now 187 00:12:36,088 --> 00:12:38,758 within 250 miles of the city of Chicago. 188 00:12:40,092 --> 00:12:42,052 Sightings we believe are viable sightings. 189 00:12:42,136 --> 00:12:44,138 [unsettling music plays] 190 00:12:45,598 --> 00:12:47,433 [Tobias] The credibility of a sighting 191 00:12:47,516 --> 00:12:50,519 really comes down to the credibility of the witness. 192 00:12:51,312 --> 00:12:56,525 It comes down to being able to verify the… the details of a witness's account, 193 00:12:57,151 --> 00:13:00,780 like historical weather data and geographic data, 194 00:13:00,863 --> 00:13:04,074 and look for any inconsistencies in their story 195 00:13:04,158 --> 00:13:07,286 that don't match up with what they're… they're claiming. 196 00:13:09,872 --> 00:13:13,209 If a person says they saw this creature in clear, perfect skies, 197 00:13:13,292 --> 00:13:16,670 but the records show fog or rain on the day of their sighting, 198 00:13:16,754 --> 00:13:19,381 I tend to question their credibility. 199 00:13:20,216 --> 00:13:23,719 I've investigated a lot of different phenomena. 200 00:13:23,803 --> 00:13:27,014 Sometimes you kinda get that feeling 201 00:13:27,097 --> 00:13:29,600 when somebody's trying to pull the wool over your eyes. 202 00:13:30,100 --> 00:13:33,103 But with the Mothman phenomena, 203 00:13:33,187 --> 00:13:36,524 very few people will embellish on what they've seen. 204 00:13:37,316 --> 00:13:41,278 We try to prod them to see if they will try to layer anything on top of it 205 00:13:41,362 --> 00:13:43,280 to get you to believe their story, 206 00:13:43,364 --> 00:13:45,533 but that just has not been the case. 207 00:13:45,616 --> 00:13:49,787 People are very steadfast in what they've experienced, and they stick to it. 208 00:13:50,621 --> 00:13:52,623 [eerie music plays] 209 00:14:02,341 --> 00:14:03,217 [dog barks] 210 00:14:03,759 --> 00:14:06,470 [Jonathan] It was around 10:20, 10:30 at night. 211 00:14:09,515 --> 00:14:11,809 And it was outside my house. 212 00:14:15,479 --> 00:14:16,605 All of a sudden… 213 00:14:16,689 --> 00:14:18,399 [screeching] 214 00:14:18,482 --> 00:14:22,862 …I hear an ear-piercing sound with a lot of screeching. 215 00:14:22,945 --> 00:14:24,446 [screeching] 216 00:14:24,530 --> 00:14:26,574 Like, so loud, I couldn't hear anything else. 217 00:14:28,325 --> 00:14:30,911 It was coming from two giant trees in my front yard. 218 00:14:31,495 --> 00:14:34,665 I knew where to look instantly because there's a big V in the center. 219 00:14:36,417 --> 00:14:38,544 I saw giant red eyes. 220 00:14:40,045 --> 00:14:42,882 They were so large and so deeply red. 221 00:14:44,216 --> 00:14:46,802 And as soon as I made eye contact with it, it made the sound again. 222 00:14:46,886 --> 00:14:49,388 [screeching] 223 00:14:50,139 --> 00:14:52,141 So I just booked it for the front door. 224 00:14:53,142 --> 00:14:56,437 I got there as fast as I could, almost stumbled trying to get to it. 225 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:58,355 [tense music plays] 226 00:15:02,401 --> 00:15:03,319 [music fades] 227 00:15:03,402 --> 00:15:06,155 Afterwards, I was really confused 228 00:15:06,238 --> 00:15:08,490 because I knew it wasn't some kind of bird. 229 00:15:10,451 --> 00:15:12,244 Being an avid bird-watcher, 230 00:15:12,328 --> 00:15:15,956 I can confidently say that there's no bird in North America 231 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:17,374 that would resemble that. 232 00:15:18,208 --> 00:15:20,294 I didn't understand what it was to begin with, 233 00:15:20,377 --> 00:15:23,797 so I just tried to shrug it off, but it really stuck with me. 234 00:15:25,466 --> 00:15:27,343 And then, around that time, 235 00:15:27,426 --> 00:15:30,596 I was discovering some articles and things online 236 00:15:30,679 --> 00:15:34,224 about sightings at the Chicago airport, which is pretty close to me. 237 00:15:38,228 --> 00:15:44,401 We started getting sighting reports in the vicinity of O'Hare in October 2019. 238 00:15:46,153 --> 00:15:50,324 [pilot 1] 75856 O'Hare, starting runway 2, 7 left overhead. 239 00:15:51,283 --> 00:15:54,411 [Lon] O'Hare International is a massive facility. 240 00:15:54,495 --> 00:15:56,914 [pilot 2] I've asked them to contact Chicago departure. 241 00:15:56,997 --> 00:16:01,210 [Lon] Cargo workers, airline pilots, TSA security. 242 00:16:01,710 --> 00:16:06,090 Many of these employees have seen these beings. 243 00:16:06,674 --> 00:16:09,843 The first sighting was a pilot and his copilot 244 00:16:09,927 --> 00:16:12,304 were taxiing back into the terminal. 245 00:16:12,388 --> 00:16:14,056 [radio chatter] 246 00:16:14,139 --> 00:16:16,684 [Lon] And as they were taxiing back, 247 00:16:16,767 --> 00:16:20,229 this winged being flew right in front of the cockpit. 248 00:16:22,106 --> 00:16:23,524 They didn't know what it was. 249 00:16:25,317 --> 00:16:28,737 We had one encounter by an air traffic controller 250 00:16:28,821 --> 00:16:30,864 who saw this thing in the light. 251 00:16:31,991 --> 00:16:35,077 It seemed like it started near the tarmac, 252 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:37,579 but it moved closer to him. 253 00:16:37,663 --> 00:16:40,833 It wasn't an aggressive move, but he saw it. 254 00:16:40,916 --> 00:16:43,752 He didn't know what it was. Then he saw it fly away. 255 00:16:44,878 --> 00:16:48,257 [Tobias] Another employee, who worked in cargo at O'Hare, 256 00:16:48,340 --> 00:16:52,177 said he saw this large, dark, winged humanoid 257 00:16:53,470 --> 00:16:57,141 standing in this field near that cargo area. 258 00:16:57,933 --> 00:17:02,438 He was very reluctant to even come forward or have his first name used 259 00:17:02,521 --> 00:17:05,941 because he was concerned that he might lose his job. 260 00:17:08,277 --> 00:17:12,406 [Lon] Airline pilots and other professionals at O'Hare 261 00:17:12,489 --> 00:17:15,534 didn't want any of this information going out into the public. 262 00:17:16,702 --> 00:17:20,372 They have a lot to lose by making a report like this. 263 00:17:20,456 --> 00:17:23,500 I think we had nine sightings at the airport. 264 00:17:23,584 --> 00:17:28,130 And the neighborhoods around O'Hare, we probably received 60 sightings or so. 265 00:17:29,923 --> 00:17:33,177 [Tobias] When news started to spread about the sightings at O'Hare Airport, 266 00:17:33,260 --> 00:17:37,264 other witnesses came forward to tell us about their experiences. 267 00:17:38,807 --> 00:17:40,809 [unsettling music plays] 268 00:17:50,736 --> 00:17:53,906 [woman] The day began as just a family adventure. 269 00:17:57,409 --> 00:18:00,662 I had, uh, two of my nieces and two of my nephews with us at the time. 270 00:18:01,872 --> 00:18:04,124 All of us decided that we were gonna go play 271 00:18:04,208 --> 00:18:06,293 in the puddles and the mud in the truck, 272 00:18:07,503 --> 00:18:10,839 in an abandoned area that we have never been in before. 273 00:18:13,050 --> 00:18:14,384 [Sandra] About right here, 274 00:18:15,427 --> 00:18:17,930 I was looking out the front window of the truck, 275 00:18:18,972 --> 00:18:22,059 and I saw a black figure, which I thought was a balloon. 276 00:18:24,770 --> 00:18:26,313 But it appeared to be a human. 277 00:18:26,396 --> 00:18:27,606 [unsettling music plays] 278 00:18:30,150 --> 00:18:31,652 He was just floating. 279 00:18:32,820 --> 00:18:34,947 And I told everybody to look up in the sky. 280 00:18:35,030 --> 00:18:38,158 I saw the silhouette of what looked like Iron Man, 281 00:18:38,242 --> 00:18:39,618 the shine, the sheen to him, 282 00:18:39,701 --> 00:18:41,829 right above here, right where the clouds are now. 283 00:18:41,912 --> 00:18:43,580 [unsettling music continues] 284 00:18:43,664 --> 00:18:47,042 I could see the shape of the face, the pectoral muscles. 285 00:18:47,126 --> 00:18:48,836 You could see the definition in the arms. 286 00:18:48,919 --> 00:18:51,839 He just stayed straight. No movement, no nothing at all. 287 00:18:51,922 --> 00:18:54,800 And soon as he hit the patch of white clouds… 288 00:18:55,509 --> 00:18:57,052 [music stops] 289 00:18:57,136 --> 00:18:58,053 …he disappeared. 290 00:18:59,346 --> 00:19:01,849 He disappeared like a mist. 291 00:19:01,932 --> 00:19:05,185 And then he was gone. There was nothing left afterwards. 292 00:19:05,269 --> 00:19:08,647 -No markings, no smoke-- -Trails. 293 00:19:08,730 --> 00:19:09,940 -No nothing. -No nothing. 294 00:19:10,023 --> 00:19:11,817 -Right there. -[Stacey] Then he just went up. 295 00:19:11,900 --> 00:19:12,734 [Sandra] Yes. 296 00:19:13,318 --> 00:19:15,028 [Stacey] I knew it. Knew that we saw it. 297 00:19:15,112 --> 00:19:17,739 There was just that… Almost that psychic connection 298 00:19:17,823 --> 00:19:19,741 that it saw us and we saw it. 299 00:19:19,825 --> 00:19:20,993 That's why I think it… 300 00:19:21,743 --> 00:19:23,453 You know, it took off the way it did. 301 00:19:23,537 --> 00:19:24,830 The kids pretty much knew… 302 00:19:24,913 --> 00:19:26,582 From the area and from the stories, 303 00:19:26,665 --> 00:19:29,418 they… they knew what they saw, which was the Mothman. 304 00:19:30,794 --> 00:19:32,796 [tense music plays] 305 00:19:35,924 --> 00:19:39,887 [Stacey] I told my mom, "I have to go to the store. I have to get sketch stuff." 306 00:19:40,721 --> 00:19:42,848 Because every time I blinked or I thought of something, 307 00:19:44,141 --> 00:19:45,434 it was burned in my mind. 308 00:19:46,435 --> 00:19:48,604 So I had to get it out on paper. 309 00:19:50,022 --> 00:19:52,399 I kept it hidden. I didn't want to say anything to anybody. 310 00:19:53,692 --> 00:19:56,570 And that's when my mom said, "Well, I've got something to tell you." 311 00:19:57,362 --> 00:19:59,448 "I had one done at work by a girlfriend." 312 00:20:00,532 --> 00:20:03,410 I had the same feeling. That if I didn't get it out, it was gonna haunt me. 313 00:20:03,493 --> 00:20:06,496 So me having it done on paper the way I asked her to do it 314 00:20:06,580 --> 00:20:07,664 felt so much better. 315 00:20:08,707 --> 00:20:11,418 Knowing that that's there and it's not up here anymore. 316 00:20:14,463 --> 00:20:17,674 [Stacey] I flipped my sketchbook open, and she showed me hers. 317 00:20:18,884 --> 00:20:21,762 We both looked at each other like, "That's exactly what we saw." 318 00:20:22,554 --> 00:20:23,472 We didn't even talk. 319 00:20:23,555 --> 00:20:27,684 Like, we didn't ask each other about definition, or what we saw, or anything. 320 00:20:29,645 --> 00:20:33,815 We just both had the pictures drawn, and it was like, "Oh my God." 321 00:20:39,738 --> 00:20:41,531 [unsettling music plays] 322 00:20:41,615 --> 00:20:46,411 [Lon] Stacey and Sandy saw some type of supernatural being 323 00:20:46,495 --> 00:20:49,331 that didn't have wings, but it seemed to fly without wings. 324 00:20:49,998 --> 00:20:51,667 That did not surprise me. 325 00:20:52,167 --> 00:20:54,878 We've had several people say they saw the Mothman glide 326 00:20:54,962 --> 00:20:57,214 without the use of some type of wing. 327 00:20:57,297 --> 00:21:00,425 So I believe what they saw was credible. 328 00:21:00,509 --> 00:21:02,511 [unsettling music continues] 329 00:21:03,387 --> 00:21:08,850 At the same time, a number of witnesses have seen unusual aerial phenomena 330 00:21:09,434 --> 00:21:12,604 that don't represent something paranormal. 331 00:21:17,401 --> 00:21:19,820 In May of 2018, 332 00:21:21,196 --> 00:21:23,198 a man was bicycling to work. 333 00:21:24,616 --> 00:21:28,036 And on his bicycle helmet, he had a GoPro camera. 334 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:29,621 He liked to record his rides. 335 00:21:30,998 --> 00:21:36,003 He saw what he later described to me as a large, winged creature. 336 00:21:37,421 --> 00:21:43,010 I was able to enlarge the frames on which this creature appeared 337 00:21:43,885 --> 00:21:48,140 and make out that this was the silhouette of a bird, 338 00:21:49,349 --> 00:21:50,892 like a great blue heron. 339 00:21:52,894 --> 00:21:54,813 Over the past decade, 340 00:21:54,896 --> 00:22:00,569 the number of, uh, of herons roosting in urban areas, specifically Chicago, 341 00:22:00,652 --> 00:22:02,404 has exploded. 342 00:22:03,030 --> 00:22:06,450 This is largely due to the, uh, destruction 343 00:22:06,533 --> 00:22:08,994 of their natural wetland habitat 344 00:22:09,077 --> 00:22:10,412 and climate change. 345 00:22:11,330 --> 00:22:13,290 And so, that, under the right circumstances, 346 00:22:13,373 --> 00:22:15,542 can be mistaken as a humanoid. 347 00:22:17,627 --> 00:22:21,798 Every report that I've published, that I have received personally, 348 00:22:21,882 --> 00:22:23,300 is one that I find credible. 349 00:22:25,010 --> 00:22:27,679 In one recent sighting, we had two witnesses 350 00:22:28,180 --> 00:22:30,974 who were able to provide a remarkable amount of detail. 351 00:22:33,810 --> 00:22:35,228 [woman] It was mid-June. 352 00:22:35,771 --> 00:22:37,773 It was real warm outside. 353 00:22:39,316 --> 00:22:42,069 And we decided to make a McDonald's run. 354 00:22:44,112 --> 00:22:45,864 We always sit and chitchat for a while 355 00:22:45,947 --> 00:22:48,283 in the parking lot behind the apartment afterwards. 356 00:22:49,993 --> 00:22:53,121 [Shana] I was sitting in the passenger seat. My mom was in the driver's seat. 357 00:22:54,790 --> 00:22:56,375 Mid-conversation… 358 00:22:56,458 --> 00:22:58,668 [screeching] 359 00:23:00,379 --> 00:23:04,591 …I heard a very loud screeching noise. 360 00:23:04,674 --> 00:23:06,551 [screeching] 361 00:23:06,635 --> 00:23:09,388 It didn't sound like anything I've ever heard before. 362 00:23:09,471 --> 00:23:14,142 It couldn't have been mistaken for a bird, or a fox, or a coyote. 363 00:23:14,226 --> 00:23:15,769 [ominous music plays] 364 00:23:16,853 --> 00:23:21,775 That's when I saw a really large, dark creature 365 00:23:22,734 --> 00:23:27,406 crawling out of the canal and up the embankment. 366 00:23:29,366 --> 00:23:31,326 He was crawling on all fours. 367 00:23:32,869 --> 00:23:37,833 And it looked like it had hind legs. 368 00:23:39,584 --> 00:23:42,129 [Barbera] I think I was more in shock than anything. 369 00:23:42,671 --> 00:23:46,341 I was just startled and trying to figure out what we were seeing. 370 00:23:47,968 --> 00:23:50,720 [Shana] My mom decided she wanted to take a closer look. 371 00:23:52,389 --> 00:23:53,640 And I asked her not to. 372 00:23:54,433 --> 00:23:55,892 And she wasn't listening, 373 00:23:55,976 --> 00:23:59,938 so I followed my mother, looking out towards the canal. 374 00:24:00,021 --> 00:24:02,023 [unsettling music plays] 375 00:24:03,650 --> 00:24:05,110 [Barbera] As I looked over, 376 00:24:05,735 --> 00:24:08,488 I saw him just taking flight from the ground. 377 00:24:08,572 --> 00:24:10,824 You could hear the flapping of the wings. 378 00:24:10,907 --> 00:24:13,743 [Shana] And then, all of a sudden, it just disappeared, 379 00:24:13,827 --> 00:24:15,829 and we didn't see it again for that night. 380 00:24:17,664 --> 00:24:20,709 But I do believe that the screech came from 381 00:24:21,460 --> 00:24:24,963 what I now know as the Mothman. 382 00:24:29,009 --> 00:24:32,512 I can't necessarily confirm if they really saw Mothman. 383 00:24:33,889 --> 00:24:38,560 But I find Shana and Barb to be very credible witnesses. 384 00:24:39,352 --> 00:24:42,230 There's really no discrepancies, 385 00:24:42,314 --> 00:24:45,609 uh, between their accounts of… of what happened. 386 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,069 Any sighting that we receive 387 00:24:48,153 --> 00:24:51,740 where more than one person or multiple people see it, 388 00:24:52,365 --> 00:24:55,327 we take that into, uh, more consideration. 389 00:24:55,410 --> 00:24:57,412 [wings flapping] 390 00:24:58,788 --> 00:25:00,749 [Tobias] It's very difficult, if not impossible, 391 00:25:00,832 --> 00:25:04,920 to discern the motivations of whatever this thing is, 392 00:25:05,003 --> 00:25:06,838 because it… it is so alien. 393 00:25:08,131 --> 00:25:12,469 And it certainly doesn't seem to want to communicate in any way. 394 00:25:13,386 --> 00:25:16,723 And it also doesn't seem to want to have very much prolonged contact 395 00:25:16,806 --> 00:25:19,809 with anyone that it, uh, encounters. 396 00:25:20,393 --> 00:25:25,982 [Lon] One thing we do know is that the overall feeling witnesses get 397 00:25:26,066 --> 00:25:27,943 is that of fear and dread. 398 00:25:28,026 --> 00:25:30,445 And it can really affect their lives. 399 00:25:34,032 --> 00:25:35,951 [Jonathan] Anytime I go outside and it's night, 400 00:25:36,910 --> 00:25:38,286 it still sticks with me. 401 00:25:38,954 --> 00:25:41,790 I'm still scared about it 'cause it just was so impactful. 402 00:25:41,873 --> 00:25:43,500 [unsettling music plays] 403 00:25:43,583 --> 00:25:44,918 [Paula] I have seen 404 00:25:45,961 --> 00:25:47,921 evil in the flesh. 405 00:25:49,089 --> 00:25:51,466 I'm still afraid to go outside at night. 406 00:25:51,550 --> 00:25:53,218 [unsettling music continues] 407 00:25:53,301 --> 00:25:57,597 [Lon] The witnesses of these beings go through a different series of emotions. 408 00:25:57,681 --> 00:25:59,432 I've had 'em call me crying. 409 00:26:00,016 --> 00:26:01,851 "What's gonna happen to me?" 410 00:26:02,811 --> 00:26:04,563 "Is my family in danger?" 411 00:26:04,646 --> 00:26:07,065 They're scared. They really are scared. 412 00:26:09,025 --> 00:26:12,571 We had one witness who came forward 20 years after her sighting, 413 00:26:13,071 --> 00:26:17,367 and I think it's probably one of the most compelling Mothman encounters on record. 414 00:26:20,328 --> 00:26:21,997 [woman] Do I get nightmares from it? 415 00:26:22,539 --> 00:26:23,498 Yeah, I do. 416 00:26:25,041 --> 00:26:26,793 I've been frightened ever since then. 417 00:26:27,836 --> 00:26:29,838 [uneasy music plays] 418 00:26:36,136 --> 00:26:38,305 [woman] It was the first week of September. 419 00:26:39,180 --> 00:26:40,599 It was right around Labor Day. 420 00:26:41,641 --> 00:26:43,768 [uneasy music continues] 421 00:26:43,852 --> 00:26:45,395 We had a barbecue in the backyard, 422 00:26:45,478 --> 00:26:48,565 and it was about 9:30, ten o'clock at night. 423 00:26:49,566 --> 00:26:51,735 I told my kids, "Get in the house and get ready for bed." 424 00:26:52,235 --> 00:26:53,069 And they did. 425 00:26:54,696 --> 00:26:55,739 So I'm cleaning up. 426 00:26:56,698 --> 00:26:58,700 [uneasy music continues] 427 00:27:01,286 --> 00:27:03,830 I was looking at the moonlight. It was beautiful. 428 00:27:06,791 --> 00:27:10,378 And all of a sudden, I hear a "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh." 429 00:27:10,462 --> 00:27:11,796 [wings flapping] 430 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:13,673 [Roxanne] That made me look up high in the sky. 431 00:27:14,799 --> 00:27:17,218 And I see four giant figures. 432 00:27:17,302 --> 00:27:18,345 [screeching] 433 00:27:18,428 --> 00:27:21,389 [Roxanne] And I'm like, "Oh my God, what the hell is that?" 434 00:27:21,473 --> 00:27:24,643 They had big bodies, and they were tall, 435 00:27:24,726 --> 00:27:26,645 and they had, like, huge wings, 436 00:27:27,270 --> 00:27:28,605 and they had red eyes. 437 00:27:28,688 --> 00:27:30,023 [screeching] 438 00:27:30,982 --> 00:27:34,361 [Roxanne] When they were flying, it wasn't like a bird. They weren't, like, tilted. 439 00:27:34,861 --> 00:27:38,281 They were standing, and their wings were like bat wings, and they were huge. 440 00:27:38,365 --> 00:27:39,407 We're talking massive. 441 00:27:40,700 --> 00:27:42,452 And the third one, 442 00:27:42,535 --> 00:27:44,871 he made eye contact with me. 443 00:27:45,789 --> 00:27:48,875 I got so scared when I locked eyes with this thing. 444 00:27:49,793 --> 00:27:52,504 You could tell it wasn't something good. You could feel it. 445 00:27:53,672 --> 00:27:55,507 I dropped everything I was holding onto, 446 00:27:56,675 --> 00:27:57,842 and I ran into my house. 447 00:27:58,885 --> 00:28:00,345 I ran into the bathroom. 448 00:28:03,181 --> 00:28:04,432 Threw water on my face. 449 00:28:04,516 --> 00:28:06,518 [tense music plays] 450 00:28:12,023 --> 00:28:13,817 Looked in the mirror and thought, 451 00:28:14,401 --> 00:28:16,236 "Oh my God, what did you just see?" 452 00:28:17,862 --> 00:28:20,115 I was shaking so bad, my teeth were chattering, 453 00:28:20,198 --> 00:28:22,117 because I was in shock, complete shock. 454 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,412 Because I know what I just saw, but I don't believe what I just saw. 455 00:28:29,999 --> 00:28:32,502 [Tobias] What's interesting about Roxanne's case 456 00:28:32,585 --> 00:28:36,047 is that there were multiple entities described. 457 00:28:36,798 --> 00:28:39,217 [Lon] Most of the sightings had been singular sightings, 458 00:28:39,759 --> 00:28:42,846 but there had been a few reports of multiple beings. 459 00:28:42,929 --> 00:28:44,305 Very few, but there had been. 460 00:28:46,141 --> 00:28:48,351 [Tobias] Roxanne's experience is hard to dismiss, 461 00:28:48,852 --> 00:28:50,979 because her observations were so specific, 462 00:28:51,896 --> 00:28:53,523 and she was truly frightened. 463 00:28:55,233 --> 00:28:57,318 I'm a strong woman from Chicago. 464 00:28:57,402 --> 00:28:59,154 Chicago people don't scare easy. 465 00:28:59,779 --> 00:29:02,657 But it scared the bejesus out of me. It really did. 466 00:29:03,491 --> 00:29:07,662 And I was afraid to talk about it, so I've always kept it to myself. 467 00:29:08,788 --> 00:29:10,165 But I'm talking now 468 00:29:10,248 --> 00:29:13,877 because I don't want to live in fear, like I have for 20 years. 469 00:29:15,128 --> 00:29:18,506 [Lon] I personally believe there have been thousands of eyewitnesses 470 00:29:18,590 --> 00:29:20,008 to this phenomena. 471 00:29:20,091 --> 00:29:23,803 You know, it's just a matter of them coming forward and telling us their story. 472 00:29:24,679 --> 00:29:27,348 But there are a lot of people who don't wanna do that. 473 00:29:29,476 --> 00:29:31,186 [Tobias] A very common narrative 474 00:29:31,269 --> 00:29:35,607 is that witnesses will have this impossible experience, 475 00:29:35,690 --> 00:29:37,525 and because we are a social species, 476 00:29:37,609 --> 00:29:40,779 they want to share this with somebody. 477 00:29:40,862 --> 00:29:45,116 A loved one. Could be a… a sibling, a spouse, a close friend, a parent. 478 00:29:46,367 --> 00:29:49,621 Unfortunately, the most common response that they get 479 00:29:49,704 --> 00:29:52,665 is to be laughed at, to not be taken seriously, 480 00:29:52,749 --> 00:29:54,834 and, uh… and that can be very traumatic. 481 00:29:54,918 --> 00:29:58,755 And often, it will lead to a witness not wanting to tell their story later. 482 00:30:02,383 --> 00:30:05,345 [Jonathan] The very first person I told about it was my father. 483 00:30:06,930 --> 00:30:11,142 He made fun of me and criticized me and made me feel silly about it. 484 00:30:12,352 --> 00:30:14,771 Things like that are hard to understand for people, 485 00:30:15,271 --> 00:30:18,775 so it's only natural, you know, to try to invalidate it. 486 00:30:19,275 --> 00:30:21,736 So I wasn't too comfortable sharing with people afterwards. 487 00:30:23,863 --> 00:30:29,661 [Paula] I told my sister, I told my boyfriend, other family members. 488 00:30:30,995 --> 00:30:35,708 I could sense right away they weren't really interested, 489 00:30:35,792 --> 00:30:38,461 or didn't believe me and kind of looked away, 490 00:30:38,545 --> 00:30:40,922 so I would just stop. 491 00:30:43,424 --> 00:30:47,762 [Roxanne] The fear of talking to anybody about it, it was enormous. 492 00:30:48,763 --> 00:30:50,890 I didn't want nobody laughing at my children. 493 00:30:51,391 --> 00:30:54,310 I didn't want nobody laughing at us. I didn't want people calling us names. 494 00:30:56,437 --> 00:30:58,857 [Sandra] When you work for a school, like I did, 495 00:30:58,940 --> 00:31:02,610 and then you have an employee that talks about this shadow person, 496 00:31:03,403 --> 00:31:05,613 and it's not in their history books-- 497 00:31:05,697 --> 00:31:07,031 So you'd be known as crazy. 498 00:31:07,115 --> 00:31:09,742 So I don't want to be labeled, you know. 499 00:31:09,826 --> 00:31:12,579 So I just kept it to myself, basically. 500 00:31:13,371 --> 00:31:17,417 [Lon] People don't want to be ridiculed. I get that. I understand it. 501 00:31:18,126 --> 00:31:19,085 But this is something 502 00:31:19,168 --> 00:31:22,338 that may have been the most profound thing that's happened in their lives, 503 00:31:22,422 --> 00:31:24,549 and they don't understand it. They want answers. 504 00:31:25,216 --> 00:31:29,637 People have all kinds of theories as to why these beings do show up. 505 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:35,143 Many people see the Mothman as a harbinger of… of doom. 506 00:31:36,811 --> 00:31:38,605 A portent of disaster. 507 00:31:38,688 --> 00:31:42,901 [Lon] There's a lot of bad incidents associated with the Mothman. 508 00:31:42,984 --> 00:31:47,280 It has been seen in certain areas where there was a disaster. 509 00:31:48,615 --> 00:31:49,824 Like Fukushima. 510 00:31:52,285 --> 00:31:55,496 The Minneapolis bridge collapse over the river. 511 00:31:57,165 --> 00:32:00,126 One of the atomic reactors at the Chernobyl atomic power plant 512 00:32:00,209 --> 00:32:01,961 near the city of Kyiv was damaged, 513 00:32:02,045 --> 00:32:03,963 and there is speculation in Moscow 514 00:32:04,047 --> 00:32:06,424 that people were injured and may have died. 515 00:32:07,216 --> 00:32:09,928 [Lon] Some people saw a huge avian-like being 516 00:32:10,470 --> 00:32:12,472 before the Chernobyl incident 517 00:32:13,222 --> 00:32:15,642 that people called "The Black Bird of Chernobyl." 518 00:32:17,185 --> 00:32:19,145 And, of course, there was Point Pleasant. 519 00:32:20,730 --> 00:32:25,276 The idea that the Mothman appears as some sort of prophet of doom 520 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,029 is popular in the paranormal community. 521 00:32:29,906 --> 00:32:31,866 But there's no real consensus about it. 522 00:32:35,328 --> 00:32:38,748 [growling] 523 00:32:38,831 --> 00:32:43,002 [Lon] The biggest question I have is where they come from and why they're here. 524 00:32:43,086 --> 00:32:45,004 I think all of us want to know that. 525 00:32:47,674 --> 00:32:50,426 [Tobias] Some people think maybe they come from a parallel universe 526 00:32:50,510 --> 00:32:52,220 or are extraterrestrials. 527 00:32:52,804 --> 00:32:58,017 Some people like to think that, uh, maybe they are inter-dimensional creatures, 528 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,855 able to pop in and out of our three-dimensional perception 529 00:33:02,939 --> 00:33:04,023 seemingly at will. 530 00:33:05,483 --> 00:33:08,736 [Lon] Chicago has a very well-known paranormal history. 531 00:33:08,820 --> 00:33:11,322 A lot of hauntings, a lot of UFO sightings. 532 00:33:11,864 --> 00:33:14,283 Has it something to do with the lake itself? 533 00:33:14,367 --> 00:33:15,535 Some people believe that. 534 00:33:15,618 --> 00:33:17,203 [unsettling music plays] 535 00:33:17,286 --> 00:33:20,248 [Tobias] Over the years, Lake Michigan has been at the center 536 00:33:20,331 --> 00:33:23,418 of many strange and supernatural occurrences. 537 00:33:23,501 --> 00:33:25,503 Hauntings, UFOs, 538 00:33:25,586 --> 00:33:29,424 and even serpent creatures similar to the Loch Ness Monster 539 00:33:29,507 --> 00:33:31,718 have been spotted in or around the lake. 540 00:33:32,468 --> 00:33:36,764 There are many who believe the Mothman is just one more paranormal entity 541 00:33:36,848 --> 00:33:38,349 that calls Lake Michigan home. 542 00:33:39,559 --> 00:33:43,354 [Lon] I personally believe they may actually be inter-dimensional beings, 543 00:33:44,313 --> 00:33:48,026 because there's so many instances where people will see it 544 00:33:48,109 --> 00:33:50,069 and it'll just suddenly disappear. 545 00:33:56,367 --> 00:33:59,954 One aspect about these sightings at O'Hare 546 00:34:00,038 --> 00:34:03,916 is that there is a cemetery in that vicinity. 547 00:34:05,251 --> 00:34:06,753 The Resthaven Cemetery. 548 00:34:08,046 --> 00:34:11,424 There does seem to be a lot of Mothman activity around that cemetery. 549 00:34:11,507 --> 00:34:13,926 We don't really know why. 550 00:34:14,010 --> 00:34:16,846 Is this an access point for these beings? 551 00:34:16,929 --> 00:34:18,556 That's hard to determine. 552 00:34:18,639 --> 00:34:20,516 They're very fleeting sightings. 553 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:22,226 We haven't been able to get 554 00:34:22,310 --> 00:34:25,730 a real decent photograph of one of these things. 555 00:34:25,813 --> 00:34:27,815 [unsettling music plays] 556 00:34:28,691 --> 00:34:34,113 Our objective is to put some real facts before the public 557 00:34:34,197 --> 00:34:36,157 as to what is really going on. 558 00:34:37,825 --> 00:34:42,789 [Tobias] Lon and I have a duty to continue to investigate reports 559 00:34:42,872 --> 00:34:47,460 and seriously examine people's experiences. 560 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:52,256 The more of these reports that we're able to investigate, 561 00:34:52,340 --> 00:34:56,677 the more attention drawn to this Mothman phenomenon. 562 00:34:56,761 --> 00:34:57,804 Absolutely. 563 00:34:57,887 --> 00:34:59,347 [Tobias] At the same time, 564 00:34:59,430 --> 00:35:04,310 regardless of what you think the root phenomenon is, 565 00:35:05,978 --> 00:35:09,732 if I can help somebody understand their experience, 566 00:35:10,775 --> 00:35:12,026 that's what I wanna do. 567 00:35:14,153 --> 00:35:15,571 [Roxanne] Talking to Tobias, 568 00:35:16,322 --> 00:35:19,659 here is somebody that is listening to my story 569 00:35:19,742 --> 00:35:24,080 and isn't making fun of me or double questioning me, 570 00:35:24,163 --> 00:35:27,542 and letting me know it was okay to talk about it. 571 00:35:28,126 --> 00:35:30,586 When I heard that other people had the same experience, 572 00:35:30,670 --> 00:35:32,380 I felt like I actually belonged. 573 00:35:32,463 --> 00:35:35,925 It was nice to talk to somebody that had knowledge about what I'd seen. 574 00:35:38,594 --> 00:35:42,849 [Tobias] So you feel like this entity went out of its way to get your attention? 575 00:35:42,932 --> 00:35:46,185 Yeah, it acknowledging me is what really freaked me out. 576 00:35:46,269 --> 00:35:47,145 Interesting. 577 00:35:47,228 --> 00:35:52,233 [Jonathan] It was nice validation to know that other people have seen this. 578 00:35:53,109 --> 00:35:56,404 Here's this thing happening that no one's taking serious, 579 00:35:56,487 --> 00:35:58,906 and, uh, more and more people are seeing it. 580 00:35:58,990 --> 00:36:01,951 I think that people need to share their experiences. 581 00:36:02,034 --> 00:36:03,411 They need to do it. 582 00:36:03,494 --> 00:36:07,290 I mean, really need to do it, because there are people that will support you. 583 00:36:10,126 --> 00:36:12,545 [Shana] You could see these two huge hind legs, 584 00:36:12,628 --> 00:36:15,548 and you could see two perfect arms, elbows and all. 585 00:36:15,631 --> 00:36:19,552 And you could see a short neck and a head. 586 00:36:19,635 --> 00:36:20,928 It was very humanoid. 587 00:36:21,012 --> 00:36:22,263 It's very concerning… 588 00:36:22,346 --> 00:36:26,017 [Sandra] There's not one or two people that's making this up. 589 00:36:26,642 --> 00:36:30,438 A lot of people saw this, so don't doubt. 590 00:36:30,521 --> 00:36:31,814 Listen to other people. 591 00:36:33,482 --> 00:36:35,693 Listen to what they have to say and believe it. 592 00:36:36,652 --> 00:36:39,197 I think there's gonna be a lot of people that will open their eyes. 593 00:36:42,491 --> 00:36:45,953 [Lon] We want the world to know that this is actually going on. 594 00:36:47,163 --> 00:36:51,167 I think all paranormal investigators are seeking the truth. 595 00:36:51,250 --> 00:36:52,543 That's what we want. 596 00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,297 [Jonathan] Every time I look at the tree, 597 00:36:56,964 --> 00:36:58,257 it still perplexes me. 598 00:36:59,508 --> 00:37:02,261 Why did it want me to see it? 599 00:37:03,221 --> 00:37:08,267 [Paula] If I saw it again, I would stare directly at it, 600 00:37:08,351 --> 00:37:12,897 and I would say, "What are you? What do you want from me?" 601 00:37:13,773 --> 00:37:18,778 [Roxanne] Were they here to warn somebody? Were they here to do destruction? 602 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:20,821 What are they really here for? 603 00:37:21,405 --> 00:37:23,532 [Barbera] There's all these stories throughout the years 604 00:37:23,616 --> 00:37:25,368 that we've read and seen about it, 605 00:37:25,993 --> 00:37:28,246 but we know nothing about the Mothman. 606 00:37:29,163 --> 00:37:31,999 [Lon] I don't know what it is, why it's happening. 607 00:37:32,083 --> 00:37:34,669 Are they showing themselves to specific people? 608 00:37:35,586 --> 00:37:37,213 What does it want from us? 609 00:37:38,673 --> 00:37:40,758 To this point, we haven't figured it out. 610 00:37:44,595 --> 00:37:46,681 [screeching] 611 00:37:46,764 --> 00:37:48,766 [unsettling music plays] 612 00:37:51,269 --> 00:37:53,312 [screeching] 613 00:37:57,233 --> 00:37:58,150 [music fades] 614 00:38:03,072 --> 00:38:05,074 [unsettling music plays]