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Ashley Hilt

Oct 17, 2026

4:10
Absolutely.
4:11
um one of the people that was there with us was a um pretty decently sized youtuber and he was going to be making a a like a silly video about ma fan while he was there right and so um they thought it would be kind of funny if i played like the well the quote-unquote cryptozoologist and i thought it'd be funny too so we went and um things got um weird there in west virginia i mean even when you cross the border into the state of west virginia i mean the whole the air changes now that's mostly elevation due the mountains but still it makes you feel odd um so you know we go and and i had what you know i i now know did not know at the time was basically a string of of synchronicities and it was things that seemed extremely significant one of those things was like oh gosh you know at one point in time we were out to eat at like a diner or something and we walk out and right before we get in the car we're standing around I'm a smoker I know it's bad don't do it but we're outside of the car smoking and the guy that we're with he goes oh my god look down and I look down and right at my feet is this giant like giant dead moth and And that doesn't really seem too significant, right, just by itself, but it was that over and over and over again.
5:37
So we started like referring to these as a sign from the universe, right, as a sign.
5:45
At one point, we stop at this pharmacy and it's about an hour away from Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
5:51
Our Airbnb was about an hour away.
5:53
You can't get close to Point Pleasant during the festival.
5:56
So we're staying about an hour away and we stop at this pharmacy and That, you know, I didn't drive this whole trip at all.
8:20
So where does the story of the Mothman begin?

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