Okay.

Um, it's a, it's a pretty wild place.

It's actually, to this day, there's about, uh, sixty to a hundred concrete igloo-like structures where they stored the explosives and these, these hazardous chemicals.

Um, but by the nineteen-sixties, this was a hangout for the local teenagers.

So they were basically just cruising through this area one night, November fifteenth, nineteen sixty-six, and suddenly, near an old abandoned building known as the power plant, they saw this figure, and the description was, you know, six and a half, seven feet tall, giant bat-like wings, uh, coming out of his shoulders, and the giant red eyes.

And of course, they saw this thing, and they were utterly terrified.

Uh, they took off back towards town, and to their horror and chagrin, the Mothman actually took off s-straight off the ground, and that's significant, like a helicopter, and chased them all the way back to the town of Point Pleasant.

Wow.

[laughs]

Uh, in Central America, the Maya people believe in something called the duende, and then in Alaska I interviewed, spoke to some, um, Inuit people who have something called the anuk-un's.

And then, you know, there are many other, in Oregon I think they're the, the Golgane and, uh, Apukulu and Apukule.

Anyways, this idea of little mischievous hair-covered man-like creatures, they generally live in caves or holes in the ground, and they are often acc- accredited with trying to abduct children.

And they are also ado- adorned with different magical powers, and one of them is to alter time and to, you know, like, if you're taken supposedly to the lair of one of these little people-

Mm-hmm

... and it's very useful in terms of grasping on branches and what we call brachiating, or living in the trees, arboreal living.

So, uh, for example, primates, monkeys, and apes developed with these very flexible joints in our shoulders that allow us to kinda swing from branch to branch, and grab branches and things while we're walking on lower branches, and so the opposable thumb was very beneficial in terms of being able to get a secure hold on things as we were navigating through the trees.