Silver Bridge
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Nov 2, 2026
Linda SigmanGUEST
I went down there two weeks before that.
Linda SigmanGUEST
I had to cross the Silver Bridge, which is the bridge that collapsed.
Linda SigmanGUEST
I can remember stopping in the middle of it And it was swinging, and I can remember seeing the Christmas lights and everything and thinking, oh, it'd be horrible if this thing collapsed.
Linda SigmanGUEST
I was gonna do some Christmas shopping, so I went on downtown, and when I pulled in front of the store that I was to go in to make a purchase, there was a man in black standing in front of the store with his arms crossed like this.
Linda SigmanGUEST
I don't know, a quarter after, so this guy comes through the door.
Linda SigmanGUEST
I can still see him coming through those doors, he said.
Linda SigmanGUEST
Oh, the Silver Bridge has collapsed.
Linda SigmanGUEST
We're like, yeah, right, uh-huh, that's not funny.
TomHOST
The most famous sightings of the Mothman are...
TomHOST
We're around the the point Point Pleasant, Virginia, in the time leading up to like the year leading up to the Silver Bridge collapse, which killed 46 people.
TomHOST
which then and I think he wasn't the Mothman wasn't really seen after that so because of that people associate the Mothman with either having caused the bridge collapse or having like trying to warn people about the bridge collapse but the jury's still out
TimHOST
I think his intentions were good
speaker_1NARRATOR
Then more and more reports kept coming in with the same description.
speaker_1NARRATOR
But then in 1967, the Silver Bridge collapsed, taking 46 people's lives with it.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Some people say Mothman is what caused the collapse, but others say that the presence of Mothman was him trying to warn everyone about the upcoming disaster.
speaker_1NARRATOR
I'm kind of team Mothman.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Then more and more reports kept coming in with the same description.
speaker_3NARRATOR
But then in 1967, the Silver Bridge collapsed, taking 46 people's lives with it.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Some people say Mothman is what caused the collapse, but others say that the presence of Mothman was him trying to warn everyone about the upcoming disaster.
speaker_3NARRATOR
I'm kind of team Mothman.
Alie WardHOST
So just over a year after the first Mothman sighting, a local bridge collapsed in heavy rush hour traffic one December evening.
Alie WardHOST
A single chain link was off by one-tenth of an inch, less than three millimeters, and the continued strain finally plunged this 40-year-old Silver Bridge and over 30 cars into the freezing winter water below.
Alie WardHOST
Did your parents have friends or family
Alie WardHOST
that were affected by the bridge collapse?
Jeff WamsleyGUEST
Yeah.
Jeff WamsleyGUEST
But every year at the same time as, you know, sort of like the 9-11 stuff, the same time the bridge fell, they have the mayor and a lot of dignitaries have a thing to commemorate it and stuff.
Alie WardHOST
But the Silver Bridge Collapse is not the only annual gathering in Point Pleasant.
Alie WardHOST
The third weekend of September welcomes Mothman devotees from all over the world to celebrate his mystery.
Seth BreedloveSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It was that 66, 67 flap of sightings.
Seth BreedloveSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It was the collapse of the Silver Bridge.
Seth BreedloveSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I didn't see there being much of a story beyond that.
Seth BreedloveSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But in making that movie, releasing that movie, and then the subsequent three years since it came out, we've met numerous people claiming to be witnesses.
Seth BreedloveSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And then everything seems to be cascading towards something.
Seth BreedloveSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We're racing towards some sort of an endpoint.
Seth BreedloveSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And in 1967, December of 1967, December 15th, to be specific, the Silver Bridge spanning the Ohio River from Point Pleasant into Gallipolis across the river, uh collapses into the ohio river uh during rush hour and 46 people are lives 46 lives are lost um and that to most people that's it that's the end of the mothman story um but obviously it's not the truth it's it's just the most well-known chapter in that story
George KnappSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The big picture, looking back at it, you know, during the disaster, and you do a great job telling that story, in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, people are dealing with the consequences of all this loss of life, and they're not thinking about Mothman.
Andrea ShaenanigansHOST
The peak of the mystery came on December 15, 1967 during the chaotic rush hour of Christmas shopping season.
Andrea ShaenanigansHOST
The Silver Bridge connecting Point Pleasant to Ohio suddenly suffered a structural failure, and it collapsed into the icy waters of the Ohio River, claiming 46 lives.
Andrea ShaenanigansHOST
In the immediate aftermath of the tragedy, the Mothman vanished from West Virginia.
Andrea ShaenanigansHOST
And he hasn't been seen there since, leaving the locals and paranormal researchers thinking that he was acting as a quote-unquote harbinger of doom.
AlejandraHOST
And Right now, the original Mothman sightings famously happened in Point Pleasant in West Virginia.
AlejandraHOST
And in the late 1960s, a massive winged creature with glowing red eyes were terrorizing locals right before the tragic collapse of the Silver Bridge.
AlejandraHOST
But 30 years later, the internet gave this old monster a brand new digital life.
AlejandraHOST
And it started as an obscure geo-targeted forum called Phantoms and Monsters.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
Now, the bizarre 13-month saga of the Mothman came to a sudden, catastrophic, and completely real end on December 15, 1967.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
At 5.04 p.m., during peak rush hour, the Silver Bridge, a heavily trafficked suspension bridge connecting Point Pleasant to Ohio, suffered a catastrophic structural failure.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
In a matter of seconds, the massive steel structure collapsed into the freezing Ohio River, taking dozens of vehicles with it.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
46 people lost their lives in the freezing water and crushing steel, and it remains the deadliest bridge disaster in modern American history.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
Once the local newspaper published the initial report, the town became hypersensitized.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
Shadows, owls, and mundane noises were suddenly filtered through the lens of a monster hunting in the woods.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
The collapse of the Silver Bridge, while tragic, was definitively solved by civil engineers.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
The cause was not a curse or a cryptid, but a single microscopic crack in a two-inch steel eye bar that had suffered from decades of metal fatigue and poor maintenance.
CharlieGUEST
Okay.
TylerGUEST
Where's the Silver Bridge? Here's what we need to do.
TylerGUEST
We need to go over and take Point Pleasant.
TylerGUEST
If you want to make this our thing, we have to go claim that Point Pleasant is now Ohio and then fight for it.
TylerGUEST
And then we can do it.
CharlieGUEST
On the Silver Bridge, which is over the Ohio
Steven Ray MorrisHOST
River.
Steven Ray MorrisHOST
I like this.
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