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Katherine Blanford's Mothman chat gets a grandfather's reality check

A family connection to the West Virginia legend turns a podcast conversation into a debate about warnings, nests and someone named Earl.

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Who’s seen the mothman?

Mothman gets surprisingly little credit for trying to help in Katherine Blanford's podcast clip. If the winged creature was warning people about a bridge collapse, the panel reasons, he could have communicated rather better.

"Who's seen the mothman?" has added about 42,000 views in a day, taking it to roughly 79,000. Published several days earlier, the clip is drawing views more than seven times faster than its usual daily pace.

The conversation starts with a speaker explaining that her mother grew up across the Ohio River from West Virginia, near the setting of the Mothman sightings. Newspaper imagery and illustrations accompany her account of a creature reportedly appearing at windows before disappearing into the night.

From there, the panel considers the folklore connecting Mothman to the Silver Bridge collapse. A photograph of Point Pleasant's Mothman statue prompts a less reverent assessment of his supposed warning skills. Another suggestion: perhaps he was nesting beneath the bridge, rather than trying to save it.

Then comes the family's decidedly earthbound explanation. "Well, my grandfather said that that was his friend Earl," the speaker says.

Viewers keep returning to Earl in the comments, joking about whether a grandfather's casual explanation has settled the mystery. Others pick up the nest theory or offer an owl as the less supernatural answer.

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What viewers say

There was so much lore dropped in this one conversation 😂
@juliar.9811See it on YouTube
I'm sorry did she just solve moth man with that casual "that's my friend earl"!?
@le_pezdispenserSee it on YouTube
My favorite "theory" is that he just hated that bridge.
@HappyFunNormSee it on YouTube

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I believe it was Earl too. You know that joke lasted a lifetime 😂
@BethanySBlueSee it on YouTube
She might be onto something with the nest theory 😂😂😂
@connorriley7511See it on YouTube
It was an owl.
@chickenduckhappySee it on YouTube

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