{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5c5da99a215eac406099a9c4/5dd91031f232b68a32bc9a63?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Point Pleasant, WV Part 1","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5c5da99a215eac406099a9c4/1574505540181-a2c293fe99da106151f4607c647a1513.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Point Pleasant is a small close-knit community just across the Ohio River from Gallipolis.&nbsp;Like many little towns in West Virgina, it’s quiet and keeps to itself.&nbsp;It’s surrouned by woodlands and winding roads once these roads get you to next small town&nbsp;the cycle repeats.&nbsp;Also like many town in WV it has a history of strange happens, it would start with sightings of the Mothman in 1966 and end with the collapse of the Silver Bridge in ’67.</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://allthatsinteresting.com/mothman\" target=\"_blank\">allthatsinteresting.com/mothman</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"http://www.mothmanlives.com/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">www.mothmanlives.com/index.html</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Pleasant,_West_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">WikiPedia article about Point Pleasant, West Virginia</a></p><p><br></p><p>The Mothman Prophecies, Joh A. Keel.&nbsp;Illuminet Press.&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Mothman-Prophecies-True-Story/dp/0765334984/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3D9RQCURFIEKH&amp;keywords=the+mothman+prophecies+book&amp;qid=1574304425&amp;sprefix=the+Mothman%2Caps%2C139&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">www.amazon.com/Mothman-Prophecies-True-Story/dp/0765334984/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3D9RQCURFIEKH&amp;keywords=the+mothman+prophecies+book&amp;qid=1574304425&amp;sprefix=the+Mothman,aps,139&amp;sr=8-1</a></p><p><br></p><p>Eyes of the Mothman, 2011.&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810856/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\">www.imdb.com/title/tt0810856/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1</a></p><p><br></p><p>Some say the Mothman was a harbinger of death and destruction?&nbsp;That remains to be seen and is still widely discussed.&nbsp;However on December 15, 1967 a disaster would befall Point Pleasant and afterwards the Mothman would seem to fade away or perhaps just forgotten.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Bridge\" target=\"_blank\">WikiPedia article about Silver Bridge</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://timeline.com/the-deadliest-bridge-disaster-in-us-history-was-caused-by-a-tiny-crack-just-3-millimeters-deep-ca5404c4dffa\" target=\"_blank\">timeline.com/the-deadliest-bridge-disaster-in-us-history-was-caused-by-a-tiny-crack-just-3-millimeters-deep-ca5404c4dffa</a></p><p><br></p><p>The Mothman Prophecies, Joh A. 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