Mothman: Big Owl or Harbinger of Disaster? - Snipe and Wib

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[@trr94001]

One vote for a full version of Snipe’s “Country Roads” cover.

[@gigaflynn_]

seconded! Snipe has a lovely singing voice!

[@giraton1]

Available on their Patreon atm actually lol

[@aliciacarr9014]

Become a Patron and you can listen to that.

[@DavidJBradley]

Do not shoot the Mothman. Make passionate love to the Mothman for 12 hours.

[@daedalus6796]

Finally, a good take

[@KyleRayner12]

That sounds like more work.

[@bryonjackson3209]

Exactly 12 hours. Not 12 hours and one minute. Not 11 hours and 59 minutes.

[@TalexTheLich]

ya know I appreciate the heads up but I'm just gonna go

[@LordFinai]

There’s a fantasy encyclopedia in which mothmen have an entry, they are an all female species that spread aphrodisiac when they fly and have to mate with humans in order to reproduce, they will also mate for life when they find a human they like. Look up MGE mothman if you’re curious

[@tonydotnottingham]

Bring the random - joined because of 40K, but if there’s a topic that you’re both passionate about and want to share, it’ll come across in the quality of the videos!

[@cale42]

Second that. Don't limit yourselves.

[@evanbasham4875]

I third this.

[@thegloriouswizard5270]

Fourth!

[@MKmaki6094]

F I F T H ! !

[@RaptorShadow]

Well I wasn't expecting the Mothdaddy stuff. But I probably should have.

[@Greycatuk]

Small trivia: Allegedly, the locations of UFO abductions and the locations of (older, obviously) fairy kidnappings are often the same. Which says something - about remote places and human assumptions.

[@CaptainTrollbeard]

Jacques Vallée wrote about this in Passport to Magonia, of course ignoring the fascinating psychologiocal-folkloristic implications in favour of 'Aliens and fairies are the same interdimensional beings!'.

[@oneoflokis]

That's what Keel - and Jaques Vallee - were saying all the time!

[@juangonzalezdiaz7466]

When this channel reaches 45k subscribers, I humbly request that Wib should make a Mothman fanfiction and has to read it with a straight face in front of the camera

[@Thrano]

Nah, let Wib make the fanfic and Snipe has to read it straight-faced on camera.

[@anotherzingbo]

Your mothman design is indeed very cute! It reminds me of the Hollow Knight and also, because I am old, Hungry Horace.

[@hellonearth-thehistoryofwa1270]

i want give himb cuddles

[@obnoxiouspriest]

I never imagined the wonder of hearing "Mothman" repeated so frequently by voices outside my head. Bless you Snipe and Wib.

[@shouphf]

I leveraged this video as part of a presentation to get my partner to visit the museum with me. So we added it on to our trip to visit Virginia and instead of driving straight home we drove like an extra 4 hours to the museum. We had booked a hotel but the general state of West Virginia and Point Pleasant in specific was so depressing that we cancelled our hotel room and drove the 9 hours home instead of staying overnight. The small downtown area around the museum is basically the only part of the town that you would consider a town and most of the buildings are empty. We did enjoy the museum and the trading company across the street has some nice stuff. Other than that it was basically just a mostly empty extremely small town on the side of the road. So thank you for making this video so we could have that experience.

[@PlasmaDragon2000]

Excellent video. The production quality was impressive. I appreciated the amount of research you conducted as well as the footage you interspersed along lines in your script. It was engaging to watch and listen to. I always look forward to your Halloween content every year, and excellent point to Wib about respecting people's testimonial thoughts on these matters that they feel are genuine. Also, excellent work to snipe on her vocals as well as reading out those comments along with the others in which I could barely contain myself. Great job all around and you should be proud.

[@SnipeandWib]

You are too kind to us, thank you :)

[@Del_S]

Some say to this day, in quiet nights in West Virginia, you can hear Mothman's cry... *Läääääääääämps!*

[@daviddalglish9430]

That cover of Country Roads is haunting and kind of soothing. Thank you.

[@GuzziHeroV50]

Hmm, an RX-75 Guntank and a Transformers Sharkticon on the shelf? I heartily approve ;)

[@thomassaxon8254]

I didn't know that I needed to know about the Mothman but it's definitely interesting. More of this along with the 40K stuff!

[@ArchArturo]

Back in the days of the early internet (when it was connected via Telephone), Mothman and mothman-related sites were all the rage in places like Bolt (a proto-Facebook site, now defunct).

[@psychologisttotheastartes905]

Can confirm human eyewitness testimony is really easy to manipulate, even when the interviewer doesn't mean to. And that's before you get to the issue of false memory

[@Greycatuk]

Snipe’s ‘DRIPPING WITH DISGUST’ voice is a treasure 😘

[@gimzod76]

First i ever saw of mothboy was on an old discovery show. I think it was called Ten Ways to Meet a Monster. Had an actor in a deliberately cheap-looking suit and the reason he was chasing the car was his wing was caught in the door. It was hilarious.

[@astrozombiac3535]

More videos like this please. This was genuinely fun and I would love to see more. Especially if it has more covers sung by Snipe.

[@elfbait3774]

I absolutely know the fear these people have. In my teen years, my friends and I shared our own freaky experience, an experience that repeated through an entire Summer Break. As an adult, I realize that there are likely very real explanations, in the moments it occurred we all shared a real, believable fear that gripped us for that entire summer.

[@seamusoshanahan6218]

Ooooook so what happened?

[@elfbait3774]

@@seamusoshanahan6218 I'll try to b brief. A friend of mine and I found ourselves having to camp out in his car one night. We lived in the country and wanted to make sure we were overnighting someplace where nobody would bother us so we picked the gravel lot along side the local grange building. In the middle of the night, I awoke to a strange warbling, yowling, almost cackling sound coming up from the slough that was down a forested hill behind the grange. The noise was brief and as I had only heard it briefly and my friend was still sound asleep, I dismissed it. That was until I heard it again. This time, I woke up wo a much louder, more persistent version of what I had heard before. I turned to see if my friend was still asleep and, in the gloom of the night, saw him sitting upright, his normally dark skin somehow seeming a bit more paled. A round of, "Do you here that? F**K YEAH I do," bounced back and forth between the two of us as the sound or, as it now seemed, sounds (it sounded like multiple things) was barreling up the wooded hillside and toward where we were parked. I remember laughing internally that it was just like in the movies because my buddy's perfectly tuned Firebird, that always started on the first try, just didn't seem to want to turn over. It was just as the noises seemed like they were about to break the tree line that the engine finally roared to life and we sped out of there in a shower of gravel. We spent the rest of the night parked in front of my grandfather's B&B in town. Over the course of the remaining summer my friends and I all tried to figure out what it was. We heard it a few more times, echoing up from the various winding roads and from over the hill from my farm. We even thought it might have caused a motorcycle accident as we heard a biker speed down the road toward the grange one night, squeal and crash and then the sound of whatever it was we had heard before. We asked around and got the usual collection of country bigfoot stories, haunted houses, old man/lady in a spooky house, tales you expect around rural America, but a couple of things stood out. Lots of people feel weird and do not like that grange and the area around it is known for local bigfoot sightings. We had never heard whatever it was in the years before or after that one summer, so whatever it was must have been passing through.

[@oneoflokis]

​@elfbait3774 So then it was real!?

[@AndrewChalk88]

Didn't know I needed a Snipe cover of "Take Me Home (Country Roads)". Thank you for that.

[@have14theroad]

I love your version of Country Roads.

[@paulmiddleton8487]

More than happy for you to continue doing these, I'm a massive x files fan so these with 40k stuff is Nirvana!

[@ectogambit]

CREEPY. I was in the Toxic Valley just 10 minutes ago and I saw MothMan. Some raiders were shooting him and he just sort of sat there. I threw a grenade and then woosh, he vanished like Keyser Söze.

[@KillerOrca]

On the "Americans with guns" deal; The unknown scares people. And unfortunatly, in America, if you get scared by literally anything (animals, cryptids, the governement, people with other beliefs or physical features or damn near anything at this point it feels like) you reach for your gun to ensure your "superiority". People have been trying to "bag a bigfoot" for YEARS. Also I didnt realize you guys had more monster videos. Gonna be watching some of THOSE now.

[@baynemacgregor8441]

There’s a lot of interesting details to the sightings in Chicago. Including by police. Back when I had read the book and was heavily into the music made for the movie (so around the time it came out) I woke one day to a weird message on my answering machine from 10:30 the night before, a time I was up reading and should have heard the phone. It was from my friend Steve… only it sounded weird, he got his own name wrong at first (called me him and himself me, then corrected himself), his tone was off and implied he was in some sort of trouble. I called him straight away, and he sounded earnest when denying he’d called me. His wife confirmed that he didn’t. I played them the recording and she was weirded out and he was near panicked about it. He checked with the phone company confirming his phone hadn’t called mine in two weeks. I asked if he could have called from a pay phone while sleepwalking or drunk but he’d quit drinking, never sleepwalked and was more than 5km from the nearest pay phone (he ran a store in a remote tiny community). I kept the recording for many years till sadly the answering machine battery died after then-partner unplugged it so sadly I no longer have it. I have no explanation for this, even if my friend had hoaxed the call (totally out of character, and he’d have needed his wife to be in on it which is even more out of character, and neither new about Mothman at the time) it wouldn’t explain why I hadn’t heard it as my extension was right beside my bed where I was reading till 12. So there you go. My bit of John Keel style weirdness from just a week after reading the book and binging the creepy songs from the movie.

[@oldeskul]

My favorite bit of Mothman fiction comes from the Vampire: the Masquerade-revised edition Gangrel clan book. That Mothman was a Gangrel vampire that was heavily altered, had went insane and had somehow gained the power of prophecy. The local prince had him(her?) staked and left out for the sunrise, because his actions constituted a violation of the laws of the masquerade, the had a couple of Nosferatu go out into West Virginia and Ohio position as Mothman and Owlman to sew confusion. In VtM, Gangrel is a nearly feral clan that every time they fall into a frenzy, they permanent animalistic feature, Nosferatu are a clan of vampires who are extremely ugly and monstrously deformed. Mothman isn't my favorite cryptid. My favorite cryptid is the atmospheric beasts, AKA sky jellyfish.

[@DrAiPatch]

1966 in the "south"..... It's 100% the reason you hope its not.

[@brianmarch3383]

There were sightings of Mothman outside Mawnan Old Church in Cornwall in the 70s - see the book “The Mothman and Others” by Jon Downes

[@robertoluna6606]

This Halloween I'm very thankful for Mothman.

[@mahj]

If you're interested in the actual Silver Bridge disaster, look up "Well there's your problem", who did an episode on it.

[@TheCellpool]

Honestly guys I just love your style of content, Be it 40k history, Cryptid Lore or any old random nonsense Ill be here to watch!

[@CaptainTrollbeard]

I spend far too much time listening to sceptic (and a few absurdly gullible) cryptid podcasts and seeing the topic from your perspective was like a crossover episode I never expected to happen! And you did really well, you had many important points covered in 20 minutes most other people take hours to get to... okay, perhaps because that's their whole business model. Kelly-Hopkinsville Goblins next time? That case also features owls but ALSO GOBLINS!

[@zackcook5123]

The best part of Mothman is that he has been depicted as this muscular god with abs I'd kill for. That and statues of him with said abs

[@BlizzardofKnives]

I heard a theory that the original Mothman phenomenon was the manifestation inside the minds of the towns people of some kind of tension or anxiety in the local area, and that after the bridge collapsed the attention of the locals was diverted elsewhere and thus the sightings stopped.

[@vattmann1387]

This reminds me of Greg Davies story of his Hooting Owl of death on Would I Lie to you :)

[@ProfessorOtakuD2]

Come for the digestible mothman info, stay for Snipe's smoky singing voice.

[@tra779]

With the lighting in this video I feel that if I wore those old 3D glasses it would be like you were in my room ignoring all the questions I was shouting at you

[@Bluecho4]

Imagine cryptids exist, but they're just nice folks who are bewildered at people blowing chance encounters out of proportion.

[@rodneykelly8768]

If they ever do another "True Detectives" season, your song could be the new title song.

[@jacopo1498]

Is that a guntank on the background?.....cool!

[@clarkey7760]

Love the mothman! Yes it’s most likely just owl sightings but it’s still cool folklore.

[@danesorensen1775]

The connection to Skillet is interesting. When I was just getting out of high school a friend of mine got Skillet to sign his skillet at a live show, which he was beyond stoked about ever after. And in retrospect, getting involved with the church was a major disaster for my life, so the harbinger aspect holds true. Regardless, another nice video thorougly enjoyed, so thanks.

[@ethangriffin3935]

I desire a mini of that adorable little mothman

[@JennFaeAge]

Wait...he thinks a writer summoned a ghost of a fictional character? I feel like if a person managed to do that they'd tell literally everyone about it

[@TheLyokoWarriors]

I honestly would like to see you two do more videos covering cryptids and the like. You're soothing to listen to and very informative. Also, your Mothman is very cute.

[@Merlin_262]

I love those little mothman illustrations :D

[@brianedwards7142]

Yesterday evening (that's a day AFTER Halloween) I was walking back from the supermarket when a giant feathered shadow appeared in front of me. It flapped it's wings portentously for a moment and I stopped walking. Was it Mothman? was it the giant kookaburra cryptid that haunted my childhood walks home from school? Looking in the direction the shadow was cast I initially could not see the being that cast this hideous apparition because of a dazzling bright light in my eyes. So, about five metres above me was a yellow sodium street lamp. About forty centimetres below this a wire was affixed to the stobie pole and strung across the road and a magpie had just landed there. The proximity to the lamp had blown it's shadow out to three metres across though.

[@BiodegradableYTP]

Mothman's my favourite cryptid of all time. Glad you two love him as much as I do. :^)

[@Greycatuk]

Me: Is this Mothman p*rn written by Ian Watson? Jim: Nah, it’s too well-written.

[@golgarisoul]

I'm all for expanding this channel beyond Warhammer.

[@insanebase8883]

The most wholesome mothman documentary.

[@EdFortune]

I would watch a 60's style action show featuring Mothman solving mysteries.

[@landotucker]

Initially I was resistant to watching your non 40k content, but I realised I enjoy your personalities and the editing more than subject matter. Great stuff. Sorry for not watching sooner

[@noops9220]

19:57 the bad moon spoke to me once.,,

[@TheOneTheyCallJack]

There is nothing unreasonable about how nice that statue’s arse is

[@DrKhallos]

Love this stuff! I'd love to see more stuff examining cryptids or even folk stories/movie monsters, awesome content guys :D Bonus points for Smol Mothman

[@tiobridge841]

Mothman is a very cool design if nothing else

[@crybernetics9007]

Does mothman crash into lights like a regular moth? Would be really awkward having to deal with a Mothman that bonked itself into a light and gave itself a concussion

[@WheelChair-yy1ji]

the moth cam live stream is hilarious

[@Holktube]

I wonder if the Pokemon Absol is partially based on Mothman. Not necessarily the anesthetics, but in that both appear before a disaster happens.

[@rt_goblin_hours]

Uhhh, what was that about the moon wib?

[@WarhammerGeek]

This video was great! Would love to see more about other cryptids.

[@rafen40k40]

As an American I was born with a quick hand honed by millions of hours of gunplay taught to me from my ancestors ancestors whom did battle with bears and lions, this is my nature.

[@fearandloathinginnorway7541]

Ghosts? Wack! Bigfoot? Fake! Mothman? Now thats the realest shit I've ever heard!!

[@simonphelon7221]

I really enjoyed the mothman movie back in the day, I thought it was genuinely creepy, because it was never seen

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

Quite frankly, seeing your commentary on topics other than WH40k is refreshing, and I expect to see more on this channel.

[@librarianseth5572]

That's it. I'm turning on notifications. How could I have missed this for so long?

[@ctm312]

Mothman gives me the strength to live another day of this bleak existence.

[@BurnyToast]

Ah West Virginia, home to two great cryptids. Always fond of mothy and Flatwoods monster

[@jamesbuchanan4897]

YOOOOO LOVELAND FROG! Man, never enough appreciation for the Loveland Frog.

[@jojameson5264]

I love the Mothman festival. It's just a good time!

[@kevcom2001]

I was watching the mothman statue stream at 3am mothman time and saw two people taking what I assume we're very drunken mothman selfies. Just thought everyone should know that

[@Remrem2693]

Well that took a turn I did not expect

[@jamesgraham7846]

I will never look at my Mothman plush the same way ever again.

[@obnoxiouspriest]

I AM SO HYPED. Y'All ARE GONNA LEARN ABOUT MOTHMAN!

[@kabalcrom589]

Need me a moff-mun T-shirt, his tiny feet are indeed cute as hell.

[@librarianseth5572]

Is that a sharkticon on your bookshelf? Great taste

[@oliverknox4391]

He's a character on Inside Job

[@xenowarsgames3806]

Wait wait wait, there's a livestream? And they still don't know who leaves the Beans!?

[@Gorbz]

If there is one thing I will take away from this, it is that if something exists (or is believed to have existed), there will be people out there who will want to sleep with it.

[@gwenlliandavies7348]

Monster fuckers invade all cryptid spaces. Remember to use the Harkness test.

[@KyleRayner12]

Love the cover, by the way

[@Outlawcarl]

Needs a Mouth man miniature and 40k rules lol

[@gabrielwalton4097]

Loving these sorts of videos, a nice change of pace and definitely my Sort of thing, though I love cryptids so there is some bias 😆

[@henderson2394]

Came for the 40k, staying for 40k AND more cryptid vids i hope

[@mazubahtender]

Loved the video, but a small thing about pronunciation. (I know you're not well versed in the language, it's fine if you make mistakes) In Danish, and indeed Swedish and Norwegian, the letter ä, if it is anywhere other than before the letter r is pronounced as an e. Both ä and e are read as ä when before r. EDIT: And because I am aparently blind, I read 'Swiss' as 'Danish' rendering my entire comment invalid so... yeah.

[@waddledoo2you13]

I did not need to know the mothman simos existed

[@CaptainForsyth]

They should have have kept the name "The Bird." as everyone know... The Bird is the word.

[@legateelizabeth]

A really really big M. O. T. H.

[@Benjamin-zs4kz]

Great stuff :) Thank you for the high quality uploads.

[@MalakhimJWQ1]

Also known as Caterpillar Kid when young!!!

[@jesusisherelookbusy]

2:57 Captain Hollister and Rimmer?

[@SnipeandWib]

I am glad it didn't take too long for someone to notice the image we used there haha

[@aruss1]

Also worth noting that American barn owls are bigger than their European cousins so that theory is even more credible.

[@nonya1366]

Be like mothman, show up but be unrelated to the disaster that follows.

[@Gorvar100]

Not even Mothman can withstand rule 34.

[@thegloriouswizard5270]

Why someone wanting to shoot the new new thing/creature? 'Murica.Musica. ...also, I kinda want to add Moth Man into D&D somehow now. Thank ya☆

[@Aliexster]

I know 1st ed Pathfinder has stats for the Mothman Reptoids, and a bunch of other cyrptids in the monster manuals.

[@grumpycato8314]

Nice spooky video

[@brandonweir2873]

Lovely video, and a great analysis, thank you for this.

[@Crazyalchemist23]

I just made a Guntank, so seeing it in your video I nifty.