The Body of Mothman

A quick little video documenting my quest to find Mothman during the summer of 2020...

Special thanks to Jeff and the kind staff at the Mothman Museum in Point Pleasant!

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Background music licensed from Epidemic Sound

[renatocpribeiro]

"Mothman is dead. His body is housed at the farm museum" is such a powerful line

[TREYtheExplainer]

Lmk if you want more short travel log videos like this.
I have another one where I visited a little green guy in Washington state named Jake.

[mercaius]

A cryptid so famous, he's got his own stunt double. Amazing!

[sloppyjoe]

9 minutes of Trey looking for a barn owl.

[AchyParts]

"Mothman is dead, and we killed him"
-Nietzche (paraphrased)

[the.aardvark]

I love how the silhouette of Sid Morgan's owl looks like a winged humanoid figure standing on two legs... Just like Mothman

[nyanchio]

4:13 the absolute disbelief in saying "Mothman's body is GONE?" is amazing

[Erratic_Pulse_]

3:43 a true journalist, prevailing over fear to find the truth

[Goober]

A 9 minute Trey video? This must be 2015.

[rockerdax]

This is interesting, because I went to the Mothman Museum last year for the festival but didn't recall seeing any owl.

After calling the museum today, I confirmed that the owl is posted on top of the drink refrigerator in the gift shop! Not inside the actual exhibits of the museum. Strange but true.

[Truthisscarierthanfiction]

6:44 Stories of cryptids being put on display are actually fairly common, the problem is the stories are also very old and the specimens have of course since disappeared. I recall the long necked seal, Washington's eagle, Dodu, Nandi bear, lau, orange breasted penguin, waitoreke, Jersey gator and giant orangutan were all allegedly sent to museums or exhibited at one point or another

[ScanovatheCarnotaurus]

I was not mentally prepared for the twists and turns in this story.

I expected a nice summary of a trip to Point Pleasant, and while I did get that, I also got “Mothman is dead he was shot and killed in the dead of night in 1966 here’s his corpse.”

[sneezeqlz]

This is kind of heartwarming in a way thats difficult to describe. Its a rare instance where the hysteria surrounding a cryptid was completely grassroots and not solely fueled by drummed up fear or popular media at the time. Snowy owls are such distinct looking birds and Mothman might have been the first sighting of one that most West Virginian's would've heard about at the time. Considering that teenagers had the initial encounter in the middle of the night, who could've honestly expected them NOT to misidentify it? Finally getting to see the animal that revitalized an entire small town's tourism industry genuinely puts a smile on my face. I would definitely love to hear more of these stories!

[UnorthodoxIndividual]

These short little videos about weird shit you found while traveling are honestly really nice. I'd definitely be open to having more of them inbetween the bigger videos

[codysingleton]

It is nice that museums are not afraid to break the legend a bit by revealing that the mythical creatures may have been misidentified, but that also adds more credence to the hysteria of the time. I love cryptids so much.

[christiandevey]

The old Mothman is dead. Long live the new Mothman

[TitaniusAnglesmith]

Mothman statue is absolutely caked up. I am commenting this before I watched so if it's brought up, then hell yeah.

It wasn’t brought up, now I just seem weird.

[b_de_silva]

Trey, your positivity and personality helped me a lot through rough times, stay awesome ❤

[POSTELVIS]

I actually once called into my college radio station once pretending to be the Mothman. ahh memories

[s_e_r.]

MOTHMAN isnt DEAD he lives INSIDE ME, not only in a ROMANTIC way but also HIGHLY HOMOEROTICALLY