Episodes
Today’s topic: Travels! … kinda?
After returning from a grueling drive through rugged Appalachia, Nylene brings a subject from her favorite stop on the trip - Point Pleasant, West Virginia. The city is home to the Tu-Endie-Wei State Park, Historical Fort Randolph... and the terrifying Mothman!
Then, Nym covers her own trip across state lines to the morbid and magical Metairie Cemetery of NoLa! Home to the corpses of so, so many interesting people, you could spend an entire day just cruising through the cemetery, seeing the graves, admiring the architecture ... which, being the spooky bitch she is, Nym did.
History is about the stories, and we’ve got some good ones today! So sit a spell, and listen in!
The Mothman by Nylene
Mural on the Mothman Museum building
Mothman Museum located in Point Pleasant, W.V.
Mothman Statue
Mothman's buns of steel....literally.
Quarter stuck in Mothman's buns
Plaque on the base of the Mothman Statue in Point Pleasant, W.V.
Models of the TNT area where Mothman was sighted.
Old abandoned TNT building.
Abandoned structures of the TNT area.
Abandoned and now graffitied bunker in the abandoned TNT area where Mothman was seen.
Abandoned structures in the TNT area where Mothman was seen.
Sign calling out the contaminants in the TNT area.
Sign in the abandoned TNT area.
Handwritten Statement of Linda Scarberry
Handwritten Statement of Rodger Scarberry & Mary Mallet.
Newspaper article with image of the group that claims to have seen the Mothman.
Mothman Costume at the Mothman Museum in Point Pleasant, W.V.
The Metairie By Nym
The original land of the Metairie as a racetrack.
Aerial view of the Metairie showing how the original shape of the racetrack was incorporated into the design of the cemetary.
Statue in Charles Howard's tomb.
Anne Rice
Anne Rice & the Rice family mausoleum.
Stan Rice's poems inscribed on the side of the Rice family mausoleum.
David Hennessy
David Hennessy's tomb.
Josie Arlington
Josie Arlington's original mausoleum sold off to the Morales family.
Josie Arlington statue said to mysteriously move around the cemetery.
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Compton, K. (2023, May 6). Visit this abandoned West Virginia munitions plant to experience history, and possibly the paranormal. 12WBOY.
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Find a grave - millions of cemetery records. (n.d.).
Holstrom, J. (2025, February 21). DREAD: The Unsolved heads to Appalachia to explain the history of the Mothman. Dread Central.
NO_MetairieRaceCourse. (n.d.).
Scott. (2024, November 19). Mothman the harbinger of Doom. Alexandria Ghosts.
The murder of New Orleans Police Chief David C. Hennessey, 1890 - HistoricalCrimeDetective.com. (n.d.-a).