Laurah’s traveling all month — so while we cook up some strange new offerings for you, please enjoy this episode from our archives.

West Virginia isn’t the only region to boast its very own Mothman; since the mid-20 century, Chicago and the Lake Michigan area has had reports of flying humanoids, and those sightings have only picked up since 2011. Why have sightings of the Chicago or Lake Michigan Mothman increased, and what’s behind the mysterious wings in the sky?

Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton

Researched by Bryan Worters and Laurah Norton

Produced and Script-Edited by Maura Currie

Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder

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Seth Breedlove, Dir. On the Trail of the Lake Michigan Mothman, 2020.

Tobias and Emily Wayland, “USPS Employee Reports. . .” Singular Fortean, 2020

Tobias and Emily Wayland, “Chicago Mothman Timeline. . . “ Singular Fortean, 2017.

Lon Strickler, Phantoms and Monsters, Chicago Mothman Sightings 2011-2017

Josh Terry, “People Keep Seeing. . .” Vice, 2018.

Robbie Telfer, “The Case of the. . .” WBEZ, NPR, 2019.

Ted Slowik, “Chicago’s Mothman. . .” The Chicago Tribune, 2017.

Ryan Smith, “The Mothman Cometh?” The Chicago Reader, 2017.

Josh Vince, “Wing Freak Terrorizes. . .” The Chicago Patch, 2017.

Christopher Borelli, “Fantastic Beasts. . . “ The Chicago Tribune, 2019.