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Bedtime Stories

The Tall Men

Bedtime Stories

Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Story One – The Legend of the Mothman In 1966, the residents of a small town in West Virginia were stalked by seven-foot-tall creature with wings and glowing red eyes. Was he real or just a figment of the imagination? And does recent photographic evidence suggest he may have returned? Story Two – Who was the Grinning Man? Alien? Humanoid cryptid? Man in Black? Hallucination? Or possibly a combination of these? This seven-foot-tall being who sports a menacing inhuman smile and terrorises people in the dead of night by watching them sleep may be known by many names, but he needs only one. Who is The Grinning Man? MUSIC Tracks used by kind permission of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Tracks used by kind permission of CO.AG

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Story 1. The Legend of the Mothman

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In 1966, the residents of a small town in West Virginia were stalked by an unknown creature with glowing red eyes.

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Was he real or just a figment of the imagination?

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And does recent photographic evidence suggest that he may have returned. So, So, Oh, We now live in an age where most people carry on their person at least one device capable of photographing or recording any given incident.

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As a result, reports given incident.

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As a result, reports of encounters with monsters and cryptids have become not only less commonplace,

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but also far less believable. Of all the alleged incidents that feature such entities, the only

1:47.6

available evidence is often the verbal testimony of those involved. And because actual proof is often lackluster or non-existent

1:56.0

it is almost routine for these experiences to be written off as

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campfire stories or urban legends. But what are we to believe when the

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incident is witnessed over a sustained period by multiple members of the same

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community? Point Pleasant multiple members of the same community.

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Point Pleasant, West Virginia, is a small town with a big history.

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Its population of just over 4,000 occupies an area of just three square miles.

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One would not think of it as a city, but in fact it is.

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A city surrounded by lush green countryside bisected by the vast Ohio River and steeped in larger than life legend.

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As its name suggests, its character is quaint, peaceful, and above all, pleasant.

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On the surface at least, no one would ever suspect that it was home to one of the most

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unsettling encounters of the last half century, one that still strikes fear into the hearts

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of many. During the latter half of the 1960s

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reports began to surface of a mysterious and horrifying creature stalking

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residents on the outskirts and surrounding areas of town.

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