The Legend of the Black Bird of Chernobyl

Stories tell of a creature seen in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in the mid-1960s. Seven foot tall, a wingspan of ten feet and glowing red eyes, flying fast, at 100 miles an hour. Of course, I am talking about the Mothman, one of the world's most famous urban legends. The story surrounding this mythical entity seems to fall on what you believe the entity’s ultimate goals were. According to some, the collapse of the Silver Bridge the year after the disaster was foretold by the appearance of the Mothman, and it is either drawn to these disasters for its own pleasure or to warn mankind of the impending danger.
This is not the only case of such warnings being attributed to the Mothman. In 1999, reported sightings of the Mothman occurred shortly before the Russian Apartment Bombings, the same in New York in 2001. And of course, the one that we’re interested in, the sightings in Chernobyl that occurred in the weeks leading up to the April 26th, 1986 disaster at Unit Four.
This is the story of the Black Bird of Chernobyl, and the real truth behind it.

[@danielhiscock1986]

Looks like a SR-71 "Blackbird" to me...

[@Nacios007]

Funny😁

[@thedigitalbug]

The reality might be even simpler. What people may have actually seen was some wild Black Storks which in fact in their appearance can have a complete black body and red eyes. They are commonly seen in the Chernobyl region. Late April is about the time they come back to the region to mate.

[@SRW_]

Blackbird singing in the dead of night… take these broken wings and learn to fly…

[@kandahar_syndrome]

Your videos really scratch the itch I have for well-researched Chernobyl content ever since I first saw a documentary on youtube 5 years ago, which started my fascination, keep it up man!

[@Dream25_]

Glad you were able to find some concrete information about this one, this is a story I’ve never really included in my mental basket of Chernobyl information, just because it seems too fantastical and unrelated to matter. I always assumed if it wasn’t an outright fabrication by the likes of Medvedev, then it was probably a play or words or non-literal phrase that received a poor translation into English and journalists ran with it, like how in English we might say “it was a dark day in X history” or “Y pulled a shadow over the city that day”.

[@stoneostrich129]

8:25. You can hear the grin and surpressed laughter describing the hapless seagull.

[@orionbarnes1733]

So you're telling me that Mothman caused the Silver Bridge's collapse, 9-11, AND the Chernobyl explosion? Mothman lore goes DEEP

[@thing_under_the_stairs]

Thank you for this clear and concise debunking. Chernobyl is an interesting enough subject without ignorant people adding a layer of supernatural nonsense!

[@Juanxlink]

That is something a KGB agent would say...

[@thing_under_the_stairs]

@@Juanxlink Lol! I think I'm going to take that as a compliment!
I'm actually a gently aging gay Canadian punk, with no ties to government or espionage, and overlapping interests in nuclear physics and Soviet history. I don't think the KGB would have liked me much! XD

[@pagantree]

If you watch that film about Chernobyl ‘the difficult weeks’, there is short scene where camera zooms in on black bird as it flys over some workers as they are working on the sarcophagus .

[@RootVegetabIe]

It's staggering how easily people will believe something. A fucking Richard Gere movie making them beleive in a magic creature.

[@tinyjr8618]

love the vid

[@traumgeist]

You either believe in Mothman, or you're wrong.

[@DianaDeLuna]

Radiation is scary enough. Why do people have to embellish? The Mothman legend might have started in the 60s, but I never heard it until post-2000. Associating it with Chernobyl feels like a new phenomenon added by people born after the disaster.
(Edited to add: Yet I'm kind of disappointed)

[@uenko]

who really knows, there has been quite a few motorman sightings all over the world. But i wonder the credibility of these witnesses of the chernobyl mothman, guess we will never know

[@markusw7833]

Is that a good movie?

[@thing_under_the_stairs]

Not really. At least it didn't live up to my own tastes in horror movies. Richard Gere did what he could with a lukewarm script, but he didn't have a lot to work with.

[@tvdvd8661]

Mothman sounds stupid lol
At least Black bird sounds cool haha
Great video

[@cruickshankoutdoors7575]

MOTHMAN

[@InquisitorXarius]

Ukrainian Mothman basically

[@Projectdarke]

1st!

[@Rasmus2210]

Hello. This was an amazing video. I would love to see a video about the mysterious red chair that’s lying deep in the radioactive ruins within the Chernobyl nuclear power station. I’m talking about the famous and photographed red wooden chair that’s still standing to this day somewhere close to the core surrounded by debris. 🪑😃

[@letsburn00]

There is already a video about it. It's one of the "unusual objects at Chernobyl" videos.