A lot of young people who live outside of the area, only know about the Silver Bridge collapse because of ‘Mothman’ and John Keel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Bridge
There was a great tv show on a few years back called “mountain monsters” that had one episode dedicated to recent mothman sightings.
They chase a lot of critters in that Appalachian area including big foots, wolfman, wampus cats, fire lizards.
Dangerous at night in that country