Ice Cream Corner

In keeping with our fetish for our fair state's rapidly vanishing mom-n-pop ice cream stores, here's one from our Whitewashed Windows and Vacant Stores blog.

The Ice Cream Corner sits dead at 2100 W. Broadway in Russell, KY (on the outskirts of Louisville).

It's been dead as far back as whenever the Google Maps Street View images were taken.

Mothman Sighting in Russell

These two photographs have been circulating the net for several months now, and are alleged to be a Mothman sighting on a bridge connecting Russell, KY and Ironton, OH.

I'm not buying it, for several reasons; not the least of which is that I just don't believe in the "Mothman" in the first place. I'm also troubled by the fact that the two jpgs are small and of different sizes (where are the originals?). And it sure is a coincidence that the Mothman is seen clinging to a bridge on the Ohio River, just as in its original alleged 1966 sighting. The photos are claimed to have been taken in the evening near dusk, yet the second photo of the "Mothman" leaving shows a considerably lighter sky - indicating that the photos were taken in the morning as the sun is rapidly rising.

Finally, the story that the couple who took these photos claim to have seen its red eyes glowing - even from that huge distance - is just plain silly.