In Popular Culture
- Ohio University English professor Jack Matthews wrote a novella, Beyond the Bridge, written as the diary of an imaginary survivor of the disaster starting a new life as a dishwasher in a tiny West Virginia town.
- In the book The Mothman Prophecies (1975), the collapse of the Silver Bridge is linked to the Mothman. This was adapted as a film by the same name, released in 2002.
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