I read the book while sick a few weeks ago and wanted to ask about it. The stuff about the actual creature didn’t grab me as much as when the Men in Black began messing with Keel toward the end. It seems like such a crazy situation and implicates so many people. Did his witnesses and colleagues deny or confirm it after it was published?
A giant, man-shaped being with moth wings couldn’t fly at all.
It would weigh too much.
Forget it.
Absolutely nothing with “Prophesies” in the title is a real thing.
I mentioned this in the OP, but I’m not that interested in the thing itself. Obviously, it can’t fly. What I’m interested in are all the people the writer names that had strange run-ins with authority figures, or the phone company employees in New York that had to investigate his line. Did any of them talk about this stuff or come out to deny it? When the book was released, was it widely perceived as hokum? Because, I mean, when something this outlandish claims to be true and also contains what should be verifiable events, you kind of have to wonder.
I read the story of Mothman a year or two before the book came out. Maybe many years before the book came out. Fairly spooky. Whole point, it was something of a legend before the book, so, the guy didn’t invent it. I don’t think.
wiki link :Mothman - Wikipedia
skeptic’ dictionary: Mothman - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com
a bunch of silly but fun claptrap: Mothman | HubPages
the movie and book were pretty fluffed. i took interest and checked into the actual police reports–there wasn’t a whole lot of paranormal anything going on. it’s officially a rather tame story…but one that was unofficially really exaggerated.
What do you mean by asking if it was real? Did the Silver Bridge collapse on December 15, 1967? Yes. Were there some reports of seeing a creature vaguely fitting the Mothman description in the year before that in that area? Yes. Were there as many reports of that as Keel claims? Who knows? Did those encounters with Men in Black that Keel reports (and the other things he claims happened to him) actually happen? Who knows? Is there any link between the bridge collapse and the sightings (however many there actually were)? Who knows?
Maybe you can do the definitive research and write a best-selling book about it, Blue Mars. All we have now is one bridge collapse, some real but vague reports of sightings, and lots of rumors of other things, most of which don’t make much scientific sense. Here’s your chance to spend the rest of your life checking out another grand conspiracy theory.
Men in Black don’t exist. The guy who invented them (upon the urging of his editor to make the book juicier) has said as much.
Which book, the Mothman book or something before that?
Prior to Johnny dying in 2003, at least one did.
Sorry, that was vague of me. Link.
Looks interesting, thanks!
Thanks guys. I especially enjoyed Wendell Wagner’s answer on this.
I also really enjoyed how that last article of dontbesojumpy ends with an ominous: “No signs of Bandit ever turned up…”
Terrifying.
I just watched the movie today, not the “documentary,” but the moviewith Richard Gere. I really liked it. At the beginning his hair was brown. After the opening tragedy, it was his usual gray.
I think there’s a lot of shit that goes on that we don’t know anything about. Apologies to those who Know Everything. Must be nice.
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This doesn’t actually contribute any new factual information with respect to the OP. Since this is an old thread, I’m going to close it. If anyone has new factual questions, they can open a new thread in GQ. If you wish to discuss the movie, you can open a thread in Cafe Society.
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