Likewise were the encounters that some people had with alien beings. They all looked relatively the same short, oriental features, unnatural skin color, large eyes, and erratic behavior.

The simplest things, such as ballpoint pens and Jell-o seemed to confuse them. The way Keel describes them in his book, it’s as if they’re aliens in human disguise, except they don’t know how to act human. More terrifying than those sightings were that of the Men in Black. In and around Point Pleasant, sightings of UFOs occurred as regularly, if not more than Mothman. The first official sighting of the creature occurred on November 15th 1966 in Point Pleasant, WV a town as vital to the legend as IT was to Derry, Maine. It was 1966-67, though, when this creature became celebrity, and with it, one of the most consistent and incredible sightings of UFOs, MIB, and aliens of all kinds, even of the strange human variety. Some say he was seen flying over the ruins of The Twin Towers, and there are others that believe the creature has been sighted all over the world. The Mothman hasn’t been sighted often in our modern era, if you can believe the reports. This creature haunts the psyche of a collective body. Even to those who have never seen such a creature, they know those eyes, as if through telepathic means. The most stunning feature though are those glowing red eyes.

Among them lives the Mothman, a six foot tall humanoid, covered with brown hair, and with wings that span ten feet, on average. America’s folklore is populated by ghosts, hairy ape men, lake monsters, and many other legends. The term “Squatchin’,” a word that essentially means to go out into the woods and hunt for bigfoot, is part of the American lexicon of words. You can’t flip on the television without seeing a reality based program where strangers invade a home or “haunted” location, poke around, and gather evidence. I’m of the belief that American folklore is haunted folklore. While this can be dangerous, The Mothman Prophecies is just the kind of book to challenge your way of thinking as a vessel into a belief that is frightening and incredible. The third reaction is to be engrossed, to take everything at face value. It might make you laugh, though not likely. Keel’s The Mothman Prophecies – the book for which the movie, staring Richard Gere is based upon – you see the words: “a true story.” Those three words could repel you, cause you to repudiate the book’s claims. When you look at the latest cover of John A.

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