Comments on: Galveston Mothman?

By: ninetailedfox

ninetailedfox — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:45:02 +0000

I like cryptozoology, but i hate to say this, that just looks like a rare owl.

By: Adrienne2012

Adrienne2012 — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:36:47 +0000

I think people sometimes tend to forget all the other very strange events that surrounded the Mothman sightings. There were strange people showing up at peoples houses asking bizarre questions in a monotone kind of voice, repeating the same questions and sometimes making no sense at all. They also did not ever blink their eyes at all the whole time they were in these peoples houses. Not only that but their general appearance was strange. They seem to have larger darker eyes then normal and their skin color was off. Many times they would ask people where John Keel was and also ask people when they saw the mothman and what did it look like. This to me is extremely important. Something profound is going on around us and most people are totally unaware of it and the few of us that are aware don’t have any answers as to what is going on. It is awe inspiring to say the least. The mothman was not alone during this strange event.

By: tim

tim — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:27:31 +0000

I have read the Mothman book many, many times, trying to look for patterns and I believe that perhaps a new approach would be to almost take a neural network approach! If I was to load all the events and their chronology, and primed the software with a range of possibilities, we might some surprises. One avenue I have toyed with is (I know this sounds crazy but…) that quite a few of the less impressive observations might be of more importance. For example, a night when the moon did not rise. If parallel worlds exist, and they could intersect then there might well be an almost identical landscape, but no moon. Unfamiliar constellations, same answer. A spaceship that turns into a plane, same again, and strange beings that run towards buildings and disappear: I could understand that too. So strange beings (to us) might appear in such situations and maybe in their world we are equally strange. This is only a hypothesis (isn’t all of this hypothesis?) but if I can indulge myself further, perhaps intersections are most likely in the presence of catastrophic events. Far more advanced species might be able to exploit such situations and use them to move between worlds. A pile of conjecture based on theory but at least it is rational! Now, back to my reading, I think I was on chapter 3 (again).

By: whiteriverfisherman

whiteriverfisherman — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:17:31 +0000

I totally agree with Bob Michaels, I have never bought into the Mothman thing either. I think it was a bunch of young adults pulling the wool over a poor unsuspecting public’s eye. Bigfoot research gets plenty of ridicule and there are at least some bits of good evidence that the big guy (or gal) exists. But Mothman? Nothing. A couple of night time sightings and that’s about it. The descriptions of the so called creature are not even consistent. Sorry, I just ain’t buying it.

By: eireman

eireman — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:48:07 +0000

The impetus for this hurricane harbinger element to the mythos, which I assume to be a product of the film’s fictional elements (?), could be the “Grey Man” of South Carolina legend. He is an apparition whose presence is said to foretell a pending hurricane. He has been “witnessed” prior to many hurricanes over the past century.

By: Yahdah

Yahdah — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:35:36 +0000

Ha’ri seems to be wrong if he doesn’t find or remember the Hurricane that hit Galveston in 1969. It caused much destruction along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. I know, I was there then. Didn’t see any mothmen though.

By: Artist

Artist — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:36:25 +0000

Absolutely correct, Loren, and I missed the reference entirely. Some other reviewer wrote the comment - my apologies to Ms. Johanson for my oversight.

I’ll wait for your revised book to determine your actual view.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:40:49 +0000

Obviously, to blame someone for posting a news story that was created by someone else (i.e. Wireless Flash news, an organization known for its sensational “morning radio news” wording) is killing the messenger again.

“MaryAnn Johanson’s choice” is an incorrect statement.

By: Artist

Artist — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:27:45 +0000

“Loren Coleman is a cryptozoologist and author who says the Mothman — a mythical monster who CAUSES disastrous events like terrible traffic accidents — is BEHIND some current carnage…”~ Cosimo Blog

While the apparent links between Mothman’s appearances and the Point Pleasant bridge collapse (plus the 1967 Timing and Hiway 35 Number coincidences) do carry a lot of weight, I question Cosimo’s MaryAnn Johanson’s choice of CAUSES and BEHIND as accurate and justifiable indicators.

My impression is that the flying freak’s activities were more likely precursors of the impending events, perhaps triggered by some precognitive sensitivity to emotional angst from the victims, their survivors and the shocked townsfolk, exacerbated by the Christmas Season and - what? The steel in the bridge, weakened by age and temperature flexing, creaking imperceptibly? The flowing river-water, generating some unrecognized electrical (or other) current, known to and utilized only by dowsers?

Or by some oncoming multidimensional surge in the Force, its power forcing open doorways between levels of Time and Place?

But I see no cause & effect there… nor is there any evidence for the winged wonder’s complicity in the mysterious phone calls and other cryptic events that accompanied the West Virginia tragedy.

What other words could more succinctly describe Mothman’s relationship to the “carnage”? Harbinger? Observer? Messenger? Voyeur? What do you think?

By: Bob Michaels

Bob Michaels — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:43:02 +0000

I have never bought into the Mothman story, it’s more Zooforma than Cryptid.