I have a [?] regarding the bridge that collapsed just before Christmas, and the Moth-man flap. Has the cause of the bridges falure ever been determined? I have never seen any reference to this anywhere. I am certain an investigation was conducted. Was it a structural engineering failure, or what?

Sagan was a brilliant man. He was careful never to ridicule another’s beliefs, even though he did not share those beliefs. He did say that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. He also advocated not buying any stories about spectacular happenings or creatures unless they could pass scientific scrutiny.

His last book published before his death is his personalized skeptical attack against pseudoscience, including swings at the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot. (I am not sure if he discusses Mothman or any Keelian ideas in that book.)

The name of the book is Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. Some have written that this volume is Sagan’s epitaph.

I make no association between any certain type of death, terminal illness, or disease, and the so-called “Mothman Death Curse.”

A report last week listed the cancer rate in WV as being lower than the national average. But I dare say, the rate in our river towns may be higher, although I have not looked at any statistics.

Someone mentioned water testing… Worth noting, communities on both sides of the Ohio river from Parkersburg to Mason county, WV (Pt. Pleasant) have tested positive for levels of the chemical, C8, a known carciniogen. The source being Washington, WV near Parkersburg. Some residents are advised not to drink the water, and some communities are supplied free bottled water. (C8 turned up in the bottled water as well) Mass blood testing and health monitoring has been undertaken over the past few years. No telling about the toxic stew in Pt. Pleasant, I doubt any C8 test wells were drilled at the TNT site.

Could Chief Cornstalk have given up ‘his reward’ for the chance to come back and make good on the curse, inadvertantly becoming The Mothman in the process? However, I too see a similarity in the Flatwoods monster and Mothman. And just what about Mr. Derenberger and Indrid Cold?

There may not be anything to the apparent deaths of so many who have been involved with the Mothman story, but the rabbit has an intuitive feeling that there just might be too.

Some kinds of entity are incredibly all pervasive and I tend to agree with the earlier posters. You sir would do well to seek out a native Indian shaman and just go through whatever protection or other ceremonies he might advise on. I am sure that you will be in contact with the right people already due to your work with bigfoot. The people who would be most effective would be those who come from as near as possible to the location of the original mothman events.

“There is FAR more in heaven and earth….” and having myself come into contact with many things which do not fit the usual paradigm I am open to anything which has not been definatively disproven. You should be too. Which means, treat the potential for danger seriously. This is something which appears to be forming a pattern and it is not disproven. Therefore it cannot but be an advantage to protect oneself.

Now it may even be true as some suggest that this is why people are wary of even commenting on Mothman stories. I for one would be wary oif becoming overly interested in the subject at this point I can tell you.