Comments on: MQ: Mothman!!

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:32:27 +0000

The eyewitnesses first described it as a “large bird.”

The media, via a newspaper copy editor naming the source of the sightings “Mothman,” and John A. Keel’s final book version being more demonological than zoological, have imprinted these cryptids with an unfortunate mantle of unbelievably. But if you go back to the original reports, they do not exist outside the realm of most avian cryptid reports.

By: lukedog

lukedog — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:55:30 +0000

Quite so MatBille, and I must say the movie is a classic.
Personally I look straight to the supernatural in this case..
Loren does not give opinion, just promotes MQ’s airing.

Night time surveillance, LOL.
I’d rather watch the exorsist.

Very often the scoftic is asked,or more usually told to ‘Get lost’ or ‘Be open minded’ however in the case of Mothman , I would on a scale of 1-10
1 being woeful, give MM a 1 as turning up as a cryptid.
And I think so would most here.

By: MattBille

MattBille — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:49:23 +0000

My apologies, Loren, I did not notice this was a History Channel summary rather than your words.

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:12:16 +0000

Looking forward to the episode. Only wish Keel was still alive to maybe participate in it. About time MQ got off the “obscure cryptid” wave and did more WELL-KNOWN cryptids.

By: MattBille

MattBille — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:10:17 +0000

Loren,
I can’t remember whether we have gone over this point before, but I can’t understand the part of your post about “ending in a tragic bridge collapse.” There is no evidence connecting reports of a bizarre winged creature to the bridge tragedy: not unless you want to classify Mothman as a supernatural entity, an idea you have already discarded in your efforts to “reclaim Mothman for cryptozoology.” Regardless of whether one thinks Mothman was a very strange but real animal or some combination of owls, cranes, and word-of-mouth contagion, I don’t see how the fact that a bridge collapsed in the same area at the same time is anything but coincidence.