Here are some reasons why something could happen, in my opinion:

Reason # 1:

The (fairly new) field of socionomics has found that the stock market is a barometer of social mood. In other words, the stock market tends to go down when social mood (the mood among the public at large) is declining and to go up when social mood is improving. People are more inclined to do unpleasant, nasty things when their mood is bad than when it is good. This leads to some things that initially appear odd, but are quite understandable when you grasp this concept.

For example, the stock market has often declined significantly prior to negative human events, such as the assassination of President Kennedy and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. If you look at a plot of the Dow Jones index around the time these events occurred with no dates on the plot, you would be hard pressed to figure out when they occurred simply on the basis of looking for a reaction in the stockmarket.

People are much more pessimistic about the future right now than they were a few months ago and this is likely to affect behavior in a negative way, including an increased likelihood of terrorism, political assassinations, etc.

Reason # 2:

Some recent work related to human health, mood, etc has shown that these are affected by the presence of negative and positive ions in the air. These ions are produced by cosmic rays arriving from space, which in turn are affected by the location of the moon relative to earth (and also by solar flares). So this is a time when the moon could have a particularly strong effect on human behavior via a specific cause-and-effect mechanism (rather than some kind of magic).

Reason # 3:

Some very new, preliminary work (very low profile at the moment) suggests that we are entering a time period (measured in days) when the likelihood of earthquakes is enhanced relative to its average. I don’t know a great deal about this so I don’t want to say too much.

The earth is basically a set of islands (the different plates making up the crust) floating on an ocean (the interior, very hot rock). The islands slowly float around (causing earthquakes as they slide past or collide with each other), driven by currents deep inside the earth. As the moon orbits the earth, it produces stress via gravitation that is relieved by tidal motion. The moon, on the other hand, has no tides to relieve this stress, so the stress builds and produces moonquakes (note that the moon is not geologically active, so moonquakes are not produced by the movement of continental plates).

Speaking entirely for myself, it makes a certain amount of sense that there might be some stresses from the effect of the moon’s gravity on the earth that might not be fully relieved by ocean tides. If this is so, places where there is a lot of built up stress along continental plate boundaries that’s almost to the breaking point of the rock might be susceptible to being pushed over the edge by stronger than usual gravitational stress from the moon, causing earthquakes to occur. Perhaps volcanic eruptions could be triggered as well.

Two areas in North America that look rather ominous from being overdue for very large earthquakes are a large chunk of the San Andreas fault, which runs from northern Baja California to the Mendocino Triple Junction offshore from Cape Mendocino in northern California, and the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which runs from Cape Mendocino past Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, Canada. A big quake along either of these faults could be catastrophic.

Closing thoughts…

(I know some of you won’t agree with me on this and that’s fine. It’s not anything I want to debate; I’m just telling what I believe about this.)

There are a lot of things in this world that strike as being very strange at first. God made a very interesting world and there’s a lot of stuff that may strike us at first as being almost magical or otherwise very weird. As we learn more about the world around us, we discover that the Lord has set the world up so that it operates according to certain orderly mechanisms He created (e.g. the law of gravity, quantum mechanics). Stars, planets and the moon aren’t magical; they are just a bunch of matter floating around out there in space. If they do affect us, they do so by particular mechanisms (like gravity). God is the One who is control of everything. As part of that control, He uses different methods and mechanisms, some of which we have found, some of which we have yet to find and some of which will probably always remain a secret to us.

As for mothman, in my opinion, Keel crafted that story. He took the disparate threads and wove them intricately into a near-fictional tapestry. Again, this is only my opinion. I know there are a lot of people who want to believe in not only the Mothman, but the prophecy aspects as well. I will not deny you this. As for, however, I think there might have been something strange way back at the very beginning, but it now lies deep beneath a pile of… Anyway, I digress.

As for the Mothman, he’s probably running circles around a streetlight somewhere, being chased by a hungry Batman-oh, wait, Batman’s dead, isn’t he?