The Mothman

[Karl12]

Mothman was claimed to have been spotted in 1986 before the Chernobyl incident by workers there.

Not too sure about the veracity of that one mate.

In September of 2007, researcher Loren Coleman, who was a consultant on the Mothman Prophecies movie, posted an article on the blog Cryptomundo entitled "Mothman's Fate" in which he said "There are no records of Mothman at Chernobyl or Galveston or before any earthquakes. Since Mothman encounters did not happen in those locations, such unfortunate tales are ones that both [John Keel] and I tried to remove from people’s mental 'databases' as soon as the movie and documentary noted them in 2002."[2]

In 2008, in a posted titled "Galeston Mothman?", he insisted "This is poor myth-making ... The famed big hurricanes in Galveston occurred in 1900 and 1915, long before the Houston Batman was seen in 1953. The movie also tries to link Chernobyl’s nuclear meltdown with precursor sightings of Mothman. Not true. There were no sightings. It was all made up for the movie. Time to move on from these fictionalized additions to the Mothman story that keep distracting researchers from any real investigations of the Point Pleasant phenomena, whatever that might be."[3] He repeated this yet again in April of 2011 with the post "Yes, Chernobyl’s 25th Anniversary But No Mothman Was Seen"[4]. In 2012, researcher Micah Hanks wrote an article for Mysterious Universe [5] listing the supposed Mothman Chernobyl sighting as a misconception within Mothman mythology.

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Loren Coleman and John Keel also pop up on this video and there's some really intriguing interviews with the initial eyewitnesses from Point Pleasant.

[KTemplar]

Watched the video clip, and the scene from The Mothman Prophecies show Alexandre talking about over 100 sightings in Chernobyl. Was that part made up?

[Karl12]

Watched the video clip, and the scene from The Mothman Prophecies show Alexandre talking about over 100 sightings in Chernobyl. Was that part made up?

Yes that part was Hollywood embellishment (or distraction) mate - the claim also appears in the documentary promoting the movie in the same year (see 39:20) - apparently both Loren Coleman and John Keel were pretty angry about it and spent quite a lot of time 'trying to remove it from people’s mental databases'.

Did you catch this documentary from SmallTownMonsters? Thought it was a pretty good one.

[KKLoco]

Thanks for the great thread guys!

Where is Wavelength? She is a wealth of knowledge on this topic. She moved to Point Pleasant and investigated it. You could call her the Mothman expert.

[KTemplar]

Yes that part was Hollywood embellishment (or distraction) mate - the claim also appears in the documentary promoting the movie in the same year (see 39:20) - apparently both Loren Coleman and John Keel were pretty angry about it and spent quite a lot of time 'trying to remove it from people’s mental databases'.

Did you catch this documentary from SmallTownMonsters? Thought it was a pretty good one.






[Video: https://youtu.be/BTo-jqwkOA4]

I see! I will watch the video, Thank You!

[Karl12]

Where is Wavelength? She is a wealth of knowledge on this topic. She moved to Point Pleasant and investigated it. You could call her the Mothman expert.

Hey mate was a big fan of Wavelength's threads and yes it would be very nice to get her input - do you know if she's still active?

Regarding Keel thought there were some really interesting comments made in this dossier concerning 'harassment' and when it comes to freaky MIB reports Medway's catalogue makes for some fun bedtime reading lol.

I see! I will watch the video, Thank You!

No worries mate and Steve Ward also discusses the fictional Chernobyl aspect here (from 20:00) - he also mentions how several different 'Mothman' sightings from Chicago all originated from the same IP address so looks like there are folks out there trying to 'muddy the waters'.

[Karl12]

Pretty fascinating romp through the global history of flying humanoid reports (including Mothman).





From 5:30

Ken Gerhard joins THC to discuss the tales in his book: Encounters with Flying Humanoids: Mothman, Manbirds, Gargoyles & Other Winged Beasts. We also talk Thunderbirds, The Tengu, and the airborne mystery of Leonardo da Vinci. A fun and creepy show for all those Cryptozoology fans.