The Mothman and the Ongoing Prophecies: And They’re Not Good

The four rushed to the sheriff’s office and told their amazing story to Deputy Millard Halstead, who later stated, “I’ve known these kids my whole life. They had never been in trouble and they were really scared that night. I took them seriously.” And while a search of the area by Halstead did not result in an answer to the mystery, Mothman would soon return. Early on the morning of November 25, another notable encounter with the mysterious beast took place, as John Keel noted: “Thomas Ury was driving on Route 62, just north of the TNT area, when he noticed a tall, gray figure resembling a man standing.in a field by the road. “All of a sudden, he spread a pair of wings,” Ury said, “and he took off up, like a helicopter.” He veered onto my convertible and started spinning in circles three telephone poles high.’” Keel reported that Ury quickly stepped on the gas. However, Ury added: “He was still flying right over my car even though he was doing around seventy-five.” More sightings emerged in the days that followed, including that of Ruth Foster, of nearby Charleston, who saw the winged monster late at night in her garden, saying: “He was tall with big red eyes coming out of his face. My husband is six foot and this bird seemed about the same height or a little shorter maybe.” More sightings emerged in the days that followed, including that of Ruth Foster, of nearby Charleston, who saw the winged monster late at night in her garden, saying: “He was tall with big red eyes coming out of his face. My husband is six foot and this bird seemed about the same height or a little shorter maybe.” More sightings emerged in the days that followed, including that of Ruth Foster, of nearby Charleston, who saw the winged monster late at night in her garden, saying: “He was tall with big red eyes coming out of his face. My husband is six foot and this bird seemed about the same height or a little shorter maybe.”

Needless to say, the local media had a field day with the story. Stories of what was dubbed the “Bird Monster” made headlines; while both the skeptics and the police made sure that their views and opinions on the matter were widely known. Dr. Robert L. Smith, Associate Professor of Wildlife Biology in West Virginia University’s Division of Forestry, expressed his strong opinion that the Mothman was nothing more than a large sandhill crane. However, this hardly satisfied the witnesses. In response to Dr. Smith’s claim, Thomas Ury said: “I’ve seen big birds, but I’ve never seen anything like this.” As for the local police,

In the weeks and months that followed, more encounters with the strange beast were reported; however, they were overshadowed by a tragic event that occurred on December 15, 1967. It was on that day that the silver Point Pleasant Bridge (named for its aluminum paint) spanning the Ohio River connecting Point Pleasant to Gallipolis, Ohio, collapsed. in the river, tragically taking forty-six lives. Interestingly, after the disaster at Silver Bridge, the encounters with Mothman largely came to a standstill. And while a down-to-earth explanation circulated, namely that a fatal flaw in a single eye bar on a suspension chain was the main culprit, many saw, and continue to see to this day, the cause as being directly related to the sinister and brooding presence of the accursed Mothman. As for the Mothman and time travel angle, it goes like this: John Keel didn’t title his book, The Mothman Prophecies  for no random reason. Keel himself foresaw a terrible disaster engulfing the city and the result would be terrible carnage and death by the dozens. Admittedly, Keel wasn’t entirely sure what was looming on the horizon, just that something was. Forward…

In 2002, a film version of The Mothman Prophecies was made   , starring Richard Gere. Although the film was fictional, it was quite close to the reality of the sinister situation. And that included a reference to certain prophecies, hence the title of the book and the movie. The  frog chaseThe website asks if there really were prophecies in the city in the 1966/1967 era. There certainly were, as the site shows. It asks the question: “Did Connie Mills [a local] really dream that she drowned while she was surrounded by Christmas presents?” The answer: “Not exactly. A dream prophecy was reported and the event happened, however it was not the same premonition as in the movie. Mary Hyre, a newspaper reporter who often accompanied Mr. Keel on the Point Pleasant investigations, dreamed that many people were drowning in the river and that Christmas packages were floating everywhere in the water. (  The prophecies of the mothmanbook) Her film counterpart, Connie Mills (Laura Linney), describes a dream in which she herself is drowning in an ocean, surrounded by floating Christmas presents. What this shows is that before the terrible tragedy occurred at Point Pleasant’s Silver Bridge, people had glimpses, in the form of dreams and prophecies, of events and deaths that were yet to come, but would soon occur. In short, people in and around Point Pleasant were seeing future events.

Now to Mothman’s modern day prophecies: In August 2017. In the first week of the month, a trio of people, all unconnected, sent me messages and emails detailing their experiences. One of them was an alien abductee named Kenny. Kenny, a resident of San Bernardino, California, had a trauma-filled dream about a nuclear attack on the United States on the night of August 6. In the nightmare, Kenny was resting, watching television, in a house in a small town near Lubbock, Texas – a city he has not visited; at least not yet. Relaxation soon turned to outright terror. A deep and thunderous rumbling noise suddenly filled the air. He ran to the front door, only to see a huge mushroom cloud hanging in the distance, maybe five or six miles away; Maybe more. Kenny was frozen in place, unable to move as the shock of the United States having been hit by a devastating nuclear weapon engulfed him. Then, as the blast from the detonation tore across the West Texas plains, the sky darkened and a massive wall of flame, some two hundred feet high, destroyed everything in its path. The last thing Kenny remembered before waking up in a frenzy was seeing another explosion, this one right in Lubbock. The war to surpass all wars had begun. Kenny knew that civilization would soon end. As the blast from the detonation tore across the plains of West Texas, the sky darkened and a massive wall of flame, some two hundred feet high, destroyed everything in its path. The last thing Kenny remembered before waking up in a frenzy was seeing another explosion, this one right in Lubbock. The war to surpass all wars had begun. Kenny knew that civilization would soon end. As the blast from the detonation tore across the plains of West Texas, the sky darkened and a massive wall of flame, some two hundred feet high, destroyed everything in its path. The last thing Kenny remembered before waking up in a frenzy was seeing another explosion, this one right in Lubbock. The war to surpass all wars had begun. Kenny knew that civilization would soon end.

Then there was the story of Kimberly J. Her experience came to me just a couple of days after Kenny contacted me. Living in the heart of Chicago, Kimberly had heard of the increasing Mothman sightings, and as an alien abductee, she viewed the entire situation as terrifying and sinister. In her own nightmare, Kimberly watched the destruction of Chicago by a nuclear weapon, with millions of people killed in seconds and the entire city destroyed. Most intriguingly, Kimberly saw what she described as an approximately nine foot tall “bird-man” hovering over the radioactive debris and horribly injured survivors of the initial blast. She had the feeling that the bird-man was “watching our end.” It is quite possible that she has been doing just that.

On August 12 I received another Facebook message of a similar nature; this from Jacob, an American who is now a resident of Mulhouse, France. In Jacob’s dream, an emergency broadcast message appeared on his television screen, warning people to take cover: nuclear bombs were flying. And that was it: just a few, brief, seconds of chaos in the dream state. But even so, it was an undeniably nightmarish night for Jacob. It must be said, it is not entirely impossible that at least some of this is due to the rising tensions between North Korea and the United States. On August 9, 2017, the Independent The UK newspaper ran an article on the North Korea issue stating, in part, that: “While it is unclear whether North Korea can successfully attack American cities such as Denver and Chicago [my italics] with a nuclear ICBM, it is also not known whether American defense systems can shoot it down, adding to American anxieties.” In particular, Jacob soon had a dream (or a nightmare) of a nuclear war in Europe and in the United States and Russia. Anyone’s won.

There was a remarkable post on Facebook from a man named Andy, from the city of Manchester, England. At the beginning of June 2017, Andy had a dream of being in a deserted London. The city was not destroyed or set on fire. It was, Andy said, “like everyone had been evacuated,” which is an interesting phrase to use. Well, I say that the city was deserted. He was, except for two things: one was the sight of “a great huge black bird over [the Houses of] Parliament.” Then, as Andy was walking through the streets, trying to figure out what had happened, he got that feeling we all get from time to time: someone watching him. He turned to see a man in a black trench coat right behind him. The man was pale, gaunt and, as Andy put it, “he had a funny smile. Andy’s description sounds a lot like a certain sinister MIB-like character in the Mothman saga, Indrid Cold. Andy then woke up with his heart pounding, relieved that it had only been a dream. Or was it something more than a dream? Andy also woke up to the image of a small, winged humanoid hovering briefly outside his bedroom window. Andy had also been dreaming about a Mothman-type thing. And of nuclear war, too. Perhaps, we are being warned again. But I hope not. I hope these are just scary dreams. However, I think there is more. Or was it something more than a dream? Andy also woke up to the image of a small, winged humanoid hovering briefly outside his bedroom window. Andy had also been dreaming about a Mothman-type thing. And of nuclear war, too. Perhaps, we are being warned again. But I hope not. I hope these are just scary dreams. However, I think there is more. Or was it something more than a dream? Andy also woke up to the image of a small, winged humanoid hovering briefly outside his bedroom window. Andy had also been dreaming about a Mothman-type thing. And of nuclear war, too. Perhaps, we are being warned again. But I hope not. I hope these are just scary dreams. However, I think there is more.