Mothman Flutterings

Mothman on Lulu

I found a few things on Mothman over at Lulu.com, on-line publishing site. (Where I’ll be offering some items soon, though not on Mothman.) I found this: The Mothman Legacy by Andrew Norman.

From the blurb on LuLu:

An audio diary of Andrew Norman’s experiences at the 2005 Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Includes detailed summaries of the guest speakers and a creepy hayride around the TNT area where the Mothman was seen. Roam through downtown Point Pleasant with the author as he visits the Mothman and River Museums. An eerie electronic score by Paul Bishop adds an extra dimension to the 36-minute-long narration.

Lesley, blogging queen (Debris Field, Beyond the Dial, Machine Elf, and so many more) recently received her copy of Andrew Colvin’s Mothman Photographer II. Maybe Lesley will write something as a guest blogger here about her responses to the book.

Speaking of Andrews, are we to be concerned about the synchronicty of two Andrews pontificating on Mothman?

Mothman Lives.com and The Silver Bridge

The out of print and hard to find — and expensive, once you do find it, book goes for upwards of $400.00 — The Silver Bridge by Gray Barker is a book I’d love to find at a yard sale. (Hey, those things happen, I found George Van Tassel’s book for a quarter and sold it on eBay for a very nice sum years ago.) You can see a few scans of Barker’s book on MothmanLives.com.
(There’s an image of a different cover of the book on my blog Vintage U.F.O.)

MIBS, Mothman and Mom

I’m very tired, having driven out to the coast 100 miles, and back again today to visit with mom. But i want to get some thoughts down while it’s still fresh.

So mom and I are talking, and she mentions she recently watched a program on TV about UFOs which she found “interesting.” We got to talking about the triangles, which she hadn’t heard of, so I told her what I knew, including my own triangle sighting in Oregon years ago. The conversation about the UFOs in Mexico and the triangles had mom wondering about air space; “it seems dangerous for us (or anyone) to fly in someone else’s airspace.” Then she told me for that reason, among others, she didn’t think the triangles were “ours,” but probably alien. Go, mom!

A bit later I mentioned Mothman, not sure how it came up, and she said “Who, what?!” She had never heard of Mothman! So of course I told her all about that. Which she found fascinating. And I mentioned MIBS — “Men in black?” mom asked; I said “Yep” — and she asked if they were aliens. I said I didn’t know, but that’s certainly one theory.

“What do the Men in black do?” she asks. I told her about the outdated clothing, cars, the odd behavior, etc. and something strange began to happen. The more I started to casually describe MIBS, I began to have that “they’re listening” feeling. That “they’re here….!” feeling, that I’ve had (along with others, who confirmed the presence of non-human intelligences) at times when discussing UFOs. It was very odd. And when I got to the part where I said:

And an eerie aspect of MIBS is, for example, you go outside at night with the dogs, say, and you’re looking up at the night sky, and you see a UFO. And you decide you’re not going to tell anyone about it, you keep the sighting to yourself. You haven’t told anyone, you go off to bed. The next day or soon after, a MIB or two arrive at your door, asking you about your UFO sighting.

I got the weirdest, yet familiar, sensation in my solar plexus, that same kind of feeling I’ve had before with “them” (whoever the hell “they” are) — a combination of a warning and a confirmation “they” are tuned in. Tuned in and listening with great interest.

(I didn’t mention that to mom; enough is enough after all.)

So I promised mom I’d e-mail her some Mothman links, and I’ll send her a book or two as well. Let’s hope it doesn’t scare her, although I doubt it, she’s very tough in many ways, and an avid reader. She did tell me that the only book she read that really scared her, living by herself at the time, was Stephen King’s Tommyknockers, which surprised me, because that’s the one book of King’s that really made me uncomfortable as well. Hmmm….

BlogTalk Radio: Andrew Colvin, Adam Gorightly

Here’s an interview on BlogTalk Radio with Andrew Colvin, on Adam Gorightly’s podcast. It’s from December of 2006.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Gorightly/2006/12/27/
andrew-colvinthe-mothman-photographer

Mothman Painting and Synchronicity of Matt Marshall

I came across an interesting site, with an interesting take, on Mothman. Matt Marshall, artist, offers his painting of Mothman with an explanation and description, as well as his encounters with mothy synchronicities after attending the Mothman Festival in Pt. Pleasant.

Andrew Colvin: Newsletter

This is Andrew Colvin’s newsletter; he has very kindly allowed me to repost it here:
Mothventurers:

As you may recall, “Beyond The Grassy Knoll” has risen - like a phoenix - from the ashes. Vyz has been kind enough to keep the Mothy ball rolling. Mothman interviews 28 and 29 (which run together) are now up here:
http://gstreaming.com/vb.html

These shows cover conspiratorial events in recent weeks, revealing how mass mind control works, and how the Mothman phenomenon aims to counter that process. They will be totally downloadable in one week. Speaking of which, you can download interviews 26 and 27 here:
http://www.beyondthegrassyknoll.com/audio.html

Click in the “April 13th” section for those, and in the “March 21st” section for interview 25. FYI, Moth-friend Harriet Plumbrook has an interview in the “March 30th” section where she discusses our elementary school in Mound, WV.

Another friend, Regan Lee, has started an interesting blog on Mothman, where she discusses how reading my Mothman’s Photographer II book triggered a series of Mothman dreams and synchronicities:
http://orangeorb.net/blog/

Don’t forget to check my blog occasionally, as I have begun posting again after a year layoff (to edit Mothman III). What could be more
fun than exposing shills for the guvmint’s mil-oil-tary!
http://www.andycolvin.com/wordpress/

Lastly, my article in Paranoia Magazine #47 has finally hit the stands, forcing said mil-shills to rat-a-tat on their computer keys in an attempt to spin Mothman as “evil.”
http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/

Yours in feathers,

Andy

P.S. Just for kicks, here’s a couple of photos from a local school that adjoins a Catholic church built on sacred ground. The first one is of tilework - in progress - showing a Middle Eastern birdman much like the one that appeared when we were creating the DVD cover art for The Mothman’s Photographer reality series. The second one is a statue that looks very much like the ancient Hindu statues of the Garuda carrying Vishnu (see example).

Hurricanes in the Valley of the Dolls

Another “Mothman’ dream, even though Mothman didn’t appear in this dream in any way. There was no mention of Mothman in the dream of any kind. And yet, throughout the dream there was a sense of Mothman’s presence.

On the surface, the dream sounds terrible; horrible hurricanes keep coming, destroying property, knocking out power, hurting and killing people, etc. Lots of water and flooding.

As usual with my dreams, I am often one of the “characters” sometimes switching back and forth between characters, and then I’m in the “audience” watching the dream. Last night’s dream was like this.

The dream itself: I get premonitions of a coming storm, or hurricanes. The time frame for these events is roughly anywhere from 24 hours before the storm or hurricane, to a just a few hours before. I do what I can to alleviate and protect; I board up windows, move furniture, make sure kids and pets are safe, make sure there’s food, etc.

We watch these storms, and they’re beautiful. Something about the thunder and lightening and the power of the wind; the power of the water, is fantastic. At the same time, we, at least I, know the danger that goes with it. But I’m not afraid, just very cautious and practical.

While the dangers of these storms are real, the Mothman sense is real, there’s also a feeling of almost silliness in the melodrama. I mention to someone in the dream, in the midst of a hurricane, as we’re taking cover behind furniture and boarded up windows, that “this movie” (meaning the dream) “is one of the cheesiest movies to be made.” (I remember looking at one of the people in the dream, in the room we’re all in, behind a turned over sofa up against a window. She had jet black, piled high Valley of the Dolls hair.) It’s a move that’s so bad it’s good, sort of. A real campy movie, destined to be a classic, alongside Plan 9 From Outer Space. Okay, maybe not that bad. er, good. I mean, who can resist that movie? Remember the shot of the flying, mooing cow in the movie Twister? I love that one little shot; it’s so silly and campy, such an obvious big thriller block buster ploy. There was a sense of campy Towering Inferno melodrama in the midst of the beauty and power of the storms — and their dangers — as well as the very serious, non-melodrama (meaning, don’t be trifling around) of Mothman, even though he was unseen.

(Note: I just noticed something; after I had written this, and was proofing it, I saw the connection between my mentioning Valley of the Dolls and Sharon Tate. Sharon Tate, one of the actresses in Valley of the Dolls, was, of course, murdered by Charles Manson. (Actually, she wasn’t murdered by Manson himself; but that’s another issue.) Colvin, in his book Mothman’s Photographer II, mentions Manson, and the strange and uncomfortable associations with Manson, West Virginia, close proximity to Mothman and Colvin himself, mind control, and so much more. All those threads, connections and synchronicities we know to expect in this realm.

Like the dream itself, Mothman’s presence is about even if not overtly stated.)

John A. Keel

Loren Coleman over at Cryptomundo has a post about John A. Keel, asking what others think of him.

I was surprised and disappointed at a few of the responses that dismiss Keel. Others appreciate his incredible contributions to Forteana, which includes UFOs and Bigfoot and other creatures, like the Loch Ness creature, etc. (Despite the insistence by some researchers those things have no place in the more esoteric, Fortean realm.)

Keel (like Jacques Vallee and a few others) have always done their own thinking, and brought to all of us new ideas, new ways of looking at it all. It’s such a shame that there are those who can’t appreciate these ideas, or who get impatient with them, thinking that they’re quaint or old fashioned, or have nothing to do with UFOs, Bigfoot, and so on.

Not to say I agree completely with writers like Keel, Vallee, Steiger, and so on but none of us ever agree completely with each other — that’s not the point. Showing us new and different perspectives, and often the only voice among hundreds of voices that stick to the same rigid views — that’s what Keel has always done.

Let’s not forget about writers like Keel, who goes his own way, always has, and has brought us so many intriguing possibilities concerning the esoteric.

This is important because the more one gets into this field, the more one sees the connections and synchronicities that come out of studying these topics. Some ignore them or brush them off, considering them unimportant. But the more we look at these things, the more we see unique episodes of high strangeness; how can that be ignored? Yet so many do. These things can’t be ignored, dismissed or shrugged off. We’re really missing so much if we do.

Mothman On The Brain

I wrote this a couple of weeks ago, and had planned on posting it at The Orange Orb blog.

Too lazy to read or work on writing, and too late to do anything around the house, I turned on A&E last night and caught the last 20 minutes of Paranormal State. I usually don’t watch that show; I just don’t care for it. Not much substance, although I like the psychic Chip. The episode I caught was the one on Mothman. I found the whole thing irritating, because there was no there there. They had gone to Point Pleasant, interviewed witnesses, and yet, the whole thing seemed empty. Over forty years of research by some very excellent people in the field, and they’re going to step in and discover something new? Feh. Anyway.

Off they go, in the wee hours, to the TNT area where Mothman was first seen so many years ago. Chip, the psychic (who I find credible) sent chills through me. He was affected by what he picked up, which was, he said, something he had never experienced before. It wasn’t spirit, or a ghost, it was “intelligence.” Non-human, intelligence, and when he said that, something went through me; it made sense and I “felt” that it was right. Chip went on to say — and he implied there was more than one Mothman — Mothman wasn’t responible for the Silver Bridge collapse or other misfortunes, he/it/they were trying to warn everyone about it. That goes along with what I’ve read about Mothman. I’m no Mothman expert, not by any means, but I’ve been intrigued by Mothman since almost the beginning, and try to read everything I can on Mothman.

One thing I’m pretty convinced of about Mothman is that there is some combination of both psy-op covert stuff going on, as well as paranormal, or supernatural, events. I think the former is manipulating the latter.

Currently, I’m reading Colvin’s book Mothman’s Photographer II. He talks about a lot of things; one thing he writes about are the bird like and mothman like images he comes across, and the role they play in regards to messages and synchronicities. A couple of weeks ago, after reading that, I passed by a building I pass by a few times a week, and up ahead, I see what looked like the Mothman statue in Point Pleasant! As I drove closer to the thing, I saw that it was a large sculpture of a bird with its wings outstretched. It didn’t make much sense; the sculpture didn’t seem to have anything to do with the business it was in front of.

Last night I had a dream about Mothman. He came to visit me. It was uncomfortable, almost scary, and yet, it wasn’t. He wasn’t scary, or had ill intent, but .. . there was a vague, scary feeling associated with his appearance. He had something to tell me. But, as usual with dreams, I forgot what it was. This wasn’t any earth shattering or even vivid dream, just interesting I have Mothman on the brain so much these days.