Mothman Flutterings

I Can’t Believe I Forgot

I can’t believe I completely forgot about the following Mothman connection when I started this blog.

A few years ago, I was moderator of several Yahoo groups. This was before blogging took off. I was either moderator of, or co-moderator of, various Yahoo groups, almost all of them having to do with UFOs, the paranormal, etc. Some of these groups are still going, even though I’ve pretty much forgotten all about them. I rarely check in with them or post. (I’ve set up some automatic postings via my blogs; whenever I post on my blog (s) it goes to the Yahoo group.) I have no idea what’s going on with those groups; some of them have other moderators, but there doesn’t seem to be much discussin going on. The exception is FPA or Fortean Phenomena Again, which was created by “Patouchlie Troll” (she’s NOT a troll in that sense of the word) or “PT” as she’s known. That one is still going pretty well, and I, along with several others, co-moderate although I haven’t been over there either in a long time.

Well, a few years ago, I received an e-mail from someone who had started a Mothman group on Yahoo. The group was small and nothing was happening. He wanted to turn it over to someone who would keep it going, and he thought of me.

What was interesting was that I didn’t know this person. I didn’t recognize his name from any of the groups. Yet he emailed me for some reason.

His group — I wish to hell I could remember! — was called something like The Dark Side of Mothman. I don’t think that was it exactly, but the gist of it was, a dark take on it all, including the psy ops mind control aspect. The approach was on the clinical/technical side; electronics and spy machines and frequencies and things. . .(In fact, I just checked and saw that the category the group is in is in the technical category! Guess I never noticed that before.)

I didn’t know anything about Mothman at the time, except from reading Keel’s books, but I was interested. So I said “sure” and took it over. I joked at the time that “Somehow I feel as if I’m an experiment in some one’s mind control game” and the whole thing struck me as odd. I renamed the group to MIBS and Mothman.

The group is still up there on Yahoo, but very little is happening. Just automatic posts from myself and the co-moderator “cryptid hunter.”

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

Dream Fragment: Warning About a Warning

For some, like author Andrew Colvin, (Mothman’s Photographer, etc.) much of his Mothman encounters seem to happen with art and images. For myself, it seems to be dreams. Not that I’m a mothman expert or witness, etc.

It’s not surprising that dreams would be a way Mothman messages/meetings/encounters would happen; I’ve always had a vivid and active dream life, considering dreams to be important and helpful.

I haven’t been thinking or reading anything about Mothman the past few days; but last night I had a dream where a group of us at work were looking through a book about Mothman. All the people there (except for myself) were unfamiliar with Mothman. Some may have heard about, or seen the movie, but that was about it as far as being “Mothman literate.”

We’re all finding this book interesting, and we come across a passage about a soon to happen disaster in our area. Something weather related. And everyone took the warning very seriously. We had no reason to doubt the warning.

We were all very concerned, but not worried. I should change that to scared — we weren’t scared. The warning came with the message that there was the potential to avert this disaster; and/or, that if it did happen, it would still be okay. I know that doesn’t make sense but dreams have their own logic.

Walking away from the book, and having just read about something bad to happen in our area, oddly enough didn’t make us feel scared, though we were lost in our thoughts and very concerned. In fact, we were grateful for the warning about the warning. . .

And this is strange: even though there was a “warning about the warning” and some kind of chance to at least try to stop it, or lessen the disaster, we seemed to be almost in a trance; choosing not to bother and preferring to let it happen. It wasn’t merely a case of apathy however. It was a choice. (Again, with the dream logic!)

This is similar to another dream I had about weather and Mothman. Even in the midst of disasters and chaos, there’s some kind of calm.

“Drawn To The Light”

My husband “George” suggested a title for a Mothman blog: “drawn to the light.” Now he tells me!

Although, that assumes that Mothman is an entity of light, and not ominous, as many believe.

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.

Secrets

I found this poem that I wrote about twenty years ago. I’m not sure why I chose a moth to represent the sadness I had concerning a relative going through depression at the time, but here it is:

secrets

the hairy moth
of musty secrets
is kept feebly alive
by the cold breath of its owner

pulled out late at night
from its dark and airless tunnel
its Amazonian wings thump dully,
large black eyes faceless and heavy
in the bone-white hand
of its keeper

While the poem doesn’t have anything to do with Mothman, and I certainly wasn’t thinking of Mothman when I wrote it, I notice there is a sense of coldness and loneliness that I associate with Mothman, and some parallels, like the “dark airless tunnel.”

Bubbles and Moths

I like this image; just as an image, but also for its connection to Mothman. Of course, Mothman has nothing to do with moths; the name Mothman was given to the entity by a reporter, so the story goes. A winged being; “moth.” The term was applied in a cavielier manner, inspired (supposedly) by pop culture.

Yet there are some similarites between Mothman and moths. Creatures of the night, coming forward to the light, misunderstood. The death’s head hawk moth is an omen of death, illness and wars in folklore. Spanish folklore says that black moths are signs of bad news, even death. A Wikipedia entry tells us that:

The species names atropos, styx and lachesis are all death-related. The first refers to the member of the Moirae who cuts the threads of life of all beings in Greek mythology; the second to the river of the dead, also in Greek mythology; and the last refers to the Moira who allots the correct amount of life to a being. In addition the genus name Acherontia is derived from Acheron, a river in Greece that was believed in Greek Mythology to be a branch of the river Styx.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death’s-head_Hawkmoth

All this sounds gloomy, if we look at the picture. I didn’t mean to go there or to imply that the children in the picture are being led to something sinister by moths. I just liked the image, and the fact there’s a bubble as well. But Mothman is misunderstood at times, as something evil. As the cause of bad things, rather than something that warns, possibly protects, even, in its warnings.
UFOs, orbs, ectoplasam, all have been seen in Mothman terrority, as well as csynchronicities. The bubble has been a symbol of spirits, positive energy, visitors from the other world. Moth like themselves in a way, or at least bug like, flitting about. Orbs are often seen around Bigfoot and other entities, as well as by themselves. Remember the Good Witch from Wizard of Oz? She appeared in a bubble that came floating down from above. Or beyond.

The children on the bubble in the image aren’t human children, they’re fairy children, being led (helped?) by the moths or butterflies.

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.