Will Mothman Deaths Return?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 11th, 2006
According to a listing of TV Movies for June 11 – 17, 2006, a sinister banshee is on the horizon. The Mothman flies again:
The Mothman Prophecies ’02. Richard Gere. A reporter investigates the sightings of a strange creature and other strange phenomena in a small town. (PG-13) (2:30) TNT: Jun 17, 2006, Sat. 2 P.M., 11:15 P.M. (CC)
Who will die of the Mothman Death Curse in the coming days?
June 20th is the fourth anniversary of the date when Mothman investigator Jim Keith’s former partner Sherry Marie Yearsley’s body was dumped along eastbound I-80 at Sparks, Nevada, near the railroad tracks. The partially clad body of Yearsley, 47, was found on June 21, 2002. Passengers on a passing Amtrak train spotted the body and notified authorities. Police said Yearsley was a murder victim and her body had been left there the previous day. Her homicide remains unsolved, as far as I know.
Yearsley and author Jim Keith were partners for several years in the 1980s, and parented two daughters. They separated around 1990, and engaged in a disruptive custody battle over their girls. Yearsley lost the custody case when Judge Mills Lane (later to become famous due to his court television show), discovered Yearsley had been lying to him. Today, the children live with Jim’s sister.
Author Jim Keith, at the age of 50, died mysteriously, on September 7, 1999, during knee surgery, after falling off the stage at the annual Burning Man pagan arts festival in Nevada. Jim Keith was responsible for first writing about a CIA-Men-in-Black connection to the initial Mothman events in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. He held the notion that Point Pleasant was being used as a "test tube."
Two years ago, the mysterious death in Los Angeles on July 30, 2004, of Jennifer Barrett-Pellington, 42, wife of The Mothman Prophecies director Mark Pellington shocked Hollywood. It is one year since the surprisingly early death on July 16, 2005, of Mark Chorvinsky, 51, of Rockville, Maryland, who saw himself in later years as a Mothman-Owlman debunker as well as Bigfoot one. Chorvinsky’s "Potomac Mothman" investigations of a July 27, 1944 sighting were one of his last active research efforts.
Forty years ago, on July 18, 1966, a Mothman-like creature circled Salt Lake City. Perhaps something strange will happen out West, in Utah or Nevada, again?
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
Don’t jynx yourself, Loren! You don’t want to be added to the list.
Kinda of scary thinking their is a curse associated with the mothman.
Well, if that is true, I guess I’ll be doing the ultimate research very soon…The Grim Reaper!!
Somehow, I doubt it!
Rick
I don’t think there is a curse associated with the Mothman. If the Mothman exists, it more likely that the creature was/is telepathic and possibly gifted with advance psychic ability, and judging by everything I have read on the subject, it is quite plausible that the creature used these gifts strictly for communication (as a means to get the humans it contacted to sit up and take notice). Also, judging by KEEL’s book, it seems that the MOTHMAN was not the only EBE roaming around at the time. So, I think the WHOLE MOTHMAN ‘THING’ was a concerted effort at contact by various beings but the MOTHMAN received more attention because of the odd nature of the sightings.
BG
Oh Loren, I MISS the high strangeness stories!
Intriguing list over on your web-site. Kind of spooky, but I just have to keep telling myself, when people start looking for patterns, they are going to find them…
In the theology of the ancient Hebrews, the entity Mothman fits the description of a demonic entity called “seirem” or hairy monster with large round eyes affixed to its shoulders sans head.
Its been many years since I last read of this critter (seirem) and I do not recall the source from which I read of it. It may be that big hairy monster appearances are not of actual biological entities but instead of paranormal origin. Bigfoot, for example, is classified by Native Americans as a spirit being.
We may need to re-examine claims for, sightings of, and encounters with monsters in terms of a paradigm of reality as composed of infinite wavelengths and matter frequencies rather than biological beings.
The mothman has it roots in the thunderbird and Quetzalcoatl – so with the coming fad of 2012, there should be a ton of mothman sightings – just for the fad seekers to be happy.
I’m your man on the street in the Salt Lake City area. I’ll keep my eyes on the skies.