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While nothing will ever match the David Grabias 2002 documentary Search for the Mothman, now bundled in the Deluxe DVD/The Mothman Prophecies, production companies keep cranking out ones filled with interviews with old eyewitnesses. Of course, there is no footage of Mothman, so they all are following the same path here. Black River Films has […]

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It has been determined that this was a hoax. Please disregard. The police may become involved in this unfortunate false missing person report.

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6th Annual Mothman Festival – September 15-16, 2007 Point Pleasant, West Virginia Tentative Festival Schedule of Events (Subject to Change) Admission is FREE !!!! Saturday Sept. 15th 10AM Mayor’s Welcome from Mayor Marilyn McDaniel and festival staff at the Mothman Statue. Guest speakers: Riverfront amphitheater… all special guest speakers will be answering questions and discussing […]

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The image of Mothman has changed in the last forty years. Fiction from the film has shown up as fact in popular culture. Is this Mothman’s fate? I’ve noticed that the drawings of Mothman have evolved, often negatively, from the early days of what the witnesses said they saw to the elaborate fictions we see […]

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Click image for a full size version. “The Curse Continues” © Charles Berlin 2007 Deep in the heart of the Bridgewater Triangle, the radio program “Spooky Southcoast” will take on Mothman on Saturday night, September 8, 2007. I’ll be there and on the program. The show will be Saturday night, at 10:00 pm EST (or […]

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Mokele-mbembe being killed by Pygmies; drawn by Bill Rebsamen and used with permission. Who are today’s and tomorrow’s African American cryptozoologists? When I was at the 5th Annual Texas Bigfoot Conference, held October 14-16, 2005, I found it was a good event. I discovered the gathering was attended by a wider diversity of people than […]

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This first item is a new 2007 Mothman plush toy created for this year’s Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant. How do you think it stands up against other recent toys, figurines, and items produced as Mothman collectibles? Can you identify the source and origins of each? I’m on the road during the next few days, […]

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You never know where a bridge will take you. This is the Devil’s Elbow bridge in Oklahoma, along Route 66. Photo: legendsofamerica.com Whether you have thought my attention to the Mothman links has been wonderful or weird, most folks, let’s say, have had an opinion one way or another. A few have not understood why […]

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Following up on the current report of Thunderbirds or Mothmen from the Standing Rock Indian Reservation mentioned yesterday, I wanted to share this map of the location of the sightings. The Lakota and Dakota have stylization their representations of Thunderbirds for hundreds of years. How some of these have come into white culture is as […]

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 The image of the “Thunder Being” or Thunderbird is a relatively rare one at the Jeffers site, appearing only 3 times. The multi-jointed wings in this glyph correspond to ethnographic descriptions from Dakota Indians recorded during the late nineteenth century. University of Minnesota. I’ve received word today that “Mothman” (the term used by my Native […]

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What are the lesser-known cryptids that you know about, that you are pursuing, and/or that you feel should get more attention? Nowadays, it is easy to come up with a list of popular well-known cryptids. Click on this one of the top 50 here, to see what I mean. But we all know there are […]

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George Noory, during the “Coast to Coast AM” program last night, August 10, 2007, took various calls from individuals who reported many kinds of cryptids. The C2C link is here. The link serves as a way to hear a replay of the entire program, to conduct a mp3 download, or to read a summary. Some […]

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Click image for a fuller size version. “The Curse Continues” © Charles Berlin 2007 The above original Cryptomundo exclusive cartoon* was created by Charles Berlin. It is made in the style of the “four-fold vision.” But you ought to know that What is Grand is necessarily obscure to Weak men. That which can be made […]

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Coming soon….

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Things fall down. People look up. And when it rains, it pours.Magnolia, 1999. The collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minnesota is a tragedy, some say of epic proportions. Certainly, it is the most significant bridge collapse, not caused by an easily visible external reason like an earthquake or an impact from a barge, since […]

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