GHOST HUNTERS

Lon Strickler, one of my favorite researchers from Phantoms and Monsters site (and books), is looking for more witnesses to add to the archive of recent sightings of a Mothman-like creature in the Chicago area. If you have seen the Mothman in Chicago recently, he wants to hear from you! Subject : Flying anomalies over Chicago - 4 sightings in last 10 days http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2017/04/new-mothman-like-encounter-in-chicago.html http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2017/04/chicago-owlman-mothman-seen-again-by.html http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2017/04/breaking-3rd-chicago-owlman-sighting.html http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2017/04/interview-1st-chicago-owlman-eyewitness.html http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2017/04/4th-sighting-in-chicago-giant-bat-over.html You can contact Lon through this email lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com

I trekked to Point Pleasant in 2013, fully expecting to be following the path of the legendary Mothman, but I ran into something I was not expecting.... As my co-researcher/co-author and me were crossing the bridge into Point Pleasant, I had my camera going as I steered and she was filming too.  At the same moment crossing the bridge, both our cameras' batteries went dead. Now, mind you, the were new batteries and new charge. When we got to the end of the bridge, we pulled over in a parking lot and checked our cameras and they booted back up again. This had not occurred anywhere else on the 10-day trip, and it happened at the same exact second! That had me wondering about other possibilities. Could Point Pleasant have those odd portal-type qualities where a lot of seemingly unrelated paranormal things were occurring in this most charming and lovely town? Let's line up the high strangeness - Mothman above- a beautiful piece of art by Thomas Finley portraying me showing the crypt...

"The nocturnal butterfly. In ancient cultures, the moth represents a form of the psyche, or the soul immortally trapped in the hellish death realms". Mothman. Well, that's what the Ukrainians called him. Rough translation of course. There were a hundred sightings in Chernobyl when the nuclear pump went down. Galveston, nineteen sixty-nine, just before the hurricane. They saw it. But seeing isn't always believing. (Alexander Leek - "The Mothman Prophecies" movie) The Mothman Festival 2016 in Point Pleasant, WV is coming in mid September (17 and 18). Here is the official website . Also give the Facebook page a like.  Julie Ferguson and I went to Point Pleasant in 2013. It was one of my most favorite "bizarre" location trips ever!  As we drove over the bridge, both our cameras went dead at the same moment. I looked at the metal structure and water below and wondered about some kind of Faraday Effect (interaction between light and a magnetic field)...