Jul 14 2008
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The Mothman’s Photographer
Just recently, I finished reading Andy Colvin’s book, The Mothman’s Photographer II. This is one of those books that is essential reading for those of you fascinated with Mothman.
Somewhat appropriately, and like the Mothman mystery itself, the book is full of all sorts of twists and turns, dark and disturbing scenarios, contains as many questions as it does answers, and definitely defies convention.
The book basically tells the very personal story of Colvin’s interest in, and obsession with, the Mothman; something that began in his childhood in the sixties when he and his friends constructed a “shrine” to the Mothman - and after which strange and bizarre things began happening to Colvin, to his family, and to those around him.
In many ways, Colvin’s book is more mind-bending than John Keel’s The Mothman Prophecies. But this is a good thing: rather than simply go over old ground, and recount the original story, Colvin describes for us how the Mothman personally affected, manipulated, and possibly guided, his own life experiences, right through to the present day.
And it’s written in an appropriately unconventional style too: via interviews, transcripts, personal comments and thoughts, and more.
For those who view Mothman as purely a crypto-zoological puzzle, you’ll find yourselves at odds with Colvin, who places the creature in a very different category.
Essentially, Colvin views the Mothman as being akin to the Garuda - the majestic bird-like entity of Buddhist and Hindu mythology. Colvin’s view is that the presence of the Mothman at the Point Pleasant, West Virginia bridge-collapse of 1967 (as described in Keel’s book) was not in any way sinister.
Rather, Colvin sees the Mothman/Garuda as being basically a benign entity, and one that surfaces from its strange realm of existence at times of peril and strife, and when things are distinctly ill with the world. Part-helper, part-guide, it’s inextricably linked with us - but generally for the better, Colvin believes.
But it’s also a creature whose presence should not be taken lightly - nor should the fact that the creature’s presence at Point Pleasant may have been tied in with a whole host of other activity, including classified government projects in the fields of mind-manipulations and psychotronics, synchronicities, the Men in Black, dark and tragic prophecies, the world of big-business, the military-industrial complex, and much more.
The Mothman’s Photographer II is a fantastically strange trip into a world without rules, where just about anything goes, and where convention is thrown out of the window. But it works - and it works very well.
If you read the book, you are likely going to come away with a new view (or, at the very least, a modified view) of Mothman, thanks to a man who had the vision and guts to follow his instinct and present his data, ideas, theories and thoughts to those willing to listen.
And, given the fact that it seems the nature of Colvin’s life was almost pre-destined from the day he first immersed himself in the world of the Mothman, perhaps he was meant to write the book. And perhaps we’re all meant to read it. If so, Colvin has done us a great service in providing a book that is unique, unusual, riveting reading, and beyond thought-provoking.
Read and prepare to have your mind blown, bent, reorganized and, if you get the message, elevated, too.
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July 14th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
I really liked this book a lot! It took me a little bit of time to get used to the style; once I did however it made sense. I think anyone interested in Mothman needs to read this book. I don’t know where I am with Colvin’s Garuda theory; it’s not that I don’t agree with it, I just … don’t know. But it’s interesting and fascinating; a lot there. A LOT there, lol. Good reading. I’m glad to know Mothman Photographer’s III will be out in the Fall.
July 15th, 2008 at 11:04 am
What intrigued me was John Keel’s comment, as shown on the back cover of the book:
“Obsessed…”
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July 15th, 2008 at 11:39 am
I was just reading his blog. Certainly “entertaining” but the stream of consciousness style gets a bit too worked over. He sees one connection and runs with it without prioritizing anything. Worst of all is the numerology-type etymology:
The name Mothman, while supposedly lifted from Batman, is actually not far off from the many other “mon” words Peter Moon details in his work. Just clip the top of the “h” off, creating an “n,” and switch the “n” with the “t” in Mothman, and you have “Montman.”
Puh-lease!
July 15th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Drew:
You found probably the most tenuous little ditty in my blog, so… Congratulations! I was aware that it was pushing it when I wrote it, but I put it in there anyway because I have a slightly twisted sense of humor, especially after a couple of beers.
I am probably going to take that reference out at some point, for the simple reason that it diverts from other more serious linkages, such as those between the name of the Egyptian goddess “Mut” and the “Moth-man.” Those are indeed something to be considered, because they speak to the point about “hoaxes” in the paranormal having symbological power. Not that the name Mothman is a hoax, necessarily, but it certainly wasn’t the most prudent choice. Calling it the “Garuda” would have been much better because a lot of confusion would have been avoided - unless the point WAS to create confusion.
For instance just today, I was adding a reference to Mothman III about how a Mothman list member writing a possibly false story about a “wire” coming down from the sky. Strangely, the death of their dear friend five years later was preceded - by just a day or two - by a very real sighting, by a documented Mothman witness, of a “wire creature” in their home. The point I tried to make in the book is that we all learn not to “cry wolf” for a reason. And that reason is that the superspectrum picks up on such things and sends them back to us in unpredictable ways… Sometimes the time lag is so great that we don’t realize what happened.
Andy