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

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!

“Obsessed…”

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