I’m glad someone is writing books!

Did Moseley and Barker know where Keel was going to be before he did? Maybe there were a limited amount of hotels in Point Pleasant in the late 1960s and they guessed right when they were going to call. Perhaps that’s why Keel is not very fond of Moseley.

The Crawfordsville Sky Monster

In September, 1891, a very unusual story came out of the small town of Crawfordsville, Indiana. At about 2 a.m. on the morning of September 5, two men hitching a wagon saw a “horrible apparition” appear in the sky. About 100 feet in the air hovered a bizarre creature–somewhat like a serpent, with no visible head. It was about 20 feet in length and had several pairs of wings. Reverend G.W. Switzer, a Methodist preacher, and his wife also saw the bizarre creature. It appeared again the following day in the evening. Hundreds of residents of Crawfordsville watched the creature as it flew about and “squirmed as if in agony”. It hovered at an altitude of about 300 feet and was heard to make a “wheezing, plaintive sound”. After this second appearance, the Crawfordsville Monster vanished, and it has not been seen since. The case has been investigated only by Charles Fort, who wrote of it in Lo!, and Vincent H. Gaddis, who recounted the story in Mysterious Fires and Lights. The biggest problem in identifying the monster, in addition to its utterly bizarre appearance, is the fact that no one is really sure whether or not it is actually a cryptid, or, as some claim, some sort of strange UFO display.

Secondly, I just had Allen Greenfield on my show, Untamed Dimensions, and we got talking about his involvement with Gray Barker, Jim Moseley and John Keel back in the golden era of UFO research. Greenfield mentioned that at one point during this period he received some strange phone calls from a mechanical sounding voice. A couple years later he was talking to Gray Barker, and Barker admitted that it was he and Moseley who concocted this hoax, using some type of gizmo they constructed, which was probably the same source as Keel’s legendary weirdo phone calls as chronicled in The Mothman Prophecies. Or so it now appears…

So, anyway, I got thinking tonight about the Mothman phone # mentioned in this blog, and went back to this entry to retrieve the number, ‘cause I got an intuition I should try calling it again. That’s when I saw your post from tonight, Greg, which is certainly synchronous. I wonder if there is anything special about Sept. 5?

So I tried the number again. It just rang and rang…

Good to see people are going through the archives here. Perhaps there is some sort of glitch in the military prison phone system, or someone is trying to create a fake phone call trail?

I just started getting those exact same phone calls on my cell phone from that exact same number… Did you ever figure out anything about it?

Yes, Loren Coleman covered it on UFOmystic’s sister site, Cryptomundo, here:

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