Mysteries Of Mothman

By Rob Shelsky

Mysteries of Mothman is a concise compendium of all the currently known facts about the Mothman. This book tries to answer such questions as:
-- How did the Whole Mothman Mystery Begin?
--What is the True Origin of Mothman?
--Just What is the Mothman?
--What is the Mothman Curse?
--Is the Mothman Dangerous?
--What is the Connection to Mothman and Demons?
--Can the Mothman Really Predict the Future?
--Is the Mothman an Alien or Something of the Supernatural?
--Who is Indrid Cold? What does He have to do With Mothman?
--What are the Connections to Demons and the Mothman?
Mysteries of Mothman is a concise compendium of all the facts now known about the Mothman. The author brings all the information together and interprets the most likely conclusions that can be drawn from all the available data. He attempts to provide the answers we all seek regarding the Mothman.

In the Mysteries of Mothman by Rob Shelsky, you'll find a brief overview of the origin of Mothman, the main sightings, and the ramifications of them. The author also shows evidence that not only does the Mothman have a long history on Earth, but it seems to be a very dark one, involving demons, no less.

Furthermore, the author goes to great lengths to show the Mothman is a worldwide phenomenon by citing cases. The author discusses the Mothman's connection to disasters, its possible ability to foretell them. What's more, the author even discusses the possible true nature of Mothman, just what it really is. Want to know the answers? Read the book, The Mysteries of Mothman by Rob Shelsky

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rob Shelsky
• Release date: Oct 14, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301741700

Rob Shelsky

Rob Shelsky is an avid and eclectic writer, and averages about 4,000 words a day. He has several novels to his credit and two anthologies, with two romances out now, a Regency romance, Verity, along with the sequel, Faith, and soon to come, a time-travel romance.Rob has written science fiction articles for such magazines as The Internet Review of Science Fiction, numerous articles for AlienSkin Magazine, Neometropolis, Midnight Street (UK), Doorways, and other publications. Rob has had short stories published with Jim Baen’s Universe, Aberrant Dreams, AlienSkin, Gateway SF, Fifth Dimension, Continuum SF, Sonar4, Uncial Press, Planetary Stories, Pulp Spirit Magazine, Sex & Murder, and many more. He has a novella coming out in early 2010 with Aberrant Dreams Magazine’s first hardcover edition anthology, The Awakening. Rob’s novella, Avenger Of The People, will appear there alongside the works of such sci-fi greats as Alastair Reynolds, Ian Watson, Jana Oliver, Robert Madle, and just so many others. There is even an introduction by Jack McDevitt.Rob has a short story, Green Waters, now out with Sonar4’s Phase Shift anthology, and a paranormal story, Light On The Moor, coming out with Smashwords and Amazon.com.Now, Rob Shelsky is not only a writer, but a contributing editor for Currate.com travel articles, as well as being a reviewer for Novelspot. He is also a resident science fiction columnist for AlienSkin Magazine.Although widely traveled and continuing to travel, Rob now lives in North Carolina. He enjoys contemplating ideas for new stories while watching the sunsets over the mountains and sipping a glass of red wine, preferably a decent Merlot.Oh and check out this site for my Smashword books:Ebookswelove.com

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MYSTERIES

OF

MOTHMAN

BY

Rob

Shelsky

Mysteries of Mothman

PUBLISHED BY:

GKRS PUBLICATIONS

Copyright ©2013 by Rob Shelsky

Smashwords Edition

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* * * * *

DEDICATED

IN MEMORIAM

TO

GEORGE A. KEMPLAND

Author, Friend, And So Very Much More

1929 — 2013

Wherever You Are Now, George,

May You Always Be Happy, At Peace, And Enjoy Yourself.

Wherever You Are, I Hope I May Get To See you Again… Some when.

Contents

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1—The Origins of Mothman

CHAPTER 2—More Sightings Occur

CHAPTER 3—Disaster Strikes

CHAPTER 4—What’s Known About Mothman

CHAPTER 5—Is Mothman Connected To The UFO Phenomenon?

CHAPTER 6—The Nightmare Of Mothman: Behavior And description

CHAPTER 7—The Mothman and Curses

CHAPTER 8—Ancient Mothman?

CHAPTER 9—Mothman Worldwide

CHAPTER 10—Recent Sightings Of Mothman

CHAPTER 11—Elimination Of Possible Explanations For Mothman

CHAPTER 12—Mothman Prophecies

CHAPTER 13—The Paranormal

CONCLUSION

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION

"Thing of Darkness

Thing of Evil"

--Paraphrased from Edgar Allan Poe

Creatures of the night? Monstrous things of darkness, and beings of pure evil, do they suddenly leap out of black shadows at you? Or are these just myths, old stories told to children? Do we just correctly lump all such things into the category of scary stories, tales just to be enjoyed around a campfire to give us all a good thrill?

Not always, we think. Sometimes, it just may be that monsters really do lurk out there in the darkness, hide in the night, waiting to pounce on us. Moreover, they may be truly evil. Or worse, maybe they just don’t care one way or the other if we exist or not.

Perhaps, it’s rather like a human stepping on an anthill. No malice might be involved, but the results for the ants are still terrible. So yes, things that go bump in the night aren’t always just in our imagination. Sometimes, they really are there.

This may just be the case with the mysterious and enigmatic Mothman. This monster has been with us for just about half a century now. Not only does the macabre legend of the Mothman seem to refuse to die, but if anything, it continues to grow. Of late, it has been spreading rapidly. Starting in the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, it didn’t end there.

Sightings of the Mothman have increased until they are now seen around the world and in the most diverse places. They are even in regions that one would logically think had never even heard of the Point Pleasant Mothman, because they are that isolated, that remote in some instances.

But just what is the Mothman? Does it really exist? Does it, as some say, come as a harbinger of doom? Can the creature really prophesize such dread things as are proposed in the book and the subsequent movie, The Mothman Prophecies? Or is it just trying to warn us of coming disasters to help us?

Some claim the creature is connected to the UFO phenomenon. Others declare the thing is of paranormal origin, supernatural, or perhaps even interdimensional. Still others claim it is of this Earth, but a type of being we rarely encounter, for it only exists half in and half out of the world as we know it.

Alternatively, is this all just a form of mass hysteria? Many argue that it is. They say that periodically, relatively isolated people, such as those in West Virginia, will have these sorts of rumors ignite and gain credence, and finally be regarded as something real, although they are false.

Others insist it is real, especially those witnesses, who not only claim to have seen the creature, but saw it close up and over a prolonged period. They maintain the thing exists.

There are those who claim it may be real, but it is just a mistaken creature, something else that is rarely seen, but quite normal. They say the Mothman may be nothing more than, say, a large barn owl.

As we can readily see, there is no shortage of explanations and variations of them for the Mothman phenomenon. There are numerous ones. They seem to come in all sorts of variations. Everyone, it seems, has an opinion.

So exactly where does the truth lie? Well, we will be honest here. At first, we thought the Mothman mystery was just the product of fevered imaginations. We argued that people, who because they were going through extremely tough times economically, had responded by becoming emotionally overwrought. Because of that state, they were seeing things that just weren’t there. Or perhaps because of that same emotional state and the circumstances under which they saw the sightings, they simply misinterpreted what they were seeing.

Then others, as sometimes happens with such events, started seeing and misinterpreting what they saw, as well, now that they were conditioned, predisposed to seeing such things, too. This sort of thing does happen. It has happened throughout history.

However, despite what we originally believed, and so as skeptics dismissed the whole subject out of hand, the Mothman issue kept raising its ugly head, literally. You see, the creature is considered quite horrendous, even nightmarish in appearance. Being investigators, we became gradually more curious and started to delve into the subject. This book is the result.

In this book, we have contrived to bring you a succinct overview of the Mothman in its totality. We have endeavored to supply you with all the pertinent facts, supporting evidence, accounts of eyewitnesses, and provide whatever other evidence we could find.

We also attempt to solve certain aspects of the Mothman phenomenon, provide answers. To do this, we investigated the whole subject to the best of our abilities, as in depth as possible.

The results of that investigation surprised even us. In this book, Mysteries of Mothman, we wish to relate to you