...ections of book on the Strange the Unknon! HYPERLINK https.prairieghosts.commyth.html Myth Or Real Series!The Best Kept Secret in Strange Phenomena! HYPERLINK http.prairieghosts.comcornstalk.html The Cornstalk Curseas this Centuries Old Curse Responsible for the Mothman Disasters in the Ohio River ValleyLate in the evening of November 15, to young married couples had a very strange encounter as they drove past an abandoned TNT plant near Point Pleasant, est Virginia. The couples spotted to large eyes that ere attached to something that as shaped like a man, but bigger, maybe six or seven feet tall. And it had big ings folded against its back. hen the creature moved toard the plant door, the couples panicked and sped aay. Moments later, they sa the same creature on a hillside near the road. It spread its ings and rose into the air, folloing ith their car, hich by no as traveling at over 100 miles per hour. That bird kept right up ith us, said one of the group. They told Deputy Sheriff Millard Halstead that it folloed them don Highay 62 and right to the Point Pleasant city limits. And they ould not be the only ones to report the creature that night. Another group of four itnesses claimed to see the bird three different times!Another sighting had more bizarre results. At about 1030 on that same evening, Neell Partridge, a local building contractor ho lived in Salem about 90 miles from Point Pleasant, as atching television hen the screen suddenly ent dark. He stated that a eird pattern filled the screen and then he heard a loud, hining sounds from outside that raised in pitch and then ceased. It sounded like a generator inding up he later stated. Partridges dog, Bandit, began to hol out on the front porch and Neell ent out to see hat as going on.hen he alked outside, he sa Bandit facing the hay barn, about 150 yards from the house. Puzzled, Partridge turned a flashlight in that direction and spotted to red circles that looked like eyes or bicycle reflectors. They moving red orbs ere certainly not animals eyes, he believed, and the sight of them frightened him. Bandit, an experienced hunting dog and protective of his territory, shot off across the yard in pursuit of the gloing eyes. Partridge called for him to stop, but the animal paid no attention. His oner turned and ent back into the house for his gun, but then as too scared to go back outside again. He slept that night ith his gun propped up next to the bed. The next morning, he realized that Bandit had disappeared. The dog had still not shon up to days later hen Partridge read in the nespaper about the sightings in Point Pleasant that night.One statement that he read in the nespaper chilled him to the bone. Roger Scarberry, one member of the group ho spotted the strange bird at the TNT plant, said that as they entered the city limits of Point Pleasant, they sa the body of a large dog lying on the side of the road. A fe minutes later, on the ay back out of ton, the dog as gone. They even stopped to look for the body, knoing they had passed it just a fe minutes before. Neell Partridge immediately thought of Bandit, ho as never seen again.On November 16, a press conference as held in the county courthouse and the couples from the TNT plant sighting repeated their story. Deputy Halstead, ho had knon the couples all of their lives, took them very seriously. Theyve never been in any trouble, he told investigators and had no reason to doubt their stories. Many of the reporters ho ere present for the eird recounting felt the same ay. The nes of the strange sightings spread around the orld. The press dubbed the odd flying creature Mothman, after a character from the popular Batman television series of the day.The remote and abandoned TNT plant became the lair of the Mothman in the months ahead and it could not have picked a better place to hide in. The area as made up of several hundred acres of oods and large concrete domes here high explosives ere stored during orld ar II. A netork of tunnels honeycombed the area and made it possible for the creature to move about ithout being seen. In addition to the manmade labyrinth, the area as also comprised of the McClintic ildlife Station, a heavily forested animal preserve filled ith oods, artificial ponds and steep ridges and hills. Much of the property as almost inaccessible and ithout a doubt, Mothman could have hid for eeks or months and remained totally unseen. The only people ho ever andered there ere hunters and fishermen and the local teenagers, ho used the rutted dirt roads of the preserve as lovers lanes.Very fe homes could be found in the region, but one delling belonged to the Ralph Thomas family. One November 16, they spotted a funny red light in the sky that moved and hovered above the TNT plant. It asnt an airplane, Mrs. Marcella Bennett a friend of the Thomas family said, but e couldnt figure out hat it as. Mrs. Bennett drove to the Thomas house a fe minutes later and got out of the car ith her baby. Suddenly, a figure stirred near the automobile. It seemed as though it had been lying don, she later recalled. It rose up sloly from the ground. A big gray thing. Bigger than a man ith terrible gloing eyes.Mrs. Bennett as so horrified that she dropped her little girl! She quickly recovered, picked up her child and ran to the house. The family locked everyone inside but hysteria gripped them as the creature shuffled onto the porch and peered into the indos. The police ere summoned, but the Mothman had vanished by the time the authorities had arrived.Mrs. Bennett ould not recover from the incident for months and as in fact so distraught that she sought medical attention to deal ith her anxieties. She as tormented by frightening dreams and later told investigators that she believed the creature had visited her on home too. She said that she could often hear a keening sounds like a oman screaming near her isolated home on the edge of Point Pleasant.Many ould come to believe that the sightings of Mothman, as ell as UFO sightings and encounters ith men in black in the area, ere all related. For nearly a year, strange happenings continued in the area. Researchers, investigators and monster hunters descended on the area but none so famous as author John Keel, ho has ritten extensively about Mothman and other unexplained anomalies. He has ritten for many years about UFOs but dismisses the standard extraterrestrial theories of the mainstream UFO movement. For this reason, he has been a controversial figure for decades. According to Keel, man has had a long history of interaction ith the supernatural. He believes that the intervention of mysterious strangers in the lives of historic personages like Thomas Jefferson and Malcolm X provides evidence of the continuing presence of the gods of old. The manifestation of these elder gods comes in the form of UFOs and aliens, monsters, demons, angels and even ghosts. He has remained a colorful character to many and yet remains respected i...
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