{"id":4548,"date":"2012-08-27T15:46:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T21:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4548"},"modified":"2012-08-27T09:54:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T15:54:21","slug":"mothman-high-strangeness-in-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4548","title":{"rendered":"Mothman: High Strangeness in 1967"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mothman Prophecies<\/a>, the late John Keel’s first-person account of a paranormal investigation in West Virginia, may not answer the question of exactly what <\/em>the Mothman phenomenon was, but it remains one of the best accounts of the shadowy world of paranormal investigation itself. (Skip the movie<\/a>, except for laughs.)<\/p>\n

Here, from the Fate<\/em> magazine website, is a short article that Keel wrote some years later<\/a>, discussing the the vortex of strangeness and paranoia that sucked him in back in 1967.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mothman Prophecies, the late John Keel’s first-person account of a paranormal investigation in West Virginia, may not answer the question of exactly what the Mothman phenomenon was, but it remains one of the best accounts of the shadowy world of paranormal investigation itself. (Skip the movie, except for laughs.) Here, from the Fate magazine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1bm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1173,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1173","url_meta":{"origin":4548,"position":0},"title":"John Keel Has Died","author":"Chas S. 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Clifton","date":"July 10, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Io9,com offers a reflection by Ed Grabianowski on the \"Mothman Prophecies,\" both the 1975 book by John Keel and the subsequent 2002 movie with Richard Gere, which has little in common except the title and infamous bridge collapse. Grabianowski's article is a level-headed examination of the \"flap\" of 1967, about\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"weirdness\"","block_context":{"text":"weirdness","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=weirdness"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4628,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4628","url_meta":{"origin":4548,"position":2},"title":"The Multivalent Mothman","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"September 28, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Last month I wandered off into Mothman territory, but here is more, from the editorial blog of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion. 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