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The Mothman Prophecies

Keel's year embedded in Point Pleasant, West Virginia (1966-67) documenting a winged, red-eyed entity, Men in Black visitors, and a cascade of high-strangeness events that he links to the collapse of the Silver Bridge in December 1967. Keel argued the phenomenon manipulates human perception rather than behaving like a physical craft.

Author
John A. Keel
Published
1975
Library rank
#26

Why it matters

Cemented the 'ultraterrestrial' interpretation of anomalous phenomena and the modern folklore of the Men in Black.