Vintage U.F.O.: Saucer People Trading Cards: Men in Black, #23

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Vintage U.F.O.: Saucer People Trading Cards: Men in Black, #23

"Saucer People" Trading Cards: Mothman

Many years ago I bought this deck of flying saucer trading cards, put out by Kitchen Sink Press, artist Barry Crane, 1992. Set of 36 full color cards, with illustrations of UFO researchers, abductees, famous flying saucer events, and even uber skepti-bunny Phillip Klass! Info of each case, person, etc on the back of each card.

Here's Mothy!

An American Mothman in London: Bat Beast and Owlman - Who Forted? Magazine

From Who Forted?, musings from Ken Summers on the Cornwall "Mothman" etc.:

An American Mothman in London: Bat Beast and Owlman - Who Forted? Magazine: The summer of 1976 has gone down in British history as one of the hottest on record. But it’s not just the searing temperatures that mark it as a memorable one; that year, there were many strange sightings of UFOs and other unexplained incidents which bewildered and terrified many people. But just before the heatwave got underway, an especially peculiar sight transfixed residents in the finger of land jutting out on the southwestern side of England. ~ (Who Forted?)

Mothman in the kitchen

I'm in the kitchen, trying to fix my lunch. Jim is hopping around after a moth with his bug racket zapper thing. Driving me crazy. But he's so intent on getting this moth. He gets the step stool, he stands at the ready, he watches and listens, like Zatoichi, the blind samurai:

Me: "Christ darling, calm down. You're like Batman over here 

."Jim: "I'm not Batman, I'm Mothman!"

Cracked me up.

Inside the Eerie TNT Storage Bunkers of West Virginia | Raw File | WIRED

These photographs of the TNT bunkers in West Virginia are truly eerie: Inside the Eerie TNT Storage Bunkers of West Virginia | Raw File | WIRED (thanks to The Daily Grail for link.)

Forteania: The Case of Indrid Cold

Tony Morrill at Forteania writes about the mysterious Indrid Cold, a strange figure indeed within the Mothman story:

Forteania: The Case of Indrid Cold: One of my favorites is the case of Indrid Cold. While in Point Pleasant, West Virginia digging up information on the various strange occurrences which followed in the wake of the Mothman sighting, Keel meet and interviewed a man named Woodrow Derenberger. Keel tells “Woody’s” story in his famous book, The Mothman Prophecies:

visit Forteania for rest of story. It's a great blog all around by the way. Hat tip to The Anomalist for link.

The Orange Orb: Yahoo email loop

The Orange Orb: Yahoo email loop