STRANGER THAN SCIENCE FICTION...

On December 15, 1967, the seven-hundred-foot Silver Bridge spanning the Ohio River at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, suddenly collapsed sweeping scores of people into the water and killing thirty-eight. The incredible facts behind this tragedy form a real-life horror story. In the months before the disaster, the inhabitants of Point Pleasant had been haunted by strange monsters and apparitions. Mysterious aerial lights had travelled silently over the little town. Homes throughout the area were plagued with eerie, unearthly noises and ghostly manifestations. UFOmania gripped the previously peaceful, pastoral Ohio River Valley.

AND THEN THE MOTHMAN CAME...

Author and UFO expert John A Keel spent a year investigating these bizarre happenings and this account of the Mothman is a true tale of Gothic mystery, stranger than most science fiction...

Granada Publishing Limited. First published in Great Britain in 1976 by Panther Books
Published by E P Dutton & Co Inc 1975 under the title The Mothman Prophecies
© John A Keel 1975

A WARNING
A MESSENGER
AN OMEN

For thirteen months the entire town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia was gripped by a dark terror that culminated in a tragedy that made headlines throughout the world.

Homes throughout the little town were plagued with unearthly noises and ghostly manifestations. Winged monsters and frightening apparitions terrified the population.

The Mothman still remains an enigmatic figure, a fascinating and compelling mystery - sometimes determined to save lives, sometimes standing by to watch the death of thousands.

The story reads like a novel - but every single word is true and fully documented by John  A Keel, who spent a year in Point Pleasant where he saw and experienced many of the strange manifestations personally.

© 1975, 1991, 2002 by John A Keel
First published in 1975 by Saturday Review Press
First published in Great Britain in 1976 by Panther Books under the title Visitors From Space
The revised edition first published in Great Britain in 2002 by Hodder and Stoughton