Monster Mania III: Vampires On The Wing
(This is an expert from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
Beginning in the 1970’s and continuing with more frequency into the 1990’s, a rash of reports concerning inexplicable animal slayings came out of such far-flung places as Texas, Mexico, and Chile. The killings usually involved small farm stock such as fowl, rabbits, and goats. Farmers were puzzled about what kind of creature would kill by draining the blood from its victims. Eyewitnesses eventually began spotting the creature, and the legend of the Chupacabra was born. The hungry “goat-sucker” was described as a chimpanzee-sized creature with gray skin, glowing red eyes, fangs, and wings. This description would seem to suggest that witnesses might have been describing an ordinary vampire bat, except that no ordinary bat would be able to kill goats. Could the Chupacabra be some sort of giant variety of vampire bat, analogous to the hominid giants discussed previously? If so, how big might these monster bats be capable of growing? Big enough, maybe, to fly over to the Dakotas and kill a few cattle? Stranger “Things” have been reported. Case in point: the Mothman, a flying butcher who might be called the great granddaddy of all Chupacabras.
Beginning in November of 1966 and continuing for 13 months thereafter, residents of Point Pleasant, West Virginia were menaced by a flying monstrosity, nicknamed the Mothman. This seven-foot-tall humanoid with glowing red eyes and a ten foot wingspan displayed, among other odd habits, a penchant for mutilating and even eating animals such as large dogs and cattle. But wait: it gets weirder. Not content with behaving like an overgrown cross between Sasquatch and Chupacabra, Mothman has been credited with superhuman powers including flight at up to 100 mph, electronic interference, and “mind control.” Reports of other weird phenomena coincided, spatially and temporally, with 70 recorded Mothman sightings. These additional phenomena included (you guessed it) cattle mutilations, more than 100 “UFO sightings,” numerous appearances of the infamous “Men In Black,” and three “close encounters” with beings described by the contactees as “extraterrestrials.”
John Keel, author of The Mothman Prophecies (1991), prefers to call these beings “ultra terrestrials.” Keel’s theory, described in Everything Is Under Control (1998), explains that these ultra terrestrials as beings “existing on the borderland of matter and energy, or reality and dream.” Keel “regards them as mischievous, deceptive, often dangerous,” and likely to drive you insane if you try too hard to stay in contact with them. In addition to personal encounters with Mothman, Keel was haunted by “a maelstrom of electronic and mechanical accidents,” was plagued by mysterious phone calls from computer-like voices, and was contacted by “strange people” who communicated to him a series of prophecies. The major prophecies, as they appear in Everything Is Under Control (1998), were: “1. The Pope would be stabbed while visiting the Middle East. 2. Robert Kennedy was in danger, and the threat waited for him in a hotel kitchen. 3. There would be a nationwide power failure on December 24th at noon.” As it turned out, these prophecies proved to be at least partly precognitive. The Pope was indeed stabbed the following year. However, he was visiting the island of Manila in the Philippines, not the Middle East. The second major prophecy was eerily accurate, predicting correctly that an assassin would kill Robert Kennedy in a hotel kitchen in 1968. The third prophecy predicted the wrong event at the right time. At exactly 12:00 noon on December 24th, a West Virginia bridge collapsed, killing over 100 people.
Without doubt, Mothman will be more difficult for scientists to swallow than either Bigfoot or Loch Nessie. Mothman catapults our study of the paranormal far past the mundane realm of evolutionary throwbacks with a taste for raw flesh, and into such far-out subjects as precognition, ultra terrestrials, and the sinister Men In Black. Each of these oddities will be examined in its proper place as the following pages unfold. First, let’s explore the realm of prophecy in our next section on the mysterious powers of the mind.
Those that study paranormal activity accept this as phenomenon unexplained and paranormal. Even with a vampire picture, the chupacabra remains a mystery of paranormal phenomenon. Sighting a real vampire is uncommon in this society, though people have described the unexplained phenomenon of the mothman. And there has been what is known as a mothman prophesy, supposedly imparted by a vampire, some of which came true. There is something known as a vampire society, in which many believe real vampires are a part of, yet still it’s an unexplained mystery to most. Very few have a captured a picture of vampire activity.