The Mothman Prophecies was not the first book to inflate the Mothman legend, however. Gray Barker, perhaps most famous for popularizing the Men in Black with They Knew Too Much About Flying ...

Author John Keel delivered the book The Mothman Prophecies in 1975, one of the most revered books in the cryptozoology community, containing interviews with the residents of Point Pleasant, ...

That book was the source material for the 2002 movie starring Richard Gere. Many of the props filmmakers used for “The Mothman Prophecies” are now housed in the Mothman Museum.

While some cryptids have long dominated pop culture, Mothman has been immortalized thanks to Mark Pellington’s The Mothman Prophecies. The film, which stars an ensemble including Richard Gere ...

From then on, Mothman became a terrifying legend linked to bad luck. When the story got picked up nationally, it gained even more traction. John Keel wrote the book The Mothman Prophecies in 1975 ...

“Dozens of people have already been here,” said Donnie Sergent, a local music store owner who is marketing his own book “Mothman: The Facts Behind The Legend” for $18.95, plus a companion ...

The original plan—developed by the town in 2001, after the release of the movie version of the John Keel book The Mothman Prophecies brought national attention to what was once strictly a local ...

“The Mothman Prophecies” is a gaudy yet grim science fiction ... In the movie, directed by Mark Pellington (“Arlington Road”) and based on John Keel’s 1975 book, […] Skip to content ...

A Mothman Festival will be Sept. 21-22, ... This mystery served as the basis for paranormal investigator John Keel’s book “The Mothman Prophecies” and the 2002 film of the same name.

Out of place, but not entirely absent: the river museum sells copies of a book about Mothman. “I always said there would never be anything about Mothman in this museum,” sighed Fowler.