Book 159 The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel

The Mothman Prophecies
841 books to go!

Summary: 
This book is a true to life account of the Silver Bridge Collapse on December 15, 1967 in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Before the bridge collapsed the towns people saw many strange occurrences, these phenomena varied from UFOs, to the mothman, to slaughtered pets and lives stock. 

Opinion: 
This book was mostly about UFOs, it briefly covered the Point Pleasant bridge collapse at the very end of the book and in the beginning of the book. The author deems November 15,1966 to the date of the bridge collapse on December 15, 1967 as the year of Garuda. The book covers the mothman as well, he is said to have made appearances to the people of Point Pleasant to warn them of the impending disaster. I enjoyed the book for the fact that it was much more informative then the movie, although for my taste it delve much too deeply into the UFO phenomena. It was interesting to read and I am interested in supernatural phenomena but UFOs aren't a dire interest to me, I am more into psychic abilities, precognition or premonitions in particular and ghosts even though I wish I never see one because it will scare the hell out of me. The book creeped me out, there was a whole chapter on UFO occurrences near Mount Misery and brief mentions of UFO occurrences Ocean Parkway. Both places are semi close to where I live and Ocean Parkway is where I had my accident, I also had my accident in perfect UFO weather on a creepy foggy night so the book scared me, I was a little afraid to go to bed on Saturday night after reading it even though I was exhausted.

Why I chose to read this: 
I just saw the motion picture of the mothman prophecies starring Richard Gere with Shawn a couple of weeks ago. The Mothman is actually very interesting, the movie was pretty good although it was much more fictionalized, plot and story driven then the book was. The book is definitely non fiction. I picked up the book from work before I saw the movie, I had always intended to read it so I figured after viewing the movie it was time to read the text.