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Bizarre Accounts of Supernatural Harbingers of Disaster
by Brent Swancer / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/brentswancer/
February 27, 2018
It is an unfortunate fact of life that tragic disasters rear their ugly heads from time to time, taking their toll in human life and incalculable suffering. We understand and lament that this all happens, but what many of us may not be aware of is that at times such tragedies are precluded by rather strange unexplainable phenomena, inscrutable entities, and mysterious omens or portents that defy rational explanation. It is unclear what these paranormal events preceding disasters mean, but they are numerous enough to at least warrant investigation and some thought. Let us take a look at some of the spookier and inexplicable of such paranormal portents of doom.
One of the most commonly seen mysterious entities witnessed before tragedy, disaster, and strife are various shadowy winged figures that seem to appear in the days leading up to these unfortunate events. By far the most well-known of these is the infamous Mothman, of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in the United States. Starting in 1966 there was a rash of sightings of a humanoid, winged figure with glowing eyes lurking about the region, sometimes witnessed by multiple people and reputable individuals. This bizarre creature would be sighted around 100 times throughout 1966 and 1967, and gain the popular name of the Mothman, which was widely reported on in the media, although no one could have predicted what it all meant or what it was leading to.
These strange encounters seem to have culminated in a major disaster, when on December 15, 1967 the Silver Bridge, which spans the Ohio River at Point Pleasant to connect it to the city with Gallipolis, Ohio, suffered a catastrophic and fatal collapse that stole away the lives of 46 people. It would later come out that several witnesses had seen the Mothman flying about the bridge and perching upon it in the hours leading up to the terrible disaster, with one person even claiming to have photographed it as it looked upon the scene of the destruction. After the disaster the Mothman sightings rather abruptly stopped, leading many to speculate that the winged entity had been some sort of portent or harbinger of bad things to come, or indeed even responsible for causing it. These events were most notably documented in the 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies, written by John Keel, as well as cryptozoologist Loren Coleman’s 2002 book Mothman and Other Curious Encounters.
While the Mothman of Point Pleasant may be one of the earlier and most well-known of these sinister winged omens of disaster, it is certainly not the only one. On April 26, 1986, one of the worst nuclear accident the world has ever seen occurred at the at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the town of Pripyat, in the northern Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which was part of the Soviet Union (USSR) at the time. The disaster and chain of horrific events all started at the plant’s Reactor 4, where there was a safety test carried out that involved turning off all of the power. Due to a mishmash variety of maintenance and safety issues, the reactor suffered a severe explosion and subsequent raging fires, which spewed vast volumes of dangerous radioactive material into the atmosphere. In the end, the Chernobyl disaster would cause numerous deaths and astronomical economic damage, cementing it as the most disastrous nuclear plant accident in history, the effects of which continue to reverberate to this day.
It would become apparent that in the days leading up to the horrific accident, a massive, black bird-like creature had been spotted ominously circling about in the skies above the town of Pripyat. The frightening creature was supposedly even seen by startled workers at the plant itself, and those who saw it from close distances claimed that it was a sort of humanoid winged figure with glowing red eyes like fiery embers. To make it all even weirder still, those who saw it were said to be haunted by horrible, vivid nightmares and premonitions, as well as strange phone calls at all hours of the night by someone who would threaten them or simply hang up. Further deepening the mystery are the reports from first responders and rescue workers at the scene of the disaster, some of who also reportedly saw the winged entity prowling about.
These purported encounters have led to many linking what has come to be called “The Black Bird of Chernobyl” to the notorious Mothman, but some skeptics have doubted the far-out tale. Surprisingly, one who has stepped forward to debunk the tale of Chernobyl’s Black Bird is the famed cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, who has said these reports spring directly from the 2002 Mothman Prophecies film, and he has said of the tales and their movie connection thus:
Right after the movie was released, various websites posted the Chernobyl/Mothman reports as factual. But there is not one thread of evidence that any winged weirdies were witnessed before the Chernobyl accident. It is a bit of movie fiction that has, unfortunately, moved into pseudo-factoid cryptozoology.
Regardless, the Black Bird of Chernobyl is still debated and held up by some as real. Other similar winged creatures have been supposedly sighted before other tragic calamities as well. Some witnesses have claimed to have seen such winged creatures before and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York’s World Trade Center, as well as in the weeks leading up to the deadly August 1, 2007 collapse of the I-25W Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which would claim 13 lives, and also before a swine flu outbreak in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico in 2009, and others. So ubiquitous are reports of these winged humanoids seen before tragic disasters that they have become a class of strange phenomena unto themselves, and have been speculated to be some sort of beings that are either here to warn us of or actually cause these tragedies.
CONTINUE READING: mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/02/bizarre-accounts-of-supernatural-harbingers-of-disaster/
Bizarre Accounts of Supernatural Harbingers of Disaster
by Brent Swancer / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/brentswancer/
February 27, 2018
It is an unfortunate fact of life that tragic disasters rear their ugly heads from time to time, taking their toll in human life and incalculable suffering. We understand and lament that this all happens, but what many of us may not be aware of is that at times such tragedies are precluded by rather strange unexplainable phenomena, inscrutable entities, and mysterious omens or portents that defy rational explanation. It is unclear what these paranormal events preceding disasters mean, but they are numerous enough to at least warrant investigation and some thought. Let us take a look at some of the spookier and inexplicable of such paranormal portents of doom.
One of the most commonly seen mysterious entities witnessed before tragedy, disaster, and strife are various shadowy winged figures that seem to appear in the days leading up to these unfortunate events. By far the most well-known of these is the infamous Mothman, of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in the United States. Starting in 1966 there was a rash of sightings of a humanoid, winged figure with glowing eyes lurking about the region, sometimes witnessed by multiple people and reputable individuals. This bizarre creature would be sighted around 100 times throughout 1966 and 1967, and gain the popular name of the Mothman, which was widely reported on in the media, although no one could have predicted what it all meant or what it was leading to.
These strange encounters seem to have culminated in a major disaster, when on December 15, 1967 the Silver Bridge, which spans the Ohio River at Point Pleasant to connect it to the city with Gallipolis, Ohio, suffered a catastrophic and fatal collapse that stole away the lives of 46 people. It would later come out that several witnesses had seen the Mothman flying about the bridge and perching upon it in the hours leading up to the terrible disaster, with one person even claiming to have photographed it as it looked upon the scene of the destruction. After the disaster the Mothman sightings rather abruptly stopped, leading many to speculate that the winged entity had been some sort of portent or harbinger of bad things to come, or indeed even responsible for causing it. These events were most notably documented in the 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies, written by John Keel, as well as cryptozoologist Loren Coleman’s 2002 book Mothman and Other Curious Encounters.
While the Mothman of Point Pleasant may be one of the earlier and most well-known of these sinister winged omens of disaster, it is certainly not the only one. On April 26, 1986, one of the worst nuclear accident the world has ever seen occurred at the at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the town of Pripyat, in the northern Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which was part of the Soviet Union (USSR) at the time. The disaster and chain of horrific events all started at the plant’s Reactor 4, where there was a safety test carried out that involved turning off all of the power. Due to a mishmash variety of maintenance and safety issues, the reactor suffered a severe explosion and subsequent raging fires, which spewed vast volumes of dangerous radioactive material into the atmosphere. In the end, the Chernobyl disaster would cause numerous deaths and astronomical economic damage, cementing it as the most disastrous nuclear plant accident in history, the effects of which continue to reverberate to this day.
It would become apparent that in the days leading up to the horrific accident, a massive, black bird-like creature had been spotted ominously circling about in the skies above the town of Pripyat. The frightening creature was supposedly even seen by startled workers at the plant itself, and those who saw it from close distances claimed that it was a sort of humanoid winged figure with glowing red eyes like fiery embers. To make it all even weirder still, those who saw it were said to be haunted by horrible, vivid nightmares and premonitions, as well as strange phone calls at all hours of the night by someone who would threaten them or simply hang up. Further deepening the mystery are the reports from first responders and rescue workers at the scene of the disaster, some of who also reportedly saw the winged entity prowling about.
These purported encounters have led to many linking what has come to be called “The Black Bird of Chernobyl” to the notorious Mothman, but some skeptics have doubted the far-out tale. Surprisingly, one who has stepped forward to debunk the tale of Chernobyl’s Black Bird is the famed cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, who has said these reports spring directly from the 2002 Mothman Prophecies film, and he has said of the tales and their movie connection thus:
Right after the movie was released, various websites posted the Chernobyl/Mothman reports as factual. But there is not one thread of evidence that any winged weirdies were witnessed before the Chernobyl accident. It is a bit of movie fiction that has, unfortunately, moved into pseudo-factoid cryptozoology.
Regardless, the Black Bird of Chernobyl is still debated and held up by some as real. Other similar winged creatures have been supposedly sighted before other tragic calamities as well. Some witnesses have claimed to have seen such winged creatures before and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York’s World Trade Center, as well as in the weeks leading up to the deadly August 1, 2007 collapse of the I-25W Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which would claim 13 lives, and also before a swine flu outbreak in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico in 2009, and others. So ubiquitous are reports of these winged humanoids seen before tragic disasters that they have become a class of strange phenomena unto themselves, and have been speculated to be some sort of beings that are either here to warn us of or actually cause these tragedies.
CONTINUE READING: mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/02/bizarre-accounts-of-supernatural-harbingers-of-disaster/