The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus

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Nostradamus quatrain 10/22 reads: “ Because they disapproved of his divorce, A man who later they considered unworthy; The People will force out the King of the islands; A Man will replace who never expected to be king .” The first major literary presentation of Nostradamus’s Prophecies, newly translated and edited by prizewinning scholars Since the book came out, virtually every single quatrain has come nearly or completely true,” claimed Mario. “I can really stand there and say, hand on heart, go and look at the early editions - nothing has changed.” My inquiries lead me to a series of books, one of which: The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts: A Riveting Investigation Into Channeling and Spirit Guides by Joe Fisher covered exactly what I was encountering. I don't need others to believe, but I can tell you truthfully that the whole episode scared the crap out of me. I had never entertained the possibility of malicious entities, hungry ghosts, demons, djinn, fairies, the phenomena, whatever you like to call it. My rational mind always stopped my inner mystic from floating too far away. Unfortunately, now I do.

I found much of what I read in The Mothman Prophecies to be frankly unbelievable – weird phone calls, odd visits, erased tapes, alien encounters that are always at one folkloric remove from one’s informant. There are, after all, rational explanations for the Mothman sightings; for instance, West Virginia is on the edge of the migration zone for the sandhill crane ( Antigone canadensis), a bird that has a seven-foot wingspan and eyes that glow red when illuminated by an artificial light source. And there is a reasonable explanation for the collapse of the Silver Bridge: a 1971 investigation by the National Bureau of Standards and other agencies of the federal government found that an eyebar in a suspension chain on the old and poorly maintained bridge had failed. I dated them, according to index dates, between two and three years out - but I think when I read them to you you’ll realise how specific they are. At the age of seventy-three she died but the memory of her unusual life and powers continued to be talked about long after she was gone. Indeed an account of Mother Shipton’s life and prophecies was published in 1641, eighty years after her death.I thought that this would be a fun read, and it was in the beginning for it was strange, scary, and downright creepy. But I never got it out of my head, after reading a friend’s review of this book, that the Mothman could have been a sandhill crane, a large bird whose eyes glowed red at night. I would be frightened of any creature whose eyes glowed red. John Keel was an avowed "UFOologist" - I'm not even sure that is spelled correctly, or a word, but that is what he claimed to be. He also absolutely believed every word that he wrote. Remember that in the 70s, as again now, distrust of the government was rampant. We trusted no one and everything that "officials" said was a lie. It turns out that we weren't that wrong - BUT, for Keel, that included everything the government told us about space exploration and life on other planets also was a lie. He traveled to West Virginia to "study" a series of strange events; this book was the result. The Mothman Prophecies may be better-known than other works of UFOlogy because it was made into a major film in 2002. Stylishly directed by Mark Pellington, the film has a strong cast – Richard Gere, Debra Messing, Laura Linney, Will Patton, and Alan Bates as a Keel-type parapsychologist – and a decided X-Files feel. Perhaps Keel, who died in 2009, got something of a feeling of vindication from seeing his work translated to the big screen; while the film tells a fictionalized story, Keel wrote that the filmmakers “have managed to squeeze the basic truths into their film” (p. 272).

The Mothman lives on, in the Ohio River region that was once his haunt. There is a Mothman Museum in downtown Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and a Mothman statue that shows a winged, human-like creature with glowing red eyes. The Mothman, as any resident of the region can tell you, began appearing to a number of people in the area around Point Pleasant in the fall of 1966. Mothman appearances, and other bizarre events, continued to occur until December of 1967, when the Silver Bridge collapsed into the Ohio River, killing 46 people; and from that time forward, the Mothman was never seen again. That strange timeline of difficult-to-explain events becomes the central focus of John Keel’s 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies.First released in 2005, the book’s publisher Watkins claims that Mario’s interpretations of the cryptic ‘quatrains’ written by Nostradmus in the 1550s correctly predicted the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in 2007 and the Credit Crunch in 2008. I read The Mothman Prophecies when it was first published - I know, scary, right? I was in high school and had just discovered Stephen King, a newish author that scared the hell out of me. It set me on a quest to read every horrifying book I could get my hands on and The Mothman Prophecies fell into that category.