I first read this when I was about 13 and I re-read it about a year ago. I found that I liked it better back when I still believed in the Loch Ness monster. Back then I thought it was good and creepy but now I just think its mildly entertaining and weird. ( )

The only worthwhile thing I got from it was learning about the "cosmic clap", an ailment caused by exposure to aliens (thankfully not sexually transmitted like our Earth clap). Bonkers. ( )

I thought this book was going to be like the movie, all about the Mothman sightings in Point Pleasant, WV before the Silver Bridge collapse in the 60s. Only a very small fraction of the book was actually about the Mothman, and only about two pages at the very end were about the Silver Bridge collapse.

Instead the whole book is about John Keel's theory for most major worldwide mysteries. He basically thinks all worldwide mysteries can be attributed to one thing. Meaning, all these things we think are separate mysteries, are not really. Mothman, UFO sightings, Bigfoot, ghosts, monsters, angels, the Virgin Mary sightings, Bermuda Triangle, crop circles, etc. He attributes them all to innerspace, really, hypnotism and hallucination. It's an interesting theory. It does make sense, but I'm not sure I can completely get my mind around it. It's just a huge concept!

The book gets a 5 for not being about what I wanted it to be about. It gets a 6 for introducing an interesting new theory.

I truly couldn't wait for this book to be over. The beginning starts out ok, but there is a lot of jumping back & forth. One minute he's describing something that happened in 1967, then something in 1973, then back to 1967. It's hard to keep it all straight. Based on the description on the back of the book you think you will be reading about events that happened in a single town during a ceratin time. You do, but with a lot of extra babbling thrown in. Not at all what I expected. ( )

This is a fun book. It starts out as a semiskeptical report of UFO sightings and progresses into a paranoid breakdown. We follow the account of a guy smart enough to notice that UFO sightings bear a striking resemblance to fairy and demon stories from the past, and conclude that someone somewhere is messing with the human race. Whether you believe or not, it's certainly fun to follow. ( )