In her blog this week, Ha’ri writes in “Mothman – Sighting in Galveston?” of her wonderings and ponderings. She is interested to discover if any large bird-like somethings were seen before any hurricanes hit the coastal Texas city of Galveston.

Ha’ri does some research, and rightfully comes to the conclusion there’s nothing to be easily found about a 1969 hurricane – or Mothman sightings there.

In the movie The Mothman Prophecies, news articles about the “Houston Batman” were flashed on the screen as the character “Alexander Leek” (“Keel” backwards) talked of how Mothmen were seen before disasters like “the hurricane” of 1969 in Galveston.

But this is poor mythmaking that is pure cryptofiction time-traveling. The famed big hurricanes in Galveston occurred in 1900 and 1915, long before the Houston Batman was seen in 1953.

The movie also tries to link Chernobyl’s nuclear meltdown with precursor sightings of Mothman.

Not true. There were no sightings. It was all made up for the movie.

Time to move on from these fictionalized additions to the Mothman story that keep distracting researchers from any real investigations of the Point Pleasant phenomena, whatever that might be.

As I continue building my revised look at these events in Mothman: Evil Incarnate, the murky muddle of humans seems to have overtaken any real zoological underpinnings long ago.