His last book published before his death is his personalized skeptical attack against pseudoscience, including swings at the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot. (I am not sure if he discusses Mothman or any Keelian ideas in that book.)

The name of the book is Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. Some have written that this volume is Sagan’s epitaph.

I make no association between any certain type of death, terminal illness, or disease, and the so-called “Mothman Death Curse.”

“Do you suppose that’s why these articles get so few comments, relatively speaking?”

People are afraid to talk about death. I never have been.

Globally, I think death can be a good measure of other mysteries and some insights on people’s deaths often have me pondering other avenues of thought.

Individually, death is a milestone. It serves as a moment to pause and appreciate the life of someone that has had an impact, one way or the other.

When deaths crosses the path of or collides with cryptozoology, I often want to remember and/or wish to celebrate the person who has influenced the science and passed away. People are too soon forgotten, unless they are a celebrity and I thinking speaking of someone at their death, no matter whom they were, honors them.

Of course, I also have a special interest in psychology and death, so for me the overlaps here are natural and not unusal ones.

For others, who more strictly define cryptozoology, they are surprised by my interest in this subject, and may find that I would even talk about this on Cryptomundo troublesome.

However, I think the tent is better if it is bigger, so as to allow all kinds of ideas inside. The more creative the possibilities, the more possible that some overlooked answers will be revealed.

No, I am not afraid of the Mothman Curse touching me. I have always gone in the direction of mysteries, not away from them. Why would I change my approach now?

I’m not sure what the basis of the “coincidences” of the deaths are. I started observing them, felt they outnumbered the relative number often associated with the so-called “Poltergeist movie curse” (which only numbers four), and decided someone should document them for Mothman. So I did. I was struck by how many presented themselves, without me having to dig too deeply at all.

Several, as you can see by looking at the list linked in the posting, are of people related to the Mothman witnesses, researchers, and filmmakers. This seems to be the case, somewhat, for the McIntosh and Pellington deaths.

Why the Flatwoods Monster image from the 1950s? If you read the news above closely, you will see that Ms. McIntosh was involved with that part of the documentary too. It is a compelling image.