According to a listing of TV Movies for June 11 – 17, 2006, a sinister banshee is on the horizon. The Mothman flies again:

The Mothman Prophecies ’02. Richard Gere. A reporter investigates the sightings of a strange creature and other strange phenomena in a small town. (PG-13) (2:30) TNT: Jun 17, 2006, Sat. 2 P.M., 11:15 P.M. (CC)

Who will die of the Mothman Death Curse in the coming days?

June 20th is the fourth anniversary of the date when Mothman investigator Jim Keith’s former partner Sherry Marie Yearsley’s body was dumped along eastbound I-80 at Sparks, Nevada, near the railroad tracks. The partially clad body of Yearsley, 47, was found on June 21, 2002. Passengers on a passing Amtrak train spotted the body and notified authorities. Police said Yearsley was a murder victim and her body had been left there the previous day. Her homicide remains unsolved, as far as I know.

Yearsley and author Jim Keith were partners for several years in the 1980s, and parented two daughters. They separated around 1990, and engaged in a disruptive custody battle over their girls. Yearsley lost the custody case when Judge Mills Lane (later to become famous due to his court television show), discovered Yearsley had been lying to him. Today, the children live with Jim’s sister.

Author Jim Keith, at the age of 50, died mysteriously, on September 7, 1999, during knee surgery, after falling off the stage at the annual Burning Man pagan arts festival in Nevada. Jim Keith was responsible for first writing about a CIA-Men-in-Black connection to the initial Mothman events in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. He held the notion that Point Pleasant was being used as a "test tube."

Two years ago, the mysterious death in Los Angeles on July 30, 2004, of Jennifer Barrett-Pellington, 42, wife of The Mothman Prophecies director Mark Pellington shocked Hollywood. It is one year since the surprisingly early death on July 16, 2005, of Mark Chorvinsky, 51, of Rockville, Maryland, who saw himself in later years as a Mothman-Owlman debunker as well as Bigfoot one. Chorvinsky’s "Potomac Mothman" investigations of a July 27, 1944 sighting were one of his last active research efforts.

Forty years ago, on July 18, 1966, a Mothman-like creature circled Salt Lake City. Perhaps something strange will happen out West, in Utah or Nevada, again?