A veteran of Buddy Holly's backing band on his last tour and later the focal point of country music's outlaw movement, this '66 feature was Waylon Jennings' sole starring movie vehicle as an actor.
This date (Nov 15) seems like an appropriate place to mention everyone's favorite flying cryptid, Mothman. Mothy's most famous sighting took place Nov. 15, 1966.
1966 seemed to be the year that paranormal/fortean phenomena in general revved into high gear. Jim Brandon encapsulated the zeitgeist of the era in his book, "The Rebirth of Pan":
"The year 1966 triggered what investigator John Keel has called 'an almost overwhelming wave' of unidentified flying object and creature sightings on our continent. These included mysterious animal killings and the lurking of 'a very tall, faceless' entity around a much-bedeviled lovers' lane near Morristown, New Jersey; the fluttering about of 'big black cats with hairy wings' in Ontario, Canada . . . and a couple of dozen equally implausible incidents around the country."
The best known of these incidents were the sightings of the bizarre flying creature called Mothman, most of which took place in and around the small West Virginia town of Point Pleasant. A spectrum of other phenomena haunted the Ohio Valley during that time, ranging from brilliant lights in the night skies to animal mutilations to Men-in-Black to poltergeists. See John Keel's books "Strange Creatures from Time and Space" and "The Mothman Prophecies;" Donnie Sergent, Jr. and Jeff Wamsley's "Mothman: The Facts Behind the Legend," and Wamsley's solo effort "Mothman: Behind the Red Eyes."
If all that wasn't enough for 1966's weirdness, the infamous occultist Anton LaVey declared it the Year I, Anno Satanae I, and founded the First Church of Satan on April 30.
1966 seemed to be the year that paranormal/fortean phenomena revved into high gear. Jim Brandon encapsulated the zeitgeist of the era in his book, "The Rebirth of Pan":
"The year 1966 triggered what investigator John Keel has called 'an almost overwhelming wave' of unidentified flying object and creature sightings on our continent. These included mysterious animal killings and the lurking of 'a very tall, faceless' entity around a much-bedeviled lovers' lane near Morristown, New Jersey; the fluttering about of 'big black cats with hairy wings' in Ontario, Canada . . . and a couple of dozen equally implausible incidents around the country."
The best known of these incidents were the sightings of the bizarre flying creature called Mothman, starting around Nov. 15, 1966, most of which took place in and around the small West Virginia town of Point Pleasant. A spectrum of other phenomena haunted the Ohio Valley during that time, ranging from brilliant lights in the night skies to animal mutilations to Men-in-Black to poltergeists. See John Keel's books "Strange Creatures from Time and Space" and "The Mothman Prophecies;" Donnie Sergent, Jr. and Jeff Wamsley's "Mothman: The Facts Behind the Legend," and Wamsley's solo effort "Mothman: Behind the Red Eyes."
If all that wasn't enough 1966 weirdness, the infamous occultist Anton LaVey declared it the Year I, Anno Satanae I, and founded the First Church of Satan on April 30.
This date (Nov 15) seems like an appropriate place to mention everyone's favorite flying cryptid, Mothman. Mothy's most famous sighting took place Nov. 15, 1966.
ReplyDelete1966 seemed to be the year that paranormal/fortean phenomena in general revved into high gear. Jim Brandon encapsulated the zeitgeist of the era in his book, "The Rebirth of Pan":
"The year 1966 triggered what investigator John Keel has called 'an almost overwhelming wave' of unidentified flying object and creature sightings on our continent. These included mysterious animal killings and the lurking of 'a very tall, faceless' entity around a much-bedeviled lovers' lane near Morristown, New Jersey; the fluttering about of 'big black cats with hairy wings' in Ontario, Canada . . . and a couple of dozen equally implausible incidents around the country."
The best known of these incidents were the sightings of the bizarre flying creature called Mothman, most of which took place in and around the small West Virginia town of Point Pleasant. A spectrum of other phenomena haunted the Ohio Valley during that time, ranging from brilliant lights in the night skies to animal mutilations to Men-in-Black to poltergeists. See John Keel's books "Strange Creatures from Time and Space" and "The Mothman Prophecies;" Donnie Sergent, Jr. and Jeff Wamsley's "Mothman: The Facts Behind the Legend," and Wamsley's solo effort "Mothman: Behind the Red Eyes."
If all that wasn't enough for 1966's weirdness, the infamous occultist Anton LaVey declared it the Year I, Anno Satanae I, and founded the First Church of Satan on April 30.
1966 seemed to be the year that paranormal/fortean phenomena revved into high gear. Jim Brandon encapsulated the zeitgeist of the era in his book, "The Rebirth of Pan":
ReplyDelete"The year 1966 triggered what investigator John Keel has called 'an almost overwhelming wave' of unidentified flying object and creature sightings on our continent. These included mysterious animal killings and the lurking of 'a very tall, faceless' entity around a much-bedeviled lovers' lane near Morristown, New Jersey; the fluttering about of 'big black cats with hairy wings' in Ontario, Canada . . . and a couple of dozen equally implausible incidents around the country."
The best known of these incidents were the sightings of the bizarre flying creature called Mothman, starting around Nov. 15, 1966, most of which took place in and around the small West Virginia town of Point Pleasant. A spectrum of other phenomena haunted the Ohio Valley during that time, ranging from brilliant lights in the night skies to animal mutilations to Men-in-Black to poltergeists. See John Keel's books "Strange Creatures from Time and Space" and "The Mothman Prophecies;" Donnie Sergent, Jr. and Jeff Wamsley's "Mothman: The Facts Behind the Legend," and Wamsley's solo effort "Mothman: Behind the Red Eyes."
If all that wasn't enough 1966 weirdness, the infamous occultist Anton LaVey declared it the Year I, Anno Satanae I, and founded the First Church of Satan on April 30.