Uh oh we seemed to have strayed a bit off topic. So, getting back on, is there anyone here familiar with moth man lore who can rule out this particular sighting? I'm inclined myself to attribute it to a sleep paralysis manifestation/ hallucination, but I don't know enough details to feel comfortable settling on that conclusion. I haven't had time to research the subject myself today. It's a shame the child wasn't able to look and see if the thing had the famed glowing eyes. But maybe that's a good thing. Who needs a scare like that at any age?

Autowrench, do you know of any inter dimensional beings who might fit the description we have here? Or is your knowledge of the different dimensions more along the lines that there are just multiple parallel existences similar to this one?

My main concern was of this hypothesis that these sightings are portent of doom.
Combined with my dream just 2 days before the huge quake in Japan - (I dreamnt I was in a parking lot and cars were buckling around me and I just "knew" the earth was going to be moving) - I am concerned over my son's vision. In my dream I also had a moment where I felt like Obi Won - that a great disturbance in the force would occur or that many lives would be lost in an instant. Unfortunately my dream became reality 2 days later.

One significant thing that happened to me occured in my youth (I have said things that are unexplainable have occured in my life) my mom was in a boating accident. She suffered an extreme head injury and never regained conciousness. On the 7th night of her coma I woke and went to "pray" or communicate to her that it was OK to let go. She passed from this earth during my moments of prayer (I know this as the time was seared into my mind from looking at a large digital clock which felt important - and later I would be quite alarmed to see that time on the death certificate) I felt her leave this plane across the miles that sepereated us, having confirmation was my first experience of the profound nature of the unexplained. Since this experience many years ago - I fear my "sense" as it does seem to forbear some misfortune. I do not like to "get that feeling" and I rarely know exactly what it means - so it is a "sense" more then an ability.

Now my son seems to be exhibiting this "sense" - of course it has not been comfortable for me to live with so I do not wish it upon my son. I am not at all happy about what the Mothman might mean. I tried to "feel around in it" and the response seemed to be connected with these terrible storms in the south. I want to add that it seems Mothman does not enter households and is reportedly only seen outside. My "feelings" have never involved visions - sometimes vertigo and headaches. This sighting of my son's was a new twist and based on my own experiences I brought it here. I thank all of you sincerely for your input on this matter -

I'm a little bit confused, given that my morning coffee hasn't kicked in, yet. Do you think your son's sighting was connected to the storms that already passed by, or something coming up that has not happened yet?

I feel something is "off" worldwilde, myself. A lot of people seem to. Not just on this forum, when I go out to the park with the kids or to the store I catch snippets of conversation and it's amazing how many people of all kinds and ages are remarking on things not feeling right with either the weather or the world in general. Of course the economy is in the toilet but where I live we don't really feel the full brunt of that because so many people are employed either by the federal govt or with its contractors. So there's something a bit more to the doom and gloom I'm hearing about besides the usual economic stuff. Besides, having lived through the 70's and all that horrid turmoil with the end of Viet Nam, Watergate, long lines for gasoline, etc, and leading into the Cold War fear of all out nuclear confrontation with USSR, I can tell you it is still worse now. People feel something off with the very earth itself these days, not just the workings of government.

So maybe we can rule out Moth Man specifically, but that still leaves us with some sort of manifestation that may be a portent of doom. The question is, what is the nature of this "thing"?

I did do a bit of research on Moth Man since I last posted. I still question whether such a beast exists. It is still too possible the witnesses saw an owl or a sandhill crane or that there was a lot of hoaxing involved. At any rate it was a very region-specific entity at one time. Moth Man sightings elsewhere outside of the original sighting may be due to the power of suggestion or hoax. The other possibility is that the creature does now exist, but only thanks to so many people believing in it. If that is the case and through our collective conscience we can somewhat will such a creature into existence, then that can indeed bring us back again to what your son saw. It's an interesting thing to puzzle over, for certain.

He had his vision before the storms - so my theory was more along the lines of if this was prophetic. I don't find that I buy into mothman myself. It is interesting though that how he described his vision. I hold the theory that there are certian psychological similarities in visions and events. Brain chemistry?

I did have that strange fleeing shadow experience, which is hard to discribe. It was like I saw part of something - moving rapidly through trees, except the vision occured in the open. There is something about that sinkhole behind us. I feel I see things down there at times. It could be the play of shadows from a circling hawk or other large bird as we have many of them. But it strikes a rather ancient cord in me that seems to resonate precognitively.

I have to be careful about the feeling of doom you described Sheepl - I have to withdraw from stimulation and be careful about exposures. For those of us with sensativities I think we need and extra layer of care. I used to enjoy reading Ellie Crystal's fun/informative metaphysical site - now I find her concentration of a Holographic Universe with the program coming to an end is just too much for me.

Here I go changing my own topic but I can say this. When I was deployed I was AWASH in electromagnetic fields, Radar, communications devices, jamming devices. It was a HOT ZONE. I wonder if some of this collective feeling of doom originates in being constantly bathed in this stuff now. What does all this wireless technology really do to our brains? If sound waves can change brain waves - and brain waves effect how we feel, why not electromagnetic vibration. Something to consider as we work to understand our sensativities

Clearly this is similar to something I experienced as a child as well. My imagination and intelligence was so high that I had vivid dreams and envisioned scenarios I would create.

Your son is creative, and imaginative but not supernatural.

Originally posted by Joaquin
Clearly this is similar to something I experienced as a child as well. My imagination and intelligence was so high that I had vivid dreams and envisioned scenarios I would create.

Your son is creative, and imaginative but not supernatural.

Joaquin - how have you been in adult life? Did your intellegence and imagination prove to be fruitful for you? Was this supported while you grew? Do you work or go to school in a vocation that is creative? Or have you let your gifts go and become more rational? I certainly let my gifts go for many years and functioned in a very non creative way. I hope you are still stoking the flames of your intellegence and imagination.

I cannot be sure of the supernatual . . . which to me is defined by things we just really cannot explain. There seems so much of that. Religious faith is a belief in the supernatural - yet most church goers would deny there is anything supernatural about their faith. Curious when you think about that isn't it?

Originally posted by TheBirdisDone
My son is unusual. He is early in his 7th year.
Above normal maturity level for his age. Academically average - but highly intellegent.
He claims he can see spirits and told me how he sucided as a cold, hungry solider by shoting himself because he "just couldn't take it" he demonstrated with a toy gun - told me how he used his foot to pull the trigger, this freaked me out because he was not even 4 when he told me this story. He has intense interest in the Civil War.

Yesterday during a short walk he talked about "other dimensions" as in we found a car part (the seat adjustment handle) and he was messing around with it and then suddenly threw it aside and said it was a handle into another dimension. Later on the same walk he started talking about time being in a great time circle and man would disappear from earth and dinosaurs would come back and then man would come again and have to think everything already thought all over again, and George Lucas would have to make Star Wars all over again. That seemed his greatest concern. LOL

This morning on the way to school he told me he had a visitor to his bedside 2 days ago. He described it as a person wearing statue of Liberty type robes, but said it had huge wings like a bird - I asked him if it was an angel? He said no, and that he wasn't sure because he was afraid to look at its face and could not move. Later I told a friend this because my son is frequenlty a topic of conversation and she said "Mothman - he saw Mothman!" She then said she was covered in chills.

I looked it up. What does this mean? I have had psychic sense myself which I brushed off as crazy as I grew older. I am a Veteran though and I saw things in theater - my mind has been changed since. I now don't question things but I still don't understand. I did dream of a quake 2 days before Japan. I almost threw up when I saw the headlines. My son, and his abilities make me less skeptical but I still struggle to understand - and you can't just talk about this out in the real world. So we sense.

I have a sense of dread myself lately & strange dreams myself last night - but this "sighting/dream" of my son's causes me great concern. I plan to talk to him about it more after school - all of it, the dimensions - what does he mean? The time loop. The vision. I've grown accustomed to our strange talks. I don't' try and encourage, I just ask him and try and remain as supportive as possible - because I believe there is much in this world that we don't understand.

edit on 15-4-2011 by TheBirdisDone because: clarity

Sounds like you're son is the long lost twin brother of the kid from the shining

but, in all seriousness, that sounds nothing like mothman. I have never heard him depicted as wearing 'robes' or having feathery wings, so much as leathery bat wings, or moth wings, a satanic presence. I'd seriously take your son to a therapist to get his head checked, he seems pretty screwed up IMO, being able to grasp those things without any prior knowledge of them, or find out where he learned stuff like that, because if someones putting crazy sh*t into his head, it certainly can't be healthy.