EDITORIAL
OLD RED EYES IS BACK Mothman, the winged monster with burning red eyes first reported from the previously unremarkable town of Point Pleasant, WestVirginia, in 1966, has enjoyed remarkable longevity and ever-growing fame in the fortean field and, indeed, the wider world: you know you’ve become a paranormal superstar when, like great Cthulhu himself, you’re immortalised with your own plushie. We’ve explored the genesis and development of the Mothman story on a number of occasions – most notably in a special issue (see FT153:26-54) occasioned by the 2002 film adaptation of John Keel’s 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies, the fortean masterpiece that put Point Pleasant and its mysterious visitor firmly on the map. There have been numerous sightings of ‘winged weirdies’ (as our friend Loren Coleman dubbed them) around the…