Local and Urban Legends for your D20 Modern Campaign...

[The_Universe]

All (theoretically) true stories! Post away, me boyos!

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=61629

 

[teitan]

Heh, read Mothman Prophecies, I grew up there, interviewed several of the original people and even have an archive of about 40 more stories that were never told to John Keel. I researched it for a book and a possible comic books series that I was developing the mid 90s but got dropped when the publisher went belly up. I lost a lot of my reference photos but since my mother still lives there I can get them again without issue.

Jason

 

[The_Universe]

Mothman Prophecies

How accurate is the movie, compared to what *really* happened?

You've done the interviews, and now I'm curious....

 

[HeapThaumaturgist]

Huh, wow.

I was just working up a Mothman Prophecies/Call of Cthuhlu game. I just moved to Ohio and had found the stories pretty creepy and the movie sort of eerie in places (I loved the sound work for Indrid Cold and the voices in the line).

Pretty amazing that you've done research and lived right in the area. I'm looking for information on the subject right this minute and was going to post asking for data.

Mothman just seems to fit the Cthulhu "feel" so well, and it's a departure from the "Yawn, look, another byakhee and some cultists."


--fje

 

[Bran Blackbyrd]

I just moved to Ohio

Welcome to the Buckeye State.

 

[HeapThaumaturgist]

Thanks.

Moved to Oxford, getting my masters at Miami.

It's ... different. I went to Auburn University in Al. for my undergrad, and the town HAD things ... a big theater, two Wal-Mart supercenters, a (s)mall, a HASTINGS.

God I miss Hastings.

So adjusting to a town with ONE grocery store and a single (old) Wal-Mart is taking some doing. If I want to do anything I have to drive a half hour away to Cincinatti.

We do have Jungle Jim's here, though. That's a -nice- place to get groceries. Fun place to just go buck wild and nutty ... stuff from everywhere around the world. We spent five minutes picking out exactly what -brand- of sushi nori we wanted to buy.

(by "here" I mean "this state" ... Jungle Jim's is a half-hour away too. Oi frickin' vey.)

--fje

 

[teitan]

Ok, here is an idea, how about I post my stories in seperate threads as I don't have the time to just sit and right them all out for everyone and actually don't have my old notes and materials here, they are back in Gallipolis at my mother's place but I recall about 90% of everything with an excellent accuracy.

As to the movie... well, it was somewhat faithful. Keel didn't befriend the family whose door he knocked on. Actually the rumour that the devil had visited Point Pleasant W.Va. that night spread because JKhad longsih hair, a goatee and alway wore a black suit and tie. The people of Point Pleasant have always been a bit superstitious. Also, the hospital looks like the old Asylum as Pt. Pl has an incredible hospital, very modern.. I was even in a coma there once..

Jason

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Well, be Mothman as it may, Keel's not a very...reliable source. I think there's something to Mothman, however.

 

[Krieg]

Well, be Mothman as it may, Keel's not a very...reliable source.

You're being far too charitable towards Keel. Either he's a complete nut job...or a fraud.

I highly recomend Loren Coleman's book Mothman & Other Curious Encounters. Coleman is a meticulous researcher & is not prone to speculation or outright fabrication like Keel.