Beyond the Pale Moonlight: A UFO-Mothman Encounter

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Beyond the Pale Moonlight: A UFO-Mothman Encounter by Linda Sigman

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


I met the author at this year's Mothman Festival and enjoyed talking to her. Honestly this book is more along the lines of the zines from the 8-s and 90s. very short. It's like listening to Linda talk about her 60s era sighting of not just Mothman but associated UFOS. If you only know the Mothman story about him chasing a carload of teens from the lovers' lane by the TNT plant, there are other stories. This is one of them.

Linda tells about getting picked up for a stargazing date that ends with her and her boyfriend at the time seeing not one but two UFOS and the Mothman being near one of them (One of the theories is he is an alien) It tracks along the typical lost time UFO encounter.

There is a brief chapter about having a regression hypnosis session with the UFO group in Circleville (other people I have met. I have a weird life) but it's not included here (Other its proprietary to their website or she doesn't want to steal their thunder.) We also get a bit on Chief Cornstalk (whom she claims kinship to) and of course, the Silver Bridge collapse (another Mothman link).

It's short and what really makes it a 3.5 read is Mark's artwork. It's a very nice accompaniment and does add length to something that would be a pamphlet otherwise. THere is a host of drawings as well illustrating the encounters at the end.



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Where the Body Was

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Where the Body Was by Ed Brubaker

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


I dithered as to what to do with this 3.5 read and when in just a day I had to go to the list of characters to remember their names I rounded down. This isn't one that is going to stick with me. That's not to say it isn't good. It was but on the other hand it wasn't too memorable either. And if you hadn't told me this was the 1980s I would never have guessed that by the art so that was a miss (the lack of cell phones would have been the only clue. There was zero 80s feel to this).

The titular body doesn't make an appearance until after the halfway mark and since this is told in both the past and X number of years down the road as an interview, you know who the body isn't. The cast of characters aren't particularly likeable or memorable but they are real (in the sense I watch a lot of true crime and you can find these scenarios in most of those stories)

We have Palmer, a man with a badge and a temper, Tom and Karina, two drug addicted teens living in a flop house, Dr. Ted Melville, psychiatrist, and his neglected wife Toni whose only purpose is to be having sex on every panel we see her in. No seriously she's barely ever dressed and there is PLENTY of sex in this thing (if that bugs you) Ranko the homeless PTSD ridden Viet Nam vet (and easy patsy) and Lila Ngyuen, the only character I actually liked, a young Vietnamese girl roller skating around the subdivision in a super hero costume hoping to stop a crime, and Jack Foster, PI.

Most of the story is not about the body and how it got dead. Most of it is just what happens in suburban life. Will Tom win Karina? Will Palmer and Toni get caught? Will Lila solve a crime?

THe artwork was good and the story is too. It's worth picking up from your library.



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