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It was my pleasure to meet with both Donnie Sergeant and Jeff Wamsley in Point Pleasant. I am SO thrilled to have received my signed copy from them, for this was my best start in finding out about the incidents of the Mothman and ufo's in the 60's and 70's in my neighborhood of the Ohio Valley.

Sergeant and Wamsley's book was filled with enough information to aid in my visit to Point Pleasant and to see the locations described by the eyewitnesses. It also led me to read John Keel's book as well.

I highly recommend this book for anyone wanting to get the story first hand from eyewitnesses and from newspaper articles. It's a great starting point for anyone wanting to research the strange happenings in the Point Pleasant area.

FINALLY!!! I have always wondered about what happened in Point Pleasant, and up until now, all I was able to read about it were the interpretations of cryptozoologists and researchers. I never had a way to see how the real story unfolded, and I never got to see where they got all of their information. Until now! This book is unparalleled because it presents nothing but FACTS! The authors never tell me what I should think about the Mothman -- they only present what happened in Point Pleasant and let the reader decide what to think. Inside is an interview from 2001 with original eyewitness Linda Scarberry, the original newspaper clippings that broke the story (my favorite is from Stars & Stripes that the army soldiers read in Viet Nam), eyewitness reports written just days after the sightings, and the most interesting part to me by far are the personal letters from John Keel to Linda Scarberry that give critical insight into his thought processes. The pictures from the inside of the old power plant are really creepy and set the tone for how the eyewitnesses must have perceived what they saw. Now, after reading this book, I can understand what the researchers and crypto people are talking about -- and I want to know more!

Here we have two local authors that not only tell the entire story but present it in a totally unbiased manner. Who better to tell the story of Mothman than investigating locals? John Keels book was and is great in my opinion but so too is Mr. Wamsley's and Mr. Sergent's.
The authors didn't slap the "Mothman" title on this book and take off writing about other things as some have. They didn't throw this book together to ride the Mothman-movie-bandwagon, no, they give you exactly what you expect and more! The tale of Mothman in Point Pleasant, West Virginia starting in 1966. The straight forward, complete story with testimony, media and personally researched accounts! You get what you pay for and sometimes more, this is one of those "more" times. ENJOY!