--- product_id: 7934122 title: "The Mothman Prophecies: A True Story" price: "AED 106" currency: AED in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ae/products/7934122-the-mothman-prophecies-a-true-story store_origin: AE region: United Arab Emirates --- # The Mothman Prophecies: A True Story **Price:** AED 106 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Mothman Prophecies: A True Story - **How much does it cost?** AED 106 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ae](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/7934122-the-mothman-prophecies-a-true-story) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Translated into over thirteen languages and now a major motion picture, John Keel's The Mothman Prophecy is an unsettling true story of the paranormal that has long been regarded as a classic in the literature of the unexplained. West Virginia, 1966. For thirteen months the town of Point Pleasant is gripped by a real-life nightmare culminating in a tragedy that makes headlines around the world. Strange occurrences and sightings, including a bizarre winged apparition that becomes known as the Mothman, trouble this ordinary American community. Mysterious lights are seen moving across the sky. Domestic animals are found slaughtered and mutilated. And journalist John Keel, arriving to investigate the freakish events, soon finds himself an integral part of an eerie and unfathomable mystery. The Mothman Prophecy is the basis of the 2002 film starring Richard Gere. Review: America's Haunted Folklore Has Red Eyes - When you look at the latest cover of John A. Keel's The Mothman Prophecies - the book for which the movie, staring Richard Gere is based upon - you see the words: "a true story." Those three words could repel you, cause you to repudiate the book's claims. It might make you laugh, though not likely. The third reaction is to be engrossed, to take everything at face value. While this can be dangerous, The Mothman Prophecies is just the kind of book to challenge your way of thinking as a vessel into a belief that is frightening and incredible. I'm of the belief that American folklore is haunted folklore. You can't flip on the television without seeing a reality based program where strangers invade a home or "haunted" location, poke around, and gather evidence. The term "Squatchin'," a word that essentially means to go out into the woods and hunt for bigfoot, is part of the American lexicon of words. America's folklore is populated by ghosts, hairy ape men, lake monsters, and many other legends. Among them lives the Mothman, a six foot tall humanoid, covered with brown hair, and with wings that span ten feet, on average. The most stunning feature though are those glowing red eyes. Even to those who have never seen such a creature, they know those eyes, as if through telepathic means. This creature haunts the psyche of a collective body. The Mothman hasn't been sighted often in our modern era, if you can believe the reports. Some say he was seen flying over the ruins of The Twin Towers, and there are others that believe the creature has been sighted all over the world. It was 1966-67, though, when this creature became celebrity, and with it, one of the most consistent and incredible sightings of UFOs, MIB, and aliens of all kinds, even of the strange human variety. The first official sighting of the creature occurred on November 15th 1966 in Point Pleasant, WV; a town as vital to the legend as IT was to Derry, Maine. In and around Point Pleasant, sightings of UFOs occurred as regularly, if not more than Mothman. More terrifying than those sightings were that of the Men in Black. The way Keel describes them in his book, it's as if they're aliens in human disguise, except they don't know how to act human. The simplest things, such as ballpoint pens and Jell-o seemed to confuse them. They all looked relatively the same; short, oriental features, unnatural skin color, large eyes, and erratic behavior. Likewise were the encounters that some people had with alien beings. Woodrow Derenberger's encounters with the being named Indrid Cold are widely publicized, but Keel goes into great depth on Woody's encounters with the man, including time in a space craft and visits to a planet called Lanulos. Keel's style of storytelling relies less on the chronological, though the overall focus of the book is kept in a tidy nature, in the larger scope of the Silver Bridge Collapse. He focuses on certain events, beings, or phenomena as the subjects of his chapters. As a journalist, his writing is top notch; investigative reporting about strange phenomena has never been more brilliantly told. Keel also does a phenomenal job introducing theories to account for some of the "goings on" during the time period, including explanations on hypnosis, names and shared Greek characteristics, and theories about ley lines and UFO phenomena. He does his best to play the skeptic, but having experienced many of these events himself, he explains them as any person would, faced with the unknown, through human context. If you've seen the faux documentary, Mermaids: The Body Found - the purpose of such a documentary, aside from telling a compelling story, is to make you think, challenge your world view. The Mothman Prophecies, is the original Mermaids, only, to hundreds of people, the events surrounding 1966-67 in West Virginia were real. This is a book first published in the 1970's and today it is still haunting, fascinating, and a frightening display of what the unknown is capable of. At the end of the book, like the end of West Virginia's 13 months of terror, you're left with questions, and an explanation that is altogether hard to believe. If you're looking for an acceptable answer though, that's up to you, the reader, in that last fateful chapter. If all you've ever known of The Mothman is from the Richard Gere film, grab this book and let it grab and hold you; this book doesn't let go easy. Review: THE MOTHMAN PROPHESIES - 100% pure paranoia and great reading! - THE MOTHMAN PROPHESIES - Although I am a great fan of the movie, I only recently learned that the source for that film was John Keel's original book also entitled THE MOTHMAN PROPHESIES, a very interesting and enjoyable read. Until reading this book I had no idea that the legend of the Mothman was in any way related to UFO sightings as these were not emphasized in the film. Since I am a 63 year old amateur astronomer and have spent many evening hours while living in Florida, Connecticut, New Jersey as well as upstate New York scanning the night skies with my telescopes and binoculars, I am definitely not a believer in UFO stories. It is nice to hear another theory from John Keel based more on possible other dimensions, world lines and the spirit realm rather than space hardware from other planets. However, I remain more than skeptical. If we can believe John Keel's book, something very strange is going on which clearly undermines our world view of reality. Until I see an impressive UFO (or a Mothman or two) for myself I will remain a very interested skeptic, always open to hearing the latest "eyewitness" accounts. A very learned friend of mine who has passed away was a lifelong UFO researcher and believer in the hardware theory of UFO's. His great passion for the subject, intelligence, charm and professional standing as a lawyer made it possible for him to have worked with many names in the field including: Dr. Bruce Maccabee, Larry Bryant, Dr. Stanton Friedman, Ray Fowler, Whitley Strieber, and Bud Hopkins to name a few. His interest in the subject, field research and numerous public speaking engagements lasted his entire life. He was also one of MUFON' s public relations officials and always kept me up to date with the latest developments. He provided me copies of the MJ-12 documents when they were first "leaked" to the public and kept me on his mailing list for years. As a close friend, I did not have the heart to tell him that I could not buy into the hardware theory though I probably let him conclude that I did. However, my interest went as far as reading the latest "eyewitness" reports and wondering what on earth was responsible for them. This well respected individual was also very interested at one time in Dr. J. Allan Heinick, chief astronomical consultant to the US Air Force Project Blue Book. When I asked my friend what Dr. Heinick's latest findings were he reported to me that Heinick (in his senior years) was starting to believe in alternate dimensions, world lines, and possibly even spirit world theories and for that reason this friend had stopped tracking his work. He also kept me generally up to date but never mentioned John Keel's work, which I now conclude was likely because of Keel's theory in the "non-hardware" explanation of UFO's. My friend was clearly a believer in the "space hardware from out there theory" which I was not. But I always kept my ear to the ground regarding new reports of daylight disks, nocturnal lights and close encounter reports (as dubious as these may sound). As an amateur astronomer and over 50 years of carefully searching the skies in more than four states both with and without the aid of optical instruments in isolated locations, I have never observed anything which couldn't be explained in the sky. That is not to say that others have not, but I can't understand why others have been able to witness strange sights where I have not, and believe it may have something to do with "who is doing the looking", (a statement from the film taken out of context). The top rated reviewer has already said this book is almost as strange as the actual Mothman stories. Also, the fact that apparently related sightings of the Mothman, menacing MIB, numerous telephone problems, scads of prophesies from the void, as well as possible CIA escapades all read like the writings of a true paranoid. All these elements add up to make this book one of the strangest I have ever read. Mind you, I couldn't put it down for several hours a read. The chapter heading by John Keel entitled "Paranoiacs are made, not born" is also an interesting observation, causing one to question which is the cause and which the effect for any given individual. In John Keel's case I am certain his writings could be the basis of a lively sanity hearing were he a less known and less respected individual. Since his book was on the New York Times bestseller list we Mothman lovers are in good company. ## Features - The Mothman Prophecies ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #59,710 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #16 in Unexplained Mysteries (Books) #39 in UFOs (Books) #85 in Ghosts & Hauntings | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 2,327 Reviews | ## Images ![The Mothman Prophecies: A True Story - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81qy7ayMpQL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ America's Haunted Folklore Has Red Eyes *by R***N on June 2, 2013* When you look at the latest cover of John A. Keel's The Mothman Prophecies - the book for which the movie, staring Richard Gere is based upon - you see the words: "a true story." Those three words could repel you, cause you to repudiate the book's claims. It might make you laugh, though not likely. The third reaction is to be engrossed, to take everything at face value. While this can be dangerous, The Mothman Prophecies is just the kind of book to challenge your way of thinking as a vessel into a belief that is frightening and incredible. I'm of the belief that American folklore is haunted folklore. You can't flip on the television without seeing a reality based program where strangers invade a home or "haunted" location, poke around, and gather evidence. The term "Squatchin'," a word that essentially means to go out into the woods and hunt for bigfoot, is part of the American lexicon of words. America's folklore is populated by ghosts, hairy ape men, lake monsters, and many other legends. Among them lives the Mothman, a six foot tall humanoid, covered with brown hair, and with wings that span ten feet, on average. The most stunning feature though are those glowing red eyes. Even to those who have never seen such a creature, they know those eyes, as if through telepathic means. This creature haunts the psyche of a collective body. The Mothman hasn't been sighted often in our modern era, if you can believe the reports. Some say he was seen flying over the ruins of The Twin Towers, and there are others that believe the creature has been sighted all over the world. It was 1966-67, though, when this creature became celebrity, and with it, one of the most consistent and incredible sightings of UFOs, MIB, and aliens of all kinds, even of the strange human variety. The first official sighting of the creature occurred on November 15th 1966 in Point Pleasant, WV; a town as vital to the legend as IT was to Derry, Maine. In and around Point Pleasant, sightings of UFOs occurred as regularly, if not more than Mothman. More terrifying than those sightings were that of the Men in Black. The way Keel describes them in his book, it's as if they're aliens in human disguise, except they don't know how to act human. The simplest things, such as ballpoint pens and Jell-o seemed to confuse them. They all looked relatively the same; short, oriental features, unnatural skin color, large eyes, and erratic behavior. Likewise were the encounters that some people had with alien beings. Woodrow Derenberger's encounters with the being named Indrid Cold are widely publicized, but Keel goes into great depth on Woody's encounters with the man, including time in a space craft and visits to a planet called Lanulos. Keel's style of storytelling relies less on the chronological, though the overall focus of the book is kept in a tidy nature, in the larger scope of the Silver Bridge Collapse. He focuses on certain events, beings, or phenomena as the subjects of his chapters. As a journalist, his writing is top notch; investigative reporting about strange phenomena has never been more brilliantly told. Keel also does a phenomenal job introducing theories to account for some of the "goings on" during the time period, including explanations on hypnosis, names and shared Greek characteristics, and theories about ley lines and UFO phenomena. He does his best to play the skeptic, but having experienced many of these events himself, he explains them as any person would, faced with the unknown, through human context. If you've seen the faux documentary, Mermaids: The Body Found - the purpose of such a documentary, aside from telling a compelling story, is to make you think, challenge your world view. The Mothman Prophecies, is the original Mermaids, only, to hundreds of people, the events surrounding 1966-67 in West Virginia were real. This is a book first published in the 1970's and today it is still haunting, fascinating, and a frightening display of what the unknown is capable of. At the end of the book, like the end of West Virginia's 13 months of terror, you're left with questions, and an explanation that is altogether hard to believe. If you're looking for an acceptable answer though, that's up to you, the reader, in that last fateful chapter. If all you've ever known of The Mothman is from the Richard Gere film, grab this book and let it grab and hold you; this book doesn't let go easy. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THE MOTHMAN PROPHESIES - 100% pure paranoia and great reading! *by K***G on April 11, 2009* THE MOTHMAN PROPHESIES - Although I am a great fan of the movie, I only recently learned that the source for that film was John Keel's original book also entitled THE MOTHMAN PROPHESIES, a very interesting and enjoyable read. Until reading this book I had no idea that the legend of the Mothman was in any way related to UFO sightings as these were not emphasized in the film. Since I am a 63 year old amateur astronomer and have spent many evening hours while living in Florida, Connecticut, New Jersey as well as upstate New York scanning the night skies with my telescopes and binoculars, I am definitely not a believer in UFO stories. It is nice to hear another theory from John Keel based more on possible other dimensions, world lines and the spirit realm rather than space hardware from other planets. However, I remain more than skeptical. If we can believe John Keel's book, something very strange is going on which clearly undermines our world view of reality. Until I see an impressive UFO (or a Mothman or two) for myself I will remain a very interested skeptic, always open to hearing the latest "eyewitness" accounts. A very learned friend of mine who has passed away was a lifelong UFO researcher and believer in the hardware theory of UFO's. His great passion for the subject, intelligence, charm and professional standing as a lawyer made it possible for him to have worked with many names in the field including: Dr. Bruce Maccabee, Larry Bryant, Dr. Stanton Friedman, Ray Fowler, Whitley Strieber, and Bud Hopkins to name a few. His interest in the subject, field research and numerous public speaking engagements lasted his entire life. He was also one of MUFON' s public relations officials and always kept me up to date with the latest developments. He provided me copies of the MJ-12 documents when they were first "leaked" to the public and kept me on his mailing list for years. As a close friend, I did not have the heart to tell him that I could not buy into the hardware theory though I probably let him conclude that I did. However, my interest went as far as reading the latest "eyewitness" reports and wondering what on earth was responsible for them. This well respected individual was also very interested at one time in Dr. J. Allan Heinick, chief astronomical consultant to the US Air Force Project Blue Book. When I asked my friend what Dr. Heinick's latest findings were he reported to me that Heinick (in his senior years) was starting to believe in alternate dimensions, world lines, and possibly even spirit world theories and for that reason this friend had stopped tracking his work. He also kept me generally up to date but never mentioned John Keel's work, which I now conclude was likely because of Keel's theory in the "non-hardware" explanation of UFO's. My friend was clearly a believer in the "space hardware from out there theory" which I was not. But I always kept my ear to the ground regarding new reports of daylight disks, nocturnal lights and close encounter reports (as dubious as these may sound). As an amateur astronomer and over 50 years of carefully searching the skies in more than four states both with and without the aid of optical instruments in isolated locations, I have never observed anything which couldn't be explained in the sky. That is not to say that others have not, but I can't understand why others have been able to witness strange sights where I have not, and believe it may have something to do with "who is doing the looking", (a statement from the film taken out of context). The top rated reviewer has already said this book is almost as strange as the actual Mothman stories. Also, the fact that apparently related sightings of the Mothman, menacing MIB, numerous telephone problems, scads of prophesies from the void, as well as possible CIA escapades all read like the writings of a true paranoid. All these elements add up to make this book one of the strangest I have ever read. Mind you, I couldn't put it down for several hours a read. The chapter heading by John Keel entitled "Paranoiacs are made, not born" is also an interesting observation, causing one to question which is the cause and which the effect for any given individual. In John Keel's case I am certain his writings could be the basis of a lively sanity hearing were he a less known and less respected individual. Since his book was on the New York Times bestseller list we Mothman lovers are in good company. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The book is as mysterious as the Mothman *by B***E on March 2, 2002* John A. Keel's The Mothman Prophecies, as a book, is just as intriguing and mysterious as the topics he is writing about. In a nutshell, the book reads as if Keel kept a loose-leaf journal about paranormal events, both reported to and experienced by him, over the course of many years, then decided to throw all of the individual pages in the air, let them land as they might, stuck a couple hundred of them in a notebook and sent them off to his publisher. There is no novel-like narrative in The Mothman Prophecies, and it's not in chronological order-instead it choppily bounces back and forth and for its entire length. The funny thing is that it works for the most part. I'm hesitant to say that the atemporally schizophrenic nature of the journal entries was an intentional, clever move on Keel's part, but it just may have been. The net effect is to mirror the inexplicability, seeming pointlessness, and skewered nature of the phenomena that Keel is talking about, but unfortunately, sometimes the attention-deficit-disorder-ladenness of the book is just aggravating. The primary thing to remember, if the book sounds interesting enough to you to tackle it (not that it's longer than your average pulp novel), is not to expect anything like a normal plot. There's an endless parade of names and events, many of which are only mentioned in one section, and it takes awhile to stop thinking that you're going to have to remember them to understand the story later. There really is no story. But once you stop waiting for a story to begin, The Mothman Prophecies should be more enjoyable to you. There are plenty of reasons you might be interested in this book. Of course, there's the surface topic-a series of paranormal events ranging from UFO's to flying "birdmen" (the Mothman) to misbehaving telephones. If you're at all a student of the paranormal, you'll want to read this. Or, you probably already have. For me, I was initially intrigued by the film and the claim that it was based on true events (although publisher Tor calls it fiction on the copyright/catalog data page). But once I started reading, I quickly forgot about the film and instead was fascinated with the realization that The Mothman Prophecies must have been one of Chris Carter's primary sources for various plots of The X-Files. If you're an X-Files fan, The Mothman Prophecies will tie the show together for you in an unprecedented way. After you read this book, the "mytharc" shows (all the alien conspiracy stuff) will no longer seem disconnected from the monster shows. And you'll frequently find yourself reminded of specific episodes correlated to specific journal entries in the book. Undoubtedly, you'll find yourself wondering at some point how much of The Mothman Prophecies is fact and how much is fiction. Tor calling the book "fiction" doesn't help towards taking it too seriously, and neither does Keel's frequent references to UFO-monger Gray Barker, who was exposed as making up at least some of the things he wrote about--see, for instance, John C. Sherwood's May/June 1998 article in Skeptical Inquirer magazine. Joe Nickell has also prepared a "debunking" of the Mothman for Skeptical Inquirer's March/April 2002 issue. I'm nothing if not a skeptic, but Nickell doesn't actually debunk much. He suggests that Mothman sightings were actually sightings of owls, and that's about all there is to his article. Keel's book, and the film that prompted Nickell's article, is about much more than can be explained by sighting an owl and mistaking it for something else. From my standpoint as a philosopher, there's something even more interesting about Keel's book. It's a wonderful example of instrumentalism. Instrumentalism, briefly, is the idea that theories about phenomena, insofar as they depart from simply recounting the phenomena in a dry manner, are interchangeable. That is, there are a multitude of possible theories for the metaphysics "behind" any observed event, and even allowing Occam's Razor (which is just a convention, not a fact, so we need not allow it-it could be misleading), any of them that accounts for the observed event is just as good as any other. Of course Keel sometimes leads us on by simple juxtaposition of easily explainable events-even going so far as implying that there could have been something paranormal about the missing minutes on the Watergate tapes-and he could be making up a sizable percentage of the anecdotes to entertain us, but that's ultimately why you should read this book anyway-for entertainment. It's also, even if fiction, a fascinating psychological artifact, and even as fiction with plenty of structural quirks, an entertaining read. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ae/products/7934122-the-mothman-prophecies-a-true-story](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/7934122-the-mothman-prophecies-a-true-story) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Arab Emirates* *Store origin: AE* *Last updated: 2026-10-12*