Leek is Keel Backwards: Mothman's Name Game and More Revealed

Richard Hatem, known for Grimm today and The Mothman Prophecies screenwriter, is directly responsible for bringing the story of the winged weirdie to theaters in 2002.John A. Keel's book, The Mothman Prophecies, was first published in 1975. It is hard to believe today, but people forgot about the book. Then on October 1, 1991 ­ IllumiNet Press published the first reprint of The Mothman Prophecies in decades. It is this edition...

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A Name Does Not A Wise Man Make

The TWA Flight Center, Idlewild, was designed by Eero Saarinen.New York City's largest airport, once known as Idlewild (for a former golf course), has been called John F. Kennedy International Airport since 1964.At John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday morning, October 26, 2013, a 23-year-old man carrying two handguns, two defaced rifles and high-capacity magazines was arrested.The man approached a United Airlines counter around...

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Black Thursday 2013: CVS Hostages, Vortex Injuries, and Millington Shooting

"Black Thursday," October 24, 1929, was the start of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 at the New York Stock Exchange. October 24, 2008, was "Bloody Friday," which saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.It has been an active week, in general. On October 24, 2013, it was a "Bloody Thursday" of the usual violent kind of late.The CVS is located at 6750 Wilkinson...

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Rage School in the News

A day after I talked about the first modern era school shooting in 1996 - which ended in students and a math teacher killed - and which was inspired by Stephen King's Rage - today that same school is the center of a violent school incident.(CNN) -- A Washington state middle school boy was arrested Wednesday and faces an attempted murder charge, after he brought 400 rounds of ammunition, multiple knives and a handgun to his school, police said.The...

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They Are Killing Math Teachers

Two math teachers have been killed in two days, in school violence incidents in Nevada and Massachusetts. The killing of math teachers initially surfaced at the beginning of the modern era of school shootings.More on that history in a moment, but first, some details on today's event.Investigators search the woods behind the high school in DanversThe 14-year-old boy who was arraigned (October 23, 2013) Wednesday afternoon on a murder charge in the...

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Teacher and Gunman Die in Sparks School Shootings

Michael Landsberry is a victim of the Sparks Middle School shooting.This morning, Monday, October 21, 2013, two shootings in Nevada and one in Detroit have started off this week's news cycle.Police said the first shots in the Sparks, Nevada, shooting were fired from a semiautomatic handgun at 7:16 a.m. (9:16 a.m. ET), just before classes got underway.The school shooting in Sparks, left two students wounded, and the gunman dead from his own suicide....

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Mexican Clowns Kill Drug Lord

The authorities in Mexico have said gunmen dressed as clowns have shot dead a former leading member of a once-powerful and violent drug cartel.Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix, 63, was killed in a beach resort in Baja California in north-western Mexico.He and his brothers controlled the drug trade on Mexico's border with the United States in the 1990s.But their Tijuana cartel was gradually weakened by the capture or killing of other leading members."He...

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Dianne Reidy Takes House Floor To Discuss Freemasons and God

An old name familiar to the Name Game: Reidy.Not surprisingly, there has been another strange incident in D.C.After lawmakers voted to reopen the government, things took a bizarre turn on the House floor. A congressional stenographer named Dianne Reidy had to be removed from the House floor after she took the microphone at the front desk, and began noting things like  about the Freemasons and the Constitution. She said the U.S. is not “one nation...

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LAX: Dry Ice Bombs

Los Angeles International Airport police reported on October 15, 2013, that two dry ice bombs exploded and two others were found in a restricted area of the airport. No terrorism is associated with the four bombs, according to law enforcement officials. How this was determined is unknown.“The focus is definitely in the restricted area, not in the areas where passengers have access,” said Sgt. Karla Ortiz. “We want to make sure that that get’s tightened...

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Tulsa: Five Injured in Hmong New Year Shooting and Two Killed at Former Dragon's Lair

There was a shooting in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the evening of October 12, 2012. You may hear little about it, as it happened among a closed ethnic group. This time of year is in the midst of the traditional three days of in-house Hmong New Year rituals, which are followed in some communities by seven days of "outside" activities.A man walked in and opened fire at one such Hmong New Year's celebration in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on October 12th, Saturday night,...

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Aurora 7's Astronaut Scott Carpenter Dies

Malcolm Scott Carpenter, 88, one of the original seven Mercury astronauts who was forced to take manual control of his Aurora 7 capsule after running low on fuel in one of the scarier moments of the early space program, died early Thursday, October 10, 2013.Mercury 7 astronauts: (l-r front) Walter Schirra, Donald Slayton, John Glenn, and Scott Carpenter; (back) Alan Shepard, Virgil Grissom, and Gordon Cooper.With Carpenter's death, only John Glenn,...

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Was DC Self-Immolation A Vietnam-Styled Political Copycat?

October 4, 2013, was the day that the 64-year-old African-American ex-Marine Vietnam vet John Constantino picked to immolation himself on the National Mall. Historically, October 4, 1965, is acknowledged during the Vietnam War as when LBJ began actually bombing Cambodia. Did Constantino know the significance of the date? Certainly, it cannot be ignored that Constantino would have been extremely aware of the role played by self-immolations as a form...

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Piccard/Picard, Star Trek, Borg, Bane and the Dark Knight Links to Wheeling-Bridgeport Events

There was another gun attack against a Federal today, allegedly by a lone shooter. In late news, a bomb threat has been linked to it. Why did it all bring to mind Star Trek?Thomas Piccard, or Thomas Picard, a former Wheeling, West Virginia police officer, was identified as the gunman who fired shots at the Wheeling Federal Building on Wednesday, October 9, 2013, before being killed by police officers. Law enforcers said the shooter was 55-year-old...

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Great Reads For Halloween: Loren's Books on Forteana, Cryptozoology, Synchromystic Studies and More

The Dover Demon fills the book cover of and lives within my newest book, Monsters of Massachusetts, published in 2013, by Stackpole Books.In October 2013, other books of which I am associated have been highlighted as "Books of the Month" by Cosimo Books, specifically these two: Mothman and Other Curious Encounters and Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life.This year's book news has produced the usual questions about "how many books is this one for...

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