It’s a known fact that art imitates life. Terrifying sometimes, and impossible to believe at others, but many of the things we read, watch, listen to, and generally ingest for entertainment-value have a real world origin.

Wait, you thought that Richard Gere’s cult-classic THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES was a strictly Hollywood phenomenon? Think again.

“Based on true events” might be used all loosey-goosey sometimes thanks, FARGO, but sightings of a giant moth-type being, who hails from a paranormal/extra-terrestrial background, have been around since the 1960s. That’s almost forty years before studio execs would hire Gere to start having his own visions of mother nature’s most terrifying butterfly cousin..

read more Close Encounters – The Truth is Still Out There.