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For those that don't know, there's a double entendre on the story title.

The "moth man" is a well known urban legend in northeastern USA. A movie was even filmed on the premise [1] . A "texas mothman" playfully may suggest to some that the terror is "migrating"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mothman_Prophecies_(film...



The Mythical Man-Moth

-- Apologies to Fred Brooks


Monster self-help manuals are something I didn't know I wanted until right now. And it turns out a lot of them still work without changing the titles.

-Opening Your Presence: Presenting the YOU You Want Others to See

For ghosts.

-Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World

Frankenstein's monster

-True North

The yeti

-Once an Eagle

Rok

-multipliers

Werewolves or Dracula maybe?


Elizabeth Bishop was there first: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47537/the-man-moth


As a native of Ohio who has visited The Moth Man Museum[0], I take certain exception to this region being called "northeastern USA."

It's close, but it's not quite there [1].

0: https://www.mothmanmuseum.com/

1: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/united-sta...


And mothman was allegedly seen in Chicago too! Kyle Kinane does a fantastic Chicago Mothman accent: https://podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/chicago-mothman/id1139...




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