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Mothman Harbinger Theory

The claim, popularised by John Keel, that Mothman was a genuinely anomalous entity whose appearances presaged the Silver Bridge collapse; rests on shared timing and location rather than any documented predictive claim made before the disaster.

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  • Mothman Harbinger Theory was popularised by John Keel.

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  • Mothman Harbinger Theory attempts to explain Mothman — Rests on shared timing and location with the Silver Bridge collapse rather than any documented predictive claim made before the disaster; the collapse itself has a fully documented, unrelated engineering cause.

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