First Pass at a Research Question

     After looking into Mothman and the Mothman Festival some more, or at least attempting to, I decided to revise my focus from that to a more broad look into dark/paranormal tourism, also sometimes called thanatourism. I plan on looking into why people are drawn towards these more recent forms of tourism, though I still might focus on the Mothman as a reference point for the paper.


Image Source: Mothman Museum's website.

    Listed below are some of the sources I think I'll be eventually referencing in my paper. The first of these I actually haven't had a chance to review yet, as it is in Russian, but the English abstract talked about how it looks into the social and economic draw of dark tourism. 

  1. Александрова, А. Ю. “Изменение Туристского Геопространства В Эпоху Всеобщей Мобильности.” Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, Seriya-5: Geografiya, no. 2, Mar. 2020, pp. 3–12. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=143163641&site=ehost-live.
  2. Dixon, Deborah. “A benevolent and skeptical inquiry: exploring ‘Fortean Geographies’ with the Mothman.” Cultural Geographies, 2007 (14), pp. 189–210.
  3. GALLANT, JAMES. “The Humiliating UFOs.” Raritan, vol. 30, no. 4, Spring 2011, pp. 66–91. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=62009047&site=ehost-live.
  4. Keel, John A. The Mothman Prophecies. Tor, 2002.

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