Seroquel buy online And here’s the final installment of John’s radio script “One Way Street,” written for the American Forces Network in Germany in 1954 to warn soldiers about traffic safety. I imagine he and his radio buddies enjoyed assembling all those sound effects. And do drive carefully!
Here’s the second part of John’s 1954 script for the American Forces Network: a PSA about traffic safety told mostly in elaborate sound effects. I don’t know why some sound cues are underlined with solid lines and others with broken lines. Did the solid lines indicate prerecorded sounds? One more installment will follow.
John’s radio work for the American Forces Network in the ’50s often required him to dramatize basic points about military discipline. In this short script, he had to come up with a PSA about the important but dull subject of traffic safety, and he had to remind American soldiers not to drink too much German beer and to drive carefully on the unfamiliar German roads. To make it more interesting, he told it mostly with sound effects.
I’m afraid this will disappoint readers who are only interested in John’s Fortean writing, but I hope some of you will enjoy this little tour de force from the young Keel. Here’s the first part of three.
John Keel was born March 25, 1930. He would have been 95 now. Happy Birthday, John! He’s seen here exploring the mysterious phenomena of Times Square.
Here’s the conclusion of “Things in the Sky,” broadcast by the American Forces Network in 1952, and one of the first things John wrote about UFOs. The photos by Carl Hart that he mentions were of the Lubbock Lights in Lubbock, Texas, which caused quite a stir at the time.
Here’s the next part of John’s radio documentary on UFOs, broadcast in 1952 by the American Forces Network in Frankfurt. Leave it to John to introduce The Book of the Damned to American troops!
I’m back, my scanner problems fixed, at least for now. So, to start the new year, here’s one of the first things John wrote about UFOs–a 1952 script for the American Forces Network in Frankfurt. I suspect John himself played Charles Fort. I posted a brief excerpt of this twelve years ago, but here’s the whole thing, in three installments. Please excuse John’s smudged deletion at the end of p. 3; Fort introduces himself on p. 4.
And Happy 2025!
I apologize to Keel fans for my recent absence here. I have, first of all, been unusually busy; and second, my scanner stopped working and I haven’t had time to repair or replace it. I’ve been posting here since 2009, so there’s still plenty to read. I’ll be back soon.
Meanwhile, for stopgap edutainment, a couple of my recent books might interest Forteans enough to mention here: The Science of Love is a translation of the major prose works of the remarkable poet and scientist Charles Cros; Music From Elsewhere collects and discusses music from anomalous sources. And happy assorted holidays!
We have another odd item from John’s early career. In his article “Bosoms, Blood, & Baloney” for Writer’s Digest, he said he heard a story from a ship’s doctor about a man who fought a tiger by thrusting his arm down its throat. John turned it into a story of his own, with the usual lashings of local color. Editors refused it, however, insisting the protagonist had to use a knife to make it believable. John obliged, and the story was published in the July, 1957 issue of Escape to Adventure, under his favorite pseudonym, Randolph Halsey-Quince. The curious thing about all this is that the magazine actually published it the way John wrote it originally, without the added bit about a knife. Did another editor like the first version better? Did John remember it wrong? Maybe we can just assume that communication often became scrambled between Alex Jackinson (John’s agent), the editors of the adventure magazines, and John, roaming through India.
Here’s John’s original typescript, and the beginning of the article as printed. The illegible phrase on the third page should read: “There are many rivers and swamp areas in Sunderban […]”
Here’s the rest of John’s report and his supplementary material.
The incident has been discussed by other researchers; here’s an article by Marcus Howth, with some pictures of the witnesses.
