JOHN KEEL NOT AN AUTHORITY ON ANYTHING

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John died July 3, 2009. Rest in peace, John! You’re still remembered, and we still read your books.

This is a rare photo of me with John. He’s the one with the mustache.

Willard Henderson, one of John’s contacts in the Ohio Valley, writes again with more news about the mysterious red-haired woman, the whereabouts of Woodrow Derenberger, and UFO sightings. John answers with questions about NICAP meetings in the area and with some of his own postal mysteries.

We continue with our coverage of the Silver Bridge disaster. On Dec. 27, the Athens Messenger reported on the continuing investigation of the collapse and the recovery of the latest body. There’s also a mention of a rumor that some of the cars might have carried explosives, Mary Hyre had no column in the paper that day.

Willard Henderson was one of John’s contacts in the Ohio Valley. In this letter, he fills John in on recent activity in the area, including news about Woodrow Derenberger, whose interactions with the mysterious Indrid Cold play an important part in The Mothman Prophecies. Henderson also mentions his own frightening nocturnal experiences.  John responds with his own news, and reassures Henderson that his night sweat might simply have been caused by a bad dream. One of the curious things about this exchange is that neither of them mentions the Silver Bridge disaster, which had happened only a few days earlier.

John’s “Personal Involvement Cases” file contains many letters from “silent contactees”–people who wanted to discuss their unusual experiences, but who didn’t want publicity. This letter with John’s response is a typical example. Whoever Gary Elberson was, he wanted to talk to someone but then disappeared. We’ll probably never know if he moved, changed his mind, or was just a hoaxer.

I posted all of the letters from Mary Hyre that I could find several years ago. This one escaped my notice before. It’s from May 7, 1967, and in it Ms. Hyre reports on some of the strange events in Point Pleasant, including UFO sightings, television, phone and car interference, and the sound of a baby crying. She also describes a visit from a strange little man, whom Keel readers might recognize from Chapter 8 of The Mothman Prophecies. The letter preceding this one can be found here.

We continue with the coverage of the Silver Bridge disaster in the Athens Messenger. More bodies are recovered, and Mary Hyre objects to the way some of the press describes Point Pleasant.

John was often critical of the Air Force’s UFO project, “Project Blue Book,” and in 1966 he compiled this analysis of its statistics. Despite what he says on the first page, no data are encircled in red; perhaps he did that when he sent copies to colleagues.

Readers of The Mothman Prophecies are familiar with Mary Hyre, John’s main contact in Point Pleasant and the dedicatee of the book. On May 9, 1967, the Athens Messenger celebrated her 25th year with the paper. (Here, by the way, is an earlier and longer version of that dedication.)

As a supplement to the coverage of the Silver Bridge disaster in The Athens Messenger, here are two pages of clippings and photocopies of clippings from the same paper. John just taped them to typing paper; maybe he made copies of them to send to other researchers. They’re pretty rough, but they’re still legible.