buy canibus Lyrical law John has an unpleasant phone conversation with Jaye, and concludes he may never see her again. He has a long talk with Appell, through another contactee, Helen Oglemyer (aka Patricia Mackey). Helen confesses she lied to him about a number of things. In passing, John refers to Jaye as “psychotic”; I assume he means that informally, since he said elsewhere he didn’t think she was mentally ill.
He signs and dates the last page, apparently convinced that his six months of strangeness are over, and that he will never hear from Jaye, Helen, or Louise again. However, his record does continue after this.
So John actually didn’t want to write a book on these experiences?What made him change his mind?
Comment by Joseph — June 5, 2018 @ 3:56 pm
He decided to write a book about Mothman, but not Appell. He did use some of the Long Island material in it, but not much. He certainly didn’t go into the aliens’ plan to mate him with Jaye!
Comment by Doug — June 6, 2018 @ 7:29 am
[…] to put things together, to make sense of what he’s encountering. An example is to be found in Special Cases–The Long Island File (89): Perhaps I Can’t Save Anyone. Here the six-month odyssey of John Keel into the uncharted world of the Long Island Contactees […]
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He dedicated a book to “Mr Apol, wherever you are” if I recall correctly.
Comment by Tim — June 9, 2018 @ 1:58 am
Yes, it was Our Haunted Planet. The dedication page is: “Thank you, Mr. Apol, wherever you are.”
Comment by Tim — June 9, 2018 @ 2:04 am
Thanks for the info Tim.
Comment by Joseph — June 9, 2018 @ 8:01 am
Good call, Tim. I have read that book and I had forgotten that dedication. TBH, that wasn’t my favorite book, given how JAK wrote about a lot of those vintage ‘disappearance’ hoaxes that he clearly hadn’t vetted. I prefer when he writes about his own reporting.
Comment by J.P. — June 9, 2018 @ 12:08 pm
To be fair, I was speaking of the David Lang and Oliver Lerch/Larch ‘disappearances,’ which since have been debunked. This ‘disappearance’ that JAK referenced was much more contemporary and the guy, then known as Bruce Burkan, actually fooled the mainstream news media and his own family before ‘reappearing.’ So I cannot fault John on this one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolly_Burkan
Comment by J.P. — June 10, 2018 @ 1:09 am