At the request of reader Jon Robinson, I’m posting one of Jaye Paro’s articles from Beyond magazine (I listed them here, and posted her first article here.). This one is “Manifestations 0f Indians Appear to Long Island Family,” and appeared in the February 1970 issue.
Beyond billed itself as “Documented Truths About the Strange Phenomena of Our Times.” It was published in the late ’60s and early ’70s, first as a digest and then in standard format. This issue featured articles on UFOs, astrology, handwriting analysis, channeled messages from Martin Luther King, and the healing powers of Pacolite clay. It was published by Bernard S. Adelman, about whom I can find nothing. The Executive Editor was Keith Ayling, who seems to have written mostly books about aviation, and, if it’s the same Keith Ayling, smutty novels like Key Club Girl and Sex Peddler, under the name of Arthur Adlon. However, veteran Fortean Vincent Gaddis was also one of the contributing editors. Beyond was published in Hicksville, NY, in Nassau County on Long Island, only six miles from Farmingdale, where Jaye Paro lived.
Her article collects ghosts sightings from the Harmon family in Huntington, as well as a few tales from Princess Sum Tam of the Mattinecock tribe. So, here, for your Halloween enjoyment, are some Long Island ghost stories, from the enigmatic Jaye Paro.
Three years before the publication of this article Jaye Paro and John Keel had been expecting all sort of apocalyptic events, as predicted by Apol and other entities. http://dearmckenzie.com/2011/coffee-dates/?format=pdf “On June 19 Mr. Apol gave Jane (Jaye Paro) a message to pass along to me,” says Keel in The Mothman Prophecies. “It was a prediction: “Things will become more serious in the Middle East. The pope will go there soon on a peace mission. He will be martyred there in a horrible way … knifed to death to a bloody manner. Then the Antichrist will rise up out of Israel.” Then there would be worldwide blackouts and three days of darkness. Nothing happened. We know that when all of those predictions failed to happen Keel changed his mind about the UFO phenomenon. But how about Jaye? What did she think? What did the other contactees think?
A solid, reliable feature of channeling, automatic writing and other paranormal means of communication is all those apocalyptic predictions that invariably fail to happen. Just look at the complete failure of Edgar Cayce’s predictions of Japan sinking by 1998, Atlantis rising in 1968, the Great Lakes emptying in the Gulf of Mexico, etcetera. Meanwhile, things that did happen, like the fall of communism, the attack on the World Trade Center, the development of the internet and the COVID pandemic remained unpredicted by Cayce, Gordon Michael Scallion, Jeane Dixon and all the other big prophets. I guess all that failing is a message in itself: nobody can predict the future, at least not with precision.
Comment by Mestiere — October 28, 2021 @ 11:19 am
Prophecy is seldom accurate! And see the latest post for some of John’s (non-channeled) predictions from 1964.
Comment by Doug — November 4, 2021 @ 8:38 pm
Back in 2016, somebody called Graham asked:
John often talked about relatively obscure books/sources. Would you happen to know any of them? I’d love to pick a few up on Amazon if they are still available.
I wasn’t reading the site back in 2016 – hence this reply being five years late.
However, if you really want to get an idea of what’s going on in some of the dark corners of the world, this is a pretty good reading list:
The Goblin Universe, Ted Holiday
The Beast Of Exmoor, Di Francis
Hungry Ghosts, Joe Fisher
The Unquiet Dead, Edith Fiore
Satan’s Assassins, Brad Steiger
Contactees, Nick Redfern
The Warminster Mystery, Arthur Shuttlewood
But here’s the health warning.
Back in the 1990s, when I still worked in education, I used to actively discourage teenagers from getting too interested in UFOs and the supernatural, and I’m sure that John would have agreed with me about that.
The problem is – really getting into this stuff can have unpleasant consequences, so I wouldn’t recommend it to the young, those who are easily frightened, or people who have young families to look after.
It’s simply not worth it!
If you have a good reason for wanting to know, fair enough.
But if you just want to be entertained – stick to fantasy and science fiction.
Jon, Leeds, England
Comment by Jon Robinson, Leeds — November 17, 2021 @ 1:30 pm