John Keel and Gray Barker had a long and complicated friendship. As most Mothman aficionados know, Barker also investigated the disturbing events in Point Pleasant in the ’60s, and wrote his own book about them, The Silver Bridge (1970). He took a different approach than Keel, turning the material more toward fiction than reportage.
He did describe his first meeting with Keel, however; and since the book is now scarce, I’ll post it here. It’s from Chapter 8, “The Man with the Beard.”
