JOHN KEEL NOT AN AUTHORITY ON ANYTHING

buy 20 mg isotretinoin online One day after the last entry, John has a lot to report. Agar gave Jaye Paro a gold cross; Jaye’s fiancé Dave is missing; Long John Nebel (host of a popular all-night radio show) is looking for Princess Moon Owl; Linda Scarberry (one of the original Mothman witnesses in Point Pleasant) has some strange visitors; Joe Henslik (contactee and/or hoaxer) is not answering his phone. And the next day, a certain Helen Ogelmyer in Long Island calls John with an encounter similar to Jaye’s stories about Agar, including the importance of salt.

John submitted another questionnaire to Apol, and included the response in his file. Apol (I suppose channeled by Jaye Paro) replied in crude red pencil; John transcribed the answers on these carbons.

A few notes: On page 2, the questions about people in caverns refer to Richard Shaver’s claims of underground cities, frequently discussed in UFO circles. Long John Nebel’s nightly radio show often focused on UFOs; Apol identified him as a contactee in an earlier questionnaire. John Lester wrote a series of articles on UFOs for the Newark Star-Ledger in 1958. I can’t identify Tom Everett Hilliard or “Charlie.” Gordon Evans wrote for Fate, Flying Saucers, and other magazines; Joseph Henslik was a contactee, according to John a confessed hoaxer; Don Estrella was a friend of John’s, mentioned in Chapter 9 of The Mothman Prophecies.

As I said about an earlier questionnaire, John’s questions are probably more interesting than the answers.

(Incidentally, I accidentally deleted the last dozen or so comments on this site while deleting spam. Sorry! No offense intended!)

Happy New Year! Here, we continue with John’s “Special Cases” file. To anyone who hasn’t been following this, these are John Keel’s notes from 1967, which he later used for his book The Mothman Prophecies. Most of the notes are about Long Island, rather than Point Pleasant; I’m posting the files as he collected them. His primary contactee this year was Jaye Paro, a radio host at WBAB, who provided him with an avalanche of strange reports, mostly about her contacts with two aliens or androids named Apol (or Appell) and Agar. John found her stories credible, at least at the time.

The next installments concern a strange phone call and a report from Paro about a confused couple she met on Mt. Misery (long rumored to be haunted). John did own a small top, which he said a friend had given him; Paro’s aliens had asked about it before.

As it turns out, Apol was not replaced by Rubin, but remained in contact with Jaye Paro. (Nor was Rubin completely out of the picture; he does show up later.) In August, John started sending Apol/Paro questionnaires, which were duly returned, with answers scrawled in red pencil. John kept his correspondence with Apol in a separate file; I posted about it here. The first of these questionnaires now follows in the Long Island file; John noted Apol’s answers on a carbon, since the originals are very faint.

1967 ufology is now often obscure, so here are some notes: John defined the 3rd Eye that Apol mentions as a group of “hostile or malevolent ultraterrestrials”; “Project B” was one of his pamphlets, reprinting an article from Flying Saucer Review. The list of possible contactees includes confessed contactees (Adamski, Schmidt, Childers, Menger, Renaud, Derenberger, Kiehl, Kittredge) as well as writers (Trevor James Constable, McGraw, Fuller, Michel, Davis) and a number of generals (Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur, Vandenburg). Otis T. Carr promoted free energy devices and tried to build a saucer, but didn’t claim contact. “Long John” Nebel had a radio talk show that often featured contactees, but never claimed contact either. Donald Estrella was a friend of John’s; he’s mentioned in The Mothman Prophecies.

Lee Childers lived in Detroit, and called himself Prince Neosom. Joao Freitas de Guimaraes had a UFO experience in Brazil in 1958; it was similar to Menger’s stories. Aimé Michel wrote a book called Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery. Isabel Davis was a member of Civilian Saucer Intelligence. Gloria Lee was another contactee, who died after a long fast in 1962.

The questionnaire is eight pages; the first four pages follow…

One the same day that John wrote the anguished letter to the androids (the one he didn’t mail), he wrote another letter reiterating his suggestion for a public UFO display. It’s very similar to the first, so I see no need to post it. He noted that he received a reply from Jaye before she got the letter.

Next in John’s file are a couple of messages passed on to him by Jaye Paro. The first, attributed to Mike Mann (another ufologist) is a hodgepodge of saucer stories; John dismisses it as nonsense, and notes it was disavowed by Mann. It’s dated June 19, so it was either dated incorrectly or filed out of sequence. The second, from an elderly Italian whose signature I can’t decipher, is a warning about the aliens. (PS: As AD Reich points out in a comment, John quotes this letter in The Mothman Prophecies. Later in his notes, he identifies the writer as a man named Louis Ingolia.) John then notes some of Paro’s trance prophecies about airplane crashes, and adds clippings on the deaths of Castelo Branco (former President of Brazil) and John T. McNaughton (incoming Secretary of the Navy), the Pope’s planned travel to Turkey, and a UFO seen over Paris; I didn’t post those either.

The androids waste no time. On July 20, Jaye claimed that she attended a meeting of the Council of Ten Men, convened to discuss John’s proposal. She had a lot to report, and we’ll start mulling it over next time.

We continue with John’s “Special Cases” file. For those coming in late, it contains his running notes on UFO and contactee activity in 1967, some of which he used in The Mothman Prophecies. He was getting many more reports from Long Island than Point Pleasant, much of it about Jaye Paro, a radio personality at WBAB in Babylon, N. Y., and her supposed contacts with two figures named Apol and Agar. It’s not clear if they’re aliens, but they’re apparently not quite human. Many of her stories are ridiculous, all are strange, and John is trying to keep up with them. I should point out that he doesn’t necessarily believe them; he’s intrigued by their similarities to other contactees’ tales, and suspects she may be passing on information from another source.

In these next few pages, John notes some questions for Paro’s contacts, and discovers that none of his calls to her showed up on his phone bill. Rivalino da Silva was a Brazilian prospector; his son Raimundo reported that his father was abducted by two floating spheres in 1962. Revelation 1:19 is “Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter.” 20:7-8 is “And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.” John also pastes into his record a clipping about the Pope; on June 19, Paro had passed along a prophecy that the Pope would soon be assassinated.

So, follow along with John as he tries to figure out what’s going on…

We have here the next excerpt from John’s “Special Cases” file, his investigation of contactees in Long Island in 1967. Jaye Paro has already had an unsettling encounter with a strange woman in a library and a clothing store, and now meets her again. She also has her first encounter with Mr. Apol. All of this was eventually incorporated into Chapter 15 of The Mothman Prophecies. This is a fuller account, including Apol’s odd questions to Jaye.

John states here that he thinks she’s telling the truth, but expresses reservations elsewhere in his files.

Forging doggedly through John’s “Special Cases” files, we come across his first interactions with Jaye Paro (the professional name of Joanne Perranno). Readers may recognize her from her appearance in The Mothman Prophecies. I have no idea what she was up to, but a lot of high weirdness followed.

1967 was an especially busy year for John, and he kept a running record of his activities. He called it his “Special Cases File,” and it included correspondence, clippings, and diary entries, collected into a series of binders. I’ve posted material from the first one, and I’ll now head into the second. I’m sorry to disappoint Mothman fans, but there’s more here about Long Island than Point Pleasant.

John’s daily life became extremely strange at this time, as he did his best to keep up with a barrage of weirdness, mixed in with hoaxes and dead ends: all in the hope of finding out what was happening, and getting some salable copy from it. A lot of it seems crazy now, but he was following leads with his usual thoroughness, and, apparently, enjoying the excitement.

Below is John’s note at the beginning of the file, followed by a letter to Charles Bowen, editor of the British Flying Saucer Review. The letter sums up John’s research at that time, and goes into some interesting details, including his ambiguous opinion of Woodrow Derenberger.

Mary continued to keep John informed on the sightings in Point Pleasant. This letter reports on a Mothman encounter and two UFO sightings. I apologize for cutting off the top of the letter; John stapled several of these sheets together, and I wanted to keep them intact.