John A. Keel

John A. Keel (birth name Alva John Kiehle ; born March 25, 1930 in Hornell , New York , † July 3, 2009 in New York City ) was an American author and journalist who dealt mainly with paranormal phenomena.

Life

Keel published his first book Jadoo in 1957 , which is based on a trip to India and dealt with the secrets of the local fakirs . Since the mid-1960s he dealt with UFOs and in 1970 published UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse. He relied on Charles Fort in his UFO investigations .

1975 appeared The Mothman Prophecies, which was filmed in 2002 under the title The Mothman Prophecies . In it, Keel describes the events that happened to him when he dealt with the so-called Mothman , a legendary winged creature that is said to have been sighted in various states in the USA, especially in 1966 and 1967.

Keel succumbed to heart failure in a New York hospital in 2009 .

Publications

• Jadoo. Julian Messner, 1957
• The Fickle Finger of Fate. Fawcett, 1966 (novel)
• Strange Creatures From Time and Space. Fawcett, 1970
• UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse. Putnam's, 1970
• Our Haunted Planet. Fawcett, 1971
• The Flying Saucer Subculture. In: Journal of Popular Culture. Vol. 8, No. 4, spring 1975
• The Mothman Prophecies. Saturday Review Press, 1975
  • The mothman prophecies. Deadly visions. The book about the film. Heyne, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-453-21511-7
• The Eighth Tower. Saturday Review Press, 1975
• The Maury Island Caper. In: Hilary Evans & John Spencer (Eds.): UFOs 1947-1987: The 40-Year Search for an Explanation. Fortean Tomes, London 1987
• The People Problem. In: Hilary Evans & John Spencer (Eds.): Phenomenon: From Flying Saucers to UFOs. Forty years of facts and research. Futura, London 1988
• Disneyland of the Gods. Amok Press, 1988
• The Best of John Keel. Volume 1. Edited by Andrew Honigman. Galde Press, 2006

literature

• Glenn McWane: The Great UFO Wave: October, 1973. Interview with John Keel . In: Glenn McWane & David Graham: The New UFO Sightings. Warner Paperback, 1974, pp. 26-34
• Colin Wilson : Alien Dawn. An Investigation into the Contact Experience. Virgin Books, 1998, ISBN 1852277467 , pp. 129-147

Web links

• John Keel , Doug Skinner's website with bibliography and short biography
• Literature by and about John A. Keel in the catalog of the German National Library
• John Keel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• John Keel RIP A 1992 interview with the late, great chronicler of the strange by Andy Roberts in Fortean Times (originally published in UFO Brigantia, No. 53/54, 1992)
• John A. Keel Has Died , obituary by Loren Coleman on Cryptomundo, July 6, 2009
• John Keel , Daily Telegraph obituary , July 10, 2009