JOHN KEEL NOT AN AUTHORITY ON ANYTHING

June 6, 2013

John Keel on “To Tell the Truth”

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One of John Keel’s odder media appearances was as a guest on “To Tell the Truth.”  There may be a video somewhere, but I haven’t seen it; fortunately, John saved an audio tape.  It’s undated, but since he was plugging The Mothman Prophecies, I assume it was sometime in 1975.

The sequence is ten minutes.  John and the two pseudo-Keels are quizzed by Kitty Carlisle, Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass, and Nipsey Russell on Mothman, the Yeti and Bigfoot, and ultraterrestials.  For me, it was certainly odd to hear Nipsey Russell interrogating John about Mothman, and to hear Kitty Carlisle try to figure out what an ultraterrestrial was.

For the record, the other Keels were Christopher Arnold, who described himself as an instructor, and Jeff Brown, a producer of TV commercials.  John was apparently the most convincing Keel, since only Peggy Cass voted for the wrong Keel, casting her vote for Arnold.

7 Comments

  1. Fascinating. Maybe you can make this tape available for listening on-line (YouTube, for example). Thanks.

    Comment by Ross — June 6, 2013 @ 11:51 pm

  2. I’d be happy to; I’ll see if I can get some tech assistance.

    Comment by Doug — June 7, 2013 @ 1:03 am

  3. Fascinating as always Doug! Your efforts in disclosing the Keel archive are much appreciated!

    Best regards,

    Theo

    Comment by Theo — June 9, 2013 @ 7:51 pm

  4. Yes, Doug, thanks for keeping John “alive” (so to speak). There was only one John Keel, and some of us miss him very much.

    Comment by Ross — June 10, 2013 @ 2:12 am

  5. Well, keep reading! I’m sure he’d be happy to know he still has fans.

    Comment by Doug — June 12, 2013 @ 3:50 pm

  6. YES! Please find a way to upload this so all of John’s fans can hear his voice once again. Doug, thank you so much for all the work you put into this website! We really apprreciate it.

    Comment by Randy — June 12, 2013 @ 9:29 pm

  7. I came across a “To Tell the Truth” on an over the air channel a couple months back that featured J. Allen Hynek from the 50’s. They talked a whole lot about the Socorro, NM incident. It was really cool to come across something like that in the wild.

    Comment by 8th — July 7, 2017 @ 4:16 pm

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