ordering isotretinoin online without a precription Lynn Catoe’s letter must have provoked John, because he answered with a remarkable letter. He writes about his abandoned UFO book with Ivan Sanderson, hoax letters from “The International Bankers,” experiences with his network of “silent contactees,” and interactions with his fellow researchers Gray Barker, Jim Moseley, and Gordon Evans. He also goes into more detail about his research and objectives.
The Straith letter was a letter written to contactee George Adamski by Barker and Moseley, on stolen stationery from the Department of State. The supposed writer, “R. E. Straith,” said he believed Adamski’s claims, but had to keep his support secret. Joseph Henslik was a supposed contactee whom John believed had been coached by Barker and Moseley.
Wow I wonder if this type of thing happened to John throughout the decades or if it stopped by the seventies. He seems to have gotten things in his life in order by then and write his Mothman book. Did he ever mention these experiences to you Doug or did he keep these things secret?
Comment by Joseph — March 17, 2020 @ 1:20 am
Wow, some heavy lifting here. John was very circumspect in describing his “rescue operations.” Elsewhere I’ve read his descriptions of fraught evenings dealing with multiple crises, including his talking the alleged mother of an alien hybrid through her labor. I think it’s interesting that Moseley and Barker weren’t plagued by this sort of thing, but John and, to a lesser extent, Sanderson were. Reprehensible as their games were, perhaps the fact that they didn’t take it seriously protected them. Maybe it was a case of, as a friend of mine once said, “I’ll see it when I believe it.”
I seem to remember Moseley saying in Saucer Smear that John called him (Mosely) “a pimple on the ass of ufology.” Was the Strait letter the major source of their enmity?
Comment by Ozinor — March 17, 2020 @ 12:04 pm
That night John spent talking through a birth over the telephone (which he wrote up as “The Case of the Pregnant Woman”) is the incident I’m familiar with. Both Moseley and Barker were fond of pranks, and took the subject less seriously than John. John and Moseley did enjoy insulting each other, but I don’t know how much enmity there really was.
Comment by Doug — March 18, 2020 @ 10:19 am
He did keep mentioning strange experiences. In later years, some were certainly due to his medical problems. Ingo Swann and I once took him home after an eye operation, and he claimed someone had written hieroglyphics all over his door. We assured him that they would go away once his eye had healed. I’m sure he also kept many experiences secret.
Comment by Doug — March 18, 2020 @ 10:25 am
I’m sorry to hear that John went through that in his later years.
Comment by Joseph — March 18, 2020 @ 11:05 am
Hi, Doug,
Could you delete one of my posts, preferably the first. I thought I was in an editor before posting. Sorry.
Comment by ozinor — March 18, 2020 @ 8:54 pm
Done!
Comment by Doug — March 18, 2020 @ 10:26 pm
Found this website recently, just want to say thanks to creator as John Keel has been my favorite author for some time. I do want to relay a quick story I think those reading these comments would find interesting. IN 2013 I finally read The Mothman Prophecies. I avoided that book simply because I had seen the movie years prior to becoming familiar with keels work, and hated it, but after reading every other book of his multiple times I had to give it a chance. AMAZING. I loved it and the thoughts it caused in me were profound. I came to realize what he was talking about with the phone interference and odd noises, lights, etc. were things I had experienced years before and never tied to my ufo sightings which occurred around the same time these things were happening.
I read his book a couple of times and was thinking about the subject matter intensely for several days when I got a series of bizarre messages left on my machine. I had a digital answering machine at the time, no cell phone. I worked nights and was awoken twice in the afternoon by rings. I let the machine pick up both times. The second message was going on and on and after minutes of listening from my bedroom down the hall I thought the message must be something important so I groggily stumbled down the hallway to listen and pick up…As I stood over the machine I realized it wasn’t a personalized message to me or anyone, this was a conversation. This conversation was between two men I do not know. I didn’t recognize the number either. The absolutely disturbing thing is the content of the conversation, besides not knowing how a conversation was recorded on my answering machine. It was between a man and I assume spiritual advisor. The man was saying his father is talking to his grandfather who is dead, the reply was “the spirits don’t talk to you man, those are demons” The conversation continued and the last thing that was said was “just don’t talk about it, if it keeps happening i’ll help you, but the more you talk about it the stronger it gets, it feeds off your negative energy man, be positive” I couldn’t believe it. The very concept that Keel discussed in his book, entities feeding off of peoples energy/psyche, was being discussed, seriously, by strangers recorded on my phone! There is also odd noises/clicking/squeeling that I do not know and do not sound like normal disturbance. It’s all very odd. Love Keel much and appreciate this great site!
Comment by adam — March 22, 2020 @ 4:00 am
That’s quite a strange phone experience! The movie was good for John, since it stimulated book sales, but it did give many people a wrong idea of the book. Well, enjoy the site. There’s more to come!
Comment by Doug — March 22, 2020 @ 8:30 pm
After this letter she still went out with him?? Theres a lot of paranoid, grandiose, and self pitying thinking here. And asking her to describe her d&c is bizarre and inappropriate. And it is parallel to the issues he had with Paro, re birth, aliens directing or influencing births in ufo witnesses, and his fathering a ufo child. I cant help but think that continued exposure to the trickster element,, in the ufo phenomenon itself, various dodgy contractees and practical joker competitive researchers might have, in a medically compromised and “occult unprepared’” person, have been skewing his perceptions. Forteans and I think John might be described this way, are observers of the bizarre, but aren’t trained (mentally strengthened) enough to deal with the the onslaught of weird that happens. They end up struggling to make the trickster into something logical.
Comment by Patty g — March 24, 2020 @ 8:57 am
That letter would have sent me running too! But she and John were both friends of Alma and Ivan Sanderson, so maybe that reassured her. John was smart, hard-working, and a tireless reader, but he had no training for the morass of ufology. In later years, he warned people against it: “It’ll rot your brain!”
Comment by Doug — March 24, 2020 @ 2:53 pm