Krychaw In this report for the Ohio, Athens Messenger, Mary Hyre describes a visit to NYC. She appears with John Keel on the Long John Nebel show, interviews the enigmatic Vivenus, and attends the 1967 Congress of Scientific Ufologists. We even get a glimpse of the young James Randi, back when he gave talks at UFO conferences.
Mary Hyre reports here on two recent UFO sightings — one by Keel himself.
A longer column, reporting UFO sightings, strange footprints, and a TV appearance with Keel.
Mary Hyre was one of the first, and one of the most persistent, to cover Mothman and other strangeness in Point Pleasant. In her column, “Where the Waters Mingle,” in the Athens, Ohio Messenger, she regularly reported the latest sightings and speculations. I’ll post some of her columns here, from John’s files, starting with this one.
Here’s a brief book proposal, which seems to be from around 1966. It got no further than this, but shows John figuring out the clearest (and most commercial) way to organize his material. The report of Russian scientists obtaining a Yeti body is news to me; maybe some Yeti scholar out there has more information.
In the 1980s, John Keel made several attempts to return to his earlier career as a comedy writer. He pitched a number of comic novels and plays, none of which made it past an agent. Larry “Ratso” Sloman was then editor of the National Lampoon; and John also made a number of suggestions in the gross-out vein of that magazine (like a “sick humor” book on Hitler, called Hitler Was a Nice Guy). His only published piece was in the November 1985 issue, entitled “The Mad as Hell Issue.” 105 celebrities were invited to write about their pet peeves. most contributed only a paragraph or two, but John weighed in with a longish article. Here’s the first part of it:
However, he did make one other appearance: as an uncredited print model in the January 1986 issue. The photograph was one of several illustrating an article by Ed Subitzky and Karen Dale Boss, “The Modern Woman’s Guide to Time-Efficient Sex Planning and Management.” Since this was a pictorial on sex in the workplace, it is, by definition, not safe for work; so I’ve placed it on another page. It shows John in a way that may be unfamiliar to some of his readers.
I had posted a photocopy of Jaye Paro’s sketch of her alien/android contact Agar a while back; I’ve turned up the original, so I’ll post it here as well.
The sketch was included in a letter to John, purportedly from Mr. Apol, a dapper humanoid who also makes a memorable appearance in The Mothman Prophecies. John carried on a fascinating correspondence with this enigmatic character, who always wrote in crudely lettered red pencil. As I said in the last post, I think he was a product of Paro’s imagination or subconscious; at any rate, all of John’s dealings with him were through her.
“Tim’na” was Apol’s name for Paro, by the way. I’ll transcribe the letter, since aliens have notoriously poor penmanship; I will, however, keep the eccentric spelling and punctuation. This is a good sample of the kind of material that John was contending with on a daily basis in 1967.
TO JOHN –
GREETINGS AGAIN – HELEN OBERMEYER HAS TURNED AGAINST US – SHE HAS BEEN INSINCEAR WITH ME – FOR NOW – BE CAREFULL WHAT YOU SAY TO HER – TRUST HER NOT – HER MIND IS NOT SHARP AN CLEAR – SHE DOES NOT THINK AS WELL AS THE OTHERS – WE SHALL JUST WATCH QUIETLY NOW – LOUISE IS STILL DOING WELL – IN HER OWN WAY SHE HAS HELPED US MUCH – SHE I A SINCERE ONE – SHE IS NOT ALWAYS AWARE OF HER ACTIONS – PAT DESPOSITO WILL SOON GO ON TO W VIRGINIA – RUTH WILL STAY ON L-I – YOU MUST WARN TIMNA THAT BERNHARDT IS SECRETLY SNOOPING AROUND FOR INFO ON MT. MISERY – HE LOOK TO WRITE ALL ABOUT THE MOUNTAIN – DO NOT LET HIM STEEL STORY – I HAVE ENCLOSED A SKETCH OF AGGARR THAT TIMNA DID WHEN YOU WERE AWAY – ITS A WONDERFUL LIKENESS – AGGARR WAS WILD ABOUT IT – TIMNA IS GOOD WITH HER HANDS – NOT ONLY DOES SHE THROW THINGS WELL BUT SHE THROWS THINGS WELL TO – WATCH FOR ANOTHER AIR DISASTER BEFORE CHRISTMAS – LIGHTS WILL STOP – AN THE CITY WILL AGAIN GO INTO DARKNESS – GREENFIELD WHO ARRANGED YOUR TALK IS NOT – BY THE WAY – A CONTACTEE –
AND LT. FRANK DAVIS IS BACK ON L-I- AGAIN – GLADYS HAS CONTACTED BERNHARDT – WE HAVE CONTACTED DON – OH YOUR MAIL IS OK NOW –
I HOPE TIMNA WILL SOME DAY DRAW ME – WILL YOU ASK HER PLEASE –
USA
USA IS GOING TO BACK DOWN IN VIETNAM – COME ABOUT LATE 1968 EARLY 69 – 1969 UPSWEEP OF CHINESE INFLUENCE, AUTHORITY AN PRESTIGE – A DEAL WILL BE ARRANGED BETWEEN – USA – AN CHINA: FORMOSA AND A PLACE AT THE UNITED NATIONS, IN EXCHANGE FOR PEACE IN VIET NAM
I CAN GIVE TIMNA PREDICTIONS UP TO 1976 AN 77
QUEEN FARAH DIBA IS NOW AT A COMPARATIVELY fatEFUL PERIOD OF LIFE. WATCH FOR EVENTS OVER THE NEXT 12/18 MONTHS WHICH FATEFULLY AFFECT HER FUTURE –
I MUST END NOW – I AM DEEPLY TIRED –
EVERYTHINGS GOOD
APPELL
