John Keel - Extreme High Strangeness

[Lord Grantham]

Came across this recently http://johnkeel.com, it's the notes and letters of the late John Keel, author of "The Mothman Prophecies" (for those who aren't aware). His notes are fascinating as they document MIB encounters, his own UFO sightings, his phones being tapped, his mail being intercepted, hoaxes conducted by other UFO researchers, and general UFO nut shenanigans. I started reading last week and spent two days reading as far back as page 20 on the blog before I got burnt out after a couple of days.

But, what's really interesting is this report titled "The Strange Case of the Pregnant Woman" which was typed up in 1967 or 1968 and was not intended for publication at the time. It's broken up into six parts and is well worth starting from the beginning. It involves a contactee acting as an intermediary between John and an MIB
Part 1: http://www.johnkeel.com/?p=1968
Part 2: http://www.johnkeel.com/?p=1976
Part 3: http://www.johnkeel.com/?p=1985
Part 4: http://www.johnkeel.com/?p=1994
Part 5: http://www.johnkeel.com/?p=2002
Part 6: http://www.johnkeel.com/?p=2009

Part 6 is where things go completely off the rails.
http://www.johnkeel.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/PREGNANTWOMAN21.jpg (Link provided in case the image is too small)


I don't know what to make of this. In all my years of Art Bell listening and fortean reading I've never come across a story like this before. There are three options here:
1) This actually happened, John Keel helped deliver several human alien hybrid children.
2) Someone pulled off the prank / disinformation campaign of the century against John.
3) John completely made it up.

What do you guys make of it?

[AZZERAE]

OMFG

[Uncle Duke]

Came across this recently http://johnkeel.com, it's the notes and letters of the late John Keel, author of "The Mothman Prophecies" (for those who aren't aware). His notes are fascinating as they document MIB encounters, his own UFO sightings, his phones being tapped, his mail being intercepted, hoaxes conducted by other UFO researchers, and general UFO nut shenanigans. I started reading last week and spent two days reading as far back as page 20 on the blog before I got burnt out after a couple of days.

But, what's really interesting is this report titled "The Strange Case of the Pregnant Woman" which was typed up in 1967 or 1968 and was not intended for publication at the time. It's broken up into six parts and is well worth starting from the beginning. It involves a contactee acting as an intermediary between John and an MIB
Part 1: http://www.johnkeel.com/?p=1968
Part 2: http://www.johnkeel.com/?p=1976
Part 3: http://www.johnkeel.com/?p=1985
Part 4: http://www.johnkeel.com/?p=1994
Part 5: http://www.johnkeel.com/?p=2002
Part 6: http://www.johnkeel.com/?p=2009

Part 6 is where things go completely off the rails.
http://www.johnkeel.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/PREGNANTWOMAN21.jpg (Link provided in case the image is too small)


I don't know what to make of this. In all my years of Art Bell listening and fortean reading I've never come across a story like this before. There are three options here:
1) This actually happened, John Keel helped deliver several human alien hybrid children.
2) Someone pulled off the prank / disinformation campaign of the century against John.
3) John completely made it up.

What do you guys make of it?

#2 definitely happened alot, Gray Barker messed with Keel a great deal. Barker was one of the early UFO writers, a guy from WV who thought UFOs were all bunk, but wrote books as if he believed in UFOs.  He was a born prankster who used stories and people he made up in his books, including introducing MIB.

Barker had Keel chasing his tail alot relative to Mothman and his research efforts in Point Pleasant.  Keel's stories about getting anonymous messages and people contacting him despite "anyone" knowing he was in PP, that was all Barker.  Keel trusted Barker, as apparently did the newspaper reporter from nearby Athens, Ohio, who was Keel's confidant and colleague in the area.  Between what Keel himself and the reporter shared with Barker, they thought in confidence, pranking and messing with Keel was like shooting fish in a barrel for Barker. 

[Robert]

#2 definitely happened alot, Gray Barker messed with Keel a great deal. Barker was one of the early UFO writers, a guy from WV who thought UFOs were all bunk, but wrote books as if he believed in UFOs.  He was a born prankster who used stories and people he made up in his books, including introducing MIB.

Barker had Keel chasing his tail alot relative to Mothman and his research efforts in Point Pleasant.  Keel's stories about getting anonymous messages and people contacting him despite "anyone" knowing he was in PP, that was all Barker.  Keel trusted Barker, as apparently did the newspaper reporter from nearby Athens, Ohio, who was Keel's confidant and colleague in the area.  Between what Keel himself and the reporter shared with Barker, they thought in confidence, pranking and messing with Keel was like shooting fish in a barrel for Barker.

Why didn't I think of that?  It all makes sense now.

I got to know John a little in his later years as his contacts in the New York Fortean Society and among magicians died off and drifted away.  I thought to probe him a little about some of the things he'd written that didn't seem credible, but he got defensive so I backed off.  Mostly I think I bored him.

[Robert]

Barker had Keel chasing his tail alot relative to Mothman and his research efforts in Point Pleasant.  Keel's stories about getting anonymous messages and people contacting him despite "anyone" knowing he was in PP, that was all Barker.

One of the names spoken as a source for these contacts was "Indrid Cold" or "Culd", though they were not spoken directly to Keel so he was guessing at the spelling.  It now occurs to me that "Indrid" meant "kindred" as in spirit.  "Indrid Cold" might've meant "kindred spirit to Keel/Kiehl" or "Indrid Culd" might've meant "kindred gulled".

[Robert]

I talked over that explanation with a longtime reader of Keel's who got to meet him with me, and he couldn't dismiss it.