1. John Alva Keel, born Alva John Kiehle, was an American journalist and influential ufologist who is known best as author of The Mothman Prophecies.
23 Facts About John Keel
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John Keel was fascinated by magic from an early age and was known as "Houdini" by his friends.
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John Keel loved reading about magic, humor, science, travel, and aviation.
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John Keel had a column in the Perry Herald named Scraping The Keel, he published a science fiction fanzine named The Lunarite and he routinely sent stories to magazines in New York.
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John Keel lived in Greenwich Village and became the editor of a poetry magazine.
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John Keel was drafted into the US Army during the Korean War.
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John Keel claimed that while in the Army he was trained in psychological warfare as a propaganda writer.
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John Keel tried to find performers of the Indian rope trick, investigate fakirs and yogis and he even tried to track the Yeti.
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John Keel wrote some novels using the pseudonym, Harry Gibbs.
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John Keel made repeated visits to Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and investigated sightings that was the topic of his best known book, The Mothman Prophecies.
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John Keel was a technical advisor to the Library of Congress, and special consultant to the office of Scientific Research and Bureau of Radiology, before becoming a consultant to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
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John Keel is considered "one of ufology's most widely-read and influential authors".
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John Keel invented the term men in black in an article for the men's adventure magazine Saga published 1967.
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However, after a year of investigations, John Keel concluded that the extraterrestrial hypothesis was untenable.
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For example, monsters, ghosts and demons, the fairy faith of Middle Europe, vampire legends, mystery airships in 1897, mystery aeroplanes of the 1930s, mystery helicopters, anomalous creature sightings, poltergeist phenomena, spheres of light, and unidentified flying objects; John Keel conjectured that ultimately all of these anomalies are a cover for the real phenomenon.
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John Keel used the term "ultraterrestrials" to describe UFO occupants he believed to be non-human entities capable of assuming whatever form they desire.
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John Keel did not state any hypothesis about the ultimate purpose of the phenomenon other than that the UFO intelligence seems to have a long-standing interest with interacting with the human race.
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John Keel was pleased with director Mark Pellingtons interpretation of the book:.
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Sherwood reported that John Keel, who was well known for writing humorous and outrageous letters to friends and associates, would not assist him in clarifying the differences.
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John Keel once had a business card that read: John A Keel, Not an Authority on Anything.
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John Keel's apartment was "littered with literally tens of thousands of books in stacks, and papers piled unreachably high".
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For many years, John Keel resided in the Upper West Side of New York City.
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John Keel died on July 3,2009, in New York City, at the age of 79.