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Published by Legacy Remembers on Jul. 3, 2009.

NEW YORK - John A. Keel, author of "The Mothman Prophecies," died Friday. He was 79. Keel died of congestive heart failure at a Manhattan hospital, his friend Larry "Ratso" Sloman, said Tuesday. "The Mothman Prophecies," was made into a movie about paranormal phenomena starring Richard Gere. Keel was born Alva John Kiehle. He was best known for his writings about unidentified flying objects and the paranormal. In his 1970 book "UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse," he linked UFO reports to mysterious phenomena over the centuries. "The Mothman Prophecies" was Keel's account of his 1966-1967 investigation into sightings in West Virginia of a strange winged creature called the Mothman. The book was loosely adapted into a 2002 movie starring Gere and Alan Bates, who played two parts of Keel's personality.

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May 18, 2023

It was a bad day in July 2009 when i heard JK had passed away.
He was old enough to have been my father...and in some ways he was my philosophical father.
I read every one of Keel's books i could get my grubby, eager little hands on. My first Keel book was Strange Creatures from Time and Space (1970)...a world of mystery and wonder contained in a paperback book with a fantastic Frank Frazetta cover... for 75 cents.

Keel was very well read, had a very sharp distinctive writing style, a wicked sense of humor at times, and opened up whole new ways of viewing the world that permanently warped my young brain in a good way.

Keel revealed our world to be a much larger, stranger, more mysterious place lurking at the edge of the reality we normally observe.

God Bless you John Keel...Thank you...and well done.
jf
May-2023