Goodbye to John Keel

Possibly this is of interest only to Forteans–certainly he wasn’t on a par with Walter Cronkite–but I was saddened to see in the Boston Globe that John Keel died last week. It’s almost unfortunate that the dismal movie, which had almost nothing whatsoever to do with Keel’s mind-blowing non-fiction book, The Mothman Prophecies, was made, because it eclipsed Keel’s real work and his out-of-the-box thinking about paranormal phenomena. Keel was a greater influence on me than anyone else in this respect, and I recommend his books, along with those of Jacques Vallée, to anyone interested in Forteana, anomalous events, and how they relate to history and folklore. Good bye, Mr. Keel, you’ll be missed.