John Keel

John Alva Keel (March 25, 1930 - July 3, 2009) was an American journalist and author, popularly known for his 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies, an account of his investigation into the titular Mothman of West Virginia, particularly relating to encounters reported in the areas around Point Pleasant and his own unusual experiences linked to the events, and for his ultraterrestrial thesis of UFO and related contact phenomena (including demons, fairies, and ghosts), in which such contacts are thought to be purposefully strange, masking the unknown agenda of the other-dimensional beings responsible for them.

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Keel was also the editor of the magazine Anomaly (New York: Specialized Research).