Ten years and five books later, his obsession with UFOs was satiated with the publication of The Eighth Tower, a summing up of his crank cosmology.
Intrigued by a UFO flap near his birthplace in upstate New York, he began researching an article for Playboy. Keel returned to New York in 1965, just in time for the big blackout. After writing all of Merv Griffin’s early ad-libs, he packed up and moved to Hollywood, where he spent a year “hating every minute of it.” When he returned to the States in the mid-’50s Keel lectured extensively, then settled back in his adopted hometown, New York City, where he served as head writer for Goodson and Todman, the TV impresarios, working on their hits To Tell the Truth, I’ve Got a Secret and the Price Is Right.
Along the way he became world famous for his expose of the Indian rope trick and adept at the fine art of cobra-charming. He spent years circumnavigating the globe, peeking into the most arcane comers of the Third World, researching their ancient magical beliefs and rites.
Mention his name back in the 1950s and the response would be, “Oh, isn’t he that guy who knows everything about black magic and the occult?” By the ’70s Keel’s name had become synonymous with UFOs, as his fascinating ideas revolutionized the way we looked at those mysterious things in the sky.īut Keel was no armchair theorist. John Keel has spent much of his life being the world’s foremost authority. Keel, republished below on the occasion of his birthday March 25. From the February, 1984 issue of High Times comes Jim Cusimano’s and Larry Sloman’s story about Mr. He chased UFOs, Bigfoot and the dreaded “ men in black“-and lived to tell the tales. He exposed fakirs in India and charmed cobras in Times Square.
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