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A New Demonology: John Keel and the Mothman Prophecies

Name: A New Demonology: John Keel and the Mothman Prophecies
Start: 2020-03-25T19:30:00+00:00
Location: London The Bell

Presented by: London Fortean Society

0	LONDON: The Bell
P	Wednesday 25th March, 2020
N	7:30pm

Event information

From the 1960s the “ultraterrestrial hypothesis” became a popular alternative to the ETH for UFOs and other fortean anomalies as a result of the writings of the American journalist John Keel (1930-2009). Keel’s theories are best known today via his 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies that chronicled an outbreak of weirdness in the Ohio Valley, USA, that included visits by a winged humanoid (the Mothman), Men-in-Black, UFOs and animal mutilations. His book had a Hollywood makeover in 2002 and the legend is now marked by an annual Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

Dr David Clarke’s talk is based on an extended interview with Keel during his visit to the UK in 1992 and the contents of his forthcoming chapter “The Mothman of West Virginia: a case study in legendary storytelling” in The Contemporary Legend Casebook 2: North American Monsters (Utah University Press 2020)