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apple and princess moonell

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of the ufo by charles lear the 1975 book

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by john keel the mothman prophecies is a

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complex book

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the book's through line centers on

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events in point pleasant west virginia

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from november 15 1966 to december 15

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1967. these involved ufos

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sightings of a winged humanoid with

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glowing red eyes dubbed the mothman

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and the collapse of the silver bridge

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which spanned the ohio river

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but the book is about so much more than

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that it can be read several times and

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depending on the reader's perspective

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be a completely different experience

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each time it contains

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contact ease stories abductee stories

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mib encounters

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grinning man encounters a nighttime

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bedroom invader and a checkered jacket

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strange metallic voices on the telephone

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paranoia poltergeists and prophecies

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the reader can dive in repeatedly and

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come up with a tale that is interesting

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enough on its own to warrant further

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the tale involving j.p pero apple and

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princess moonal is one of those

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john keel was a new york city resident

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and freelance writer who traveled the

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world looking for stories

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during the period covered in the mothman

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prophecies he was dividing his time

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investigating strange events in both

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point pleasant and long island

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the long island tale begins in the book

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with keel's investigation of reports of

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strange visitors

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by residents living on mount misery

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mount misery is the highest point on

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long island

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at 400 feet and put simply is a big pile

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of gravel left behind by the last

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glacier that stopped by around 20

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000 years ago one resident there told of

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being visited by four men

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three of whom looked like indians they

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politely told her that her land belonged

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to their tribe and they meant to reclaim

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she was frightened by their feet they

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had no car

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and would have had to walk through mud

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to get to her house and yet they had

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none on their shoes

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keel was running into many similar

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stories of people who didn't seem to

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quite fit in

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he was becoming convinced that the

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people being described were

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extraterrestrials from another planet

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or ultra-terrestrials from another

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dimension mount misery has a long

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history of paranormal reports going back

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to the original natives who avoided it

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the local expert on that history was

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joanne pirano

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kiel got in touch with her she

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introduced him to some local contactees

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and things got weird piranha went by the

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name jp

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paro as a radio personality on wbab

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babylon and keel uses this name in the

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book

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a character named jane also represents

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piranha in the book

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jane is used for episodes of alien

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ultraterrestrial contact

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and paro is used for the less bizarre

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moments the following is the tale

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told in the book after a ufo encounter

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that involved missing time

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jane was instructed by a strange

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over the phone to go to the nearby

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she was told to look for a particular

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book on indian history

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and read page 42. at the library she was

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struck by the librarians on appearance

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which was mostly due to her 1940s style

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the woman handed her the book as if she

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was expecting her

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when jane went to read page 42 the print

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then grew large and a message emerged

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the message began with a friendly

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and informed her she had been chosen for

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contact through

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auto suggestion and that she must take

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notes when

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in the suggestion state it was signed a

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pal the text returned to normal and jane

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was sick and vomiting for the next two

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at one point the woman approached her

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and asked if there was any au

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in the area jane described that her

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speech and behavior were bizarre

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as if she were dead the woman later

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peter is coming jane connected the

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statement with the catholic belief that

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peter will be the name of the last pope

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then a new black cadillac pulled up a

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man opened the back door and stepped out

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the suit's shiny silk-like material was

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similar to that of the clothing worn by

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the librarian his hand was icy cold as

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he shook jane's hand

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and he told her his name was apple

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spelled a-p-o-l

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he gave jane a small metal disc wrapped

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in an old parchment

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and told her to wear it at all times she

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mailed it to keel

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he examined it and sent it back when she

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received it it had turned black and

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smelled like

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rotten eggs in the meantime pero was

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visited at the station by a

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very dark woman with glassy eyes

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wearing a costume made of feathers she

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was gasping for breath

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and managed to get out that she was

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she told pero that she had arrived from

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another planet in a flying

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saucer power interviewed her on tape and

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she described her life on ceres

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and called some phonies while praising

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as she talked an odor like rotten eggs

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overpowering apple and his friends

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visited jane and gave her details of

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they also gave her disturbing

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predictions to pass along to him

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keel then went to jane's house

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hypnotized her and talked to apple

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apple wanted to gossip about marilyn

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grave danger

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apple predicted some plane crashes and

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the plane crashes came to be and keel

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was convinced that apple and other

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entities like him

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were in touch with the future he also

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jane would call him and give him a

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message from apple that answered it

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besides jane kiel was getting messages

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from others whom he referred to as

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silent contactees because they avoided

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through them the entities gave

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keel became more and more paranoid as

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the predictions got more and more dire

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some came true such as the assassination

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of dr

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martin luther king and others didn't he

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was given one prediction that there

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would be a disaster on the ohio river

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next to point pleasant that

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unfortunately did come true

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how much of all this did keel believe

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and how much did he believe was a put on

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and did he just make some of it up for

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dramatic effect

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keel himself tells the reader that he

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felt princess moon owl was a put up job

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james mosley was organizing a convention

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in manhattan at the time

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and keel suspected the princess was part

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of a creative promotion campaign

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to further answer questions the reader

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is directed to the website

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johnkeel.com which is maintained by a

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long-time friend of kiehl's

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doug skinner kiel's personal notes from

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and his correspondence with piranha

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slash pero slash apple

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have been preserved by skinner who

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offers his comments

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the first thing to address is the

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prediction about dr king

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kiel wrote in his book that he received

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a phone call saying that king would be

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killed on february 4th

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he attempted to contact king and never

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got through king was actually killed on

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this writer could find nothing to

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support the claim if it was an

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embellishment

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it's quite tasteless but that doesn't

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seem to fit with kiel's character

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he could have left it out and the book

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would not have suffered

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there's also nothing to support apple's

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warning about kennedy

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despite the apparent lack of support for

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the above there is a great deal of

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evidence that keel believed he was in

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contact

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with an actual entity named apple the

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story in the book of jane's first

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meaning with apple

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is taken almost verbatim from his notes

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1967 one detail in his notes

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left out of the book was that there was

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a phone in apple's car

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he wrote that a man named joe henslick

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called to tell him

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he was visited by a man who heard he'd

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seen a flying saucer

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the man fit apple's description wore a

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gray suit and there was a telephone in

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the car

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keo constantly refers to apple

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there is chloe agar the librarian and

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argo kiel's notes relate a phone

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conversation with argo about politics

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that resulted in argo angrily yelling at

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him

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it seems as if keel believed these were

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really alien beings

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with psychic ability and the capability

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of manipulating our reality

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there's one document that skinner posted

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it's a letter to mary hire a friend and

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a reporter in point pleasant who handled

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the huge number of ufo reports that came

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into the athens messenger

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the letter is dated november 3rd 1967

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keel wrote that he believed there were

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ufo bases all over the ohio valley

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and that there was an alien military

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buildup taking place he advises hire to

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only write about ufos

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and not the people what may startle

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those unfamiliar with this letter is

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this section mary i have good reasons

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for suspecting that there may soon be a

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disaster in the point pleasant area

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which will not seem related to the ufo

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a plan along the river may either blow

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up or burn down

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possibly the navy installation in point

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pleasant will be the center of such a

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disaster

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a lot of people may be hurt if this

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should happen notify me as soon as you

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can

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and write the story normally don't even

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hint to anybody

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anything about this on december 15

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1967 the silver bridge which connected

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point pleasant with gallipolis ohio

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collapsed into the river killing 46

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people

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at the time it was the deadliest bridge

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disaster in u.s history

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keogh came to believe that he was

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dealing with entities as confused as we

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are about our place and purpose in this

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universe he ended his book with a quote

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from charles fort