Table Of ContentAbout the Author
JOHN A. KEEL has been on the spoor of the weird ones for a quarter-century.
For that long he has been tracking down the wild tales of aliens from outer
space, of the Big Foots of California, of snakes that glow, and of all the strange
and terrifying and sometimes injurious creatures that ordinary citizens keep
running into. He has become the top man in the field of the inexplicable. And
something more.
Keel has an explanation for the unusual things he recounts. In his mountain
of way-out evidence he sees a pattern and he draws a conclusion—original,
startling, and convincing.
Keel was born in monster country—on a farm near Silver Lake, New York,
home of one of America's native sea serpents. He began writing articles on
UFOs in 1945, two years before the great UFOmania began. In 1952 he
produced a Halloween broadcast from Frankenstein Castle in Germany, and in
1954 he saw his first flying saucer—while exploring the Upper Nile on an
Egyptology kick. For years Keel wandered about Asia in search of the strange
and occult. The last American to enter Tibet from the Indian side, he spent
weeks tracking the Abominable Snowman. He has written books on UFOs, and
articles on all sorts of sightings for Playboy and Fate magazines. Essentially he
is an open-minded skeptic. There is no one alive better qualified to report on and
interpret the antirational "unacceptable" flood of evidence of today than Keel.
STRANGE
CREATURES
FROM TIME
AND SPACE
by John A. Keel
This book is gratefully dedicated to IVAN T. SANDERSON, who has spent
his life bringing sanity to hitherto insane subjects. He graciously permitted
us to quote extensively from his books Abominable Snowmen: Legend
Come to Life (Chilton, Philadelphia, 1961) and Uninvited Visitors (Cowles,
New York, 1967). Mr. Charles Bowen, editor of the Flying Saucer Review,
allowed us to quote from his magazine and from the book, The Humanoids
(Neville Spearman, London, 1969).
New Saucerian Books, Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Copyright © 2014 by: John A. Keel
All rights reserved
ISBN: 1-4991-0550-9
ISBN-13: 9781499105506
Contents
1 A World Filled with Ambling Nightmares
2 "The Uglies and the Nasties"
3 Demon Dogs and Phantom Cats
4 Flying Felines
5 The Incomprehensibles
6 Giants in the Earth
7 The Hairy Ones
8 Meanwhile in the Soviet Union
9 Big Feet and Little Brains
10 Creatures from the Black Lagoon
11 Those Silly "Flying Saucer" People
12 The Big Joke from Outer Space
13 Cattle Rustlers from the Skies
14 The Grinning Man
15 The Bedroom Invaders
16 Winged Weirdos
17 The Man-Birds
18 West Virginia's "Mothman"
19 Unidentified Swimming Objects
20 Scoliophis Atlanticus
21 The Great Sea Serpent of Silver Lake, New York
22 The Yellow Submarine Caper
23 Something Else . . .
Organizations and Publications
STRANGE
CREATURES
FROM TIME
AND SPACE
ONE
A World Filled with Ambling Nightmares
NO MATTER where you live on this planet, someone within two hundred miles
of your home has had a direct confrontation with a frightening apparition or
inexplicable "monster" within the last generation. Perhaps it was even your
cousin or your next-door neighbor. There is a chance—a very good one—that
sometime in the next few years you will actually come face to face with a giant
hair-covered humanoid or a little man with bulging eyes, surrounded by a
ghostly greenish glow.
An almost infinite variety of known and unknown creatures thrive on this
mudball and appear regularly year after year, century after century. Uncounted
millions of people have been terrified by their unexpected appearances in
isolated forests, deserted highways, and even in the quiet back streets of heavily
populated cities. Whole counties have been seized by "monster mania," with
every available man joining armed posses to beat the bushes in search for the
unbelievable somethings that have killed herds of cows and slaughtered dogs
and horses.
Over the past hundred years, thousands of intriguing human interest items
have appeared in newspapers all over the world, describing incredible
encounters with awesome creatures unknown to science. Can all these items be
hoaxes and journalistic jokes? Can we believe that the major wire services,
whose very existence depends on their reliability, employ men to concoct and
circulate irresponsible tales about hairy giants and helmeted pygmies stepping
from circular flying machines? Can we conclude that the millions of badly
frightened people who have reported such encounters to the local police and
authorities are merely pathological liars and lunatics?
We know that our little planet is infested with remarkable animals and insects
that defy common sense. Have you ever considered the total absurdity of the
giraffe? Or that inane rodent, the lemming, swarms of which periodically march
across miles of ice in the Arctic to drown themselves in the sea?
Scientists had a good laugh in 1856, when Paul du Chaillu returned from the
Congo and described his encounter with a hairy giant. "He stood about a dozen
yards from us, and was a sight I think I shall never forget," Du Chaillu reported.
Description:John Keel's "Strange Creatures From Time and Space," originally published in 1970 with artwork by Frank Frazetta, is a comprehensive encyclopedia of monsters from around the world, including: -Fantastic flying saucer occupants; True psychic phenomena; Phantom killers of people and livestock; The ful
