Our Haunted Planet - John Keel-pages

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false angels and demigods. The Bible repeatedly discusses these entities and their influence upon man, always describing them as humanlike beings usually travelling in threes and possessing remarkable superhuman powers. "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares,’ we are warned in Hebrews 13:2. Three men, usually of Oriental countenance and dressed in sombre black clothing, play important roles in both flying saucer and religious lore. For years the (lying saucer researchers who encountered these Men In Black (MIB) believed they were secret agents of the CIA seat to harass them. These MIB have been seen most often riding about in large black automobiles, usually Cadillacs, and they have engaged in frightening tactics, harassing amateur UFO sleuths. There are hundreds of reports from all over the world in which these mysterious gentlemen have approached UFO witnesses and investigators, warning, even threatening, them to be silent about what they had seen. Since these entities and their big black automobiles have an uncanny talent for disappearing into thin air, investigators examining the stories of their victims have tended to dismiss such accounts as lies and hallucinations. Then, as has happened in so many cases, when these sceptical investigators had MIB encounters of their own, they have panicked in confusion. There has been an appalling number of sudden deaths, suicides, and nervous breakdowns among UFO investigators in the past twenty years. On the religious level these same MIB, answering the same descriptions of the UFO harassers, have always been regarded as’ agents of the devil - or the devil himself. The antics of these characters have kept the devil myth ah' ve into modern times, and there are still numerous religious cults hopelessly engaged in battling and trying to outwit them... but they alwaysmanage tostayone jump ahead of their pursuers. Most of their deeds and manipulations appear to be nothing more than mischievous games. The activities of these parahumans are largely confined to specific areas of this planet, where they appear and reappear century after century. The angels keep their ancient places," poet Francis Thompson wrote. Thus there are many ‘haunted' places all over the world, shunned by andent man or made sacred by him. These are precise geographical locations, and anyone digging into the history and lore of such locations will find thousands of accounts of ghosts. demons, monsters, and flying saucers pinpointed within a few square miles and covering a thousand years or more of time. To UFO cultists such places are Windows: entry points for spaceships front some distant planet. Occultists teach that these are Gateways: weak spots in the Earth's etheric envelope through which beings from other space-time continuums seep through into our reality. « Sussex County in England is one Gateway, as are the Mississippi Valley, the Ohio Valley, and parts of our western states, such as the area around Frescott, Arizona. There are literally thousands of these weak spots all over our planet. Paranormal and supernatural activities in these areas seem to be controlled by complicated cyclic factors. Periodically, all hell breaks loose in all these places simultaneously, and then we have a flap, or wave, of UFO sightings, ap- paritions, poltergeists, sudden inexplicable disappearances of animals and human beings, mysterious fires, and even a form of mass madness.