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Title: Sheesh!
Review: If you're interested in bizarre phenomena, then by all means read Jerome Clark, Karl Shuker, and even Loren Coleman. But avoid John Keel like the plague, particularly this book. "The Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings" is anything but. Rather, it is a tendentious polemic; a synopsis of Keel's own peculiar brand of existentialism and nihilism.What to make of an "investigator" whose theories regarding strange phenomena are far weirder than the happenings themselves? What to make of this self-annointed pedant who sneers at established belief systems, the most elementary tenets of which he can't even grasp? On page 209, for example, Keel writes: "According to tradition, an angel named Gabriel impregnated Mary." Indeed? And what tradition might that be? Keel's ignorant (or is it deliberate?) blasphemy regarding the Annunciation is mind-boggling. As for the rest of the book, it's merely mind-numbing.
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