July 24, 1997: Casebook on the Men In Black - Jim Keith
The Art Bell Archive · Arthur William Bell III
November 6, 20232h 44m
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Show Notes
Art Bell interviews author Jim Keith about his book Casebook on the Men in Black, a serious investigation into the phenomenon behind the Hollywood comedy. Keith identifies at least four categories of men in black encounters: government agents silencing witnesses, hoaxers, delusional reports, and a residual percentage that appears genuinely paranormal and defies conventional explanation.
Keith presents the disturbing case of Dr. Hopkins in Maine, who was visited in 1976 by a bald, lipless man in black while researching a UFO abduction. The visitor demonstrated apparent psychic ability by identifying coins in the doctor's pocket, then caused a penny to slowly dematerialize in Hopkins' open hand. The man warned that the same thing had happened to UFO abductee Barney Hill's heart. Hopkins destroyed all his research and never investigated UFOs again.
The program traces men in black accounts back to the 1500s, when similar figures appeared in connection with witchcraft and plague outbreaks across Europe. Callers share their own encounters, including a woman whose terminally ill father was visited by men in black who told him they would return to take him to his deceased wife. Keith concludes that while most cases involve government intimidation, a small but irreducible core of encounters remains unexplainable.
Keith presents the disturbing case of Dr. Hopkins in Maine, who was visited in 1976 by a bald, lipless man in black while researching a UFO abduction. The visitor demonstrated apparent psychic ability by identifying coins in the doctor's pocket, then caused a penny to slowly dematerialize in Hopkins' open hand. The man warned that the same thing had happened to UFO abductee Barney Hill's heart. Hopkins destroyed all his research and never investigated UFOs again.
The program traces men in black accounts back to the 1500s, when similar figures appeared in connection with witchcraft and plague outbreaks across Europe. Callers share their own encounters, including a woman whose terminally ill father was visited by men in black who told him they would return to take him to his deceased wife. Keith concludes that while most cases involve government intimidation, a small but irreducible core of encounters remains unexplainable.