Getting Spooked

Getting Spooked

That Charming Man: Indrid Cold Reconsidered, Pt. 9

Against the Urban Legend-ification of Indrid Cold, the Grinning Man

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Tanner F. Boyle
May 08, 2024
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Read Pt. 1 here.

Indrid Cold was a recurring character in Fortean journalist John A. Keel’s books cataloging our haunted planet, predating the figure’s relevance to the Point Pleasant flap and The Mothman Prophecies by half a decade. Keel gives Indrid Cold a passing mention in 1970’s Why UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse in a section dedicated to strange lang…

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