Gene Keith was a well-known American conspiracy writer.
During his lifetime, he managed to publish the books "Black helicopters over America" and "Octopus", which are still popular among ufologists, which dealt with the themes of the Secret World Government, the Illuminati, the Men in Black phenomenon and other conspiracy theories.
He was also a supporter of the theory that UFOs are of terrestrial origin and come from an alternative reality, where technological development has gone far ahead.
Jim Keith died in September 1999. At first, completely suddenly and unexpectedly for everyone, he fell off the stage at the Burning Man festival and broke his knee. And when he was taken to the hospital, he died there suddenly after a routine operation.
First, the cause of death was a blood clot that got from a wound in the knee through a vein into a lung and blocked it. However, the coroner's report stated that the death was caused by a "blunt bang."
Also, almost immediately before his death in the hospital, Keith uttered the cryptic words "I have a strong feeling that they did everything to prevent me from returning from here."
There were also signs that Keith's death was not an accident. From August 31 to September 3, 1999, Jim Keith was in active e-mail correspondence with fellow cospirologist Greg Bishop and complained to him that his computer was behaving strangely.
The next day, Bishop told him that all of his personal articles had also been destroyed on his computer and even those that he had sent to the trash can.
In response, Keith wrote to him that he is currently working on an article about hacking computers of journalists and editors.
On September 3, Bishop wrote to Keith that he might have been hacked via a modem and that the virus only deleted files in his personal folder, and did not touch other documents. And that maybe he was not even hacked, but someone entered his apartment and manually deleted files from the computer.
In response, Keith wrote to Bishop that he thanks him for his help and that he had discovered 9 conspiracy theory sites that were also hacked the other day. This was Keith Bishop's last letter.
After 4 days, Jim Keith died in the hospital, where he was brought from the "Burning Man" festival in Black Rock, Nevada.
When he suddenly fell and bruised his knee, he thought it was just a bruise. But after a few hours he got worse, got a fever, and called an ambulance, which took him to Washoe Medical Center in Reno.
There, Kit was told that he had broken a bone and that an urgent operation was needed. It was when he was being prepared for the operation and they were already preparing to give him anesthesia that Keith uttered that very phrase, "I have a steady feeling that they did everything to prevent me from returning from here."
The surgery was successful and Jim Keith was in stable condition when he was transferred to the intensive care unit. But then something happened and he died suddenly.
The cause of death, as mentioned above, was difficult to determine. First, a blood clot was named, which got into the lung, and then, after autopsy, it was indicated that the cause was "severe blunt trauma."
And those close to Jim Keith and his friends and other conspiracy theorists are still wondering if his death was violent or was it just a terrible accident.
Is it possible that an outsider entered the room and killed Jim? Quite. In those years, there were no surveillance cameras in hospitals. Could this have been an accident? Also quite. Keith was no longer young and had bone problems.
However, there are still too many strange coincidences in this case for an accident. Especially considering Keith and Bishop's correspondence about compromised computers.