The Abduction of Margaret Keane: This is a multi-part essay about art, occult influences, and alien abduction by Gideon Reid. It begins by highlighting a gap in the narrative retellings of Margaret Keane’s life story. The essay proposes two alternative inspirations for her lifelong artistic motif of painting children and adolescents with large, staring eyes, inviting readers to contemplate how, if either hypothesis is true, it would alter their perspective on Keane’s art or their belief in alien abduction