See You on CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING

 

  Bigfoot Sun by Andy Finkle 

 

  CBS Sunday Morning is scheduled to air their examination of cryptozoology this morning. Turn in to watch another part of my life.

   

 Exists and International Cryptozoology Museum (and folks linked to the study) will be highlighted when CBS Sunday Morning broadcasts their cryptozoology segment this Sunday, November 11, 2012!

 Here is what the CBS site says:

SCIENCE: Cryptozoology In Jefferson, Texas , a group of like-minded (or should we say, like-obsessed) people gathered to swap stories of strange sightings - mysterious animals and elusive creatures lurking in the deep woods. Serena Altschul reports on the science of hidden animals.

Reporter Serena Altschul

 This fall producer Mary Lou Teel and her crew, along with senior (but youthful) correspondent Serena Altschul, visited Portland, Maine's International Cryptozoology Museum, and spent a full day filming at the site, interviewing me (Loren Coleman), and talking to visitors to the collection.  Then during the weekend of October 20th, the CBS  journeyed to Jefferson, Texas, and recorded hours of background footage and interviews.

  CBS will also show a micro-second screening of a few clips of the new Bigfoot film, Exists, (set in Texas), on their broadcast of CBS Sunday Morning.

   

  Bigfoot Sol by Don Brown

The Man Who Predicted The Aurora Shooting

"One measures a circle, beginning anywhere."

~ Charles Fort, Lo!, 1931.

The avant-garde blog, Dangerous Minds, has posted a concise overview about a recent segment of my work. The piece relates to the pre-event indictors I saw that resulted in me anticipating a significant violent event would occur with the opening and release of The Dark Knight Rises.

On September 17, 2012, Dangerous Minds published "Copycat Effect: Meet The Man Who Predicted The Aurora Shooting" by British writer Thomas McGrath. You will want to read it.

I thank the author for his respectful article, which in a few hundred words tries to capture 30 years of my serious research of the copycat effect. I also appreciate those readers who are open-mindedly digesting this material, with the understanding that forecasting human behavior is going to be the next leap forward in foresnic psychology and the prevention of suicidal and homicidal events.

I've been doing this research for a long time. It is not often that someone captures the essence of it as well as this British profiler did.

I realize that some people don't like the use of the word "prediction" in the article's headline, for I am clearly not a psychic and do not claim to be one. But it is a useful handle to quickly communicate a concept about pre-event forecasting that few people understand.

If you read what I said on July 19th, the reality is that I did write before the Aurora event, in seemingly "prophetic" tones for people outside this field, that something big and violent, tied quite specifically to the opening of The Dark Knight Rises, was going to occur on July 20, 2012. This was not written after the fact. It was noted before it happened. There was a great deal to what I said, about past patterns, Joker copycats, violence, and examples like the anniversary of the Norway shootings that took place when Captain America was released on July 22, 2011.

I appreciate the accolades and accords given to me by Dangerous Minds author Thomas McGrath. I thank him for his clear reading of my insights, which, while grounded in Fort's and Jung's works that I read over 50 years ago, were not held against me. 

We all start somewhere, as per the famed quote up top, and I'm delighted with my conceptualizations that have matured nicely since then.

The Copycat Effect

(NY: Simon and Schuster, 2004)