Twilight Language

The twilight language explores hidden meanings and synchromystic connections via onomatology (study of names) and toponymy (study of place names). This blog further investigates "name games" and "number coincidences" found in news and history. Examinations are also found in my book The Copycat Effect (NY: Simon and Schuster, 2004).

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Rampage Ripples

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On the half-month anniversary of the NIU shootings, the volume of rampage-style shootings and school violence stories have been on the incre...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

NIU Ripples

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As the half-month anniversary of the Valentine's Day shootings approaches on February 28th, a potential date for copycats, campus alerts...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Signal Stabbings

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Hours before school stabbings left two students dead in China , coincidentally in California, two people were stabbed at a Fullerton theater...
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Web Sleuths & NIU

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"I call it the death cult of Columbine," Loren Coleman, author of The Copycat Effect , said to The Chicago Tribune . "It live...
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Monday, February 25, 2008

Asian School Stabbings

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To place the breaking news of today's school stabbing in context, I have created a summary list of recent Japanese and Chinese stabbings...
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China: Fatal School Attack

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A school attack has occurred Monday in China that has left three dead and four injured. It ended in the suicide of the attacker, as frequent...
Saturday, February 23, 2008

NIU Killer's Web Tracks

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Revealing of the hidden and the covert, the twilight language of school shooters, could prevent future tragic incidents. Late in the afterno...
Friday, February 22, 2008

Kazmierczak on O'Reilly

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Bill O'Reilly (on the right) who only recently has thrown around the word " lynching " in conjunction to Michelle Obama, may a...
Monday, February 18, 2008

Dates & Dark Matters

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On February 9th, I wrote: "Look for major surprises in school shootings and similar mass rampages...." On February 14th, the NIU c...
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Sunday, February 17, 2008

NIU Blame Game

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The NIU shootings have caused an outpouring of wall-to-wall coverage, complete with conflicting theories about the shooter being on drugs, o...
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Saturday, February 16, 2008

Welsh Cluster Continues

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Remarkably, authorities have increasingly ignored the obvious links between the suicide cluster deaths sweeping Bridgend, Wales. Reporters f...
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Valentine's Killer

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Lots of attention, needless to say, is being given by the media to the Northern Illinois University shootings on Valentine's Day. I...
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Friday, February 15, 2008

Valentine's Dangers

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My book, The Copycat Effect , is dedicated to my maternal grandmother, who died in a Valentine's Day murder-suicide. I penned that dedic...

NIU Shooter: Steve Kazmierczak

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From hints of information noted in the media, the NIU shooter must allegedly be the former Academic Criminal Justice Association Vice-Presid...
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Thursday, February 14, 2008

New St. Valentine's Day Massacre

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Another painful anniversary created: Six people are dead in February 14th's Northern Illinois University shooting, including the shoote...
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NIU Shooting

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I began writing a blog this morning about "school shootings", and was adding more as this just came in... This Thursday afternoon,...
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Saturday, February 09, 2008

Shootings Shatter Gender Barrier

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Change is in the air. And danger. The Louisiana Tech killing of two nursing students destroys the recent truism that male shooters were the...
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Friday, February 08, 2008

Copycat Rampages?

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Two mass shootings, a school invasion, and overseas rampages in the last 24 hours appear to indicate something is in the air, and now this.....
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Joker's Fatal Mistake

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Heath Ledger did not officially die of a suicide. However, his method of playing the Joker role in The Dark Knight may have contributed to ...
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Saturday, January 26, 2008

The Sunday Times: Loren Coleman

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The Sunday Times of London's correspondent interviews Loren Coleman, suicide prevention consultant and author, with the cluster of yout...
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Loren Coleman
Investigator of human and animal mysteries since 1960. Swamp Thing character "Coleman Wadsworth" in #4:7 and more in #4:8, is a tribute. Author of over 35 books, including The Unidentified (1975), Mysterious America (1983/2007), Suicide Clusters (1987), Cryptozoology A to Z (1999), Bigfoot! (2003), The Copycat Effect (2004), and field guides. Educated in anthropology-zoology at SIU-Carbondale, and psychiatric social work at Simmons College School of Social Work. Began doctoral work in anthropology (Brandeis University) and family violence (UNH). Taught at NE universities (1980 to 2003), while concurrently a senior researcher at the Muskie School (1983 to 1996), before retiring to write, lecture, consult, & open museum. Popular documentary course was taught for 23 semesters; appeared on C2C, The Larry King Show, MonsterQuest, Lost Tapes, In Search Of, and other tv programs. Loren Coleman is a dedicated father (Caleb, Malcolm, Des), cryptozoologist, media consultant, and baseball fan.
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