About Larry E Arnold
After leaving Lafayette College and a brief career in electrical engineering, Larry
founded ParaScience International in 1976 to pursue the exploration of fortean

anomalies and consciousness. His controversial article published in August, 1978, titled

“Meltdown…at TMI-2” would 8 months later be termed “uncannily accurate” by The
Philadelphia Inquirer in presaging the future of that nuclear power plants ‘impossible’
Class IX meltdown near his home.

An author of three pioneering books – The Parapsychological Impact of the Accident at Three Mile Island

(1980), The Reiki Handbook (1982), and ABLAZE! The Mysterious Fires of Spontaneous Human Combustion
(1995) – he is regarded by many as the world’s expert on spontaneous human combustion (SHC) and,
consequently, by others as a “mystery monger” and “world-class fool.”

He is published in, among others, Fate; Fortean Times (United Kingdom); INFO Journal; Life; Pennsylvania

Association of Arson Investigators (PAAI) Newsletter; Pennsylvania Magazine; Pursuit (Society for the

Investigation of the Unexplained); Esotera (Germany); Science Digest; Seeing Journal; Rainbows; Susquehanna
Monthly Magazine; UFO Annual; UFO Report; and UFO Universe.
He has been a guest on hundreds of radio and internet-radio programs, including Howard Stern, The Art Bell

Show, and multiple episodes of CoastToCoastAM. He co-produced and has appeared on programs for
numerous television networks, including That’s Incredible! and Best of That’s Incredible! (ABC); ABC Family;

The Unexplained (A&E); American Heroes Channel; BBC; BBC-1; Unexplained Mysteries: The Unreal World
(Biography); the fifth estate (CBC); Beyond Belief (CoastToCoastTV); The Unexplained Files (Destination

America); X-Testers and Weird or What? and The Unexplained Files and Investigation X, eg. (Discovery); Fringe

(Fox); FoxFamily; Extremely Weird (FoxReality); History International; ITV-4; “Modern Miracles” on Leeza

(syndicated); Unsolved Mysteries and The Other Side (NBC); Is It Real? (National Geographic TV); PAX
Encounters with the Unexplained (PAX-TV); Investigation X and The Unexplained Files (ScienceChannel);
Unsolved Mysteries (Spike-TV); Sightings and Weird or What?, eg. (SyFy); Spontaneous Combustion (TLC); The

Unexplained Files (TravelChannel); Paranormal Borderline (UPN/Paramount); Channel 8 (WFLA-TV); Live–The

Paranormal, eg. (WGAL-TV); Friday AM and Doc Ferguson Show, eg. (WHTM-TV); PM Magazine (WJZ-TV);

Chicago AM (WLS-TV); Take Note (WPSU-TV); plus French, Japanese, and Korean networks. He has lectured
about the paranormal at Albright University; American University; Drew University; Elizabethtown College;

Harrisburg Area Community College; Lebanon Valley College; Marist College; Messiah College; Shippensburg

University; the University of Nebraska; and The Arthur Findley College for Psychical Studies in England.

His unofficial website is www.ParaScience.com .

Email is ParaScience2@gmail.com and SHChappens@gmail.com
Larry E. Arnold, Director
ParaScience Internationa