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 plant's ‘impossible’ Class IX meltdown near his home.
An author of four 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) translated into Japanese (1998) – many regard him 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 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, among others.
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 for and has appeared on television programs that include 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 Investigation X and The Unexplained Files (Discovery); Fringe (Fox); FoxFamily; Extremely Weird (FoxReality); History International; ITV-4; “Modern Miracles” on Leeza (syndicated); “Medical Mysteries” on The Maury Povich Show (syndicated); Unsolved Mysteries and The Other Side (NBC); Is It Real? (National Geographic TV); 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); People Are Talking (WBAL-TV); People Are Talking (WJZ-TV); PM Magazine (WJZ-TV); Chicago AM (WLS-TV); Take Note (WPSU-TV); plus French, Japanese, and Korean TV networks. As of 2023, The Unexplained Files SHC episode is perhaps the most-aired of all ScienceChannel programming.
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.
