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The Fox TV "Sightings" program January 8 contained the usual sensationalist
drivel. They were dealing with "predictions" for 1993, and one guy named
Peter Lorie (like the actor, but one one "r") claims that Nostradamus
"predicted" a giant, destructive earthquake in California on May 8,
1993. (I'm sure, of course, that Nostradamus' verses say *nothing* of
the kind, it being left to Mr. Lorie to "discover" their Hidden Meaning).
Some other character named Richard Nolle had a similar prediction; he
had a "major earthquake" hitting California either on Feb. 8, March 6,
or April 6.

Can anyone tell us more about these individuals and their predictions?
It seems that some book was briefly shown in the program; do these
predictions come from some book or other publication? I'm especially
interested in the prediction for May 8. As you may recall, there was
some goofy prediction of doom for Los Angeles a few years ago, in some
program narrated by the late Orson Wells, and a number of people got
rather spooked by the thing. Given the number of viewers of a show like
"Sightings," I suspect that the same thing may occur again. If we can
find out more about this, I'd like to get some skeptics to hold a tea
party or whatever on the San Andreas fault - right on Ground Zero - on
the appointed doomsday. 

The show also featured Dr. Terrence Sandbek of the Sacramento Skeptics
trying to talk sense about all this. Unfortunately, if you blinked your
eyes you might have missed him.


-- 
  
        Robert Sheaffer - Scepticus Maximus - sheaffer@netcom.com
  
 Past Chairman, The Bay Area Skeptics - for whom I speak only when authorized!


     "Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that
      they are not even superficial."

                   - Friedrich Nietzsche    (The Gay Science: 126)