Steven K. & "the Big One"

[KRAMER]

This claim, though apparently composed on June 3, 2005, was submitted by this applicant on Sept. 30, 2005.

Dear Mr. Randi and JREF staff,

I enclose with this letter a signed and notarized copy of your $1 Million Challenge official application form.

I hope you see fit to address me by my pseudonym, Steven Events, in public discourse because I have genuine fears for the safety of myself, family and friends should Islamic extremists take exception to their inclusion in certain anecdotes of a parapsychological nature that I have already written. You will appreciate where I stand if you ever read some of what I have written,which you don't have to do - that's the beauty of freedom. I only ask for some safety and privacy.

You may appreciate that "Events" is an apt surname for me to use. Firstly, it is an easy anagram of my real first name Steven, and secondly, because my area of paranormal expertise is that of precogntion gleaned through spontaneous altered states of consciousness along with observation of subsequent confirmatory synchronicities which are not under my conscious control, this puts matters at the whim of circumstance, which is to say at the whim of EVENTS (a word that is replete in the literature of synchronicity).

We don't need much experimental design other than a calender and the TV.
The US Geological Survey will do the measuring. News networks will do the filming and the spin at the end of the day will be "Was that The Big One?"

I enclose with the current letter a copy of my claim as I originally formulated it on June 3rd this year. It contains a supplementary precognitive claim with proviso - just to keep us all interested before the Main Event.

Please post notice of my prediction on your website prior to it eventuating, as I take that to be the true object of this exercise.

Yours Sincerely,
Steven Events
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June 3, 2005
Dear Mr. Randi and Staff at JREF,

I write under the pseudonym Steven Events.

I'd like to take up your offer of $1 Million for a demonstration of psychic abilities with my particular prediction of what will come to be known as "The California Big One Earthquake". I'd like to state that the date I predict this even to occur are in the month between the 4th of March and the 3rd of April, 2007 at 10:51 in the morning, give or take a minute. I'd like to hear of the US Geological Survey making a prediction that precise.

I take it between us that presently there is no known scientific way to predict
earthquakes, or at least not the particular earthquake that would come to be known as The California Big One, and certainly not years prior to the event. Certainly as the time gets closer to the event there may be some indicators for seismologists such as foreshocks to help them issue warnings. It will measure, by the current opinion of experts, at 7.0 or above on the Richter scale to be able to qualify as The Big One.

Before the date of the earthquake I hope to have a book out on my prediction to be called INFIELD 437. The name of the title refers to a pair of hypnogogic images I received while trying to take a nap on a bus that was traveling over the San Andreas Fault in 1986. I hope to bring out a webpage and a book before the event, but telling you all this would be just anecdotal evidence which your rules state is inadmissable, so I desist.

Meanwhile, even before all of the above, I believe I can pique your curiosity by predicting an event I believe will occur on New Year's Eve 2006. This smaller-scale event concerns a pair of lotto numbers to be drawn on the last Saturday of the year which falls on New Years Eve. This draw (#2551 in the projected series) is conducted by an Australian gaming group called Tattersall's. Tattslotto, the name of their very popular lotto game, is a government licensed and monitored game that is shown on TV in Melbourne, Victoria, as well as some other Australian states. To verify results just go to Tatersalls.com.au on the internet.

My precognitive dreamt pair of numbers for Tattslotto draw 2551 on 12/31/05 are 6 & 11. The odds of picking two from 6 numbers drawn from a total of 45 numbers are not astronomical but they are significant (perhaps you can work them out for me and let me know), and after all, I only consider this as a supplementary to my main prediction, the California Big One Quake-Date. If, in the time between now and New Years Eve, I wish to extenuate on these two numbers with possibly extra numbers for the same draw, I hope this forum is still open to me. Of course, I may indeed withhold such extra numbers on the logic that I also stand to win substantial money by being one of the few to predict the correct numbers in the different prize divisions. If so, one can always check on who has become rich in any particular draw by somehow checking up on the syndicate names for the winners of the major Division 1 prizes. If doing so provides you with the syndicate name INFIELD 437, then you would have some proof of success in $1 Million-Challenge-proportions. And also, some reason to believe in my earthquake prediction.

Should the numbers in the New Years Eve games of chance conducted by Tattersall's be completely different from the ones I have nominated (6 & 11),
I would not consider it a knockdown to my claim of foreknowledge as to the date of the California Big One Earthquake because the latter event is predicted on a precognitively more reliable (and different) state of consciousness for me - hypnogogia rather than symbolic dreaming.

Also, my earthquake prediction is supported by hundreds of synchronicities I've experienced or witnessed.

Yours Sincerely,
Steven Events

 

[KRAMER]

Dear Steven,

We are in receipt of your JREF Challenge application. Thank you for submitting it to us. However, you seem to be putting forth several claims involving earthquakes, lotto drawings and the evening of New Year's Eve 2006 (...are you referring to the New Years Eve preceding 1-1-2006, or the evening of 12-31-2006?).

It seems plausible that the claim you wish us to focus on is the one you refer to as "The Big One". So be it. One application, one claim. We will now address that claim only, and ask that any future applications you see fit to submit focuses solely on one specific claim, and is resplendent in brevity.

Also, although we freely admit that "Events" may or may not be an apt surname (as well as being an easy anagram of your given first name), we must respectfully decline your generous offer of having us address you by your pseudonym, as the JREF Challenge rules preclude us from recognizing any name other than your true and legal one.

Sadly, we must reject your claim at this time, because JREF Challenge applications remain open for 12 months only, and your claim pertains to the prediction of horrendous future events in 2007. If you wish to earn one million dollars for having accurately predicted the immeasurable human tragedy that only events such as a 7.0 earthquake in densely populated urban locales can truly bring about, you must submit your application within 12 months of said death and destruction, give or take a minute.

Also, I could not help but note that you used 804 words in seven paragraphs when composing your claim letter (rather than the “brief, 2-paragraph” statement specified in the Challenge rules), and that only one of those seven paragraphs actually specifically defines your claim. The other paragraphs ramble on about theories, bus ride somnambulism and other possibley related materials in which we have expressly stated we have absolutely no interest.

Please be as certain as possible that your subsequent claim letter (should you see fit to submit one) is limited to what is requested in the Challenge rules. Thanks anyway for sharing, but we are really only interested in your claim.

And thanks for your continued interest.