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