Our Man in The UK, Count Otto Black, sez:
The start of a brand new year - a time when so-called psychics traditionally do their thing, with mixed results. So surely an appropriate time to remind everyone of "The Amazing Criswell", of Plan 9 From Outer Space fame? Did you know that in 1970 he made a spoken word LP consisting of a 42-minute Dadaist stream-of-consciousness rant about what was going to happen over the next 30 years? Probably. He himself admitted that his success-rate was only 87%. Fortunately that other 13% included his prediction that the world would be completely destroyed by God on 8 August 1999.
Oh, by the way, he sings as well. Or at any rate, nearly as well...
Criswell - "Someone Walked Over My Grave"
Thanks, Otto! All of this reminds me of this mind-boggling oddity, also available from archive.org:
2 comments:
Nice addition to the material I sent you - I wasn't aware that Mae West had recorded a song about this guy! Though of course I knew that they were close friends, and one of his less accurate prophecies was that she would be the first female President of the USA. He also predicted that the 3 crew-members of the first rocket to the Moon would be Mae West, himself, and Liberace's brother. In an alternative universe where that actually happened, I expect the phrase: "Houston, we have a problem..." involved an unexpected interplanetary collision with Tor Johnson.
First, Ethel Merman and today we have Criswell Predicts!
I'm so stunned I have to pinch myself to make sure I'm not dreaming...
Thanks again, Mr. Fab!
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