Hi Tony. If this is the same Jack Cole I had heard about a couple of years ago he is currently in prison.

As to a list of good predictions. I don’t think there is one. I have never heard of any that he was supposed to have made that were specific enough to be called accurate. It’s my understanding that he would listen for noise on the lower end of the AM radio band.

The article below covers a portion of his method and what was found. Assuming of course that this is the same Jack Cole on “syzygy.” Take Care…Don in creepy town

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>Also, what does Jack Cole do for a living? Is he/was he a Seismologist? What
Jack worked in a electronics store (actually I'm pretty sure it was "The
Good Guys" which is a stereo/TV store chain that has branched out into general
consumer electronics now.

>methods do you use as an investigator to check these predictions out. And how
>do you decide what predictions are even worth checking out?

His predictions were checked out because they were being reported on in the
press and were starting to create public concern. It was the effect of his
predictions on the public that got us interested.

To investigate the methods I got together a team that consisted of one
of our electronics people that has followed electrical methods and
earthquake prediction for many years, Tony Fraser-Smith from Stanford
who has been involved with ultra-low frequency electromagnetic waves
and earthquake prediction, and at Tony's suggestion another radio
frequency expert from Stanford. We then visited Jack to look at his
equipment, get him to describe his techniques, and attempted (and
completely failed) to get a documented list (or actually any list) of
past predictions. The makeup of the team was designed to be able to
verify if there was any link between what Jack was doing and what Tony
Fraser-Smith was doing (such a link had been claimed and did not
exist), to be able to analyze the probable source of any signals he
could show us (those that he could show us on his signal analyzer were
clearly manmade noise, however his predictions were made by listening
to noise bursts on AM radios. He, at least then, was unable to record
these noise bursts so we couldn't do much with them), and to analyze
his record of success and failures (my part of the team, but of course
there wasn't a record).

I should add that Jack fully cooperated with our visit, although he
did grandstand a bit by inviting a TV news crew to show up near the
end of it. So, I got stuck doing an interview at his home before we
could finish our report. They also filmed footage of us getting into
our car complete with close-ups of the US Government plates (oh, the
drama of it all :-) ).

• Jack Cole