Dr. Quentin Mark Mysterian is the pseudonymous author of a weekly column of psychic predictions titled "Dr. Mysterian Predicts." The column began its run in The Reader newsweekly in Omaha, Nebraska in 2004, and has since expanded to include a Web page and blog. The identity of the author remains unknown, and he is represented online only by a cartoon of a bowler-hatted, pencil-moustached, masked face. His predictions tend toward the bizarre, echoing those of The Amazing Criswell, including claims that future humans will change skin colors as often as we currently change clothes and that Santa Claus will one day be thought of as a thin man in snowshows. Despite the peculiarities of his predictions, he nonetheless claims 98 percent accurancy, a claim for which he offers no verification.
Few biographical details exist about Dr. Mysterian, but for a few snippets gleaned from his column, Web page, and blog. He apparently currently resides in the French Quarter of New Orleans, holds an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the Universal Life Church, is a practitioner of Voodoo (specifically, a follower of Baron Samedi, a graveyard spirit), and has had a vision of the exact day of his own death, which he claims to be January 26, 2010.
Dr. Mysterian's blog, which links to daily news stories about unusual and supernatural events worldwide, shows an unusual skepticism that one might expect more from James Randi than a syndicated prognosticator. His regular postings also exhibit a broad interest in various contemporary art movements, from pop surrealism to rogue taxidermy.
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