Trivia 9:
Prophecies



In his 1898 novel, Morgan Robertson unknowingly predicted the sinking of the Titanic, 14 years before it was built. In his story, an 800-foot ocean liner carrying 3,000 passengers struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage one April night, and sank. Everything from the size to the capacity, to the events, to the dates of the real Titanic matched Robertson's ship, which was called the Titan.

Barzai, a book written by German novelist Ferdinand H. Grautoff in 1908, described a Japanese-American war in which unprepared American troops led by a fictional General MacArthur lost battles at first, but then rallied to defeat the Japanese. It was an eerily accurate foreshadowing of actual events featuring the real General MacArthur, who led American troops to victory over the Japanese in World War 2.

At five o'clock on the morning of Nov. 2, 1951, a woman name Nova Churchill woke up crying, "I dreamed a black panther jumped on my mother and killed her." A phone call received later that day confirmed Nova's dream: her mother had had a heart attack while dusting a ceramic panther - at the exact same moment Nova awoke from her dream.



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