15.
“Weezer Bassist Sees His Future”: Mikey
Welsh was the bassist for the famous rock
group Weezer until he left them in 2001.
For ten years, the solo artist played in various
side projects and also painted while dealing
with some personal issues.
Then on the 26th of September, 2011, he made
a disturbing post on Twitter out of nowhere.
“Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend”,
Mikey wrote.
“Heart attack in my sleep”.
A little while later he realizes he made a
mistake about his death date and adds: “correction
– the weekend after the next.”
The dream startles him enough to start writing
his will that very same day.
The day before this premonition [“prem-mon-nish-shin”],
he made another Twitter post about one of
his paintings that was up for sale.
He writes that it’s currently going for
250 dollars, but adds that the price could
increase quote “if I expire prematurely”.
It just seemed like a harmless joke and no
one thought much of it, but on October 9th,
2011, the dream took on a whole new meaning
after a cleaning crew found Mikey Welsh laying
on the floor of his hotel room in Chicago.
Pills and heroin were in the room with him.
While some Weezer fans believe that he had
been plotting his own suicide for some time,
others point out that he was still making
art and had future plans.
It’s hard to tell if Mikey overdosed on
purpose or if fate gave him a psychic vision
of a drug-induced heart attack shortly before
it happened.
14.
“ARPANET [“Are-Pa-Net]”: In 1975, a
news reporter named Tom Szulc [“Shooltz”]
ran an article in the Washington Monthly about
a government project called ARPANET.
This was basically a very early version of
the internet, and the first time that government
computers could network with each other to
share information.
Even though ARPA officials said that the network
was only used for military and science data,
and never for domestic surveillance, Tom wasn’t
so sure that that would always be the case.
By the end of the article, he makes a startling
prediction that most certainly has come true
in recent years.
Tom asks readers if a future president could
eventually quote “order ARPANET to be used
as a police instrument”.
He even goes on to write that ARPANET could
be one day be quote “instantly telling every
government agency everything there is to be
known about every American citizen”.
This simple hypothetical [hype-oh-thet-tickle”]
question probably was overlooked in the 1970s,
a time period where such a concept was hard
to believe.
Skip ahead to 2016 though, and this prediction
is exactly where we are at.
Everybody’s web history, purchasing habits,
and other sensitive personal information are
all being captured in large databases for
the government to sift through at their leisure
[“lee-zure”].
It looks like Tom Szulc was right after all.
13.
“Abraham Lincoln”: Ward Hill Lamon [“Lah-mon”]
was a bodyguard of Abraham Lincoln as well
as his personal friend.
After the president was assassinated, Ward
wrote a book called Recollections of Abraham
Lincoln.
In it, Ward tells of a strange dream that
Lincoln once shared with him.
Lincoln described being surrounded by a heavy
stillness.
After a while, he could hear muffled cries
from far away.
The President leaves his bedroom and wanders
around his house looking for the source of
the sobs, but it becomes quiet again and he
hears nothing.
Then he hears crying again, farther away this
time.
He follows the crying deeper into the house
until he comes across a large room.
He sees a corpse in funeral clothes resting
on a raised platform.
Soldiers are posted all around the body and
there is a long line of mourners to view the
deceased man.
“Who is dead in the White House?”
Asks Lincoln to one of the guards.
“The President,” the guard answers.
“He was killed by an assassin.”
As soon as the guard says these words, the
crowd wails and shrieks with horror.
Their rising screams grow so deafening [“deaf-fin-ning”]
that it causes Lincoln jump up from his own
bed.
If what Ward says is true, then Lincoln dreamed
of his own death shortly before being shot
at the opera.
12.
“Psychic Student”: In the New Utrecht
[“You-trekked”] High School in Brooklyn,
New York, an English teacher named Antoinette
DiLorenzo [“An-twon-net” “De-lure-ren-zo”]
was watching over her class while they had
some free time.
She overheard two classmates having a conversation.
One pointed out the window at the World Trade
Center and said, “You see those two buildings?
They won’t be standing there next week.”
After the terrorist attacks, Antoinette waited
until September 13th to report what she overheard
to the police.
The FBI came in and quickly put her classroom
on lockdown for three hours while they interrogated
the boy who had made the psychic claim.
As the boy’s father later pointed out, all
his child had done was make a prediction that
turned out to be true.
Since this wasn’t illegal, the FBI couldn’t
do anything about it and let it go.
How did this child know that the World Trade
Center was going to go down within a week?
His older brother says that he was just kidding
around, and the FBI isn’t saying anything
at all.
Until they declassify [“de-class-sif-fy”]
more information, a psychic explanation remains
as good as any.
11.
“Jan Cochret [“Cock-ret”]: Last year
on March 24th, 27-year-old Andreas Lubitz
[“An-dre-us” “Lub-bits”] was copiloting
a plane as it flew over the French Alps.
When the main pilot excused himself to use
the restroom, Andreas locked the cockpit doors
and put the plane on a new course straight
into the side of the mountain.
The pilot first pleaded with Andreas from
the other side of the door and then attempted
to smash his way in with an axe, but it was
no use.
All 150 passengers die screaming.
An investigation revealed that Andreas had
recently gone into treatment for eye problems.
Many suspect that he was worried that these
eye problems would threaten his career as
a pilot and chose to kill himself before this
could happen.
Records show that he had a history of mental
disorders and previous suicide attempts that
he hid from his employers.
As if this wasn’t scary enough, just two
months before, a Dutch pilot named Jan Cochret
wrote a chilling column that highlights this
very same issue.
The column appears in Pilot and Plane magazine,
and it discusses the vulnerabilities of a
new security system that was put into place
to prevent hijackings.
“I hope I never find myself in the situation
where I go to the toilet and return to find
a cockpit door that won’t open,” is exactly
what Jan wrote.
He went on to explain, “I seriously sometimes
wonder who’s sitting next to me in the cockpit.
How can I be sure that I can trust him?
Perhaps something terrible has just happened
in his life and he’s unable to overcome
it.”
10.
“Baba Vanga [“Bah-bah” “Vaughn-gah”
(pronunciation video here): Baba Vanga was
a blind prophet born in modern day Bulgaria
[“Ball-gar-ree-ah”] in 1911.
When she was only 12-years-old, a strong gust
of wind blew her down and pinned her to the
ground.
Sand scratched against her eyes over and over
again.
By the time the wind had passed, she was totally
blind.
Yet, it seems she could still see more than
anyone around her.
In 1989, she said that quote “the American
brethren [“breth-rin”] will fall after
being attacked by the steel birds”.
While it’s obvious what she meant by “steel
birds”, many think the phrase “American
brethren” is a clever reference to the “Twin
Towers”.
Baba Vanga also said that “the wolves will
be howling in a bush, and innocent blood will
be gushing” after the attack.
Her followers find her use of the word “bush”
to be especially interesting, considering
that George W. Bush was president at the time.
Keep in mind this prediction was made in the
late 80s.
It would be a long time before George W. Bush
would take office.
This isn’t the only famous national travesty
that Baba Vanga predicted well ahead of her
time.
In 1980, she said that “in August of 1999
or 2000, Kursk will be covered with water”.
Just as she said, a Russian submarine named
the Kursk was lost at sea in August of 2000.
Over 100 sailors died.
9.
“Jeffrey R. Palmer”: Jeffrey R. Palmer
is an Australian psychic who makes a lot of
predictions each and every year.
In 2005, he made three startlingly accurate
predictions that have left people scratching
their heads in disbelief.
The odds of him correctly guessing one of
these dates and statistics is practically
impossible, let alone getting three predictions
correct in the same year.
Jeffrey said that on August 28th, a devastating
hurricane would hit the Southern United States.
That year, Hurricane Katrina [“Ka-treen-na”]
ripped through New Orleans [“Ore-leens”]
and devastated many other areas in the South.
The hurricane started on August 23rd and lasted
until August 31st.
Jeffrey’s August 28rd prediction falls exactly
in the middle of this time period.
Jeffrey also successfully predicted gas and
oil prices for the year of 2005.
He said that gold would reach 500 dollars
per ounce by the end of 2005, and sure enough,
gold hit 513 dollars per ounce.
He said that gasoline prices would reach 3
dollars per gallon, and they topped out at
$2.95 that year.
As if this weren’t enough, the year before
that, he accurately foresaw a 2004 volcanic
eruption in the Indian Ocean.
He also called the tsunamis [“sue-nom-mes”]
in Indonesia [“In-dough-knee-sha”] that
same year.
8.
“Baba Vanga Part 2”: The Russian blind
prophet claimed to encounter “invisible
creatures” who would talk to her and tell
her secrets about the future.
They could also speak with the dead.
Baba Vanga died in 1996 at the age of 85,
but not before making psychic predictions
that were mostly accurate.
The blind psychic predicted 9/11 and the Kursk
submarine, and she seemed especially good
at detecting natural disasters, too.
She described the 2004 tsunami [“sue-nah-me”]
as a “huge wave” that would crash over
a “big coast, covering people and towns
and causing everything to disappear under
the water”.
She also predicted that nuclear fallout would
blanket the Northern hemisphere of the world
by the year 2011.
This was the same year when the Japanese city
of Fukushima [“Foo-koo-she-ma” (video
pronunciation here)] experienced an earthquake
that devastated their nuclear power sites.
A 2013 report from an international commission
confirmed that the radiation had indeed spread
throughout the Northern hemisphere, just as
predicted.
Still, it has to be said that even though
Baba Vanga predicted a gigantic nuclear cloud
that would kill almost everything, it actually
only showed up trace amounts of radiation.
Still, even if she overestimated the severity,
Baba Vanga was still absolutely correct about
a huge nuclear disaster in 2011.
7.
“Rasputin [“Rass-spute-tin”]”: In
the early 1900s, Rasputin was a powerful psychic
advisor for Czar [“Zar”] Nicholas the
Second of Russia.
He won over the czar’s trust by using his
mystical powers to control his daughter’s
hemophilia, a rare disease which prevents
blood from clotting and causes excessive bleeding.
After Rasputin was able to keep the czar’s
daughter from dying of blood loss, the family
accepted his counsel [“council”] on all
matters without hesitation.
Rasputin made many predictions during his
stay with the royal family, and many of them
came true.
Rasputin predicted that after a “horrible
war there will come a time when money will
have no value.”
During this economic crisis, “money will
be made of iron, and gold shall become so
valuable that for a few gold coins a small
farm can be bought.”
In 1929, the stock market crashes less than
a decade after World War I.
This is the “horrible war” which he spoke
of.
During this time, money loses almost all of
its value and is mostly made from iron alloys
[“al-loys”].
While this is happening, the gold market rises
steadily and becomes one of the only trusted
forms of currency.
It seems as though Rasputin had correctly
predicted the events leading up to the Great
Depression well in advance.
6.
“Nostradamus”: Nostradamus [“Noz-tro-dah-mus
(video pronunciation video here”)] is one
of history’s most famous dark prophets of
all time.
He lived in 1500s France and helped treat
victims during the bubonic [“bew-bon-nick”]
plague outbreak.
While most doctors were ineffectively treating
plague victims with garlic, mercury, and by
cutting them open, thinking that they could
bleed the plague out, Nostradamus was one
of the only doctors who instead used low-fat
diets, fresh air, and proper hygiene to keep
his patients clean and help them actually
recover.
The young physician was always a little ahead
of the rest – and this was even before he
started practicing occult rituals in order
to see into the future.
The church soon charged him with heresy [“hair-re-see”]
after he made a sarcastic remark about religion
that was overheard by the wrong person.
Rather than sticking around to be imprisoned
and tortured, Nostradamus instead fled the
country.
He spent most of this forced vacation traveling
to ancient schools throughout Italy, Greece
and Turkey, where he learned all there was
to know about the occult from practitioners
[“pract-tish-shin-ners”] of dark magic.
When he returned to his home country 9 years
later, he was a completely changed man.
Sure, he still helped plague victims like
before, but he would perform strange rituals
during his private time.
At night he would meditate himself into a
deep trance while sitting in front of a bowl
of water and mystic herbs.
Strange and violent psychic visions would
come to him in a flash and he would write
them down in a journal that he kept nearby.
Nostradamus knew that he had to get these
important prophesies [“prof-fes-sees”]
out to the public somehow, but he also knew
that the church would come looking for him
again if they figured out that he was using
dark magic to see into the future.
He wrote the predictions down as riddle-like
poems as a way to keep their true meaning
secret from those who wished him harm.
A lot of these predictions came true.
Take this one, for example:
“From the depths of the West of Europe,
A young child will be born of poor people,
He who by his tongue will seduce a great troop;
His fame will increase towards the realm of
the East.”
All of this comes true.
In 1889, a future dictator [“dick-tater”]
is born in Western Europe.
He would use his excellent speaking skills
to deceive many people and to raise an army.
Eventually he would ally with Japan, the Kingdom
of the East.
Of course, Nostradamus was talking about Hitler.
If this isn’t enough to convince you, then
Nostradamus also had a passage about the fall
of Hitler, too:
“Beasts ferocious with hunger will cross
the rivers,
The greater part of the battlefield will be
against Hister” [“Hister” is not a typo]
Here, the “beasts ferocious with hunger”
that will “cross the rivers” is Hitler’s
Panzer [“Pan-zer”] Tiger Tanks.
As for “Hister”, many people think that
Nostradamus meant to say “Hitler” and
was off by one letter, but that’s not it.
The Latin word for the Danube [“Dan-newb”]
River is Hister.
This is also coincidentally also where Hitler
was born.
5.
“Rasputin and Cheiro”: The most shocking
prediction Rasputin ever had was about his
own death.
Towards the end of 1916, Rasputin began to
sense that his own death was near almost all
of the time.
Finally, he knew that he was going to die
on New Years’ Day, 1917.
He told the royal family that if he was killed
by peasants, then their lineage [“lin-knee-edge”]
would be okay.
If it was Russian princes that killed him,
however, then the royal family should likewise
consider themselves dead within two years.
This prediction was made at around the same
time when Rasputin and the Czar went to visit
another famous psychic called Cheiro [“Ky-ro”].
When they arrived, Cheiro asked to read Rasputin’s
palm.
Rasputin asked about his own future, at which
point Cheiro said that he “shall be attacked
by poison, by knife and by bullet.”
Cheiro said he also saw Rasputin’s body
in the Neva River.
Later that year, Rasputin was killed on December
30th, 1916 – exactly one day before he predicted.
A gang of Russian princes first tried to poison
him, but when the poison had no effect, they
shot and stabbed him multiple times.
According to Cheiro, the attackers went back
to Rasputin two days later and were amazed
to find that he was still alive and breathing.
At that point, they tossed him into the Neva
River.
A year and a half later, the Czar and his
family are taken into their basement and executed
during a violent revolution.
This is perhaps the first time where two different
psychic predictions merge to reveal the truth.
4.
“Nostradamus Part 2”: Many people believe
Nostradamus predicted 9/11.
He writes that “the sky will burn at forty-five
degrees’ latitude”, meaning that a great
fire will leap up into the sky.
This could also refer to the latitude of New
York City, though the exact measurements are
slightly off.
He goes on to write how “fire approaches
the great new city”, which many take as
a direct reference to New York.
This prediction caused quite a stir after
9/11 and went into wide circulation.
There was a famous chain email that added
lines about “two steel birds” and “two
brothers torn apart by Chaos”, but this
was never actually written in the original
prophecies.
The original lines are already creepy enough
without anything else added to them.
3.
“The Wealthy Welshman [“Welsh-man”]”:
A lot of people say that if they were psychic,
the first thing they would do is get a lottery
ticket.
Well, a Welshman once won a bet that was so
improbable [“im-prob-ba-bull”] that only
a psychic could have dreamed it up.
In 1989, he read a magazine article that listed
the likelihood of certain events happening
over the course of the next ten years and
gave the odds.
The article gave him an idea.
He went to a British gambling company named
Ladbrokes [“Lad-brokes”], showed them
the article, and picked just 5 of the events
to bet on.
The odds of him winning were 6,479 to 1, but
he only bet for 30 pounds.
The man predicted that within the next ten
years, the pop star Cliff Richard would be
knighted, the band U2 would not break up,
and that three very specific soap operas would
remain on the air.
Imagine Ladbrokes surprise when all of the
events happened exactly as the man had predicted,
and they now owed him more than 19 thousand
pounds.
2.
“Nostradamus Part 3”: In 1559 a large
jousting (pronunciation) tournament was held
in Paris in celebration of a peace treaty
between France and Spain.
Among the contestants were King Henry the
Second of France.
The King was doing quite against the competition
until he had to joust the Count of Montgomery
[(video pronunciation here)].
The Count nearly took the King off of his
horse, and the King Henry demanded a second
try.
This time, the jousting lance fatally stabbed
the King through his eye, straight into the
brain.
Nobody could have predicted this fatal accident
– except, of course, for Nostradamus.
“On the field of combat in a single battle”,
he wrote years ago, “He will pierce his
eyes through a golden cage.”
As it so happens, the King was wearing a golden
helmet at the time, and the lance went between
his visor.
“Two wounds made one,” Nostradamus writes,
“Then he dies a cruel death.”
Just as predicted, the lance went into the
eye and splintered into the King’s brain.
Two wounds were indeed made into one, and,
of course, it was a particularly cruel death.
The first line of the prophecy, however, is
perhaps the most chilling of all.
“The young lion will overcome the older
one,” he predicts.
As it turned out, both King Henry and the
Count of Montgomery had lions on their shields.
1.
“Tana Hoy [“Tan-nah” “Hoy”]”:
Tana Hoy is a spiritual communicator who claims
to see and hear ghosts.
On April 19th, 1995, he was doing an interview
with a North Carolina radio station called
WQSM.
The psychic said that he personally knew that
there would be a terrorist attack within the
country that year, and that he was sure that
it would be a federal building that would
get hit.
Not even two hours later, domestic terrorist
Timothy McVeigh [“Mick-vey”] packs a rental
truck full of homemade explosives and drives
to the Alfred P. Murrah [“Mur-rah”] Federal
Building in the capital of Oklahoma [“Oak-lah-home-mah”].
168 people are killed in the explosion, and
Tana Hoy is flooded with phone calls and media
attention.
According to an interview in the local paper,
Tana had this premonition as far back as January,
but he didn’t think 
the FBI would believe him.
