Time Rhymes

A Devon Family Said A White-Breasted Bird Appeared At The Bed Of Every Oxenham About To Die. A 1641 Pamphlet Names The Witnesses. The Reports Ran For Two Centuries.

A Monk Dreamed The King's Death And An Abbot Sent The Warning By Rider. The King Laughed, Asked If He Was The Sort To Cancel Plans For Snoring Monks, And Rode Out. He Was Dead By Sunset.

Thirteen Men Aboard A Royal Navy Ship Saw A Phantom Vessel Cross Their Bows At 4 A.M. By Quarter To Eleven The Lookout Who Reported It Was Dead.

He Dreamed His Brother In A Metal Coffin On Two Chairs, White Roses With One Red At The Centre. Weeks Later He Walked Into The Room And Found It.

He Woke Before Dawn From A Dream Of A Black-Bordered Letter Announcing The Archduke's Murder. He Drew The Scene. Ten Hours Later It Happened In Sarajevo.

Three Old Men Warned The Scientists Not To Open The Conqueror's Tomb. They Opened It On June 20, 1941. The Invasion Began On June 22.

For Nearly A Year The Letters Said Maria Was Well. Then Her Stepmother Began Dreaming The Same Dream: Maria Was Under The Barn Floor. Her Father Took A Spade.

A King Designed The First Blind Test Of Prophecy In History. One Oracle Passed It. Then He Misread Her Answer, And It Cost Him His Empire.

An Oxford Student Dreamed Race Results, Wrote Them Down, Had Witnesses Sign And Seal Them Before The Races Were Run. Then The Horses Won.

In 1886 He Published A Story About A Liner Sinking Short Of Lifeboats, With A Printed Warning Under It. In 1912 He Boarded The Titanic.

For Ten Nights He Dreamed The Same Airliner Rolling Over. He Phoned The FAA To Warn Them Days Before It Happened. The Officials Confirmed The Calls Came First.

An Astrologer Put The King's Death In Print Seven Years Early: Single Combat, A Wound To The Head, Near His 41st Year. In His 41st Year, In Single Combat, A Lance Went Through His Visor.

He Announced A Fire 300 Miles Away As It Burned. Immanuel Kant Investigated It. Then He Named The Day He Would Die, In A Letter To John Wesley. He Kept The Date.

The Ship Vanished With 211 Aboard And Has Never Been Found. One Passenger Got Off At The Last Port Because Of A Dream. His Warning Is In The Official Record.

After The 1966 Aberfan Disaster, A British Psychiatrist Opened A Bureau To Collect People's Premonitions And Log Them, Dated, Before The Events. Two Ordinary People Kept Foreseeing Specific Disasters With Chilling Accuracy. Then, In 1968, Both Of Them Predicted The Death Of The Man Who Ran The Bureau. Weeks Later, He Was Dead.

In 1811 An American Army Led By William Henry Harrison Destroyed Tecumseh's Confederacy At Tippecanoe, And Legend Says A Curse Was Laid On The Nation's Leaders. For The Next Hundred And Twenty Years Every President Elected In A Year Ending In Zero Died In Office, Seven In A Row From Harrison To Kennedy, Until A Bullet Stopped An Inch From Ronald Reagan's Heart And He Lived.

In December 1916 The Siberian Mystic Grigori Rasputin Wrote A Letter To The Tsar Predicting His Own Murder. He Warned That If He Were Killed By Nobles Or The Tsar's Own Relatives, Then No One In The Imperial Family Would Remain Alive For More Than Two Years, And They Would Be Killed By The Russian People. Weeks Later Nobles Murdered Him. Eighteen Months Later The Whole Family Was Shot.

Before They Burned The Brahan Seer Alive In A Barrel Of Tar, He Foretold In Exact Detail How The Great Seaforth Family Would Die Out: A Deaf And Dumb Chief Who Would Bury All Four Of His Sons, Four Neighbouring Lairds Marked By Buck Teeth, A Hare Lip, A Half Wit And A Stammer, And A White Hooded Widow From The East Who Would Kill Her Sister. A Century And A Half Later It All Came True.

The Night Before A Mountain Of Coal Waste Slid Onto Her School And Killed 116 Children, A Ten Year Old Welsh Girl Told Her Mother She Had Dreamt She Went To School And There Was No School There, That Something Black Had Come Down All Over It. Dozens Of Strangers Across Britain Dreamt It Too.

He Dreamt A White Dove And A Woman In White Told Him He'd Die In Three Days. He Did. To The Minute.

A 17-Year-Old Peasant Girl Told The Dauphin Three Things Would Happen. All Three Happened Within Five Months.

A Cornish Mine-Owner Dreamt The Assassination Of The British Prime Minister. Eight Days Later He Was Shot In The Lobby Of The Commons.

Lincoln Dreamt His Own Funeral In The East Room Of The White House. Three Nights Later He Was Shot At Ford's Theatre.

An American Civil Engineer Published 28 Predictions For The Year 2000 In A Women's Magazine In 1900. Half Came True.

Mark Twain Told His Biographer In 1909 He Would Die When Halley's Comet Returned. He Died The Day After Perihelion.

A French Novelist Imagined Paris In 1960. His Publisher Locked It In A Safe For 131 Years.

Sherlock Holmes's Author Predicted The Submarine War. The Royal Navy Mocked Him In The Same Magazine. He Was Right.

Sherlock Holmes's Author Predicted The Submarine War. The Royal Navy Mocked Him In The Same Magazine. He Was Right.

In The 1660s A Scientist Wrote A List Of Twenty-Four Things He Wished Science Could Do. Almost All Of Them Have Been Built.

A Newspaper Mocked A Rocket Scientist. They Apologised Three Days Before Apollo 11.

A General Predicted The Time And Target Of Pearl Harbor. In 1924.

He Wrote The Lockdown In 1909. You Lived Through It In 2020.

He Named The Cabin Boy In 1838. The Sailors Killed Him In 1884.

The Seashell Prophecy: He Told Us a Hundred Times

The Numbers Came True. The Civil War Did Not.

He Was Right For Five Centuries.

He Wrote the Moon Landing. In 1865.

He Named the Atomic Bomb. In 1914. Then a Physicist Read His Novel.

He Designed the Satellite Network. Twenty Years Before It Existed.

He Wrote the Titanic Sinking. Fourteen Years Early.

He Wrote a Novel. Then It Came True on His Doorstep.