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Have you ever felt an overwhelming sense that something dreadful was about to unfold? A sensation that you couldn't quite explain, but deep down, you knew it would change your life, or the lives of others, forever? Have you ever dreamt of an unspeakable disaster or been struck by a sudden vision of impending calamity?
Did your premonition come true?
10. “You were right about that as well.”
Suzan Saxman is a well-known, albeit reluctant, psychic from Woodstock, New York. Since childhood, she has experienced disturbing visions of death and misfortune, which initially led her to try and ignore her abilities. However, she ultimately accepted her gift and even penned a book detailing her experiences.
She has experienced numerous visions and premonitions when meeting clients for readings. In her book The Reluctant Psychic, she recounts some of these encounters, including a particularly eerie session with a man in the midst of a divorce, who was certain his wife wouldn't follow through with it.
Suzan told him that what she foresaw was no courtroom battle, no arguments, and that he would gain full custody of his daughter in seven years.
The next week, the man's wife visited Suzan, visibly distressed. She shared that her husband had conveyed the psychic’s vision to her, and she had mocked him, insisting that nothing could prevent the divorce from going ahead. A few days later, her husband and a friend left on a business trip in a small airplane. Tragically, the plane crashed, and both men lost their lives.
Seven years later, the woman returned to see Suzan, this time to inform her that her daughter had passed away from leukemia. With tears in her eyes, she said to Suzan, “You were right about that too. He has sole custody of her now.”
9. A Sense of Foreboding
One morning, seven-year-old Kathleen Middleton was watching her mother, Annie, prepare breakfast when, suddenly, one of the eggs Annie was frying floated out of the pan and hovered near the ceiling. Kathleen found it amusing, but Annie grew concerned, fearing it might be a bad omen. She consulted a fortune-teller, who claimed that the strange event was a sign of impending death. Within weeks, one of Annie's closest friends passed away.
That was Kathleen's first encounter with something inexplicable. Not long after, she discovered that she would always develop a headache before an earthquake struck, and she began experiencing visions involving names and numbers.
On October 21, 1966, when Kathleen was 52 years old, she woke up in the early hours, gasping for air and choking. A dreadful sense of forewarning overwhelmed her, and it felt as though the walls of her bedroom were closing in. Unable to fall back asleep, she eventually got up, greeted the lodger who was staying with her, and shared the unsettling feeling she'd had earlier. By 8 a.m., they were having tea, and Kathleen tried to push aside the growing sense of doom.
Just one hour later, a massive pile of coal waste, which had shifted due to heavy rainfall, cascaded down a steep hillside, burying the Aberfan valley below and destroying Pantglass Junior School.
A total of 144 people, including 116 children, perished, leaving South Wales in deep mourning.
8. Losing Their Heads
At a salon dinner in Paris in 1788, French author and occultist Jacques Cazotte foretold that King Louis XVI would meet his demise during the revolution. He also predicted that many other aristocrats—some of whom were present that evening—would meet their end by beheading, poisoning, or even suicide.
The French Revolution began in May 1789, and Cazotte’s predictions began to unfold. One by one, nobles were beheaded. Four years later, King Louis XVI lost his head in front of a vast crowd in Paris. However, Cazotte wasn't there to witness it, as he had been executed by guillotine the year before, after being denounced as a royalist.
7. A Devastating Plague
Nicolaas Pieter Johannes Janse van Rensburg was born in Potchefstroom, South Africa, in 1864. It’s said that he read nothing but the Bible throughout his upbringing, and over the course of his life, he experienced more than 700 visions. During the Boer War, he became a trusted ally of General Koos de la Rey, who believed van Rensburg was a prophet sent by God.
During the war, Van Rensburg was enlisted but was never given a weapon or ordered to fight. Instead, he offered his visions and prophecies, some of which helped others evade or outwit the enemy. Known as Siener (Seer) Van Rensburg, his visions continued throughout the conflict and beyond. His daughter kept a detailed record of these visions, many of which are still being interpreted today.
At the start of 1918, Van Rensburg had a vision of a devastating 'plague' that would ravage every country, including South Africa. Later that year, in September, the Spanish Flu reached South Africa, claiming 140,000 lives in just seven weeks. The pandemic would go on to take the lives of an estimated 40 million people worldwide.
6. 'I did it anyway.'
Mike Fridley had an overwhelming sense of dread when he thought about the trip he was planning to take with his friend Graham Wood in November 1999. It was the first time he had such a strong urge to back out of something, but he ignored the voice in his head warning him not to go. Instead, he pushed it aside and went on the trip anyway.
That decision proved to be a mistake. The former military officer and his friend ended up crashing into the Everglades after the engine of Wood's small plane failed.
Fridley dragged Wood out of the wrecked plane and onto the wing, hoping to shield him from the gasoline that was spilling around them. Unfortunately, Wood had sustained a broken back, while Fridley had a broken ankle and sternum. Despite the excruciating pain, Fridley waded through chest-high water for nearly 1,000 feet before reaching a fishing camp where he found drinking water. However, he couldn’t make it back to Wood due to the intense pain worsening.
The next day, Fridley heard helicopters flying overhead and managed to catch the attention of a pilot. He was rescued, but when the rescuers reached the crash site, they found that Wood had died.
Afterward, Fridley explained that he never wanted to die out there and firmly stated that he was no hero for trying to seek help despite his injuries.
5. Right on the Number
In 1981, a clairvoyant reached out to British Rail to warn depot employees about recurring visions of a fatal train crash. In her vision, she saw one of their blue engines hauling oil tankers, which would crash with catastrophic results. She also saw the train’s number: 47216.
The managers took the warning seriously, as they knew the clairvoyant had helped the police on multiple occasions. They requested that the specific train number be changed to 47299.
In December 1983, train 47299 was carrying an oil train when it collided with a DMU at Wrawby Junction. The crash resulted in one fatality, and it was determined that a combination of equipment failure and human error was to blame.
After the incident, the accident was described as an 'amazing coincidence.'
4. A Feeling of Dread
On the afternoon of March 17, 1999, Carol Deemer experienced an unsettling sensation. She couldn’t shake the feeling that something terrible had occurred and shared her concern with her husband when he came home later. She also mentioned that their 17-year-old daughter, Jennifer, hadn’t yet returned home and that she hadn’t received her usual phone call.
As Carol’s husband, James, listened to his wife speak, a brief thought about a car accident crossed his mind.
Not long after, Carol and James found out that Jennifer had been driving home from school when one of the passengers in her car threw a pizza box out the window. The box stuck to the windshield, causing Jennifer to lose control and veer into oncoming traffic. Her car collided head-on with another vehicle. Jennifer died instantly, while her four passengers were injured. Two people in the other car also sustained injuries.
3. Thirteen Tears
Seventeen-year-old Rachel Scott was deeply committed to her Christian faith and never hesitated to live it openly at school. Unfortunately, this made her a target for ridicule and bullying. Despite the challenges, she clung to her beliefs and kept a journal where she expressed her struggles and sought God's help in overcoming them.
Rachel was a student at Columbine High School and became the first victim shot by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold in 1999. Following the tragedy, rumors spread that Scott was targeted because of her faith, with reports that Klebold turned around after seeing she was still alive and asked, 'Do you still believe in your God?' When she whispered, 'You know I do,' he shot her in the head and walked away. The details of this moment have been both confirmed and contested by several witnesses.
What did happen, however, was that Rachel had drawn a picture in her diary shortly before the tragedy. The sketch showed a pair of eyes with 13 tears trickling down to a rose, where they transformed into drops of blood. Tragically, 13 people lost their lives that day at the hands of Harris and Klebold.
It is also said that a man named Frank Amedia reached out to Rachel's father a month after her death. He claimed that he had dreamed of Rachel’s eyes, from which tears flowed down to water something he couldn’t quite see in the dream. Rachel's father didn't understand the meaning until he received Rachel’s backpack after the authorities finished their investigation. Inside, he found two journals, and the most recent one contained the drawing of the eyes and the 13 tears.
2. 'It’s an experience you can’t explain.'
In 1984, Viv Donovan had a disturbing dream while staying in a small apartment in her parents' backyard. In the dream, she was sitting up in bed with her arms outstretched in front of her. There was no one on her left, but her entire family was gathered in front of her. She told her parents about the dream, and to her astonishment, her father revealed he had dreamed of looking at Viv sitting up in bed, surrounded by the family.
This unnerved Viv and her parents, but they soon dismissed it. However, a month later, Viv experienced a burst cyst on her ovary, which led to appendicitis. The doctors saved her life just in time, as she would have died had she arrived at the hospital 20 minutes later. Exactly a month after the dream, Viv sat up in her hospital bed and welcomed her visitors. She stretched her arms out in front of her, and her whole family gathered around her bed, but not on the left side. Before this, Viv had never been in a hospital for treatment.
However, this wasn’t the first time Viv had experienced a moment of precognition. When she was nine years old, she woke up in the middle of the night with an overwhelming sense that her father was in trouble. Looking out of the back door, she saw him having a severe asthma attack. Without hesitation, she called for an ambulance, effectively saving his life.
1. Saved from a Tragic Fate
In late August 2013, 11-year-old Marie Elias couldn't shake the feeling that something terrible was about to happen if she fell asleep. It was a Saturday night, and she was determined to stay awake to face whatever danger might be looming.
At 1:30 a.m., a fire broke out inside the house Marie shared with her parents and 17 other family members. As she lay in bed, fighting off sleep, Marie noticed the distinct smell of smoke coming from the wall nearest to her. She immediately alerted her parents, and everyone inside the house managed to escape without harm.
There were no smoke detectors in the house, and had Marie not experienced the premonition she did, the situation could have turned tragically wrong in a matter of moments.
