“The authors of The Simpsons have predicted the future several times,” says Daniel J. Ollero, a journalist for El Mundo. In particular, the author writes that the popular cartoon had hints of the September 11 disaster, the Ebola epidemic and the NSA scandal several years before these events.
In the September 1997 episode New York vs. Homer Simpson, Bart encourages his father to go to New York by bus and shows him a brochure that shows the number 9 and the silhouette of the World Trade Center towers forming the number 11. This is an obvious prediction of the worst catastrophe in US history,”writes Oliero.
In October 1997, the Lisa Saxophone series aired, in which Marge Simpson gives her son a children's book about the Ebola virus. In reality, the Ebola epidemic swept western Africa 17 years later, in 2014.
A hint of an impending scandal surrounding Edward Snowden's activities is contained in the 2007 animated feature The Simpsons Movie, six years before the NSA was exposed. In addition, in 1998 Homer Simpson managed to calculate the Higgs Boson, although in reality the corresponding studies became known only in 2015.
