In 1915, Raymond Lodge, the son of the famous English physicist Oliver Lodge, who died during the First World War, during a seance, gave very interesting information: books were prepared there, the content of which will be introduced into the minds of living writers.
Based on the other information received from him, it can be assumed that it is in this encrypted way that the departed are trying to warn the living. Unfortunately, so far it is the other world (or "Through the Looking Glass" according to N. Bekhtereva) that is the source of information about the Future.
The modern scientific paradigm does not even allow such a thought, although there are well-known physical theories in which this impossible is possible. Even according to Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism, which describes advanced waves that bring information from the Future. Modern physicists prefer to simply brush them off. But now we are not talking about them, but about the writers.
It is now widely known that many famous authors, such as Roger Bacon, Cyrano de Bergerac, Robida, Jules Berne, H. G. Wells and others, managed to look into the Future, and predicted something quite accurately. But these were, in the words of one writer, only "vague contours of the Coming." We are interested in those cases when the events of the Future were predicted very accurately, right down to the names of the characters.
And we will start, of course, with Edgar Poe, in many of whose works truly amazing prophecies are found. In 1838, his story was published: "The Tale of the Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym", which tells about the misadventures of four sailors who survived a shipwreck. When they ran out of food leftovers, they decided to cast lots: which of them to eat so that the rest survive.
Young's Richard Parker drew a short straw … In 1884, three English sailors were brought to trial. They were accused that, having been left without food on the raft after the shipwreck, they killed and ate their comrade, casting lots before it. A short straw was pulled by the cabin boy by Richard Parker.
In 1858 A. J. Talbot wrote the comedy "Chez Boguskovsky", in which his hero steals a painting from the Louvre. Many wondered why he gave his hero such a strange Polish surname. On August 15, 1939, a man with this name stole a painting from the Louvre. We will not repeat here the history of the novel by Morgan Robertson, published in 1898, where the tragic fate of the Titanic was described in great detail, right up to the time when it happened: early April morning. It is also curious that the deceased liner at Robertson is called "Titan". But that was exactly its original name, and only the shipowner company, which owned the previously built vessels of the same type "Atlantic" and "Olympic", decided to name the new liner in the same way to keep the tradition.
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Much less known is the story of another story by his colleague, journalist and writer W. T. Steed: From the Old World to the New, published in 1892. It tells the tragedy of "Titanic" as if from the outside: by the rescuers of the crew of the lost ship. People who survived the death of their liner, which collided with an iceberg in the Atlantic, are lifted aboard this ship.: Many of its passengers died due to the lack of lifeboats on board. The captain's last name was EJ Smith.
Alas, Steed himself did not realize the prophecy he had written. When in 1912 he himself had to sail from the Old World to the New on the Titanic (and what journalist would have missed such an opportunity!), For some reason he did not remember his story twenty years ago. And he did not even heed the strange warning he received in the mail from one priest: not to sail on this ship (perhaps the priest read his story). And imagine the horror of Steed when he found out that the captain of the Titanic was called E. J. Smith!
The history of another ship - "Sea Hero" - is also well known, although many authors differ in minor details. Therefore, I will present it in the shortest possible way. The crew of a Latin American gunboat fished a bottle out of the water with a very recent note for help. In it, the mate of the ship "Sea Hero" reported on the riot on board. The captain of the ship was killed, he himself was locked in the hold. The coordinates of the tragedy were also reported there.
The gunboat rushed to the rescue at full speed, discovered the rebel ship of the same name, suppressed the mutiny and freed the mate. He was extremely amazed when he was told this story: while in the hold, he had no opportunity to write this note, seal it in a bottle and throw it into the sea.
The secret of this mysterious story was revealed a little later. It turned out that some not-so-famous writer, having come up with this story (according to Raymond Lodge - embedded in his mind), decided, as we are now saying, to organize a large-scale PR for it. Having prepared several thousand notes on behalf of the ship's mate, he sealed them in bottles and threw them into the sea. One of them was found at the right time and in the right place.
The list of such stories can be continued, but I will end only by mentioning the story of the Soviet science fiction writer Nikolsky, published in 1928. The story says that the first atomic bomb will be detonated in 1945. And in 1928, neither the experimental physicist Rutherford, nor the theoretical physicist Einstein believed in the possibility of the prospects of using atomic energy in the next hundred years. And the project of the atomic bomb was only that of science fiction writer Jules Verne.
Unfortunately, modern orthodox natural scientists write off all these cases as mere coincidences, without even bothering to calculate with what negligible probability such a coincidence can occur. And when there are tens and hundreds of them? So for now, the efforts of those who are trying to warn us of impending disasters are wasted, with rare exceptions (let me remind you of 18 passengers who received warnings about the Titanic disaster in various ways and refused a very prestigious trip).
Oleg EFREMOV