Man-made accidents, catastrophes, natural disasters, terrorist attacks with many victims occur on the globe every now and then … Researchers have long drawn attention to the strange patterns associated with these events.
So, in almost every case, some potential victims inexplicably manage to avoid a deadly situation, and there is also a massive phenomenon of premonitions that arise not only among the participants in the events, but also sometimes among completely strangers …
Tangerine peel
Air France stewardess Isabelle Sarian in 2000 was supposed to take off on the next flight. But in the morning she cut her finger, and then her son had a fever. Isabelle called her mother and asked to sit with the child. But she managed to slip on a tangerine peel thrown by someone at the threshold and break her leg. After that, Isabelle had no choice but to call her superiors and ask her to replace. A few minutes after takeoff, the airliner crashed …
On September 11, 2001, many of the employees of the World Trade Center in New York also had a lucky break. For example, Greer Epstein from the office on the 67th floor, shortly before falling on the plane building, went to get cigarettes. A certain Bill Trinkle was late for work, playing at home with his little daughter and not catching the morning train, and a girl named Monica O'Leary was fired the day before the tragedy.
In 2008, five people missed a Boeing 737 flight en route Moscow - Perm for various reasons and had to travel to their destination by train. During landing, the plane crashed, and none of the 87 people on board survived.
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Guardian angels
Many celebrities claim that they have a guardian angel that protects the stars from misfortune. An example of this is the story of the famous Argentine race car driver Juan Manuel Fangio. On February 23, 1958, he was kidnapped by Cuban rebels. It happened a day before the start of the next Formula 1 stage - the Havana Grand Prix. After 28 hours, the rebels released Fangio, making a statement that they had committed this act so that the whole world knew about the uprising against the Batista dictatorship. During the races in which Fangio was unable to take part, there was a terrible disaster with many casualties. After that, Fangio said that Providence itself intervened in his fate, and refused to give any evidence against his captors …
Alexander Abdulov was in a hurry to shoot in Leningrad. It was November 7, still the Soviet era, and all the tickets were bought … The airport employees miraculously found one ticket for their favorite artist. And now, when Abdulov was already sitting on the plane, a stewardess suddenly approached him and said that there was one place in the liner that was leaving half an hour earlier. The actor, of course, switched to an earlier flight and made it safely to the Northern capital. And there he learned that the plane he had left had crashed …
Actor Andrei Sokolov was supposed to fly on an airplane with his father. For some reason, the artist was tormented by a bad feeling. He tried to dissuade his parent from the trip, but he did not want to hear about canceling the flight. Then Andrey decided to cheat and on the way to the airport told his father that he had forgotten to lock the front door. They returned and ended up missing their flight. And the plane on which they were supposed to fly crashed.
Mysterious statistics
Researcher William Cox found that the number of passengers on the 28 trains that crashed was significantly less than on the same route a week before the accident or a few days after it. In addition, the number of passengers in damaged or derailed cars was also lower than in the rest.
And the American sociologist James Staunton, having analyzed 50 air and rail accidents since 1900, found that in most cases during the tragedies, vehicles were only 60% full. If the occupancy rate exceeded 75%, then crashes were very rare. Curious about these statistics, Staunton interviewed a number of people who had accidentally escaped death in traffic accidents. It turned out that many of them had no premonitions the day before: circumstances prevented them from getting into a catastrophe.
Before the trip to the airport, one of them had a stomach, another suddenly died of a relative, the third, going downstairs, twisted his leg and missed the train … And there were hundreds of such cases! Staunton's research has generated quite a stir around the topic of predicting disasters.
One of the enthusiasts who conducted research on this topic was the famous writer Stephen King. “After I first read Staunton's article, the Magic Airlines plane crashed at Logan Airport,” King says. “Everyone on board died. When everything had settled down a bit, I called the office of this company. I introduced myself as a journalist - a little well-intentioned lie. He said that we would like to write an article about the plane crash, and asked for information on how many people who bought a ticket did not fly this flight. There were 16 of them.
When asked how many latecomers are on average on the line from Denver to Boston, I was told that there are no more than three. And besides, 15 more people refused to fly this flight. However, usually the number of failures is no more than eight. It turns out, although the headlines of all the newspapers shouted: "The plane crash in Logan killed 94 people", they could be read like this: "31 people escaped death in the crash."
Maybe people are dying in disasters not by accident, but by the intention of higher powers? And these same forces decide who should not die, and in every possible way prevent unwanted victims from getting into a life-threatening situation?
Report from the future
But even more surprising is the phenomenon of foreseeing tragedies, sometimes by people who have nothing to do with future events.
On October 21, 1966, a coal mud fell on the mountain village of Aberfan in Great Britain, filling and destroying many homes and public buildings, including a school. The day before, nine-year-old Eryl Jones saw in a dream that she was going to school, and instead of the school building, there was some kind of black mass. Eryl died along with other children who came to class on that fateful day …
But dreams predicting a terrible catastrophe in Aberfan were also dreamed by other people hundreds of kilometers from these places. One woman dreamed that a child was running down an unfamiliar street, followed by a black stream, another was a child screaming in horror in a telephone booth, which was overwhelmed by an avalanche of mud. For some person - a herd of black horses racing from the mountains to the village. Another simply heard the word "Aberfan" in a dream, although then he did not even know what it meant.
A certain Miss Milden in a dream watched as diggers pull the bodies of dead children from the rubble. Three days later, she saw the episode on TV. A resident of Kent received information during his sleep about the date of the upcoming terrible catastrophe. True, he did not know what exactly was going to happen …
Forecast Bureau
A number of such facts prompted scientists and parapsychologists to start recording reports of future disasters received by people in a dream or in another paranormal way. English psychiatrist I. Barker put forward the idea of creating a single center where such information could be sent from all over the world in order to subject it to computer processing.
In 1967, a special warning bureau appeared in London, where messages about prophetic dreams flock. In 1968, a similar center was established in New York. It was led by journalist Robert Nelson, who specializes in parapsychology and anomalous phenomena. The leaders of these organizations hope that in this way it will be possible to warn the public about disasters in advance and avoid victims.
Many scientists believe that the causes of various tragedies, accidents and cataclysms are associated with the impact on the Earth of cosmic radiation. Some people are apparently capable of sensing these influences, and therefore they manage to "see" these events at a great distance or even long before they occur.