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A compilation of documented instances throughout history showcasing remarkable precognitive experiences, dreams, and visions that have been substantiated by witnesses, written records, or subsequent events.

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1858 – Samuel Clemens, better known under his pen name of Mark Twain, experienced a precognitive dream in which he vividly saw his younger brother’s funeral before it happened.
1865 – Abraham Lincoln foresaw his second presidential term and his assassination.
1861 – In letters between Civil War troops and their loved ones, historian Jonathan W. White chronicles hundreds of foreshadowing dreams. He claims that such dreams gave ordinary Americans meaning in the face of enormous loss and dread.
1902 – British author J.W. Dunne had a vivid dream of a volcanic eruption. News the next day confirmed a real eruption with details mirroring his dream, sparking his exploration of precognitive dreams in his book “An Experiment with Time.”
1912 – Ten days before boarding the Titanic an English businessman named J. Connon Middleton had dreamed it was “floating on the sea, keel upwards and her passengers and crew swimming around her.”
1912 – In the evening of the Titanic’s sinking, Reverend Charles Morgan in Manitoba nodded off and saw an unfamiliar number of a hymn and decided it would be sung at his service that night. Not knowing what was occurring thousands of miles away, the congregants sang the corresponding hymn: “Hear, Father, While We Pray to Thee, for Those in Peril on the Sea.” Two hours before the Titanic sank, one of the passengers, Reverend Ernest Carter, requested the same hymn to be sung in the second class dining room of the ship.
1912 – The night of the Titanic’s collision, a Massachusetts woman named Clara Cook Potter woke up from a terrifying vivid dream. “I saw what seemed to be a high structure, something like an elevated railroad. There were people hanging on the outside of it as if they were holding on by their hands to the top rail of a guard fence. Many of them were in their nightclothes, and they were gradually losing their hold and slipping down the inclined sides of this structure. I felt they were dropping to certain death.” She reported that days later artists had reconstructed the scene of the ship’s passengers clinging to its tilting rails and that it was exactly what she had seen in the dream.
1912 – Two days after the Titanic sank, a woman named Mrs Henderson had a waking dream in which the wife and daughter of her brother were crying with one another. She had no idea at the time that her brother was on the Titanic and died until after she sent his wife a letter.
1957 – Norman Mailer randomly got the idea to write a story about living in Brooklyn and having a neighbor that was secretly a spy for the KGB. 7 years later his story became identical to his own experience, opening up his mind to the concept of unconscious glimpses of reality.
September 1958 – Kurt Vonnegut and his wife experienced presentiment regarding their upcoming upheavals at the time. Jane dreamed refugees would be coming shortly before Kurt’s sister passed and they unexpectedly had to adopt her 4 newly orphaned boys. Kurt himself had been drawn to the kitchen and had the feeling he should call his brother-in-law James, something he had never done, right as his brother’s commuter train went off an open drawbridge and drowned. As he heard about the incident on the radio he knew James was on the train, though he had never taken the train before.
1963 – Five months after the Cuban Missile Crisis, playwright J. B. Priestley invited BBC viewers to send in their precognitive experiences in order to prepare for an upcoming book. He received over 1500 testimonies documenting mid-twentieth century approaches to precognition.
October 21, 1966 – After a village school in Aberfan, Wales was destroyed by mine debris during heavy rains, investigator John Barker solicited readers of the Evening Standard newspaper if they had any precognitive dreams of the disaster before it occurred. Overall, 24 of the 60 letters contained unmistakable evidence of precognition, including Eryl Mai Jones who was a student at the school and said she saw something black coming down all over it in her dream the night before.
In May 1987, Paul Smith, a Star Gate remote viewer, detailed what appeared to be an “accidental on purpose” missile strike on a warship near a desert country. Given what he and the assigning officer knew about geopolitics at the time, his impressions made little sense, and the notes from the discussion were put away. Newspaper front pages the next day reported on the tragic “accidental” Iraqi missile attack on the USS Stark in the Persian Gulf.
In 1995 Michael Murphy, a pioneer in the human potential movement, wrote of transcendental and psychic experience manifesting in sports and martial arts.
2001 – On September 11, 1996, 5 years to the day before the 9/11 attacks in Manhattan, art professor David Mandell had a startling dream of two tall towers crashing down and sketched it upon awakening. The dream would recur several times for him over the next year or so. On the day of the attacks he was stunned at how much it matched his dreams.
On January 15, 2009 a Houston woman named Elizabeth Krohn awoke from a dream and emailed herself a perfect description of the Hudson River plane crash – six and a half hours before the Hudson plane crash actually occurred.
2009 – Mountain climbers and others in stressful or harsh conditions sometimes attribute their survival to a dissociative, possibly precognitive state.
2014 – The Office of Naval Research revealed in 2014 that it is aggressively pursuing research into how a “spidey sense” may work. Some type of sixth sense guiding and protecting highly intuitive soldiers has long been observed in conflict.
February 2, 2015 – Elizabeth Krohn emailed herself a description of the Keelung River plane crash a day and a half before it happened.