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Psychiatrist and parapsychologist Ian
Stevenson of the University of Virginia (USA) researched the
cases years later. He discovered about 20 cases of people
who had a premonition of the event- many of who's lives were
saved as a result. And the Society for Psychical Research
still keep the records including an original unused ticket
kept by one of those who cancelled.
One of these people who saw the future
was the well known and innovative journalist William Thomas
Stead. Born in 1849 he was director of the Pall Mall Gazette
and was also seriously interested in Spiritualism. He founded
two publications about psychic sciences: 'Review of Reviews'
and 'Borderland'. In 1892, twenty years before the event,
he wrote a story in which he described the awful sinking of
a great liner. He also received spirit messages from mediums
that urged him not to embark on a ship. Despite this,
Stead disregarded his premonitions and became one of the Titanic's
1,500 victims.
Nobody knows for certain why the Titanic
has been dogged by such bad luck. But the answer may finally
lay in the records of the British Museum. It is said that
the Titanic was carrying cursed Egyptian artifacts and the
mummy of an unidentified pharaoh on its way to a museum in
America. It was already notorious and had been nicknamed 'the
accursed mummy' by the press. According to the newspaper reports
of the time everyone who had taken photographs of it had mysteriously
died. As it was put aboard the Titanic the dock workers dropped
it breaking one of their colleges legs. It now lies deep beneath
the Atlantic perhaps cursing the name Titanic forever.
On the night of July 1975, a family in the Dunstable
area of Bedfordshire were watching the 1935 black and white
film about the sinking of the Titanic. Suddenly, coinciding
with the sequence in the film in which the ship collided with
the iceberg, there was a tremendous noise. A huge block of
ice, on that hot June night, had crashed through the roof
causing great damage to the house.
On Sunday 14th April young sailor William
Reeves was on watch on the prow of a cargo ship on route for
Canada. He remembered the tragic history of the Titanic that
had sunk on the same day and hour twenty three years before.
It was easy to recall for he was born on the exact date of
the tragic sinking. He suddenly thought of icebergs and in
a panic, and for no reason, raised the alarm. The ship halted
only a few metres away from an enormous iceberg. The name
of the ship was the Titanium.
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The famous novelist Graham Green got
much of his inspiration from dreams. Some of Green's dreams
contained prophesies and his diaries show that he foresaw
the sinking of the Titanic. He said "On the April night
of the Titanic disaster, when I was five I dreamt of a shipwreck.
One image of the dream has remained with me for more than
sixty years: a man in oilskins bent double beside a companion-way
under the blow of a great wave."
Astrologer Dennis Elwell noticed that
the planetary alignment for March 1987 was exactly the same
as it was for the day when the Titanic sunk. "On 18th
February" said Elwell "I did something I had never
done before in 40 years study of astrology-
issue an uninvited warning". He wrote two identical letters
to Cunard and P&O alerting them "to the potential
hazards locked into the March eclipse". On March 6 1987
the Herald of Free Enterprise, a big seagoing ferry owned
by a P&O subsidiary, capsized off Zeebrugge with the loss
of 188 lives.
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