10 Creepiest Predictions that Came True
#10: The Death of James Dean
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Alec Guinness, widely known for playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original “Star Wars,” made a startlingly accurate prediction regarding the death of James Dean. Dean was a popular actor in the ‘50s who enjoyed driving fast cars in his free time. On the night of September 23, 1955, Dean met Guinness outside a restaurant and showed him his new Porsche. As Guinness relates in his autobiography, he proceeded to warn Dean about driving the car. In fact, he got specific and told him that he’d be “dead in it by this time next week,” meaning the following Friday. Sure enough, Dean died on Friday, September 30, 1955 when he crashed the Porsche near Cholame, California.
#9: The BP Oil Spill
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Back in the 1970s, the British Petroleum Company released “Offshore Oil Strike,” a board game about building an oil empire. Players must collect the oil and lay the pipelines while avoiding various “hazard cards.” One of these cards reads “Blow-out! Rig damaged. Oil slick clean-up costs. Pay $1 million.” This card not only spelled doom for the player, but also for the future of BP. In 2010, the company’s Deepwater Horizon suffered a wellhead blowout and discharged over 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The accident killed eleven people and caused widespread damage to marine habitats. BP has also paid over $60 billion in fines and damages.
#8: The Siegfried & Roy Tiger Attack
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“The Simpsons” has correctly predicted many things, and its penchant for prophecy is legendary. One of the scariest predictions occurs in season five’s “$pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling).” In this one, Springfield embraces legalized gambling and opens a casino. This casino employs Gunter and Ernst, a performative duo that parodies Siegfried and Roy. In the episode, a white tiger pounces on Gunter and Ernst and proceeds to shred their clothing. Ten years later, a white tiger attacked Roy Horn on stage. While he would survive, the incident left Horn with devastating injuries, and their show was permanently closed.
#7: JFK & RFK Assassinations
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Nostradamus is perhaps the most famous oracle in history. This French physician published “Les Prophéties” in 1555, a book of supposed prophecies some of which eventually came true. One of them allegedly predicted the assassinations of both John F. Kennedy and his brother, Robert. One passage reads “The great man will be struck down in the day by a thunderbolt,” which some have interpreted as the shot that killed JFK at 12:30 PM on November 22, 1963. The passage continues with the line, “Another falls at night time.” “Another” could refer to “another” Kennedy brother. Indeed, RFK was killed five years later. He was shot shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968 and died 25 hours later.
#6: The Atomic Bomb
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Back in 1914, English writer H.G. Wells published a novel called “The World Set Free.” Wells was well-versed in atomic physics and had a great interest in technology - specifically, that which gave us dominion over nature and energy. In his novel, Wells accurately predicts a version of the atomic bomb over thirty years before two were dropped on Japan. His version is quite primitive compared to what we saw in 1945, but the general idea was still correct. In fact, this may actually be a case of a self-fulfilling prophecy, as the book was read by physicist Leo Szilard, who would later conceive of the nuclear chain reaction. Wells later said that his epitaph should read, “I told you so. You damned fools.”
#5: Ebola in America
Ebola is a relatively new disease, having been identified in 1976. There have been dozens of outbreaks since then, with the worst occurring between 2013 and 2016. On October 1, 2014, “South Park” released an episode titled “Gluten Free Ebola.” In it, the town’s residents eat gluten and suffer violent deaths akin to ebola. The result is a huge health scare that sends the small American town into a panic. The CDC announced that a case of ebola had been diagnosed in the U.S. just one day prior to the episode’s airing. As it takes time to write and produce, some theorized that the show had correctly predicted the disease’s entry into the country.
#4: Mark Twain Predicts His Own Death
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Alec Guinness predicted James Dean’s death, and Mark Twain predicted his own. A very popular satirist, Twain created two of the greatest characters in American fiction with Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Twain was born on November 30, 1835, just two weeks after Halley's Comet passed by Earth. This comet appears every 75 years or so, and this has been observed for millennia. Twain knew it would be coming back within his lifetime, and he reportedly once said, “I came in with Halley’s comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.” Sure enough, he died on April 21, 1910, just one day after the comet passed by Earth.
#3: The Boston Marathon Attacks
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On the afternoon of April 15, 2013, two pressure cooker bombs erupted at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and seriously injuring dozens. The perpetrators were brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who were responding to American military action in the Middle East. This horrifying event was predicted over ten years earlier. Back in 2002, an author named Tom Lonergan self-published a book titled “Heartbreak Hill.” The plot sees extremists threatening to bomb the Boston Marathon. There are some key differences, like the perps being American and the plan being heroically foiled. But the key similarity is too eerie to ignore.
#2: The Great Fire of London
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We return to Nostradamus for this eerily accurate prediction about the Great Fire of London. This occurred from September 2 to 6 of 1666, starting in a bakery and quickly developing into a firestorm thanks to strong winds. Social order broke down as the fire raged, and it eventually engulfed the entire city. While the reported deaths were few, the fire was devastating and destroyed much of medieval London, causing the modern equivalent of £1.79 billion in damages. Nostradamus was pretty much bang on when he wrote, “The blood of the just will be lacking in London, burnt up in the fire of ’66.” He even got the exact year right!
#1: The Titanic Disaster
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Turns out, many people have predicted the sinking of the Titanic. In 1898, author Morgan Robertson wrote “Futility, Or The Wreck of the Titan,” in which the titular ship hits an iceberg and sinks. Not only are the circumstances close to that of the Titanic, but so is the name. But the eeriest prediction involves British newspaper editor William Thomas Stead. Stead published a short story called “How the Mail Steamer Went Down in Mid Atlantic by a Survivor.” The plot involves many deaths owing to an insufficient number of lifeboats. In a later story, a dramatic rescue operation is launched after a ship hits an iceberg. But that’s not all. Stead died on April 15, 1912. He was traveling aboard the Titanic.
