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This article is about the precognitive experience of premonition. Please see Premonition (disambiguation) for other uses.
Premonition refers to prophecy or foreknowledge of a future event by waking vision, dream, or a pervading sense of doom. While premonitions are often associated with having extra-sensory abilities, those without any known abilities have been said to have experienced premonitions of the future. The phenomenon is oft associated with disastrous events.
Several individuals have claimed premonitions of well known disasters. In 1915, Edward Bowen of Boston, Massachusetts was scheduled to travel on board the ill fated Lusitania. He canceled his journey based on a feeling something was going to happen to the ship. [1] The Lusitania sank after being hit by a German torpedo.
A similar premonition of the sinking of the Titanic came from author Morgan Robertson whose novel about a shipwreck bore eerie similarities to the April 14, 1912 disaster. Another writer, journalist W.T. Stead, wrote several stories predicting the sinking of a great ship. In the 1886 article How the Mail Steamer went down in Mid Atlantic by a Survivor, He wrote of a ship colliding with another and suffering a great loss of life due to insufficient life boats, as was the situation aboard the Titanic. [2] In a fictional account, From the Old World to the New, Stead wrote of the rescue of survivors of another ship after its disastrous collision with an iceberg [3]. Ironically, Stead died on the Titanic.
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Final Destination Films
In the Final Destination film series, a teenager experiences a frightening vision of the future death of himself and several others which leads him/her to to try to prevent the disaster.
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