Prophecy: Two Genuine Psychic Events in History

On the night of April 14,1912 a ship strikes an iceberg in the cold Atlantic waters and 1500 of it's passengers perish in one of the world's most famous and tragic accidents. On December 20, 1860 South Carolina secedes from the Union, and the country takes it's first steps toward a war that would last four years, tear a country in two and ultimately cause the deaths of 618,222 Americans from battle and disease combined. hat do these two events in history have in common? They were both psychically foreseen, and documented in detail long before either occurred.

In 1898 an Author named Morgan Robertson published a novella entitled, Futility or the Wreck of The Titan. The book focuses mainly around the adventures of the main character , John Rowland after he is on a ship that sinks in the Atlantic. What is so interesting about the novel are the details of this fictional ship. The ship that was imagined by Morgan Roberts was named the Titan, and is said in the book to be an unsinkable ship.

The details of the story became all too familiar to the public just a little over a decade after it's release. The Titan, running at excessive speed runs aground of an ice beach, which is formed by an iceberg, on the night of April 14th in the North Atlantic, having only "As few as board of trade regulations allowed' of lifeboats the majority of it's passengers were lost at sea.

On December 19, 1777 George Washington and his men began a four month ordeal when they put up for winter in Valley Forge. While none of the 11,000 war weary soldiers foresaw what that time would hold, or that 3,000 of them would perish from starvation and disease, George Washington had a prophetic vision while they were there. The story was told to Charles Wesley Alexander on July 4, 1859 by Anthony Sherman, a soldier who had been at Valley Forge when Washington told of his vision.

At some time, amid the anguish and terror of the winter at Valley Forge Mr. Sherman told of Washington behaving strangely and of having overheard what he said to a fellow officer. He claimed that while sitting at a desk Washington had been approached by an incredibly beautiful woman who would not answer when she was spoken to. Suddenly he claimed to have also heard a voice saying to him to look and learn.

He claimed that Washington saw a thick mist that cleared to reveal the future of America. In this vision he saw images of something dark coming from Africa to divide Americans from each other and cause them to break into war. In the end of the battle the people united as brothers around an American flag.

While it is easy to see in retrospect what the prophetic visions of both author and commander referenced, and warned about, it is difficult to know when we are hearing actual prophecy as opposed to maniacal rantings in the here and now. Certainly, these two incidents, even in the distant past as they are , still speak to us today, even if only to make us question ourselves. While it is easy to dismiss the claims of people who believe they have seen the future as lunacy, if we take into account these events of the past, we can never be quite sure.