Scary Accuracy Of One Of The Greatest Disasters – It Wasn’t A Coincidence Or Was It?

A. Sutherland – MessageToEagle.com – When an American author wrote his novel he had no idea that he was describing with scary accuracy one of the greatest disasters that was soon going to happen.

Some years later, a famous journalist wrote a similar story. It was only a matter of time before the catastrophe described on paper occurred in reality.

How can we explain strange stories like this one? Was it simply yet another remarkable coincidence? Are some coincidences meant to happen? You decide…

In 1898, Morgan Robertson, an American author published a short novel story called Futility. The story was about a huge, luxury passenger liner that was considered unsinkable. The ship was on its first voyage sailing from Southampton to America. In Robertson’s book, the liner never reached its destination.

The ship hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic with the loss of almost everyone on board. There were not enough lifeboats. Robertson named his fictional ship – Titan.

Titanic coincidence
Was the mummy’s curse the cause of the ship’s sinking?

Fourteen years later, the Titanic, a British luxury passenger liner, the largest ship ever built set out on a similar maiden voyage. On April 10, 1912 the Titanic set sail from Southampton to New York. It carried 2,200 passengers and crew. In the night of April 14, 1912 the liner collided with an iceberg and sank. 1500 people died and 700 survived. Also in this, there were not enough lifeboats for all passengers.

The similarities between Robertson’s book and the disaster of the real Titanic are striking. Both ships had similar names. The liners were almost the same size, had the same speed and the same carrying capacity of about 3,000 people.

Both ships were considered to be unsinkable. Even more upsetting is the fact that they both collided with an iceberg and sank in the same spot in the North Atlantic.

As we already know, coincidences do happen. However, the story does not end here…

In 1886 and 1892, William Thomas Stead, a famous English journalist published two short stories, which proved to be a preview of the Titanic disaster.

In the article named “How the Mail Steamer went down in Mid Atlantic by a Survivor” published in 1886, Stead described how a steamer collides with another ship, with high loss of life due to lack of lifeboats.

“This is exactly what might take place and will take place if liners are sent to sea short of boats,” Stead added.

Later in 1892, Stead wrote another story entitled “From the Old World to the New” about how a White Star Line vessel, the Majestic, rescues survivors of another ship that collided with an iceberg.

It is bizarre, but Stead had foreseen his death on the Titanic decades earlier. Stead believed that his death would be either from a lynching or drowning. Stead was a spiritualist and one of the many people who died when Titanic sank.
Neither Robertson’s novel nor Stead’s prophetic articles served as a warning to Edward John Smith, the Captain of the Titanic.

Do certain disasters go hand in hand?

In 1935, twenty-three years after the sinking of Titanic, a young seaman called William Reeves was standing watch in the bow of a tramp steamer bound for Canada from England. It was April, the month of the iceberg disaster and Reeves remembered what happened to the Titanic. It was close to midnight. His ship was now in the North Atlantic and he knew it was around this time Titanic had hit an iceberg. But the sea was calm and there was no concern for danger, or was it? He was tired, but he could not stop thinking that today was April 14. It was not only his birthday but the day when Titanic, the largest ship in the world encountered a tragic fate. Reeves had a bad feeling.

But what was he going to do? He was scared to shout out an alarm, feeling his shipmates’ ridicule. Then he overcome his fear. William Reeves, sensed impending disaster and yelled “Danger ahead!” only seconds before an iceberg became visible in the darkness. The helmsman rang the signal, engines full astern. The ship was brought to a halt, just yards from a huge iceberg. The crew quickly noticed many more deadly icebergs crowded around the tramp. It took nine days for Newfoundland icebreakers to smash the ice and clear the way for the tramp steamer. If it had not been for William Reeve’s warning, the ship would have shared Titanic’s fate. In this case no lives were lost. The tramp steamer was called Titanian!!!

Titanic coincidence
“We can say is that these are strange coincides to say the least…”

It is said that many of the people who booked a voyage on the Titanic had their lives saved by clairvoyance of the forthcoming disaster. Many had dreams or other inexplicable “signs” that something was going to happen to the Titanic. Some cancelled their journey at the last minute.

Was Titanic doomed or cursed? If you believe in the power of curses you will find this interesting.

Over the years much has been said about the Titanic. According to one story, the Titanic was carrying cursed Egyptian artifacts and the mummy of an unidentified Pharaoh on its way to a museum in United States.

The mummy was already famous 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.

Was the mummy’s curse the cause of the ship’s sinking?

Or maybe it is the name “Titanic” that is cursed? We will never know, but all we can say is that these are strange coincides to say the least…

Written by – A. Sutherland  – MessageToEagle.com Senior Staff Writer

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