Dawn Golby had a chilling premonition.Somehow, she knew her son was dead.“Something was wrong,” she recalled. “I just didn’t know what.”Golby returned home from work on Jan. 8 and logged onto her computer. She learned a military helicopter had crashed on a medical mission in Iraq.“And I knew,” the 49-year-old Richland Township woman said.Her premonition proved true: A telephone call to her daughter-in-law in Colorado verified that her son, Spc. Christopher A. Golby, 26, was among nine GIs killed when their helicopter was downed near Fallujah.And in November 2002, state Trooper Joseph Sepp was shot and killed in the line of duty in Ebensburg – a death he seemed to have foreseen and prepared his wife and children for life without him.Precognition, an apparent moment when someone accurately foresees the future or knows of a far-off event they could not possibly know of, has been studied extensively by scientists to no avail, said James Matlock, managing director for Rhine Research Center in Durham, N.C. The center is an institute for the scientific study of parapsychological phenomena.“It’s possible it is some sort of coincidence,” Matlock said. “There is no good explanation for how it happens.”Sepp was shot and killed by a drunken gunman who led police on a miles-long pursuit, crashed his Jeep in Ebensburg and leapt out, guns blazing.

The fallen trooper seemed to have known it would happen, his wife, Jenny, said later.“He always brought it up,” Mrs. Sepp said during an interview a few days after her husband’s death. “He would say, ‘If I get shot on the job, you have to do this, you have to do that.’ I would tell him to shut up.”So Sepp took his fears and prepared his wife, without her knowing it, for his untimely death.

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