Was 12-year-old boy a 1913 Nostradamus ?
Category: Modern Mysteries | Posted on 9-22-2011 | 12 comments
During the reign of King George V, Edgar Codling wrote down a series of predictions about the future.

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Key to all optical illusions discovered
Category: Metaphysics & Psychology | Posted on 6-4-2008 | 3 comments
Humans can see into the future, says a cognitive scientist. It's nothing like the alleged predictive powers of Nostradamus, but we do get a glimpse of events on...

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The Vietnamese Nostradamus
Category: Modern Mysteries | Posted on 11-12-2006 | 0 comments
Today he’d be called a political strategist, but in the 16th century he was seen as a great seer. Huy Hao charts the course life of Nguyen Binh Khiem’s l...

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Who was Scotland's Nostradamus ?
Category: Metaphysics & Psychology | Posted on 6-10-2006 | 1 comment
Thomas of Ercildoune - more commonly known as Thomas the Rhymer - was a soothsayer of such repute that for a time his fame rivalled that of the Arthurian magici...

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Scottish golfer was a 19th century Nostradamus
Category: Metaphysics & Psychology | Posted on 1-20-2005 | 11 comments
He was a Scottish professional golfer in the 19th century but he predicted bullet trains, driverless golf carts, televisions and digital watches. In a book publ...

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Are we really all doomed?
Category: Archived News | Posted on 6-17-2004 | 11 comments
The inimitable Private Fraser of Dad’s Army encapsulated the Malthusian doctrine to grim comic effect when he suggested an end to civilisation as he knew it. He...