The world is burning again. There seems to be conflict and war everywhere, and many people on social media are actually wishing for WWIII so that they can “experience what it’s like to live in wartime.” At the same time, those living in war zones would give anything not to. During war, people lose loved ones in horrific ways. Children starve to death. Entire cities and towns become permanently displaced.
There is nothing to glorify about war. Innocent victims always get caught up in the crossfire, and those who survive often have to flee to countries that don’t want them.
When the psychics on this list predicted conflict, terror, and mayhem, they “saw” this type of devastation. And they did their best to warn those who would be affected (in their own way).
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10 The Sleeping Prophet Predicted WWII
The Wild Predictions Of Edgar Cayce – The Sleeping Prophet | Random Thursday
Like 99% of psychics, Edgar Cayce, or the Sleeping Prophet, is a controversial predictor of bad things. In 1889, at the age of twelve, Cayce alleged that he had been visited by a beautiful woman sporting wings. The woman promised to answer his prayers. Over the years, he also claimed to be able to talk to his dead grandfather.
This obviously doesn’t sit well with those who scoff at anything supernatural or paranormal. However, Cayce’s father, who happened to knock his son out of a chair after receiving a school report detailing Cayce’s poor spelling, quickly became a believer. After Cayce was knocked out of the chair, he pleaded with his father to let him take a nap. He did so because the winged woman demanded it. When his father relented, Cayce fell asleep with his head on his school spelling book. When Cayce woke up hours later, his father was shocked to discover that his son had memorized every single page of the book while sleeping.
Cayce started sleeping on top of other schoolbooks and turned around his grades in no time. He also earned the nickname “The Sleeping Prophet.” Over time, Cayce’s talents expanded to providing people with accurate medical diagnoses while he was asleep. Some people believed that Cayce went into a trance before dishing out diagnoses.
Aside from the sleep-talking, Cayce also made startling predictions that came true. He predicted the 1929 stock market crash twice, once in 1925 and again in March 1929, six months before the crash happened. In 1935, Cayce predicted there would be a second World War. He spoke of how the war would unfold, describing an alliance between the Japanese, Austrians, and Germans. Cayce also said that “the whole world will be set on fire by the militaristic groups.” This alliance was eventually revealed during the Tripartite Pact signing on September 27, 1940.
Some who still doubted Cayce’s abilities came around after the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947. Cayce died two years before this discovery after speaking at length about the scrolls and the Essenes. It was many years after the scrolls were discovered that historians found proof of the Essene people.[1]
9 Marie Anne Lenormand Saw Napoleon’s Rise and Fall
The Supernatural Biography of MADAME LENORMAND | CLAIRVOYANCE | CARTOMANCY | NAPOLEON AND JOSEPHINE
Marie-Anne Lenormand had a tragic childhood. Her parents died when she was very young, and she was placed in a convent school at the tender age of five. However, it only took Lenormand two years to determine her life path. By age seven, she predicted the removal of the standing Superior at the Benedictine convent she attended. She also predicted who would take the Superior’s place.
Lenormand traveled to Paris at the age of fourteen, where she studied various subjects to hone her psychic abilities. These studies included horoscopes, divination, mathematics, and astronomy. By the time she turned seventeen, Lenormand was a professional fortune-teller who went by the name Madame Lenormand. She opened a shop in France, even though fortune-telling was illegal at the time. As such, she landed in jail three times.
During one of her jail stints, Lenormand met a woman named Josephine. Josephine begged Lenormand to tell her fortune, upon which Lenormand told her she would make it out of prison, but her husband would not. Within four days, Josephine was released from prison, only to hear that her husband had been executed. This opened the way for Josephine to become Josephine Bonaparte two years later after marrying Napoleon. She became Empress, all the while remaining close friends with Lenormand. Lenormand predicted this marriage when she told Josephine that she would marry a “new Hercules.”
Things didn’t go well for Josephine after marrying Napoleon. Lenormand didn’t predict it, but Josephine died unexpectedly in 1814, five years after divorcing Napoleon. Lenormand did, however, predict Napoleon’s divorce, exile, and death in 1821. He died of stomach cancer and chronic exposure to arsenic.
Many years later, Maximilien Robespierre, Louis Antone de Saint-Just, and John-Paul Marat visited Lenormand. They were less than happy when Lenormand told them they would all die violent deaths. And they did. Robespierre and Saint-Just were killed by the guillotine two years after the prediction. Marat lived a further twenty-one years after the prediction, only to be stabbed to death with a kitchen knife while he was taking a bath.[2]
8 Gin Chow Foresaw More Than Bad Weather and Earthquakes
Tokyo in flames: the earthquake that changed Japan forever
Gin Chow was a Chinese immigrant who made California his new home just over twenty years before the turn of the 20th century. By 1890, Chow had done well enough for himself that he was able to move to the Lompoc Valley with his wife and three children. He bought a small farm where he cultivated fruit before selling it in Santa Barbara.
Chow’s first prediction took nearly five years to come true. It is said that he posted a notice in the Santa Barbara post office on December 23, 1920. The notice said that an earthquake would shake the city on June 29, 1925. Some versions of the story say that he posted the notice on June 29, 1923 and that it included an additional prediction for an earthquake in Japan in September 1923. The Tokyo earthquake that happened on September 1, 1923, killed more than 140,000 people. A very strong earthquake brought down seventy buildings in Santa Barbara’s commercial district on the very day Chow predicted in 1925.
This kickstarted Chow’s fame along the Pacific Coast. He was asked to speak on the radio and at public meetings. He was the opening act for the 1933 King Kong movie screening in Los Angeles. He never predicted an earthquake again, but he did accurately predict the weather. When he said it would rain, it did indeed rain. When he foresaw drought, the rain dried up. By now, he was known as the Wizard of Lompoc. He continued to predict events until shortly before he died in 1933. Right before he died, he published two hardback almanacs. The first one included a prediction that read: “People say that powerful armies come from Japan and make face at the world. But all the time we know that down within herself Japan is afraid of Western people. One big bullet wreck Japan.”
Years later, in 1945, this prediction seemingly came true when the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. It is also believed that Chow warned that the U.S. would go to war with Japan nearly ten years before the Pearl Harbor attack. Chow predicted the year of his own death as well. He had been gored by a bull in 1932, and doctors believed he wouldn’t make it. However, he insisted that he still had a year to live. One year later, Chow crossed State Street and was hit by a truck.[3]
7 Jan Gotlib Bloch Predicted the Course of Future Wars
Ivan S Bloch: the obscure banker who foresaw the horrors of The Great War
Jan Gotlib Bloch was born in Poland in 1836. As an adult, Bloch became fascinated with the outcome of the Franco-Prussian War between 1870 and 1871. Although he was a banker and railway financier, he decided to study modern industrial warfare in his spare time. In particular, he focused on antisemitic policies laid out by the Congress Poland government. Bloch himself was a Jew who had converted to Calvinism. His ultimate goal was to replace the horrors of war with arbitration.
He believed that direct dispute resolution could eventually prevent wars. Bloch explained several theories regarding this goal in six volumes that were published in Paris in 1898. His ideas were also spread throughout Britain with the help of journalist W.T. Stead. Stead agreed with the use of international arbitration as an alternative to war.
Bloch’s six-volume work The War of the Future contained more than just ideas and concepts. It also detailed a chillingly accurate forecast of trench warfare. In it, Bloch wrote that modern weapons, including magazine rifles, machine guns, and smokeless powder, would make open-field attacks pointless. Instead, armies would be forced into entrenched defensive positions.
Bloch also emphasized that in the “great war of entrenchments,” the spade would become as important as the rifle. He predicted that the first mass attacks during the war would result in horrific casualties. As a result, there would be prolonged stalemates, with neither side making a breakthrough. Protracted wars, which continued in this manner, would deplete nations both economically and socially. Eventually, they would lead to bankruptcy, famine, disease, and the collapse of social structures.
Despite Bloch’s exhaustive predictions and speaking at the 1