Prophecy About the Titanic

K, I was looking through all these books that my family has for stuff about the Titanic, and I kept finding all these prophecies and strange coincidences and stuff that related to the Titanic, so I thought I'd write a little about them.

The one I read the most about was a book by Morgan Robertson. It was written in 1898. The title was Futility. It's pretty much an exact replica of the actual Titanic wreck, or so I've read. I haven't read this book yet; I haven't even looked for it. But here's a list of coincidences I found in Mysteries of the Unexplained, which is a Readers Digest book:

	The Titan Robertson's ship	The Titanic
Month of wreck	April	April
Passengers and crew aboard	3000	2207
Lifeboats	24	20
Tonnage	75000	66000
Length	800 feet	882.5 feet
Propellers	3	3
Speed on impact	25 knots	23 knots

The book I found this in credits this table to Prophecy in Our Time, by Martin Ebon. Some other things that I've read the Titanic and the Titan have in common are that they both departed from Southampton and that they both sank in the same spot.

According to another Readers Digest book called Strange Stories, Amazing Facts, another short story was written foreshadowing the wreck of the Titanic. The author was W.T. Stead. Yes, those of you buffs who are reading this, this would be the same W.T. Stead that went down with the Titanic.

K, that's all the prophecy I found about it, but here are some unusual little occurrences relating to the Titanic:

• From Phenomena: A Book of Wonders, by John Mitchell and Robert M. Rickard, comes this: "In July 1975, a large block of ice fell through the roof of the Melkis home in Dustable, Bedford, England. At the time of the incident the family was engrossed in a TV movie about the Titanic. As the ice crashed through their ceiling, they were tensely waiting for the ship to strike the fateful iceberg."
• From Strange Stories, Amazing Facts (Readers Digest), I read about a seaman named William Reeves. He was on lookout duty one April night when the conditions of the ocean exactly matched those on the night the Titanic sank. There was a flat calm; there was no moon; all that sort of thing. He would be going off duty at 12:00, but he was keeping a sharp lookout because he remembered the Titanic. Suddenly he realized that they were in exactly the same spot the Titanic had hit the iceberg. He was debating whether or not to ring the alarm bell, when another strange coincidence occurred to him--he had been born on April 14, 1912 (the same day the Titanic struck the iceberg). He rang the alarm, and the ship came to a halt. When day broke, the sun revealed a lot of icebergs all around them. The name of this ship? The Titanian.

Any strange coincidences you've heard about? Let me know by emailing me!

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