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Sam Knight
New Yorker staff writer and author of The Premonitions Bureau, who researches and recounts historical cases of premonitions, dreams, and alleged precognitive experiences.
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Dec 12, 2025
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Premonitions That Came True! Aberfan, Plane Crashes & Death Foretold | New Yorker Staff Writer Sam Knight on Seemingly Impossible Stories of Dreams and Visions Before Catastrophe
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Sam Knight, a staff writer for The New Yorker and author of The Premonitions Bureau, explores eerie cases of premonitions and their implications. He delves into the infamous 1966 Aberfan disaster and the psychic warnings that preceded it, leading to the establishment of the British Premonitions Bureau. Sam discusses how historical understandings of extrasensory experiences differ from today, the moral responsibility of those receiving premonitions, and cultural patterns surrounding these mysterious events, while questioning if we access alternate timelines through these insights.
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