Tony McMahon

Historian investigates the prophets who foresee disasters
Tony McMahon

Why are humans obsessed with predicting the future?
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Jeane Dixon: The psychic who predicted JFK’s assassination
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What do Nostradamus and Baba Vanga predict for 2055?
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6 predictions Baba Vanga got wrong
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Eliphas Levi: The magician who revived occultism

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What does Nostradamus predict for 2026?
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What does Baba Vanga predict for 2026?
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Predictions Nostradamus got wrong: from Y2K to WWIII
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Ingersoll Lockwood: The author who predicted Trump's presidency
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'Japan's Baba Vanga': Ryo Tatsuki's 'The Future I Saw' prophecies
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4 predictions the Mayan calendar got right (and one it didn’t)
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What does Baba Vanga predict for 2025?
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What does Nostradamus predict for 2025?
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Science vs parapsychology: A closer look at 9/11 premonitions

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6 premonitions of disasters that came true
Pandemonium by John Martin

7 times the world was predicted to end 
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4 little known 'prophets' whose predictions came true
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6 greatest prophets from history
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'Telling the future': 4 methods of 'dark divination' from ancient history
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The predictions that came true in 2023
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The strange history of Tarot cards 
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The Scottish Nostradamus: 7 accurate predictions of the Brahan Seer
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What does Nostradamus predict for 2024?
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Baba Vanga’s predictions for 2024
The Last Judgment by John Martin (1854)

7 predictions from history that never came true