[ENGLISH] "The Premonition Of The Titanic's Sinking" [Curious Cases - Ep. 2]

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   Today I bring you a story checked premonitory where precise details are mixed, concrete similarities and even the differences that existed between the two sides of the story that I'll proceed to tell you, there were certain similarities.

   Paranormal elements, where still some parapsychologists argue whether our protagonist had precognitive powers or did communicate with spirits are also introduced in this story.


-A ship named "Titan"-


  "The passengers' and crew's horror screams of the huge half sank transatlantic, flooded the serene and glacial North Atlantic Ocean's night.

   The huge iceberg watched impassively as both people, highborn and underclass were drowning.

   Without enough lifeboats, only a few individuals get saved from the icy jaws of the dark and vast ocean ... "


   Well ... would you believe that I am referring to the fateful day when "Titanic" , sank right?

   However, I'm telling you part of the story that the writer and sailor Morgan Robertson capture in his novel "Wreck Of The Titan".


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   The curious thing about this story, and even though you may be thinking that the author based his work on the sinking of the famous ship, is precisely that he wrote it 14 years before of all known events.

   Then I leave you a list of similarities/matches from the real collapse and the novel's one :

  • The most obvious perhaps, the name of both boats - "Titan/Titanic".
  • Both were considered unsinkables since they had an inlets water detecting compartments system were sealed tightly with automatic metal doors.
  • They were the largests transatlantics ever built to that date.
  • Both started the trip in the April month.
  • Their lengths were very similar - "Titan 244m/269m Titanic."
  • "The Titan" was carrying 20 lifeboats and "Titanic" 24 lifeboats. Both figures not enough to the maritime safety provisions regarding for boats of that length at that time.


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  • Both were powered by a 3 flute motor.
  • "The Titan" developed a "40,000 horses" power while "Titanic" developed "46,000 horses".
  • Both ships collide against an iceberg around midnight and few miles separating the site of an accident from the other.
  • "The Titan" hit at25 knots speed and400 nautical miles from Newfoundland. "The Titanic" hit at 23 knots speed and 400 nautical miles from Newfoundland.
  • Both ships were owned by a British shipping company called "White Star".
  • They had all the luxuries and comforts of the time.
  • Was available in the main engine improvements that make out lower the fire risk in it and endowed them with greater speed, using coal as fuel.
  • On Bboth ships were 3.000 people, between crew and passengers.


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   Now I proceed to let you a number of differences between the two cases:

  • In "Titanic" 1,514 people from 2,223 aboard died. In "Titan" near 3,000 people died.
  • The accident resulted in the "Titanic's" maiden voyage while "Titan" had already made a few trips.
  • The routes are the same but in reverse - "Titan" goes from New York to England and "Titanic" goes from England to New York.
  • "The Titanic" was part of a 3 boats family ("Olympic" and "Britannic") while "Titan" was unique.
  • "The Titanic" sank on April 15th, 1.912 and "Titan" in the same April month of 1.898.


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   This series of similarities and coincidences with Morgan Robertson claiming to have extrasensory relations with an entity, led both to fame.

   It's known that Robertson said to don't be writing his novels, but these were dictated by a spirit who communicated with him.

   Another interesting detail in this story of the "powers" attributed to him, is that coincidentally this writer wrote in 1914 and just early months before his death, a short story called "Beyond the Spectrum" which tells a hypothetical war from US and Japan and the use of destruction massive weapons, very similar to those of the nuke effects.

   This work is considered by the parapsychologists community as a proof of the existence of extrasensory powers.


Morgan Robertson died in 1915 from an overdose of drugs against rheumatism, taking with him the mystery of the spirit that dictated the events.


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   What do you think of the story? Pure coincidence? Really a spirit dictated the events?

   All your comments about it are welcome.


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