The Search for Scientific Proof for Premonitions
In the 1960s, a British researcher launched one of the largest ever studies of people who believed they could see the future.
Source: newrepublic.com
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The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight: an 'endlessly readable' book
Story explores psychic ‘precognition’ surrounding 1966 Aberfan disaster
Source: theweek.co.uk
CRAIG BROWN: Can we really see into the future, or is it all just hokum?
Whats going to happen next? This is the question that powers us through novels and films and, quite often, through life itself.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
The Premonitions Bureau review: A 1960s hunt for paranormal powers
A terrific book by Sam Knight about a bizarre, real-life attempt to collect people's premonitions is beautifully written, but goes too easy on the pseudoscience
Source: newscientist.com
The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight review – astonishing adventures in precognition
How the Aberfan disaster prompted one psychiatrist to launch a nationwide search for ‘seers’ who could predict the future
Source: theguardian.com
The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight review – the press, psychiatry and the paranormal
The prizewinning New Yorker journalist provides more questions than answers in a tantalising tale of a psychiatrist fascinated by predicting disasters
Source: theguardian.com
After the Aberfan disaster was foreseen by several people in premonitions, two men investigate
Sam Knight explores the history of premonitions starting with the Aberfan crisis. The author uncovers that two men predicted the Hither Green railway crash in Lewisham
Source: dailymail.co.uk
The vision collector: the man who used dreams and premonitions to predict the future
In 1966, a British psychiatrist had an idea: to change the course of history by asking the public to share their eerie intuitions
Source: theguardian.com