Parapsychological powers of celebrities

The whole world heard about Nostradamus, Vanga, Houdini, who became famous thanks to their unusual gift. However, few people know that some planetarily popular personalities also had unusual experiences.

Mark Twain

Mark TweX, a famous American writer and entrepreneur, claimed that he saw the death of his brother, but also the day when he himself would leave this world. He stated that he dreamed of attending his own brother's funeral, of a wreath of white roses on his coffin with only one red one in the middle. Shortly afterwards, his brother lost his life in a car accident. He was buried with exactly the kind of wreath that Mark Twain saw in his dream.

This popular writer also predicted the date of his death. Since he was born in 1835 when Halley's comet was first seen, the writer said that he would die in the year when this comet passed by the Earth again. That's what happened back in 1909. Mark Twain also spoke about the global communication network (teletetroscope), back in 1898, and Arpanet (the forerunner of the Internet) was launched only in 1969. The American writer, who was also one of the few friends of Nikola Tesla, in his work called it an electroscope that will enable telephony and live video streaming from all over the world as a network to which everyone will be able to connect.

Abraham Lincoln

Sixteenth in a row, US President Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd Lincoln were fascinated by esotericism from 1840 to 1860 to such an extent that they held sessions with the White House. The President of the United States was able to predict future events in politics and society and to prepare for them in advance. Like Twain, Lincoln predicted the day he would leave this world. As he talked, he saw in a dream the White House and sad officials who were burying someone. He approached a soldier and asked him who had died. "The president was killed," the soldier replied. Just a few days after that dream, Lincoln went to a theater play. It was his last outing because an assassin was waiting for him in an ambush.

Nikola Tesla

To Nikola Tesla, a brilliant inventor, engineer and physicist, images appeared in his early youth, accompanied by bright light, which obscured his view of real scenes and objects. The scientist claimed that these were not hallucinations, but clear and vivid images, which sometimes made it impossible for him to distinguish reality from illusions. Later, he tried to use that power in his work as well. Back in 1901, Tesla predicted the development of wireless communication and smartphones. He talked about a handheld device that will allow people to see distant events, and today we are witnessing his visions.

Tesla has always had sharpened senses, so he claimed that he could hear thunder at a distance of 880 kilometers. However, what happened to him during his work in Budapest could not be compared to anything, and the doctors, in the absence of a better name, defined that condition as a breakdown of nerves. He could hear the ticking of a wristwatch, which was three rooms away from his, and the slight landing of a fly on a table in his head caused a real rumble. The sound of a locomotive, some thirty kilometers away, would shake the ground and the table in Tesla's room, causing great pain in his body. It was, as he wrote, "a deafening noise from near and far", and the doctors considered the mental state in which the famous scientist fell into incurable.