Sam Knight

So again, I just don't think we know enough to know what's going to happen and what's not.

You know, there was a book a few years ago called The Premonition Bureau by Sam Knight.

I don't know if you looked at it or read it.

But it's basically about a newspaper, a journalist, by the way, in England who felt he needed to set up a premonition bureau because a woman had a massive premonition about a mining disaster in a village that killed a number of children.

And it was this, you know, you go down wormholes of research, but there was just more, and more, and more.

Um, I think a book I found really interesting was Sam Knight's The Bureau of Premonitions, which was about a psychiatrist in the '50s who he thought that there were people who would have premonitions of disasters.

Say, people would dream about something, and then it would later come to pass.

But you can never actually verify that, can you?

Hencher thought that Barker would die by a gas supply or something involving a dark car.

Barker was only in his 40s at the time, and in a New Yorker article by Sam Knight, he points out that Barker, when he was in his late 30s, he occasionally suffered from what he called emotional stress almost to the point of crackup.

And this is when he had left his previous job as the superintendent of a mental hospital in Dorset.

He was depressed, and he had looked much older than he actually was.

So you could unfortunately gamble on something like this happening.

On top of all this, once the Bureau had found their stars, so to speak, they most likely gave Middleton and Henscher more attention than the others.

And according to Sam Knight, Middleton, quote, "Felt validated by the attention of such a distinguished man such as Barker." So it seemed like she might have kept producing as many vague yet almost accurate premonitions as she could just for validation.

Also, it's more likely that we'll all remember the accurate premonitions and simply forget the countless others where nothing happened at all.