20 Freakishly Specific Predictions From History That Came True

1. Abraham Lincoln Foresees His Own Assassination (1865)

Certainly not something you want to see before it happens - but it is claimed by Ward Hill Lamon, a friend of Abraham Lincoln, that the 16th President of the United State had an eerily prophetic nightmare just three days before he was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth in April 1865. Lamon, in his biography of Lincoln, claimed the President told him of his dream:

"There seemed to be a death-like stillness about me. Then I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. I thought I left my bed and wandered downstairs. There the silence was broken by the same pitiful sobbing, but the mourners were invisible. "Determined to find the cause of a state of things so mysterious and so shocking, I kept on until I arrived at the East Room, which I entered. There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. "Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. "'Who is dead in the White House?' I demanded of one of the soldiers. 'The President,' was his answer; 'He was killed by an assassin.' Then came a loud burst of grief from the crowd, which woke me from my dream."