38 Eerie Predictions That Shattered the Crystal Ball

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38 Eerie Predictions That Shattered the Crystal Ball

Right or wrong, we’re honestly just impressed that someone had the cojones (or the ovarios) to publicly make these futuristic claims! Possibly even more impressive were the writers who gave us a glimpse of the not-so-distant future while providing us with some “fictional” entertainment. How did they know?! What aren’t they telling us?! Ahhh!!!

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38 Eerie Predictions That Shattered the Crystal Ball

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Two weeks before his death in a Chicago hotel, former Weezer bassist Mikey Welsh predicted a twitter post. his own demise via @MikeyWelsh71 Mikey Welsh dreamt i died in chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). need to write my will today. 26 Sep via web @MikeyWelsh71 Mikey Welsh @JVittitow correction-the CRACKED.COM weekend after next

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CHRIS ROCK NAILED THE TITLE OF OJ's BOOK. O.J. SIMPSON I Didn't Kill My Wife! But If I DID, Here's How I'd Do It It was 1999, on The Chris Rock Show. Не did a segment where he was reminiscing, and held up a video with OJ called I Didn't Kill My Wife! But If I DID, Here's How I'd Do it. Simpson's 2007 book was entitled If I Did It. To be fair, it's possible OJ got the idea from Chris Rock. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/KKD4bKVEus

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ALBERT BROOKS PREDICTED REALITY me TV IN 1979. FILMING THANKSGIVING His mockumentary film Real Life featured an obnoxious, intrusive camera crew trailing a family and deliberately stirring up conflict. It was meant as a sendup of a PBS documentary series, but with the twist that most of the drama was generated artificially by the producer. CRACKED.COM http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/real-life-1979

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NICKI MINAJ PREDICTED HER COUSIN'S DEATH, WITH A SONG. Why'd you have to leave in July? On a peaceful and serene summer night... Why the doctors could not stop the bleeding... Now you see you not bullet proof... I could've told you about my intuition ... Why'd you have to go so soon? -We Miss You A year after Nicki wrote this, her cousin Nicholas Telemaque was gunned down in July and left to bleed to death. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/nicholas-telemague- CRACKED.COM 27-shot-death-brooklyn-street-leaving-nightclub-article-1.155416

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UK's House of Cards predicted the fall of Margaret Thatcher The episode in which Margaret Thatcher's character resigned aired only four days before the actual Prime Minister resigned. CRACKED.COM

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An episode of Full House featured Aunt Becky in admissions scandal Uncle Jesse lies on his kids' preschool application, but in the TV show, Aunt Becky 'fesses up. CRACKED.COM

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The Picturephone predicts 1980s payphones. 2001: A Space Odyssey The Picturephone is a payphone with a Bell System logo and a push-button layout. To use it, one inserts a credit card, which had been developed in 1960 but was not widely used until the 1980s. CRACKED

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Christopher Reeve's last role was eerily prophetic. Reeve's last film before his accident follows a police officer who is paralyzed after being shot in the line of duty. Reeve visited a spinal cord trauma unit to prepare for the role, and famously commented it could happen to anyone. Above Suspicion CRACKED

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Star Trek 20th-century sci-fi predicts 21st- century agriculture. In The Trouble with Tribbles, Quadrotriticale is a genetically- engineered hybrid grain, predicting GMO, and used in 2268 to attempt to develop Sherman's Planet as an agrarian colony. CRACKED

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