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* Michael Drosnin using codes he claimed were hidden in the Bible predicted an assasination involving Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Then Rabin was assasinated.
* During late July/early August of 2011, many members of the Bethesda forums expressed a suspicion that the Lonesome Road DLC for [[Fallout: New Vegas]] would be delayed, to the point that the senior producer, Jason Bergman, called people paranoid and said that Lonesome Road would come out in August. A week later, it was announced that Lonesome Road had been delayed and wouldn't come out in August.
* Joseph [[Mc Carthy]]McCarthy tried several people who were supposedly Communist spies in what History would call the [[Red Scare]]. Although he ultimately tried the wrong people and destroyed many more lives and careers in the process thanks to his [[Witch Hunt]] tactics, his beliefs that the Soviets had actually infiltrated the country via various media personalities and government officials did actually prove to be quite sound, due to the release of various documents.
* Doubly happened on September 11, 2001:
** [[wikipedia:Rick Rescorla|Rick Rescorla]], a former colonel in the US Army, became the chief of security for Morgan Stanley after he retired. First he expressed his worry that the towers would be vulnerable to a truck bomb... which then happened in 1993. Later he said that terrorists would probably try again--- using airplanes. He was last seen [[Heroic Sacrifice|running up the stairs of the South Tower to aid in rescuing more people.]]
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