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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 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
* 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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