In 1898, 14 years prior to Titanic's sinking, English author Morgan Robertson wrote a fictional book called "Futility". The book was about about the largest passenger liner ever built, the "Titan".

(It gets better)

The Titan sets sail across the Atlantic in the month of April on her maiden voyage.
The Titan is going too fast that night.
They are overconfident and think she is unsinkable.

The Titan strikes an iceberg, and sinks, taking most of the passengers with her because she only has lifeboats for a small fraction of the 2,000 people on board.
(Robertson was trying to illustrate mankind's growing lack of respect for the forces of nature, and the increasingly dangerous reliance on technology with the book.)

More weirdness- Robertson's Titan is almost exactly the same length and tonnage of the Titanic. His has Triple Screws, and can carry as much as 3,000 people, much like the Titanic. And the fictional ship is packed with rich celebrities, who's money and status can't save them, much like the actual one.

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Robertson later wrote a book called "Beyond the Spectrum". In this book, he described a futuristic war fought with aircraft that carried what he called "sun bombs". These bombs were so powerful that with one brilliant flash of blinding light, one single bomb could destroy an entire city (much like a nuclear bomb ).

When this book was written, airplanes were still tiny, dangerous machines that could barely carry one man, and crashed frequently, and this was decades before the Germans started their "heavy water" experiments, trying to construct a nuclear device.

Robertson's future war begins in the month of December (much like the actual WW II, which began in December) when the Japanese stage a sneak attack on Hawaii. (WW II was started when the Japanese launched a sneak attack on an American base -Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii.)

Weird, to say the least. Who knows how in the world he came up with this "crazy" stuff

[This message has been edited by TexasJoe (edited 03-30-2000).]

Further to the Titanic Story
1935 Mid April - North Atlantic-
A ship called the Titanian was on a coal run from Tyne to Canada.
Whilst on watch William Reeves began to feel a stong sence of forboding. By the time the ship was at the spot where the Titanic went down, the feelings were overpowing him. But could he stop the ship on a premonition ?
Another coincidence came to mind, He was born on the day the Titanic sank.
That made up his mind and called out Danger ahead, Just as he said that an iceberg loomed out of the darkness.
The ship avoided it just in time.
Spooky Stuff

That is weird,TJ!I knew about the Titanic stuff,but that "sun bomb" thing just makes me wonder if this guy was a time traveler!Either that or this Robertson was really skilled at extrapolating things into the future-wonder if he bet on the ponies?