Read other instalments of Danny Robins\u2019 series:<\/strong><\/p>\n The black monk of Pontefract<\/a><\/p>\n The ghost of Brooklands racing circuit<\/a><\/p>\n The Battersea Poltergeist<\/a><\/p>\n HMP Shepton Mallet<\/a><\/p>\n A Highlands horror story<\/a><\/p>\n A Walthamstow folk demon<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> <\/section> Two days later, she opens her front door on Saturday morning to be confronted by the sight of blue flashing lights. The street is full of police<\/a>! Amanda asks the officer on her doorstep what\u2019s happened, and the officer tells her that there has been a fatal collision. She points to the spot where it happened. To Amanda\u2019s shock and horror, it is the exact same spot where she had her vision of hitting someone 48 hours earlier.<\/p>\n \u201cI went a little bit white and closed the door,\u201d says Amanda. \u201cIt was just too, too weird.\u201d It will get weirder still as she learns the nature of the real-life incident. Reports emerge that the driver deliberately struck the young man after an argument, carrying him down the street, just as Amanda had imagined she was doing, and the vehicle was a white van, just like hers!<\/p>\n Sadly, the young man did die, and the driver was convicted of manslaughter. Amanda shows me links to press reports of his trial. One of the witnesses talks about seeing the victim on the van\u2019s bonnet, precisely as Amanda described! So, what is going on here? Did Amanda really have some kind of premonition of this incident? I ask Chris French, a psychologist and sceptic from Goldsmiths, University of London, if he thinks premonitions are possible. He\u2019s doubtful, but he tells me about the British Premonitions Bureau founded by a psychiatrist called John Barker in the wake of the Aberfan disaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n Aberfan is a village in South Wales where, in 1966, a terrible tragedy occurred when a huge pile of waste from the local coal mine slid down a hill and landed on a school, claiming 144 lives. Many people claimed to have had premonitions of the disaster and Barker decided to invite volunteers to send him their premonitions of future events to explore whether this was a way of avoiding other such tragedies.<\/p>\n Chris says the most accurate one, rather chillingly, was when one of Barker\u2019s helpers predicted Barker\u2019s own untimely death. He did indeed die, just one year later, aged 44.<\/p>\n This article was first published in the March 2022 of BBC History Revealed<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n![\"Aberfan](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/10\/GettyImages612220596-22d6cbe-e1698681177118.jpg?quality=90&resize=619%2C413\" "\\"Aberfan")
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