While no one in their right mind wants to die, some people just seem to possess a sixth sense
about knowing when their time is up. Strangely, some celebrities have actually predicted their
own deaths. And surprisingly some of their predictions actually turned out to be true.
Some stars have even predicted the precise manner and circumstances of
their deaths. A few have even guessed the date and time of their demise as well. In this video,
we'll be taking a closer look at several celebrities who have predicted their own
deaths and left the world totally mystified by the accuracy of their predictions.
The list of stars who have successfully predicted their deaths is shockingly long,
so we'll just focus on a few key examples. Some of these celebrities have anticipated
their deaths in eerily precise ways while others let the world know about their
impending doom in slightly vague yet immensely foreboding ways. Even though their deaths are
mysterious and raise lots of questions, it's important to remember that they are
also tragic and heartbreaking. These people had lives, careers, and families that will
grieve their passing for many years to come. It's always important to pay our respects.
Oliver Reed
In 1994, actor Oliver Reed predicted his death during a live television
interview. He presumed that he would leave this world behind
after having a heart attack in a bar while having one final good belly laugh.
He imagined that there would be some kind of cabbage competition at the bar
and that he'd be fairly confident that he would win the contest. After somebody would a make
a rather questionable bet, he'd take it and shake the man's hand. At which point,
he would laugh so hard that he would get sick and die.
Reed ended up getting his wish on May 2, 1999, when he passed away in a bar
in Valletta, Malta while filming Ridley Scott's Gladiator.
While he did indeed die in a bar, Reed's co-star Omid Djalili
later revealed that he hadn't had a drink for months before filming commenced.
When he was pressured into a drinking competition, he should have just left, but sadly he didn't.
If he had stuck with his sobriety, he very well could have lived on for many years to come
The rumors of what and how much Oliver drank that day vary quite a bit. But what we do know
is that his untimely death was a great loss for the acting community and movie industry alike.
Gladiator was supposed to be his big comeback film.
Reed's acting career had taken a nosedive in the 90s due to a handful of dud films and his many
drunken appearances on television. But before his acting career took a turn for the worse,
he had made a name for himself starring in films like 1966s The Trap, 1968s Oliver!, 1973s The
Three Musketeers, and 1988s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
Reed was posthumously nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a
Supporting Role In 2000 for his role as Antonius Proximo in Gladiator.
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James Dean
While James didn't predict his own death per se,
a fellow actor did. Alec Guinness was an Academy Award-winning actor who appeared
in dozens of hit films throughout his acting career that spanned six decades. But Star Wars
fans will always remember him best for his iconic portrayal of the Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi.
But even before Guinness appeared in A New Hope,
it would seem that the Force was already strong with him. In 1955,
Alec predicted that actor James Dean would soon pass away. Less than a week later, he did.
In the early 1950s, James Dean was one of the most popular actors in Tinseltown.
Dean had a penchant for car racing and participated in dozens of races.
In October 1955, Dean entered the Salinas Road Race with his shiny new 1955 Porsche
Spyder. En route to the venue, Dean was involved in a collision with a 1950 Ford Tudor that
collided with the passenger side of his vehicle while it was turning left at a busy intersection.
Dean's Porsche flipped onto the side of the highway leaving him with life-threatening
injuries. Sadly, he was pronounced dead at the hospital a little under an hour later.
Dean was only 24 years old when his candle was prematurely snuffed out, and he later
became the first actor to be honored with a posthumous Academy Award.
Guinness had met Dean just a week before his death while he was in LA. He ran into
Dean after being turned away from a restaurant frequented by Hollywood elites. After leaving
the restaurant and walking down the street, Guinness heard footsteps clambering behind him.
He looked to see who it was and discovered that it was the famous Rebel Without A Cause actor.
After introducing himself, Dean asked Guinness if he would care to join him.
After agreeing to accompany him. Dean showed Guinness his new Porsche Spyder
and bragged that it could reach speeds up to 150 miles per hour. Guinness then felt
like something had suddenly come over him. In a distinctly different voice, he warned
Dean to not get into the vehicle. If he did, Guinness warned that he would be dead in a week.
Dean brushed the comment off and proceeded to have a nice dinner with his guest,
but a week later, just as Guinness had predicted,
he suffered the fatal crash that put an end to his life and career.
Carrie Fisher
Fisher is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Princess Leia Organa in the Star
Wars franchise of films. She never shied away from the fact that she lived life to the fullest.
Whenever she got the chance, she would proudly discuss her party-hardy lifestyle
and the fact that she lived without any regrets.
Recently, her dear friend James Blunt, revealed that the Star Wars heroine apparently predicted
her own death more than a decade before her passing. Blunt stayed with Fisher at her home
in LA while recording his album Back to Bedlam. And according to him, Fisher had written the date
of her birth and death on a cardboard cutout of Princess Leia that she placed outside of his room.
While Blunt admits that he doesn't remember the precise date that she picked for her death, he
thinks that it was probably around the same time as her actual demise. Back to Bedlam
was recorded back in 2003 – a full 13 years before Fisher's death on December 27, 2016.
Brandon and Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee, the famed martial artist and actor, was killed when he suffered a brain
aneurysm after taking medication given to him by a friend in 1973.
Two decades later, Bruce's son, Brandon Lee, was shot and killed while filming a movie.
A prop gun somehow became jammed and fired a blank into his abdomen. He bled out just minutes later.
Bruce and Brandon Lee's deaths have inspired numerous conspiracy theories,
some more outlandish than others. The most frequently shared one however is the theory
that the entire Lee family is cursed. The curse has allegedly brought about the untimely deaths
of numerous males in the Lee Family besides just Bruce and Brandon's.
One of the eeriest things about this curse is the fact that Bruce Lee himself believed in it.
He reportedly even had several premonitions of his death.
At one point he was quoted as saying that he did not believe that he would live to
be even half as old as his dad who died at the age of 64. Bruce died at the age of 32.
He also speculated that his son would also die young. Brandon ended up dying at the age of 28.
In the 1993 film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story,
Bruce is haunted by a demon since birth. At the end of the film,
Bruce braces himself to finally face the demon, but it sets its sights on Brandon instead.
At the time of the film's production, Brandon Lee was still alive,
but his on-set accident killed him before the film hit theaters
leading many to believe that the fictional story somehow accurately predicted his fate.
Pete Maravich
Known by the nickname, Pistol Pete, Maravich was an American professional basketball player
who played with the NCAA and NBA. He was considered to be one of the greatest creative
offensive talents to ever play the game and one of the best ball handlers of all time.
In 1974, he gave an interview with the Beaver County Times where he
stated that he didn't want to play '10 years in the NBA and die of a heart attack at age 40'.
Pete indeed ended up playing for the NBA for exactly 10 years before dying at the age of 40.
When he gave the interview, Maravich had only been playing basketball for four years.
What he was essentially trying to say was that he didn't need
basketball and that he could do something else if he wanted to.
According to the LA County Coroners report, Maravich died from an undetermined kind of
heart disease. His autopsy then revealed that the precise cause of his death was a
rare congenital defect. He had been born without a left coronary artery and his
right coronary artery was extremely enlarged and had been compensating for the defect.
Essentially, that condition made him into a ticking time bomb,
but Maravich was blissfully unaware of that. Reportedly, Pete's last words were 'I Feel Great'.
Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison was the frontman for the trailblazing rock band The Doors.
He was both a gifted poet and songwriter who rose to fame
due to his distinctive lyrics and voice and because of his outlandishly wild personality.
He is oftentimes considered to be one of the most iconic and influential frontmen
in Rock 'n Roll history. Like so many other musicians that came before him
and have lived since Morrison was addicted to alcohol and hard drugs.
On September 18, 1970, psychedelic rock pioneer Jimi Hendrix died and less than
a month later on October 4th, Janis Joplin, also passed away. Both musicians died from
drug overdoses at the age of 27. And that's how the notorious 27 Club got its start.
Morrison was devastated by the loss of two of his musical contemporaries.
Everyone in his circle described him as being deeply disturbed by their deaths.
Friends that hung out with him at a LA bar in October 1970 recounted how
he said that he would soon be 'number three'. His ominous words turned out to become true,
as Morrison was found dead in a bathtub on July 3, 1971, at the age of 27. The official cause
of death was listed as heart failure although no autopsy was performed. According to several
eyewitnesses, however, Morrison's death was caused by an accidental heroin overdose.
Alright, well we've pretty much run out of time for this video, but honestly, we could go on for
hours detailing the many celebrities that have predicted their own deaths. While pretty much
all of these cases could be easily dismissed as coincidences, it still makes you wonder if they
actually sensed something supernatural that tipped them off about their inevitable ends.
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discussed in this video were just good guessers? Let us know in the comments section below.
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