- Have you ever wondered when you'll die?
Death is something that comes for all of us
and it's natural to be curious about it.
But of course nobody can know
exactly when they're going to die.
Or can they?
As it turns out, more than a few people have in fact
successfully predicted exactly when they're going to die,
and in some cases, right down to the exact day and cause.
Today, we're going to be looking at who
these lucky people were so that you can decide.
Did they have the gift of foresight
or did their predictions manifest their own death?
Here are 10 People Who Predicted Their Own Death.
Number one is Bob Marley.
Bob Marley, the famous Jamaican
singer, songwriter, musician, and guitarist,
is known the world over for his effortless ability
to blend reggae and ska into his timeless music.
But he had another ability that was lesser known.
Considered to be a prophet by his close friends and family,
Bob Marley had the gift of prophecy.
Growing up in the Saint Ann Parish in Jamaica,
he would successfully predict people's futures
and read their palms while his friends watched in awe.
After predicting many events correctly,
it unnerved people when Marley said
that he would die at exactly the age of 36.
When asked why he predicted that age specifically,
he said that Jesus also lived until he was 36 years old.
Of course, not everyone took this prediction to heart.
That was, unbelievably, until, true to his word,
on May 11th, 1981, Bob Marley died from skin cancer
that spread to his lungs and brain.
He was exactly 36 years old.
Number two is William Thomas Stead.
Known as the father of the modern tabloid,
writer William Thomas Stead was an English newspaper editor
who claimed that he got a lot of his information
from spirits and ghosts from the afterlife.
Many people brushed this off as sensational.
However, one article written in 1892
discussed not how a new famous ship may sink,
but how it will sink.
That year, he published From the Old World to the New,
a story about a ship crashing into an iceberg,
leaving hundreds of passengers dead
and survivors rescued by a captain named Edward Smith.
However, just two days later, on April 14th,
that ship collided with an iceberg,
rendering his prediction accurate
and causing his own death as he drowned.
The ship he boarded?
The RMS Titanic.
Number three is Jimi Hendrix.
Jimi Hendrix was an American rock guitarist, singer,
and songwriter with a mainstream career that spanned
only four years, but made him a legend worldwide.
But back in 1965, before people knew who he was,
he recorded the song The Ballad of Jimi.
This was a haunting track that paid homage
to his best friend who passed, also named Jimi.
Now, this, of course, could be chalked up to coincidence.
However, when listening to the track,
the lyrics state otherwise.
He includes bizarre lines, such as "This is my story.",
and "Five years, he's not gone, he's just dead."
Exactly five years after The Ballad of Jimi,
Jimi Hendrix died of a drug overdose.
Number four is Jim Morrison.
Jim Morrison was a famous songwriter and lead singer
of The Doors, an American rock band formed in 1965.
When Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin passed away in 1970,
they became part of the legendary 27 Club, which is a term
referring to the sudden deaths of musicians
between 1969 and 1971, all being 27 years old.
And Jim mourned the recent death of Joplin,
who was a personal friend of his, he sat around
telling his friends "You're drinking with number three.
"That's right, number three."
This was a haunting premonition that disturbed
his friends and family, but they did not think
anything further of it.
That was until July 3rd 1971, when Morrison died
of an unknown circumstance while in Paris,
becoming the third rockstar to die in less than a year
at the young age of 27.
Number five is Pete Maravich.
Pete Maravich was an incredibly successful
American professional basketball player,
who, to this day, still holds the title
of all-time leading NCAA Division I score.
Also known as Pistol Pete, he was amongst the 50
greatest MBA players that the world had ever seen,
and was referred to by many as the greatest
ball handler of all time.
He did many interviews.
However, in one interview with the Beaver County Times,
he oddly stated "I don't want to play 10 years
"and then die of a heart attack at the age of 40."
Nobody knew if he meant this as a joke or not.
However, what followed was less than satire.
Just six yeas after that interview, and at exactly
the 10-year mark in the MBA, Maravich retired
due to an injury, and exactly eight years later,
on January 5th 1988, he collapsed on the court
while playing a quick game of basketball,
and died of a heart attack, his age exactly 40 years old.
Number six is Mikey Welsh.
Social media is a great way for us to share our thoughts
and feelings, but sometimes, it records more than expected.
After a dream that he had, bassist Mikey Welsh
from Weezer actually predicted his own death,
posting about it on Twitter.
On September 26th 2011, he twitted
"Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend,
"heart attack in my sleep.
"Need to write my will today."
And, as if that tweet wasn't enough,
he then proceeded to tweet a correction, as if he knew
exactly what was going to happen, saying
"Correction, the weekend after next."
Now, that alone would be enough to make one's skin crawl.
However, he later continued to support his prediction
of his own death by posting a piece of art on Facebook
that he wanted to sell, that had a price tag of $250.
However, there was a condition.
Under the picture, he posted that the price would go up
exponentially when he died.
And two weeks later, on Saturday, October 8th 2011,
Welsh died in a hotel room in Chicago,
due to a heart attack, just as he predicted.
Number seven is Frank Pastore.
Before becoming the host of a Christian radio show
in Los Angeles, on January 5th 2004,
Frank Pastore was an American Major League pitcher
in the 1980s, mostly for the Cincinnati Reds.
On his radio show, he discussed religious matters,
but on his very last show, on November 19th 2012,
he discussed something that shocked his audience.
He featured a talk about mortality and told his listeners.
- [Frank Pastore] I mean, look, you guys know
I write a motorcycle, right?
So, at any moment, especially with the idiot people
who cross the diamond lane into my lane, alright,
without any blinkers, not that I'm angry about it,
but at any minute, I could be spread all over the 210.
- Just three hours after that broadcast, Pastore
was on his motorcycle, riding on the 210, and was hit
by a woman who lost control of her vehicle
and swerved into his lane.
After sustaining major head injuries,
Frank Pastore died just as he predicted.
Number eight is Abraham de Moivre.
Abraham de Moivre was a French mathematician
known for his extensive work in the field
of complex numbers and trigonometry.
Friends with Sir Isaac Newton and many other famed
mathematicians, he was obsessed with chance
and probability, and studying death through numbers.
At the age of 87, de Moivre noticed that every day,
he was growing more and more tired, sleeping
15 minutes longer each day.
Because of this, he guessed that, when those 15 minutes
added up to a full 24 hours, he would simply just die.
After making his calculations, he predicted
that his life would end on November 27th 1754.
As his sleeping pattern continued, many began to think
that his prediction might actually come true.
Sure enough, on November 27th 1754, after those 15 minutes
added up to a full 24 hours, de Moivre died in his sleep,
exactly as he predicted, down to the very date and time.
Number nine is Arnold Schoenberg.
For many, phobias are harmless fears that don't actually
harm the person who's afraid of them.
However, famous Jewish Austrian composer,
Arnold Schoenberg, wasn't so lucky.
With a strong fear of the number 13,
a condition he suffered from, called Triskaidekaphobia,
he predicted that he would die on a year
that was a multiple of 13.
Born on September 13th 1874, he lived in fear
every 13 years, paranoid that that year would be his last.
On his 76th birthday, an astrologer wrote him a note,
informing him that his age was a critical number,
as seven plus six equals 13, and on Friday the 13th 1951,
the composer stayed in bed all day, anxious and depressed,
hoping to survive the superstitiously unlucky day,
but, merely 15 minutes before midnight,
he suddenly passed away.
And number 10 is Mark Twain.
Know as one of the greatest American writers in history,
Mark Twain wrote classics, like Tom Sawyer
and Huckleberry Finn, touching on subjects
that many writers avoided, such as racism and poverty.
In 1909, Twain seemingly joked that he would die
the next time Halley's Comet passed close to Earth.
He stated "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1935.
"It is coming again next year, and I expect
"to go out with it.
"The Almighty has said, no doubt:
"Now, here are two unaccountable freaks.
"They came in together, they must go out together."
At the time, nobody actually believed
his slightly humorous prediction.
However, on April 20th 1910, Halley's Comet returned,
and the day after, on April 21st, the famous writer
died of a heart attack.
So, those were 10 people who predicted their own death.
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