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9/11 premonitions

  • 19-05-2012 10:17pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭


    Did anyone here get the feeling that something bad would happen in New York/Washington D.C. prior to the terrorist attacks?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭MrMojoRisin


    branie wrote: »
    Did anyone here get the feeling that something bad would happen in New York/Washington D.C. prior to the terrorist attacks?

    Nope, nothing, but I found it interesting how Jermaine Jackson, Michael Jackson's brother, said last year that Michael narrowly missed going to the Twin Towers for a scheduled meeting on the morning of the attacks.

    http://blog.music.aol.com/2011/09/14/jermaine-jackson-michael-jackson-book/
    Jermaine stunned the audience and MJ fans when he revealed that his brother slept through a number of early morning appointments, including one that would have put him in the wrong place at the wrong time on the morning of the tragic terrorist attacks 10 years ago.

    I met a fella from New York about two years ago and he told me that his sister worked in a bank in the World Trade Center but, luckily, she survived (albeit, with respiratory problems from inhaling toxic dust - funnily enough, somewhat similar to the problems Donna Summer suffered, and died, from this week).

    He said his sister happened to leave her workplace - in the WTC - to go to a nearby bookshop and this was around the time the building was hit. If she hadn't made the decision to go out at that time, she would certainly be dead.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 141 ✭✭I Need The Sun


    No, I didnt pick up on that....but..

    I had a weird dream where there was this long funeral procession, rather like JK Kennedys...there was a large stretch limousine type funeral car. There were loads of people surrounding the car and along the streets, especially black-african-americans.

    I was trying to get a look into the funeral car to see who in was, but the body was covered in a white sheet.

    Michael Jackson died the following day. I'd never had that type of dream before, nor since. Coincidence? probably, but it spooked me for a good while.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 141 ✭✭I Need The Sun


    Blimey!:eek: Mr Mojo Rising....the Jackson coincidence as we were obviously writing at the same time, has spooked me even more...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Deus Ex Machina


    Yes, I did. I knew it was going to happen. I tried to tell them but...oh well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭Reoil


    Nope, nothing, but I found it interesting how Jermaine Jackson, Michael Jackson's brother, said last year that Michael narrowly missed going to the Twin Towers for a scheduled meeting on the morning of the attacks.

    http://blog.music.aol.com/2011/09/14/jermaine-jackson-michael-jackson-book/

    I don't believe this for one second. Bear in mind that he is trying to publicise a book...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 141 ✭✭I Need The Sun


    Reoil wrote: »
    I don't believe this for one second. Bear in mind that he is trying to publicise a book...

    Yes that's probably true and part of the publicity to promote whatever.

    But I'd also guess that thousands upon thousands of people could legitamately quote some sort of near miss reference to the Twin Towers, eg, tourists who passed by it in the run up to 9/11, business people from all over the world who had visited in that year, etc etc.

    Whether or not u use it as a publicity thing is determined by opportunity and necessity.

    He prb did narrowly miss a business meeting there, but as Jack Dee would say

    "So what"!??:mad:" LOL!"!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14 cliffandclare


    I remember listening to the radio august 2001. The White Witch from Cobh was on and she said that all the witches of Ireland had arranged to meet each other to discuss a major event that was going to happen, she was on about a triangle of chaos or something and how this was going to be a world changing event . When 911 happened i thought there would be a big thing about how she and other witches had had an inclination that something was about to happen but it all went very quiet .When the radio host was asked later he denied she predicted it even though i heard it with my own ears.Also there was a Mac Donalds add that had a meteor crashing into new york , it was running when 911 happened and was pulled off the air straight away, kinda creepy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,984 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    Yes that's probably true and part of the publicity to promote whatever.

    But I'd also guess that thousands upon thousands of people could legitamately quote some sort of near miss reference to the Twin Towers, eg, tourists who passed by it in the run up to 9/11, business people from all over the world who had visited in that year, etc etc.

    Whether or not u use it as a publicity thing is determined by opportunity and necessity.

    He prb did narrowly miss a business meeting there, but as Jack Dee would say

    "So what"!??:mad:" LOL!"!
    Myself and my (now) wife were in the buildings exactly 24 hours earlier.
    Took a while for what happened to sink in.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 141 ✭✭I Need The Sun


    kippy wrote: »
    Yes that's probably true and part of the publicity to promote whatever.

    But I'd also guess that thousands upon thousands of people could legitamately quote some sort of near miss reference to the Twin Towers, eg, tourists who passed by it in the run up to 9/11, business people from all over the world who had visited in that year, etc etc.

    Whether or not u use it as a publicity thing is determined by opportunity and necessity.

    He prb did narrowly miss a business meeting there, but as Jack Dee would say

    "So what"!??:mad:" LOL!"!
    Myself and my (now) wife were in the buildings exactly 24 hours earlier.
    Took a while for what happened to sink in.

    I'm sure it did. It's like when you stand by a famine monument and comprehend in reality of what happened. And for you, what could have happened but for another place another time.

    My great grand father was 10 years old in the darkest year of the famine.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    People have been predicting an attack in New York for years. Its been in lots of movies. The WTC constantly had threats against time. I wouldnt call them premonitions more a good bet.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭MrMojoRisin


    Reoil wrote: »
    I don't believe this for one second. Bear in mind that he is trying to publicise a book...

    But isn't it in very bad taste to make up a story about your dead brother having a connection with a well-known atrocity? I don't know about anyone else, but I can't see how a story like that would make more people want to go out and buy a not-particularly-interesting celebrity's (sorry, Jermaine, but you seem like a boring man) book.

    I know I wouldn't feel compelled to buy someone's book just because I read some story about their famous dead sibling online but, then, I'm not easily swayed or manipulated to start with.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭MrMojoRisin


    I remember listening to the radio august 2001. The White Witch from Cobh was on and she said that all the witches of Ireland had arranged to meet each other to discuss a major event that was going to happen, she was on about a triangle of chaos or something and how this was going to be a world changing event . When 911 happened i thought there would be a big thing about how she and other witches had had an inclination that something was about to happen but it all went very quiet .When the radio host was asked later he denied she predicted it even though i heard it with my own ears.

    Yeah, she was on 96fm around July/August 2001 telling Neil Prendeville that she could see a large "steel fountain pen" hitting a building in New York, and a cloud of darkness over the city. The radio host would have been Prendeville, wouldn't it? As her friend, I thought he would have been quick to endorse her abilities?

    The Cork Independent haven't shied away from admitting she predicted the Cork floods about a month before it all happened in 2009. She said something about how there would be flooding at the point "where Cork and Ballincollig meet." Well, the release of too much water at the dam in Inniscara (near Ballincollig) turned out to be largely responsible for the subsequent flooding of the city and nearby suburbs.

    She also said something back then about a meteor hitting Cork this year (I think). We'll see. :rolleyes:

    I Also there was a Mac Donalds add that had a meteor crashing into new york , it was running when 911 happened and was pulled off the air straight away, kinda creepy.

    That's a strange coincidence alright.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    there was also the rap group CREW who had their CD that was about to come out that had the towers with smoke coming out of them. Pretty much identical to what happened. Not paranormal in anyway. Just predictions , it goes on every day in Paddy Power.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    It's very easy to tie events into predictions after the event has happened. Look at all the Nostradamus stuff, you can basically fit & adapt his words & metaphors into events after whatever event...but try & explain any of his ones that havn't happened yet.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I was at some paranormal event and i predicted the death of Michael Jackson. It wasnt powers that i was using, just a calculated guess, His nose was falling off, he was an unmarried recluse with no hobbies. Insurance company's do the same thing for Life insurance.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭MrMojoRisin


    I was at some paranormal event and i predicted the death of Michael Jackson. It wasnt powers that i was using, just a calculated guess, His nose was falling off, he was an unmarried recluse with no hobbies. Insurance company's do the same thing for Life insurance.

    Sure his nose had been falling off for a good while. Martin Bashir's documentary showed that Michael's hobbies included shopping for antiques, riding a motorised scooter down hotel corridors and playing video games.

    If I were a betting man, I'd say that Pete Doherty and Lindsay Lohan will expire before the year is out but, again, you could have said that about both of them last year or the year before, or whatever.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 598 ✭✭✭dyer


    I don't think i ever had a premonition.. but one day.. actually a month or so before 9/11 happened, was chattin to a mate and I haphazardly said something along the lines of.. i'm surprised nobody's hijacked a plane and slammed it into a building yet... low and behold. Coincidence, psychic premonition, or just an educated guess? Tbh i just thought it was the most logical thing someone might attempt to do.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 368 ✭✭gillad


    dyer wrote: »
    I don't think i ever had a premonition.. but one day.. actually a month or so before 9/11 happened, was chattin to a mate and I haphazardly said something along the lines of.. i'm surprised nobody's hijacked a plane and slammed it into a building yet... low and behold. Coincidence, psychic premonition, or just an educated guess? Tbh i just thought it was the most logical thing someone might attempt to do.


    You could end up in Guantanamo bay saying things like that:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭MrMojoRisin


    I found some interesting stories about people's alleged premonitions of 9/11:
    ... One day I was talking to her and she said that a strange thing had happened to her that morning. She had been at her desk and when she looked up, the landscape did not look right. Then she realized the trade towers weren't there anymore. Then as she just sat there, they came back; they were there again....right where they always are. She said she was sure about it. They were gone and then they came back. It quite unhinged her at the time. This was in 1999. ... She maintains that it was a clear day; they were simply gone, and then they came back. She does not know what to make of it. This did not happen in conjunction with any sense of foreboding about a future event. ... She doesn't remember that anything else changed on the horizon. "There was just open air where they should have been." She was totally stunned at the time...and then "they just came back." (12 Sep 2002)

    http://www.boundaryinstitute.org/bi/premon911.htm

    On the morning of September 11, 2001, Eamon, my 46-year-old husband, had a sudden attack of vertigo as he prepared to go to work. Such attacks weren't unprecedented, but Eamon hadn't had one for more than a year.

    I wanted him to stay home, but characteristically he wouldn't. A determined and dutiful man, he pressed on, pausing only to say 'see you later' before heading out to begin the two-hour dawn commute he so hated from our home in Connecticut to downtown New York.

    Eamon worked for Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial services conglomerate, on Floor 105 of the North Tower of the World Trade Centre. Neither I nor our four adored and adoring children would ever see him again.

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1310994/The-9-11-victims-foresaw-deaths-New-book-claims-victims-premonitions-atrocity.html#ixzz1wwW8vGZd

    BTW, I say "alleged premonitions" because it's very easy for people to report them after the event has happened.

    Still, I think you can spot the few, more genuine accounts amongst all the stories.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 286 ✭✭mossy95


    The creator of Family guy was going to board the plane that hit the Trade center but misssed it due to a Hangover


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭MrMojoRisin


    mossy95 wrote: »
    The creator of Family guy was going to board the plane that hit the Trade center but misssed it due to a Hangover

    I know this is probably so wrong of me now, but I actually can't stand that show Family Guy (not too sure why) and, when I read your post, I instantly thought, "Pity he missed the flight. Damn." :mad:

    :D

    But it seems hangovers save lives!


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    People have been predicting an attack in New York for years. Its been in lots of movies. The WTC constantly had threats against time. I wouldnt call them premonitions more a good bet.

    I was playing Command & Conquer for the first time a while back and there's a mission in it where you have to guard the WTC from enemy attack. If you fail, they get destroyed.


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