Did this Novel Predict the Titanic Disaster 14 Years Before it Happened?
The details are eerily similar
“Out of the darkness, out of the night,
loomed a ghostly form of ominous white.”
Those lines are from the poem The Wreck of the Titanic written by Benjamin Peck Keith. And that’s just one gem among the plethora of artistic expressions the tragedy of the Titanic had inspired.
But there is a novel, which might seem like another spin-off from the shipwreck. It is called The Wreck of the Titan; or Futility. The author is Morgan Robertson.
However, this isn’t another book galvanized by the famous ship accident. The fiction is indeed a predecessor to the tragedy, as Mr. Robertson had penned this book fourteen years before the catastrophe.
And yet, there are a whole series of eerie details about this novel that seem to anticipate the Titanic’s fate perfectly. In fact, the similarities are so startling that it granted the author an image of a clairvoyant in some quarters.
What are those jaw-dropping details? Let’s look at ten of them.
