The Titanic leaves Southampton, England in 1912.
EVERYONE knows the story of the Titanic ... but do you know that a book warned of the tragedy 14 years before it even happened?
When the RMS Titanic sank in 1912, more than 1500 people perished. In a spooky coincidence, the disaster reflected a story told in Morgan Robertson’s novella Futility, which was published in 1898, The Sun reports.
Eerily, the ship in the book was named Titan, just two letters different to the iconic sunken ship.
In Futility, the boat hit an iceberg on the starboard side of the ship on an April night ... exactly the same time and trigger that caused the Titanic to sink.
The fictional ship Titan also sank after hitting an icebergSource:Supplied
The similarities get even weirder as the fictional boat collapsed 400 nautical miles away from Newfoundland, the same location that the Titanic was wrecked.
Both boats had a shortage of lifeboats and couldn’t provide safety for over half the passengers and crew members.
The Titanic at the bottom of the ocean in scene from the TV program Ghosts of the Black Sea.Source:Supplied
When the real-life Titanic disaster occurred 14 years after Robertson’s publication, people instantly made the connection.
The author was accused of clairvoyance, but he claimed that his story was purely based on his knowledge of maritime practices and shipbuilding.
Even though Robertson’s startling story warned of the future tragedy, he said that the similarities were purely coincidence.
This story originally appeared on The Sun.
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