Premonition Bureau

On this episode…

In 1966, in Britain, an extraordinary project took shape. An UK wide attempt to determine whether people really could predict future events by reporting premonitions as they had them, to a centralised bureau.

John Barker, a Cambridge-educated psychiatrist whose interest in clairvoyance led him to pitch the Evening Standard late in 1966 with the idea of a “Premonitions Bureau”.

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Link to this episode in YouTube: https://youtu.be/NxYpfSZ-Px8?si=rnaHMK-2f5MmaHeE

Links:

• British Premonitions Bureau – Wikipedia
• Amazon.com: The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold eBook : Knight, Sam: Kindle Store
• The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight review – the press, psychiatry and the paranormal | Journalism books | The Guardian
• Paranormality: Why we see what isn’t there eBook : Wiseman, Richard: Amazon.co.uk: Books