19. A Titanic Premonition

Here we have another literary instance of fiction becoming fact. In 1898, Morgan Robertson published a novella titled The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility. It told the story of an “unsinkable” ship that hit an iceberg while at sea in the North Atlantic. This fictional story sounds a lot like the real-life tragedy of the Titanic.  

The weird thing is, The Wreck of the Titan was written before the real Titanic was even constructed. When the Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic in April of 1912, people immediately saw the eerie similarities. The book and the real-life event took place in the same area, both ships struck an iceberg, and there were not enough lifeboats in either situation. Even the name of the fictional ship, Titan, is eerily similar.