Many of us have heard about famous psychics, such as Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, and perhaps even Harry Houdini. But there have been a number of other famous people with psychic or “psi” abilities that you may not have known about. Let’s explore a few of them!
6 Famous People That Were Psychic
1.) Mark Twain
Mark Twain (born Samuel Langhorne Clemens), famous American author and entrepreneur, experienced a precognitive dream of his brother Henry’s death.
In the dream, he attended his brother’s funeral and watched as a flower arrangement of white roses with one single red rose in the center was placed on the casket. Within a few weeks, Henry was involved in an accident that resulted in his death.
The funeral, including the memorable flower arrangement, was as he had envisioned it.
Twain also predicted the year of his death, saying that just as he was born in a year of Halley’s Comet, he would die when Halley’s Comet returned, which he did, in 1910. Through his short stories, Twain also predicted the internet in 1898 (you can read the short story here)
2.) Abraham Linpcoln
Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, were very involved in the Spiritualism movement of their time (1840-1920s), holding séances at the White House and having ghost photography taken after their son Will’s passing.
However, those that knew President Lincoln personally learned that he seemed to have knowledge of events prior to their happening, predicting the outcomes of battles before word was received, telling others as early as 12 years old that he would be president, and foreseeing his own death.
Like Mark Twain, Lincoln dreamed of a funeral taking place in the White House and in that dream, he asked one of the soldiers who had died. The soldier responded, “The president. He was killed by an assassin.” Within a few days, he said goodbye (not goodnight) on his way to Ford’s Theater and was assassinated.
3.) George Washington
George Washington is not often heard of when mentioning famous figures that had psychic abilities, but during the winter of 1777, after his retreat to Valley Forge, it has been said that Washington experienced three spirit visitations. Known as the “three great perils,” these visitations were interpreted as prophetic images of war for America.
The first seemed to capture the struggle and loss of life in the Revolutionary War.
Recommended: 8 Signs You Have Innate Psychic Abilities
The second foretold the Civil War, and the third may be predicting a war that has yet to occur, involving Europe, Asia, and Africa. These visitations were recorded in Washington’s own words and are cataloged in the Library of Congress.
4.) Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American Nikola Tesla is well known today as a brilliant inventor, engineer, and physicist. Throughout his life, he experienced blinding flashes of light accompanied by visions, which gave him insights into his work and, some say, predicted the future.
For example, in 1901 Tesla predicted the development of wireless communication and the smartphone – a handheld device that he envisioned being used for instant communication and for playing music in distant places.
In 1926, Tesla described another handheld device that would allow people to see events occurring at a distance, equivalent to the streaming video we take for granted today.
5.) Joan Crawford
The actress Joan Crawford is not often associated with psychic abilities, but she definitely did have a series of experiences that qualify as telepathic. The actress claimed to have had an irrational fear of the dark throughout her life.
As a result, she always left a light on in her bedroom all night. Over a series of days, her bedroom lamp would begin flickering and alternating between very bright and nearly out between 11 p.m. and midnight, which terrified her because of her fear of the dark.
She called in an electrician and he found nothing amiss with the lamp or the wiring. She spent the third night she turned every light on in the house, but it was only the bedroom lamp that repeated the pattern. On the fourth night, she slept in a guest room and the lamp in the guest room malfunctioned exactly as had her bedroom lamp.
The morning of the 5th day, she received a wire from New York telling her that an old friend had died the previous evening at midnight, having struggled for 4 nights between night and death. The friend had been rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery that took place at 11 p.m. the first night Crawford’s light trouble began. After that morning, there were no more incidences of flickering lights in her bedroom or anywhere in the house!
6.) Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley is not someone you might expect to find on a list of famous psychics, but there is some reference to his ability to perform psychic healing that is very interesting! Elvis not only believed he had the healing touch, there are numerous accounts of others witnessing this phenomenon.
For example, on a ski trip, a friend had an accident that greatly injured his knee – he was in so much pain, he could not walk and was awaiting rescue. Elvis laid his hands on the injured knee and the pain and the injury vanished. In another case, a driver with severe chest pain had pulled to the side of the road near Nashville, Tennessee.
Elvis ordered his driver to stop so that he could help. Wrapping one arm around the man’s shoulder and placing his hand over the man’s heart, Elvis reassured him that he would be alright.
The pain subsided immediately and after making sure an ambulance was on its way, Elvis got back in his bus and go back on the road. Elvis also claimed to have psychokinetic powers (psychokinesis is the ability to move objects with the mind), which he developed and improved the more he researched this topic.
Recommended: Psychic Abilities: How to Recognize Them and Develop Them Further
He claimed to be able to move leaves and turn the sprinkler system at Graceland on and off. Even after his death, many people still believe in Elvis’ healing abilities; to this day, visiting Graceland in the hopes of being healed.
Did any of these famous people surprise you? Have you had similar experiences? Share your thoughts below in the comments section
References:
Crow, J. (2014). Mark Twain Predicts the Internet in 1898: Read His Sci-Fi Crime Story ”From the ‘London Times’ in 1904”. November 11, 2014.
George Washington’s Visions and Prophecies. Available online.
Gholipour, B. (10 July 2014). 5 Visions That Showed Nikola Tesla Was Ahead of His Time. LiveScience.
Martinez, S.B. (2007). The Psychic Life of Abraham Lincoln. New Page Books. 287 pp.
Muldoon, S. (1947). Psychic Experiences of Famous People. The Aries Press. 202 pp.
Tillery, G. (2013). The Seeker King: A Spiritual Biography of Elvis Presley. Quest Books. 216 pp.
Author:
Dr. Carol Pollio is the Director of Intuitive Investigations, a paranormal investigation, and earthbound spirit rescue organization. After a successful career as a Chief Scientist in a federal land management agency and having honorably served 31 years in the military, Dr. Pollio is now focusing on the field of parapsychology, blending her knowledge of scientific principles with her intuitive abilities and psychic mediumship skills. She is also a certified Parapsychological Field Investigator with the Office of Paranormal Investigations and an Elemental Space Clearing® Practitioner.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Intuitiveinvestigations
Thank you for the auspicious writeup. It if truth be told used to be a entertainment account it.
Glance complex to more delivered agreeable from you! By the way, how could we be in contact?
Fantastic goods from you, man. I have understand your stuff previous to and you’re just too wonderful. I really like what you have acquired here, certainly like what you’re stating and the way in which you say it. You make it enjoyable and you still care for to keep it wise. I can’t wait to read far more from you. This is really a tremendous web site.
I am not very good with English but I come up this rattling easygoing to read .
Some times its a pain in the ass to read what blog owners wrote but this web site is very user genial! .
you have a great blog here! would you like to make some invite posts on my blog?
Most of whatever you claim happens to be astonishingly accurate and it makes me wonder why I hadn’t looked at this with this light before. This article really did switch the light on for me as far as this subject matter goes. However at this time there is one issue I am not really too cozy with so while I make an effort to reconcile that with the core theme of your position, let me observe exactly what all the rest of your subscribers have to point out.Well done.
Hello there! Do you use Twitter? I’d like to follow you if that would be okay. I’m definitely enjoying your blog and look forward to new posts.
Some times its a pain in the ass to read what website owners wrote but this website is really user friendly! .
Great – I should certainly pronounce, impressed with your site. I had no trouble navigating through all tabs as well as related information ended up being truly easy to do to access. I recently found what I hoped for before you know it in the least. Reasonably unusual. Is likely to appreciate it for those who add forums or anything, site theme . a tones way for your customer to communicate. Excellent task.
I’m still learning from you, while I’m improving myself. I absolutely liked reading everything that is written on your blog.Keep the stories coming. I loved it!
I like the valuable info you provide in your articles. I will bookmark your blog and check again here regularly. I’m quite sure I will learn plenty of new stuff right here! Good luck for the next!
Hello my loved one! I wish to say that this article is awesome, nice written and come with almost all vital infos. I would like to see extra posts like this .
What i do not understood is in truth how you’re not really a lot more smartly-favored than you might be right now. You’re very intelligent. You recognize therefore significantly in relation to this matter, made me in my view imagine it from numerous numerous angles. Its like men and women aren’t interested unless it is one thing to do with Woman gaga! Your individual stuffs nice. Always deal with it up!
Hiya, I’m really glad I have found this info. Today bloggers publish just about gossips and internet and this is actually annoying. A good blog with interesting content, this is what I need. Thank you for keeping this site, I will be visiting it. Do you do newsletters? Can not find it.
You should take part in a contest for one of the best blogs on the web. I will recommend this site!
Only a smiling visitant here to share the love (:, btw great layout.
Pretty nice post. I just stumbled upon your weblog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed browsing your blog posts. After all I’ll be subscribing to your rss feed and I hope you write again very soon!
I genuinely enjoy reading through on this site, it has superb posts.
meclizinex
I just couldn’t go away your website before suggesting that I actually loved the usual information a person supply for your visitors? Is going to be back incessantly to inspect new posts
After all, what a great site and informative posts, I will upload inbound link – bookmark this web site? Regards, Reader.
I really lucky to find this site on bing, just what I was searching for : D also saved to fav.
Thank you, I’ve recently been searching for info approximately this topic for a while and yours is the greatest I’ve found out till now. However, what concerning the conclusion? Are you sure concerning the source?
I like what you guys are up also. Such smart work and reporting! Carry on the superb works guys I?¦ve incorporated you guys to my blogroll. I think it’ll improve the value of my site 🙂
Thanks a lot for sharing this with all folks you actually know what you are speaking about! Bookmarked. Kindly also talk over with my website =). We may have a link change agreement between us!
The next time I read a blog, I hope that it doesnt disappoint me as much as this one. I mean, I know it was my choice to read, but I actually thought youd have something interesting to say. All I hear is a bunch of whining about something that you could fix if you werent too busy looking for attention.
Hello my family member! I want to say that this article is awesome, great written and come with almost all important infos. I would like to look extra posts like this .
Wohh precisely what I was searching for, regards for putting up.
You made a number of good points there. I did a search on the subject and found mainly people will have the same opinion with your blog.
I would like to thnkx for the efforts you have put in writing this blog. I am hoping the same high-grade blog post from you in the upcoming as well. In fact your creative writing abilities has inspired me to get my own blog now. Really the blogging is spreading its wings quickly. Your write up is a good example of it.