In Part 1, we explored the haunting case of David Booth, whose recurring vision appeared to foretell a tragic air disaster. That story showed how the mind can, at rare moments, seem to touch the future — a phenomenon that continues to intrigue both believers and skeptics.
In this next chapter, we see that premonitions can take many forms. Some arrive quietly through art or intuition; others come as clear and chilling warnings. The two accounts below reveal both the gentle and the grim faces of foresight.
A portrait of love foretold
Chloe Mayo, a medical-device regulatory manager from Worcester Park, Surrey, had recently returned to Britain in 2009 after working in Australia. Eager to brighten her new home, she decided to paint an oil portrait to hang on the wall. Still single, Chloe imagined herself in a flowing red dress, standing beneath a large tree and holding hands with a bearded man who did not exist — an ideal companion drawn purely from her imagination.
Once the painting was finished, she placed it in a corner and soon forgot about it. Months later, she met Michael Newman through an online dating site. During their first few dates, she was startled to realize that Michael looked almost identical to the man in her painting — the same beard, the same warm eyes, the same quiet smile. It felt as if the image she had painted had stepped out of the canvas and into her life.
When Michael asked to visit her home, Chloe worried he might see the painting and think she had been following him. Before he arrived, she hid it under the bed. “It took me a week to gather the courage to show him,” she later recalled. When she finally did, Michael was stunned. He laughed in disbelief at the resemblance and teased her gently about it, turning what could have been eerie into something joyful.
Their relationship deepened, and eighteen months later, while vacationing in the south of France, Michael proposed. Three years after they met, they married in a quiet ceremony in Surrey. The painting now hangs in a place of honor in their home — a silent witness to a moment when imagination seemed to glimpse destiny.
A prophecy of death in the sky
The next story carries a darker tone.
In 1989, a Belgian man named Max, disheartened by failed romances, visited an astrologer to ask when he might find true love. The astrologer’s reply stunned him: Max, she said, would never meet his soulmate — and worse, he would soon die in a plane crash.
Max tried to laugh it off, but couldn’t shake the dread. He had no travel plans and rarely flew, yet the warning gnawed at him. Hoping to outwit fate, he took leave from work, stayed home, and asked friends to deliver food so he wouldn’t have to step outside. If he never boarded a plane, surely he could escape the prophecy.
Then, one afternoon, while watching television, Max heard a deafening roar overhead. A Soviet MiG-23 fighter jet — after crossing into European airspace — plunged out of control and crashed directly onto his house. He was killed instantly.
Authorities later confirmed that NATO fighters had tracked the jet and expected it to fall harmlessly into the sea when its fuel ran out. Instead, it struck the very building where Max had hidden. The bizarre accident shocked Europe and lent an eerie credibility to the astrologer’s prediction.
The tragedy left behind an unsettling question: Had fate found him anyway, or had his attempt to avoid it somehow drawn it closer?
Reflections
These accounts suggest that time may not flow as neatly as we assume — and that, on rare occasions, the mind can sense events that have not yet unfolded. Whether through a brushstroke or a chart of stars, such moments hint at a deeper pattern linking thought and destiny. They remind us that the boundary between coincidence and premonition may be thinner than we imagine.
See Part 1 here
Translated by Audrey Wang
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