I Told You So" will be just too cruel thing to say

When we reflect upon the horrendous events of 9-11, we can't help but stumble upon different premonitions and uncanny coincidences that took place BEFORE any of this had happened. This article is an attempt to collect together all such instances of unintentional insight and creepy prediction.

We'll start with the most incredible of them all, courtesy U.S. Mail Service:



An ad from Pakistan (!) Airlines, printed in 1979:


(image credit: Pristina)

World Trade Center brochure, 1984:


(image credit: hipsteria.com)

An example of really bad timing:


(image credit: Emily Paup)

We linked once to this book cover already: amazingly, science fiction became a terrible fact on this occasion: "Year's Best Science Fiction #2", ed. by Gardner Dozois, art by Thomas Kidd... (courtesy kdecay)



Domed Manhattan is nothing new, but WTC is definitely in trouble:



What exactly hits the towers? This page from a very famous Spanish comic named "Mortadelo y Filemon" shows it without any doubt... It originally appeared in 1993.


(sent in by Tony, from Valls)

Unfortunate coffee mug:


(image credit: Capo2)

General Electric advertisement for a fridge (2000):



"The Coup" CD, created before 9-11



"Tom Clancy wrote two bestselling thrillers about a pilot deliberately flying a fuel-laden jet into the Capitol building and killing the President and top leadership (Debt of Honor, 1994; Executive Orders, 1996)" - More here.

Comic heroes had their share of unfortunate WTC references:

Spiderman, 1991:


Wonder Woman actually flies her plane into WTC:



And Optimus Prime hangs between the destroyed towers in the old "Transformers" comic:



Most of these, of course, occurred unintentionally, but there were pictures that photographers took on purpose, having some strangely powerful premonitions of the event. Here is the image Chris McKinstry took in 2000, while having a thought that something like this may happen:



Read a sad account of Chris McKinstry life and death here...

A couple of pictures in memory of WTC:


(image credit: Stefano)

"An impossible vista, now"


(image credit: Chris McKinstry)

There was "Faith before they fell"
(that church got destroyed,too) -


(image credit: Gary H. Spielvogel)