Women’s Titanic Premonitions

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It’s often said that women often have a sixth sense about danger and express that “gut feeling” with premonitions.  Here are a few of those recorded premonitions that came true in regards of the Titanic tragedy.

Take the verified story of Frank Adelman and his wife. Frank was a well-known Seattle violinist and conductor, who was visiting London. They decided to return to America on board the new ship, Titanic.

Shortly before the sailing day, Mrs. Adelman had a sudden premonition of danger regarding the Titanic.

She informed her husband of this fact and told him she wanted to postpone their journey and take a later ship. Mr. Adelman consented to flip a coin to decide whether they should sail as planned or wait and take another ship.

Mrs. Adelman won the toss.  They cancelled their booking on Titanic and sailed on Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. Her premonition and a simple coin flip saved both of their lives.

On Sunday the 14^th of April, a Mrs. Daughtrey was at home in Southhampton with her son.  Her husband had been posted as a crewman on Olympic, and was bitterly disappointed because all his friends had been posted to Titanic.

On this particular morning a large picture in their home slipped from the wall and crashed to the floor.

Mrs. Daughtrey remarked, “My goodness, a ship will go down tomorrow,” never even thinking of Titanic, which was considered unsinkable.

All of her husband’s friends were lost on Titanic.

Another account was told by a White Star Line coal stoker. In March of 1912, he was visiting a fair, and with coaxing by his shipmates, had his fortune told by a gypsy fortune teller.  She warned him that his life was in great danger by a large ship with new boilers.  Hearing this he broke out in laughter.  The gypsy, on the other hand, broke out in tears.  She kept pleading, “listen to me, listen to me.” 

On the first week of April, he was posted as a coal stoker on the newly built ship the Titanic.  The words of the gypsy kept going through his head. The tears she shed, made a huge impact on his decision not to go, her warning of new boilers added to his dismay.  No matter how hard his fellow stokers tried to convince him to take the trip, and the good times that awaited them in New York, he didn’t go.

All of his coal stoker mates, perished on the ship.  The gypsy was right.

Premonitions of danger are not limited to women; however, we’ve seen that their gender seems to play a larger part of the phenomena then their male counterpart. These three accounts illustrate how a woman’s premonition saved lives, but we also know of many that were ignored, ending in tragedy.

What did we learn from this?  Maybe the next time, you’re approached with a premonition from either man or woman, and they are insisting on its validity, consider taking it seriously.

I know I do.