Earlier this year, our minds were blown when it was discovered that a 1993 episode of the TV show The Simpsons may have predicted the tragic death of Kobe Bryant and the Coronavirus outbreak.
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In this episode, Springfield is hit with the ‘Osaka Flu’ which causes widespread illness. As a result of the outbreak, the town is left in a state of panic and later, a news reporter in a helicopter repeats “going around and around.” The conspiracy theorists out there reckon this was a direct reference to what happened to Kobe Bryant’s helicopter – which reportedly circled before crashing.
It was obviously all just one very eerie coincidence, but it’s not the first time a TV show has predicted future events.
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In the Black Mirror episode ‘The National Anthem,’ the British prime minister is blackmailed via a YouTube video. In order to save the life of a member of the royal family, he is forced to have sex with a pig. Four years later, rumours began swirling that IRL British prime minister David Cameron committed a ‘sexual act’ with a pig when he was younger. There was no confirmation that ‘Piggate’ actually happened, but it’s eerily similar the Black Mirror storyline.
On a 2014 episode of comedy series Arrested Development, George Bluth Sr. has an idea to build a wall between Mexico and California. During his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump called for a border wall to be built between the two countries and notoriously said he would “build the wall and make Mexico pay for it.”
In 2007, an episode of Scrubs aired in which the janitor told J.D. he believed Osama bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan. This TV show successfully predicted the future because in 2010, an unnamed NATO official suggested bin Laden was “alive and well and living comfortably” in Pakistan, and one year later, he was located there and killed.
On a 2004 episode of Gilmore Girls, Lorelei tells Luke during a phone call, “See you when Hilary’s president!” Hilary Clinton never actually became president, but in 2016 she was very much campaigning for the role and as we know, lost out to Donald Trump.
Despite coming out over 60 years ago, TV show The Twilight Zone had a weird way of predicting the future. The show depicted everything from climate change and driverless cars to robots taking over jobs.
As previously mentioned, these TV show storylines are just one big scary coincidence, but that doesn’t mean our minds any less blown by these uncanny future predictions.
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