He Predicted the Titanic Disaster 26 Years Early

WT Stead, often called the father of investigative journalism, ended up being known for something else. The man who predicted his death on the Titanic…26 years earlier.

Stead always spoke of a premonition that he would die by drowning. He then later wrote two stories in the paper. The first about a ship that sunk after a collision with another ship. The second story was 6 years later about a ship that struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic, which also sunk. Many lives were lost due to not hav