Titanic - The Paranormal Phenomenon

Titanic 1912 - The Unforgettable Ship

The RMS Titanic. You may all know her as the infamous ocean-liner that sank in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean after hitting an iceberg on April 15th, 1912.

First, I'll give you the background information about the RMS Titanic.

• In her time, she was the largest passenger steamship in the world. She was constructed at the Harland and Wolff Shipyard in Belfast, Ireland. Titanic is owned by White Star Line.
• She was completed on March 31st, 1912 and set sail for her maiden voyage from Southampton on April 10th, 1912.
• Bound for New York, Titanic was already carrying at least 2,240 passengers onboard.
• Already the signs of disaster foretold the tragedy of the doomed ocean-liner. As Titanic had just left her berth, it caused the SS New York, which was already docked nearby, to break away from her moorings where she had a near collision with Titanic (four feet apart). Luckily a tugboat towed away the SS New York, before Titanic left half an hour later.
• Four days later, at 23:40 on April 14th, 1912, Titanic hit an iceberg and sank at 2:20am the following morning, killing 1,517 people. It was one of the most deadlist peacetime maritime disasters in history.

Now, the title says paranormal phenomenon right? Well of course! I'll get right to it now! You already know the main facts about Titanic, so here is the paranormal part.

What we will talk about is Premonitions. For those who don't know, a premonition is a type of prophecy consisting of a warning about a future event. Gut feelings (as I have them all the time), are also referred to as premonitions.

A group of twenty-two stokers were late for the Titanic, and the Captain declared the the ship would sail without them. Now that's not a premonition, but that saved their lives!

• There are more than 19 accounts of premonitions concerning the Titanic, all occurring at least two weeks before Titanic sailed on April 10th, 1912.
• Some cancelled their reservations after dreaming of Titanic's doom. Other's said that it was bad luck to sail on the ship's journey. Some of the survivors said they felt uneasy, but sailed anyway.

In 1898, fourteen years before the Titanic sank, author Morgan Robertson, wrote a short novel called Furtility (later known as The Wreck of the Titan). The novel displayed striking similiarites between the wreck in the novel and the sinking of Titanic. Here are some parallels:

1. Robertson's fictitious ship name was Titan (ooh, like Titanic eh?). Very close there.
2. Robertson's Titan was 800 ft long, and the Titanic was 882.2 ft long.
3. Both ships (real and fictional) were both made of steel with 3 propellor two masts.
4. Each ship was built to carry 3000 people.
5. The total tonnage of the Titan was 46,328 tons and the Titanic, 45,000 tons.
6. The Titan's horsepower was 40,000 and Titanic's 46,000.
7. Each were described as the 'largest passenger ship ever built'.
8. Both were considered 'unsinkable', until they went down in the North Alantic (scary huh?!).
9. There were far few lifeboats on both ships.
10. The Titan travelled 24 knots, the Titanic 22.5 knots.
11. Both wrecks were in the month of April (seriously, this can't be a coincidence!).
12. Both struck an iceberg on the starboard side near midnight.

Now, my belief is that there are no such thing as too many coincidences, in fact I believe it to be a an accidental paranormal phenomenon. If you want to download the book to see for yourself, here is the link for download.

http://www.classicly.com/morgan-robertson/the-wreck-of-the-titan/download

Other people who died had a bad feeling about the Titanic, and made out their wills before going onboard and dying during the sinking.

I also went to the Titanic Exhibition when it came to Melbourne. It was amazing, and so overwhelming I cried when I saw the hallways, and the grand staircase remade!

So, what did you think about this post? Do you think it's just a coincidence? Or some other force?

RMS Titanic might have been deemed 'unsinkable', but she will always be and forever be 'unfogettable'...

Shudder: Possession Kills by S.K.SAINI

For those who have been with me since I've started my blog, you already know that I am a paranormal freak, yes?

Also if anyone doesn't know, I am making a book series, it is crossed between the supernatural and goosebumps. I call it, Shudder by S.K.SAINI.

This one particular story, is one of the books. I call it, Shudder: Possession Kills by S.K.SAINI

Vancouver

Serena Parker and Hailey Chambers were walking back from dinner after celebrating Hailey’s 20th birthday. As the two girls were walking along the side of the footpath, Hailey sighed. Serena, who was walking ahead of her, stopped by the side of a busy intersection and looked back. Serena swished her long black hair and her dark brown eyes stared concerned for her best friend.

“What’s the matter” Serena said, as she stared at her best friend, wondering why on earth she was sad on the day of her birthday. Hailey looked at her smiling slightly, her baby blue eyes and short blonde hair illuminated from the street lights that shone brightly above.

“This is the greatest birthday I could ever have, Serena. Since my family died when I was younger, your parents took me in and you’ve been like a sister to me always,” Hailey smiled, showing her white but crooked teeth. “Thank you for everything today,”

Serena blushed slightly, and said that it was no problem. They stopped talking, and turned to look at the vehicles whizzing by like flies across the intersection.

Serena thought back to when she was only seven years old. She remembered clearly that her mother once took her aside to her bedroom for a little talk. She remembered her mother seating her down on her bed and telling her that there will be a girl with the same age coming to live with them. When asked whether she was going to stay here forever, her mother replied yes. Her mother told her the story of what had happened to Hailey’s family.



Hailey’s younger brother George was an autistic. One day when playing around with crayons in his bedroom, he had an epileptic fit. Her mother Samantha, who had come into his bedroom fifteen minutes later, quickly called her husband Fred who in turn told Hailey to stay in the house, drove both an unconscious George and weeping wife along to the hospital. According to the police reports and witnesses, their four wheel drive spun out of control after hitting an overloaded truck and exploded.

Hailey, who was also seven years old then, was taken into the custody of the police, while they tried to find other family members to take her. My mother, who happened to pass by the accident site, realized (after talking to a few frightened people) that there was a little orphan, who had no idea why she was there, or what had happened to her family. Out of pity, my mother went to the police station; spoke to the officer in charge who helped get her have custody of Hailey, because the police couldn’t find any family members...



A cold, icy wind snapped Serena out of her head; she pulled her coat up higher and shivered.

“You feel cold?” Hailey asked, but Serena ignored her and looked up at the sky. The sky was dark and eerie, the clouds were overcast and rain was starting spit down from the sky, just looking at it gave Serena the shivers. While looking at the sky, another large gust of wind blew at them. Both girls groaned.

“Just can’t wait to get out of this wind,” Serena said irritably, clenching her teeth together to stop them from chattering. She looked at Hailey who was standing still, her hand on the pole where the button for the traffic light was.

“So now Hailey, you’re twenty, single. What are you going to do with your life?” Serena said, trying to strike up a conversation. But Hailey didn’t answer, her hand was still holding the pole, her hand wrapped around the pole so tight, her knuckles were turning white. Serena waited a moment, and when Hailey still didn’t move, Serena touched her shoulder. Hailey span around so quickly that Serena jumped back in fright; Hailey was staring at her with –

Serena froze, staring at her best friend with her mouth gaping open in shock. Hailey’s eyes were pure white, where the pupil should be, there was only blankness. Serena tried to speak, but the words wouldn’t come out of her mouth. She looked at Hailey again but more closely, her face was expressionless, it was just blank. It reminded Serena of the horror movie ‘Children of the Corn’. Finally finding her voice, Serena spoke cautiously.

“H-Hailey?” Serena said nervously, trying to avoid looking at her eyes. Hailey still didn’t move, nor did she utter a word. She was standing there like she was in a trance, or perhaps like she didn’t know she was there or who she was. Then without warning, at the same time sending a chill up Serena’s spine, Hailey spoke. It wasn’t the sweet and kind voice of her best friend, but a harsh and spine chilling voice spoke from within her.

“Let’s play a game,” She said it so coldly, that Serena stepped back a little, afraid that Hailey might attack her. When Serena didn’t say anything, the voice in Hailey continued to speak. “I’ll stand on the road, and if I don’t get hit, then you will get a reward,”

Serena stood on the asphalt baffled, her mouth opened in surprise as Hailey stepped out onto the road. Serena didn’t know what to do. Whatever spoke from Hailey’s mouth, wasn’t normal nor human.

“Hailey?” Serena said in a small voice, scared to speak any louder. “Get off the road before you get yourself killed,” But Hailey just laughed, the hairs on Serena’s back stood up and she shuddered slightly. The thing inside Hailey took another step onto the road, the cars not even stopping as they saw a woman about to walk right into a busy intersection.

“This is the perfect place to play this game,” There was still no expression on her face. Serena’s heart was beating frantically inside her chest.

“Hailey please –“ But before Serena could finish her sentence, a hiss came out of Hailey’s mouth, like a snake about to attack its prey, and her face transformed into a snarl.



Even with Serena’s frantic pleas, Hailey was now standing in the middle of the road. Serena was surprised that she wasn’t hit by a car right there. She seemed to have walked there like she didn’t know how to use her legs, like someone else other than Hailey was forcing it to move. Serena tried to speak again, but only a choke of protest came out. What made Serena even more fearful was that Hailey was smiling, a malice smile that spread across her beautiful face. Then she looked at something which made her smile even wider. When Serena trailed her eyes to what Hailey was looking at, her whole heart froze again in screaming terror.

Not too far away, a large semi-trailer was speeding across the road towards the intersection, right where Hailey was standing. Without even thinking, without even caring for her own life, Serena ran onto the road, dodging the cars that were speeding by and grabbed Hailey’s arm.

“Get off!” snarled Hailey, as she pulled her arm away from Serena with incredible and unexpected force. But Serena couldn’t care and made another grab for her arm again.

“No!” screamed Serena loudly, tugging at her best friends arm to move her. “I’m not letting you do this!” Hailey then unexpectedly grabbed Serena and threw her hard onto the pavement, hitting her head.

Before Serena passed out, before the truck smashed into Hailey, Serena saw a look of fear in Hailey’s eyes. A cry of protest trying to come out of her mouth.

“HAILEY!”


This is still in draft, but please tell me what you think of it. And if there is anything off, please tell me how I can fix it. :)

S.K.SAINI