Professor Dick Bierman sits hunched over his computer in a darkened room. The gentle whirring and clunking of huge magnets brimming with electricity can be heard faintly in the background. He smiles gently to himself, takes another swig of coffee and presses a grubby-looking red button.

In the next room a patient slips slowly inside a hospital brain scanner. If it wasn’t for the strange smiles and grimaces that flicker across the woman’s face you could be forgiven for thinking that this was just a normal health check. But this scanner is engaged in one of the most profound paranormal experiments of all time, one that may well prove whether or not it is possible to predict the future.

And the results released exclusively to Newsmonster suggest that ordinary people really do have a sixth sense that can help them ‘see’ the future before it actually happens. Such amazing results may help explain the predictive powers of mediums and a range of other psychic phenomena such ESP, déjà vu and clairvoyance. On a more mundane level, it may account for ‘gut feelings’ and instinct. It also creates a host of philosophical paradoxes and may leave little scope for our much cherished free will.

“We’re satisfied that people can sense the future before it happens,” says Professor Dick Bierman, a psychologist at the University of Amsterdam. “We’d now like to move on and see what kind of person is particularly good at it.”
 
Admittedly, Dick Bierman’s claims seem preposterous. We all know that you cannot see the future, don’t we? Preposterous or not, Professor Bierman’s results do not violate any of the laws of physics and they mirror the data gathered by other scientists and paranormal researchers both here and abroad.

Professor Brian Josephson, a Nobel Prize winning physicist from Cambridge University, says: “So far the evidence seems compelling. What seems to be happening is that information is coming from the future.

“In fact, it’s not clear in physics why you can’t see the future. In physics you certainly cannot completely rule out this effect.”


Almost before the wreckage of the World Trade Centre began to cool, strange stories began circulating about the lucky few who had escaped the disaster. It soon transpired that many of the survivors had escaped because they’d changed their plans at the last minute after vague feelings of unease had unnerved them. It was a subtle, gnawing feeling that ‘something’ was not right. Nobody vocalised it but shortly before the attacks people started altering their plans out of an unspoken instinct. The actress Nicole Kidman was one of these. She had planned to fly with her children from Los Angeles to New York on September 10th 2001, but changed her mind because she had a premonition that it “would not go well” there.

Then there was the woman who suffered crippling stomach pain whilst queuing for one of the ill-fated planes which flew into the World Trade Center. She made her way to the toilet only to recover spontaneously. She missed her flight but survived the day.

Amidst the collective outpouring of grief and horror it was easy to overlook these stories or write them off as mere coincidences. Easy perhaps, but also wrong. Such stories point to a far more interesting and deeper truth for those willing to look. For if it was possible to predict the future you would expect major disasters like the attack on the Twin Towers to be the acid test. If, for example, fewer people decided to fly on an airliner destined to crash then that would hint at a subconscious ability to divine the future. Well, strange as it seems, that’s just what you see.

The aircraft which flew into the Twin Towers on September 11th were unusually empty. In fact, the hijacked planes were carrying only half the usual number of passengers. Perhaps one unusually empty plane could be explained away – but all four?

And it wasn’t just on September 11th that people subconsciously seemed to avoid disaster. The scientist Ed Cox found that trains ‘destined’ to crash carried far fewer people than they did normally. And Dr Jessica Utts, a statistician at the University of California, found exactly the same bizarre effect.

If it was possible to divine the future you might expect those at the sharp end, such as pilots, to have the most finely tuned instincts of all. And again, that’s just what you see.

When the Air France Concorde crashed spectacularly in 2000 it wasn’t long before the colleagues of those killed in the crash spoke about a looming sense of foreboding that had gripped the crew and flight engineers before the accident. Speaking anonymously to the French newspaper Le Parisien one spoke of a "morbid expectation of an accident."

“I had this sense that we were going to bump into the scenery," he said. “The atmosphere on the Concorde team for the last few months – if one has to have the guts to admit it - has been one of morbid expectation of an accident. It was as if I was waiting for something to happen”.

All of these stories suggest that we are capable of picking up premonitions of events that are yet to be. Although these premonitions are not in glorious Technicolor they are often emotionally powerful enough for us to act upon them. They are generally not as strong as the type of ‘precognition’ featured in the film Minority Report. In technical parlance it is known as ‘presentiment’ because emotional feelings are being received from the future not hard facts or information.

The military has long been fascinated by such phenomena. For many years the US military (and latterly the CIA) funded a secretive programme known as Stargate, which set out to investigate such paranormal phenomena as remote viewing, premonitions and the ability of mediums to predict the future.

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