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looking at our favorite creepy and
uncanny examples of TV shows predicting
future events number 10 Google glass
Star Trek Deep Space 9 with the amount
of futuristic technology present in the
Star Trek franchise fiction has met
reality a few times one such case can be
found in Deep Space 9 and Google glass
and while it wasn’t a spot-on prediction
it’s pretty damn close in the show
virtual display devices are placed over
characters heads and a little computer
screen hovers over one eye one character
even says that quote it’s like having a
view screen inside your brain a few
decades later Google would unveil the
Google glass and it looked and
functioned almost exactly like the
show’s virtual display devices number 9
Super Bowl 30 wantem leap these writers
should look into sports betting in the
episode all-americans which aired in
1990 L was watching Super Bowl 30 and it
was mentioned that the Pittsburgh
Steelers were down by three points sure
enough the Pittsburgh Steelers played
the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl 36
years after the episode aired on
television and the kicker in the fourth
quarter of the game the Steelers were
down twenty to ten when running back BAM
Morris scored a touchdown making the
score 20 to 17 yep the Steelers were
down by three in Super Bowl 30 just as
quantum leap had said number eight the
7/7 bombings spooks spooks is a BBC one
production that follows the lives of
various mi5 officers on July 7 2005
terrorists bombed various areas of
London including the London Underground
killing 52 and injuring over 700 spooks
series four premiere followed an
extremely close storyline as
agents are forced to battle a terrorist
group called shining dawn who threatened
to blow up a public place including the
London Underground every 10 hours while
this episode aired two months after the
attack it was filmed months in advance
and it aired with an advisory that
warned viewers of the episode
similarities and coincidences number 7
oj simpson’s if I did it the Chris Rock
Show this feels like it must have been
intentional because the similarities are
just way too coincidental
in this segment Chris Rock is showing us
around the backstage of a studio who can
forget tonight oj came by to sell his
new instructional video tape i didn’t
kill my wife it’s there that he finds Oh
Jay Simpsons fictional video I didn’t
kill my wife
but if I did here’s how I do it this
episode aired in 1997 ten years later
the book if I did it was released which
details how Simpson would have enacted
the murders if he decided to kill Braun
and Goldman while Simpsons manager has
claimed that Simpson didn’t write the
book he still accepted money for its
publication indicating an acceptance of
the material within number six Edward
Snowden Person of Interest
Edward Snowden’s shocked the world in
2013 when he controversially leaked
classified information regarding secret
surveillance programs the reaction was
mixed some hailed him as a hero and a
patriot while others called him a
traitor we all would have seen this
coming if we’d watched person of
interest there’s something else going on
here in May of 2012 the episode no good
deed aired which told the story of an
NSA security analyst who learns of a
massive surveillance program leaks the
info to the press and is subsequently
hunted by the government so you know
pretty much the exact same situation
that Edward Snowden found himself in
number five the moon landing
Star Trek the original series we’re
pretty sure that Star Trek writers are
just time hoppers at this point in a
season one episode titled tomorrow is
yesterday the Enterprise crew is sent
back to the 1960s man there’s a
reference to a three-man mission to the
moon
leaving Cape Kennedy on Wednesday
man moonshot is scheduled for Wednesday
6 a.m. Eastern Standard Time this
episode aired in 1967 two years later
Apollo 11 the first manned mission to
the moon left Kennedy Space Center on
Wednesday July 16th with three men on
board while details of the upcoming
mission were probably big news in 1967
it’s still pretty impressive number four
the Boston Marathon family guy in the
episode turban cowboy which aired on
March 17 2013
Peter runs his car through the Boston
Marathon and kills and injures dozens
perhaps hundreds of people it’s a pretty
sick joke but this is Family Guy the
bombing of the Boston Marathon occurred
only one month later an event that
killed three and injured hundreds the
episode was immediately pulled from Fox
comm and Hulu and Fox claimed that the
episode would not be re aired on
television in the immediate future some
cried conspiracy while others called it
a sick coincidence number three resident
Trump The Simpsons
when this clairvoyant writers room isn’t
busy predicting the Disney Foxx merger
they’re foretelling the future of
American politics remember when the idea
of Donald Trump being president of the
United States was just a joke who knew
what would actually happen back on March
19 2000 the Simpsons aired the episode
barked to the future in which Bart sees
a vision of well the future well he’s a
deadbeat alcoholic Lisa is the President
of the United States and she makes a
comment regarding her predecessor
President Trump quite a budget crunch
from President Trump how bad is it
secretary Van Outen we’re broke the
episodes writer Dan greeny said that the
joke was meant to insinuate that America
couldn’t sink any lower 16 years later
Trump was elected the country’s 45th
president Simpsons did it first
indeed number two Osama bin Laden in
Pakistan scrubs who knew that a goofy
medical drama would correctly predict
the location of the most notorious
terrorists in modern history in the 2006
episode his story for the
Hospital is in the midst of a political
debate and JD feels left out enter the
wacky janitor who claims that the
government should be looking for bin
Laden in Pakistan causing JD to ask for
a globe that globe nearby bin Laden was
famously killed in Pakistan on may 2nd
2011 in his supposed home of five plus
years this would mean that bin Laden was
allegedly living in Pakistan in 2006 no
one ever listens to the janitor before
we unveil our number-one pick here are
some honorable mentions oh no you’re
dead you’re quite dead completely dead
that’s something you’re just going to
have to live with Bruce Jenner is a man
no Brian that’s what the press would
have you believe but he’s not Bruce
Jenner is a woman an elegant beautiful
Dutch woman number one 9/11 the lone
gunman it really is quite something to
predict a massive terrorist attack the
lone gunman was an x-files spin-off that
aired for only 13 episodes in 2001 and
that’s right same year and everything in
the series premiere which aired on March
4th the characters find themselves in
the middle of a government conspiracy
but bring down a fully loaded 727 into
the middle of New York City and you’ll
find a dozen tin-pot dictator all over
the world just clamoring to take
responsibility the plan is to ram a
plane into the World Trade Center blame
it on terrorists and reap the rewards of
increased weapons sales only six months
later history was made when two planes
were flown into the north and south
towers of the World Trade Center now
we’re not saying that the writers are
psychic but that is pretty damn creepy
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