On the morning of October 21, 1966, the Welsh mining village of Aberfan was struck by one of Britain’s most harrowing peacetime disasters. After days of heavy rain, a slag heap collapsed off a ...

For a while last year, I started using a little notebook to keep track of all the coincidences and synchronicities I encountered. At first, it was eerie: People brought something up in conversation ...

Alan Hencher, a gaunt man in his mid-40s, worked nights as a switchboard operator. In the quiet dark of a March morning in 1967, Hencher had a vision that left him haunted and upset: A passenger jet ...

In “The Premonitions Bureau,” Sam Knight unspools the story of a British psychiatrist who tried to predict the future by mining people’s visions and dreams. Credit...Daniel Zender Supported by By W. M ...

IN OCTOBER 1966, around the time a colliery spoil heap in Aberfan in Wales collapsed, burying a school and homes and killing 116 children and 28 adults, an English psychiatrist called John Barker was ...