The first thing the young telegraph operator noticed was the small black couch.

This was 1935 and Sigmund Freud, who was still alive, had made the psychiatrist couch a symbol of psychoanalysis and therapy.

But the young man hadn't come to the office to see a shrink.

He was there to see the most famous psychic in the country,

Edgar Casey.

Casey entered the room, soft spoken and well dressed.

He explained that he, not the young man, would be the one on the couch.

So Casey kicked off his shoes, lay back, and put himself into a deep trance.

After a few minutes, Casey began to whisper all sorts of things about the past, the present, and the future.

Then the young man realized that Casey wasn't just making predictions about his life, he was making

predictions about everyone, events that were to happen all over the world.

Since then, Edgar Casey has been called The Sleeping Prophet because many of his predictions have come true. Edgar Casey was born in 1887 into a poor farming family in rural Kentucky.

He was never an average kid.

When other children were outside playing, Edgar wanted to study the Bible,

but studying religion isn't the only thing that sets him apart from the other kids.

Soon he would wander into the forest to play with what he called little folk.

When Edgar was 11 years old, he was in the woods reading his Bible

when he was visited by what he described as a woman with wings.

The woman asked him what he wanted most out of life. He said he wanted to

help others, especially sick children. Later that day Edgar Casey's father

received a letter from the school complaining about his son's performance.

So his father tested his spelling and was so upset at how poorly Edgar did he knocked the boy out of his chair.

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