Ep. 165 - The Premonitions Bureau

The Conspirators Podcast

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In October 1966 a terrible mining disaster occurred in the Welsh village of Aberfan, killing 116 children and 28 adults. One strange thing that occurred following the disaster were the number of stories that began emerging that several children who were killed along with a number of other adults who should have had no knowledge of the flood, began reporting having psychic premonitions of the disaster before it occurred. This led a British psychiatrist named John Barker to create a premonitions bureau, where he collected stories of psychic visions, in the hope that they could one day use this information to save lives. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast Notes: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-aberfan-disaster-featured-crown-180973565/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-is-the-nocebo-effect-5451823/ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/04/the-psychiatrist-who-believed-people-could-tell-the-future https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1360777/Can-dreams-predict-future-Book-examines-psychology-paranormal.html https://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/11-07-06/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to From Beneath the Hollywood Sign.
0:02.4	If you love old movies, Hollywood history
0:04.4	or the golden age of filmmaking, you've come to the right place.
0:07.4	This is the podcast that talks about amazing stories of Tinseltown
0:10.5	from another era and fascinating conversations
0:12.9	with writer-producers Steve Cubine and actress writer Nan McNamara.
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0:30.0	Along the base of the western slope of the Taff Valley lies the Welsh Village of Aberfan.
0:46.0	This small village started with humble beginnings,
0:48.9	just a couple cottages and an in.
0:52.6	But after coal was discovered in the mountains,
0:54.3	a man named John Nixon and his partners established the first coal mining operation in the area,
0:59.7	the Murther Vale Colliery.
1:03.6	In 1947, the British coal industry was nationalized and put under the control of the National
1:09.4	Coal Board.
1:12.1	From then on, regulation of the coal industry was provided by a conglomeration of former
1:16.4	mining engineers and members of the NCB.
1:21.3	Over the decades, Aberfan continued to grow, and by the 1960s, the village had become
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