The British Premonitions Bureau: When Psychics Predicted Disaster

About this episode

The episode explores the concept of predicting disasters through psychics and its relation to the fictional movie 'Minority Report'.

Imagine for a moment a world with future technology that allows the authorities to catch criminals before a crime is even committed. Sounds like a movie? That’s because it is. This is the plot for the 2002 movie “Minority Report” starring Tom Cruise. Cool concept, but pure fiction, right? Not quite.

People in this episode

Host: Horrifying History

Topics covered

• future technology
• psychics
• disaster prediction
• British Premonitions Bureau
• crime prevention

Keywords

• psychics
• disaster
• prediction
• crime
• technology
• Minority Report
• Tom Cruise

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Minority Report

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