I have, for your enjoyment, a few samplings of precognitive events. (Predictions, prophecies that have come true, etc.) Please share any of you own experiences with precognition if you have them. :D
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Jaime Castell, a Spanish hotel executive, was due to have a child born in three months. In his dreams one night, he heard a voice saying that he wouldn't live to see the child's birth. Convinced that he was going to die soon, he took out a life insurance policy for more than $100,000 or 7,000,000 pesetas, which was payable only in the event of his death.

A few weeks after taking out the policy, he was driving home from work, doing the legally appropriate 50 mph when a car going in the opposite direction at an excess of 100 mph hit a safety barrier, somersaulted midair, and landed on top of Castell's ar. Both drivers were killed instantly. The insurance company paid Mrs. Castell without delay, though normally the death of someone who had so recently taken out such a specific policy would have been investigated at length. But according to the insurance company, "this incredible accident rules our any suspicion...a fraction of a second either way, and he would have escaped."
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Edward Pearson was arrested on the fourth of December in 1978 for traveling by train from Inverness, Scotland to Perth, Scotland, with no ticket. He appeared in court at Parth, where he was described as "an unemployed Welsh prophet". Pearson said he had been on his way to London to warn the minister of the environment of an earthquake that was going to strike Glasgow.

On the sixth of December, his story was recorded in the Courier & Advertiser unnder the headline of "Prophet Didn't Have a Ticket". Three weeks later, Glasgow residets were shaken from their beds by an earthquake, a rare phenomenon in any part of the British Ises.
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In London during World War II, air raids had become very common, almot a way of life. Winston Churchill was perhaps even less afraid of Hitler's bombs, bing a naturally courageous man who often came under fire during his years of active srvice.

One night, Churcill was entertaining three government ministers at numer 10 Downing Street, the prime minister's traditional residence in London (rather similar to our White House). An air raid was in progress, but that had not interrupted their dinner. But Churchill suddenly left the table and went into the kitchen where the cook and a maid were working. H told the butler to put the food on a hot plate in the dinng room and ordered the kitchen staff to go immediately to the bomb shelter before returning to his dinner guests. Three minutes later, a bomb fell behind the house and completely destroyed the kitchen. Prime Minister Churchill and his guests were somehow unharmed.

Churchill was also known for personally visiting antiaircraft batteries during night attacks. On one of these occasions, having watched the gunners in action for a while, hewalked to his car, perhaps intending to visit two or three more crews before daybreak. The door on the side of the car where he normally sat was open for him, but Churchill ignored it and walked over to the other side of the car, opened the door, and got in. A few minutes later, as the car was passing through the blacked-out streets, a bomb exploded nearby, lifting the car and causng it to careen perilously on two wheels, dangerously close to tipping over. Churchill later joked that, "It must have been my beef on that side that pulled it down." When his wife asked him about his near-death experience, Churchill said that he didn't know why he had no idea why he dilberately chose to ride on the opposite side. But he then added: "Of course I know. Something said 'Stop!' before I reached the car door held open for me. It then appeared to me that I was meant to open the door on the other side and sit there- and that's what I did."
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In the late 1850's, Mark Twain and his brother Henry woked together on the riverboats that were, at the time, plying the Mississippi btween St. Louis and New Orleans. One night, while staying at his siter's in St. Louis, Twain had an unusually vivid dream. In this dream, he saw his brother's corpse lying in a metal coffin in his sister's sitting room, resting on two chairs and a boqet with a single crimson flower at it's center had been placed on Henry's chest.

When Twain awoke the next morning, he was convinced his brother had died and was lying in the sitting room. He dressed and through about visiting the corpse, but decided to take a walk first. He'd left the house and walked for half a block before he realized it had been a dream. He then went bak to his sister's house and told her of the dream.

A few weeks later, the Twain brothers were together in New Orleans, but took different ships back to St. Louis. Henry was passing on the Pennsylvania. The ship's boilers exploded not far from Memphis, killing many people. Henry was badly injured and taken to Memphis where he died a few days later. Although most victims of the accident were buried in wooden coffins, a number of Memphis women were moved b extreme pity for Henry Twain and raised the money to provide a metal coffin. When Mark Twain went to say his final goodbyes to his brother, he found the body laying in the metal coffin as hit had been in his dream. He found the only thing missing was the bouquet. But as he stood beside the body of his brother, a woman entered the room and placed on Henry's cest a bouquet of white flowers with a red rose at the center.
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One night in Jule of 1750, Robert Morris, Senior, the father of the Robert Morris who managed the financial affairs of the American Revolution, dreamd he would be killed by cannon fire from a naval ship he was to visit. He was so nervous, that he was persuaded to board the vessel only by the captain's promise that no guns ould be fired until he was safely back on land.

The visit was made and at its conclusion, th captain gave instructions that no salute be fired until he signaled that the rowboat had returned with Morris safely to shore. But while the boat was still in range of the ship's gun, a fly settled on the captains nose and he thoughtlessly raised his hand to brush it away. The gesture was taken as a sign that the solute should be fired. A boat fragment from the blast struck Morris and wounded him fatally.
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In 1838, Edger Allan Poe published a story called "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket". In the story, three survivors of a shipwreck wre dying of thirst and starvation and were forced to kill their companion, Richard Parker, who lost when they drew lots (straws).

In 1844, three survivors of a shipwreck were tried for murder of a fourth. Adrift and facing starvation, they had killed and eaten their companion, a cabin boy by the name of Richard Parker.
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Okay... That's about it. For now at least. I think I'll be coming back later and relating my own tales and enccounters with precognition soon enough. In the mean time, share your own encounters, be it something like first-hand experience, or something that happened to someone you know. :)

I had a dream one time when I lived in ohio; it was a horrible nightmare my car was in it , I was in it and so was the house I lived in at the time as well as everything was in it's place. In this dream I was on the couch and I awoke to this strange mad standing infront of me; then I was upstairs in the bathroom. My fiance' at the time had corresponding dreams to match mine. It ended up coming true it was my neighbor I was being warned about who was a sex offender and he lived behind my house. a few nights after the dream I let him in to use the bathroom and I was practicing my martial arts. he said he left his ring in the bathroom and asked if I could look so I did; he had unlocked my window while I was up there. Needless to say I pay very close attention to my dreams now.....