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Reader predicted Michael Jackson death

Monday July 6, 2009
One of our very own readers predicted the death of Michael Jackson back in 2006. Of course, he or she predicted it for the year 2007, making it two years off, so should it count? The prediction was made as part of our annual call at the end of a year to submit predictions for the coming year. The reader, going by the name Darthlos, simply wrote: "Michael Jackson dies." Was it just a hit-or-miss guess? What do you think?

Here are the reader predictions for 2009.

Comments
July 7, 2009 at 12:28 am
(1) markgreyam says:

Don’t ‘reward’ this sort of stuff with any sort of credit, it gives the already bad name of the paranormal an even worse one. By that definition I can predict that anyone currently alive is going to die. And in the future when it inevitably happens I can get some credit for it.

She made the prediction for 2007. It didn’t occur in 2007. The prediction was, yes, a prediction, but then a prediction is in fact a prediction. But it was a wrong prediction. Out by a fair way to be honest, far enough to suggest that they were simply taking a wild guess, which is presumably what most predictions are.

July 7, 2009 at 9:10 am
(2) Ian says:

Yes I agree with Mark. This prediction was completely wrong and the article even makes people into paranormal appear desperate for trying to prove it is real. Micheal Jackson didn’t die in 2007, how can one even say that is a valid prediction? It is basically like me saying I guess the prediction for the world ending in 2000 was right if the world actually ended in, for example, 3000. I guess the prediction is ONLY 1000 years off, but still……..

July 7, 2009 at 9:40 am
(3) paranormal says:

Good points. Thanks.

July 7, 2009 at 11:55 pm
(4) Elle says:

Hello there
Joseph Tittel predicted Michael Jackson death back in January 2009.
http://spiritmanjoseph.blogspot.com/

July 10, 2009 at 3:48 am
(5) Mark says:

Yes, it was mentioned, BUT did you see all the other nonsense that was also predicted?

No, sometimes, you just keep throwing these ’shots’ out and occasionally, you’ll get a target once in a while.

July 21, 2009 at 11:03 am
(6) warows says:

Was he trying to meet the death on the scene ?
See this link:
http://mjend.webs.com/

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