The Psychiatrist Who Believed People Could Tell the Future

After people predicted a mining disaster, a psychiatrist began collecting premonitions, and a startling number turned out to be true. To his horror, one seer predicted the psychiatrist’s own death. He spent years looking over his shoulder, living a life that begged the question: can you scare yourself to death?

Author: Sam Knight
Source: The New Yorker
Published: Mar 4, 2019
Length: 28 minutes (7,011 words)
Read the story