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Typed Prophecy: A Dead Engineer's Letter Predicted The Flood

Typed Prophecy: A Dead Engineer's Letter Predicted The Flood

A typed letter dated April 14, 2011 predicted, down to the junction and a 6:18 a.m. time, a water-main rupture that happened four days later at 6:22 a.m. The note was signed by T. Prescott - a man who had been dead since 2008 - and it was found carefully placed on a reading table inside the forced-open archive at Drexel Hall. How could a three-year-dead civil-engineering consultant foresee the exact failure, or was the letter planted after the fact?

In this episode, you’ll hear the sequence of discovery, the document’s physical…

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