04-Weird Lit Tales: Edgar Allan Poe's chilling prediction

Podcast Cuentos Oscuros

https://buymeacoffee.com/cuentososcuros Edgar Allan Poe, a famous writer of gothic horror stories, wrote The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym in 1838, a novel about the shipwreck of the Grampus. In it, he made a chilling prediction. When the survivors were adrift in a boat, without food or water, they drew lots to decide who they would sacrifice. The unlucky one was a sailor named Richard Parker, who they killed and then consumed. Forty-six years later, in 1884, a yacht called Mignonette, heading to Australia was wrecked during a storm. Incredibly, the same thing that happened in the novel occurred once again, with one of the crew members being sacrificed. Eerily, his name was also Richard Parker. Was it a coincidence?, or did Poe have a vision and predict what would happen in that shipwreck?