Some people claim to have seen the future. Not in a vague, fortune-teller way, but in words written down centuries ago that seem to describe wars, leaders, and disasters that came long after the writer was gone. Read them after the fact and the fit can be uncannily close.

This section gathers the prophecies worth knowing: a French physician who wrote in riddled verse, three children who spoke with a vision in a Portuguese field, a saint who listed every pope down to the last, and dreams that read like warnings. You can dismiss them as coincidence. Or you can read on and wonder how someone could have known.