Sam Knight
speaker
180 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
Sam Knight’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And he kind of was describing, you know, a social network and sort of algorithms before they happened.
He can see lights flashing on and off.
He can see a kind of a statue of Jesus.
It gives a model of the plane called a caravel.
It's kind of, you know, fairly sort of detailed description of a plane crash, which, you know, Barker kind of faithfully jots down and adds to the Premonition Bureau's records.
At the time, it was maybe the fifth deadliest plane crash on record.
And the correlation between Hench's vision and the events that transpire is kind of immediate.
The Evening Standard run a news story about his prophecy with the news report from the crash.
So there's a kind of instant recognition that one of these premonitions seems to have been borne out.
It is trying to develop a thesis first formulated by Walter Cannon, who was the dean of Harvard Medical School in the 1940s, about so-called kind of voodoo death, you know, voodoo curses, if you say someone's
And going to die, can that kind of set off a kind of hormonal kind of storm that could then sort of overwhelm the nervous system?
This was a sort of physiology first described in the 1940s.
And Barker was kind of trying to develop that idea and put a name on that.
And it's something that we now...
call and study more as the nacebo effect, you know, which is the opposite of the placebo effect, you know, instead of giving you an inert sugar pill saying, oh, this will probably help with your headache, you give someone an inert sugar pill and say, yeah, you might feel a few side effects once you have this and then, hey, presto, people start to report them.
And obviously the kind of most extreme form of a nacebo effect is kind of people, you know, suffering extreme symptoms even though there's nothing physiologically wrong with them.
And she says that she can see an astronaut petrified, terrified, and just frightened, and says, you know, this venture will end in tragedy.
And, you know, you can be dismissive and say, well, this was the height of the space race, things were going wrong.
You know, sending in a premonition of something going wrong in space isn't particularly...
but she sends it at 5.30 in the afternoon on a Sunday.
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