10 Psychics Who Accurately Predicted Wartime Events

The world is burning again. There seems to be conflict and war everywhere, and many people on social media are actually wishing for WWIII so that they can “experience what it’s like to live in wartime.” At the same time, those living in war zones would give anything not to. During war, people lose loved ones in horrific ways. Children starve to death. Entire cities and towns become permanently displaced.

There is nothing to glorify about war. Innocent victims always get caught up in the crossfire, and those who survive often have to flee to countries that don’t want them.

When the psychics on this list predicted conflict, terror, and mayhem, they “saw” this type of devastation. And they did their best to warn those who would be affected (in their own way).

Related: 10 Creepy Apocalyptical Predictions

10 The Sleeping Prophet Predicted WWII

Like 99% of psychics, Edgar Cayce, or the Sleeping Prophet, is a controversial predictor of bad things. In 1889, at the age of twelve, Cayce alleged that he had been visited by a beautiful woman sporting wings. The woman promised to answer his prayers. Over the years, he also claimed to be able to talk to his dead grandfather.

This obviously doesn’t sit well with those who scoff at anything supernatural or paranormal. However, Cayce’s father, who happened to knock his son out of a chair after receiving a school report detailing Cayce’s poor spelling, quickly became a believer. After Cayce was knocked out of the chair, he pleaded with his father to let him take a nap. He did so because the winged woman demanded it. When his father relented, Cayce fell asleep with his head on his school spelling book. When Cayce woke up hours later, his father was shocked to discover that his son had memorized every single page of the book while sleeping.

Cayce started sleeping on top of other schoolbooks and turned around his grades in no time. He also earned the nickname “The Sleeping Prophet.” Over time, Cayce’s talents expanded to providing people with accurate medical diagnoses while he was asleep. Some people believed that Cayce went into a trance before dishing out diagnoses.

Aside from the sleep-talking, Cayce also made startling predictions that came true. He predicted the 1929 stock market crash twice, once in 1925 and again in March 1929, six months before the crash happened. In 1935, Cayce predicted there would be a second World War. He spoke of how the war would unfold, describing an alliance between the Japanese, Austrians, and Germans. Cayce also said that “the whole world will be set on fire by the militaristic groups.” This alliance was eventually revealed during the Tripartite Pact signing on September 27, 1940.

Some who still doubted Cayce’s abilities came around after the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947. Cayce died two years before this discovery after speaking at length about the scrolls and the Essenes. It was many years after the scrolls were discovered that historians found proof of the Essene people.^[1]

9 Marie Anne Lenormand Saw Napoleon’s Rise and Fall

Marie-Anne Lenormand had a tragic childhood. Her parents died when she was very young, and she was placed in a convent school at the tender age of five. However, it only took Lenormand two years to determine her life path. By age seven, she predicted the removal of the standing Superior at the Benedictine convent she attended. She also predicted who would take the Superior’s place.

Lenormand traveled to Paris at the age of fourteen, where she studied various subjects to hone her psychic abilities. These studies included horoscopes, divination, mathematics, and astronomy. By the time she turned seventeen, Lenormand was a professional fortune-teller who went by the name Madame Lenormand. She opened a shop in France, even though fortune-telling was illegal at the time. As such, she landed in jail three times.

During one of her jail stints, Lenormand met a woman named Josephine. Josephine begged Lenormand to tell her fortune, upon which Lenormand told her she would make it out of prison, but her husband would not. Within four days, Josephine was released from prison, only to hear that her husband had been executed. This opened the way for Josephine to become Josephine Bonaparte two years later after marrying Napoleon. She became Empress, all the while remaining close friends with Lenormand. Lenormand predicted this marriage when she told Josephine that she would marry a “new Hercules.”

Things didn’t go well for Josephine after marrying Napoleon. Lenormand didn’t predict it, but Josephine died unexpectedly in 1814, five years after divorcing Napoleon. Lenormand did, however, predict Napoleon’s divorce, exile, and death in 1821. He died of stomach cancer and chronic exposure to arsenic.

Many years later, Maximilien Robespierre, Louis Antone de Saint-Just, and John-Paul Marat visited Lenormand. They were less than happy when Lenormand told them they would all die violent deaths. And they did. Robespierre and Saint-Just were killed by the guillotine two years after the prediction. Marat lived a further twenty-one years after the prediction, only to be stabbed to death with a kitchen knife while he was taking a bath.^[2]

8 Gin Chow Foresaw More Than Bad Weather and Earthquakes

Gin Chow was a Chinese immigrant who made California his new home just over twenty years before the turn of the 20th century. By 1890, Chow had done well enough for himself that he was able to move to the Lompoc Valley with his wife and three children. He bought a small farm where he cultivated fruit before selling it in Santa Barbara.

Chow’s first prediction took nearly five years to come true. It is said that he posted a notice in the Santa Barbara post office on December 23, 1920. The notice said that an earthquake would shake the city on June 29, 1925. Some versions of the story say that he posted the notice on June 29, 1923 and that it included an additional prediction for an earthquake in Japan in September 1923. The Tokyo earthquake that happened on September 1, 1923, killed more than 140,000 people. A very strong earthquake brought down seventy buildings in Santa Barbara’s commercial district on the very day Chow predicted in 1925.

This kickstarted Chow’s fame along the Pacific Coast. He was asked to speak on the radio and at public meetings. He was the opening act for the 1933 King Kong movie screening in Los Angeles. He never predicted an earthquake again, but he did accurately predict the weather. When he said it would rain, it did indeed rain. When he foresaw drought, the rain dried up. By now, he was known as the Wizard of Lompoc. He continued to predict events until shortly before he died in 1933. Right before he died, he published two hardback almanacs. The first one included a prediction that read: “People say that powerful armies come from Japan and make face at the world. But all the time we know that down within herself Japan is afraid of Western people. One big bullet wreck Japan.”

Years later, in 1945, this prediction seemingly came true when the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. It is also believed that Chow warned that the U.S. would go to war with Japan nearly ten years before the Pearl Harbor attack. Chow predicted the year of his own death as well. He had been gored by a bull in 1932, and doctors believed he wouldn’t make it. However, he insisted that he still had a year to live. One year later, Chow crossed State Street and was hit by a truck.^[3]

7 Jan Gotlib Bloch Predicted the Course of Future Wars

Jan Gotlib Bloch was born in Poland in 1836. As an adult, Bloch became fascinated with the outcome of the Franco-Prussian War between 1870 and 1871. Although he was a banker and railway financier, he decided to study modern industrial warfare in his spare time. In particular, he focused on antisemitic policies laid out by the Congress Poland government. Bloch himself was a Jew who had converted to Calvinism. His ultimate goal was to replace the horrors of war with arbitration.

He believed that direct dispute resolution could eventually prevent wars. Bloch explained several theories regarding this goal in six volumes that were published in Paris in 1898. His ideas were also spread throughout Britain with the help of journalist W.T. Stead. Stead agreed with the use of international arbitration as an alternative to war.

Bloch’s six-volume work The War of the Future contained more than just ideas and concepts. It also detailed a chillingly accurate forecast of trench warfare. In it, Bloch wrote that modern weapons, including magazine rifles, machine guns, and smokeless powder, would make open-field attacks pointless. Instead, armies would be forced into entrenched defensive positions.

Bloch also emphasized that in the “great war of entrenchments,” the spade would become as important as the rifle. He predicted that the first mass attacks during the war would result in horrific casualties. As a result, there would be prolonged stalemates, with neither side making a breakthrough. Protracted wars, which continued in this manner, would deplete nations both economically and socially. Eventually, they would lead to bankruptcy, famine, disease, and the collapse of social structures.

Despite Bloch’s exhaustive predictions and speaking at the 1899 Hague Peace Conference, military leaders largely dismissed his warnings. Sixteen years later, the brutality of trench warfare, deadly deadlocks, disease, and social upheaval in Europe during WWI would turn these predictions into a horrifying reality.^[4]

6 Siener van Rensburg Foresaw WWI and WWII

Nicolaas Pieter Johannes Janse van Rensburg was one of the most polarizing figures in South African history. Some believe he was a prophet of God, while others care nothing for his more than 700 predictions. Van Rensburg never learned to write as a child, but his mother taught him to read. He only read the Bible, which was the main reason he was believed to be a prophet. Van Rensburg earned the nickname “Siener” after several of his first predictions became a reality. (Siener translates to “seer.”)

Siener was commandeered to fight in the Second Anglo-Boer War, but he refused to carry a weapon and never fired a single shot. Instead, he shared visions and prophecies with military leaders, helping some of them escape traps set by the British. Those who didn’t heed Siener’s warnings were captured during surprise attacks. One of Siener’s daughters, Anna Badenhorst, recorded his visions as he experienced them and shared them with her. Long after he died in 1926, many of these visions were shared publicly, and interpreters then realized that his predictions could be linked to the First and Second World Wars.

In 1911, Siener had a vision of grey and red bulls locked in combat. This has been interpreted as the red bull representing Britain and the grey bull, an opposing European power engaging in violence, leading to bloodshed on a global scale. Siener also saw a black bull fighting a red one during the Anglo-Boer War. The red bull sank to its knees in defeat, which coincided with the news of British overtures. At one point, Siener saw a “dark cloud” drifting across Europe during one of his visions. He recounted this to his son, Kallie, but the meaning only became clear after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, which saw the advance of communism from Russia.

Furthermore, Siener also saw a large black snake with a broken back. The snake’s back seemed to heal itself after being covered with a white canvas, and the snake grew in size. This vision is considered a symbolic depiction of Germany before, during, and after World War II.^[5]

5 Wolf Messing Predicted Soviet Union Invasion

Wolf Messing was another highly controversial psychic and “mentalist.” He is perhaps best known for entering Josef Stalin’s office by convincing his guards that he was Lavrentiy Beria. Messing is also credited with foreseeing several major events relating to war. For example, he predicted that Adolf Hitler would break the non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the USSR. It is believed he claimed, “If Hitler turns east, his downfall will begin,” during the early 1940s at a public performance in the Soviet Union.

This prediction gained instant fame after Germany launched Operation Barbarossa in June 1941. This invasion caught the USSR largely off guard, marking a pivotal turning point in World War II. There are claims that Messing’s predictions were kept quiet during the war to control the public’s perception of the fighting. Despite this, it is said that Messing warned of the Soviet victory and predicted that Berlin would fall in 1945. This further fueled his legacy as a wartime prophet.^[6]

4 Padre Pio Saw Germany’s Defeat in WWII

During WWII, Nazi Germany invaded Italy, stashing munitions in various places, including near San Giovanni Rotondo. This town was home to the St. Padre Pio monastery, where Padre Pio spent most of his life. As a Capuchin friar, Pio served as a spiritual guide and priest for the pilgrims visiting the monastery.

When the war began, Pio reassured the people of the city that no bomb would come near it. And, despite the munitions cache near San Giovanni Rotondo, no bomb ever did. Allied planes would malfunction whenever they neared the city, causing them to veer off course and drop their bombs in fields.

One story tells of an American pilot nearing the city to bomb it when he saw the image of a monk in the sky. The monk waved his arms, gesturing to the pilot to turn back. In shock, the pilot turned around and dropped the bombs in another place. He told his commanding officer what had happened, but the officer believed that the pilot suffered from “mission fatigue.”

However, the pilot couldn’t get the image of the monk out of his head. When he started asking around, he found his way to San Giovanni Rotondo, where he recognized Padre Pio as the flying monk. Padre Pio is also said to have predicted Germany’s defeat in World War II. Witnesses recalled that Pio described Hitler as a man possessed by darkness. He also warned that Hitler’s ambitions would lead to his ruin.

Pio told Italian soldiers that the war would not end in Germany’s favor and encouraged them to prepare spiritually for whatever suffering lay ahead. After the war ended, many of Pio’s followers believed these remarks were evidence of the friar’s prophetic gift.^[7]

3 Jucelino Nobrega da Luz Predicted the Iraq War

Jucelino Nobrega da Luz is a Brazilian teacher and self-proclaimed clairvoyant. Da Luz made several high-profile predictions, claiming to have dreamed about the 9/11 attacks and the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami before they happened. He also allegedly sent a letter in 2007 to the Norwegian Embassy warning of a terrorist attack that would occur on July 22, 2011. However, this was refuted by the embassy, with officials stating that the letter arrived six days after the tragedy occurred in 2011.

In 2005, da Luz made the news when he took the U.S. government to court. He claimed that he provided information that allowed Saddam Hussein to be captured and that the government owed him $25 million. Da Luz said he’d sent letters to the government from September 2001, describing Hussein’s hideout near Tikrit.

Moreover, da Luz also claimed that he’d predicted the Iraq War at least ten years before the U.S. invasion and thirteen years before Hussein’s execution. Again, he stated that he’d sent letters to several international leaders in 1993 warning of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. He also noted that he warned of the long-term consequences of the invasion, including a rise in terrorist attacks.

There are a lot of skeptics when it comes to Da Luz’s predictions, but TAM Airlines wasn’t taking any chances in 2014. After a prediction from Da Luz that flight JJ3720 would crash after unexpected engine problems, the airline changed the flight code to JJ4732.^[8]

2 The New Nostradamus Predicted the Russia–Ukraine War

Craig Hamilton-Parker, also known as the “new Nostradamus,” is said to possess an incredible ability to predict the future. He was inspired by Nadi astrologists while on a trip to India in his early twenties and has been engaging in the psychic arts ever since. Over the years, he predicted Brexit, COVID-19, the Trump presidency, and Trump’s assassination attempt, as well as the death of Queen Elizabeth. In 2023, Hamilton-Parker predicted that Rishi Sunak would cease to be prime minister in 2024. He also predicted that Kemi Badenoch would take over the Tory Party.

Hamilton-Parker predicted the Russian invasion of Ukraine a year before it happened and had another prophecy ready just twelve days before the invasion began on February 24, 2022. The war continues to drag on in 2025 after the new Nostradamus predicted in 2024 that it would. In his first prediction of the war, he stated that all of Europe would eventually be dragged into the conflict and that Britain would supply Ukraine with weapons.

On March 4, 2025, Hamilton-Parker posted a video to his YouTube channel in which he revealed a vision he’d had. The vision included a ship in trouble and an oil tanker issue. Seven days later, the MV Solong crashed into an oil tanker in the North Sea, sparking a devastating fire and leaking 18,000 tons of fuel into the ocean.^[9]

1 Athos Salomé Warned of an Escalation Between Iran and Israel

The last psychic on this list is also being compared to Nostradamus. Athos Salomé is used to being called the “Living Nostradamus” because of his predictions. One of his most disturbing predictions made in 2023 is becoming apparent right before our eyes. Several media reports stated that Salomé warned in 2023 that tensions between Israel and Iran would get worse. In April 2024, Israel launched an airstrike targeting an Iranian diplomatic facility in Syria. Iran retaliated by deploying hundreds of drones and missiles toward Israel on April 13.

Salomé also warned that the confrontation would only be the beginning of a much darker and more violent conflict. On June 13, 2025, Israel attacked Iran by launching airstrikes and covert drone missions in “Operation Rising Lion.” Iran responded with drone and missile barrages. Iran fired off more missiles on June 14, and the conflict escalated even more between June 16 and 18. On June 21, Israel announced it had eliminated three Iranian generals and struck a nuclear site in Iran. Iran has warned that any U.S. involvement in the conflict would be extremely dangerous.

While the world waits for whatever will happen next, those who believe Salomé’s predictions unconditionally are also expecting some of his other visions to come true. One of these scenarios involves AI reaching a point of no return in 2025, leading to AI systems making irreversible decisions in the transportation and cybersecurity sectors.^[10]