Sam Knight

Staff writer, New Yorker; author of “The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold.”

Staff Writer for the New Yorker and author of “The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold.”   

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Author Sam Knight tells the true story of the British psychiatrist and London science journalist who established a  Premonitions Bureau to test the power of ESP and predict future…

Predicting the future: The true story of the Premonitions Bureau

Author Sam Knight tells the true story of the British psychiatrist and London science journalist who established a Premonitions Bureau to test the power of ESP and predict future…

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