Mind-blowing book predictions that actually came true
A writer’s imagination is a powerful tool. Not only can it create fictional universes, but it can also sometimes even predict the future. Don’t believe it? The creepiest prediction has just been brought to light by the internet, stemming from a 1981 novel by horror writer Dean Koontz.
It appears to have predicted the outbreak of a killer virus known as “Wuhan-400,”
which happens to be the name of the city where coronavirus originated. Curious for more?
Click through to page 307 — for some amazing examples of how a writer’s imagination can manifest itself into real-life events. Dean Koontz – \(1981\) – The Eyes Of Darkness – PDFDrive.com (xperimentalhamid.com)
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Conspiracy theorists suggest American novelist predicted coronavirus four decades ago
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 28 (ANI): Time to put on your tin-foil hats as conspiracy theorists are now speculating that the best-selling American author Dean Koontz foresaw the coronavirus disease nearly 40 years ago in his novel “The Eyes of Darkness”.
According to Fox News Koontz’s 1981 thriller novel mentioned a deadly pathogen called “Wuhan-400”, whose name is strangely similar to the Chinese province of Wuhan, which is the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. A Twitter user named Nick Hinton shared an image of the page from the novel that describes the fictional “Wuhan-400” virus.
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In the caption, he wrote: “A Dean Koontz novel written in 1981 predicted the outbreak
of the coronavirus!” The post incited several responses from shocked and puzzled users.
“That’s creepy,” commented one user.
Another commented:
“That’s crazy. He probably didn’t have a clue when he was writing it”.
Meanwhile, a gentleman — seemingly an avid conspiracy theorist — went into some more depth and explained: “The coming of a plague from China has been forecast for decades now. That it would be created in a bioweapons lab has also been stated by various fiction authors. Whether this is because it was preplanned by elites or those who foresaw tapped into some Jungian race-conscious”.
However, to the dismay of conspiracy theorists, the similarity between the two bugs just stops at the term “Wuhan”. The virus depicted in Koontz’s novel is vastly different from the actual strain in terms of its attributes and characteristics, reported Fox News.
“For instance, `The Eyes of Darkness’ describes that the “Wuhan-400” has a fatality
rate of 100 percent, whereas the coronavirus only kills 2 percent of its patients”, said the report. (ANI)
BOOK REVIEWS: The Eyes of Darkness by Dean Koontz (goodreads.com)
The original 1981 edition of Koontz’s The Eyes of Darkness made no reference to Wuhan-400, according to Snopes. callmestormy.net
Koontz’s novel, The Eyes of Darkness, is eerily centered around a virus outbreak that begins in Wuhan, China, and is used as a bio-weapon during wartime.
“Koontz puts his readers through the emotional wringer!”
Associated Press More Praise for Dean Koontz
“Dean Koontz is a prose stylist whose lyricism heightens malevolence and tension.
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Here’s the page, from the book, where the Wuhan-400 is mentioned…
A virus called Wuhan-400 makes people terribly ill … in a Dean Koontz thriller from 1981
The Eyes of Darkness, a 1981 thriller by bestselling suspense author Dean Koontz, tells of a Chinese military lab that creates a virus as part of its biological weapons programme. The lab is located in Wuhan, which lends the virus its name, Wuhan-400. A chilling literary coincidence or a case of a writer as an unwitting prophet?
In The Eyes of Darkness, a grieving mother, Christina Evans, sets out to discover whether her son Danny died on a camping trip or if – as suspicious messages suggest – he is still alive. She eventually tracks him down to a military facility where he is being held after being accidentally contaminated with man-made microorganisms created at the research center in Wuhan.
In another strange coincidence, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which houses China’s only level four biosafety laboratory, the highest-level classification of labs that study the deadliest viruses, is just 32km from the epicentre of the current coronavirus outbreak.
The opening of the maximum-security lab was covered in a 2017 story in the journal Nature, which warned of safety risks in a culture where hierarchy trumps an open culture.
Fact or Fiction? Did a 1981 Chinese Novel Really Predict the Coronavirus Outbreak?
Theory widely shared on social media claims that American author Dean Koontz predicted the 2019-2020 Coronavirus outbreak in 1981.
Most of the claims circulating on social media show the book’s cover and a page in the book mentioning a virus called “Wuhan-400”. The widely circulated photo of Koontz’s book page includes some highlighted text reading: “They call the stuff ‘Wuhan-400’ because it was developed in a at their RDNA labs outside of the city of Wuhan, and It was the four-hundredth viable strain of man-made microorganisms created at that research center”.
Some claims circulating also include an additional page that mentions the year 2020 and the outbreak of a “severe pneumonia-like illness”. This is partly false. While it is true that Koontz wrote about a fictional virus in his novel and that its name “Wuhan-400” refers to the Chinese city in which the 2019 Coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) actually started, the illness in his book doesn’t share more traits with COVID-19.
In his novel, Koontz described “Wuhan-400” as “China’s most important and dangerous: new biological weapon in a decade”. He also wrote it was developed by labs outside of the city of Wuhan.
There is no proof that the new coronavirus was created in a lab. The virus is believed to have originated late last year in a food market in Wuhan that was illegally selling wildlife. Health experts think it may have originated in bats and then passed to humans, possibly via another species.
Reuters looked at further references of “Wuhan-400” in Koontz’s book.
The symptoms and behavior of Koontz’s “Wuhan-400” are very different to COVID-19.
In the novel, the virus has an incubation period of “only four hours”.
COVID-19’s incubation period is between 1-14 days. According to the World Health Organization, the most common incubation time is around five days.
Koontz also describes “Wuhan-400” as a disease with a “kill-rate” of 100%.
“Once infected, no one lives more than twenty-four hours. Most die in twelve”, he writes. COVID-19’s death rate is far from this, according to the WHO, the case-fatality rate is between 2% and 4% in Wuhan and 0.7% outside Wuhan.
The symptoms described by Koontz are different to COVID-19. In his novel, “Wuhan-400” causes the secretion of a “toxin that literally eats away brain tissue” causing loss of control of bodily function. “The victim simply ceases to have a pulse, functioning organs, or any urge to breathe”, writes Koontz. Meanwhile COVID-19 infections have a wide range of symptoms, including fever, coughing, shortness of breath and breathing difficulties. Mild cases can cause cold-like symptoms, while severe cases can cause pneumonia, severe acute respiratory illness, kidney failure and death.
In the novel, “Wuhan-400” is described to be “infinitely worse” than Ebola (EVD),
but COVID-19 is less threatening than EVD. According to the WHO, the average EVD case fatality rate is around 50%, while case fatality rates have varied from 25% to 90% in past outbreaks. The new coronavirus deathrate is between 2% and 4% in Wuhan and 0.7% outside Wuhan.
It is worth noting that in the first edition of “The Eyes of Darkness” in 1981, the fictional virus was not named after the Chinese city, but after a Russian locality named “Gorki” (Gorki-400). In the original version of the novel, the virus was developed outside of “Gorki” and it was meant to be the “Soviet’s most important, dangerous new biological weapon in the decade”. This is confirmed by a Google Books’ search of the word “Wuhan” in the 1981 edition. In this edition “Wuhan-400” brings no results.
According to the South China Morning Post, the name of the virus was changed on
the re-release of the book in 1989, toward the end of the Cold War. Their article includes photographs of the previous edition that references “Gorki-400”.
In this edition, Koontz also published his novel under his real name instead of using his pseudonym “Leigh Nichols”. Some of the posts on social media also share a third image of a book page without any attribution, wrongly suggesting it is part of the same book. This page reads: “In around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments”.
This page does not belong to “The Eyes of Darkness”. It comes from the 2008 book
“End Of Days: Predictions and prophecies about the end of the world Paperback” by
Sylvia Browne, an American author who claimed to be a psychic.
This claim is therefore partly false. Dean Koontz did write about a fictional virus called “Wuhan-400” in the 1989 re-release of his 1981 novel “The Eyes of Darkness”, however, symptoms and effects of the disease do not match the official description of COVID-19. The additional page present in some claims suggesting an outbreak “around 2020”
is from a different book.
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