Thread: Are feelings and intuitions a valid source of knowledge?

Of course, there are real tragedies on set. Does anyone remember the accident that took place on John Landis' failed production of The Twilight Zone?

Yes...I know a little something about that...yet another example of some 'uber weirdness' surrounding the movie business.

Vic Morrow and the two young children (working illegally) that got wiped out by that helicopter, a scene that involved dangerous FX etc. An explosion occurred too near a very low flying helicopter (supposedly at Landis' request to fly perilously low) and it was sent off course and careered into the actors.(KIlling them)

Vic Morrow seemed to have an innate fear that he would be killed by a helicopter...I did a little about it...the content of which, is not really suitable to be posted here. It's all very twilight zone...literally! (Spielberg, Lucas, Zemeckis, Donner post)

Earlier in his career (9 years earlier), Morrow was in a film called Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (with Peter Fonda). There was a scene where he was supposed to fly in a helicopter. "I’m not getting up in the helicopter… I have a premonition that I’m going to get killed in a helicopter crash."

This is an exchange from another message board I frequent, which took place in the last couple of days.

Ironically I myself had a sudden and very strong premonition last night.

It was late, like around 3 in the morning, and being the nocturnal creature I am I was loading the dog in the car to go to Jack-in-the-Box for dinner. For some unfathomable reason I had a sudden very strong premonition, just a sort of stab of wild panic accompanied by a vague image of a car crash and maybe a sound like screeching tires and smashing metal and glass. I stopped for a moment and almost decided not to go, especially because I switched on the radio and the song Baby Please Don't Go Down To New Orleans was on, and I kept hearing the line Please Don't Go over and over to the point that it made me really nervous. I sort of laughed nervously and switched the station at the same time promising myself that if the next song seemed to be saying something similar we'd turn around and go right back home for the night. The next song was Maneater by Hall and Oates. There's a line where he says "I wouldn't if I were you", and immediately on realizing what song it was that line popped into my head. I decided that if I hear that line we'll turn around, but apparently it was already past that part of the song, and I never heard it.

I was extremely nervous though, while at the same time laughing about my own gullibility, and I sat for a long moment at an intersection where I couldn't decide if I wanted to go right and get back home or go left to get my Jumbo Jack. In the end hunger won out and we went. No accident, but there was a very close call. I was driving on a dark road completely empty of other cars when movement caught my eye just ahead of the car, and I immediately slowed down fast to the point of almost stopping. It was a raccoon running across the street just in front of the car, and it's really lucky that I saw it in the dark. Perhaps if I hadn't been hyper-alert for danger because of the premonition I might have hit it. Being still in a cautious frame of mind I continued driving very slowly even after it was across, and good thing I did, because there was another one behind it!

Now a case can be made that I might have hit them, killing them or perhaps me and Pepper as well, if I hadn't been driving so carefully due to the premonition. But then again, I also would have been already past that point when they crossed if I hadn't hesitated so long at that intersection earlier.