Dream Foretold Aberfan: A Child's Warning and the Premonition Puzzle

A Welsh ten-year-old, Eryl Mai Jones, dreamed her school vanished under something black; 24 hours later Pant Glas Junior School in Aberfan was buried by a coal-tip collapse, killing 116. This spurred the British Premonitions Bureau under John Barker, which collected 700+ reports and flagged a few genuine hits, though none averted disaster. The article also surveys famous claimed premonitions (Lincoln, Kekulé, McCartney) and explains that most such dreams can be explained by REM sleep and cognitive filtering. It concludes that premonitory dreams remain unexplained oddities rather than reliable foresight.