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Feb 25, 2019 · John Barker was among those who reached Aberfan that day. Large and somewhat brusque, Barker was a forty-two-year-old psychiatrist with a keen interest in esoteric mental conditions.
- Aberfan Disaster
- John Barker
- The Children Who Foretold Disaster
- The Nationwide Experiment Begins
- The Premonitions Bureau Opens
- Alan Hencher and Kathleen Middleton
- The Final Prediction
The story of the Premonitions Bureau starts on 21 October 1966. On that day, one of the worst industrial disasters in British history occurred. After a period of heavy rainfall, a colliery spoil tip created on a mountain slope above the Welsh village of Aberfan suddenly collapsed causing a landslide of mud and debris. Entombed underneath the slurry...
John Barker reached Aberfan the day after the disaster. Barker was a 42-year-old psychiatrist who’d studied at Cambridge before qualifying as a doctor. He worked at a large mental hospital in Shropshire and was an experienced clinician. Barker had been published in medical journals on multiple occasions, especially on the topic of unusual mental il...
At Aberfan, Barker heard stories from bereaved families about children foretelling the disaster. The day before the colliery spoil tip slid down the hill, an 8-year-old boy called Paul Davies had drawn a picture of a mass of figures digging in the hillside under the words ‘the end.’ That same day, 10-year-old Eryl Mai Jones had told her mother abou...
Soon after Aberfan, Barker wrote to Peter Fairley, the science editor at London’s Evening Standard. Barker wished to reach out to the entire country to find out whether others had experienced premonitions in the hours, days, or weeks before Aberfan. Fairley obliged and on 28 October, the Evening Standard ran the piece to its 600,000-strong readersh...
The responses received from their Aberfan appeal persuaded Barker and Fairley to open what they dubbed The Premonitions Bureau. For a year, readers of the Evening Standardwould be invited to send in their dreams, premonitions and forebodings. Each one would be documented, date stamped and rewarded points based on a system created by Fairley - five ...
The two stars of the project were Alan Hencher and Kathleen Middleton. The former was a 44-year-old telephone operator for the Post Office, whilst the latter was a 52-year-old piano and ballet teacher. Both had foreseen the Aberfan disaster, with Middleton awakening the night before the event choking and gasping with a ‘sense of the walls caving in...
In early 1968, both Hencher and Middleton began fearing for Barker's life. The stars of the Premonitions Bureau were foretelling the demise of the organisation’s creator. ‘It would be wrong for me to say that I was not frightened by a prediction of this nature,’ Barker wrote in a memo. ‘I suppose anybody who plays about with precognition in this wa...
John Barker (died 1968), psychiatrist who set up the British Premonitions Bureau Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name.
The British Premonitions Bureau was formed in 1966 by psychiatrist John Barker after the Aberfan mining disaster in which 144 people, including 116 children, died when 500,000 tons of debris smashed through the Welsh town and buried the primary school.
John Barker (born 19 February 1975) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Fitzroy Football Club, Brisbane Lions and Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
May 6, 2024 · John Barker is building a $47 billion investment office from scratch, with a focus on mission-aligned and active managers. He joined the Canadian institution in January 2024, after leading Mass General Brigham's endowment.
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John Barker is a Fellow of the Centre and the founding Director of Cambridge Governance Labs, a research group focused on tracking and addressing the structural drivers of governance risk.
