Terry and Linda Jamison are identical twins, who believe they share the same soul. They discovered their psychic abilities at an early age and have since helped solve murder cases, find missing persons, saved marriages and diagnosed illnesses by using their gift of automatic writing.
It wasn’t until the late 1990s that they began to predict world events, such as the 9/11 terrorist attack and the Christmas tsunami of 2004.
“The first time Jude Allman died, he was eight years old.”
This is the first line of Waking Lazarus, a story about a troubled man who becomes an unwilling celebrity after he dies three times over the course of his life. Jude Allman doesn’t know how or why he survived and goes to great lengths to protect himself from the media after he moves to Red Lodge, Montana. Under the assumed name of Ron Gress, Jude works for the local elementary school as a janitor.
He leads a very solitary, paranoia-ridden life until a strange woman named Kristina shows up on his doorstep. Naturally, he thinks she’s a reporter and tries to shoo her away. She convinces him that she is a dying woman looking for answers to the Other Side. In the meantime, children have started disappearing from neighboring towns.
Jude is aware of this and is afraid for his five year-old son, Nathan. He begins experiencing premonitions, first with a suicidal waitress and then with a man he met after a fatal pedestrian accident. When Jude bumps into this man (named Kenneth Sohler) in the men’s bathroom of the local restaurant, he experiences a strong vision that Sohler has someone trapped inside his house against their will. This vision spurns him to Sohler’s house and under the watchful eye of the already paranoid police department.
Suddenly everyone wants to know who Ron Gress really is, including his estranged girlfriend. The police are certain that he is the perpetrator of the child abductions until Nathan is kidnapped with his best friend and his best friend’s mother. Jude is let off the hook, but now he must face his past as he seeks the whereabouts of his son and friend.
T.L. Hines did a great job of weaving this paranormal thriller together. Just when you think you’ve identified the abductor, he throws in another twist to keep you guessing. Highly recommended.
I watched this show when it premiered on Monday night and came away from it puzzled as to how they obtained their supernatural abilities and where the plot was going to go. I’d seen the preview of the cheerleader surviving a nasty fall and got the general gist of what this new show was going to be about. My interest was lukewarm, so I didn’t give it much thought or attention until the premiere, which I watched on a whim. Here’s a short summary from Kendra on WordPress:
Heroes will chronicle the lives of these people and the lives of others like them – whose destiny just might be saving humankind and themselves as they come together to evade the series’ antagonist who wants to capture them so they can be studied and experiemented on in order harness their super-DNA for himself.
The premiere episode involved introducing the main characters and their backstories, which intrigued me enough to want to watch next Monday’s episode. I’d like to see how the writers of Heroes connect all of the subplots they have going on right now.
I’ve watched a documentaries and read stories about the people who have missed doomed flights, and they’ve never failed to give me a chill. For several of these people, the premonition factor had nothing to do with why they never made it to the airport. Life made the decision for them, either through a subconscious choice or outside forces, such as their car breaking down.
The remaining would-be passenters experienced uncharacteristic anxiety attacks (or an overwhelming sense of dread that they couldn’t shake) that caused them to miss their flights. They took the next flight or stayed home, feeling like a crazy person. Later, they would hear that their intended flight had crashed, killing most or all on board.
For most people, the difference between a fear and a premonition is that fears are vague and not unusual. Premonitions, on the other hand, seem to come spontaneously, and often with great force and clarity. In fact, for most people, the problem is not recognizing a premonition, but acting upon it.
The Atlantis Rising article (see link above) give some chilling accounts of premonitions of famous disasters. I’ve included links to a more articles below, but the Atlantis is the best one on the subject.
