End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies about the End of the World, written by Sylvia Browne predicted the global outbreak of coronavirus

Remember we told you about a novel that predicted the coronavirus outbreak 40 years ago? It was a thriller, The Eyes of Darkness, written by Dean Koontz. Looks like it is not the only piece of fiction that predicted the coronavirus outbreak.

A book titled End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies about the End of the World, written by Sylvia Browne, also predicted the global outbreak of coronavirus. The book was first published in 2008. A photo of an excerpt from the book is going viral across social media platforms and is spooky enough to reach for that box of tissues to wipe your sweat.

End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies about the End of the World, a 2008 book written by Sylvia Browne predicted global outbreak of coronavirus

"In around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and bronchial tubes resisting all known treatments," the excerpt read.

Doesn't it sound very similar to this novel coronavirus and the disease, Covid-19? Be it the nature of the illness, the year mentioned or the part about the resistance to treatments - the similarity with coronavirus is uncanny.

The excerpt also mentioned that the illness will vanish soon after its arrival. "Almost more baffling than the illness itself will be the fact that it will suddenly vanish as quickly as it arrives, attack again ten years later and then disappear completely."

Netizens are absolutely stumped with the reference of coronavirus outbreak in the book. Check out some of the reactions here:

That’s so surprising & relaxing at the same time. /Pranoti (@pranotilotlikar) March 4, 2020

Omg. sunil kumar gupta (@Krsunnil98Gupta) March 4, 2020

Praveen Kumar Kushal (@KushalPraveen) March 4, 2020

Is this book real? Nimish Goyal (@nimish1985) March 4, 2020

Coronavirus has spread to over 50 countries and has claimed over 3,000 lives. Medical experts are yet to find a cure for Covid-19. In India alone, there are 28 confirmed cases of Covid-19 as of Wednesday evening.

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