I’VE A BAD FEELING ABOUT REAL LIFE THIS…

WE’VE all experienced it – that nagging doubt in the back of your mind that says: “I’ve a bad feeling about this…”

Sometimes you can just sense when you’re about to have a rotten day, or be braced for negative news, without knowing why.

But for some people these premonitions are so strong it forces them to take urgent and evasive action – action that will save their lives...

When a TransAsia Airways flight plunged into the muddy Keelung River in Taipei, Taiwan’s capital city, in February 2015, 43 souls on board perished.

But 15 passengers cheated a date with the Grim Reaper – one of those was 50- year- old property broker Chen Ming- chung.

After being rescued from the wreckage, Chen described how he’d had a sudden impulse to switch seats from the left side of the aircraft and move to the row on the right.

He had no idea why he’d done it, but while the unfortunate man he swapped with died, Chen lived to embrace his wife Shih Chiu- mei.

She later said: “His life was saved because of that uneasy feeling he’d had. Some passengers were hit by debris, while the bodies of others were pierced by sharp metal. It was like a bloodbath in a movie.”

It’s a scenario that sounds far- fetched – until you read the hundreds of other examples of terrifying forewarnings.

One of the best documented cases of dire portents came in 1912, in the days before RMS Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg, leaving 1,514 to perish in the icy seas.

A number of those who met their maker in the disaster had been haunted by visions of their own end.

Like many others, the Titanic’s Chief Mate, Henry Tingle Wilde, had even written about his own fears.

In a letter to his sister while on board, he told her: “I still don’t like this ship. I have a queer feeling about it…” He would not see her again. Other premonitions about the Titanic were even more startling. English businessman J. Conon Middleton booked passage on the Titanic so that he could attend a business conference in New York.

No sooner had he paid his £ 15 fare – an enormous sum at the time, worth £ 1,750 in today’s money – Middleton experienced nightmares on two consecutive evenings that rocked him to the core.

TINGLING FEELING: Henry Tingle Wilde wrote of his premonition before he died on the Titanic

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In his vision, he floated above a horrific scene – a ship listing, the icy- cold sea littered with flotsam and bodies.

Middleton tried to dismiss the night terrors as a simple case of travel anxiety, but as the boarding date drew nearer his trepidation grew.

And in the end Middleton, frightened though ashamed about what his friends might think of him, refused to board the vessel – and thus was not among those who died.

More recently, the shocking terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001, also brought reports of precognition.

Respected finance worker Barrett Naylor revealed how a “gut feeling” had told him to turn on his heels and head home rather than go to the office that day – an out- of- character decision that saved his life.

Incredibly, he’d had the same feeling and refused to go to work on February 23, 1993 – the day of the first attack on the Twin Towers.

Meanwhile, it’s thought South African model Reeva Steenkamp – who was shot dead by Paralympian Oscar Pistorius on Valentine’s Day, 2013 – could well have also prophesised her own fate.

Her mum, June, told how at