The Premonition (1976)

Plotzle Sci-Fi · Puzzle #3 · April 30, 2026 · Thriller / Sci-Fi

Six plot descriptions for The Premonition (1976). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A parole officer supervising sex offenders develops the ability to sense their future crimes but her warnings go ignored and she witnesses the attacks happening exactly as foreseen.
2. A foster mother experiences premonitions and psychic visions when her foster daughter's unstable biological mother and the biological mother's carnival-worker boyfriend conspire to kidnap the child from her home.
3. Two astronomers detect a signal containing detailed information about upcoming global events and governments begin detaining anyone who accessed the transmission whileErasing all records of its existence from satellites.
4. A grief-stricken father installs surveillance software on his teenage son's devices after a suicide attempt but the AI program generates increasingly accurate predictions about violent incidents at the boy's school.
5. A neuroscientist testing an experimental drug begins receiving fragmented memories from her deceased twin sister and discovers the pharmaceutical company has been harvesting neural tissue from coma patients at a private clinic.
6. An insurance investigator arrives in a remote Alaskan mining town where workers claim to see their own deaths days before fatal accidents occur and the company continues operations despite mounting casualties.