Two years ago, this Twitter user predicted the 2016 World Series — down to the final game's extra innings
Someone somewhere out in the universe knew how Wednesday night's Game 7 would go down long before it even began. Two years ago, back in November 2014, a Twitter user shared this eerily prescient prophecy about the 2016 World Series:
While it could've been a lucky guess that the Chicago Cubs would be playing the Cleveland Indians, Gio also managed to accurately predict the series would go into a seventh game and that the final game would spill into extra innings.
In fact, the only part of his prediction that missed the mark was his guess that the world would end with the score still tied. Instead, the Cubs won after 10 innings, finally breaking the 108-year-old curse — though there was a rain delay after the ninth that built in a little supernatural suspense.
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Then again, there's always the chance Gio just miscalculated the apocalypse's arrival time. After all, Election Day is right around the corner.
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