Two Anecdotes of Psychic Phenomena Showing an Aspect of Precognition

The nonfiction books of Harold Sherman (1898-1987) include Thoughts through Space (with Sir Hubert Wilkins 1942), You Live After Death (1949), How to Make ESP Work for You (1964) and The Dead Are Alive! (1981).  The Internet Archive Wayback Machine makes available a detailed website about the author at https://web.archive.org/web/20170514213832/http://www.haroldsherman.com/default.htm.  He was founder and president of the ESP Research Associates Foundation of Little Rock, Arkansas.  Harold wrote about continuing to find "evidence in support of life after death" in a 1972 edition of You Live After Death: 

. . . I receive hundreds of letters from men and women describing experiences they have had which they feel have proved the continued existence of their departed loved ones.  These case histories tell of communication through dreams, visions, direct voice, apparitional visitations, contact through the Ouija board and automatic writing, psychic seances and messages through trance mediums, or as a result of out-of-body adventures.  There are many different forms of psychic phenomena . . .

 
In the third chapter of the book "Evidences of a Spirit Body," he described an incident of psychic phenomena showing an aspect of precognition, as follows:

I have always had a habit of stretching out on the cot in my study when I am doing creative work, relaxing and dropping off to sleep for a few minutes, then awakening refreshed and going back to the typewriter, resuming where I had left off.
 
One particular afternoon . . . I awakened with a start to hear my wife Martha, who had been out shopping, about to enter the apartment, keys rattling in the door.  My small daughter Mary was with her, and because Martha usually had her arms full of bundles, it had been my practice to go to the door and let her in.
 
I awakened with a start to hear my wife Martha, who had been out shopping, about to enter the apartment, keys rattling in the door.  My small daughter Mary was with her, and because Martha usually had her arms full of bundles, it had been my practice to go to the door and let her in.
 
This time, as I exerted the will to get up, my physical body seemed paralyzed.  But something in me did respond, for I suddenly found myself bumping up against the closed door of my study!
 
I had no consciousness of being in a body or having form, at the door, but I was shocked as I looked back and saw my physical body lying on the cot!
 
This was a totally new experience and it frightened me.  I relinquished my intent to go to the door and suddenly discovered myself back in my physical body, struggling to gain control of it.
 
Again there was the sound of keys in the lock, and once more I tried to respond, only to have this same phenomenon occur!  I was out of my body, at the door of my room.  I hit up against it with a strange, mentally bruising force.
 
I saw my body on the cot and this sensation was so terrifying that I abandoned my urge to answer the door with one thought in mind: to return to the body.  This time I succeeded and was relieved to find I could move.
 
But now I heard Martha coming down the hall, with Mary running ahead of her into the living room and snapping on the radio.  On came a jazz orchestra selection.
 
I rose to a sitting position and got unsteadily to my feet.  My mind seemed somewhat dazed, but, as it cleared, I was startled by a sudden realization:
 
Martha and Mary weren't in the apartment!
 
They hadn't come home yet!
 
The radio was not on!
 
While I was standing, trying to figure this out, I actually did hear the keys in the lock.  I was too astounded to move.
 
Now Mary was running down the hall.  I could hear the patter of her feet.
 
Snap!  There went the radio on, bringing in the very orchestra selection I had heard a few moments before!
 
This entire scene had taken place in my consciousness before it had really happened!

 
Consistent readers of this blog will readily recognize how this anecdote is analogous with one described by 23-year-old Twyla Eller, whose family had experienced an amazing array of anomalous events — including occurrences associated with so-called 'poltergeist' cases by some researchers of 'paranormal phenomena':
 

Sue was supposed to come get Brenda one night.  I went to bed and I heard Sue come in and say, "Brenda, I’m sorry I was late.  I had a flat tire.  Steve had to change it."  So I thought Brenda had left.  I come back in here an hour, thirty minutes later to get some — I said, "Didn't Sue come get you?"  She said, "No, she's late."  I said, "Brenda, I just heard her come in and say she had a flat."  Ten minutes later, she got here.  She'd had a flat and was apologizing.  It was like the house recorded the whole conversation.  It was playing it before it happened."

 
My interviews with Twyla and her family may be read in the beginning section of my nonfiction case study book Testament (1997) available to be read in a free Internet edition at https://testament.org.