Case file · High strangeness
Swedenborg sees the Stockholm fire
On 19 July 1759, at a dinner in Gothenburg, Emanuel Swedenborg reportedly described a fire raging in Stockholm, 400 km away, as it happened, including when it stopped near his house.
1759 CE · 57.71, 11.97 · status: disputed
The account
Messengers later confirmed the details. Immanuel Kant investigated the story in a 1763 letter and satirised Swedenborg in 'Dreams of a Spirit-Seer' (1766).
The sceptical view
The account rests on second-hand reports collected later; no contemporary written record of the dinner survives.