Nicholas O'Neill
publication date: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 (part of April 2025)
category: 
Paranormal
clue: "Foresight" is one meaning of the name of the New England metro area where this teenager lived and died, but it also describes the apparent precognitive knowledge that he would become the youngest victim of a great disaster.
explanation: In 2003, O'Neill was the youngest of the 100 people killed in The Station nightclub fire in the Providence area, when pyrotechnics set off during a performance by the band Great White ignited the building. The journals, poems, play, and songs that he left behind make numerous references to his impending death, and received extensive coverage in the years that followed. more…
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, and Samir Mehta
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