Some insist that wherever reality seems to take us, the Simpsons have beat us to it and have already been through the exact same thing before. But how is that possible? How has the show and its writing staff successfully predicted so many of these actual happenings?

After all, there are well over fifty times that internet users and conspirators believe that The Simpsons correctly guessed the outcome of real-life events. Let’s take a look at twenty of the strangest predictions they’ve ever made.