Nostradamus predicted a verdict of not guilty in the Casey Anthony murder trial in a poetic four-verse "quatrain" written almost 500 years ago in the 16th century, a Nostradamus scholar reports.
It remains to be seen what jurors will decide in the celebrated and horrific case.
But the famed French seer, according to the expert, believed Anthony, 23, would rightly be exonerated in the murder of daughter Caylee Marie Anthony, 2 - who was cut down in cold blood by unknown means immediately before (or after) she went missing in Orlando, Florida, last summer.
Nostradamous went on to predict that “a monster” will confess to the crime, clearing Anthony of all charges.
After 18 months on Death Row, the real murderer - the "monster" - will be executed, murdered or commit suicide, the mysterious but surprisingly specific quatrain reveals.
“This is one of the strangest predictions Nostradamus made,” said historian Bernard Heubner, a well-known and respected interpreter of the writings of Nostradamus.
“As a seer, he most often was concerned with broader issues such as politics, war and the state of world affairs. But something caused him to zero in on the Casey Anthony murder case in what we can only describe as significant detail.
“Because Nostradamus wrote in poety verses, or 'quatrains' - which are four lines of verse bound by concept and rhythm - and used symbols, his predictions always have been open to interpretation.
“But the passage is available for anyone to see and to decide what it means for themselves. As far as I’m concerned, the prediction is quite clear.”
According to Heubner, the quatrain reads:
“The mother’s name is blackened by a silver mask,
"The people cry for vengeance, but truth prevails.
"Two thousand and ten finds Antone free,
"The monster confesses and loses his soul in months of 8 and 10."
Heubner said: “You don’t have to be a scholar to see the parallels between the quatrain and the Anthony case.
“The silver mask is suggestive of the duct tape that was found wrapped around the victim’s skull. And the people crying for vengeance is something anyone can see nightly on Nancy Grace on TV or daily in newspapers.
“Nostradamus also predicted that the case will be resolved in 2010, and regardless of the outcome, that almost certainly will occur. Most tellingly, perhaps - the name 'Antone.'
"We don't know how Nostradamus would pronounce that, but it looks very much like 'Anthony' we all can agree.
“There isn’t a doubt in my mind that he foresaw the details of this murder hundreds of years in advance. Nodoubt, he had a premonition of it.
"And when Nostradamus writes of his premonitions, people who know and understand the power and scope of his insight take them seriously.
“He predicted World War 1, World War 2, the rise and fall of Adolf Hitler, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, America’s missions to the moon, the attempted assassination of Presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, the 9/11 attack on New York’s World Trade Center, and the election of President Barack Obama.
"Who’s to say he isn’t right about the Anthony case, that she is innocent and the real murderer will confess? Certainly not me."
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