The Newspaper Prophecy: How The Sydney Morning Herald Predicted Australia's Greatest Gold Discovery CHILLING PREDICTION: Just weeks before the monster gold specimen was discovered, the Sydney Morning Herald wrote these haunting words: "this town where specimens are not unknown." Days later, urgent recommendations for iron safes followed as specimens overflowed from banks and stores. Then, three weeks later... history was made. Was it coincidence? Fate? Or did they somehow know what lay beneath t