Did FC Porto's former president predict the Lisbon earthquake on the day of his funeral?
The front page of an old edition of a defunct Portuguese newspaper has gone viral for allegedly showing an eerily accurate prediction by the late Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa that Lisbon would experience an earthquake on the day of his funeral.
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The front page of an old edition of a defunct Portuguese newspaper has gone viral for allegedly showing an eerily accurate prediction by the late Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa that Lisbon would experience an earthquake on the day of his funeral.
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00:00Did F.C. Porto's former president predict the Lisbon earthquake on the day of his funeral?
00:09An image of the front page of an old Portuguese newspaper is circulating on social media,
00:15claiming that Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, the late former president of F.C. Porto,
00:20predicted a tremor in Lisbon on the day of his funeral. It's dated the 30th of July 2005
00:26and quotes Pinto da Costa as saying,
00:28For those fools who wish me dead, I smile, but I won't forget. On the day that I'm buried,
00:34Porto will cry, but Lisbon will feel an earthquake, or my name isn't Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa.
00:40The front page quickly became viral on Portuguese social networks because Lisbon did indeed record
00:46an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 on the Richter scale on the 17th of February,
00:51the same day as Pinto da Costa's funeral.
00:53Various social posts have linked the two events using the front page from O Comércio do Porto,
00:59claiming that Pinto da Costa made a prediction 20 years ago that eerily came true. However,
01:04the front page is fake. There's no evidence that Pinto da Costa, who passed away on the 15th of
01:10February after battling prostate cancer, ever made such a prediction. The clue here is the
01:15date of the supposed front page. The 30th of July 2005 is actually the day that O Comércio
01:21do Porto published its last ever issue. The real front page is dedicated to the newspaper's
01:26farewell, as reported at the time by Público, which has also debunked the claims. A photo of
01:32Pinto da Costa, his supposed quote, and a headline celebrating 20 years of his presidency at Porto
01:39have replaced the real headline, which says see you next time, and a photo of the editorial team.
01:44The headline on the fake edition is also wrong anyway. Pinto da Costa had served 23 years as
01:50Porto's president by the 30th of July 2005, not 20.