11 Eerie Country Songs That Wound Up Predicting the Future

These 11 special country tunes are more than just songs — they’re crystal balls.

Toby Keith, Lainey Wilson and John Prine are all among the country stars on this list who have put out songs with storylines that eerily came true.

A few of those were happy predictions: For example, Wilson musically manifested her connection to Dolly Parton long before they ever met!

But most of the songs on this list are a little bit darker. Vince Gill‘s “Go Rest High on That Mountain” started out as an homage to the late Keith Whitley, but that song has since snowballed into a universally-relatable message of grief and mourning for artists across the genre. Another song included on this list is a track Loretta Lynn wrote about her husband and cut for the first time in 1985. She recorded it several more times over the years, and its words only became more true as more time passed.

Then, of course, there are a number of songs on this list where the artist — in some form or fashion — predicted their own death. Scroll through the gallery below to read the incredible stories behind these eerie songs.