Deadly Ohio train derailment eerily ‘predicted’ on Netflix: ‘Scary’

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Netflix movie “White Noise” somehow eerily predicted the train derailment in Ohio earlier this month, as the fiery crash and fictional blockbuster share some of the same details.East Palestine, Ohio, resident Ben Ratner, who also played an evacuee extra in “White Noise,” told People that the situation was “scary.”“Talk about art imitating life,” the 37-year-old father-of-four told the outlet.The 2022 film is set in a small town where Adam Driver’s character, Jack Gladney, is a Hitler studies professor.

Husband to Babette, played by Greta Gerwig, he is forced to navigate his family through a toxic airborne event after a train derails mere miles away from their home.“And you can just about drive yourself crazy thinking about how uncanny the similarities are between what’s happening now and in that movie,” Ratner said.Created as fiction, the flick, based on the 1985 book of the same title, strikes haunting similarities to the East Palestine, Ohio, disaster that occurred less than two weeks ago.On Feb.

3 about 50 miles from Pittsburgh, the small town of 4,700 people was shocked by the catastrophic derailment of a train carrying toxic materials.

Igniting in flames, the blazing train sent plumes of smoke into the air above the crash, and nearby residents were urged to evacuate their homes and flee.The train was reportedly transporting vinyl chloride, phosgene and hydrogen chloride, among other chemicals.The 50-car derailment burned for multiple days and posed an explosion threat early on, but the emergency has since been deescalated.