Abra’s 9/11 premonition is remembered as a crying jag associated with the attacks, an early and unsettling sign of abilities that her family and doctor could not fully explain. Its significance lies partly in that uncertainty: it is treated as suggestive evidence of foreknowledge, while the precise content of what Abra perceived remains unspecified.

The Recalled Episode

Concetta Reynolds later told Lucy Stone that she already knew about Abra’s 9/11 crying jag, as well as the phantom piano. Her account establishes the crying episode as part of the family’s record of Abra’s unusual experiences, but does not describe what Abra saw or knew, or explain exactly how the episode unfolded. The event enters the narrative through recollection rather than through a detailed scene of the premonition itself.

A Related Demonstration of Awareness

Concetta also recalled visiting Lucy a week or two later, after asking Lucy not to tell Abra she was coming. Ten minutes before Concetta arrived, Abra planted herself in front of the door; when Lucy asked who was coming, Abra answered, “Momo.” David Stone said Abra often did this when someone she knew and liked was on the way. The episode is distinct from the 9/11 crying jag, but gives the family a concrete example of Abra sensing an event before it was announced.

Interpreting the Evidence

When Lucy asked what Abra’s abilities were, John Dalton judged that telepathy and telekinesis clearly played a part. He counted her ability to know when visitors were coming and to know that Mrs. Judkins had been hurt as evidence for telepathy, and the events at Abra’s birthday party as strong evidence for telekinesis. He was less certain about precognition: the 9/11 episode and a twenty-dollar bill behind the dresser were suggestive, but did not settle the question. The episode therefore serves as evidence of possible foreknowledge, not as a fully explained or precisely documented prediction.

Significance

The 9/11 crying jag becomes one item in a widening pattern that forces Abra’s family to consider several kinds of psychic ability at once. Its retrospective framing preserves a gap between what the adults can report and what Abra may have experienced: the family remembers the distress and later weighs its meaning, but the episode’s exact message remains unrevealed.