IRWIN KNEW HE WOULD DIE YOUNG!

Published: 29 Oct 2007

CROCODILE hunter Steve Irwin had a sixth sense he would die young, according to his wife.
More than a year after the Khaki-clad naturalist died from a stingray’s barb that pierced his heart, American-born Terri Irwin told Australian TV she had always tried to deflect her 44-year old husband’s darker moments.
She said: “He wasn’t morbid about it, or awful about it, he was open and earnest about it. We’ve got to accomplish everything we can.
“Steve had a real sixth sense about so many things. He had an odd connection with wildlife. "He was extraordinarily intuitive with people. I found it all very, I don’t know if ’eerie’ is the word, but remarkable, certainly.”
Terri Irwin is writing a book about her life with her husband and said she had always tried to joke about Steve’s premonition that he would die before he reached 40.
She added: “He wanted to be here for the kids, and yet he always had that feeling something was going to happen early on."