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Many coincidences are just that and nothing more. This is true almost across the board, and while the coincidence at hand might be amusing, it isn't significant in anyway and certainly not the portent of a curse. However, there are some creepy coincidences out there that are just plain weird - simultaneous or predicative events that seem far too similar to be the product of mere chance. Is it just happenstance, or is there something more at play?
This list details such eerie coincidences and some will seriously freak you out.
The Eeriest Coincidences Throughout History,
The Lincoln and Kennedy's Assasinations
There have only been four United States presidents to be assassinated while in office, the first being Abraham Lincoln, and the last John F. Kennedy. The similarities surrounding the men both in life and in death are rather surprising. Focusing on the assassinations alone, the coincidences are uncanny. Writes Valerie Klein of History News Network:
"Both Presidents were shot in the back of the head, on the Friday before a major holiday, while seated beside their wives, neither of whom were injured.
"Both were in the presence of another couple, and in each case that man was also wounded by the assassin.
"After both assassinations there were loud and insistent claims that the fatal shot must have come from a different direction...
"Both were succeeded by vice-presidents named Johnson: Andrew born in 1808 and Lyndon in 1908, both of whom had 13 letters in their names and two daughters.
"Both assassins have fifteen letters in their names.
"Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and fled to a warehouse. Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and fled to a theatre.
"Both assassins were in their turn assassinated by shooters who used a Colt revolver and fired only one, fatal shot."
Twins Killed by the Same Taxi with Almost Too Many Similarities
This incident occurred in 1975 in Bermuda. One of the twins died when a taxi cab struck his moped scooter. One year later, the other twin, riding the exact same scooter, was struck and killed by the exact same taxi, driven by the exact same driver, who was driving the exact same passenger as in the death of the first twin.
The odds of this happening might seem astronomical, leading you to believe the story was made up, but apparently this really happened.
Tamerlane's Prescient Words
Military leader Tamerlane's body was exhumed in 1941 by a Soviet scientist. Inside his tomb, a message read, "When I rise from the dead, the world shall tremble," and, "Whomsoever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I."
Two days later, despite having signed the German-Soviet non-aggression pact, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi troops invaded the Soviet Union.
Author Predicts Titanic Sinking
Morgan Robertson published his novella Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan in 1898. In it, a massive commercial cruise liner named Titan collides with an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean, causing the ship to sink. 14 years later, nearly the exact same thing happened in real life with the Titanic disaster. Not only were the ships' names similar, Robertson's boat was nearly identical to the the Titanic. AP writer Michelle McQuigge notes:
"The ships are approximately the same size, with the Titanic being only 25 metres longer than the Titan's 243. Both were capable of maximum speeds over 20 knots, and both carried only the bare legal minimum number of lifeboats for the thousands of passengers on board...
"Both vessels were hailed as unsinkable, and both proved all too vulnerable after striking icebergs in mid-April."
Bruce Lee Predicted His Son's Death
Never mind the coincidence that both Bruce Lee and his son, Brandon, died while filming movies, there's an even freakier coincidence surrounding the deaths of father and son. Bruce's last film, which was incomplete at the time of his passing, is called Game of Death. In it, Bruce plays a character who, while filming a movie, is shot by a prop gun loaded with real bullets.
In 1993, while filming The Crow, Brandon was killed in a manner almost exactly mirroring the scene in Game of Death - a gun was accidentally loaded with a dummy cartridge still equipped with a projectile and a primer, and thus the round behaved like a regular bullet, killing Brandon, who was struck in the abdomen.
The Miraculous Exploding Church Incident
A church exploded in the small Nebraska town of Beatrice on March 1, 1950, at around 7:25 pm. As choir practice always began around 7:15 pm, all 15 choir members perished in the blast, right?
Nope. No one died. No one even incurred any injuries. How? All 15 members were running late for their own personal reasons. They were nowhere near the church when it exploded. What could have been an utter tragedy for Beatrice ended up being relatively fine, save for the loss of the town church.
Edgar Allan Poe's Macabre Tale Comes True
Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, published in 1838, features a scene in which the crew of a ship, stranded in the ocean and starving, draws straws to see who will be sacrificed for the others' bellies. The loser of the draw is one Richard Parker.
46 years later, in 1884, a few crew members aboard the ship Mignonette escaped a deadly storm just before their boat sank. Stranded without food, the men decided to sacrifice a 17-year-old crew member after the boy attempted to drink saltwater to quench his thirst, causing his health to rapidly decline. They could not wait for him die and risk his body becoming infected in the process of death, so the boy was stabbed to death and devoured.
The boy's name? Richard Parker.
Separated Identical Twins Live Nearly Identical Lives
Two identical twin boys were separated at three-weeks-old and adopted to separate families in Ohio in 1940. 39 years later, in 1979, the brothers were reunited. They'd both been named James by their adoptive parents and they both went by Jim. Both became law enforcement agents as adults. Both married women named Linda, divorced, and then remarried women named Betty. Both had dogs named Toy at different times in their lives. And both had sons named James Allan.
Coincidence, a strong argument for nature over nurture, or unconscious psychic communication?
Man Survives Atomic Blasts at Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Tsutomu Yamaguchi happened to be on a business trip to Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day US bombers dropped an atomic bomb on the city. He suffered severe burns, but was otherwise okay. He returned to his home in Nagasaki, where the US dropped a second atomic bomb just days later, and managed to survive that attack as well.
Twins Die on the Same Day, in the Same Manner
In early 2002, a pair of 70-year-old twins died on the dame day in Raahe, Finland. Not so strange, right? Wrong. The men both were struck and killed by trucks while riding their bicycles on the exact same stretch of road, about a mile apart from each other, within a span of two hours.
Police did not suspect premeditated suicide, as the twin to die last had no knowledge of his brother's death before setting out on his bike. Their near-simultaneous and eerily mirrored deaths were simply a freak accident.
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Many coincidences are just that and nothing more. This is true almost across the board, and while the coincidence at hand might be amusing, it isn't significant in anyway and certainly not the portent of a curse. However, there are some creepy coincidences out there that are just plain weird - simultaneous or predicative events that seem far too similar to be the product of mere chance. Is it just happenstance, or is there something more at play?
This list details such eerie coincidences and some will seriously freak you out.
The Eeriest Coincidences Throughout History,
The Lincoln and Kennedy's Assasinations
There have only been four United States presidents to be assassinated while in office, the first being Abraham Lincoln, and the last John F. Kennedy. The similarities surrounding the men both in life and in death are rather surprising. Focusing on the assassinations alone, the coincidences are uncanny. Writes Valerie Klein of History News Network:
"Both Presidents were shot in the back of the head, on the Friday before a major holiday, while seated beside their wives, neither of whom were injured.
"Both were in the presence of another couple, and in each case that man was also wounded by the assassin.
"After both assassinations there were loud and insistent claims that the fatal shot must have come from a different direction...
"Both were succeeded by vice-presidents named Johnson: Andrew born in 1808 and Lyndon in 1908, both of whom had 13 letters in their names and two daughters.
"Both assassins have fifteen letters in their names.
"Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and fled to a warehouse. Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and fled to a theatre.
"Both assassins were in their turn assassinated by shooters who used a Colt revolver and fired only one, fatal shot."
Twins Killed by the Same Taxi with Almost Too Many Similarities
This incident occurred in 1975 in Bermuda. One of the twins died when a taxi cab struck his moped scooter. One year later, the other twin, riding the exact same scooter, was struck and killed by the exact same taxi, driven by the exact same driver, who was driving the exact same passenger as in the death of the first twin.
The odds of this happening might seem astronomical, leading you to believe the story was made up, but apparently this really happened.
Tamerlane's Prescient Words
Military leader Tamerlane's body was exhumed in 1941 by a Soviet scientist. Inside his tomb, a message read, "When I rise from the dead, the world shall tremble," and, "Whomsoever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I."
Two days later, despite having signed the German-Soviet non-aggression pact, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi troops invaded the Soviet Union.
Author Predicts Titanic Sinking
Morgan Robertson published his novella Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan in 1898. In it, a massive commercial cruise liner named Titan collides with an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean, causing the ship to sink. 14 years later, nearly the exact same thing happened in real life with the Titanic disaster. Not only were the ships' names similar, Robertson's boat was nearly identical to the the Titanic. AP writer Michelle McQuigge notes:
"The ships are approximately the same size, with the Titanic being only 25 metres longer than the Titan's 243. Both were capable of maximum speeds over 20 knots, and both carried only the bare legal minimum number of lifeboats for the thousands of passengers on board...
"Both vessels were hailed as unsinkable, and both proved all too vulnerable after striking icebergs in mid-April."
Bruce Lee Predicted His Son's Death
Never mind the coincidence that both Bruce Lee and his son, Brandon, died while filming movies, there's an even freakier coincidence surrounding the deaths of father and son. Bruce's last film, which was incomplete at the time of his passing, is called Game of Death. In it, Bruce plays a character who, while filming a movie, is shot by a prop gun loaded with real bullets.
In 1993, while filming The Crow, Brandon was killed in a manner almost exactly mirroring the scene in Game of Death - a gun was accidentally loaded with a dummy cartridge still equipped with a projectile and a primer, and thus the round behaved like a regular bullet, killing Brandon, who was struck in the abdomen.
The Miraculous Exploding Church Incident
A church exploded in the small Nebraska town of Beatrice on March 1, 1950, at around 7:25 pm. As choir practice always began around 7:15 pm, all 15 choir members perished in the blast, right?
Nope. No one died. No one even incurred any injuries. How? All 15 members were running late for their own personal reasons. They were nowhere near the church when it exploded. What could have been an utter tragedy for Beatrice ended up being relatively fine, save for the loss of the town church.
Edgar Allan Poe's Macabre Tale Comes True
Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, published in 1838, features a scene in which the crew of a ship, stranded in the ocean and starving, draws straws to see who will be sacrificed for the others' bellies. The loser of the draw is one Richard Parker.
46 years later, in 1884, a few crew members aboard the ship Mignonette escaped a deadly storm just before their boat sank. Stranded without food, the men decided to sacrifice a 17-year-old crew member after the boy attempted to drink saltwater to quench his thirst, causing his health to rapidly decline. They could not wait for him die and risk his body becoming infected in the process of death, so the boy was stabbed to death and devoured.
The boy's name? Richard Parker.
Separated Identical Twins Live Nearly Identical Lives
Two identical twin boys were separated at three-weeks-old and adopted to separate families in Ohio in 1940. 39 years later, in 1979, the brothers were reunited. They'd both been named James by their adoptive parents and they both went by Jim. Both became law enforcement agents as adults. Both married women named Linda, divorced, and then remarried women named Betty. Both had dogs named Toy at different times in their lives. And both had sons named James Allan.
Coincidence, a strong argument for nature over nurture, or unconscious psychic communication?
Man Survives Atomic Blasts at Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Tsutomu Yamaguchi happened to be on a business trip to Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day US bombers dropped an atomic bomb on the city. He suffered severe burns, but was otherwise okay. He returned to his home in Nagasaki, where the US dropped a second atomic bomb just days later, and managed to survive that attack as well.
Twins Die on the Same Day, in the Same Manner
In early 2002, a pair of 70-year-old twins died on the dame day in Raahe, Finland. Not so strange, right? Wrong. The men both were struck and killed by trucks while riding their bicycles on the exact same stretch of road, about a mile apart from each other, within a span of two hours.
Police did not suspect premeditated suicide, as the twin to die last had no knowledge of his brother's death before setting out on his bike. Their near-simultaneous and eerily mirrored deaths were simply a freak accident.