Crazy Coincidences That Sound Too Good To Be True
By
Editorial Staff in
Facts
On 2nd March 2016
The world can often be a random and chaotic place to live. When you step outside, you never know what's going to happen to you, good or bad. This unpredictable streak keeps life interesting, if sometimes scary.
But with this in mind, the strangest thing the world can do is line up a little too perfectly. When twin brothers are separated at birth and meet each other, it can make for an interesting story. But when those brothers turn out to lead similar lives with similar people, it can get downright eerie. Like we've accidentally unlocked a parallel universe.
As far as we can tell, these 15 coincidences don't mean anything. They are what they are and that's that. But that doesn't make them any less bizarre.
#1 In his only novel, Edgar Allen Poe wrote about a man named Richard Parker.
In the book, Parker was killed and eaten at sea by his starving crew-mates. Over 40 years later, three shipwrecked men were forced to eat their injured cabin boy, named Richard Parker.
#2 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day.
Even stranger, Adams' last words were "Thomas Jefferson still survives."
#3 Two brothers were killed by the same taxi driver in Bermuda.
The accidents were a year apart, but they were each riding the same moped and the taxi was carrying the same passenger both times.
#4 Anthony Hopkins found a book he needed for a role just lying on a bench.
More than that, it was the author's copy of the book that he lost after lending it to a friend.
#5 Author Anne Parrish found her favorite childhood book in Paris.
In fact, the copy of Jack Frost and Other Stories she found was the exact book she had as a child. Her name and first address were written in it.
#6 A musician traveling on The Queen Mary dropped his glasses overboard.
Happily, another passenger reached out to check the weather and they landed in his hand.
#7 These long-lost twins — both named Jim — both married women named Linda.
They also both got divorced and went on to marry women named Betty.
#8 Finnish twin brothers died on the same road in different accidents.
They were both hit by trucks. The accidents were only two hours apart.
#9 Jackie Chan was scheduled to be at the World Trade Center on 9/11.
He was set to go there to shoot a movie called Nosebleed, but the shoot was cancelled at the last minute because the script didn't arrive on time.
#10 In Barbary Shore, Norman Mailer wrote about a Russian spy hiding out in a Brooklyn apartment.
Two years later, he found out his downstairs neighbor in Brooklyn was an infamous Russian spy.
#11 Mark Twain was both born and died during visits from Halley's Comet.
Twain said it would be the greatest disappointment in his life if he didn't "go out" with Halley's Comet. So it seems he got his wish.
#12 Kennedy and Lincoln were elected to congress and as presidents exactly 100 years apart.
They were also both assassinated on a Friday and succeeded by men named Johnson, who were born 100 years apart.
#13 When Henry Ziegler broke up his his girlfriend, she committed suicide.
Her brother shot Ziegler and then himself, but Ziegler's bullet ended up stuck in a tree. Yet, when Ziegler later blew up the tree, the bullet flew into his head and killed him.
#14 A Notting Hill author found his manuscript crumpled in his front yard.
He thought his publisher had rejected the book, but she revealed her bag was stolen and the thief just happened to throw it there.
#15 Three total strangers once met on a train to Peru.
Their names were Bingham, Powell, and Bingham-Powell.
