Mind-Blowing Coincidences You Won't Believe Happened

#1 Baby Falls From Window And Is Caught... TWICE

Joseph Figlock just happened to be walking by when a Detroit baby fell from an apartment window and landed on him, breaking the fall. The very next year, walking in the same location, the exact same thing happened as the same baby fell onto Figlock.

#2 Author Finds Her Very Own Copy Of Her Favorite Childhood Book

American writer Anne Parrish had a copy of the book 'Jack Frost And Other Stories' when she was a child and it was her inspiration. When perusing bookstores in Parish, she was shocked to discover a copy of the book, which was her very own! It even had her name scrawled inside the coverlet.

#3 Death Can Happen Anytime Or Place

Giving a lecture at a university in South Africa, astronomer and scientist Danie du Toit warned his classroom that death was not choosey. It could happen at any time, any place, at any given moment. He concluded his speech by quickly popping a peppermint candy into his mouth and it got lodged in his throat and he choked to death.

#4 The Son Of A Cheating Gambler

While playing a game of poker at a saloon, Robert Fallon was caught cheating and instantly shot dead by an angry player. Instead of taking back the money he had accumulated, the gang asked a stranger to sit in his place with his $600 pile of cash. Before the local sheriff could arrive the stranger managed to turn his $600 into over $2,200 but the officer demanded he turn over the original $600 to Fallon's next of kin. When the stranger saw who the dead man was he was shocked... it was his own father, whom he hadn't seen in years.

#5 All In A Matter Of 129 Years

Napoleon and Hitler had a lot in common. And it's about 129 years difference. They were both born 129 years apart, both managed to take over power 129 years apart, both declared war on Russia 129 years apart, and both were defeated 129 years apart.

#6 Freaky Double Exposure After Two Years

A German mother wanted to photograph her baby son so she went to a store in the nearest big city and purchased a film plate. These were used back then to store the photo on before developing the image. After returning the plate to the store for developing the war broke out and she never collected the photograph. Two years later she decided to get a photo of her new baby girl and goes to a totally different shop in another town to purchase a film plate. She takes the photo and returns the plate for developing. Upon receiving her picture, she is shocked that the photo of her son she took 2 years prior is superimposed on the same photograph due to a double exposure.

#7 The Luckiest Guy In Town

Bill Morgan is considered on of the luckiest guys in Albany. He was admitted to the hospital with only a short time to live due to a rare medical condition that actually left him clinically dead for 14 minutes. After recovering to the amazement of his doctors, he celebrated by purchasing a lottery ticket on the way home from the hospital. He won a car worth $27,000. When TV reporters asked him to replicate the scene for their cameras he purchased a second ticket... and won the jackpot of $250,000!

#8 Eventually It Had To Happen

Back in 1895, there were only two automobiles owned in the entire state of Ohio. One was owned by a banker in Columbus and the other by a man from just outside of Cincinnati. As fate would have it, the two met on a dusty road in Columbus one afternoon and amazed at seeing another vehicle on the road, they crashed head-on into each other, making that the very first auto accident in Ohio.

#9 The Novel Just Appeared Out Of Nowhere

In 1973, Anthony Hopkins was asked to play the lead in the new movie with Goldie Hawn based on the bestselling novel by writer George Feifer. Unsure if he wanted the part, he decided to read the book first, but was unable to locate a copy anyplace, since he was in London. Taking the train to the airport he discovered a book on a bench and picked it up. It was a copy of the book he had been searching for, 'The Girl From Petrovka.' In fact, it wasn't just any copy of the book, it was THE book that belonged to author Feifer, who had lent it out and written it off as lost when it was never returned.

#10 Separated Twins Live Almost Identical Lives

They never knew they each had an identical twin until 46 years later. When Jim Lewis and twin Jim Springer found out they were twin brothers they were flabberghasted by the similarities in the lives they had chosen. Both had been renamed James by their adoptive parents, and both worked in law enforcement. Both had studied carpentry and mechanical drawing in school, and each had married a woman named Linda. Each had a son named James though one's middle name is Allan and the other's is Allan. They also both divorced their wive's named Linda and remarried women named Betty. As if that wasn't coincidental and freaky enough, they both owned a dog named 'Toy'.

#11 The Kennedy And Lincoln Similarity

Both Kennedy andLincoln were elected to congress exactly 100 years apart. Both men were assassinated on a Friday, in the presence of their wives, and succeeded by men named Johnson, who were also born exactly 100 years apart. Lincoln was killed in Ford's Theater. Kennedy met his death while riding in a Lincoln convertible made by the Ford Motor Company. Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and fled to a warehouse. Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and fled to a theater.

#12 Bermuda Taxi Drivers Are Worse Than Uber

While riding his moped around sunny Bermuda, a man was hit and killed by a taxi cab in 1975. Exactly one year later the man's brother was riding around on the same moped his brother had been killed on, and was struck down by a taxi and killed. The taxi was driven by the same driver who killed the first brother a year before. To make it even more eery, the taxi cab was carrying a passenger, and it was the same man who had been in the cab during the first fatal accident.

#13 Thomas Jefferson And John Adams

Thomas Jefferson drafted the original Declaration of Independence and asked John Adams to help finalize it. They had a strong bond from that day forward, but oddly enough both men died on the same date, July 4, 1826, exactly 50 years after they both signed the Declaration of Independence.

#14 Twins Killed On The Same Road Just 2 Hours Apart

Finnish twin brothers died on the same road in different accidents near Helsinki in 2002. The first twin was hit by a speeding taxi while he was riding his bike just north of the capital of Helsinki. Two hours later, and just 1.5KM down the road, his brother was killed in a collision with another vehicle. The same police officer was called to the scene of the accidents and was freaked out that the two unusual deaths that night were twin brothers, 70 years old.

#15 She's Either Very Lucky Or Very UNLUCKY

Stranger than most coincidences, nurse Violet Jessup has truly lived a remarkably unique and unpredictable life. She was the only person present during the sinking of three of the biggest and most famous ships in history. She is also the only person to survive the three ordeals. The nurse was present when RMS Olympic hit HMS Hawke, when RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg and when HMHS Britannica ran into a mine. She became known as the 'ship sinker' and was unable to obtain work after the last ship sank because of her unlucky streak and reputation.

#16 An Identity Crisis

Denied drivers licences because they were already linked to different registrations, two women had to register a complaint with the government because they were given the same social security number in error. The officials realized that the mistake had been committed because the two women shared the same name, Patricia Ann Campbell, they were both born on March 13th, 1941, their father's name was Robert Campbell, they married military men in 1959 and they had children who were both 21 and 19. Will the real Patricia Ann Campbell please stand up?

#17 It's Better To Arrive Late Than Not At All

West Side Baptist Church in Beatrice Nebraska always held its choir practice at 7:20 PM sharp every Wednesday. On March 1, 1950, at 7:27, the church exploded due to a natural gas leak. Miraculously not one soul was harmed in the explosion because all 15 members of the choir and the director were running late that evening. Talk about a higher power.

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