Some Crazy Coincidences In History
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The two people circled in the above picture are Aimee Maiden and Nick Wheeler. They were set to be married and were visiting Nick’s grandparents where they were looking through photo albums. They found this photo of Nick at a beach in Cornwall, England. When they took a closer look, Aimee noticed that it was her in the background. This picture was taken 11 years before they were set to marry! They ended up getting married on the same beach where the picture was taken.2.James Dean was killed in a terrible car accident in September 1955After the accident, things started happening that couldn’t be explained and the car itself was declared extremely unlucky. When the car was being towed away from the accident, it was taken to a garage. While at the garage, the engine fell out of the car, crushing the legs of the mechanic working on the car. The engine was sold to a doctor who put it in his race car. The doctor was then killed in a race accident. The garage that the Porsche was repaired in ended up being destroyed by a fire. As if that wasn’t enough, the Porsche was on display at a museum. While on display, it fell off the mount and broke the hip of a teenager there to view the car. After this incident, the car was being towed to Oregon, where it fell off the tow bar and crashed through the front of the shop it was parked in front of. All of these things added up seem like a lot of terrible coincidences. But in 1959, the car was sitting on steel supports where it was found broken into 11 pieces.3.In the above picture is Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who assassinated President John F. Kennedy. He used the Texas School Book Depository as his lookout spot and this is where he shot the president from. But did you know that only a month earlier, he had gotten a job at this same location. I’m guessing this was all part of his bigger plan.4.Mark Twain is a very famous American author. He was born on November 30, 1835. This just so happens to be the first day that Halley’s Comet appeared that year. When Twain passed away in 1910, it was also the first day of Halley’s Comet for that year! He actually predicted this would happen in 1909 when he said, “I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.”5.We all know that the Titantic was a very large cruise ship that was supposedly unsinkable. But then it hit a large iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and sank. That was in 1912. The strange coincidence began in 1898 when Morgan Robertson wrote a book called Futility. In this book, he wrote about a ship similar to the Titanic, but it was called the Titan. This ship was also unsinkable, but in the book it struck an iceberg and sunk. In the book, this incident took place the very same month that the Titanic sunk.6.In 2007, Michael Dick who is pictured along with his two daughters, was traveling around the UK in search of his long-lost daughter, Lisa. She was 31 years old and he had lost contact with her 10 years prior. He got in touch with the local paper, Suffolk Free Press, and they agreed to help him spread the word about his search. They took a picture of Michael and his daughters for the article they were going to post in the newspaper. After seeing the article in the paper, Lisa reached out so she could be reunited with her dad. But when looking at the picture, they noticed that Lisa was in the background of the picture taken for the paper! Lisa said, “I was completely shocked. Me and my mum had been standing in that exact place where the picture was taken about a minute earlier, and you can see us in the picture walking away. It is incredible.”7.You may not have heard of Tamerlane, but he was a warlord in Asia in the 14th century. He had many brilliant military ideas and he gained control over large areas of Asia. However, his wars also caused the deaths of at least 17 million people. After Tamerlane’s death, Joseph Stalin, the dictator of the Soviet Union at the time, ordered for the tomb of Tamerlane to be opened by a team of archeologists. When they opened the tomb, they were welcomed by an eerie inscription on the inside of the tomb. It read, “Whoever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.” Within hours, the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. Stalin decided in 1942 that Tamerlane’s remains should be put back into the tomb with full burial rights. Soon after he was laid back to rest, the German army surrendered at Stalingrad.8.Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed in eastern Ukraine in July 2014. One strange coincidence that was pointed out by New York Times journalist, C.J. Chivers was that, “Haunting: Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, Reg 9M-MRD, made 1st flight on 7-17-97. It met its end 17 years later, to the day-aviaition official.” So that meant that this plane had been flying for 17 years exactly. Have you also noticed how many 17s and 7s are reflected in this horrific accident? As if that wasn’t enough, do you remember the story about Dutch cyclist, Maarten De Jonge? He is a member of Malaysia’s Terengganu Cycling Team. In March of 2014, he was supposed to catch Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. This was the same flight and plane that went missing in March. He certainly dodged a terrible demise in March. But he was also supposed to be on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, when he noticed there was a cheaper flight that arrived slightly later, he changed his flight to a different time, once again cheating death!9.In Erdington, England there were two women who lived during completely different times, 157 years apart! Barbara Forrest and Mary Ashford were both killed in a horrific manner. They were raped, strangled, and their bodies were found only about 300 yards apart on the same day, May 27. But remember, this happened 157 years apart. The men accused of these horrific murders of both women had the same last name of Thornton and both of them were acquitted of their crimes. Some other strange coincidences were that the women were both 20 years old when murdered and they shared the same birthday! Both women had visited a friend the evening they were killed. They had changed into brand new dresses the night they were killed and also went to a dance the night they were killed.10.We’ve seen a lot of stories about people searching for their long lost parents or even siblings. This story is just insane though! When these siblings were just three months old, Rosie Davies had been given up for adoption. She was eventually taken in by a foster family, where she spent the rest of her young life. Over time, she found that she had three brothers. She was able to find two of them easily, Sid and John. But she could not find the younger brother, Chris. After continuing her search, she found out that Chris was actually living across the street from her with his family. They had known each other for about three months when she found out they were related. Not only was Rosie trying to find Chris. But Chris was also searching for Rosie.
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