Number 5 – Poker Luck
In 1858, British man, Robert Fallon, travelled to San Francisco where he got involved in
a poker game at the Bella Union saloon.
Fallon won the poker game which had a $600 stake, however was accused of cheating.
In an act of vengeance, Fallon was shot dead by his fellow players.
Back in those days there was a superstition that it was unlucky to take money won by cheating
so the gamblers asked the next person to pass the saloon to take Fallon’s place and gave
the person the $600 winnings as stake money.
By the time police arrived to investigate the murder, the new player had transformed
the $600 stake into $2200 in winnings.
The police at the scene demanded that the original $600 winnings were to be passed over
to Fallon’s next of kin.
In a dramatic twist of events, it turned out that the passer-by who took the dead man’s
place was in fact Robert Fallon’s son, who had not seen his father in seven years.
Number 4 – Double Coincidence
In 2002, a Finnish man was hit by a lorry while riding his bike, 600 kilometres north
of the capital of Finland, Helsinki.
Around 2 hours later, the dead man’s twin brother was cycling on the same road where
the incident happened and, you guessed it, was hit by a lorry, killing him.
He died approximately 1.5km away from where his twin brother was killed.
For the seventy-year-old twins it was just a tragic ending and a historic coincidence
being killed on the same road just hours apart from each other.
The first twin did not notice the lorry in the snowy blizzard and second twin was unaware
of his brother’s death as the police was still in the process of identifying the victim
at the time.
Number 3 – The Bullet That Waited
Henry Ziegland thought he had escaped death.
In 1883, Ziegland ended his relationship with his girlfriend, who out of distress committed
suicide.
The girlfriend’s brother was so infuriated by this that he sought to shoot Ziegland,
which he did.
The brother, believing he had killed the man who broke his sister’s heart, then turned
the gun to himself and ended his own life.
However, it turned out that the bullet merely grazed the face of Ziegland and lodged into
a nearby tree.
Many years later, Ziegland was clearing his land and attempted to cut down the very tree
that had the bullet lodged into it.
Realising that the task was too much for him, he decided to blow up the tree using dynamite.
The force of the explosion dislodged the bullet, propelling it into the head of Ziegland, killing
him.
Number 2 – A Hero Once More
A local street sweeper by the name of Joseph Figlock was walking down the street in Detroit
in 1937 when a baby fell from a high window onto Figlock.
Luckily for the both of them the baby’s fall was broken and the two of them were unharmed.
If this couldn’t happen again, well…
it just did.
A year later, the very same baby fell from the same window onto…I probably don’t
even need to say…
yes, that’s right onto Joseph Figlock as he was passing beneath.
Fortunately for the pair of them, the baby’s fall was broken yet again by Figlock and the
two of them survived.
Number 1 – The Deadly Taxi
This next coincidence is absolutely mind-blowing!
In 1974 while riding a moped in Hamilton, Bermuda, 17 year old, Neville Ebbin, was accidently
hit by a taxi and subsequently died from the impact.
The following year in the same month, Erskine Ebbin, the brother of Neville was riding his
brother’s moped in the same street when he collided with a taxi.
Erskine died as a result but the most bizarre thing about this was the fact that he was
killed by the same taxi his brother was killed by, which had the same driver and to top things
off, the taxi was carrying same passenger!