In the previous episode of „Real or Fake”, you saw mysterious coincidences that simply cannot be explained.
It was up to you to guess which of the stories was the one that was just a fable I made up.
Let's see which one it was.
The secret of room 307?
The mysterious death of Finnish twins?
A TV show from the future?
The Titanic prediction?
The mysterious monk?
The case of the Ohio twins?
or the cursed car?
Well, if you guessed the TV show from the future, you were right, because I made the whole thing up.
Well, Poland does exist. :)
Now here is the second part of the compilation, from which one is also fake.
The Bermuda taxi driver
Bermuda islands, Hamilton
Bermuda islands, Hamilton 30 June 1974.
Neville Ebbin, a 17-year-old boy, had the worst day of his life when he was on his scooter and was hit by a taxi carrying a passenger.
The unfortunate boy died instantly.
A szerencsétlenül járt fiú azonnal szörnyethalt.
Almost exactly one year later, on July 18, 1975, the same taxi driver hit someone again,
Erskine Ebbin, the brother of the victim of the accident the year before.
This may seem like a strange coincidence in itself, but as it turned out later, Erskine was 17 years old,
as was his brother the year before.
Both brothers were riding the same motorcycle and were hit in the same place.
But perhaps most strangely, the taxi passenger was the exact same person in both accidents.
Edgar Allan Poe's time machine?
USA, 1838.
Edgar Allan Poe published "Gordon Pym, the Sailor",
a story about four sailors who are shipwrecked.
To stay alive, one of the sailors must be eaten by his fellow sailors. The sailor's name was Richard Parker.
Poe claimed that the book was a true story, although many doubted this.
However, 46 years later, an American ship did sink and the rescued sailors
killed one of the sailors to keep from starving to death. The sailor's name was, of course, Richard Parker,
just like the character in the work published nearly half a century before.
It was then when the rumour began to spread that Poe might have had a time machine.
The Hoover Dam mystery
USA, Nevada The 20-30s
During the Great Depression, President Hoover built the famous Nevada Dam to create jobs and boost the economy.
Although 112 people died on the site during the entire construction period, the first man to die was George Tierney,
who died in an accident on 20 December 1922 while carrying out preparatory work.
The workers were caught in a flash flood, and Tierney drowned after falling into the Colorado River.
After 13 years, as the final touches were being put to the dam, the last death occurred.
The unfortunate victim was none other than Patrick Tierney, son of the first victim of the dam.
You might think it was just another strange coincidence, but he died exactly the same day as his father, on 20 December.
Today, a memorial plaque reminds us of the sacrifices that went into this huge construction project.
Anthony Hopkins' rare book
London, 1974.
Shortly after Anthony Hopkins was cast in the film "The Girl from Petrovka",
he wanted to read George Feifer's novel, which was the basis for the film.
He could not find the book in any bookshop in London.
Then, while waiting for a train at Leicester Square tube station, he saw a book on a bench. It was the book he was looking for.
In addition, there were notes on the margins.
Hopkins later discovered that a friend of Feifer’s had lost his own copy of the writer's annotated copy,
which he found in the subway.
Strange poker party
USA, 1858.
In 1858, a man named Robert Pelone was murdered in revenge by his gambling partners.
They claim that Pelone cheated at poker because he was desperate to get his hands on the $600 stake,
which was already a lot of money.
Pelone's seat at the poker table was vacant, but none of the players wanted to take the money, which was covered in blood.
Later that night, a new player was found to take Pelone's place, and another poker party began.
By the time the police arrived to investigate the murder,
the new poker player had already made $2,200 from that $600.
The authority took the original amount, $600, to legally give to Pelone's next of kin.
It was then that it was revealed that the new player was the son of the dead Pelone.
What's so mysterious about that? It's that the son hasn't seen his father for the last seven years.
King Umberto and his double
Italy, 1900.
King Umberto I. of Italy dined with his secretary at a restaurant in Monza,
where he was due to attend an athletics competition the next day.
He was shocked to discover that the restaurant owner looked exactly like him.
After talking to him, it turned out that there were other similarities.
The owner of the restaurant was called Umberto, and like the king, he was born in Turin on the same day.
The restaurant owner married a girl named Margherita on the same day
that the king married Queen Margherita.
He opened his restaurant on the same day that King Umberto I. was crowned.
The King was impressed and invited his double to the athletics competition.
The next day, however, on 29 July 1900, Umberto I. learned
that the restaurant owner had died in a mysterious shooting the next morning.
The King was informed of what had happened the same day, and shortly afterwards he himself was shot dead by an anarchist, Gaetano Bresci, from the crowd.
So even their date of death was the same.
The baby-rain
USA, Detroit 1937.
A young mother might have thought the man, Joseph Figlock,
was an angel who was in the right place at the right time.
Figlock was walking down the street when a baby fell from the 4th floor window of an apartment building, straight onto him.
Although the man and the infant hit their shoulders and head, both escaped without major injury.
A year later, on October 17, 1938, another baby fell out of the window of a 4th floor apartment building.
And who was the person this baby fell on and got away with scratches?
Mr. Figlock, of course, who played the role of the saving angel for the second time.
Although many articles have reported that Figlock saved the same baby the second time,
this is really just sensationalism.
But what still a real mystery is, what the hell is a baby doing in a window?
The famous neighbours
Composer George Handle and world-famous guitarist Jimmy Hendrix both started their careers on London's Brook Street.
Handle lived at number 25 and Hendrix at number 23.
The only difference is that they were separated by two centuries, but the similarity is still striking.
After all, they both started from almost the same place, and both had a major influence on the musical development of their time.
Trump in the Simpsons?
The creators of the satirical cartoon series have been joking about Trump's presidency 16 years ago
when it was not even a tought that he would ever be considered as a presidential candidate.
But the images in the cartoon, broadcast on 19 March 2000, show eerie similarities
with the actual images 15 years later.
Let's see in detail:
When Trump comes down the escalator, he waves with his right hand, then gestures OK with his left, just like in the cartoon.
Do you think this is just a strange coincidence? Then let's look at it in more detail!
The paper, held in the hand of a bystander,
falls off in the same way and in the same place, both in the film and in reality.
The bodyguards are at the top of the escalator, and there are two of them in the cartoon too.
And one more little thing at the end:
One scene is eerily similar to the real one.
Is it a coincidence? Or would the cartoon have predicted the future, as perhaps in the case of September 11, 2001,
where the front page of the newspaper in the 1997 episode shows the number 911, the date of September 11.
So much for the second part of the "Mysterious Coincidences" compilation.
Write in the comments which one you think was fake? Let me tell you that this one is a bit harder than the last one.
If you don't want to guess, just write down which story you thought was the most bizarre,
which one you liked the most.
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