- Coincidences happen in life all the time.
However, some are creepier than others.
Sometimes, bad things happen that were so coincidental,
that it's difficult to imagine
that more sinister forces weren't at play.
Here are the creepiest coincidences in history.
Number 10 are the Finnish twins.
In march of 2002, Finnish police released a statement
claiming that two men had lost their lives while crossing
an icy highway in Raahe, a city north of Helsinki, Finland.
Each of the two individuals died shortly
after being struck by a truck while trying
to make their way across the roadway on their bikes.
However, there's a horrible coincidence to this story.
The two men were actually identical twin brothers
and died around two hours apart.
However, the second brother didn't know
that the first had died right before he joined him.
Number nine are missing Twin Towers.
Released on June 22, 2000,
Deus Ex is an action role-playing game
that takes place in a futuristic New York City.
A future that somehow included an unsettlingly accurate,
though accidental, prediction.
Due to memory issues, the New York skyline in the game
was missing the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center,
which back in 2000, would've been standing tall
until the 9/11 attacks a year later.
To explain the missing buildings,
the game added a piece of story
which claimed a terrorist attack destroyed them.
Number eight is Violet Jessop.
When it comes to surviving shipwrecks,
nobody had more experience than an Irish Nurse
from Argentina named Violet Jessop.
Working for the White Star Line,
Jessop was on board the RMS Olympic
when the transatlantic ocean liner collided
with HMS Hawk on September 20, 1911.
She soon transferred to the RMS Titanic,
where she was pulled from the frigid waters
after it sank on April 14, 1912.
But, as if that wasn't enough,
she finally was on board the HMHS Britannic
when it struck a mine on November 21, 1916.
Stories like this make you wonder
if it's something more than just bad luck.
Number seven is John and Arthur Mowforth.
There have been numerous studies conducted on twins
with many pairs claiming to feel the emotions
or pain that their sibling feels.
However, what happened on May 22, 1975
was beyond any such connection.
John and Arthur Mowforth, twin brothers living
in England, both experienced chest pains
at the same time that day.
The two were not near each other and wound up
at separate hospitals where each of them died
shortly after being admitted due to heart attacks.
Number six is Richard Parker.
Edgar Allen Poe published one novel,
but eerily foreshadowed unsettling events.
Released in 1838, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
of Nantucket told of a crew on a broken boat
eating a sea turtle before being forced to kill
and eat a mutineer named Richard Parker.
However, alarmingly, in 1884 a real ship,
the Mignonette sank, forcing the crew
into a single lifeboat.
These survivors also ate a turtle before killing
and consuming a crew member, a boy,
who just happened to also be named Richard Parker.
Number five is the Titan and the Titanic.
In 1898, author Morgan Robertson released a novella
titled Futility in which an ocean liner called Titan,
that's described as unsinkable, strikes an iceberg
and winds up at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
Much like the RMS Titanic, a real ship
which received the same fate.
The same fate which had many of the same details
just 14 years later.
Both ships had too few lifeboats and sank at night
during the month of April.
In fact, there were so many similarities,
that the writer soon found himself denying claims
that he was a psychic.
Number four is Jason and Jenny.
Birmingham, England residents Jason
and Jenny Cairns-Lawrence have found themselves
in close proximity to not one, not two,
but three terrorist attacks.
And each time, they were supposed to be on vacation.
First, the couple were in New York City
during the World Trade Center attacks
on September 11, 2001.
In the second, they were in London
during the July 7, 2005 suicide bombings
that killed 52 people.
Finally, in the third, they were in Mumbai, India
in November of 2008 when terrorists killed
nearly 180 people.
Was it sheer bad luck that death seems
to follow these two on vacation?
Or could it be more sinister forces at play?
Number three is Bruce and Brandon Lee.
When Bruce Lee died on July 20, 1973,
he was filming his fifth movie, Game of Death.
In which his character, a movie star,
is shot by an assassin on set.
In the scene, the gun that's supposed to be loaded
with blanks, fires a real bullet and Lee's character
gets shot in the face.
However, in a freaky and tragic coincidence,
Lee's son Brandon Lee was killed on the set of The Crow,
which was also his fifth film,
when a prop gun somehow wound up
actually loaded and he was shot
just like his father's character 20 years earlier.
Number two is Hugh Williams.
The Menai Strait, which separates the island of Anglesey
from the Wales in the United Kingdom,
is a dangerous waterway for ships, especially in December.
But while the winter waters have claimed a number
of lives over the centuries, it's those who survive
who make this place truly mysterious.
On December 5 of 1664, 1785, and 1820,
ships sank in the strait, leaving a lone survivor each time.
But, although, that in and of itself may not seem strange,
what is strange is that each time,
the survivor's name was Hugh Williams.
And number one is Little Bastard, the cursed car.
On September 23, 1955, while showing off
his new Porsche 550 Spyder nicknamed Little Bastard,
James Dean received a chilling prediction
from fellow actor Alec Guinness who said
that he would die in it within a week.
Dean was killed driving it exactly one week later.
However, the story continues.
When salvaged parts from the car were put
in two other cars, both crashed,
killing one driver and seriously injuring another.
It would later somehow survive an unexplained garage fire
and kill and injure several others
before it mysteriously disappeared.
So, these were the 10 creepiest coincidences in history.
But, what do you make of them?
Are they just simply bad luck?
Or was there something else going on here?
Leave a comment below and let us know.