life is full of chance encounters but
these bizarre events will make you
wonder whether something else was at
work but it's a coincidence yes that's
all I coincidence big coincidence
incident welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we're counting down our picks for
the top 10 creepiest coincidences in
history for this list we are looking at
the weirdest chance encounters in
history or events that have been shocked
up to coincidence but seemed to eerie to
be true oh by the way if you were
thinking about voting for Jefferson you
shouldn't because he's dead some of
these events are confirmed some may
merely be stories that circulate like a
game of broken telephone but all of them
are creepy number 10
karma kills many relationships and on a
sour note but they rarely result in the
deaths of three people legend has it
that in the late 19th century henry
ziegland broke up with his girlfriend
who killed herself as a result her
brother hunted ziegland down and shot
him committing suicide immediately after
ziegland was not killed by the shot
however the bullet barely missed him and
came to arrest in a nearby tree years
later ziegland attempted to blow up the
tree only to have the blast propel the
bullet into his head killing him
number nine the Kings double what are
you doing here what has happened to your
beard I've been replaced by this body
double who's a total imbecile
for protection many kings use body
doubles apparently King Umberto the
first of Italy came upon his own double
by accident why is everyone staring
don't you see it see what the
resemblance between us while eating
dinner at a small restaurant moon
Berthold noticed that the restaurant
owner was nearly identical and looks to
himself but they soon discovered more
similarities they were both born in the
same town on the same day in the same
year they both married a woman named
margarita and the owner had opened his
restaurant on the same day as Umberto
was crowned king wait it gets weirder
the day after the pair met on July 29th
1900 the owner was killed in an
accidental shooting the same day that
Umberto was assassinated weird is that
extremely number eight to finish
brothers they say that twins have an
incredibly strong bond and often know
what the other is thinking feeling or
doing these two finished brothers took
that bond to a whole other level in 2002
when both died on the same road in
separate accidents within hours of each
other
the first brother died when he was hit
by a truck while riding his bike the
second brother died two hours later
under the exact same circumstances about
1.5 kilometers from the spot where his
brother had been killed earlier we ride
together
we die together number seven the
mysterious monk
frustrated with life and depressed
painter Joseph Eichner attempted to
commit suicide on multiple occasions
once when he was 18 once when he was 22
but according to Ripley's Believe it or
not he was each time stopped by the same
capuchin monk when he was thirty Agner
was sentenced to death for his political
activities but was again saved by the
monk who intervened on his behalf
eventually I ignore and killed himself
with a pistol when he was 68 years old
the funeral ceremony was conducted by
you guessed it the exact same capuchin
monkey whose name I've never even
learned
number six twin boys what is it with
twins and strange coincidences Jim
Springer and Jim Lewis were identical
twins who were separated at birth and
adopted by different families both
families happen to name their boy James
but the similarities don't stop there
both married women with the name Linda
each also had a son named James Allen
and both were involved in law
enforcement both brothers divorced their
wives and remarried women named Betty
and both owned dogs named toy at least
they both haven't been killed on the
same day like twins
number five the cannibalized boy eat
your ass one of the greatest authors of
the 19th century Edgar Allan Poe wrote a
book titled the narrative of Arthur
Gordon Pym of Nantucket the book
depicted four shipwreck survivors who
eventually killed an ADA boy named
Richard Parker several years after the
publication of Poe story a yacht called
the mignonette sank and left four
survivors
stranded at sea the three older
survivors eventually killed and ate the
cabin boy whose name was Richard Parker
those of us want to eat Johnson then you
sir can eat my leg and then we make
stock of the captain and then after that
the rest of Johnson coal to supper
number four Thomas Jefferson and John
Adams Thomas Jefferson and John Adams
they were founding fathers of America
and they were also the best of friends
Adams liked the Constitution you can
kind of bend that hi you need to bend it
we can kind of work with this Jefferson
was always like Constitution is the
Constitution can't with that John Adams
and Thomas Jefferson were two of the
most important players in the founding
of the United States both played a large
role in the creation and signing of the
Declaration of Independence which was
eventually approved on July 4th 1776
although their relationship deteriorated
over the years they eventually
reconciled and oddly died on the exact
same day that day July 4th 1826 exactly
fifty years after the signing of the
Declaration
number three the 27 club the 27 club
refers to a group of famous people
mainly musicians who have died at the
age of 27 it started in the late 1960s
when Rolling Stone Brian Jones doors
frontman Jim Morrison Janis Joplin and
Jimi Hendrix all died at this age two
and a half decades later Kurt Cobain
committed suicide at 27 and recently Amy
Winehouse overdosed and died at the age
of 27 Winehouse actually stated years
earlier that she was worried about dying
at 27 all in all the club has claimed
over 40 musicians since the start of the
20th century
number two Mark Twain and Halley's Comet
comet Halley is making its regular 76
year pilgrimage around our Sun as it has
been doing for countless centuries Mark
Twain was born on November 30th 1835
just two weeks after Halley's Comet was
visible on earth Twain who was the
author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
seemed to strongly associate with the
celestial event in fact he famously
declared quote I came in with Halley's
Comet in 1835 it is coming again next
year
and I expect to go out with it it will
be the greatest disappointment of my
life if I don't go out with Halley's
Comet the Almighty has said no doubt now
here are these two unaccountable freaks
they came in together they must go out
together
he died on April 21st 1910 one day after
the comet had returned as it reaches the
far end of its orbit it'll slow down
till the Sun allows it to go no farther
then it'll begin its long fall back to
the inner solar system
before we unveil our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions
number one the Titan and the Titanic in
1898 Morgan Robertson published a
novella entitled futility or the wreck
of the Titan the plot revolved around
the HMS Titan a British luxury liner
that hit an iceberg and sank while
crossing the northern Atlantic of course
in 1912 the Titanic sank in a similar
fashion and that's where things get
bizarre both ships were considered
unsinkable both hit an iceberg in the
month of April approximately 400 miles
from Newfoundland both were
approximately 800 feet long and both
resulted in the deaths of over 2,000
people the lack of life jackets and
lifeboats was also a serious problem for
both ships tragically so for the
real-life Titanic
do you agree with our list what do you
think is the creepiest coincidence in
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coincidence that's what the countenance
is there are no small coincidental and
big going to dances there are degrees of
coincidence there are only coincidences
ask any one other big coincident to that
small coincidences are just going to
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