Here are some of the strangest coincidences in history!
7 - Titanic Prophesied
We are all familiar with the tragic story of the Titanic, a British passenger ship that
claimed to be invincible.
In case you’re just not that good with history, the Titanic indeed did sink when it struck
an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912.
The Titanic took down over 2000 people with it when it sank to the bottom of the sea.
What’s eerie about the whole thing is that the tragedy of Titanic had actually been prophesied
by author Morgan Robertson, in his novel titled Futility.
The story in the book pretty much prophesied what was to happen to the Titanic 14 years
after the book was released.The novel depicted a fictional ocean liner named Titan, which
sinks in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg.
The similarities in the story and what happened in real life are uncanny.
Robertson’s Titan, was an ocean liner 800 ft long.
The Titanic in real life was 882 feet long.
Both were supposedly unsinkable British ships and sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean after
being struck by an iceberg.
The coincidence gets even weirder because Titan sunk in the exact same month as the
Titanic, in April.
Both the ships didn’t have sufficient lifeboats to rescue the passengers as well.
Obviously at that time nobody paid too much attention to Robertson’s work as being anything
but fiction.
It wasn’t until the Titanic sank in 1912 that people began to realize the similarities
and started to credit Robertson with clairvoyance.
Robertson however, played it off and explained the coincidences by his extensive knowledge
of shipbuilding and maritime trends.
All I can say is…...interesting…….!!
6 - The Simpsons and Trump
Sometimes, there’s more truth in pop culture prophecies than you’d think.
How many people on earth could have predicted a Trump presidency back in 2000?
Okay, how many people on earth predicted a Trump Presidency in 2016?!
One of the most hilarious burns has to be when Obama told Trump on Jimmy Kimmel that
at least he’d go down as a president, when Trump said Obama would probably go down as
the worst president in history.
Wellllll……...yeahhhhh……..
Let’s rewind it back to 2000.
In an episode of The Simpsons, there’s a scene in which
Bart has a futuristic vision where Lisa has become president after Trump’s reign and
complains of the mess he’s left.
The country apparently inherited a huge debt from President Trump, and she was in a budget
crunch.
She was told that the country’s financial resources are zero.
Seriously, how many times are The Simpsons gonna predict the future?!
Didn’t they also predict the Ebola epidemic, the invention of smartwatches and that of
the iPod?
Where’s their information coming from?
Obviously Trump won the 2016 elections, but who knows, maybe we’ll have a female president
named Lisa after Trump leaves office!
5 - Twin Occurrences
You guys ever noticed how twins are usually paraded around in the same outfit?
Maybe sometimes that’s a way to tell them apart from each other, but yet keeping them
bonded at the same time?
As twins grow up, that’s a good chance that the twins pick up similar habits, but that’s
the case with anyone that spends a lot of time together.
However, when twins are separated at birth and grow up completely away from each other,
that’s why things get interesting.
Two identical twins, Jim Lewis and Jim Springer were separated at birth when they were just
three weeks old, but as adults, they discovered that they couldn’t have been more alike.
Each of the boys grew up in households 40 miles apart and had no contact with the other.
Somehow they were both named Jim by their adoptive parents and had similar tastes in
childhood.
They both had a strong dislike for spelling and they both were interested in math.
They both had a pet dog named Toy.
C’mon, they both were named Jim and they both had dogs named Troy?
Not that crazy!
Hoooooooold up.
Let’s fast forward a bit.
They both married a woman named Linda.
They both got divorced from Linda, and then remarried a women named Betty!!
Okay, that’s just pretty weird.
Even both their sons were called James.
Here’s another one with twins.
Brothers Erskine Ebbin and Neville Ebbin met the same fate in what plays out to be a ridiculously
impossible coincidence.
One of them was riding a moped back in 1975, when he got hit by a taxi and was killed.
Shockingly, a year later, his brother was also killed while riding the same model moped,
by colliding with the same taxi carrying the SAME passenger as before.
What kind of a sick joke is this?!
4 - Reel to Real
Everyone knows Bruce Lee.
Do I really need to give a description who he is?
Anyways, in one of his films called Game of Death, Bruce played a character who gets shot
by a prop gun.
The problem was that the gun was loaded with real bullets.
The character was trying to fake his own death except someone loaded a real bullet in the
gun and the character is shot for real.
Unfortunately, sometimes life imitates art.
15 years after the release of Game of Death, in a strange twist, Bruce Lee’s son, Brandon
Lee, d1ed in the same way while filming The Crow.
The prop gun used in filming on the set somehow was loaded with a real bullet!
The Game of Death was the movie that wrapped up Bruce Lee’s final chapter in life, as
it was the last film he was making.
He passed away while filming, and his passing was filled with controversy.
Rumors include that Bruce was murdered because he was involved with Chinese gangs to him
and his family just having a supposed curse.
Both the Lees died while filming a movie, and the father played out an event just like
his son’s years later.
3 - A Platter of Richard Parker
Edgar Allan Poe wrote a book titled, “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket”
in the year 1838.
The plot is dark and keeps up with Poe’s literary themes.
The book has a turning point in the story which has crew members aboard a lost ship
drawing straws to decide which one of them would be sacrificed for food.
I’m not sure which would be worse, having to eat someone, or picking the wrong straw.
The unlucky person in the story turned out to be a young cabin boy named Richard Parker,
whose head, hands and feet, or pretty much whatever parts weren’t eaten in the story,
were thrown overboard.
As disturbing as this story is, stranger things are known to happen in Poe’s stories.
Unfortunately, this crazy story had a parallel in real life.
Fast forward 46 years later, and there was an actual incident where a ship, Mignonette,
was wrecked.
And you guessed it, since the crew members didn’t have anything to eat, they too each
had to draw straws to see who would actually become a meal.
And guess who was the one who lost the draw?
Richard Parker, the cabin boy.
Much like in the story, the crew caught and ate a turtle, but that simply wasn’t enough
to keep them alive.
So apparently they st@bbed Parker multiple times in order to survive.
2 - Two Presidents, One Soul
Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy are two of the most famous Presidents in American
history.
But did you know that they were practically the same people?!
Or maybe, Lincoln came back and relived his life as JFK.
Anyways, practically every American knows that both Lincoln and Kennedy were elected
as president and later on assassinated.
Let’s also not forget that they were both shot in the head.
The back of the head.
While their wives were there.Let’s rewind a bit and go over the similarities before
they were president.
Both of them served in the military and both studied law.
Even aspects about their family were the same.
They were each named after their grandfathers and had four children, and the both of them
had two kids pass away at an early age.
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
JFK was elected to Congress in 1946.
How about their presidencies?
Lincoln won the presidential election in 1860 and his inauguration was held on March 4,
1861.
Kennedy won the election in 1960 and his inauguration was held on January 20, 1961.
Okay, these aren’t thaaaat crazy.
Just happened to be like this!
But how about these facts?
Both their vice presidents and successors were Southern Democrats named Johnson.
And both were born in 08! Andrew Johnson was born on December 29, 1808.
Lyndon Johnson was born on August 27, 1908.
Both had bodyguards named William.
The craziest thing is, both bodyguards named died within 48 hours of being aged 75 years,
5 months!
I can actually go on and on about the coincidences, buuuut let’s not.
It’s juuuuuuuuuuuust chance.
Right?!
1 - Two Dennises = More Menaces
How many of you guys know that there are actually TWO Dennis The Menaces?!
Dennis the Menace is an American comic strip drawn by Hank Ketcham that revolves around
a blond haired boy with a penchant for mischief named Dennis.
The comic strip was first released on March 12th, 1951.
However, a similar comic series called Dennis the Menace and Gnasher by David Law also began
being published in the UK on March 12, 1951.
You’d probably say that it’s not as big of a coincidence because it totally seems
like someone copied the other person and they were in a race to see who can get out the
strip first.
But if you’d go through the elements of both the comics, you’d begin to realise
that they aren’t copied at all.
It’s a genuine crazy coincidence.
Not only did the two creators have no way of knowing what the other was working on as
information didn’t travel at the speed of email back in those days, but the two characters
are actually extremely different.
The UK version is a true menace, a mean-spirited boy who likes to cause trouble, and the U.S.
version is a happy-go-lucky kid that causes trouble without intending to.
They also have pet dogs, which really is an extremely normal thing for kids to have, but
in light of the other commonalities, it just adds to the coincidence.
Dennis has become the archetype of a mischievous boy, even if it’s a little unfair to all
the Dennis’ in the world.
Both the creators chose to allow each other to work on their own comics, and both have
had success with each
of their comics.
Here’s what’s next!