the human mind likes to make sense of things we look for patterns and order
in everything even if it's not really there few things spark our interest in
finding meaning more than when we stumble upon a coincidence many people believe they have to
mean something and whether or not these amazing coincidences are indicative of
something supernatural or just bad luck doesn't really matter they're all still pretty creepy
10. the baby catcher about 4 000 children per year under 10 are injured by falling from windows that
seems like a lot all things considered and it may be at the root of explaining
the curious coincidence that befell joseph figlock back in 1938. according to reports
figlock was a street sweeper in detroit he was walking down the street one day when a baby fell
from somewhere above him in the building he was passing the child landed on figlock and injured
both of them but they both survived as a result a year later figlock was cleaning out an alley
and a two-year-old fell from a fourth-story window once again landing on figlock the results were the
same as before with piglot cushioning the fall and the child surviving you may see this story retold
with embellished details such as the same baby landing on figlock exactly one year later and he
caught it both times the original reports didn't include those details at all and in fact point
out that one baby was a girl and the other was a boy 9. booth's brother saved lincoln's son people
love to share eerie coincidences about abraham lincoln whether or not they're always true but
there are some quirky facts about the president's life that do make you want to scratch your head
including the very odd coincidence about his son's near-death experience everyone knows that lincoln
was assassinated by john wilkes booth less well known is how edwin booth brother of john saved
the life of robert todd lincoln like his brother edwin was an actor as well unlike his brother he
was actually a big fan of lincoln and the union it was during the civil war when edwin and robert
met by chance in new jersey neither knew the other personally of course and robert was out on break
from college while edwin was traveling to see a friend robert was knocked off a train platform
and fell down next to the train which had started moving trapped robert suddenly felt someone grab
him and yank him back up he recognized edwin boos as being an actor though booth didn't know
who lincoln was it was only a year or two later when john wilkes booth assassinated the president
number eight the life and death of george storey george's story became famous from birth thanks to
life magazine on november 23 1936 the first issue of life hit the stands inside the first issue the
very first photograph was of a doctor delivering a baby the caption read life begins which was a
clever bit of wordplay for the magazine title the baby was george story throughout the years
alif would check in on george and run that photo again the man himself grew up to be a journalist
for some years life magazine stopped publishing in the year 2000. for the farewell issue they
were going to include one final photo of george with the caption a life ends two days before
the photographers showed up to take the photo story passed away from congestive heart failure
7. the nebraska church explosion choir practice at the west side baptist church was scheduled
to begin at 7 20 p.m on wednesday march the 1st 1950. it always started at that time so
this was by no means an unusual event what was unusual was that at 25 the church exploded it's
been suggested that after the furnace was lit in preparation for the choir's arrival a gas leak may
have caused the blast it was powerful enough to blow the windows out of nearby buildings
and even knock the local radio station off the air and not a single person was hurt
because no one was there every single member of the choir was late that night every single one of
them for a different reason reverend clamble who lit the furnace went home after to have dinner but
ran late when his daughter's dress got dirty and his wife was ironing a clean one the church
pianist fell asleep at home after her own dinner and woke up at 7 15. a high school student was
stuck on a geometry problem with her homework two other members couldn't get their car started one
man was stuck writing a letter and another was helping her mother in total 15 different people
were late for 15 different reasons such that there was no one in the church when it eventually blew
6. the deaths of bruce and brandon lee bruce lee died in 1973 while filming his fifth movie
game of death his death was caused by a cerebral edema in his brain and was all but unpredictable
he left behind a wife and two children one of those children brandon lee famously followed in
his father's footsteps by becoming an actor as most of us know brandon lee tragically died as
well on the set of his film the crow 20 years later in 1993 the crow was brandon's fifth
film his death was caused by a prop gun that was improperly prepared for use the dummy rounds were
made from ulta live rounds and one of the dummy bullets was still in the chamber when the blank
was fired this caused it to fire like a normal gun in what turned out to be a bizarre coincidence a
scenario that almost exactly mirrored this turn of events happens on screen in game of death in the
film bruce lee is playing an actor on the set of the movie he's starring in the prop guy explains
the cast and crew how to properly fire the prop gun he explains that the gun is loaded
with blanks but that they must only aim upward because there's a wad of paper that could come
out and injure someone if the actor on the set of the crow had followed those instructions
lee would have survived in his movie bruce lee's character is then shot by the prop gun though
the character shooting intentionally swapped out the dummy round for a real bullet the similarity
between what happened on screen and what happened to his son 20 years later was eerily prophetic
number 5. the death of stephen hawking ask the average person to name the greatest physicist
of all time and they'll likely only come up with a handful of names let's be honest science isn't
super glamorous and fame isn't typically one of the perks but that doesn't mean some of them
don't achieve it people like albert einstein and stephen hawking are at the top of the list and
while their scientific minds likely wouldn't give much credence to weird coincidences the rest of us
can still do it hawking was born on january 8 1942 and passed away on march 14 2018. he was born on
the 300th anniversary of famed astronomer galileo galilei's death he died on the 139th anniversary
of albert einstein's birth it was also pi day the day to commemorate the mathematical constant of pi
which is often abbreviated down to 3.14 on march 14th as you can imagine social media made no end
clever quips about the timing of hawking's death but even if it had no greater meaning
related to relativity and time it was still a bit of a fun coincidence 4. the tierney man
a lot of sons follow in the footsteps of their fathers that's sometimes a good thing but not
so for the tiani family however who endured generational tragedy at the hoover dam by the
time the hoover dam was finished 96 fatalities had been recorded one of those deaths occurred
on december 20th 1921. george gregory tiano was caught in a flood and drowned in the
colorado river he only left behind a family which included his young son patrick 14 years after his
father died patrick tioni was a young man and had taken up work at the site of his father's
death it was december 20th the anniversary of his father's death when patrick slipped from
an intake tower his death would be the final one associated with the building of the dam
3. my way killings frank sinatra's my way spent 75 weeks as a top 40 hit and another 49 weeks
in the top 75. the song was arguably sinatra's biggest and most memorable hit ever and is still
popular to this day maybe even too popular at least in the philippines bad things happen
to people who sing it there between the years 2002 and 2012 upwards of a dozen people were killed in
connection to my way in the philippines karaoke is both very popular and very serious serious enough
that at least one of those 12 people was killed for singing the song out of tune it was reported
at the time that the song had already been taken off numerous playlists because violence kept
breaking out when people sang it poorly another victim was stabbed in 2008 when a fight broke out
before the song even started in another incident a four-year-old was singing the song adults started
arguing and one man was attacked with a meat cleaver the only common theme is the choice of
song it seems making it quite a deadly coincidence with little reason for the deadly acts beyond the
arrogant lyrics making people angry number two the taxi brothers many stories of amazing coincidences
are too good to be true do some digging and they begin to fall apart but one popular tale of two
brothers killed a year apart by the same taxi driver carrying the same passenger may actually
be the real deal the incident supposedly took place in bermuda in 1975 so records are a bit
hard to come by but internet sleuths wanting to get to the bottom of the story have dug around to
find the clues a story from the telegraph in 1975 does present the incident as fact both brothers
were 17 at the time of their death both riding the same scooter on the same road one year apart other
reports mention the name of the taxi driver and even sections of the road on which the boys were
hit though verifiable details are hard to come by a 1974 newsletter from a bermuda workers union
does offer a small message of sympathy after the death of a 17 year old with the same name
from the original story which gives the whole thing a lot of credence 1. umberto and umberto
in the prince and the pauper mark twain created a tale of two identical menu swap places one royalty
the other a poor commoner sounds fantastical and implausible which makes the story of king
umberto of italy and umberto the restaurateur so unbelievable according to the story the king went
to a restaurant have a meal the owner wanted to meet the king and the men were stunned to
notice that they looked exactly alike they shared the same name and the same birthday both married
women named margarita on the same day the day after their meeting king alberto was assassinated
he was shot four times the two men were scheduled to meet that day but never panned out umberto the
restaurant owner had also died that morning also after being shot if the story is true it's quite
the coincidence indeed the two men very well could have been twin brothers without knowing it but the
death of a random restaurant owner in the year 1900 did not cause many waves especially on the
same day as the king was assassinated so details of his life if he even existed have been lost
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