Here are some of the strangest coincidences that have actually happened….and just wait
until you hear about these two guys who look identical with THE EXACT SAME NAME!
9 - Two brothers, one bike, one cab Back in July 1975, newspapers on both sides
of the Atlantic went nuts over the passing of 17-year-old Erskine Lawrence Ebbin.
He unfortunately had been knocked off his moped by a taxi in Hamilton, Bermuda.
Let’s be honest here, normally an event like this wouldn’t really make headlines,
nor would it even really make it in a newspaper.
But, the thing is, the same thing happened to his brother the previous year!
Also by a taxi.
Riding the same moped!
And his brother was also 17 when it happened to him.
And here’s the really crazy thing.
The accidents happened on the same street!
Did we mention this is crazy?
Because now things are about to get really really crazy.
The two brothers were hit by the same taxi, with the same driver, carrying… the same
passenger!!!
Was this fate or was this a coincidence?
What do you think?!
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8 - Times Two Identical twins James Arthur Springer and
James Edward Lewis spent almost all of their first 39 years apart, until 1977 when they
decided to meet.
They were separated at birth and adopted by different families.
But they both knew that they had a twin, although they never crossed paths after getting separated.
However, they discovered that despite living completely separate lives, they had some pretty
eerie similarities!
Both their adoptive parents gave them the name James.
Both of them married and then divorced a woman named Linda.
Their second wives were both named Betty.
They both named their son James Alan!
Both of them grew up with an adopted brother named Larry!
Both twins had law enforcement training and had worked part-time as deputy sheriffs in
their towns.
Is this crazy enough for you yet?!
They vacationed at the same beach in Florida.
They both smoked heavily, and yep…...they both go by Jim!
They shared many common interests, such as mechanical drawing and block lettering, and
had similar habits!
The twins even used similar words when they’re talking!
The amazing thing is that they hadn’t seen each other in almost 40 years, so they had
no chance to influence each other.
Researchers decided to perform tests on them, and found that their medical histories, personality
tests, and brain wave tests were almost all identical.
So what do you think?
Is this too good to be true or was this just a really good hoax?!
Before we get to the next entry, here’s a quick quiz for you guys!
What’s the world’s smallest mammal by mass?
Is it A, they have the same phenotype.
Or B, They started off as one ovum, or egg.
Or C, They have the same thumbprint.
Or is it D, They have the same DNA!
The answer is later on in the video!
7 - Not a Photoshop Michael Dick hadn’t seen his daughter Lisa
for more than a decade, ever since he had separated from his first wife.
All he knew was that they had moved to Sudbury, a town in England and that was about it.
So back in 2010, he decided to take his two other daughters, Samantha and Shannon, to
Sudbury to look for Lisa.
Determined, Michael got in touch with the local paper and asked for help.
A photographer from the paper snapped a picture of Michael, Samantha, and Shannon and put
it in the paper along with the story of Michael’s mission.
Amazingly enough, the photographer actually had taken a picture of ALL of Michael’s
daughters in that one photo!
How?!
Because somehow, the daughter Michael was looking for was walking in the background
when the picture was taken!
His lost daughter Lisa spotted the photo of her dad in the newspaper but she also recognized
herself and her mother in the background!
She said that before she saw the picture, she had been thinking about her dad and actually
was going to search for him as well!
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6 - Little Child out of Wedlock Many people know that legendary actor James
Dean passed away by crashing his famous Porsche.
But did YOU know that his Porsche is supposedly cursed?!
The Porsche 550 Spyder, nicknamed the “Little Bastard”, not only claimed James Dean’s
life but was also trouble for many other people who came in contact with it.
George Barris, the person who had customized the Porsche for Dean originally, bought the
wreckage of “Little Bastard” for $2500 dollars.
As soon as he bought it, the Porsche slipped off its trailer and broke a mechanics leg!
Not long after, Barris sold parts off the 550 to Troy McHenry and William Eschrid.
While racing against one another in cars that had parts from the “Little Bastard,” McHenry
lost control and hit a tree ending his life, and Eschrid was seriously injured.
Barris also sold two new tires that came with the 550.
Both tires blew out simultaneously causing the new owner’s car to run off the road!
Barris was then convinced by the California Highway Patrol to lend the car for a series
of highway safety exhibits.
At the first exhibit, the garage that housed the car burned down!
“Little Bastard” suffered only some minor paint damage.
At the next exhibit, the car fell off its display and broke a student’s hip!
The supposed curse continued when a truck transporting the car to the next exhibit lost
control, causing the driver to fall out and somehow get crushed by the car after it fell
off the back!
The Porsche supposedly fell off of TWO MORE transport trucks while in transport between
exhibits!
The California Highway Patrol decided that it had had enough of the “Little Bastard”.
However, while transporting the car back to Barris, the car mysteriously vanished and
little bastard has been missing ever since!
Do you guys believe that a car can be cursed?
5 - Lucky or Unlucky?s Is Maarten de Jonge lucky or unlucky?
He cheated the Grim Reaper TWICE in 2014 after changing his plans to fly on BOTH of the famous
doomed Malaysia Airlines flights If you guys remember, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 mysteriously
vanished back in 2014 and still hasn’t been found.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down while it flew over eastern Ukrainian air space
in the same year!
Maarten traveled around the world to compete for Malaysia’s Terengganu cycling team and
that’s why he has had two extraordinary near misses.
He was supposed to travel on flight MH17 but he only decided to swap flights at the last
minute, after discovering that traveling through Frankfurt was cheaper.
And how about Flight 370?
He had a race to compete in Taiwan but he ultimately decided to take a different flight
an hour earlier that didn’t include a stopover in Beijing.
He even talked to some of the people boarding the flight.
That’s how close he was to getting on that plane!
See who else is super lucky by checking out our other video, The “LUCKIEST” People
in the World!
4 - Miss Unsinkable From the moment Violet Jessop was born, it
was obvious she’s a survivor.
She survived tuberculosis even when her doctor predicted that she wouldn’t make it!
So maybe it shouldn’t come as a shock that she survived the sinking of the Titanic.
However, that’s just the tip of the iceberg!
Okay okay, you guys know what we did there, you know, the Titanic, the iceberg…..ahh
yeah….well, what might be a surprise for you is that she ALSO survived the sinking
of the Titanic’s sister ship, the HMHS Britannic.
And just for good measure, she decided to be on the RMS Olympic when it had a collision
as well!
She was on the Olympic working as a stewardess when it collided with another ship!
Despite the damage, the ship made it back to port without sinking.
Seven months later, Jessop was back at work on another ship.
This time however, it was on the Titanic.
You know what happened there.
Jessop made it onto a lifeboat and was eventually rescued by the Carpathia.
You’d think that surviving the Titanic would stop someone from ever getting on a ship again,
but not her!
During World War I, Jessop was working again, this time on the Britannic.
On November 21st 1916, the Britannic sank in the Aegean Sea from a mysterious explosion.
The ship sank so fast, the propellers were still spinning and began sucking lifeboats
under them.
Jessop had to jump out of her lifeboat to safety, and she got a traumatic head injury
in the process.
After surviving ALL OF THAT, she still didn’t stop going on ships!
3 - Dennis the menaces On March 12th, 1951, Dennis the Menace was
released!
Both of them!
Wait, Did YOU know that there are actually TWO separate comics called Dennis the Menace?
And the weirdest thing?
They were both were released on the same day!
One was released in the UK, and one in the US!
The UK Dennis was created by David Law and published as a comic strip inside a popular
comic book.
The US Dennis was created by Hank Ketcham and was initially distributed as a syndicated
comic strip for newspapers.
Based on this simple fact, many people believed that one of the two creators HAD to have plagiarized
the other.
However, it quickly became clear that wasn’t the case.
Not only did they have no way of knowing what the other was working on back in those days,
but in reality, the two characters are actually extremely different.
The UK version is a true menace, a mean-spirited boy who likes to cause trouble.
The US version is a happy-go-lucky kid that causes trouble without intending to.
No legal actions were taken against either creator.
They essentially agreed to allow each other to work on their respective comics.
The UK version is now known as Dennis and Gnasher, named after Dennis’s dog.
Although the US version is more popular internationally, the UK version is better known in its native
country.
2 - Same Name, Same Face?
Brady Feigl is a 6 foot 4 minor league pitcher with a red beard and black-rimmed glasses.
Annnnd, Brady Feigl is a 6 foot 4 minor league pitcher with a red beard and black-rimmed
glasses.
Yeah…..you guys guessed right, we’re talking about TWO different guys here!
Right-handed Brady Gregory Feigl is the younger Brady.
He was born in Missouri, played college baseball at Mississippi, and now plays Single A baseball
in the Oakland A’s farm system.
His left-handed and older doppelganger is Brady Matthew Feigl.
He was born in Maryland, played college baseball at Mount St. Mary's, and now plays Triple
A ball in the Texas Ranger’s farm system.
As hard as it is to believe, since they look so alike at first glance, the two Bradys AREN’T
identical twins!
The two of them are actually born five years apart and as we mentioned earlier, they throw
with opposite hands.
They had no idea that each other existed until 2015, when they both had the same elbow surgery
performed by the same surgeon.
What happened was the receptionist from the doctor’s office called the wrong Brady Feigl
and asked when he wanted to come in for surgery.
However, the Brady on the phone already had the same surgery six months ago!
Brady and Brady supposedly still haven’t met yet, although they still get confused
for each other from time to time.
They do look somewhat different when they both shave their beards, and the 22-year-old
Brady outweighs the older Brady by over 30 pounds.
1 - Crossword Secrets
Back in 1944, codenames related to D-Day plans appeared as solutions in crossword puzzles
in The Daily Telegraph.
This caused panic as it was one of the best known and widely read British newspapers!
A few months before D-Day, solution words for codenames of beaches such as “Gold”,
“Sword” and “Juno” appeared in the puzzle.
Since these are pretty common words, everyone treated it as a coincidence.
But on August 18th 1942, a day before the Dieppe raid, 'Dieppe' appeared as an answer
to the clue of “French port”.
This immediately raised security alarms!
British intelligence immediately suspected that the crossword puzzle was used to pass
intelligence to the enemy.
However, in the end, it ended up being just a remarkable coincidence.
The reason for the coincidence was actually very simple.
Leonard Dawe, the crossword compiler, was the headmaster of a boy’s school.
He would call boys into his study to fill crossword blanks with random words.
Next to the school, there was a big camp of US and Canadian troops preparing for D-Day.
Surprisingly, security around the camp was lax and schoolboys and soldiers often talked
with each other.
The boys heard and learned many of the D-Day codewords and later used them to fill out
the crossword blanks!
So what was the answer to the quiz question earlier?
What isn’t true about identical twins?
The answer is C, they DON’T have the same thumbprint!
Watch this next video to find out about the scariest things that ACTUALLY Happen!