Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on The Internet.
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today I am talking about the Top 10 Scary Coincidences
that changed the world.
Coincidences are spooky things in themselves, with many believing that they are signs that
fate is real.
10 - Leading was on Last Minute Vacation During D Day Landings
A huge British war-time victory could have been very different if a German Field Marshall
hadn’t chosen that exact time to take his wife away.
During the Normandy storm of 1944 Erwin Rommel, known as the Desert Fox, decided to take his
wife on a surprise trip for her birthday.
He was a key strategist and military tactician and had he been in Normandy, things could
have turned out very differently.
The scary thing about this coincidence is how different the world could be right now
if the allies lost that battle.
9 - Sinking of the SMS Cap Trafalgar Okay, this is some mind alerting shizzzbiz…so
stick with me.
The British Navy converted a cruise ship, the RMS Carmania, into a war ship.
They disguised it as a German Passenger Liner called the SMS Cap Trafalgar in order for
the vessel to escape detection.
It worked, and the actual Carmania disguised as the Trafalgar sank a German ship….this
ship was the ACTUAL legit real life SMS Cap Trafalgar, which the Germans had decided to
disguise as the RMS Carmania.
Whaaaaauuuut…
What a freakish coincidence.
Anyway, the sinking of the German ship was a huge setback to the German war effort and
impacted the way they moved forward.
51 Germans were killed and 279 captured.
Who knows what they could have achieved in the war had they not been onboard.
8 - Seth McFarlane and Mark Wahlberg missed their flight on 9/11
Family Guy and American Dad creator, Seth McFarlane wand Actor and former rapper Mark
Wahlberg were supposed to be on planes involved in the 9/11 attacks.
McFarlane and Wahlberg were scheduled to be on American Airlines Flight 11.
Coincidentally, McFarlane’s travel agent told him the wrong time for the flight and
he was late.
He missed the plane, which would end up being flown into the North Tower of the World Trade
Centre.
Wahlberg made a last minute decision to fly to Toronto for the Film Festival instead.
If they had died that day, the world would have no American Dad, the Cleveland Show,
or any Wahlberg movies subsequent to that day including Ted, a collaboration between
the pair….and of course, no Wahlbergers.
7 - Tamerlane's Body & Operation Barbarossa Tamerlane was a Turco Mongol Conqueror and
the founder of the Timurid Empire.
He lived between 1336 and 1405, but his tomb was opened and his body exhumed by the Soviet’s
just days before The Nazi troops launched a planned attack.
His tomb was said to hold a curse that said “When I rise from the dead the world shall
tremble.
Whomsoever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.” Three days
later, Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, the largest military invasion of all time.
What as scary coincidence.
Barbarossa, of course, was an event that changed the world and marked the decline in Hitler’s
strong hold.
6 - Sinking of the Titanic The sinking of the Titanic was eerily foreshadowed
in Morgan Robertson’s The Wreck of the Titan.
The story, written in 1898, so 14 years prior to the sinking of the titanic, depicts scarily
similar circumstances.
A luxury ship, the Titan, is hailed as unsinkable.
It then hits an iceberg on a cold April night and goes down.
Sound familiar?
Also in the book, the boat is a similar size and length to the titanic, travels at the
same speed and…drum roll…there were not enough life boats for passengers.
Is this a weird coincidence or was Robertson a Clairvoyant?
5 - Lewis and Clark almost didn’t make it through their expedition alive
Captain Mariwether Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark crossed the Western Portion of the United
States between 1804 and 1806, and their journey and discoveries shaped America.
At one point, the pair were captured by a Native American Tribe.
Their female guide Sacagawea discerned the tribe planned to kill them or dessert them,
but it all turned around when she discovered that the leader of the tribe was her long
lost brother.
As a result, the crew were gifted horses and allowed safe passage.
What a coincidence!
Had that not happened…well..who knows.
4 - Teddy Roosevelt’s Thick Speech Theodore Roosevelt was very nearly killed
in 1912 when he campaigned for reelection, but was saved by a thick speech and a glasses
case.
In an eerie coincidence, Roosevelt placed the folded up paper and glasses case in his
breast pocket, the exact area he was shot by a saloon keeper, John Flammang Schrank.
He was saved by the contents of his pocket, and as he was not coughing blood, he concluded
his lung hadn’t been pierced, so he would continue his speech.
On stage he said “I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible.
I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot—but it takes
more than that to kill a Bull Moose”
3 - The Assassinations of Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy
The Assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and John F Kennedy have some eerily similar circumstances.
Lincoln was the first present to be shot, and Kennedy the last.
The pair were both killed on a Friday before a big public holiday, sat beside their wives
who weren’t injured.
Both were succeeded by a vice President named Johnson – Andrew was born in 1808 and Lyndon
in 1908.
Both had two daughters.
At both assassinations, the presidents were with another couple, the male of which was
wounded.
Lincoln’s assassin shot him at a theatre and then fled to a warehouse.
Kennedy’s killer fired at a warehouse then fled to a theatre, and both assassin were
then killed by shooters with a colt rival.
Weird.
So Weird.
2 - The Three Cigars That Created America Having grown up in the UK, I wasn’t taught
a lot of finer detail about the civil war, so I literally just learned about this insane
world altering coincidence while researching for this video!
Basically, in 1862, Confederate Commander Robert E Lee drafted a war plan called Special
Order 191, which outlined the movements of ever confederate brigade over the next few
months.
He gave copies of these orders to his trusted generals, including the somewhat lazy Stonewall
Jackson.
Jackson gave copies of these orders to his commanders, even though they probably shouldn’t
have had that authority.
One of his commanders in turn, Daniel Harvey Hill, left his in a box wrapped around three
cigars, which he discarded at a campsite when his brigade moved on.
Days later, Union Scout Barton W Mitchell found the cigars.
As he was about to smoke them, he looked at the wrapping and thought they looked important.
They were.
They ended up in the hands of General George McClellan who recognized Robert E Lee’s
hand writing.
With the plans, the Unions were able to stage a full offensive at the Battle of Antietam
– a tipping point in the Civil war that gave the North the upper hand.
Finally, coming in to number one….
One of the craziest co-incidences – one turn of a corner that changed the world forever,
we have Franz Ferdinand Getting Shot The spark that ignited World War one was a
totally coincidence.
Scary really, how the peace of Europe hung in the balance with such fragility.
Basically, what happened here was that Austro-Hungarian leader Archduke Franz Ferdinand escape an
assassination attempt while he was in Sarajevo.
A bomb was thrown under his motorcade by the Serbian Black Hand Gang.
Luckily, or so he thought, Ferdinand survived….but in some final destination style turn of events,
the initial assailant, Gavrilo Princip, happened to be in a café where the Arch Dukes Motorcade
drive by again, and stalled, giving him enough time to shoot him, and his wife.
This was the straw that broke the camels back in terms of the ignition of World War 1.
So….
There we have it….
Do you believe in coincidences?
Or do you think a higher force