Top 15 Amazing Coincidences In History

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Most, if not all of us, have experienced some sort of coincidence in our lives. Maybe you said something at the same time as somebody else, or perhaps you bumped into an old friend in the most unlikely of places.

But there are those funny little "would you believe it" types of coincidences and plot twists, and then there are those "holy crap that is literally unbelievable" types of coincidences.

The list of 15 amazing coincidences of all time

1. True Disney magic

2. Twin brothers born and died at the same time

3. Mark Twain Predicted His Own Death

4. A grave coincidence

5. Date 21st proved unlucky date for King Louis XVI

6. Biblical Shakespeare

7. An author found book of her childhood days

8. The pre-Titanic

9. Three strangers shared same last names

10. Repeat hero

11. Miss Unsinkable

12. Coincidence, Or Reincarnation?

13. Two persons killed in same spot same way

14. Did Edgar Allan Poe Have A Time Machine?

15. The Double Tragedy On The Hoover Dam

Which are the most amazing coincidences of all time?

1. True Disney magic

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In the early 2000s, soon-to-be-married couple Alex and Donna were looking through old photos to put in their wedding video. They happened upon one of Donna and her siblings posing with Peter Pan‘s Smee on a childhood trip to Disney World in 1980. But there was something shocking in the background of the photo—or someone, to be exact. It was Alex, being pushed in a stroller by his father. Until that moment, the couple had had no idea that they’d been at Disney World at the same time as kids, long before they knew each other—let alone in the same photo! In 2010, they returned to Disney World to recreate the photo with their own children. For another incredible Disney coincidence, check out this story of a young boy who met Walt on his first trip to Disneyland.

2. Twin brothers born and died at the same time

On March 2002 a horror news took place and received much limelight that, twin brothers in Finland died on same day two hours apart. Both died in a car accident on the same road. The officer who was handling the case said, “This was a historical strange kind of accident.” Even though the road is full of vehicles accidents merely happen.

3. Mark Twain Predicted His Own Death

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Did the famous writer Mark Twain predict his own death? Well if he didn't then it was a major coincidence. The writer was born in 1835, when Halley's Comet was passing the earth. It only passes once every 76 years or so, but Twain predicted that he would die on its next passing. "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835," he said in 1909. "It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it." The writer died on the very day of its appearance in 1910.

4. A grave coincidence

Millions upon millions of people died in the First World War, which makes this historical coincidence all the more incredible. According to The Royal British Legion, the first recorded British soldier to die in the war is buried in Belgium’s St. Symphorien military cemetery—mere feet from the grave of the last recorded British soldier to die in the war. Private John Parr died, reportedly in a German cavalry strike, on August 21, 1914. Four years of bloody combat later, George Edwin Ellison was killed at 9:30 in the morning on November 11, 1918, a mere hour and a half before the call for a cease-fire that would end the war (the armistice had been signed earlier that morning). The men were buried before their identities as the first and last to die were known.

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5. Date 21st proved unlucky date for King Louis XVI

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When King Louis XVI born he was warned by an astrologer that 21st is not an auspicious date for rather it is a profane date for you. Louis was so terrified with this fact and tried to save himself from the date. He can’t guide himself all the time, so 21st proved “black day” for him. On June 21st 1791 French Revolution happened and he was arrested with his queen. On September 21st 1791 France abolished the institution of royalty and proclaimed itself that it is now Republic country. Finally, in 21st January he faced assassination and he was beheaded.

6. Biblical Shakespeare

The seemingly meaningless sentence “Here was I like a psalm” is an anagram for “William Shakespeare”; they consist of the same letters and only the same letters. But…is it meaningless? The 46th word in Psalm 46 in the King James Bible is “shake,” and the 46th word from the end is “spear.” William Shakespeare’s age when the King James Bible was first completed, in 1611? Forty-six years old. Did you know that these expressions we use all the time were actually coined by the Bard?

7. An author found book of her childhood days

An author from Paris called Anne Parrish were roaming in a book store. She picked up one favorite book of her “Jack Frost” and other Stories and started showing it to her husband. When her husband turn the page of the book he amazed to find the inscription written in the cover page, it was “Anne Parrish, 209 N. Weber Street, Colorado Springs. “ It was Anne’s home address. Means it was her own book which founded by her again.

8. The pre-Titanic

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The Titanic has no shortage of legends, coincidences, and haunting tales surrounding it. But one of the weirdest actually took place 14 years before the liner set off on its ill-fated voyage. In 1898, author Morgan Robertson wrote a novella called “Futility,” about a supposedly “unsinkable” ocean liner that did, in fact, sink. On an April night. After hitting an iceberg, no less. And perhaps creepiest of all was the novella’s subtitle: “The Wreck of the Titan.” That’s right—the fictional ship was called the Titan. One fortunate difference, though, was that in the novella, nearly all of the ship’s 2,500 passengers perished (there were only 13 survivors), while more than 700 of the 2,200-odd people on the Titanic survived.

9. Three strangers shared same last names

In the 1920s three British were travelling separately in a train. Threesome were not connected with each other any ways. But they shared same last names. When they introduced each other to each other they got to know that that the first person’s name was Bingham and the second person’s last name was Powell. The third person’s last name was Bingham-Powell.

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10. Repeat hero

Here’s a coincidence that has a happier ending! In the Jiangsu province of China, in the late 1980s, a man named Xu Weifang jumped into a river near his house to save a man who was in danger of drowning. Xu and his wife, Wu Xiaomei, continued living by this very river for years to come—and good thing, too. In 2018, Xu, now 80 years old, heard someone calling for help. An eight-year-old boy who couldn’t swim had fallen into the river.

Xu and his wife were able to pull the boy out of the river. But they hadn’t just completed another rescue. They soon learned that this boy was the son of the man Xu had saved 30 years ago. He’d saved a father and son, not just from death, but from the same type of death.

11. Miss Unsinkable

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Violet Constance Jessop was an ocean liner stewardess and nurse in the early 19th century, who is known for surviving the disastrous sinkings of both the RMS Titanic and her sister ship, the HMHS Britannic, in 1912 and 1916 respectively.

In addition, she had been onboard the RMS Olympic, the eldest of the three sister ships, when it collided with a British warship in 1911.

Violet Jessop was born on October 2nd of 1887, in Bahía Blanca, Argentina. She was the eldest daughter of Irish immigrants, William and Katherine Jessop.

After the Britannic event, Violet returned to work for the White Star Line in 1920. In her late thirties, she had a brief marriage, and in 1950 she retired from the sea and bought a cottage in Great Ashfield, in Suffolk in UK.

On May 5, 1971, Violet Jessop di‌ed of congestive heart failure at the age of 83. She is buried in the nearby village of Hartest, next to her sister and brother-in-law, Eileen and Hubert Meehan.

12. Coincidence, Or Reincarnation?

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The founder of the Ferrari company, Enzo Ferrari, died on August 14, 1988. Just a month later, on October 15, Arsenal footballer Mesut Özil was born. Take a look at their pictures side by side. Massive coincidence? Or proof of reincarnation? You decide!

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13. Two persons killed in same spot same way

In 1975, a person was killed in accident by taxi hit in the Bermuda Island while riding motorcycle. After one year another person died in the same way. Interestingly he was hit by the same taxi even. And the person who died ridding same motorcycle. Strange! How both person can ride same bicycle? Because they were brothers who died same apart in road accident.

14. Did Edgar Allan Poe Have A Time Machine?

Did Edgar Allan Poe own a time machine? Some people think so. How else could he have known about an event almost half a century before it happened? In his book called The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, the author describes how four sailors who survived the sinking of their ship were forced to eat a rather unfortunate cabin boy named Richard Parker. Although Poe claimed that the story was based on real events, that wasn't actually true. 46 years later however, a boat really did sink, and the members of the crew who were rescued were forced to eat a cabin boy in order to survive. The cabin boy's name? You guessed it - Richard Parker.

15. The Double Tragedy On The Hoover Dam

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112 deaths were associated with the building of the Hoover Dam, but there's a strange coincidence between the first and last men to lose their lives during its construction. The first man to die was a surveyor called George Tierney, who drowned in the Colorado on December 20, 1922, while looking for an ideal place for the dam. The last man to die? Patrick Tierney, George's son, who also died on December 20 in 1935.

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