From an incredible prediction made by one
of history’s greatest writers to an uncanny
resemblance between two men that has sparked
talks of reincarnation, here are 15 scary
coincidences you can’t ignore:
Number 15 Mark Twain’s Prediction
If writer Mark Twain didn’t predict his
own death, then the coincidence is truly incredible.
Hailey’s Comet passes the Earth once every
74 to 79 years.
Mark Twain was born in 1835 two weeks after
the comet had made a pass.
In his 1909 autobiography, he wrote ‘It
is coming again next year, and I expect to
go out with it’.
He then refers to himself and the comet as
‘two unaccountable freaks: they came in
together, they must go out together’.
Amazingly, Mark Twain’s prediction came
true.
He died in 1910, on the very day of the comet’s
appearance.
Number 14 Hoover Dam
During the building of the Hoover Dam, 112
people lost their lives.
The first of them was George Tierney.
On December 20, 1922, Tierney fell and drowned
in the Colorado while carrying out preparatory
work.
The last man to die in the project was Patrick
Tierney, George’s son, who coincidentally
also died on December 20, thirteen years after
his father.
Number 13 Joseph Figlock
It would seem that Joseph Figlock was predestined
to become the savior of a particularly unlucky
baby, not once but twice.
In 1930s Detroit, Figlock was walking on the
street when a baby fell from a high window
right onto him.
Fortunately, Figlock had broken the baby’s
fall and they both survived.
The baby’s careless mother apparently didn’t
learn her lesson, as, about a year later,
the unsupervised infant crawled out the same
window and was once again falling towards
the concrete.
By some incredible twist of fate, Figlock
was passing beneath yet again and once more
cushioned the baby’s potentially lethal
impact.
They were both unharmed.
Number 12 Fallon Legacy
Robert Fallon was shot in 1858 by the people
he’d been playing poker with as they claimed
he’d cheated his way to his $600 pot.
After shooting the alleged cheater, they needed
another player to fill Fallon’s empty seat
but other people were reluctant to play with
the dead man’s money.
They eventually managed to find someone and
staked him with the $600.
The game went on and the new player turned
his pot into $2,200 in winnings.
When the police arrived at the scene to investigate
the shooting they demanded that $600 from
the new player’s winnings go to one of Fallon’s
next of kin.
Naturally, they were shocked to find that
the man was actually Fallon’s son who hadn’t
seen his father in more than seven years.
Number 11 Tamerlane’s Warning
Amir Timur, also known as Tamerlane, was a
Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid
Empire in Persia and Central Asia.
He believed himself to be a descendant of
Genghis Khan and looked to restore the former
glory of the Mongolian Empire.
Soviet archeologists found Tamerlane’s tomb
on June 20, 1940, in present-day Uzbekistan.
When they opened it, they discovered an inscription
with the warning ‘Whomsoever opens my tomb
will unleash an invader more terrible than
I’.
Only 3 days later, Adolf Hitler launched Operation
Barbarossa, the largest military operation
in history, against the Soviet Union.
Number 10 Patient Bullet
In 1893, in Honey Grove, Texas, a man called
Henry Ziegland left his girlfriend who, heartbroken
and distraught, later committed suicide.
Seeking retribution for the woman’s death,
her brother tracked down Ziegland and shot
him in the head.
As he collapsed to the ground, the shooter
thought he had avenged his sister and turned
the gun on himself.
However, the bullet hadn’t killed Ziegland.
Instead, it had only grazed his face before
hitting a tree.
The years passed and, at one point, Ziegland
decided to cut down that very same tree.
To spare himself the hard work, he didn’t
use an axe and chose to blow it up with dynamite.
The year was 1913.
Ziegland lit the fuse and the explosion sent
the bullet, which had been fired twenty years
before, flying through the air.
It hit Ziegland in the head, killing him instantly.
Number 9 Brothers in Arms
John Henry Parr was the first British soldier
to be killed by enemy action in World War
I, while George Edwin Ellison was the last.
By no intentional design, the two men are
both buried in Belgium’s Saint Symphorien
Military Cemetery with their tombstones facing
each other only 20 feet apart.
Number 8 Car Crash
In 1895, the car manufacturing industry was
still rather young so there weren’t many
cars around.
In fact, at that time, there were only 2 cars
in the entire state of Ohio.
Yet, even though there was so much space to
share, the two cars still crashed into each
other.
Number 7 Twin Tragedy
Another mind blowing coincidence involves
two brothers who died under oddly similar
circumstances.
Erskine Lawrence Ebbin died in Hamilton, Bermuda
after the moped he was riding was hit by a
taxi.
The fatal accident took place in July 1975.
About a year later, his brother Neville died
after he was hit by the same driver in the
same taxi while riding the same moped.
Both brothers were 17 when they died.
Not only did the accident take place on the
same street but the taxi was even carrying
the same passenger.
Oddly enough, this isn’t the only report
of such a coincidence.
In 2002, a set of 70-year-old identical twins
died in separate accidents on the same road
in Finland, within hours of one another.
Number 6 Jack Frost and Other Stories
Jack Frost and Other Stories was one of Anne
Parrish’s favorite books as a child.
At some point during the 1920s, the American
novelist was browsing Parisian bookstores
alongside her husband.
They found a copy of the book and Anne told
her husband the fond memories she had of it.
He picked up the book and opened it only to
find the inscription ‘Anne Parrish, 209
N. Weber Street, Colorado Springs’.
It was the same book Anne had had as a child.
Number 5 Carl Jung’s Story
In his book ‘The Structure and Dynamics
of the Psyche’ Carl Jung described a moment
that left a long-lasting impression on him.
It happened during a session with one of his
patients.
The woman was telling him about a dream she’d
had in which she received a golden scarab.
As this was happening, Jung heard a noise
behind him which sounded like gentle tapping.
Outside, knocking against the window was a
scarabaeid beetle- ‘the nearest thing to
a golden scarab that one finds in our latitudes’,
as Jung put it.
He opened the window and caught the insect,
a common rose chafer, as it flew in.
According to Jung, he’d never experienced
anything like that before which is why the
patient’s dream remained unique in his memory.
Number 4 Twin Life
After they were separated at birth, a set
of twins from Ohio grew up unaware of each
other’s existence.
Regardless, their lives shared some puzzling
similarities.
Unknown to each other, both families named
the boys ‘James’.
In school, both James Springer and James Lewis
hated spelling but loved carpentry and math.
Their first wives were both named Linda and,
after the twins got divorced, they re-married
women named Betty.
Even though they didn’t know anything about
each other, each had a son James Alan, the
only difference being that one was written
with a single ‘l’ and the other with a
double.
Driving a Chevrolet, chain-smoking, having
a dog named Toy- these are all things that
were true for the both of them.
Number 3 Family Photo
In 1914, a German mother took a picture of
her son and went to a store in Strasbourg
to have the film developed.
When World War I broke out in July 1914, she
couldn’t return to Strasbourg for the film.
It’s worth mentioning that back then film
plates were sold individually.
In 1916, the woman wanted to photograph her
newborn daughter so she bought a film plate
in Frankfurt.
Here’s where it gets strange.
After the film was developed, the woman was
shocked to find the picture of her daughter
superimposed on the picture she’d taken
of her son, two years prior.
The amazing double exposure was the result
of her initial film being labeled as unused
and then being sold back to her.
Number 2 Richard Parker
Perhaps Edgar Allan Poe’s ability to write
such hair-raising fiction came from a strange
ability of predicting the future.
In his 1838 book ‘The Narrative of Arthur
Gordon Pym of Nantucket’ Poe wrote about
four shipwreck survivors who, after many days
on the open sea, decide to kill and eat cabin
boy Richard Parker.
46 years later, a yawl named Mignonette floundered
with only four survivors.
There are historical records attesting that
the three senior members then killed and ate
the cabin boy.
His name was Richard Parker.
Number 1 Mesut Özil/Enzo Ferrari
When looking at pictures of Mesut Özil and
Enzo Ferrari side by side, you’d be inclined
to think they’re of the same person.
The resemblance between the soccer player
and the founder of the renowned car brand
is so striking that it has sparked talks online
about immortality or reincarnation.
Not only do the two of them look alike but
Enzo Ferrari died on August 14, 1988.
Mesut Özil was born only two months later,
on October 15, 1988.
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