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We are accustomed to living in a rational world, under all the events and phenomena of which there is a strict scientific basis. But sometimes such amazing events happen around that you begin to believe in miracles, and that our life is subject to some other laws, the secrets of which have not yet been completely unraveled. One of the strangest of these phenomena is a coincidence that sometimes leaves the most sane skeptics dumbfounded.

royal life

King Louis XVI of France was predicted to die on the 21st. The impressionable king practically deleted the 21st from his life every month - he locked himself in the bedroom and did not communicate with people. However, all these precautions did not help. The French Revolution broke out and on June 21, 1791, the king and his wife Marie Antoinette were arrested. On September 21, 1792, royal power was abolished in France, and on January 21, 1793, Louis XVI was executed.

Quite strange coincidences also occurred in the life of King Umberto I of Italy. Once he went into a restaurant owned by a man very similar to himself. It turned out that the owner was also called Umberto, and he was born on the same day as the reigning lady - March 14, 1844. It turned out that he opened his institution on the day when Umberto was crowned on the throne. The mystical coincidences did not end there. In 1900, the king was informed that the restaurant owner had died from a gunshot. Soon King Umberto I was also shot dead by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.

Sea tragedies

The sea is perhaps the most unpredictable element. And many of the most amazing cases and coincidences are associated with it. On December 5, 1664, a passenger ship from Britain sank off the coast of Wales. All crew members and almost all passengers were killed - only a man named Hugh Williams survived. Exactly 121 years later, on December 5, 1785, another shipwreck occurred at the same place, and a British ship sank. The most surprising thing was that once again only one passenger, also named Hugh Williams, survived.

In 1898, American science fiction writer Morgan Robertson wrote the novel Futility. It described the fictional ocean liner Titan, which collided with an iceberg on an April night en route to New York. In 1912, a similar tragedy actually happened - the transatlantic liner Titanic, which had gone on its maiden voyage, collided with an iceberg and sank.

In 1838, the famous American writer Edgar Poe wrote a novel called The Tale of the Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym. According to the plot, there is a riot on the ship in the novel, and after the bloody massacre, only four heroes remain alive. A violent storm blows all the supplies from the ship, and the survivors begin to severely starve. As a result, they become cannibals and eat a cabin boy named Richard Parker. Edgar Allan Poe was accused of excessive cruelty and naturalism in his novel, but almost 50 years later, in reality, an almost similar incident occurred. On July 5, 1884, the British yacht Mignonette was shipwrecked, losing all her provisions. The sailors who escaped on the boat found themselves without water and food on the high seas. Some time later, a cabin boy was killed and eaten, whose name was exactly the same as the hero of the novel by Edgar Allan Poe - Richard Parker.

Another story related to the sea, however, this time there were no shipwrecks, and in general everything ended very well. In 1966, little American Roger Losier nearly drowned in the sea near Salem. Luckily, he was pulled out of the water by a woman named Alice Blaze. Eight years later, Roger, who was 12 years old at the time, was swimming in the same place and saw a man drowning. He managed to pull him out and save his life. It turned out to be the husband of his rescuer, Alice Blaze!

Double Happiness

Highways today are even more dangerous than the sea in past centuries, and many incidents and strange things happen on them. The Italian Giacomo Felice (the surname translates as “happy”) once drove his car through Milan at night. Suddenly, another car jumped out to meet him, rushing at great speed. Giacomo had already said goodbye to his life, but after a violent collision he escaped with light scratches. The other driver also survived. To the surprise of both, it turned out that his name was also Jocamo Felici.

In Italy there was another strange case. Policeman Dino Cuadri had an accident while chasing an intruder on a deserted road. He damaged an artery in his leg, lost consciousness and bled. By chance, a man named Leone Reggiane was passing by. He pulled the policeman out, put a bandage on him, brought him to his senses and thereby saved his life. Three years later, Quadri was driving down the road when he saw an accident. The injured driver lay unconscious, blood oozing from his leg. The policeman saved the victim, who, to his great amazement, turned out to be Leone Reggiane.

A similar case took place in the USA. Texas resident Allan Folby had an accident and damaged an artery in his leg. He probably would have died from blood loss if it were not for Alfred Smith, who was passing by, who put a bandage on the victim and called an ambulance. Five years later, Folby witnessed a car accident: the driver of the crashed car was lying unconscious, with a torn artery in his leg. It was Alfred Smith, who in turn was saved by Allan Folby.

book across the ocean

Even such a peaceful activity as reading books can sometimes lead to incredible surprises and adventures. An amazing story happened to the famous actor Anthony Hopkins. He was preparing to shoot the film The Girl from Petrovka based on the novel by American writer George Phifer. To study the hero, he needed exactly the original version of the work, which he could not find in any of the bookstores, or in the library, or from friends.

The actor was completely desperate, but accidentally stumbled upon a copy of the desired version of the novel, forgotten by someone, on a bench in the subway. Later, when he was flying to the shooting, he accidentally (again “accidentally”!) met Phifer, the author of the novel, at the airport, who complained to Hopkins that he had lent his friend the most valuable copy of his book with his notes, and he had lost the book somewhere on underground stations.

Another amazing "book" case occurred in 1920 with the American writer Ann Parrish. She went on holiday to Paris and found her favorite children's book, Jack Frost and Other Stories, in a secondhand bookstore. Ann bought the book and showed it to her husband, talking about how she loved it as a child. The husband took the book from Ann, opened it and found on the title page the inscription: "Anne Parrish, 209H Webber Street, Colorado Springs." It was the same book that had once belonged to Ann herself. Moreover, the most mysterious circumstance of this incident was the question of how the book ended up on another continent.

And the last mystical coincidence in our article (but by no means in life!) is connected not with books, but with the famous writer Mark Twain. He was born in 1835, when Halley's comet flew over the Earth. In 1909, Twain wrote: "I came into this world with a comet and I will leave with it." And indeed: the writer died on April 21, 1910, the day after the next arrival of the comet.

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Some events are difficult, even almost impossible, to be explained by mere chance. Our seven stories are from this series:

James Dean's fatal speedster

Tragic coincidences are associated with the Porsche in which James Dean died in September 1955.

The car in which he died was towed to a garage. While it was being repaired, the engine fell out and crushed the mechanic's legs. The misfortunes did not end there, because then the garage in which the car was located burned to the ground. The same engine was bought by a doctor, installed in his racing car, and then died in this car as a result of an accident. The car was eventually placed in a museum, where it rolled off its stand and onto the teenager, breaking his leg.

From the museum, the car was transported to Oregon, where it became detached from the tow hook and crashed into the window of the store in front of which it was parked. All these cases together look like a lot of terrible coincidences. However, that's not all: in 1959, the car was sent to the exhibition, where it was attached to the stand with metal supports, and suddenly fell apart into 11 parts.

Gift from the past

Once, in one of the bookstores in Paris, the American writer Anne Parish stumbled upon the book Jack Frost and Other Stories. Flipping through the pages of the book, nostalgic and telling her husband how much she loved this particular collection of fairy tales as a child, she noticed the inscription on the back of the front cover - "Anne Parish, 209 N Weber Street, Colorado." It was the same book that had belonged to her as a child.

Dinner with a doppelgänger

One day, the Italian king Umberto I went to lunch at a restaurant, where he discovered that he had quite a lot in common with his owner. They were born on the same day, grew up in the same city, both were married to women named Margarita. Moreover, later, on July 29, 1900, this man was shot dead in the street. On the same day, having learned about this event, the king himself was killed.

Miss "unsinkable"

Violet Jesop was a flight attendant, a nurse, and quite possibly a bad luck person (at least when it came to ships). She was working on HMS Olympic when it crashed into the armored cruiser Hauk. When the Britannic hit the mine, she was also on board. And, believe it or not, she was also on the Titanic when it sank. She was later given the nickname "Miss Unsinkable"

Death at the Hoover Dam

The construction of the Hoover Dam was an extremely difficult task. 96 people died during the construction process, and in total 112 deaths are associated with the project.

He was a surveyor and drowned trying to find the best location for the dam. The horror takes from the fact that the last death during the work occurred on the same day - December 20, but 13 years later, and the son of D. G. Tierney became the victim.

Prophetic car license plate

The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand triggered the outbreak of the First World War. There are 2 strange coincidences associated with this event. As a result of the first murder was almost stopped.

When Ferdinand was driving to the town hall, an assassination attempt was made on him, but a bomb hit the car in which the Archduke was not. The only reason why he was killed after all is that on the way back, the driver, having made a mistake, turned the wrong way, and when the car turned around, a Serbian terrorist, who happened to be passing by, noticed Ferdinand. The second strange coincidence is related to the license plate of Ferdinand's car - AIII 118. The day that ended the First World War is 11/11/18.

Two close friends, US presidents and drafters of the Declaration of Independence, died on the 50th anniversary of independence, a few hours apart ... The son of a president who witnessed the murder of three heads of his state ... A woman who worked on board three wrecked Olympic-class liners and survived their ... Mysticism or just a coincidence? History knows many such interesting twists and turns. Below are these and other incredible historical coincidences.

1. The death of two founding fathers

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were among the five main drafters of the Declaration of Independence. They had been close friends and associates since 1775, despite partisan differences. Jefferson served as counselor and vice president during Adams's presidency. After Jefferson succeeded Adams in the White House, their relationship soured, and the Founding Fathers stopped talking until 1812, when they resumed frequent correspondence.

On the anniversary of US independence, July 4, 1826, 90-year-old John Adams said on his deathbed: "Thomas Jefferson remains to live." The second President of the United States did not know that a few hours before, his longtime friend and successor had died at the age of 83. Interestingly, not only these two presidents passed away on July 4 - their total number reached five.

2. Assassination of Lincoln and saving his son

A year before Confederate John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln in a theater box, his brother, Edwin Booth, saved the life of the president's eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln. Also an actor, but an ardent supporter of the national union, Edwin ran into the president's son at a train station in New Jersey. Robert Lincoln was letting passengers get off the train. He stood with his back against the stopped train, but when it suddenly moved forward, the young man lost his balance and fell on the track. Fortunately, Booth, who was passing by, grabbed Lincoln by the collar and dragged him onto the platform before the young man could be harmed by the moving train. Robert Lincoln immediately recognized his savior, but Booth did not immediately understand whom he had saved from certain death.

3. Witness to three presidential assassinations

And to continue the theme of Robert Lincoln - in his life he witnessed not one, not two, but three presidential assassinations. A month after the tragic assassination of his father, President Abraham Lincoln, Robert and his mother moved to Chicago, where he started a family and a successful career as a lawyer. Robert Lincoln remained active in the country's political life and served as secretary of war during Garfield's presidency in 1881. During Garfield and Lincoln's trip to New Jersey, the offended administration official shot the president in the back.

In 1901, President William McKinley invited Robert Lincoln to the All-American Exhibition in New York. Almost immediately after Lincoln arrived at the exhibition, the anarchist Leon Frank Czolgosz shot the president, inflicting a mortal wound on him. Robert Lincoln is credited with the phrase about the fatality of his presence next to the presidents.

4. Beginning and end of the Civil War

The civil war between the National Union and the Confederacy began in 1861 in the yard of a farmer and wholesaler named Wilmer McLean, and ended with the surrender of General Lee's army, the documents of which were signed in the same merchant's living room.

In the summer of 1861, the merchant's family lived on his wife's plantation in Manassas, General Beauregard demanded that the house be provided as the headquarters of the Confederate army. The first battle between the armies of the North and the South took place practically in the courtyard of the McLean house, by the Bull Run stream. In 1863 McLean moved the family to a small house in Appomattox, a town south of Manassas. On April 9, 1865, his new home became the meeting place for General Lee and his opponent Ulysses Grant, at which the Confederate surrender papers were signed.

5 Halley's Comet

Halley's short-period comet returns to earth every 75 years. On November 30, 1835, her appearance coincided with the birth of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known to the whole world under the pseudonym Mark Twain. By 1909, 74 years had passed since then, and Mark Twain remarked that it would be nice to leave this world with the same celestial body with which he came. According to him, it would be the deepest regret if this did not happen. As the writer predicted, he died a day after Halley's comet approached the sun again - on April 21, 1910.

6. Miss "Unsinkable"

Violet Jessop worked as a flight attendant aboard WhiteStarLine airliners and not only witnessed the crash of all three giant Olympic-class liners: Titanic, Britannic and Olympic, but also survived them all, continuing to work as a flight attendant until the end of her career.

After the death of her mother, Violet was forced to quit her studies and start working to provide for her family. She took her mother's place as a royal stewardess before moving to WhiteStar. In 1911, the company launched a trio of huge, luxurious brother liners: the Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic. In September 1911, Violet Jessop was working aboard the Olympic, which collided with a small cruiser in the waters of southern England. After the crash, a flight attendant boarded the Titanic just in time for her first and last transatlantic voyage in 1912. During World War I, Violet was a Red Cross nurse working on the Britannica, which had been converted into a hospital. In 1916, the Britannic struck a German mine and sank in less than an hour. Despite the damage, only 30 people died in the shipwreck, and Violet Jessop's career by the day she retired was 42 years as a flight attendant.

You and I are constantly surrounded by coincidences, which we often attribute to chance. But sometimes these coincidences are so mysterious that they simply cannot be attributed to chance. This post will introduce you to the most mysterious coincidences in history.

Doubles in history

Michael Jackson was known not only for his musical talents, but also for the enormous number of plastic surgeries that he underwent. Don't you think that it is very similar to the Egyptian statue of the New Kingdom period?

Lightning attraction

Walter Summerford was a real lightning magnet. During his lifetime, lightning struck him 3 times! Surprisingly, when the athlete was buried, lightning again overtook him, striking the tombstone and breaking it into pieces.

Mister Case

A BBC reporter once decided to ask a passing man about the legendary Everton-Liverpool rugby match that took place in 1967. And that passerby turned out to be goalkeeper Tommy Lawrence, who took part in it. And how is this possible?

reincarnation

Enzo Ferrari, the famous Italian entrepreneur, died on August 14, 1988. After 2 months in the same year, the football player Mesut Ozil was born. What is surprising here? Not a pin to choose between them!

Why did the world change

Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Tito and Freud at one time lived almost in the neighborhood. In 1913, in Vienna, they were located a couple of kilometers apart and even visited the same coffee houses. Let's go into more detail here...

Suicide heart

This man had a suicide heart transplant. He married the widow of his donor. But at 69, the man shot himself in exactly the same way as his predecessor.

Prophecy of Tamerlane

During the opening of the tomb of Tamerlane, archaeologists found a frightening inscription: “Whoever opens the grave will release the spirit of war. And there will be a slaughter so bloody and terrible, which the world has not seen forever and ever. This was reported to Stalin, but he did not believe it. The tomb was opened on June 21, 1941. The next day, Germany attacked the USSR ...

To a brilliant mind - a brilliant coming

Mark Twain was born 2 weeks after Halley's Comet flew over the Earth. “I came into this world with a comet and I will leave with it too,” Twain wrote in 1909. A year later, after another comet flew by, he died.

Titanic was produced

The writer Morgan Robertson published his novel Futility in 1898, in which he described the crash of the Titan liner. 14 years later, the Titanic followed the same route described in the book. The Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg, as did the Titan.

Number of the beast

Set designer John Richardson worked on The Omen and created a great car accident scene. Some time later, he had an accident on Friday the 13th near the town of Ommen at 66.6 kilometers of the track. This is no longer funny...

Doom Ring

The father, dying of cancer, gave his son a ring before his death. A couple of weeks later, the son lost the ring in the river. After 69 years, a diver fished out a ring and brought it to a man who was dying of cancer just like his father. Probably it's all about the ring...

Paperboy and spy

Russian spies in the United States used coins that were hollow on the inside to communicate and convey secret messages. One of these coins somehow ended up in circulation. And one day a boy selling newspapers dropped a coin and it split in two. On their own, the FBI and CIA officers of the United States were unable to decipher the cipher of the note contained inside. It was only thanks to a Russian spy who defected to the United States that the riddle of the message was solved. It was a greeting from Moscow ... and it was intended for this particular Russian deserter.

Geometry of the Solar System

The Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to the Earth. The geometry of the location of the Earth, the Sun and the Moon is unusual, although obvious. The apparent sizes of the Sun and Moon are almost the same. And thanks to this and the fact that the ellipses of orbits are located in the ecliptic in such a way, we can observe both eclipses. This is also the reason why Lunar eclipses are seen by us as if the Moon is red.

car prophecy

The car of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, in which he was killed, had the license plate "A III118". The assassination of Franz Ferdinand by Serbian student Gavrilo Princip triggered World War I. And its end was exactly on this date: 11-11-18, November 11, 1918. And "truce" in English "Armistice" is denoted by the letter "A". Mysterious, isn't it?

Until the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, the whole world did not suspect that the flags of Haiti and Liechtenstein are exactly the same!

They say that there are no accidents, there are patterns. In history, for example, there are many interesting coincidences. And here are some of them.

A month before the assassination of President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald got a job at the Texas School Book Depository. Later, according to the official version, it was this place that he chose as a shelter when he aimed at the 35th President of the United States.

Now the question arises. How would events have turned out if Oswald hadn't gotten the job?

Edwin Booth and Robert Lincoln

Before the death of Abraham Lincoln, his son Robert went on a trip to New Jersey. When the train started moving, young Lincoln suddenly fell down from the platform and could not climb back. Luckily, he was pulled by the collar of his coat to the safety of the platform in time.

His savior turned out to be none other than Edwin Booth, an American actor and brother of John Wilkes Booth, who would later become the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.

Gavrilo Princip and Archduke Franz Ferdinand

The Serbian-Bosnian revolutionary Gavrila Princip, who shot the Archduke of Austria, managed to carry out his insidious plan thanks to pure chance.

The first attempt to massacre the Archduke ended in complete failure, then the radical decided to take matters into his own hands. The car in which Franz Ferdinand and his wife were traveling arrived in the wrong place, then the driver stopped to turn around. That's when Princip decided to take his chance and fired several fatal shots.

If the Archduke's driver had taken the right direction, then probably we would never have heard of the First World War?

James Dean and his car

James Dean was a famous Hollywood actor in the 1950s. In 1955, he died in a horrific car accident in his powerful Porsche Spyder sports convertible, which Dean was very proud of. However, the “Little Bastard” (the actor gave such a nickname to his iron horse) continued to sow death around him for many years.

1) Everything that was left of the luxury car was transported to the garage after the accident. A pile of scrap metal that unexpectedly fell down from a trailer crippled one of the auto mechanics.

2) A sports car driven by a surgeon named William Ashrick had a Little Bastard engine installed. During the competition, the sports car lost control, and Ashrik was no longer able to get out of the car alive.

3) Many were eager to restore the infamous Porsche. However, the garage in which it was repaired, by a strange coincidence, burned to the ground.

4) Then the car was shown at an exhibition in the city of Sacramento, where he fell off the podium and crushed the thigh of a passing teenager.

5) In 1959, the cursed car met its end when it inexplicably broke into 11 pieces.

Mark Twain and Halley's Comet

Writer Mark Twain was born in 1835, on the day when Halley's comet flew near the Earth. And when he died in 1910, the comet again appeared near the earth's orbit, as the writer had predicted.

Years before the Titanic met its fate on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, Morgan Robertson wrote the novel The Abyss, in which he described the ship as like two drops of water similar to a floating giant. The unsinkable "Titan" (that's how the writer called his ship) ran into an iceberg and went under water, taking with him the lives of most of the passengers.

And the tragedy in the book happened the same month that the real Titanic sank.

Louis XVI and the 21st

When King Louis XVI of France was still a child, an astrologer warned him to always be on his guard on the 21st of every month. The gloomy forecast so frightened the king that he never planned any business for the 21st.

The French Revolution forced him to give up his habit. On June 21, 1791, the king and queen were arrested while trying to flee the country. Then, on September 21 of the same year, France was proclaimed a republic. And on January 21, 1793, King Louis XVI was executed by guillotine.

Richard Lawrence and Andrew Jackson

In 1935, Richard Lawrence made an attempt on the life of the then President of America, Andrew Jackson. He purchased two flintlock revolvers and with one of them aimed at the President's back. When Lawrence pulled the trigger, the weapon misfired. Then the offender came close, took out a second pistol and fired point-blank. However, this time something went wrong.

At that moment, the unfortunate killer attracted the attention of the crowd and he was detained. When the police checked Lawrence's weapons, both pistols were in working condition.

In 1941, Joseph Stalin ordered a group of archaeologists to open the tomb of the Central Asian conqueror Tamerlane, who was buried in Samarkand (Uzbekistan).

According to rumors, an inscription was found in his grave that read: "Whoever opens my grave will unleash an evil spirit of war, more powerful than me." Two days later, German troops invaded the territory of the USSR.

Stalin ordered that Timur's remains be reburied in 1942. Shortly thereafter, the German army capitulated at Stalingrad, a turning point in the course of World War II.