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In Monza, Italy, King Umberto I, went to a small restaurant for dinner, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, General Emilio Ponzia- Vaglia. When the owner took King Umberto’s order, the King noticed that he and the restaurant owner were virtual doubles, in face and in build. Both men began discussing the striking resemblance between each other and found many more similarities.
1. Both men were born on the same day, of the same year, (March 14th, 1844).
2. Both men had been born in the same town.
3. Both men married a woman with same name, Margherita.
4. The restaurateur opened his restaurant on the same day that King Umberto was crowned King of Italy.
5. On the 29th July 1900, King Umberto was informed that the restaurateur had died that day in a mysterious shooting accident, and as he expressed his regret, an anarchist in the crowd then assassinated him.

In 19th century Austria, a near-famous painter named Joseph Aigner attempted suicide on several occasions. During his first attempt to hang himself at the age of 18, a mysterious Capuchin monk interrupted Aigner. And again at age 22, the very same monk prevented him from hanging himself. Eight years later, he was sentenced to the gallows for his political activities. But again, his life was saved by the intervention of the same monk. At age 68, Joseph Aigner finally succeeded in suicide, using a pistol to shoot himself. Not surprisingly, the very same Capuchin monk - a man whose name Aigner never even knew, conducted his funeral ceremony.

In 1973, actor Anthony Hopkins agreed to appear in “The Girl From Petrovka”, based on a novel by George Feifer. Unable to find a copy of the book anywhere in London, Hopkins was surprised to discover one lying on a bench in a train station. It turned out to be George Feifer’s own annotated (personal) copy, which Feifer had lent to a friend, and which had been stolen from his friend’s car.

In 1883, Henry Ziegland broke off a relationship with his girlfriend who, out of distress, committed suicide. The girl’s enraged brother hunted down Ziegland and shot him. Believing he had killed Ziegland, the brother then took his own life. In fact, however, Ziegland had not been killed. The bullet had only grazed his face, lodging into a tree. It was a narrow escape. Years later, Ziegland decided to cut down the same tree, which still had the bullet in it. The huge tree seemed so formidable that he decided to blow it up with dynamite. The explosion propelled the bullet into Ziegland’s head, killing him.

From The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche: “A young woman I was treating had, at a critical moment, a dream in which she was given a golden scarab. While she was telling me this dream I sat with my back to the closed window. Suddenly I heard a noise behind me, like a gentle tapping. I turned round and saw a flying insect knocking against the windowpane from outside. I opened the window and caught the creature in the air as it flew in. It was the nearest analogy to the golden scarab that one finds in our latitudes, a scarabaeid beetle, the common rose-chafer (Cetonia aurata) which contrary to its usual habits had evidently felt an urge to get into a dark room at this particular moment. I must admit that nothing like it ever happened to me before or since, and that the dream of the patient has remained unique in my experience.” - Carl Jung

In the 1930s in New York, a commuter train dove off an open drawbridge into Newark Bay killing 30 passengers. The newspaper published photographs of the incident and the number ‘932' could be seen clearly on the side of one of the coaches. A large number of people selected that number for the Manhattan numbers game and the number came up! Thousands of people won.

Morgan Robertson's 1898 novella Futility had many parallels with the RMS Titanic disaster; the book concerned a fictional state-of-the-art ocean liner called Titan, which (like the Titanic) eventually collides with an iceberg on a calm April night whilst en route to New York, with many dying because of the lack of lifeboats. Various other details in the book coincide with the Titanic disaster. Later, she wrote a book, Beyond the Spectrum, that described a future war fought with aircraft that carried "sun bombs". Incredibly powerful, one bomb could destroy a city, erupting in a flash of light that blinds all who look at it. The war begins in December, started by the Japanese with a sneak attack on Hawaii.

In Texas, USA, in 1899, Canadian actor Charles Francis Coghlan became ill and died whilst he was in Galveston. Because it was too far to return his remains to his home on Prince Edward Island, 3500 miles away, he was instead buried in a lead coffin inside a granite vault.
A year after his death, in September 1900, a hurricane hit Galveston, flooding the graveyard, shattering Charles Coghlan’s granite vault and carrying away his lead coffin out into the Gulf of Mexico.
In October 1908, eight years after the hurricane, fishermen on Prince Edward Island spotted a weathered box floating near the shore. It was the coffin of Charles Coghlan, which had finally returned home. He was buried in the nearby church where he had been christened as a baby.

In 1899 a man was killed by a bolt of lightning as he stood in his backyard in Taranto, Italy. Thirty years later, his son was killed in the very same spot by another bolt of lightning. On October 8, 1949, Rolla Primarda, the second victim’s son (and grandson of the first victim) was also killed in the same spot by yet another bolt of lightning.

Jean Marie Dubarry, a Frenchman, was executed on February 13, 1746 for the murder of his father. 100 years, to the day, another Frenchman also named Jean Marie Dubarry was executed… also for the murder of his father.

On the 26th November, 1911, three men were hanged at Greenberry Hill in London after being convicted of the murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey. The killers names were Robert Green, Henry Berry and Lawrence Hill (Green, Berry, and Hill).

In 1953, television reporter Irv Kupcinet was in London to cover the coronation of Ellizabeth II. In one of the drawers in his room at the Savoy he found some items that, by their identification, belonged to a man named Harry Hannin. Coincidentally, Harry Hannin - a basketball star with the famed Harlem Globetrotters - was a good friend of Kupcinet’s. But the story has yet another twist. Just two days later, and before he could tell Hannin of his lucky discovery, Kupcinet received a letter from Hannin. In the letter, Hannin told Kucinet that while staying at the Hotel Meurice in Paris, he found in a drawer a tie - with Kupcinet’s name on it.

In 1975, while riding a moped in Bermuda, a man was accidentally struck and killed by a taxi. One year later, this man’s brother was killed in the very same way. In fact, he was riding the very same moped. And to stretch the odds even further, the very same taxi driven by the same driver - and even carrying the very same passenger struck him!

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The only coincidence that comes to mind is one related to the construction of the Hoover Dam. But it can be disputed.

From Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam

>A popular story holds that the first person to die in the construction of Hoover Dam was J. G. Tierney, a surveyor who drowned while looking for an ideal spot for the dam. Coincidentally, his son, Patrick W. Tierney, was the last man to die working on the dam, 13 years to the day later.

The twin brothers, Jim Lewis and Jim Springer, were separated at birth, adopted by different families. Unknown to each other, both families named the boys James. Both James grew up not knowing of the other, yet both sought law-enforcement training both had abilities in mechanical drawing and carpentry, and each had married women named Linda. Both had sons, one of who was named James Alan and the other named James Allan. The twin brothers also divorced their wives and married other women - both named Betty. And they both owned dogs which they named Toy.

A German mother who photographed her infant son in 1914 left the film to be developed at a store in Strasbourg. In those days some film plates were sold individually. World War I broke out and unable to return to Strasbourg, the woman gave up the picture for lost. Two years later she bought a film plate in Frankfurt, over 100 miles away, to take a picture of her newborn daughter. When developed the film turned out to be a double exposure, with the picture of her daughter superimposed on the earlier picture of her son. Through some incredible twist of fate, her original film, never developed, had been mislabeled as unused, and had eventually been resold to her.

In 1858, Robert Fallon was shot dead, an act of vengeance by those with whom he was playing poker. Fallon, they claimed, had won the $600 pot through cheating. With Fallon’s seat empty and none of the other players willing to take the now unlucky $600, they found a new player to take Fallon’s place and staked him with the dead man’s $600. By the time the police had arrived to investigate the killing, the new player had turned the $600 into $2,200 in winnings. The police demanded the original $600 to pass on to Fallon’s next of kin - only to discover that the new player turned out to be Fallon’s son, who had not seen his father in seven years!

While American novelist Anne Parrish was browsing bookstores in Paris in the 1920s, she came upon a book that was one of her childhood favorites - Jack Frost and Other Stories. She picked up the old book and showed it to her husband, telling him of the book she fondly remembered as a child. Her husband took the book, opened it, and on the flyleaf found the inscription: “Anne Parrish, 209 N. Weber Street, Colorado Springs.” It was Anne’s very own book.

In 2002, Seventy-year-old twin brothers died within hours of one another after separate accidents on the same road in northern Finland. The first of the twins died when he was hit by a lorry while riding his bike in Raahe, 600 kilometres north of the capital, Helsinki. He died just 1.5km from the spot where his brother was killed. “This is simply a historic coincidence. Although the road is a busy one, accidents don’t occur every day,” police officer Marja-Leena Huhtala told Reuters. “It made my hair stand on end when I heard the two were brothers, and identical twins at that. It came to mind that perhaps someone from upstairs had a say in this,” she said.

In 1930s Detroit, a man named Joseph Figlock was to become an amazing figure in a young (and, apparently, incredibly careless) mother’s life. As Figlock was walking down the street, the mother’s baby fell from a high window onto Figlock. The baby’s fall was broken and Figlock and the baby were unharmed. A year later, the selfsame baby fell from the selfsame window, again falling onto Mr. Figlock as he was passing beneath. Once again, both of them survived the event.

19th century poet, Emile Deschamps, once said that when he was a schoolboy, he shared a table at a restaurant with M. de Fortgibu, who had recently returned from England with a taste for plum puddings, which were unavailable in France at that time. He insisted that Deschamps sample one.

Ten years later Deschamps passed a restaurant and saw that it was serving plum pudding, so Deschamps went in and ordered a slice, to be told that it was reserved for another customer. Deschamps went over to the customer to beg his favour and it turned out to be M. de Fortgibu, both men being astonished at meeting again after so long a time over the same dish.

Many years passed by, and Deschamps was invited to a dinner party which featured plum pudding. At the party Deschamps was telling his hosts about the extraordinary encounter with Fortgibu, the hosts joking about the possibility of the old man turning up when suddenly, there was Fortgibu again, who had also been invited to the party.

Deschamps said, “Three times in my life I have eaten plum pudding, and three times I have seen M. Fortgibu. My hair stood up on my head!”

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>>3017928
EAT THE PUDDING
EAT THE PUDDING
EAT THE PUDDING
EAT THE PUDDING
EAT THE PUDDING
EAT THE PUDDING
EAT THE PUDDING
EAT THE PUDDING

>>3017925
BITCH, STOP THROWING BABIES AT ME!

>>3017925
"Hey, there's that Joe Figlock. Watch this, I'm gonna throw the baby at him again, he'll SHIT BRICKS!"

>>3017925
"No way, he caught the baby? Damn, I bet he couldn't do that again if he tried."

"...Just how much would you bet?"

Fuck, I lol'd hard

I'm surprised that this was not mentioned, its a quote from Robert Anton Wilson:

"I first heard of the 23 enigma from William S Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, Nova Express, etc. According to Burroughs, he had known a certain Captain Clark, around 1960 in Tangier, who once bragged that he had been sailing 23 years without an accident. That very day, Clark’s ship had an accident that killed him and everybody else aboard. Furthermore, while Burroughs was thinking about this crude example of the irony of the gods that evening, a bulletin on the radio announced the crash of an airliner in Florida, USA. The pilot was another captain Clark and the flight was Flight 23"

>>3018045
Hmm, never heard about that. Thanks!

What about that recent "real life final destination" stuff?
You know, with the plane that went down in the atlantic ocean. 1 (french?) lady was sick so she missed the flight. A week later she died in a car accident.

>>3018045
JIM CARREY WAS IN A MOVIE "BATMAN FOREVER" AS EDWARD NIGMA OR E. NIGMA ALSO HE WAS IN A MOVIE "THE NUMBER 23" I SHAT BRIX

>>3018045
>>3018140
>I first heard of the 23 enigma
>23 enigma
lol

Henri Trange fought five duels in Marseilles, France, between the years of 1861 and 1878. The first four of his opponents died before any shots were fired. Just before any shots were fired in the fifth duel, Trange himself dropped dead.

A British officer, Major Summerford, while fighting in the fields of Flanders in February 1918 was knocked off his horse by a flash of lightning and paralyzed from the waist down. Summerford retired and moved to Vancouver. One day in 1924, as he fished alongside a river, lightning hit the tree he was sitting under and paralyzed his right side. Two years later Summerford was sufficiently recovered that he was able to take walks in a local park. He was walking there one summer day in 1930 when a lightning bolt smashed into him, permanently paralyzing him. He died two years later. But lightning sought him out one last time. Four years later, during a storm, lightning struck a cemetery and destroyed a tombstone. The deceased buried here? Major Summerford.

Mark Twain was born on the day of the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1835, and died on the day of its next appearance in 1910. He himself predicted this in 1909, when he said: "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it."

>>3018145
Is there any record of how these men died?

>>3018140
JIM CARREY WAS IN A MOVIE "BATMAN FOREVER" AS EDWARD NIGMA OR E. NIGMA ALSO HE WAS IN A MOVIE "THE NUMBER 23"

That's 23 words!

>>3018168
...the post was 26 words. would have been cool though.

23

Bismark has a weirdest entry in his diary about a strange dream about red sky or a comet or something like that, can't remember and too lazy to google it.
Guess what happened that day

>>3018314

World War III.

>>3017874
>>3017869
>>3017918
>>3017912
>>3017888
...whoah

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Lots of weird twin coincidences.
http://www.twinsrealm.com/othr_txt.html

OP I love you

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>>3018135
Bitch didn't board the flight? Watch this...

No JFK/Lincoln assassination coincidence? Someone post it, please. I don't have it on me right now.

Thread 3017862 has already been archived.

It is probably still waiting to be reviewed by the mods, which means it can take a few days until it is available in the archive.

Cool story, Ecksphiles.

man, i want to add this to /x/enopedia but i dont know how to shot web

im 12 and what is wiki

Awesome awesome awesome.

On December 5, 1664, a ship in the Menai Strait, off North Wales, sank with 81 passengers on board. There was one survivor, a man named Hugh Williams.

On December 5, 1785, another ship (source doesn't say where) sank with 60 passengers aboard. There was one survivor, a man named Hugh Williams.

On December 5, 1860, another ship (again, source doesn't say where) sank with 25 passengers aboard. There was one survivor, a man named Hugh Williams.

The day Flight 587 crashed in New York, the pick-3 lottery number in New Jersey was 587. The number the next day was 578.

>>3017902
The brothers were both 17 when they died.

In the months before the 1944 Normandy invasion in WW2, the London Daily Telegraph's crossword puzzle included many top-secret codewords for the Allied operations: Omaha, Utah, Mulberry, Neptune, and the code for D-Day itself, Overlord. The puzzle was compiled by a schoolteacher who could not have had any knowledge of the codes.

In 1965. four-year-old Roger Lausier was saved from drowning by a woman named Alice Blaise at a beach in Salem, Massachusetts. Nine years later, that is in 1974, Lausier saved a drowning man at the same beach. The man was Alice Blaise's husband.

The Austrian composer Arnold Schönberg had a lifelong fascination with numerology and particularly the number 13. Born September 13, 1874, he was convinced the number 13 would also figure in his death. He assumed he would die in his 76th year since 7 plus 6 is 13. He turned 76 years old in 1950. The next year, 1951, he saw that July 13 would fall on a Friday. That Friday the 13th, he stayed in bed. 13 minutes before midnight, Schönberg muttered the word "harmony" and died.

>>3020818

Holy shit...my company is holding a conference on a cruiseship next month.

Name of my section leader? Hugh Williams. From Wales. Indeterminate age, secretive, no one knows dick about this guy other than that he does his job.

Maybe I should stay home...

>>3021508
13 minutes before midnight, the time Arnold Schönberg died, is 11:47. 1+1+4+7 = 13.

In 1936, the first issue of LIFE magazine featured a picture of newborn baby George Story under the headline "LIFE BEGINS". Over the years, the magazine periodically updated readers about the "LIFE baby", as Story married twice, had children, and retired. On April 4, 2000, just days after LIFE had announced that it would cease publication, Story died of heart failure. The final issue of LIFE featured one last article about Story. The headline: A LIFE ENDS.

When King Louis XVI of France was a child, he was warned by an astrologer to always be on his guard on the 21st day of each month.

Louis was so terrified by this that he never did business on this day. Unfortunately Louis was not always on his guard.

On June 21st 1791, following the French revolution, Louis and his queen were arrested in Varennes, whist trying to escape France.

On September 21st 1791, France abolished the institution of Royalty and proclaimed itself a republic.

Finally on January 21st 1793, King Louis XVI was executed by guillotine.

>>3021511
you should definitely stay home. hang out at hospitals, get swine flu. that should give you a suitable excuse not to go.

>>3021511
Holy shit indeed.

In the 1920s, three Englishmen were traveling separately by train through Peru. They were the only three men in their railroad car. Manners of the time dictated that they introduce themselves to each other. One man's last name was Bingham, the second man's last name was Powell, and the third man's last name was Bingham-Powell. None were related in any way.

While on a business trip sometime in the late 1950s, Mr. George D. Bryson stopped and registered at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. After signing the register and being given his key to room 307, he stopped by the mail desk to see if any letters had arrived for him. Indeed there was a letter, the mail girl told him, and handed him an envelope addressed to Mr. George D. Bryson, room 307.

The letter was not for him, but for room 307's immediately previous occupant - another man named George D. Bryson.

>>3017917
...I remember this from Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction.

>>3017865

This has to be a one in a trillion coincidence.

>>3021711
The version I've read has it that the King met the restaurant owner the day before both died.

Claude Volbonne killed Baron Rodemire de Tarazone of France in 1872. 21 years earlier, the Baron's father had been murdered by somebody else named Claude Volbonne.

>>3017928
Carl Jung developed his concept of synchronicity based on the plum pudding anecdote.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity

Some of these anecdotes seem to have too many details, which makes me wonder if the original source is a one-person account. In this case, some of the details are probably embellished or made up. People lie or misremember facts all the time, even in front of a judge, and not just the common folk salt of the earth types. Not in all cases of course, there's always the unexplained 2%.

Having said that, I'd love to corroborate some of these stories myself. And of they really hold up to scrutiny what are we supposed to inferred from them?

Good job OP

>>3021788
That page has two more true anecdotes yet unmentioned here:

The wardrobe department for The Wizard of Oz unknowingly purchased a coat for the character Professor Marvel from a second-hand store, which was later verified to have originally been owned by L. Frank Baum, the author of the novel on which the film was based.

The comic strip character Dennis The Menace, featuring a young boy in a red and black striped shirt, debuted on March 12, 1951 in 16 newspapers in the United States. Three days later, a character also called Dennis The Menace, a young boy wearing a red and black striped jumper, made his debut in the children's comic The Beano in the United Kingdom. Both creators have denied any causal connection.

i dont mean to interrupt this circle jerk but lets remember that well known stories like Benjamin Franklin and the kite, newton and the apple or nostradamus and the pope are apocryphal

>>3019554

As requested:

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.

Both Presidents were particularly concerned with civil rights.

Both of their wives lost children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.

Both Presidents were shot in the head.

Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy. Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.

Both were succeeded by Southerners.

Both successors were named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839. Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

Both assassins are known by their three names.

Both of their names are comprised of fifteen letters.

Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theater. Kennedy was shot in a Ford Lincoln.

Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse. Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.

Both John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald were killed before they could be brought to trial.

Too bad it's not what it seems: http://www.snopes.com/history/american/lincoln-kennedy.asp

On the 26th November, 1911, three men were hanged at Greenberry Hill in London after being convicted of the murder of Sir Edmund Berry. As a strange coincidence their names were Green, Berry and Hill.

In 1960, baritone Leonard Warren was performing at the New York Metropolitan Opera during a performance of Verdi's La Forza del Destino (The Force of Destiny). Warren had just begun the aria "O fatal urn of my destiny". When he reached the word "fatal", he fell dead from a heart attack.

>>3021850
Also, most coincidences are just perceived as such. Trying to find patterns, the mind ignores many details that'd show the coincidence was a cause-effect event or creates links between unrelated events.

In 1974, Frank Clatworthy and his identical twin brother Jack were injured within an hour of each other in separate traffic accidents on the same road. The brothers were driving home to Somerset, England and coming from the same party. They did not know of each other's predicament till they woke up in adjacent hospital beds.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=799&dat=19740107&id=WGcLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JFMDAAAAIBAJ
&pg=1090,312271

>>3021928
>>3021850
Still, this is a great thread. The great thing about the paranormal phenomena is that it make you question how you perceive reality.

The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington, Virginia. As a symbol of the U.S. military, "the Pentagon" is often used metonymically to refer to the Department of Defense rather than the building itself.

Designed by the American architect George Bergstrom (1876 – 1955), and built by Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, general contractor John McShain, the building was dedicated on January 15, 1943, after ground was broken for construction on September 11, 1941

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At the July 1982 funeral of a grandmother in Blairsville, Georgia, the Reverend Ray Hewitt concluded his address with the words, "We never know what is going to happen next."

Seconds later a bolt of lightning struck the deceased's grandson, Donald Metcalf, who was killed instantly.

The Reverend Hewitt later told the press, "I have never witnessed anything like that in 30 years of preaching."

Working on his novel Barbary Shore, Norman Mailer introduced a Russian spy in the U.S. as a minor character. Mailer had not originally planned to include such a character. As Mailer's work progressed, the spy became the dominant character in the novel. After the novel was completed, the U.S. Immigration Service arrested a man who lived just one floor above Mailer in the same apartment building. He was Colonel Rudolf Abel, alleged to be the top Russian spy working in the U.S. at that time.

In 1979, the German magazine Das Besteran ran a writing competition. Readers sent in unusual stories, but they had to be based on true incidents.

The winner, Walter Kellner of Munich, had his story published. He wrote about a time when he was flying a Cessna 421 between Sardinia and Sicily. He encountered engine trouble at sea, landed in the water, spent some time in an emergency dinghy and was then rescued.

This story was spotted by an Austrian, also named Walter Kellner, who said that the German Kellner had plagiarized the story. The Austrian Kellner said that he had flown a Cessna 421 over the same sea, experienced engine trouble and was forced to land in Sardinia. It was essentially the same story, with a slightly different ending.

The magazine checked both stories, and both turned out to be true, even though they were nearly identical.

Some funny ones:

In November 1974 the family of Noel McCabe was listening to a recording of Frankie Laine singing "The Wild Goose" at their home at Kingston Street, Derby, England, when a Canada goose crashed through a window in their bedroom..

As the inhabitants of Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire, were watching a scene in the film Around the World in 80 Days, where a hot air balloon was about to take off, their TV sets went off due to a power cut. Nearby, power lines had been damaged. A hot air balloon had crashed into them.

>>3020818
All three ships were in the same area

Once [lol] there was a German woman who lost her wedding ring. Forty years later, she was slicing potatoes in her kitchen and she found the ring embedded in one of the potatoes.

Frederick Chance was speeding down a lonely road in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, when he saw the headlights of an oncoming car. As both vehicles were travelling at a high speed, they were unable to swerve in time. Emerging from the wreckage with only minor injuries, Chance checked in the other car and satisfied himself that its driver was also relatively unharmed. Thankful that the accident had not been worse, Chance introduced himself to the driver, and was incredulous for he, too, was named Frederick Chance.

>>3017884

In April 1935, seaman William Reeves was standing the bow watch aboard the tramp steamer Titanian, bound for Canada from England. The similarities and memories of the Titanic tragedy preyed on young Reeve’s mind and sent a shiver up his spine. His boat’s bow was cutting through the same still waters the Titanic had. And as midnight, the hour of the great ocean liner’s end, approached, Reeves remembered that the date the great ocean liner sank, was his own birthday. Overwhelmed by coincidence, Reeves called out, and the Titanian hove to, stopping just short of a looming iceberg. Soon after, other crystal mountains rose out of the night. The Titanian sat still, but safe, for nine days, until icebreakers from Newfoundland finally cut a swath through the deadly ice.

>>3021861

Both Presidents foresaw their own deaths. Lincoln told a guard on the day he was assassinated that there were "man who want to take my life…. And I have no doubt they will do it…if it is to be done, it is impossible to prevent it."

A few hours before he was felled by Oswald’s bullets, Kennedy said to his wife and personal adviser, "if somebody wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop it, so why worry about it?"

In May 1979 an American Airlines DC-10 crashed near O’Hare Airport in Chicago shortly after taking off for a flight to California. Among the victims was author Judy Wax, whose book, Starting in the Middle, had just been published.

The flight number of the doomed plane was 191. On page 191 of her book Mrs. Wax had discussed her fear of flying.

>>3022129
Reminds me of the person who found "Allah" "written" in Arabic in the chambers of a tomato.

As reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, Charlotte Muse and her co-workers were being annoyed one day by a housefly buzzing around their office. When it alighted on an open book, one of them slammed the book shut. The book was a dictionary. When they looked inside, they saw that the fly had been smashed right on the word "housefly."

>>3021903

In 1996, Richard Versalle died of a heart attack onstage at the New York Metropolitan Opera during a performance of "The Makropulos Case". Versalle had just delivered the line "Too bad you can only live so long."

A grandfather clock in Winnipeg, Canada stopped on the very same day that its owner died, at the age of 72. According to family tradition, the clock was supposed to be passed along to the family’s eldest son, but since this couple had no male heirs, the widow kept it. She tried to have it repaired; several clockmakers looked at it, but to no avail; no one could figure out what was wrong with it. Then one afternoon years later, she heard the clock ticking loudly. Somehow, it had just started working again. Right at that moment, the telephone rang: it was her son-in-law, with the happy news that her first grandson had been born 15 minutes earlier.

>>3017928
According to another version M. de Fortgibu was not even invited to the party and had the wrong address.

Some of these are in here: http://books.google.com/books?id=A49wPUEPGt8C

30221923 is not what this post is going to be.

In July1930, a policeman called Allan Folby from Texas got in a car crash and ruptured a femoral artery in his leg. He would have bled to death had not a passerby named Alfred Smith intervened and applied a tourniquet. The policeman eventually recovered and went back to his beat.

Five years later, Folby got a call to proceed to a car crash site. He saw a man lying on the ground, his femoral artery ruptured. As he applied a tourniquet to stop the bleeding, he learned the man's name was Alfred Smith. It was the very man who saved his life under the same circumstances.

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In July 1930, a Texas policeman named Allan Folby got in a car crash and ruptured a femoral artery in his leg. He would have bled to death had not a passerby named Alfred Smith intervened and applied a tourniquet. The policeman eventually recovered and went back to his beat.

Five years later, Folby got a call to proceed to a car crash site. He saw a man lying on the ground, his femoral artery ruptured. As he applied a tourniquet to stop the bleeding, he learned the man's name was Alfred Smith. It was the very man who had saved his life under the same circumstances.

Since 1840, every U.S. president elected in a year ending with a zero has either died or almost died in office.

1840, William Henry Harrison: pneumonia

1860, Abraham Lincoln: assassinated

1880, James Garfield: assassinated

1900, William McKinley: assassinated

1920, Warren Harding: pneumonia

1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt: cerebral hemorrhage

1960, John F. Kennedy: assassinated

1980, Ronald Reagan: survived an assassination attempt

2000, George W. Bush: Almost choked to death on a pretzel. Yes, a pretzel.

>>3022024
I've read that the two guys had even used the same plane.

There's troves of this in Ripley's Believe it or Not books for sure. Too bad I don't actually have any at hand right now.

But in World War 2 a GI was walking through the graveyard at Iwo Jima or Okinawa (I forget), fearing his brother, who was in a different unit and whom he had not seen in a while, had been killed. He kept walking for minutes until suddenly he was face-to-face with his brother who was doing the exact same thing.

Belated happy Veteran's Day.

This is all indeed very amusing, but how much of it can actually be considered fact, not legend or folklore?

If one takes the time I'm sure hard sources can be found. Most of these are copied from other sites (a few have sources here) as Googling shows.

Since 1840, every U.S. president elected in a year ending with a number has either died or lived.

>>3022168
Housefly coincidence is here

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1996/07/07/sc30068.dtl&hw=SMALL+BLONDES&sn=
009&sc=242

The article has more stuff:

Don Payne met a blonde when he was having his Jaguar fixed in Las Vegas. He chatted her up, then asked her to dinner. She said no.

A month later, he stopped to help a woman whose car had broken down on the side of the road; it was the blonde. A year later, he stopped again to help a woman whose car was on fire; it was the blonde.

Three years later on the Bay Bridge, he stopped to help victims of a car accident. The blonde was one of them. They talked about their earlier meetings while waiting for an ambulance to arrive, and he asked her to dinner again. This time, she agreed to a date. Her name was Nancy.

Don waited for two hours but Nancy was a no-show.

"After that," said Don to the press, "I quit stopping at the scene of accidents. And I haven't encountered Nancy since.''

>>3021511
You must be reading this thread for a reason. Coincidence is Gods way of winking at you.

>>3021511
As long as you're not sailing on December 5 it should be all right.

>>3022538
Obvious troll, try harder.

>>3021850
What are you talking about?

>>3022549
Not a troll, Mr Newfag. inb4 lrn2 detect trolls

>>3022388
The Ripley's books have stuff like pocket Bibles stopping bullets and soldiers shooting down each other's barrels.

>>3021928 OBVIOUS FAGGOT IS OBVIOUS

Well, some weeks ago, I was listening to the radio while I was going to the bus stop, and three times I got rickrolled as I was waiting there. The three times were from different stations... and the fucking song wouldn't even leave me alone; I'd be walking to my house and I'd hear it again (happened thrice), I'd be waiting for someone to buy their food so I can order mine, and in the background I'd hear the chorus on the radio (happened once), I'd be sitting on the bus to hear it again.

>>3022556
Or pocket watches. That may be possible but the splinting would probably pose a risk just the same.

The American Medical Weekly of 1874 reported the curious case of a Confederate soldier whose left testicle had been torn away by a bullet. At the same time a farm girl, whose house was nearby, was hit by a bullet in the crossfire. She suffered a wound to the abdomen. This happened on May 12, 1863 in Virginia.

The girl was later found to be pregnant, though she was still a physical virgin. The town doctor, who had looked after both the girl and the soldier, concluded that the same bullet which had carried away the young man's testicle had penetrated the ovary of the young lady, and, with some spermatozoa upon it, had impregnated her.

With this conviction he approached the young man and told him the circumstances; the soldier appeared skeptical at first, but consented to visit the young mother; a friendship ensued which soon ripened into a happy marriage. The pair had three children, none resembling, in the same degree as the first, the father.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreck_of_the_Titan

Written in 1898.
Titanic sank in 1912.
Weird.

http://www.maebrussell.com/Hearst/Abduction%20intro.html

>>3022629
>Woman shot with sperm-covered bullet
>She's pregnant

I can believe just about everything else here, but this...

>>3022629
Wait, that's chance, not coincidence!

>>3022629

Mythbusters busted that one. I don't remember the details, but I think it was something like the bullet is too hot for any sperm to survive on the surface of it.