Top 20 Creepiest Coincidences in History

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? For this list, we're looking at various chance encounters, overlapping events, or strange connections throughout

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that will give you chills. Number 20, Karma Kills Many relationships end on a sour note, but they rarely result in the death of three people. Legend has it that at the end of the 19th century, Henry Ziegland broke up with his girlfriend, who committed suicide. As a result, his brother pursued Ziegland and shot him, committing suicide immediately after Ziegland was not killed. However, due to the shot, the bullet barely hit him and arrested him in a nearby tree.

Years later, Ziegland attempted to blow up the tree only for the explosion to propel the bullet into his head, killing him at 19 Erting T'en on May 27, 1817. The body of a 20-year-old woman named Mary Ashford was found with signs of trauma in the Birmingham suburb of Earn Tynin, England. The man she had gone out with the previous night, Abraham Thornton, was considered the prime suspect due to lack of evidence. a strong alibi, he was eventually found not guilty, leaving the crime unsolved, fast forward 157 years to 1974 and winning tannot is beaten for an almost identical crime, another 20-year-old woman was found dead after having disappeared like Mary Ashford in the Christian holiday.

On Monday the last person who saw her was a man with the same surname Michael Ian Thornton he was also declared innocent number 18 the cases of Catherine Eddowes and Mary Kelly on the afternoon of September 29, 1888 London a woman named Catherine Eddowes was arrested for being drunk on the streets, however, the police did not know her true identity until after the fact, since she gave them a false one during her stay in the drunk tank, that of Mary Kelly, if any of those names ring a bell. it's because they both met the same gruesome fate at the hands of Jack the Ripper.

Edo was murdered shortly after being released from custody, she was her penultimate victim and one of only two to have her face mutilated, the other being none other. that the real Kelly, the last known victim of the rippers through DNA, you may be able to satisfy some claims that she, who descended, was an ancestor of someone today number 17, the Jim twins, let's look at a coincidence that, if Although it is strange, it has a noticeably happier ending. James Jim Lewis and James Jim Springer were separated shortly after birth and adopted by different families. They grew up without any contact with each other when they finally met at the age of 39.

The similarities between their lives were absolutely astonishing. It's like you had something that was your favorite and you lost it and he had to have it you know and you finally finally and there's a good feeling in defiantly finding that thing that's how I was with Jim when they were kids they both had dogs called toys and they excelled in math and carpentry and and you like a certain type of woman when they are adults they were both married twice first two women named Linda then two women named Betty when they had children they both named them James Allen both were smokers they drove Chevy and even chose to go on vacation to the same Florida beach and it was named dog toy we were both on vacation in the same place in Florida exactly the same beach number 16 kings bend over to protect themselves many kings use body doubles apparently king Umberto the first of Italy met his own double by accident while had dinner in a small restaurant who did not realize that the owner of the restaurant was almost identical in appearance but they soon discovered more similarities both were born in the same city on the same day in the same year both married a woman named Margarita and the owner He had opened his restaurant the same day Umberto was crowned king.

Wait, it gets stranger the day after the couple met on July 29, 1900. The owner died in an accidental shooting the same day Umberto was murdered. The actor in James Dean's car number 15. and icon James Dean tragically died at the tender age of 24, in addition to being a acting dean, he was passionate about cars to the point that he was contemplating venturing into professional racing; Unfortunately, on September 30, 1955, his dreams came to a screeching halt when he got into a fatal accident on the way to a race in his new Porsche 550 Spider, as is often the case with famous cars, since then the spider on his parts has changed hands several times, but seems to bring bad luck to everyone who touches the car's engine.

He has been involved in a series of subsequent accidents, one fatal and the powertrain another, plus a building where the car was stored caught fire. Number 14. Two brothers finished. They say that twins have an incredibly strong bond and often know what the other is thinking, feeling or doing. These two washed-up brothers took that bond to another level in 2002, when they both died on the same highway in separate accidents just hours apart. The first brother died when he was hit by a truck while riding a bicycle. The second brother died two hours later. Later, under exactly the same circumstances, approximately a mile from the place where his brother had been murdered earlier at number 13, the mysterious monk frustrated with life and depressed, the painter Joseph Eichner attempted suicide on multiple occasions, once when he was 18 years old and another when he was 22 years old, but according to Ripley's Believe It or Not he was arrested both times by the same Capuchin monk when he was thirty.

Eichner was sentenced to death for his political activities, but was again saved by the monk who intervened on his behalf. nerv was successful and committed suicide with a gun when he was 68 the funeral ceremony was conducted by you guessed the exact same capuchin monk whose name I never even knew number 12 falling baby it rains dogs and cats it's one thing but babies one day in 1937 , Detroit street sweeper Joseph Big Lock was hit on the head by a baby who fell from a fourth-story window. Fortunately, Fig Lock broke the baby's fall, and although both were injured, the baby survived a year later.

Fig Lock took care of his business. sweeping in an alley when another child, this time a two year old fell from the sky directly onto Fig Lock once again Fig Lock unknowingly saved the day talks about being in the right place at the right time twice number 11 a painting that predicted Hitler's evil before being caught involved in politics and becoming one of the greatest monsters in human history, Hitler had aspirations as a painter even after abandoning them, however, he remained passionate about the arts and He says this painting was one of his favorites painted by Franz von Schuch, a Hitler artist.

Long admired, The Wild Hunt is a grim and sinister work that von Schuch completed in 1889, the year of Hitler's birth. The painting depicts the vote on a Germanic god who leads the mythical wild hunt followed by an army of the dead. striking resemblance to Hitler and many look back on this painting is to have predicted his rise to power and his bloody legacy number 10 the cannibalized boy one of the greatest authors of the 19th century Edgar Allan Poe wrote a book titled The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket The book depicts four shipwreck survivors who eventually kill an ADA boy named Richard Parker several years after Poe's story is published.

A yacht named mignonette sank and left the survivors stranded at sea. The three oldest survivors eventually killed and ate the cabin boy whose name was Richard. Parker Number Nine Thomas Jefferson and John Adams John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were two of the most important players in the founding of the United States and played an important role in the creation and signing of the Declaration of Independence which was finally approved on July 4 1776. Although their relationship deteriorated over the years, they finally reconciled and strangely died on exactly the same day, that day, July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the signing of Declaration number eight, Cortés's Aztec prediction to At the beginning of the 16th century, the Aztec empire was at its peak. of its prosperity under Mount Kusama II in 1519, however, an ancient and deadly prophecy apparently came true, bringing unimaginable destruction to this inspiring civilization according to local legend.

Quetzalcoatl, described as a bearded and white-skinned man, would one day return from his travels to stake his claim on the Aztecs again. The scheduled date in the Mayan calendar coincided with the year in which the Spanish conquistadors arrived led by the bearded man and white skin Arnón Cortés number seven club 27 club 27 refers to a group of famous people, mainly musicians who died at the age of 27 began in the late 1960s, when Rolling Stone frontman Brian Jones Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix died at this age, two and a half decades later, Kurt Cobain committed suicide at age 27 and recently Amy Winehouse suffered an overdose. and she died at the age of 27.

Winehouse actually stated years earlier that she was worried about dying at 27. In total, the club has claimed more than 60 artists, musicians and actors since the beginning of the 20th century. Number 6 Mark Twain and Halley's Comet Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835, just two weeks after Halley's Comet was visible on Earth, Twain, author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , seemed to be strongly associated with this celestial event; in fact, he famously stated the quote: I arrived with Halley. The comet of 1835 will return next year and I hope to go out with it.

It will be the biggest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said that without a doubt these two inexplicable monsters are here now. they entered together they must leave together she died on April 21, 1910 one day after the comet returned number 5 Violet Jessop also known as Miss Unsinkable this Irish Argentine stewardess had a special ability to be in the wrong place at the wrong time but somehow way emerge The violet unharmed Jessop was working aboard the RMS Olympic when she collided with the British warship HMS Hawke in 1911. The Olympic had to limp back to port, however, this was just a taste of what was to come.

Jessop was also aboard the Titanic when she sank in 1912 and the HMHS Britannic, which sank in 1916 due to a sudden explosion later revealed to be a mine, earning Jessup the nickname Miss Unsinkable. We are thinking that with her luck she was the best person to stay close to on board a ship or perhaps a reason why chien ships are completely numbered for a registration the first world war predicted as most historians They agree that the First World War, which would last for years and claim the lives of millions, began with the death of one man on June 28, 1914, the Archduke.

Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Bosnian Yugoslav Serb nationalists. The war soon followed the drying up of an ever-widening network of allies in what became a global conflict. No one had any idea when or how it would end, with one possible exception, a license plate, when searching for answers. It's usually worth going back to where it all started. Indeed, the same car in which Franz Ferdinand was murdered contained a prediction that his license plate was 1 1 1 1 1 8, which many retros actively read as armistice November 11, 1918 number 3 Tomb of Tamara Lanes. In June 1941, Russian anthropologists led by Mikhail Guerra Seamoth conducted an excavation at the gude site.

In the middle of this mausoleum was the final resting place of Tamerlane, a Turkish or Mongol conqueror who surveyed the Timurid empire and was thought to be responsible for the deaths of up to 17 million people as a result of his deadly campaigns, depending on a Who you ask, however, may have increased the post-mortem body count inside his coffin, anthropologists supposedly found the inscription: "Whoever opens my grave will unleash an invader more terrible than me." went ahead and opened the tomb anyway three days later Operation Barbarossa began this Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union was the largest in human history number two the Titan and the Titanic in 1898 Morgan Robertson published a novel titled Futility or the wreck of the Titan the plot revolved around the HMS Titan, a British luxury liner that struck an iceberg and sank while crossing the North Atlantic, of course, in 1912, the Titanic sank in a similar manner and that's where things they get strange, be indifferent about some things, but not the Titanic, so 100 more feet. that Montaigne both ships were considered unsinkable both struck an iceberg in the month of April approximately 400 miles off Newfoundland both were approximately 800 feet long and both resulted in the deaths of over 2,000 people the lack of life jackets and lifeboats also was aserious problem for both ships tragically, so for the real life Titanic before we continue, make sure to subscribe to our channel and ring the bell to receive notifications about our latest videos.

You have the option to receive notifications for occasional videos or for all of them if you are on your phone be sure to go into your settings and turn on notifications number one JFK and Abraham Lincoln Lincoln and JFK were elected to Congress 100 years apart in 1846 and 1946 respectively, both became president 14 years later, in 1860 and 1960, President Kennedy and Governor John Connally have been killed by an assassin's bullets in downtown Dallas. They were both killed by fatal gunshot wounds to the head and were succeeded by men named Johnson who, when you know it, were born 100 years apart, add to that a few other

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like these. die on Friday, their last names contain seven letters and the fact that they were both famous for their civil rights efforts and that there are two presidents cut from an eerily similar cloth when they say that communism is repugnant to the freedom and dignity of man It's not Lincoln saying he wouldn't be a slave, he wouldn't be a master, do you agree with our selections?

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