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WEIRD EARTH

STRANGE COINCIDENCES

(30 ENTRIES)

 

1)
Dame Edith Sitwell and Queen Elizabeth I, although born exactly 350 years apart have remarkably similar lives. They both have strikingly similar facial features, they were both born on the 7th of September, between 3pm and 4pm, they both had the ascending sign of Capricorn in their horoscopes, neither of them were wanted when they were born because their parents wanted a boy, neither of them ever married, they both wrote poetry and each of them suffered from melancholic fits.

Queen Elizabeth I (Left) and Dame Edith Sitwell (Right)

2)
Barbara Forrest (Born 1954) and Mary Ashford (Born 1797) were both the victims of murder 157 years apart yet both instances have remarkable similarities. They were both found murdered on the same day, 27th May, in the same town, both in 1817 and 1974 the 26th of May was Whit Monday, they had both been raped before they were murdered, they were both found within 400 yards of each other, they were both murdered at about the same time of day, there were attempts to hide both bodies, both girls had visited a friend on the evening of Whit Monday, both changed into a new dress that night, and both went to a dance.
The man accused of each murder had the same name - Thornton, and both men were acquitted of murder, both girls have very similar facial features and 10 days before, 17th May 1974, Barbara Forrest said to a friend, "This is going to be my unlucky month. I just know it. Don't ask me why."

Mary Ashford (Left) and Barbara Forrest (Right)

3)
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!"

4)
In Detroit, in 1971, a baby fell from the 14th floor of a building, falling on Joseph Figlock, who was passing below. One year later exactly the same thing happened, same street, same building, same baby and same man below.

5)
In Bermuda, in 1975, Two brothers were killed by the same taxi driver, carrying the same passenger, while they were riding the same motorcycle, in the same street. The strange thing is that the two brothers were killed on the same day, exactly 1 year apart!

6)
Colin Wilson, author of 'The occult', in 1971, said that when he was doing research for his book, he was looking for a certain piece of information, which was hard to find. Later a book fell off a shelf and landed at his feet and the pages fell open at the page showing the information he wanted.

7)
In 1976, Dr. Don Triplett, an obstetrician delivered his third set of triplets!

8)
In London, in 1911, three men were hanged for the murder of Sir Edmund Berry at Greenberry Hill. The murderer's names were Green, Berry and Hill.

9)
At Scunthorpe, in 1975, golfer Jim Tollan teed off towards the fourteenth hole and hit a mallard duck in flight and brought it down by the green, called 'The Mallard', named after the pub that overlooked it.

10)
In England, in 1944, a schoolmaster compiled a crossword for the Daily Telegraph which included all the code names for the Normandy landings; Omaha, Utah, Mulberry, Neptune and the D-day codename Overlord, all before the landings took place.

11)
Sir Peter Scott, a naturalist, gave the Loch Ness Monster the scientific name of 'Nessiteras rhombopteryx', which, in 1975, the London papers pointed out was an anagram of, 'Monster Hoax by Sir Peter S!'

12)
Noel Mcabe, of Derby, was listening to the Frankie Lane record, 'Cry of the wild goose', when suddenly a Canadian goose crashed through his bedroom window, and two others fell outside!

13)
In Bedfordshire, in 1975, the Melkis family were watching the TV film about the doomed ship, the Titanic, when just as the ship collided with the iceberg, their house was hit by a huge piece of ice which fell from the sky, smashing through their roof!

14)
Other Titanic coincidences have occurred. For instance in 1898, the novel 'Futility', was about a giant ship, the Titan, which collided with an iceberg on it's maiden voyage, in about the same place in the Atlantic.
In 1939, a sailor at the helm of a ship, noted that they were in the same position of the Titanic disaster, when he stopped the ship because of a premonition, and just in time. A giant iceberg loomed up, striking the vessel and damaging it. Although suffering no loss of life, amazingly the name of the ship was 'The Titanian!'

The crushed bow of the Titanian

15)
During the American War of Independence, Thomas Jefferson was the author of the 'Declaration of Independence' and John Adams was one of the chief promulgators. Adams eventually became the second President of the United States and Jefferson became the third President.
Both men died in the same year, 1826, and on the same day, July 4th, exactly 50 years to the day of the Independence of the America. It is said that Jefferson willed himself to live until this day, and before he breathed his last breath he asked whether it was the fourth of July.
Adam's last words were, "Thomas Jefferson still survives." although he actually outlived his compatriot by five hours.

Thomas Jefferson (Left) and John Adams (Right)

16)
In Manchester, in 1975, a meteorologist was strolling outside, when a huge block of ice fell from the sky, nearly braining him, and shattering at his feet. It was one of the most documented falls on record.

17)
The two most tragic deaths in American history are the assassinations of President Abraham Lincoln and President John F. Kennedy. Both men in their lives and deaths have amazing similarities.
a) Both men were deeply involved in civil rights for negroes.
b) Each wife of the president lost a son while they were living at the White House.
c) Lincoln became President of the USA in 1860 and Kennedy became president exactly 100 years later 1960.
d) Both men were killed by a bullet that struck the back of their heads.
e) Lincoln was killed in Ford's Theatre and Kennedy was killed when he was a passenger in a Lincoln convertible car made by the Ford motor company.
f) Both Presidents were succeeded by vice-presidents named Johnson, both of whom were Southern Democrats and former Senators. Andrew Johnson was born in 1808 and Lyndon Johnson was born in 1908, exactly 100 years apart on the same day.
g) Lincoln's Private Secretary was named John and Kennedy's Private Secretary was named Lincoln.
h) Lincoln's killer, John Wilkes Booth was born 1839 and Kennedy's killer, Lee Harvey Oswald was born in 1939, both exactly 100 years apart. Both killers were Southerners and both held extremist views.
i) Both assassins were themselves murdered before they were brought to trial.
j) Booth murdered Lincoln in a theatre and then fled to a barn, whilst Oswald murdered Kennedy from a warehouse and fled to a theatre.
k) Both Lincoln and Kennedy each have a total of seven letters in their spelling.
l) Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson each have a total of 13 letters in their spelling.
m) John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald both have a total of 15 letters in their spelling.
n) In Lincoln's first public proposal as Republican candidate for president, also endorsed was a certain Mr. John Kennedy as Vice-President on November 6th 1858!

18)
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 ws 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.

King Louis XVI being led to the guillotine

19)
Dr. W.M. Krogman, a pathologist and specialist in Fire-related deaths, happened to be on holiday in the same area, on the same night that Mrs Reeser spontaneously combusted.

20)
When the well known 19th century portrait painter, Joseph Aigner, was 18 years old he tried to commit suicide by hanging himself but was suddenly prevented by a Capuchin monk. This happened in Vienna in 1836. Four years later, in 1840, Aigner tried to hang himself again in Budapest, but was again prevented from doing so by the same Capuchin monk. Eight years later, in 1848, Aigner was sentenced to death on the gallows for his political views, but he was reprieved, after the same Capuchin monk intervened on his behalf.
Finally, in 1886, when Aigner was 68 years old, he committed suicide by shooting himself. His funeral was conducted by the same Capuchin monk.

21)
In San Francisco, California, USA, in 1858, Mr. Robert Falcon, from Northumberland, England, was shot dead after he was accused of cheating during a poker game. Since the money he won, $600, was thought to be unlucky, the other players called upon a passerby to take the place of Robert Falcon. By the time the police arrived, the new player had turned the $600 into $2,200, and when police asked for the $600 so they could pass it on to Robert Falcon's next of kin, the new player proved that the dead gambler was his father, who he had not seen for nearly 7 years, so he got to keep the $600 as well.

22)
In Marseille, France, Henri Tragne fought five duels between 1861 and 1878. The first four of his opponents fell dead before a single shot had been fired, and the fifth, Tragne himself, died before any shots had been fired.

23)
In Turin, Italy, on May 30th 1867, Amadeo, the Duke D'Aosta, son of the King of Italy married Princess Maria del Pozzo della Cisterna, but the wedding seemed to cause bad luck all round.
a) Princess Maria's wardrobe mistress hanged herself.
b) The Palace gatekeeper cut his own throat.
c) The colonel leading the wedding procession collapsed from sunstroke.
d) A stationmaster was crushed under the wedding train.
e) The King's aide was killed when he fell off his horse.
f) The best man shot himself.

Princess Maria Del Pozzo and the Duke D'Aosta

24)
In France, in 1872, Baron Rodemire de Tarazone was murdered by Claude Volbonne. Twenty one years earlier the Baron's father had also been murdered, by a man also named Claude Volbonne. Both assassins were not related.

25)
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 resemblances between each other and found many more similarities.
a) Both men were born on the same day, of the same year, (March 14th, 1844).
b) Both men had been born in the same town.
c) Both men married a woman with same name, Margherita.
d) The restauranteur opened his restaurant on the same day that King Umberto was crowned King of Italy.
e) On the 29th July 1900, King Umberto was informed that the restauranteur had died that day in a mysterious shooting accident, and as he expressed his regret, he was then assassinated by an anarchist in the crowd.

The assassination of King Umberto, 29th July 1900

26)
In the 19th century, the famous horror writer, Egdar Allan Poe, wrote a book called 'The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym'. It was about four survivors of a shipwreck who were in an open boat for many days before they decided to kill and eat the cabin boy whose name was Richard Parker.
Some years later, in 1884, the yawl, Mignonette, foundered, with only four survivors, who were in an open boat for many days. Eventully the three senior members of the crew, killed and ate the cabin boy. The name of the cabin boy was Richard Parker.

Horror writer Edgar Allan Poe

27)
In New York, USA, during the 1930's, a commuter train plunged off an open drawbridge into Newark Bay, killing 30 passengers. When a newspaper showed a picture of one of the coaches being lifted out of the water, the number '932' could be clearly seen on the side of the coach. Many people then selected this number on the Manhattan numbers game and the number 932 came up, with thousands of people winning.

The commuter train which plunged into Newark Bay (Left) Coach No. 932 (Right)

28)
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 cemetary, 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.

Charles Francis Coghlan

29)
In September 1955, James Dean was killed in a horrific car accident whilst he was driving his Porsche sports car. After the crash the car was seen as very unlucky.
a) When the car was towed away from accident scene and taken to a garage, the engine slipped out and fell onto a mechanic, shattering both of his legs.
b) Eventually the engine was bought by a doctor, who put it into his racing car and was killed shortly afterwards, during a race. Another racing driver, in the same race, was killed in his car, which had James Dean's driveshaft fitted to it.
c) When James Dean's Porsche was later repaired, the garage it was in was destroyed by fire.
d) Later the car was displayed in Sacramento, but it fell off it's mount and broke a teenagers hip.
e) In Oregon, the trailer that the car was mounted on slipped from it's towbar and smashed through the front of a shop.
f) Finally, in 1959, the car mysteriously broke into 11 pieces while it was sitting on steel supports.

James Dean's crashed Porsche (Left) James Dean with car before the crash

30)
In the USA, in 1940, a pair of identical twins were separated at birth and adopted by different people who did not know each other.
Each boy was named James, each of them married a woman named Linda, both of them had a son named James Alan and they then both divorced their wives.
When they eventually met 40 years later they found that their hobbies, experiences and tastes were almost the same.