Fakta, teori & skepsis ⇒ Top 15 Amazing Coincidences

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Life is full of coincidences, some very minor, but occasionally - extraordinary. This is a list of 15 of the most incredible, unbelievable coincidences.



15. Childhood Book

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.



14. Poker Luck

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!



13. Twin Deaths

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.



12. Poe Coincidence

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. Eventually the three senior members of the crew killed and ate the cabin boy. The name of the cabin boy was Richard Parker.



11. Royal Coincidence

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.


10. Falling Baby

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.



9. Mystery Monk

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.






8. Photographic Coincidence

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.



7. Book Find

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.



6. Twins

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.



5. Revenge Killing

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.


4. Golden Scarab

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


3. Taxi

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!



2. Hotel Discovery

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.



1. Historical Coincidence

The lives of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two of America’s founders. Jefferson crafted the Declaration of Independence, showing drafts of it to Adams, who (with Benjamin Franklin) helped to edit and hone it. The Continental Congress approved the document on July 4, 1776. Surprisingly, both Jefferson and Adams died on the same day, July 4, 1826 - exactly 50 years from the signing of the Declaration of Independence.



Sources: Ripley’s Believe it or not, BBC, New Scientis



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[Kræsj]

Tilfeldigheter ja. I det siste ja året så har jeg opplevd mange av disse litt for ulogiske tilfeldighetene. Ting jeg lurer på har en tendens til å dukke opp over alt. Nesten som om noen/noe gir meg svaret på det jeg lurer på. Andre ting jeg tenker litt ekstra på(vanskelig å forklare helt) har også en tendens til å bare dukke opp.

F.eks, jeg og noen venner drev å snakket om sjokolade, og vi begynte å snakke om appelsinsjokoladen. Den som er formet som en appelsin og som deler seg opp når man slipper den fra en viss høyde. Uansett, poenget er at jeg har ikke sett en sånn sjokolade siden ja jeg var liten. Det kan godt være mulig at den har vært i butikkene i alle disse år, men jeg har nå iaff ikke lagt merke til den. Så, det som skjer ei uke etterpå vi har snakket om denne typen sjokolade er at en kompis av meg får en sånn en i bursdagsgave på bursdagsfesten sin hjemme hos meg.

For noen så er bare dette en litt heldig tilfeldighet, men greia er at sånne ting skjer meg veldig ofte. I starten så var jeg veldig skeptisk, men når tilfeldighetene baller seg på, så begynner man å tenke litt ehm..dette er bare for rart.

Jeg har også møtt personer som jeg ikke kjenner som har hatt svar/informasjon om ting jeg lurer på. De gangene vi har møttes har det vært helt "tilfeldig" og vi har alltid startet å snakke om de tingene "vi var ment til å snakke om" med en gang. Har til og med fått en sånn "jeg må snakke med den personen der"-følelse når jeg har møtt de for så å blitt helt trollbundet under samtalen.

F.eks jeg tenket på dette med guider etter å ha lest her inne, og undersøkte dette en del. Litt senere så dro jeg på en festival, og vips så møtte jeg en kar som mente at han kunne kommunisere med guiden sin..

Alt dette skjer bare mer og mer ofte en før. Kanskje det er noe som er på vei til å skje..Ikke vet jeg, men noe rart er det i lufta iaff.

Har og en kamerat som ser 11:11 og av og til 12:12 rundt omkring. Dette skjer ofte. Alt fra på klokka til views på youtube for å nevne noen..Det bare dukker opp.
Dette skal jo være(om jeg har fortstått det rett) i følge folk som driver med kanaliseringer o.l en påminnelse om at et skifte er på vei og vi entrer den nye energien. Om dette stemmer vet jeg ikke noe om. Jeg leste det faktisk før han kompisen min fortalte det til meg, så jeg ble ganske så overrasket når jeg fikk høre det fra han.

[Kimbara]

Tilfeldigheter av større eller mindre grad skjer hele tiden - ikke noe mystisk med det. Men det "ironiske" er at de tilsynelatende skjer langt oftere når man selv har fokus på det. Grunnen til dette er enkelt og greit at man legger mer vekt på å oppdage slike tilfeldigheter.
Det er ikke vanskelig å komme i snakk med mennesker som av en eller annen grunn deler ens livssyn og interesser, men når man i tillegg legger vekt på de få gangene et skikkelig sammentreff skjer med tanke på samtaleemne, virker det hele nærmest "magisk".

Det samme med tall. Vi ser tall overalt rundt oss - på papirer, bilskilt, husnumre, klokka, mobilen, PC'en. Om man har hengt seg opp i et tall eller en viss liten sifferkombinasjon, vil det være overveiende sannsynlig at man finner denne mange steder.

Man filtrerer enkelt og greit ut alle de gangene det -ikke- skjer slike tilfeldigheter og sammentreff, og husker de få gangene det skjer. Selektiv hukommelse.

[Metodisten]

Om disse eksemplene er sanne så er det ganske utroligt da.

Men du skulle oversatt dem til Norsk først ?, så det er lettere å lese dem.

[Dagros]

Jeg opplever også slike ting også nokså ofte, vil jeg nesten si

Det føles som om det er et eller annet som VET hva man tenker på, og som dermed fører den tingen eller den person med den tingen for å ta et par eksempler, TIL meg, for at jeg skal se om det ER eller IKKE er slik jeg trodde det var... Eller bare for å avfeie noe som tydeligvis den "tingen" som da kanskje "ser", synes er HELT latterlig

Et svært sprøtt sammentreff fant faktisk sted i dag. Jeg hadde heldagsprøve i fysikk, og hadde glemt kalkulatoren. Så kommer det inn en lærer med en kalkulator, for å gi en elev et program. Vel, jeg tenkte meg om litt, og kom til min store forskrekkelse til å tenke å at jeg hadde glemt kalkulatoren, siden jeg ikke hadde tenkt på det før, når vi dreiv med del èn, uten hjelpemidler. Så jeg fikk henta en da, men jeg syntes det var helt vanvittig at en lærer skulle komme inn i det klasserommet som jeg satt i, med en kalkulator, akkurat i det øyeblikket jeg da satt og småirriterte meg over at jeg hadde glemt kalkulatoren

[BA.]

Et svært sprøtt sammentreff fant faktisk sted i dag. Jeg hadde heldagsprøve i fysikk, og hadde glemt kalkulatoren. Så kommer det inn en lærer med en kalkulator, for å gi en elev et program. Vel, jeg tenkte meg om litt, og kom til min store forskrekkelse til å tenke å at jeg hadde glemt kalkulatoren, siden jeg ikke hadde tenkt på det før, når vi dreiv med del èn, uten hjelpemidler. Så jeg fikk henta en da, men jeg syntes det var helt vanvittig at en lærer skulle komme inn i det klasserommet som jeg satt i, med en kalkulator, akkurat i det øyeblikket jeg da satt og småirriterte meg over at jeg hadde glemt kalkulatoren

Kan det være at du så kalkulatoren han hadde med, og dermed kom på at du hadde glemt din egen?

Veldig ofte registrerer man detaljer, også uten å vite om det, som fører til at man begynner å tenke på ting, og man reagerer deretter på sammenfallet.

[Dagros]

Et svært sprøtt sammentreff fant faktisk sted i dag. Jeg hadde heldagsprøve i fysikk, og hadde glemt kalkulatoren. Så kommer det inn en lærer med en kalkulator, for å gi en elev et program. Vel, jeg tenkte meg om litt, og kom til min store forskrekkelse til å tenke å at jeg hadde glemt kalkulatoren, siden jeg ikke hadde tenkt på det før, når vi dreiv med del èn, uten hjelpemidler. Så jeg fikk henta en da, men jeg syntes det var helt vanvittig at en lærer skulle komme inn i det klasserommet som jeg satt i, med en kalkulator, akkurat i det øyeblikket jeg da satt og småirriterte meg over at jeg hadde glemt kalkulatoren

Kan det være at du så kalkulatoren han hadde med, og dermed kom på at du hadde glemt din egen?

Veldig ofte registrerer man detaljer, også uten å vite om det, som fører til at man begynner å tenke på ting, og man reagerer deretter på sammenfallet.

Jeg tror jeg skrev det litt feil slik jeg skrev det, men mente at jeg nesten er sikker på at jeg tenkte på det derre med kalkulatoren FØR hun kom inn med kalkulatoren, da
Så... Jeg veit ikke hva det var som skjedde, men kan jo ha vært et dejà vu, da, uten at jeg merka det, da, men OM det var et sammentreff, så var det creepy