Weirdest coincidences in history
When coincidence strikes in our life we are left to judge wether it was a mere occurrence or probably the universe taking it's time to play games. Most coincidences could be considered almost impossible while others strange, well let's take a look at the top 7 weirdest coincidences in history.
1. The Laura Buxton paradox.
This story was told in on the WYNC podcast in radio lab. 20 years ago (2001) a ten year old girl Laura Buxton was playing with a balloon in her front yard when she later released the balloon into the air, but before she released the balloon she wrote on it “ please return to Laura Buxton" with her address written on it. The balloon would later travel 140miles due south before landing in another girl's yard named Laura Buxton, they later got in contact with one another and decided to meet, strangely the girls dressed alike, both had a grey Rabbit and a guinea pig and also a three year old chocolate lab ,both of them brought their guinea pig to the meeting and all this was done unplanned, now that's really weird.
2. The plum pudding man.
A 19th century poet Émile Deschamps supposedly experienced a weird coincidence. In his teen days he met an English man Mr.de Fortgibu who introduced him to plum pudding for the first time, a decade later Deschamps say plum pudding in a restaurant then ordered it, but the waiter said the last one had been sold out then called de Fortgibu name. Another decade passed and Deschamps was in a dinner party that served plum pudding, he joked about the party was to be for de Fortgibu who walked in right after he said it, fortunately mr dé Fortgibu was visiting another dinner party but lost his way.
3. A flight to hell.
We all know there are many conspiracies regarding nthe number 666, well a certain flight 666 departed from Copenhagen and landed in Helsinki (HEL) on Friday the 13th. This one gives me chills.
4. The premonition.
In Edgar Allen Poe's 1838 novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, a four-man crew is shipwrecked and lost at sea without food or water. The team decides that they must turn to cannibalism to survive, and they draws straws to decide who will be sacrificed so that the rest may live. The character chosen (and unfortunately eaten) was named Richard Parker.
In 1884,in reality, a ship wrecked and one of the mates also named Richard Parker became ill after drinking sea water. The rest of the crew decided out of desperation to kill and eat Parker before he was killed by the disease. The remaining men were saved, but charged with murder upon their return to shore. But seriously though who told the authorities.
5. Ferrari loves football.
Enzo Ferrari, founder of the Italian car company by the same name, died in the same year that soccer player Mesut Ozil was born in 1988. This in itself would be completely meaningless, except that the two men look nearly identical in many photographs, leading people to remark that the genetic coincidence makes a strong case for reincarnation. And you can say both perform excellently in their jobs.
6. A Fisher of men.
80 year old Xu Weifang of Jiangsu Province, China saved an eight year old boy from drowning, even though he was old But, the incident became weird when Xu discovered that 30 years prior, he had actually saved the boy's father from drowning as well. Well that family needs to stay out of water.
7. Death within the family
out of the estimated 21,000+ people that worked on the building of the Hoover Dam, there were 96 deaths on the job site. The first ever recorded was J.G. Tierney, who drowned along with his colleague on December 20, 1922 while conducting a geological survey prior to construction. Fourteen years later, on the exact anniversary of Tierney's death, the final death of the project was recorded. It was his son, Patrick Tierney, who fell from an electrical tower. That's really sad.
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This is mind boggling. I am blown away one story after the other. The Laura story is the best one in this set.