10 coincidences in history that seem incredible. The most incredible coincidences in world history

You and I are constantly surrounded by coincidences, which we often attribute to chance. But sometimes these coincidences are so mysterious that they simply cannot be attributed to chance. This post will introduce you to the most mysterious coincidences in history.

Doubles in history

Michael Jackson was known not only for his musical talents, but also for the enormous number of plastic surgeries that he underwent. Don't you think that it is very similar to the Egyptian statue of the New Kingdom period?

Lightning attraction

Walter Summerford was a real lightning magnet. During his lifetime, lightning struck him 3 times! Surprisingly, when the athlete was buried, lightning again overtook him, striking the tombstone and breaking it into pieces.

Mister Case

A BBC reporter once decided to ask a passing man about the legendary Everton-Liverpool rugby match that took place in 1967. And that passerby turned out to be goalkeeper Tommy Lawrence, who took part in it. And how is this possible?

reincarnation

Enzo Ferrari, the famous Italian entrepreneur, died on August 14, 1988. After 2 months in the same year, the football player Mesut Ozil was born. What is surprising here? Not a pin to choose between them!

Why did the world change

Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Tito and Freud at one time lived almost in the neighborhood. In 1913, in Vienna, they were located a couple of kilometers apart and even visited the same coffee houses. Let's go into more detail here...

Suicide heart

This man had a suicide heart transplant. He married the widow of his donor. But at 69, the man shot himself in exactly the same way as his predecessor.

Prophecy of Tamerlane

During the opening of the tomb of Tamerlane, archaeologists found a frightening inscription: “Whoever opens the grave will release the spirit of war. And there will be a slaughter so bloody and terrible, which the world has not seen forever and ever. This was reported to Stalin, but he did not believe it. The tomb was opened on June 21, 1941. The next day, Germany attacked the USSR ...

To a brilliant mind - a brilliant coming

Mark Twain was born 2 weeks after Halley's Comet flew over the Earth. “I came into this world with a comet and I will leave with it too,” Twain wrote in 1909. A year later, after another comet flew by, he died.

Titanic was produced

The writer Morgan Robertson published his novel Futility in 1898, in which he described the crash of the Titan liner. 14 years later, the Titanic followed the same route described in the book. The Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg, as did the Titan.

Number of the beast

Set designer John Richardson worked on The Omen and created a great car accident scene. Some time later, he had an accident on Friday the 13th near the town of Ommen at 66.6 kilometers of the track. This is no longer funny...

Doom Ring

The father, dying of cancer, gave his son a ring before his death. A couple of weeks later, the son lost the ring in the river. After 69 years, a diver fished out a ring and brought it to a man who was dying of cancer just like his father. Probably it's all about the ring...

Paperboy and spy

Russian spies in the United States used coins that were hollow on the inside to communicate and convey secret messages. One of these coins somehow ended up in circulation. And one day a boy selling newspapers dropped a coin and it split in two. On their own, the FBI and CIA officers of the United States were unable to decipher the cipher of the note contained inside. It was only thanks to a Russian spy who defected to the United States that the riddle of the message was solved. It was a greeting from Moscow ... and it was intended for this particular Russian deserter.

Geometry of the Solar System

The Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to the Earth. The geometry of the location of the Earth, the Sun and the Moon is unusual, although obvious. The apparent sizes of the Sun and Moon are almost the same. And thanks to this and the fact that the ellipses of orbits are located in the ecliptic in such a way, we can observe both eclipses. This is also the reason why Lunar eclipses are seen by us as if the Moon is red.

car prophecy

The car of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, in which he was killed, had the license plate "A III118". The assassination of Franz Ferdinand by Serbian student Gavrilo Princip triggered World War I. And its end was exactly on this date: 11-11-18, November 11, 1918. And "truce" in English "Armistice" is denoted by the letter "A". Mysterious, isn't it?

Until the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, the whole world did not suspect that the flags of Haiti and Liechtenstein are exactly the same!

Modernity does not believe in coincidences, does not believe in God and in general in miracles. This entry is intended to interrupt the path of pragmatism and prove to even the most inveterate realists that accidents are not accidental!

1. Business as usual for The Simpsons

The creators of The Simpsons are real prophets. For example, Lady Gaga's Super Bowl performance on February 2, 2017 was built around aerial acrobatics - but we first saw it five years earlier in the 2012 episode "Lisaey Gaga."

2. The crash of the Titanic

In 1898, 14 years before the sinking of the Titanic, science fiction writer Morgan Robertson wrote the story "Futility", which told about a shipwreck. The fictional ship was called the Titan.

3. Zubaida Tarwat is indistinguishable from Jennifer Lawrence

The combination of beauty, some shyness and rare talent make actress Jennifer Lawrence unique and inimitable. But if you take away her character and Oscar-winningness, only her appearance remains ... and it turns out that she does not have such a unique face!
Now you can never unsee it!

4. Tragedy at the Hoover Dam

112 people died during the construction of the Hoover Dam. The first was surveyor George Tierney, who died in an accident on December 20, 1922, during preparatory work. The last person to die during construction was Patrick Tierney, George's son. He died on December 20, 1935.

5. Two presidents

Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were elected to Congress exactly 100 years apart. They both died from gunshot wounds to the back of the head, both on the Friday before the holiday (Kennedy was killed on the eve of Thanksgiving, and Lincoln on the eve of Easter), and both were accompanied on the day of the murder by their wives and another married couple.

6. Enzo Ferrari and his reincarnation

The famous Italian racing driver Enzo Ferrari died on August 14, 1988. Two months later, on October 15, soccer player Mesut Ozil was born.

7. Unlucky Brothers

In 1975, a 17-year-old Bermudian boy died in a motorcycle accident. Exactly one year before, his 17-year-old brother died on the same moped at the same intersection - he was hit by the same taxi with the same driver and the same passenger!

8. Terrible accident

When developing the game Deus Ex, released in 2000, the artist forgot to draw the Twin Towers in the outlines of New York. An explanation was invented in the game: they say that they were destroyed as a result of a terrorist attack ...

9. Curse of Tamerlane

Tamerlane, the heir of Genghis Khan, lived in the XIV century and continued the family business: he conquered Asia. When Soviet archaeologists opened his tomb, they found an inscription:
“Whoever opens my tomb will release the spirit of war. And there will be a slaughter so bloody and terrible, which the world has not seen forever and ever. It was June 20, 1941. Two days later, Hitler attacked the Soviet Union.

10. Roman passion

The legendary founder of Rome was called Romulus. The first ruler of the Roman Empire took the name Augustus.
And what was the name of the ruler of the Western Roman Empire, overthrown by the German barbarians, which led to the end of the Roman Empire? Romulus August!

11. Royal fate

On July 28, 1900, King Umberto I of Italy went to dine at a restaurant in Monza. When the restaurateur, also named Umberto, went out to take the order, the monarch noticed that they were like two peas in a pod.
After talking, the men found out many other oddities. It turned out that both were born on March 14, 1844 in Turin; both married on the same day to women named Margarita; the restaurant opened on the day of Umberto's coronation.
The next day, the king learned that the restaurateur had been shot dead by an unknown assassin. Before the king had time to express his condolences, an anarchist stepped out of the crowd and shot him.

12. Horror film invades reality

In 1976, the famous horror film The Omen was released about terrible predictions and coincidences that led to the death of characters.
But the worst is left behind the scenes. A private jet was chartered for the filming of the film, but the flight was canceled at the last moment.
On the same day, the plane crashed on the road, crashing into a passing car.
The pilot's wife and children were in the car. No one survived.

13. Divided by War

The graves of the first and last British soldiers who died in the First World War are just 6 meters opposite each other. And this is pure coincidence!

14. First accident?

In 1895, there were only two automobiles in the entire state of Ohio. They collided.

15. And this is our favorite - Memento mori!

South African astronomer Daniel du Toit lectured on the unpredictability of life. Death, he warned the audience, could come at any moment! After the lecture, he sat down, put a lollipop in his mouth, choked, and died of suffocation.

16. Patient Bullet

Henry Siegland was sure that he could circle fate around his finger. In 1883, he broke with his beloved, who, unable to bear the separation, committed suicide.
The girl's brother, beside himself with grief, grabbed a gun, tried to kill Henry and, deciding that the bullet had reached the target, shot himself. However, Henry survived: the bullet only slightly grazed his face and entered the tree trunk.
A few years later, Henry decided to cut down the ill-fated tree, but the trunk was too large, and the task seemed impossible. Then Siegland decided to blow up the tree with a few sticks of dynamite.
From the explosion, the bullet, which was still sitting in the trunk of the tree, broke free and hit Henry directly in the head, killing him on the spot.

17. Twins forever

In 2002, 70-year-old twin brothers died an hour apart in two unrelated crashes on the same highway in northern Finland. Police representatives claim that there have been no accidents on this section of the road for a long time (Finland has almost the lowest percentage of accidents in the world), so the message of two accidents on the same day with an hour difference has already become a shock for them! And when it turned out that the victims were twin brothers ...

18. Decent plot

In 1920, the American writer Anne Parrish, while in Paris, came across her favorite children's book, Jack Frost and Other Stories, in a second-hand bookstore. Ann bought the book and showed it to her husband, talking about how she loved her as a child.
The husband took the book from Ann, opened it and found on the title page the inscription: "Anne Parrish, 209H Webber Street, Colorado Springs."
It was the same copy that had once belonged to Ann herself!

19. And one more royal fate

When the future King of France, Louis XVI, was still a child, his personal astrologer warned him that the 21st of every month was his unlucky day. The king was so shocked by this prediction that he never planned anything important for the 21st.
However, not everything depended on him. On June 21, 1791, the king and queen were arrested while trying to leave revolutionary France. That same year, on September 21, France declared itself a republic. And on January 21, 1793, Louis XVI was beheaded.

20. Incredible records

In 2006, while on board the Abundant fishing boat, fisherman Mark Anderson fished out a bottle with a 92-year-old message from the sea, for which he was awarded a place in the Guinness Book of Records - as the man who discovered the oldest letter in a bottle in history. He constantly bragged about this to his friend Andrew Leeper, who was pretty annoyed by this.
In late 2012, skipper Andrew Leaper was on the same longboat off the coast of Scotland when a bottle containing a 98-year-old message was leaked.
Leeper was included in the Guinness Book of Records, displacing Anderson from there!

21. The strangest naval battle in history

At the beginning of the First World War, the British passenger liner Carmania was converted into an auxiliary cruiser for the needs of the fleet. To protect it from attack, the cunning British disguised it as the German passenger liner Cape Trafalgar.
Their plan worked: on September 14, 1914, the Carmania ambushed and sank a German ship off the coast of Brazil. By pure chance, a German ship sunk on the other side of the world was the real Cape Trafalgar ... which the cunning Germans disguised as the British passenger liner Carmania!

Two close friends, US presidents and drafters of the Declaration of Independence, died on the 50th anniversary of independence, a few hours apart ... The son of a president who witnessed the murder of three heads of his state ... A woman who worked on board three wrecked Olympic-class liners and survived their ... Mysticism or just a coincidence? History knows many such interesting twists and turns. Below are these and other incredible historical coincidences.

1. The death of two founding fathers

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were among the five main drafters of the Declaration of Independence. They had been close friends and associates since 1775, despite partisan differences. Jefferson served as counselor and vice president during Adams's presidency. After Jefferson succeeded Adams in the White House, their relationship soured, and the Founding Fathers stopped talking until 1812, when they resumed frequent correspondence.

On the anniversary of US independence, July 4, 1826, 90-year-old John Adams said on his deathbed: "Thomas Jefferson remains to live." The second President of the United States did not know that a few hours before, his longtime friend and successor had died at the age of 83. Interestingly, not only these two presidents passed away on July 4 - their total number reached five.

2. Assassination of Lincoln and saving his son

A year before Confederate John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln in a theater box, his brother, Edwin Booth, saved the life of the president's eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln. Also an actor, but an ardent supporter of the national union, Edwin ran into the president's son at a train station in New Jersey. Robert Lincoln was letting passengers get off the train. He stood with his back against the stopped train, but when it suddenly moved forward, the young man lost his balance and fell on the track. Fortunately, Booth, who was passing by, grabbed Lincoln by the collar and dragged him onto the platform before the young man could be harmed by the moving train. Robert Lincoln immediately recognized his savior, but Booth did not immediately understand whom he had saved from certain death.

3. Witness to three presidential assassinations

And in continuation of the theme of Robert Lincoln - in his life he witnessed not one, not two, but three presidential assassinations. A month after the tragic assassination of his father, President Abraham Lincoln, Robert and his mother moved to Chicago, where he started a family and a successful career as a lawyer. Robert Lincoln remained active in the country's political life and served as secretary of war during Garfield's presidency in 1881. During Garfield and Lincoln's trip to New Jersey, the offended administration official shot the president in the back.

In 1901, President William McKinley invited Robert Lincoln to the All-American Exhibition in New York. Almost immediately after Lincoln arrived at the exhibition, the anarchist Leon Frank Czolgosz shot the president, inflicting a mortal wound on him. Robert Lincoln is credited with the phrase about the fatality of his presence next to the presidents.

4. Beginning and end of the Civil War

The civil war between the National Union and the Confederacy began in 1861 in the yard of a farmer and wholesaler named Wilmer McLean, and ended with the surrender of General Lee's army, the documents of which were signed in the same merchant's living room.

In the summer of 1861, the merchant's family lived on his wife's plantation in Manassas, General Beauregard demanded that the house be provided as the headquarters of the Confederate army. The first battle between the armies of the North and the South took place practically in the courtyard of the McLean house, by the Bull Run stream. In 1863 McLean moved the family to a small house in Appomattox, a town south of Manassas. On April 9, 1865, his new home became the meeting place for General Lee and his opponent Ulysses Grant, at which the Confederate surrender papers were signed.

5 Halley's Comet

Halley's short-period comet returns to earth every 75 years. On November 30, 1835, her appearance coincided with the birth of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known to the whole world under the pseudonym Mark Twain. By 1909, 74 years had passed since then, and Mark Twain remarked that it would be nice to leave this world with the same celestial body with which he came. According to him, it would be the deepest regret if this did not happen. As the writer predicted, he died a day after Halley's comet approached the sun again - on April 21, 1910.

6. Miss "Unsinkable"

Violet Jessop worked as a flight attendant aboard WhiteStarLine airliners and not only witnessed the crash of all three giant Olympic-class liners: Titanic, Britannic and Olympic, but also survived them all, continuing to work as a flight attendant until the end of her career.

After the death of her mother, Violet was forced to quit her studies and start working to provide for her family. She took her mother's place as a royal stewardess before moving to WhiteStar. In 1911, the company launched a trio of huge, luxurious brother liners: the Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic. In September 1911, Violet Jessop was working aboard the Olympic, which collided with a small cruiser in the waters of southern England. After the crash, a flight attendant boarded the Titanic just in time for her first and last transatlantic voyage in 1912. During World War I, Violet was a Red Cross nurse working on the Britannica, which had been converted into a hospital. In 1916, the Britannic struck a German mine and sank in less than an hour. Despite the damage, only 30 people died in the shipwreck, and Violet Jessop's career by the day of her retirement amounted to 42 years as a flight attendant.

In the history of mankind, there are cases of such strange and amazing coincidences that even convinced skeptics have to wonder if these are mystical fates. The Samogo.Net portal, based on historical facts, has compiled its own version of the TOP 10 most incredible coincidences in the lives of famous people or those associated with significant historical events.

The novel that predicted the death of the Titanic
This is one of the most mystical and most famous coincidences in history. In 1898, a novel by Morgan Robertson called The Abyss was published, the plot of which was invented by the writer. It told the story of the death of a large liner "Titan" from a collision with an iceberg. According to the novel, none of the 3,000 passengers on the liner survived, despite the fact that the ship had 24 lifeboats. Morgan Robertson turned out to be a visionary - the transatlantic superliner Titanic sank, crashing into an iceberg at full speed, 14 years later. The real Titanic had 2,207 passengers and 20 lifeboats. A phenomenal coincidence - if you can call it a coincidence.

The Phenomenon of American Presidents

This historical phenomenon is difficult to explain by mere coincidence. Almost all American presidents who were elected in a year ending in zero suffered a tragic fate. Here is their list:

Abraham Lincoln - elected in 1860, assassinated;

James Garfield - elected 1880, mortally wounded;

William McKinley - elected 1900, assassinated;

John Kennedy - elected in 1960, mortally wounded;

William Harrison - Elected 1840, died of pneumonia;

Franklin Roosevelt - elected in 1940, died of a stroke caused by polio;

Warren Harding - Elected 1920, suffered a severe heart attack;

Ronald Reagan - Elected in 1980, survived an assassination attempt.

Unlucky number for Louis XVI

The French king Louis XVI, as a child, received a warning from his personal astrologer that the 21st was an unlucky day for him. Louis took the prediction so seriously that when he became king, he never planned any important things on the 21st. But that didn't help him. In 1791, on June 21, he was arrested by the revolutionary government of France, and in September, on the 21st, a republic was proclaimed in France. Louis XVI was executed in 1793, in January, on the same 21st.

Full counterpart of King Umberto I
Umberto I, King of Italy, one day decided to have dinner in a small restaurant in Monza. Looking at the owner of the restaurant, the king was amazed - in front of him was his exact copy. The name of the owner of the restaurant was Umberto, his wife's name was the same as the king's wife. Moreover, the restaurant was opened on the day when the coronation of Umberto I took place. Surprised by such an incredible coincidence, the king began to often go to a cozy restaurant. One day he was informed that the owner of the restaurant had died from an accidental shot. The king did not have time to express his condolences - he was shot by an anarchist from the crowd that surrounded the carriage.

Mark Twain and Halley's Comet

The great writer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) was born on November 30, 1835. It was on this day that Halley's comet flew past the Earth. Of course, many other people were born on the same day. But for some reason the writer seriously believed that his fate was connected with the comet. His notes say: "I came into this world with Halley's comet, probably the next time it appears, I will disappear with it." Incredibly, the writer died in 1910 on the day when Halley's comet again approached the Earth.

"Spy" crossword
In 1944, a crossword puzzle was published in the popular Daily Telegraph newspaper, which shocked the military. It contained all the code names for the Normandy landing operation of the allied forces: "Neptune", "Omaha", "Jupiter", "Utah". The Intelligence Directorate rushed to look for the source of the leak of classified information, and found it very quickly. The compiler of the "spy" crossword puzzle turned out to be an elderly school teacher, who was puzzled by such a coincidence no less than the military.

Based on the novel by Edgar Allan Poe

Among the works of the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, known for his "gloomy" stories, there is a story about several travelers who survived a shipwreck. In order not to starve to death on the high seas, they were forced to eat one of their comrades. The victim of cannibalism in the story was named Richard Parker. The story itself is terrible, but by the most incredible coincidence, a few years later it came true. In 1884, a sailing ship found a skiff in the open sea, in which there were three wrecked sailors. They said that at first there were four of them, but they had already eaten the cabin boy. Jung's name was Richard Parker. None of the sailors had ever heard of Poe's story.

Painting by Rene Charbonneau as a destiny
In 1992, by order of the mayor of the French city of Rouen, the famous artist Rene Charbonneau painted a picture, the model for which was a university student Jeanne Lenoy. The painting was called Joan of Arc at the stake. The canvas was placed in the exhibition hall, and the next day there was an explosion in the university laboratory. Jeanne Lenoy, who was there at the time, burned to death.

Forgotten song - a messenger of trouble

The great Marcello Mastroianni was once invited to a friendly party. In the midst of the fun, the actor unexpectedly jumped up and sang the long-forgotten song “The house where I was so happy burned down”. He had not yet had time to sing the song to the end when he was informed that there was a fire in his villa in Menton. According to Marcello himself, he sang this song for the last time when he was still a schoolboy.

"I wish you success, Mr. Gorsky!"

When Neil Armstrong, an American astronaut, set foot on the lunar surface, this wish was his first phrase. The fact is that even in his youth, Armstrong accidentally heard his neighbor angrily scold her husband: “It’s more likely that a neighbor’s boy flies to the moon than you satisfy a woman!” The surname of the neighbors, as you might guess, was Gorski. Neil Armstrong had to fly to the moon out of male solidarity!

Green, Bury and Hill

And the last of the dozens of the most incredible coincidences, which can hardly be called otherwise than a destiny. In 1911, in the London area of ​​Greenberry Hill, three people were executed for the murder of a certain Edmund Berry. Their last names were Green, Berry and Hill.

: Tatyana Kondratyuk, Samogo.Net
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We are accustomed to living in a rational world, under all the events and phenomena of which there is a strict scientific basis. But sometimes such amazing events happen around that you begin to believe in miracles, and that our life is subject to some other laws, the secrets of which have not yet been completely unraveled. One of the strangest of these phenomena is a coincidence that sometimes leaves the most sane skeptics dumbfounded.

royal life

King Louis XVI of France was predicted to die on the 21st. The impressionable king practically deleted the 21st from his life every month - he locked himself in the bedroom and did not communicate with people. However, all these precautions did not help. The French Revolution broke out and on June 21, 1791, the king and his wife Marie Antoinette were arrested. On September 21, 1792, royal power was abolished in France, and on January 21, 1793, Louis XVI was executed.

Quite strange coincidences also occurred in the life of King Umberto I of Italy. Once he went into a restaurant owned by a man very similar to himself. It turned out that the owner was also called Umberto, and he was born on the same day as the reigning lady - March 14, 1844. It turned out that he opened his institution on the day when Umberto was crowned on the throne. The mystical coincidences did not end there. In 1900, the king was informed that the restaurant owner had died from a gunshot. Soon King Umberto I was also shot dead by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.

Sea tragedies

The sea is perhaps the most unpredictable element. And many of the most amazing cases and coincidences are associated with it. On December 5, 1664, a passenger ship from Britain sank off the coast of Wales. All crew members and almost all passengers were killed - only a man named Hugh Williams survived. Exactly 121 years later, on December 5, 1785, another shipwreck occurred at the same place, and a British ship sank. The most surprising thing was that once again only one passenger, also named Hugh Williams, survived.

In 1898, American science fiction writer Morgan Robertson wrote the novel Futility. It described the fictional ocean liner Titan that collided with an iceberg on an April night en route to New York. In 1912, a similar tragedy actually happened - the transatlantic liner Titanic, which had gone on its maiden voyage, collided with an iceberg and sank.

In 1838, the famous American writer Edgar Allan Poe wrote a novel entitled The Tale of the Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym. According to the plot, there is a riot on the ship in the novel, and after the bloody massacre, only four heroes remain alive. A violent storm blows all the supplies from the ship, and the survivors begin to severely starve. As a result, they become cannibals and eat a cabin boy named Richard Parker. Edgar Allan Poe was accused of excessive cruelty and naturalism in his novel, but almost 50 years later, in reality, an almost similar incident occurred. On July 5, 1884, the British yacht Mignonette was shipwrecked, losing all her provisions. The sailors who escaped on the boat found themselves without water and food on the high seas. Some time later, a cabin boy was killed and eaten, whose name was exactly the same as the hero of the novel by Edgar Allan Poe - Richard Parker.

Another story related to the sea, however, this time there were no shipwrecks, and in general everything ended very well. In 1966, little American Roger Losier nearly drowned in the sea near Salem. Luckily, he was pulled out of the water by a woman named Alice Blaze. Eight years later, Roger, who was 12 years old at the time, was swimming in the same place and saw a man drowning. He managed to pull him out and save his life. It turned out to be the husband of his rescuer, Alice Blaze!

Double Happiness

Highways today are even more dangerous than the sea in past centuries, and many incidents and strange things happen on them. The Italian Giacomo Felice (the surname translates as "happy") once drove his car through Milan at night. Suddenly, another car jumped out to meet him, rushing at great speed. Giacomo had already said goodbye to his life, but after a violent collision he escaped with light scratches. The other driver also survived. To the surprise of both, it turned out that his name was also Jocamo Felici.

In Italy there was another strange case. Policeman Dino Cuadri had an accident while chasing an intruder on a deserted road. He damaged an artery in his leg, lost consciousness and bled. By chance, a man named Leone Reggiane was passing by. He pulled the policeman out, put a bandage on him, brought him to his senses and thereby saved his life. Three years later, Quadri was driving down the road when he saw an accident. The injured driver lay unconscious, blood oozing from his leg. The policeman saved the victim, who, to his great amazement, turned out to be Leone Reggiane.

A similar case took place in the USA. Texas resident Allan Folby had an accident and damaged an artery in his leg. He probably would have died from blood loss if not for Alfred Smith, who was passing by, who put a bandage on the victim and called an ambulance. Five years later, Folby witnessed a car accident: the driver of the crashed car was lying unconscious, with a torn artery in his leg. It was Alfred Smith, who in turn was saved by Allan Folby.

book across the ocean

Even such a peaceful activity as reading books can sometimes lead to incredible surprises and adventures. An amazing story happened to the famous actor Anthony Hopkins. He was preparing to shoot the film The Girl from Petrovka based on the novel by American writer George Phifer. To study the hero, he needed exactly the original version of the work, which he could not find in any of the bookstores, or in the library, or from friends.

The actor was completely desperate, but accidentally stumbled upon a copy of the desired version of the novel, forgotten by someone, on a bench in the subway. Later, when he was flying to the shooting, he accidentally (again “accidentally”!) met at the airport with Phifer, the author of the novel, who complained to Hopkins that he had lent his friend the most valuable copy of his book with his notes, and he had lost the book somewhere on underground stations.

Another amazing "book" case occurred in 1920 with the American writer Ann Parrish. She went to Paris for a vacation and found her favorite children's book, Jack Frost and Other Stories, in a second-hand bookstore. Ann bought the book and showed it to her husband, talking about how she loved it as a child. The husband took the book from Ann, opened it and found on the title page the inscription: "Anne Parrish, 209H Webber Street, Colorado Springs." It was the same book that had once belonged to Ann herself. Moreover, the most mysterious circumstance of this incident was the question of how the book ended up on another continent.

And the last mystical coincidence in our article (but by no means in life!) is connected not with books, but with the famous writer Mark Twain. He was born in 1835, when Halley's comet flew over the Earth. In 1909, Twain wrote: "I came into this world with a comet and I will leave with it." And indeed: the writer died on April 21, 1910, the day after the next arrival of the comet.

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