20 Creepiest Coincidences in History

in 1985 a bone-chilling pattern began to emerge in several reports of british house fires when the smoke had cleared and the house or what was left of it laid charred in ashen there was often one soul survivor a creepy old painting of a crying boy to get to the bottom of this spooky mystery you're gonna have to stick around as i uncover 20 of history's creepiest coincidences coincidence i think not the 27 club rock and roll may have had diverse beginnings but some of the most successful and widely known rock stars of their era have one very disturbing thing in common at just 27 years old legends like kurt cobain jim morrison amy winehouse and jimi hendrix all found themselves knocking on heaven's door but what is it about this otherwise ordinary age that causes them to drop dead while substance abuse played a predominant role in the cases of winehouse morrison and hendricks others like cobain took their own lives ultimately there's no definitive answer to these tragic ends and the 27 club link remains a mystery however research suggests it's not just the age of 27 that musicians should be wary of statisticians analyzed the lifespan of every musician who had a number one hit on the uk album charts between 1956 and 2007. overall these musicians were two to three times more likely to die in their 20s and 30s than others of the same age i've never felt so lucky to have no musical talent but do you know what else they all had in common not one of them was subscribed to my channel now i'm not saying there's a connection but let's look at the facts people so put yourself on the right side of history and hit those like and subscribe buttons oh and don't forget to tickle that little bell icon too so you don't miss out on even more mind-blowing facts and extraordinary stories 11 years in the making do you believe in fate after hearing the story of mr yay and miss zhu you'll find it hard not to back in 2011 these lovebirds met for the first time and fell in love in chengdu china but seven years later in 2018 they were digging through old family photos when they found something that left them both speechless it was this photo of miss zhu which was taken back in 2000 at the may 4th square in the seaside city of qingdao miss zhu's mother had taken the pretty photo of her against a large red sculpture but little did she know she also captured her future husband in the image as well on that exact day in the exact same moment mr yeh was posing for his own photograph by the sculpture 11 years later they would fall in love in a totally different city over 1600 kilometers away turns out love knows no bounds or odds for that matter dracula down under ancient tales about vampires have always revolved around the fanged freaks sucking their victims dry but as the times have changed it seems like one modern day vampire has figured out that blood services can work as the vampiric equivalent of a 7-eleven just take a look at the number plate of this car outside an australian blood service center it looks a little spooky but if vampires were real surely this would be like driving around with a big sign saying i eat people of course this happened in australia where vampires are the least of your worries lunar fluke constantinople which is now known as istanbul was once the proud capital city of the byzantine empire it stood gloriously for over 1100 years with huge unbreachable walls that reached 40 feet high and stretched a mile around the city's perimeter but in 1453 the fortress city was impossibly conquered by the invading ottoman empire it was such a powerful move that its repercussions marked the end of the middle ages as startling as the historic takeover sounds it was nothing in comparison to the prophecy that foretold its demise translated from a long-standing ancient greek philosophy it was predicted that constantinople would always endure provided that the moon in its full circle did not give a sign in the sky and guess what on may 22nd 1453 a lunar eclipse partially blocked out the moon during the invasion in fact the moon had been central to byzantine culture for over 1123 years so this must have felt like more than just a terrifying coincidence for those trapped behind the city walls women and wizards 1420 was not a great year for the kingdom of france queen isabel had just signed the treaty of troy granting french succession to english royalty it cost her a lot of popularity so much so that a prophecy began circulating which read what had been lost by a woman would be saved by a woman and that woman would turn out to be none other than joan of arc this fate fulfilling femme took to the battlefield and led france to victory reversing almost a century of french defeats from the english in just one year as fictional as this may sound it gets even stranger historians claim that the prophecy came from merlin yes that merlin the wizard from arthurian legend while it's debated whether or not this so-called wizard ever existed his supposed prophecies were recorded in manuscripts around 1140 but before you start wondering what kind of magic mushrooms these historians have been growing on their books archives show that the prophecy is repeatedly mentioned in joan of arc's trial so to summarize by total coincidence a made-up english magician is credited with prophesizing that all of france would be saved by a lady almost 300 years before it happened don't do drugs kids do history instead the kennedy legacy it seems like there are more conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of president john f kennedy than there are tinfoil hats to go around that said there is one coincidence that can't be disputed because it came from the lips of kennedy himself after arriving in dallas on november 22 1963 the kennedys opened the dallas morning news to find this full-page anti-kennedy advert bordered in black it ominously resembled a funeral notice it rattled the first lady jackie kennedy so much that jfk tried to calm her down with what would later become a prophetic phrase we're entering not country today but jackie if someone wants to shoot me from the window with a rifle nobody can stop it so why worry about it he didn't know how right he was at 12 30 pm as the presidential car turned off the main street the president took a bullet to the neck and head he was driven straight to a nearby hospital but as he had tragically foretold there was nothing that could be done payphone phenomenon from an american perspective brits are pretty weird from their love of beans on toast to their love affair with tea but britain is also home to one of the strangest coincidences in history one day back in 1992 aa repairman jason pegler was walking home from work in dover suddenly a pay phone on the side of the road began ringing he hesitantly answered the call only to find his colleague sue hamilton on the other end without skipping a beat she apologized for bothering him and asked if he knew how to work the office fax machine utterly baffled by the situation jason struggled to explain what had happened when sue looked down and realized she hadn't wrung his phone number she'd wrung his staff number by incalculable luck the number coincided with that of the payphone jason was walking past although the story has turned up online throughout the years there's no concrete proof that props up its legitimacy it seems like in some cases these stories get told and retold until they become nothing but urban myths what do you make of the payphone coincidence real or phony if you have any spooky coincidences of your own why not let me know in the comments below i'll reply to a few of my favorites diamond disaster at 45.52 carats the blue tinged hope diamond is about the size of a walnut and its value is estimated at a bank busting 250 million dollars but the number on the price tag isn't the only thing its previous owners have paid for it it has a twisted history associated with the ruin and doom of its many owners with some even claiming that it's cursed legend has it that after being unearthed in india it was stolen from a temple by a hindu priest who was sentenced to a long and painful demise it was then shipped to a french merchant who was mauled to death by a pack of wild dogs but not before he sold the sadistic stone onto king louis xiv of france it remained in the royal family until the french revolution saw its owners louis xvi and marie antoinette brutally beheaded in 1793 by 1839 it was in the possession of henry philip hope from whom it gets its name but the supposed curse claimed another victim and he died that same year it was passed down through his family to lord france's home but his addiction to gambling and high spending forced him to sell the diamond on its next owner evelyn mclean bought the stone for 180 thousand dollars in 1911 and claimed she didn't care about the rumors of bad luck the gem could bring but over the years the curse was credited for taking the lives of her son daughter and husband as well after her own death the gem was sold to settle huge debts in her estate finally in 1958 the jeopardist gem was given to the smithsonian institute ending the supposed curse for good who knew such terrible coincidences could look so pretty the curse of bruce lee aside from being one of the most badass humans alive bruce lee was a martial arts instructor director actor and all-round high kicking legend but at just 32 years old bruce suffered from a cerebral odema during the making of his final film game of death and died shortly after what nobody knew at the time was that this fateful film would also link to the death of his son brandon lee just 20 years later the film is famous among martial arts fans and contains a scene with a stuntman showing actors how to use prop guns gentlemen these are blanks only aim upward there's a wad of paper that comes out and can injure someone following in his father's footsteps brandon stepped into the world of acting and took a leading role in the film the crow lee was struck by the fragment of a dummy bullet that had been lodged in the barrel as the blank was fired it propelled the real bullet into his side the wound was fatal but it could have been avoided if they'd followed the advice in his father's final film even in death you should always listen to your parents pharaoh fallacy the mummies that haunt hollywood movie screens tend to have two things unbelievable riches and a deadly curse that befalls all treasure hunters but hollywood didn't invent the concept of the mummy's curse bad press did in 1922 the tomb of pharaoh tootin common was discovered in the valley of kings in luxor egypt journalists reported that there was a curse engraved on the tomb which ominously read death shall come of swift wings to him who disturbs the peace of the king however the expedition's archaeologist howard carter quickly dismissed the claim as a pack of lies even so within just 10 years six people involved in the expedition met a gruesome end through poisoning murder suicide and even assassination the hideously coincidental deaths have only fed the fatal fiction of the mummy's curse and as unbelievable as it may sound it seems destined to never die moped mishap on july 18 1975 tragedy in the form of taxi struck 17 year old erskine evan as he was riding his moped down a road in hamilton bermuda the impact sadly killed the young man but some spooky circumstances came to light shortly after the accident almost exactly a year before erskine's brother neville had been riding down the same road on the same moped when he too was struck and killed by a car but not just any car both brothers had collided with the very same taxi driven by the same man and according to the boy's father it was even carrying the very same passenger you're probably thinking that this has to be made up because the odds of this scenario repeating itself seem impossible at best well seeing as the little island of bermuda only had a small population of about 12 000 back then the improbability of such an event happening isn't as big as you might think but to add a cherry to the top of this incredibly coincidence-filled treat the boys were also both 17. is this just coincidence or a glitch in the matrix tsutomu yamaguchi next to the dictionary definition of luck they should place the image of this man his name is sutomu yamaguchi and he might just be the luckiest man to ever walk the earth on august 6 1945 yamaguchi was on a business trip to hiroshima does that date and place sound familiar if you've ever paid attention in history class then you'll know that's when and where america dropped the first atom bomb on japan it killed between sixty thousand and eighty thousand people in the blink of an eye but yamaguchi miraculously survived he wasn't unscathed though his upper body was badly burned from the intensity of the blast yet he managed to return home a few days later but his home was in nagasaki i can almost hear the history buffs holding their breath on august 9th just three days after hiroshima america dropped another atomic bomb on japan can you take a guess where that's right the city of nagasaki it wiped a further 40 000 people off the face of the earth instantly but despite the odds yamaguchi survived once again he's one of the only people to have ever survived two atomic bomb blasts and lived to tell the hideously coincidental tale cloverquirk the odds of you finding a four-leaf clover are approximately one in ten thousand so what do you think the odds are of finding one when you can't even see as impossible as it sounds reddit user uncle dude's blind son shows that the odds were definitely in his favor he was born with bilateral microphthalmia a condition that affects the development of the eyes about 3 percent of america's 74.1 million children suffer some form of blindness and that means the odds of a blind child finding a four-leaf clover in america is roughly 1 in 247 billion now that's what you call blind luck jefferson and adams thomas jefferson and john adams were both involved in drafting one of the most important documents in american history the declaration of independence these two founding fathers were some of the most prominent statesmen of america's revolutionary generation by signing the declaration on july 4th 1776 they announced the separation of 13 north american british colonies from great britain and the us of a was born but exactly 50 years after the declaration was signed on july 4 1826 adams passed away the final words he ever uttered were thomas jefferson still survives but he was wrong just five hours earlier jefferson had also passed away as well as being an incredible coincidence these might just be the most patriotic deaths in history a presidential puzzle of the 45 presidents that have led the united states up till now can you take a guess at how many have had brown eyes seeing as approximately 45 percent of americans have brown eyes you'd expect it to be something like 20 or even 15 at least right in fact only six presidents have taken baby browns into the oval office as strange as it sounds about 70 of them have had blue eyes and as far as an explanation goes psychological experiments indicate that we actually perceive brown-eyed people to be more trustworthy than their blue-eyed counterparts but it's not the only unbelievable presidential coincidence eight of all the presidents have also been left-handed but since the end of world war ii almost half of the 13 u.s presidents have been left-handed despite statistics showing that just 10 of the american population are lefty-led in 2019 scientists from oxford university found a genetic link to left-handedness that may gift lefties with better verbal skills as a result that's a pretty important presidential skill though i wonder what the studies say about tiny hands motor miracle i think it's safe to say that the owner of this car might just be the luckiest driver in the world during the terrifying conditions of hurricane dewan back in 2016 parts of taiwan were at the mercy of horrifically high winds reaching 135 miles per hour they were so powerful that they managed to uproot this huge tree but thankfully the bend at its top meant that even when it fell it avoided crushing the car parked underneath it now that puts the car in good karma perpetual putin vladimir putin is many things an avid outdoorsman a martial arts fan a motorcycle fanatic and he manages to fit all of this in between running a country and hacking into countless others where does he find the time well it turns out he might just be immortal pictures from russian soldiers from 1920 and 1941 have surfaced looking surprisingly like the leader of mother russia these photos definitely bear an uncanny resemblance to the russian ruler and they're not the only shreds of evidence of his so-called immortality just take a look at this painting of 19th century greek general thanosulis valtinos look familiar and what about this from 15th century dutch painter john von ake that resemblance is ghost-like although that might just be the skin tone so either putin just has one of those faces or he's an immortal miscreant who's been popping up over the centuries which do you think it is assassination accident the assassination of archduke franz ferdinand didn't just trigger a war it was also bizarrely linked to its end heir to the austro-hungarian throne the archduke was visiting bosnia to oversee military exercises when his car was attacked by serbian nationalists seven of these young men had bombs strapped to their bodies and loaded revolvers but their extensive plan of attack failed and the archduke got away safely but his fate couldn't be avoided the driver took a wrong turn and placed them in the path of gavrilo princep another serbian nationalist who had been waiting on the wrong road after popping out to grab a sandwich for lunch the misplaced assassin realized his unbelievable fortune and fired two perfectly lethal shots killing the archduke and pushing the continent into the first world war but unbeknownst at the time there was hope hidden on the number plate of the car as you can see it reads a111 when written as a date 11 11 18 it refers to armistice day the day the war officially ended i'm not sure if this counts as an amazing or terrifying twist of fate what do you think crying curse the 1980s was characterized by plenty of questionable aesthetics but one of the lesser known fashionable faux pas of the era was the crying boy portrait originally painted by giovanni pragalin these portraits of dejected-looking urchins were mass-printed and widely available from the 1950s to the 1970s but in september 1985 british tabloid the sun began reporting on a creepy coincidence that swept the nation house fires that reduced many homes to ashes had only one survivor the crying boy paintings amidst the ashes it was reported that the portraits were completely unscathed some weren't even blackened by the smoke this led to widespread speculation that the paintings were jinxed and actually caused the fires even though most had normal causes like cigarettes and deep fat fryers but the coincidence whipped the public up into a frenzy and many people sent their own cursed prince off to be destroyed in mass bonfires after the air was cleared of the ensuing hysteria comedic investigator steve punt took a more scientific approach to the coincidental curse in an experiment he tried to burn one of the printed paintings and concluded that the prince actually used a varnish that contained a fire retardant he also theorized that in many cases the string holding the painting up had been burned first dropping it face down and protecting it from most of the fire damage as obvious as it may sound i doubt the sun thought totally rational explanation behind creepy painting coincidence was a headline that would sell many copies the benoit blunder chris benoit was one of the most recognizable faces in the world of wrestling but in 2007 he ended his own life as well as those of his wife and son at his home in lafayette georgia the shocking event shook the sporting world to its core but something even creepier was about to drop jaws even further 14 hours before the bodies were discovered benoit's wikipedia page was updated to say he'd been having difficulties stemming from the death of his wife nancy the edit was made from this anonymous ip address in stamford connecticut worryingly that was the same city where benoit's employers at the wwe had their headquarters the edit was reversed just under 20 minutes later as no reliable source for the information was provided but when the bodies were eventually discovered the terrifying coincidence couldn't be ignored had someone known what benoit was planning to do or had he been set up to take the blame for this seriously heinous crime a few hours later the anonymous wiki user posted an apology on the wiki news site insisting it was all a terrible coincidence they'd heard rumors related to a family emergency of benoit's and had jumped to the most disturbing conclusion and with that we should all remember never to blindly trust wikipedia again which of these coincidences did you think was the creepiest don't forget to tell me about your own spooky coincidences in the comments below and thanks for watching you

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Published: Sat Dec 12 2020