Our world is so random and absurd that it’s hard to make sense of it. There are a lot of things in our lives that are tough to wrap our heads around. One of that things is crazy coincidences.
Coincidences in general are tough to make sense of. But there are some that are so weird, that it is hard to believe. They might force you to think, but it’s next to impossible to draw any conclusion from them. Here is a list of 10 crazy coincidences that are very hard to believe.
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Top 10 Most Crazy Coincidences
10. Jim Twins
In 1979, a set of twins were reunited at the age of 39. They were separated at the age of four weeks and did not know each other existence for 37 long years. A few surprises were revealed after the twin brothers met. Both were named Jim by their respective adoptive parents. The two shared a love for mathematics and carpentry. Both also pursued careers in the security sector. They also discovered that they suffered from tension headaches, had a habit of nail-biting, smoked Salem cigarettes, drove the same type of car, and even vacationed at the same beach in Florida.
9. The Titanic Lady
Violet Jessop was a ship stewardess who witnessed a lot of things in her life and survived. She was aboard the infamous RMS Titanic when it sunk in 1912. Jessop was on lifeboat 16 and handed a baby to look after. She was also on its sister ship, the HMHS Britannic when it sunk in 1916. Jessop jumped and saved herself after her lifeboat got sucked into the boat’s propeller. But this is not it. The lady was also on the third of Titanic’s sister ships, the RMBS Olympic when it collided with a British warship in 1911.
8. Mark Twain’s Death And Birth Date
Popular writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens, also known by his pen name Mark Twain, was born in 1835. It was the same year the Halley’s Comet made its first appearance. The comet appeared for the second time in 1910, the year that Twain died.
Twain had famously predicted that the two events would coincide. He was quoted saying, “The Almighty has said, no doubt, ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.” It feels like Twain almost knew about this crazy coincidence.
7. John Wilkes Booth And Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth had a strange connection with Abraham Lincoln much before he shot the former President of the United States. Booth, who himself was a stage actor, had a brother Edwin who was also a stage actor. Edwin was an ardent supporter of the Union during the Civil War. In a train station in New Jersey, Lincoln’s son, Robert Todd Lincoln, leaned up against a static train. He was nearly falling onto the tracks as it started again. Edwin grabbed him by the collar and saved his life.
6. Hoover Dam
Around 96 people lost their lives while building the Hoover Dam, according to official records. One of the first deaths was John Gregory Tierney, who drowned during a flash flood. It occurred in the violent Colorado River on December 20, 1921. On the same day, 14 years later in 1935, another person died. He was Tierney’s only son, Patrick William Tierney. He fell into one of the intake towers on the Arizona side of Black Canyon. Patrick’s death was the last one attributed to the dam.
5. Tsutomu Yamaguchi
On August 6 and 9, 1945, the United States detonated two nuclear bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The blast killed around 90,000 people and wrecked both the cities to rumbles. But there was one man who was in both the cities when the blasts happened and lived to tell the story. His name was Tsutomu Yamaguchi. On August 6, Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip. He was the blast in front of him. On August 9, he returned to his hometown Nagasaki, only to witness the blast for a second time.
4. Man Missed Two Flights That Crashed
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is one of the greatest mysteries in recent memory. The same year, another Malaysian Air flight was shot down over Ukraine. There’s another thing apart from the airlines and the year that connect these two incidents. A Dutch cyclist named Maarten de Jonge was scheduled to take both doomed flights. But he managed to cheat death by bumping his ticket at the eleventh hour when cheaper options became available. Sometimes going cheap can save your life. Talk about crazy coincidences.
3. Winning Four Lotteries
A Stanford Ph.D. graduate named Joan R. Ginther won four lotteries between 1993 and 2010. She minted winnings in excess of US$2 million in the state lotteries. The total sum she won is around US$20.4 million. But there are skeptics who believe that she may have stacked the odds in her favor. Since Joan was studying statistics, this might be true. But pulling it off four times is still pretty unbelievable. In 1993, she won $5.4 million, $2 million in 2006, $3 million in 2008, and $10 million, her largest prize yet in 2010.
2. Eleanor Rigby
In 1957, musicians John Lennon and Paul McCartney met at a party at St. Peter’s Church in Woolton, Liverpool. This meeting led to the eventual creation of The Beatles. But that’s not it. Just a few meters away from their meeting place, there was the grave of Eleanor Rigby. McCartney wrote a song titled “Eleanor Rigby” nine years later. The musician claimed he named the song after the actress Eleanor Bron, and a store in Bristol named Rigby & Evens Ltd. Later, the Beatles member stated that the grave may have played a subliminal part in his song’s namesake.
1. Couple Found Themselves In The Same Photo
Aimee Maiden and Nick Wheeler were a couple who were glancing through old family photographs. They discovered a strange coincidence right before their wedding. The two had unknowingly taken their first picture together as kids. This was taken 11 years before they actually met. This was despite the two growing up over 300 miles apart in opposite corners of England. But Nick’s family had been on a beach vacation in Aimee’s hometown. The photo of the two shows Aimee and her family sitting just feet behind Nick. This should top any crazy coincidences list.
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