13 Unbelievable Coincidences That Will Leave You Speechless

There are some really strange coincidences in autobiographies of Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy. For instance, both had four children, both had a friend named Billy Graham, both had successors named Johnson (both successors were Democrats and southerners) and last but not least, both were assassinated on Friday by a gunshot wound to the back of the head.

Egyptian actress Zubaida Tharwat was born in 1940. She was known as the actress with the most beautiful eyes in classic Egyptian cinema. One can clearly notice that Jennifer Lawrence has some uncanny resemblance to the Egyptian actress.

Enzo Ferrari, the founder of the Ferrari Company, passed away in 1988. After just one month, the German professional footballer Mesut Özil was born. By looking at their portraits, one can easily think that it is a perfect case of reincarnation.

In 1912, Titanic sank in the Northern Atlantic Ocean. Not many people know that somewhat same story of a ship was told 14 years earlier in the novel The Wreck of the Titan or Futility that was written by fantasy writer Morgan Robertson. We can not only see the coincidence in the name but also in the fact that both ships (the fictional and real one) were described as unsinkable. And the most shocking coincidence is that both ships collided with icebergs in the North Atlantic Ocean.

It was July 1975 when a 17-year-old Erskine Lawrence Ebbin was killed by taxi when he was riding on his moped.  The strange coincidence is that Erskine’s brother also died almost a year ago in July while riding on his moped. His brother was also 17-year-old at that time and the same taxi driver was responsible for his death. And that’s not it…the taxi driver was also carrying the same passenger.

Anthony Hopkins was starring in a film titled The Girl from Petrovka and the actor was desperately searching for the book to learn more about the role. As Mr. Hopkins couldn’t find the book anywhere, he came across a forgotten copy of the book in the subway.
Mr. Hopkins later met the writer of the book, George Feifer, and told him about how he came across the book. Feifer told Mr. Hopkins that he had to lend his last copy to his friend who later lost it in the subway.

According to legend, Rome was founded by Romulus and Remus. As the first king of Rome was Romulus, the last was one Romulus Augustulus. Hence, it can be said that the start and end of one of the most powerful empires in the world was with the name “Romulus.”

There was a difference of two centuries between great musicians George Handel and Jimi Hendrix. Handel lived at 25 Brook Street in London whereas Hendrix lived at 23 Brook Street. Needless to say, both musicians played their roles in the development of music in their respective eras.

The first and last soldiers killed in the Great War have their graves located 6 meters from each other. It was not a deliberate attempt as even the headstones of both graves face each other.

Edgar Alan Po was the author of the novel titled The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. In the novel, he tells the story of how four sailors survived after eating a ship boy called Richard Parker.  Edgar claimed that the novel was inspired by real-life events.
46 years after the book was published, there was an incident of an actual boat sinking. The survivors recalled the events on how they had to survive by eating ship boy called….you guess it right…Richard Parker. No wonder why there were rumors Edgar had a time machine.

During the construction of the Hoover Dam, one of the first people who departed was George Tierney.  He died on December 20, 1922. The last person who died during constructing the dam was George’s son Patrick Tierney. He also died on December 20.

It was 1895 in the state of Ohio when two cars collided with each other. The strange thing about the accident is that there were only two cars in all of Ohio at that time.