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Life sometimes prepares big surprises for us that are hard to explain.
Almost like reincarnation
Enzo Ferrari founded the company Ferrari and died in 1988. One month later the footballer Mesut Özil was born.
Looking at their photos, one would immediately say they resemble each other like twins. Is this a case of reincarnation?
Premonition about the Titanic
In 1898, i.e. 14 years before the sinking of the Titanic, writer Morgan Robertson wrote the novel Futility, which spoke about a sunk ship named Titan.
We can observe a certain similarity not only regarding the name of the ship.
Both the fictional and the real ship were described as unsinkable, had the same technical parameters, lacked lifeboats and struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic.
After the sinking of the real Titanic the book was republished under the title Futility or The Sinking of the Titan.
Neighbors living in different centuries
The famous composer George Handel was the neighbor of the famous guitarist Jimi Hendrix – they were only two centuries apart.
Handel lived in London at 25 Brook Street, while Hendrix lived for a time at 23 Brook Street.
Both were outstanding artists who significantly contributed to the development of music in their fields.
Tragedy at Hoover Dam
The first person to lose his life while building the Hoover Dam was George Tierney, who died on December 20, 1922.
The last person to die at the dam was Patrick Tierney – George’s son. He also died on December 20.
Cars that met
In 1895 two cars collided in the state of Ohio. The peculiarity of the accident is that it happened in the early days of the automobile industry, and there were only these two cars in the state of Ohio.
At that time accidents were not documented, and therefore no official record has been preserved.
Coincidence in the biographies of Lincoln and Kennedy
There are several matching facts in the biographies of two American presidents. They are Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy.
Here are some of them:
Both died as a result of a gunshot to the back of the head, on a Friday before a holiday (Lincoln died before Easter and Kennedy on Thanksgiving). Both assassinations were committed in the presence of their wives and another couple.
Both had 4 children.
Both had a friend named Billy Graham.
Kennedy had Lincoln’s secretary. President Lincoln, in turn, had John’s secretary.
Their successors were vice presidents named Johnson, were from the South and were Democrats.
The first and last soldier
The graves of the first and last British soldiers to die in the First World War are only 6 m apart.
Their tombstones face each other.
Such an arrangement was in no way intentional.
Rumors about Edgar Allan Poe’s time machine
In a book by Edgar Allan Poe there is talk of four soldiers who survived a shipwreck and were forced to eat the body of their colleague Richard Parker.
Poe claimed that the story was based on real events. 46 years after writing the book a ship actually sank whose rescued crew were forced to eat the body of a man named Richard Parker to survive.
This suggests that the American writer probably owned a time machine.
Unlucky brothers
In July 1975, Erskine Lawrence Ebbin, a 17-year-old resident of the Bermuda Islands, was riding his moped and collided with a taxi.
Almost a year earlier, also in July, Erskine’s brother, at age 17, died. He was riding the same moped and died as a result of a collision with a taxi.
The same driver with the same passengers was behind the wheel of the taxi.
Anthony Hopkins and a strange book
Actor Anthony Hopkins once urgently needed books to prepare for a role in the film The Girl from Petrovka, which was written by George Feifer.
He could not find the book in any store, but completely by chance he came across a copy in the subway.
Later Hopkins met Feifer and he told him that he did not have his book because he had lent it to a friend who lost it in the subway.
A special name associated with the Roman Empire
The city of Rome was, according to legend, founded by Romulus and Remus. Romulus subsequently became its first king.
The last ruler of the Western Roman Empire was Romulus Augustulus, although he was born as Flavius Romulus Augustus.
Therefore it can be said that one of the most powerful empires began and ended with the name “Romulus.”
Predicting Donald Trump’s presidential election victory in The Simpsons series
The creators of The Simpsons in 2000 created an episode in which they made fun of Donald Trump by portraying him as President of the USA.
At the time they had no idea it would one day become reality. More interesting is the fact that his fictional election campaign was very similar to the real one.
