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  • Tamerlane's Prescient Words on Random Eeriest Coincidences Throughout History

    (#8) Tamerlane's Prescient Words

    Military leader Tamerlane's body was exhumed in 1941 by a Soviet scientist. Inside his tomb, a message read, "When I rise from the dead, the world shall tremble," and, "Whomsoever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I."  

    Two days later, despite having signed the German-Soviet non-aggression pact, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi troops invaded the Soviet Union.
  • The Two Michael Foxes on Random Eeriest Coincidences Throughout History

    (#14) The Two Michael Foxes

    Michael J. Fox original wanted to register with the Screen Actors Guild as Michael Fox, but they already had an actor on the books with that name, thus the addition of his middle initial.  


    Years later, Fox starred in Back to the Future, in which he plays Marty McFly, a high schooler who travels back in time to 1955 and meets his parents as teenagers. His father, George (Crispin Glover), tells Marty he's a huge fan of a show called Science Fiction Theatre, which was an actual show that aired in the '50s.  

    Oddly enough, the original Michael Fox starred in numerous episodes of that show.

  • The Miraculous Exploding Church Incident on Random Eeriest Coincidences Throughout History

    (#5) The Miraculous Exploding Church Incident

    A church exploded in the small Nebraska town of Beatrice on March 1, 1950, at around 7:25 PM. As choir practice always began around 7:20 PM, all 15 choir members perished in the blast, right? Nope. No one died. No one even incurred any injuries.

    How? All 15 members were running late for their own personal reasons. They were nowhere near the church when it exploded. What could have been an utter tragedy for Beatrice ended up being relatively fine, save for the loss of the town church.

  • This Bullet Had One Job on Random Eeriest Coincidences Throughout History

    (#10) This Bullet Had One Job

    This one is an oldie but goodie. It's likely not true, as there are no concrete records of the event, not to mention it's fairly implausible - but it's fun nonetheless.  

    The story goes, Henry Ziegland left his long-time fiancée in 1893. Her brother vowed vengeance, and accosted Ziegland on the man's property. The brother shot Ziegland in the face, then killed himself shortly thereafter.  

    But the brother's bullet only grazed Ziegland's face and lodged itself in a tree behind him. He almost literally "dodged a bullet."

    Fast forward 20 years, to 1913, Ziegland decided to remove that same tree from his property. Unable to do so with an axe, he decided to blast the tree with dynamite. The resultant heat from the explosion caused the bullet to shoot out from the tree and, yep, shoot Ziegland right in the head.

  • The Erdington Echo Murders on Random Eeriest Coincidences Throughout History

    (#13) The Erdington Echo Murders

    On May 27, 1817, a woman named Mary Ashford was assaulted and murdered in the small English village of Erdington. A man named Abraham Thornton was charged and tried for the crime, but he walked due to lack of evidence. Mary's brother William refused to accept this verdict, and appealed for a retrial, to no avail.  

    On May 27, 1974 - 157 years to the day - Barbara Forrest was assaulted and murdered in the same village, her body dumped several hundred feet away from the spot where residents discovered Ashford's body. A man named Michael Ian Thornton was charged and tried for the deed, but he walked due to lack of evidence. Forrest's sister, Erika, refused to accept this verdict. In 2012, she appealed to have the case reopened so DNA evidence could be better examined.  

    In both cases, the victims were said to feel apprehensive days before they were murdered.

  • 9/11 'Predictions' In Media on Random Eeriest Coincidences Throughout History

    (#12) 9/11 'Predictions' In Media

    While conspiracy theorists will insist that certain members of Hollywood had prior knowledge of the September 11, 2001, World Trade Center attacks, the truth is that instances where 9/11 seemed to have been "predicted" by movies and television shows are mere coincidences.  

    Even still, the connections between fiction and real life are startlingly eerie. Take for instance the 1997 episode of The Simpsons, "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson," which features a bus pamphlet advertising a trip to NYC for $9. The positioning of the number 9 next to a silhouette of the World Trade Towers seems to spell out 9/11.

    Then there was this Pakistani airlines advertisement from 1979, showing the shadow of a large jet flying toward the towers.

    Perhaps the eeriest of them all came from the TV show The Lone Gunmen, a spinoff of The X-Files. The series featured an episode involving the titular trio thwarting a terrorist attack that involved crashing a plane into the World Trade Center, even suggesting the plot was an inside job carried out by a small faction within the US government. The episode aired in March 2001, mere months before the very real September 11 attacks.

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Many incredible things in life are just coincidences. Looking back at the history of the world, we can find that there are too many weird coincidences that humans basically cannot explain with scientific and mathematical probability. The coincidences that are too strange to be realized have occurred more often than we thought. These strange and unbelievable coincidences in history will make you wonder "What is the probability?" 

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