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Top 10 Bizarre Coincidences Too Good
Many of us come across diverse, yet strange coincidences in our lives. Most of them occur in the form of accidents and others evolve as events take place. To some people, coincidences are the incredible and can really boost someone`s belief, especially that of a skeptics and their disbelief in higher being.
Anyways, our world is filled with some strangest s occurrences for which there is no logical or scientific explanation. You are free to decide for yourself if these Top 10 stories are a mere chance or are fate. Given below are some bizarre coincidences that I think are worth mentioning.
10. Three Strangers on a Train
In the 1920s, three Englishman were traveling separately by train through Peru. At the time of their introduction, they were the only three men in the railroad car. Their introductions were more surprising than they could have imagined. One man’s last name was Bingham, and the second man’s last name was Powell. The third man announced that his last name was Bingham-Powell. None were related in any way.
9. Louis XVI’s Bad Day – 21st
When King Louis XVI of France was a child, he was warned by an astrologer to always be on his guard on the 21st day of each month. Louis ws so terrified by this that he never did business on this day. Unfortunately Louis was not always on his guard. On June 21st 1791, following the French revolution, Louis and his queen were arrested in Varennes, whist trying to escape France. On September 21st 1791, France abolished the institution of Royalty and proclaimed itself a republic. Finally on January 21st 1793, King Louis XVI was executed by guillotine.
8. Swapped Hotel Findings
In 1953, television reporter Irv Kupcinet was in London to cover the coronation of Ellizabeth II. In one of the drawers in his room at the Savoy he found found some items that, by their identification, belonged to a man named Harry Hannin. Coincidentally, Harry Hannin – a basketball star with the famed Harlem Globetrotters – was a good friend of Kupcinet’s. But the story has yet another twist. Just two days later, and before he could tell Hannin of his lucky discovery, Kupcinet received a letter from Hannin. In the letter, Hannin told Kucinet that while staying at the Hotel Meurice in Paris, he found in a drawer a tie – with Kupcinet’s name on it!
7. Wilmer McLean and the Civil War
Wilmer McLean lived peaceful life in Manassas, Virginia until the Civil War erupted. His hometown was the middle ground between Washington DC and Richmond, VA, the capitals of Union and Confederate respectively. So the battle that is considered as start of the war, The Battle of Bull Run, took place just in front of McLean’s house. This mainly occurred because McLean’s house was used as a Confederate headquarters. With his house being shot all the time, he decided to move further into Virginia. The strange coincidence is the fact that the war began in his house, but finished in his new one. Four years later, Union’s General surrender in McLean’s house.
6. James Dean Car Curse
In September 1955, James Dean was killed in a horrific car accident involving his Porsche sports car. After the crash, every person who used or touched the car was unlucky.
When the car was towed away from accident scene and taken to a garage, the engine slipped out and fell onto the mechanic, crushing both of his legs.
Ultimately the engine was sold to a doctor, who put it into his racing car and was killed later on. Another racing driver, in the same race, was killed in his car, which had James Dean’s driveshaft built-in to it.
When James Dean’s Porsche later required maintenance, the garage it was stored in was destroyed by fire. In Sacramento, the car was displayed in Sacramento, but it fell off its mount and accidentally fractured a teenager’s hip. In Oregon, the trailer that the car was mounted on slipped from its towbar and smashed through the front of a shop. The final mishap occurred in 1959 when the carmysteriously broke into 11 pieces.
Who is James Dean? Dean was the an American actor; the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and remains the only actor to have had two posthumous nominations. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Dean as the 18th best male movie star on their AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars list.
American teenagers at the time of Dean’s major films identified with Dean and many of the roles he played, especially in Rebel Without A Cause: the typical teenager, caught where no one, not even his peers, can understand him. Joe Hyams says that Dean was one of those rare actors, whom both men and women find sexy.
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