Strange coincidences that make you go... hmmm!

ThinkProgress

I was thinking there are probably lots of people with odd stories or anecdotes etc of strange unexplained coincidences.

I always love reading this kind of stuff, as it really makes you wonder about life and the bigger picture of things. (well it does for me anyways)

(NB: This is not a conspiracy thread - so please try avoid too much speculative theories.)

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Here's my contribution to begin: It's about the similarities between the Lincoln and JFK assassinations.

I'm not speculating on what any of this means. I just thought people might find the parallels quite interesting/amusing/odd?


> Both Lincoln and Kennedy were concerned with civil rights.

> Lincoln was elected President in 1860; Kennedy in 1960.

> Both were killed on a Friday in the presence of their wives.

> Both were shot from behind and in the head.

> Their successors, both named Johnson, were Southern Democrats and both were in the Senate.

> Andrew Johnson was born in 1808 and Lyndon Johnson was born in 1908.

> John Wilkes booth (lincoln's assassin) was born in 1839 and Lee Harvey Oswald (JFK's alleged assassin) was born in 1939.

> Booth and Oswald were Southerners favoring unpopular ideas.

> Both Presidents’ wives lost children through death while in the White House.

> Lincoln’s secretary, whose name was Kennedy, advised him not to go to the theater.

> Kennedy’s secretary, whose name was Lincoln, advised him not to go to Dallas.

> John Wilkes booth shot Lincoln in a theater and ran to a warehouse.

> Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and ran to a theater.

> The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.

> The names Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson each contain thirteen letters.

> The names John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald each contain 15 letters.

> Both assassins were killed before being brought to trial.

> Both Johnsons were opposed for re-election by men whose names start with “G.”


Quite a jaw-dropping amount of coincidences there. lol

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So does anyone else have any stories with some weird unexplained coincidences? Please share!

darkpagandeath

http://treasure.diylol.com/uploads/post/image/346790/resized_ancient-aliens-invisible-something-meme-generator-i-m-not-saying-it-s-aliens-but-it-s-aliens-3fda19.jpg


That is all....

893bet

Both were also American presidents.





just to add more spice to it.

fleet_admiral

Havent been sleeping well lately so took a nap earlier. Had a dream that Aldi wouldnt have the Stegosaurus toy that I was going up to get tonight. Went up a few minutes ago and got every dinosaur, except the Stegosaurus.
There was plenty of all the others

wendell borton

Ireland draw 1-1 with Bosnia the night Paris is attacked. Thierry Henry handball and Denis O'Brien it's all connected.

Banjo String

"The problem with random coincident threads on the internet is you can never be sure of their authenticity"

Abraham Lincoln, 1864.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

For a start, Lincoln did not have a secretary called Kennedy and Kennedy has 2 secretaries - Nicolay and Hay. Booth was born in 1838, not 1839.

But don't let facts blur a good yarn.

nokia69

> John Wilkes booth shot Lincoln in a theater and ran to a warehouse.

> Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and ran to a theater.

AFAIK Booth was captured in a barn not a warehouse

Also after shooting JFK, Oswald went back to his boarding house, then he shot Tippit, after that he ran to the cinema

mulbot

George Bush Snr was a warmonger who told countless lies to go start an illegal war in Iraq!

George Bush Jnr was a warmonger who told countless lies to go start an illegal war in Iraq! Probably just a strange coincidence:eek:

S. Goodspeed

Shooting someone in the head from behind seems like a very clever way of killing someone rather than a weird coincidence

Interestingly though, Booths' brother saved Lincoln's son from being hit by a train a yet prior to the assassination.

In conclusion... Aliens.

corner of hells

ThinkProgress wrote: »

I was thinking there are probably lots of people with odd stories or anecdotes etc of strange unexplained coincidences.

I always love reading this kind of stuff, as it really makes you wonder about life and the bigger picture of things. (well it does for me anyways)

(NB: This is not a conspiracy thread - so please try avoid too much speculative theories.)

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Here's my contribution to begin: It's about the similarities between the Lincoln and JFK assassinations.

I'm not speculating on what any of this means. I just thought people might find the parallels quite interesting/amusing/odd?


> Both Lincoln and Kennedy were concerned with civil rights.

> Lincoln was elected President in 1860; Kennedy in 1960.

> Both were killed on a Friday in the presence of their wives.

> Both were shot from behind and in the head.

> Their successors, both named Johnson, were Southern Democrats and both were in the Senate.

> Andrew Johnson was born in 1808 and Lyndon Johnson was born in 1908.

> John Wilkes booth (lincoln's assassin) was born in 1839 and Lee Harvey Oswald (JFK's alleged assassin) was born in 1939.

> Booth and Oswald were Southerners favoring unpopular ideas.

> Both Presidents’ wives lost children through death while in the White House.

> Lincoln’s secretary, whose name was Kennedy, advised him not to go to the theater.

> Kennedy’s secretary, whose name was Lincoln, advised him not to go to Dallas.

> John Wilkes booth shot Lincoln in a theater and ran to a warehouse.

> Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and ran to a theater.

> The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.

> The names Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson each contain thirteen letters.

> The names John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald each contain 15 letters.

> Both assassins were killed before being brought to trial.

> Both Johnsons were opposed for re-election by men whose names start with “G.”


Quite a jaw-dropping amount of coincidences there. lol

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So does anyone else have any stories with some weird unexplained coincidences? Please share!

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The Backwards Man

Coincidence and incident share seven common letters. Warmonger and fishmonger contain six common letters.

some random drunk

Snopes gives a nice analysis of each "amazing" coincidence

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/lincoln-kennedy.asp

KERSPLAT!

This is going well... :pac:

Life is full of things that can be construed as coincidence if you're interested in looking for them. And if you're looking for them then your confirmation bias will find them. This is what psychics rely on, people willing to join the dots to make something more significant than it actually is.

I was in a supermarket and saw a girl who looked like me.

She was around the same age
She also had dark hair
We were both there on Saturday
We both bought loo roll
She and I both drove there in cars
She and I both wore T-shirts
We queued at the exact same till
We both parked in the same row
Our cars were roughly the same colour
We both pushed shopping trollies

Coincidence??

Some of the 'coincidences' in the OP are fiction anyway.

Fleawuss

A new phenomenon! The self closing thread. Roll up Roll up

Hammer89

The surname Oswald sounds like Griswald from those National Lampoon films. Who was in those films? Chevy Chase. Chase rhymes with race, which could mean presidential race for instance?

corner of hells

Candie wrote: »

Life is full of things that can be construed as coincidence if you're interested in looking for them. And if you're looking for them then your confirmation bias will find them. This is what psychics rely on, people willing to join the dots to make something more significant than it actually is.

I was in a supermarket and saw a girl who looked like me.

She was around the same age
She also had dark hair
We were both there on Saturday
We both bought loo roll
She and I both drove there in cars
She and I both wore T-shirts
We queued at the exact same till
We both parked in the same row
Our cars were roughly the same colour
We both pushed shopping trollies

Coincidence??

Some of the 'coincidences' in the OP are fiction anyway.

I know , I know ... she was your twin sister Mandie.

Did I win ?

sonny.knowles

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Coincidence and incident share seven common letters. Warmonger and fishmonger contain six common letters.

I wouldn't say no to a Beshoff Bros Scampi and chips. With s side of onion rings, and a cherry coke from from the Spar next door.

Thephantomsmask

ThinkProgress wrote: »

I was thinking there are probably lots of people with odd stories or anecdotes etc of strange unexplained coincidences.

I always love reading this kind of stuff, as it really makes you wonder about life and the bigger picture of things. (well it does for me anyways)

(NB: This is not a conspiracy thread - so please try avoid too much speculative theories.)

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Here's my contribution to begin: It's about the similarities between the Lincoln and JFK assassinations.

I'm not speculating on what any of this means. I just thought people might find the parallels quite interesting/amusing/odd?


> Both Lincoln and Kennedy were concerned with civil rights.

> Lincoln was elected President in 1860; Kennedy in 1960.

> Both were killed on a Friday in the presence of their wives.

> Both were shot from behind and in the head.

> Their successors, both named Johnson, were Southern Democrats and both were in the Senate.

> Andrew Johnson was born in 1808 and Lyndon Johnson was born in 1908.

> John Wilkes booth (lincoln's assassin) was born in 1839 and Lee Harvey Oswald (JFK's alleged assassin) was born in 1939.

> Booth and Oswald were Southerners favoring unpopular ideas.

> Both Presidents’ wives lost children through death while in the White House.

> Lincoln’s secretary, whose name was Kennedy, advised him not to go to the theater.

> Kennedy’s secretary, whose name was Lincoln, advised him not to go to Dallas.

> John Wilkes booth shot Lincoln in a theater and ran to a warehouse.

> Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and ran to a theater.

> The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.

> The names Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson each contain thirteen letters.

> The names John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald each contain 15 letters.

> Both assassins were killed before being brought to trial.

> Both Johnsons were opposed for re-election by men whose names start with “G.”


Quite a jaw-dropping amount of coincidences there. lol

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So does anyone else have any stories with some weird unexplained coincidences? Please share!

A few weeks before Lincoln died, he was in Monroe, Maryland. A few weeks before JFK died, he was in Marilyn Monroe.

RDM_83 again

Candie wrote: »

Life is full of things that can be construed as coincidence if you're interested in looking for them. And if you're looking for them then your confirmation bias will find them. This is what psychics rely on, people willing to join the dots to make something more significant than it actually is.

I was in a supermarket and saw a girl who looked like me.

She was around the same age
She also had dark hair
We were both there on Saturday
We both bought loo roll
She and I both drove there in cars
She and I both wore T-shirts
We queued at the exact same till
We both parked in the same row
Our cars were roughly the same colour
We both pushed shopping trollies

Coincidence??

Thats not a coincidence thats an Evil Twin (goatee is the sign for men, not quiet sure how you tell woman evil twins?maybe dark lip gloss and being strangely sexier)

The_Valeyard

RDM_83 again wrote: »

Thats not a coincidence thats an Evil Twin (goatee is the sign for men, not quiet sure how you tell woman evil twins?maybe dark lip gloss and being strangely sexier)

No, it's the same, the goatee is just much further down.....

Totofan99

I posted a link to this in a thread like this not too long ago.

"Littlewoods Law states that a person can expect to experience an event with odds of one in a million (defined by the law as a "miracle") at the rate of about one per month."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littlewood%27s_law

donegaLroad

author of the book 'Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan' predicts the sinking of the Titanic 14 years before the event (by chance)

Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan is an 1898 novella written by Morgan Robertson. The story features the ocean liner Titan, which sinks in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. The Titan and its sinking have been noted to be very similar to the real-life passenger ship RMS Titanic, which sank fourteen years later. Following the wreck the novel was reissued with some changes, particularly in the ship's gross tonnage.

Beyond the name of the ship, the similarities between the Titanic and the fictional Titan include....

Both were triple screw (propeller)

Described as "unsinkable"

The Titan was the largest craft afloat and the greatest of the works of men (800 feet, displacing 75,000 tons, up from 45,000 in the 1898 edition), and was deemed "practically unsinkable" (as quoted in Robertson's book).

Shortage of lifeboats

The Titanic carried only 16 lifeboats, plus 4 Engelhardt folding lifeboats,[5] less than half the number required for her passenger and crew capacity of 3000.

The Titan carried "as few as the law allowed", 24 lifeboats, which could carry less than half of her total complement of 3000.

Struck an iceberg

Moving at 22½ knots, the Titanic struck an iceberg on the starboard side on the night of April 14, 1912, in the North Atlantic, 400 nautical miles (740 km; 460 mi) away from Newfoundland.

Moving at 25 knots, The Titan also struck an iceberg on the starboard side on an April night in the North Atlantic, 400 nautical miles (740 km; 460 mi) from Newfoundland (Terranova).

Sinking

The Titanic sank, and more than half of her 2200 passengers and crew died.

The Titan also sank, and more than half of her 2500 passengers drowned.

'Following the Titanic's sinking, some people credited Robertson with clairvoyance. Robertson denied this, claiming the similarities were explained by his extensive knowledge of shipbuilding and maritime trends....' Wiki



personally, I think it is too much of a coincidence.

sonny.knowles

corner of hells wrote: »

I know , I know ... she was your twin sister Mandie.

Did I win ?

Or a full length mirror.

MadDog76

Armando Screeching Ruffian wrote: »

For a start, Lincoln did not have a secretary called Kennedy and Kennedy has 2 secretaries - Nicolay and Hay. Booth was born in 1838, not 1839.

But don't let facts blur a good yarn.

Actually ............ it was Lincoln who had the two secretaries (White House secretaries John G. Nicolay and John Hay) not Kennedy (his secretary was Evelyn Lincoln) ......... just to keep the facts factual.

PARlance

Totofan99 wrote: »

I posted a link to this in a thread like this not too long ago.

"Littlewoods Law states that a person can expect to experience an event with odds of one in a million (defined by the law as a "miracle") at the rate of about one per month."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littlewood%27s_law

You posted that exactly one month ago at the exact same time!!!!

PARlance

^^^
You probably didn't but OP started the ball rolling with misfacts.

Son Of A Vidic

ThinkProgress wrote: »

Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and ran to a theater.

Yes but that shot missed, so he had to run around to the grassy knoll to deliver the kill shot to the head and he then ran back to the book depository building. Fit man.

spud82

It said on the news that it would be stormy today and it was.

The Backwards Man

I got one!! I got one!!

Bobby Farrell, the male member of Boney M who dressed up as Rasputin for the eponymous song . .

died on the 94th anniversary of Rasputin's demise. In St. Petersburg.

kneemos

We all know somebody who has gone on holiday to Australia and bumbed into their long lost twin,who is working in the same job and married to someone with the same name as their partner.

The Sidewards Man

kneemos wrote: »

We all know somebody who has gone on holiday to Australia and bumbed into their long lost twin,who is working in the same job and married to someone with the same name as their partner.

A second Kneemos really? one eejit is enough.

Captain Chaos

mulbot wrote: »

George Bush Snr was a warmonger who told countless lies to go start an illegal war in Iraq!

George Bush Jnr was a warmonger who told countless lies to go start an illegal war in Iraq! Probably just a strange coincidence:eek:

George Bush Snr went to war in Iraq in 1991 because Iraq invaded Kuwait and Saudi Arabia feared it was next along with most of the worlds oil at the time.

Countries that bombed or took military action against Iraq in 1991 under UN resolution 1101 were the US, Canada, UK, France, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Egypt and hey guess who else, Syria.

Junr just went back the finish the job his dad was not allowed to do at the time unless they made killing Sadam look like an accident.

mulbot

Captain Chaos wrote: »

George Bush Snr went to war in Iraq in 1991 because Iraq invaded Kuwait and Saudi Arabia feared it was next along with most of the worlds oil at the time.

Countries that bombed or took military action against Iraq in 1991 under UN resolution 1101 were the US, Canada, UK, France, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Egypt and hey guess who else, Syria.

Junr just went back the finish the job his dad was not allowed to do at the time unless they made killing Sadam look like an accident.

If you say so... now if we can get back to the purpose of the thread

gramar

A couple of Fridays ago I was driving home and Dire Straits money for nothing was on the radio. The lyric...'custom kitchens...deliveries...' made me think that 'kitchen' wasn't a word you'd hear in too many songs. The only other I could think of was Crowded House...Everywhere you go...'things aint cooking in my kitchen...'

The next song on was Hot Chocolate...You sexy thing but the one after was the aforementioned Crowded House - Everywhere you go...! Strange cosmic goings on.

Funnily enough at work a week a ago a colleague was trying to convince me that Jonah Lomu was dead. I assured him he was very much alive and kicking which he was at the time. This morning I've just seen that he passed away last night.

sonny.knowles

mulbot wrote: »

If you say so... now if we can get back to the purpose of the thread

Coincidence - mulbutt called on his Factually incorrect coincidence, mulbutt attempts to change the subject.

Whitewinged

spud82 wrote: »

It said on the news that it would be stormy today and it was.

Went on a family sun holiday a while ago. My father said at the airport on the way that he had a dream that it rained on the holiday. It did rain, for the whole holiday and the forecast was not for rain.

eviltimeban

gramar wrote: »

A couple of Fridays ago I was driving home and Dire Straits money for nothing was on the radio. The lyric...'custom kitchens...deliveries...' made me think that 'kitchen' wasn't a word you'd hear in too many songs. The only other I could think of was Crowded House...Everywhere you go...'things aint cooking in my kitchen...'

The Lemonheads have a song called "Kitchen".

It was written by an Australian called Nic Dalton.

Australia is right beside New Zealand.

Crowded House are from New Zealand.

New Zealand is where Lord Of The Rings was shot.

Liv Tyler was in Lord Of The Rings.

Liv Tyler sang on a Lemonheads track.

OMG!!! :rolleyes:

Badly Drunk Boy

gramar wrote: »

A couple of Fridays ago I was driving home and Dire Straits money for nothing was on the radio. The lyric...'custom kitchens...deliveries...' made me think that 'kitchen' wasn't a word you'd hear in too many songs. The only other I could think of was Crowded House...Everywhere you go...'things aint cooking in my kitchen...'

Funnily enough at work a week a ago a colleague was trying to convince me that Jonah Lomu was dead. I assured him he was very much alive and kicking which he was at the time. This morning I've just seen that he passed away last night.

Jona Lewie had a song called 'You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties'. *Ignores the other New Zealand link* His name is similar to Jonah Lomu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTns_N9NcMg

timthumbni

I often used to be walking around Belfast and would start thinking of someone and that same person would be walking towards me when I turned the corner. This was not a one off incident. It happened many, many times. Was that a coincident or have I got "the shining"?

wexandproud

wendell borton wrote: »

Ireland draw 1-1 with Bosnia the night Paris is attacked. Thierry Henry handball and Denis O'Brien it's all connected.

yes , wait a minute wait a minute . and thierry henry and denis o brien both have foreign bank accounts , i knew it i fcuking new it its all the banks fault

Maximus Alexander

Candie wrote: »

Life is full of things that can be construed as coincidence if you're interested in looking for them. And if you're looking for them then your confirmation bias will find them. This is what psychics rely on, people willing to join the dots to make something more significant than it actually is.

I was in a supermarket and saw a girl who looked like me.

She was around the same age
She also had dark hair
We were both there on Saturday
We both bought loo roll
She and I both drove there in cars
She and I both wore T-shirts
We queued at the exact same till
We both parked in the same row
Our cars were roughly the same colour
We both pushed shopping trollies

Coincidence??

Some of the 'coincidences' in the OP are fiction anyway.

The poor girl must have been properly creeped out that you were watching her every move and following her out to her car.

osarusan

I got an email saying a Nigerian prince had died and I could make a mint out of it for just a small initial cost.

Two days later I got another email saying another Nigerian prince had died and again I could make a fortune.

What are the chances of two princes dying so close together? Amazing!

Ri_Nollaig

Thephantomsmask wrote: »

A few weeks before Lincoln died, he was in Monroe, Maryland. A few weeks before JFK died, he was in Marilyn Monroe.

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963)
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson, June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962)

What was he doing to her corpse! :eek:

biko

Seventy-year-old twin brothers have died within hours of one another after separate accidents on the same road in northern Finland.

The first of the twins died when he was hit by a lorry while riding his bike in Raahe, 600 kilometres north of Helsinki.
About two hours later, his brother crossed the same road on his bicycle and was also hit and killed by a lorry.
He died just 1.5km from the spot where his brother was killed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssnw2GA657s

jasonb

Always liked this coincidence:

The speed of light in metres per second is 299792458. The great pyramid at Giza has co-ordinates of 29.9792458, 31.134658. It's only a coincidence that the numbers are the same, but it's still kinda cool.

J.

ThinkProgress

Candie wrote: »

And if you're looking for them then your confirmation bias will find them. This is what psychics rely on, people willing to join the dots to make something more significant than it actually is.

What you are referring to here, is not the actual coincidences themselves... but more the (often wildly speculative) conclusions people choose to draw from them!

The coincidences themselves don't necessarily need to have any deep meaning or significance. Often they're just amusing or entertaining when they occur.

Not everybody that notices some odd coincidence, is automatically a conspiracy theory nut or a wanna be clairvoyant.

That's an assumption many people erroneously make. (which seems like a bit of a confirmation bias in itself really) :pac:

KERSPLAT!

Half of the coincidences from the first post don't even exist...?

ThinkProgress

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Half of the coincidences from the first post don't even exist...?

I think you're missing the point a bit though... it was just a story relayed to me that I found amusing.

I posted it to get the ball rolling in this thread, so others would throw their own stories into the mix.

Btw, quite a few of those coincidences were accurate too. (including the biggest one of them all imo - two very prominent and popular presidents assassinated 100 years apart while fighting for civil rights!)

The King of Moo

Lincoln and Kennedy had the same job, and even lived in the same house!! :eek: