Random Eeriest Coincidences Throughout History (14 items)

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  (#11) Man Survives Atomic Blasts At Both Hiroshima And Nagasaki

  Tsutomu Yamaguchi happened to be on a business trip to Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day US bombers dropped an atomic bomb on the city. He suffered severe burns, but was otherwise okay in the end.

  He returned to his home in Nagasaki, where the US dropped a second atomic bomb just days later, and he managed to survive that attack as well.
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  (#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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  (#2) Twins Die On The Same Day, In The Same Manner

  In early 2002, a pair of 70-year-old twins died on the same day in Raahe, Finland. Not so strange, right? Wrong. The men both were struck and killed by trucks while riding their bicycles on the exact same stretch of road, about a mile apart from each other, within a span of two hours.  

  Police did not suspect premeditated suicide, as the twin to die last had no knowledge of his brother's death before setting out on his bike. Their near-simultaneous and eerily mirrored deaths were simply a freak accident.
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  (#4) Separated Identical Twins Live Nearly Identical Lives

  Two identical twin boys were separated at three-weeks-old and adopted to separate families in Ohio in 1940. 39 years later, in 1979, the brothers were reunited. They'd both been named James by their adoptive parents and they both went by Jim. Both became law enforcement agents as adults. Both married women named Linda, divorced, and then remarried women named Betty. Both had dogs named Toy at different times in their lives. And both had sons named James Allan (or Alan).  

  Coincidence, a strong argument for nature over nurture, or unconscious psychic communication?
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  (#1) Twins Killed By The Same Taxi With Almost Too Many Similarities

  This incident occurred in 1974 in Bermuda. One of the twins died when a taxi cab struck his moped scooter. One year later, the other twin, riding the exact same scooter, was struck and killed by the exact same taxi, driven by the exact same driver, who was driving the exact same passenger as in the death of the first twin.

  The odds of this happening might seem astronomical, leading you to believe the story was made up, but this might have really happened.
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  (#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.

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