
17 Unbelievable COINCIDENCES That Actually Happened
03/22/23 • 35 min
Coincidences—though infinitely interesting—can also be rather haunting.
- If at First You Don't Succeed
- They Lived as Brothers...
- The Best Worst Aim
- A Raw Diet
- Erdington Murders - The unsolved murder cases of Mary Ashford and Barbara Forrest both occurred in the same location.
- Poker Game - The dead man who won his son $2200
- Titanic Coincidence - The Titanic and Titan were both triple-screwed British passenger liners with the same capacity & top speed. Both were deemed unsinkable, didn't carry enough lifeboats, and sank in April in the North Atlantic after colliding with an iceberg on their starboard sides.
- The Life of Story & The Story of Life - One of the first pictures in the first issue of Life was, naturally, a baby. It was a newborn named George Story. A few days after Life announced it would cease monthly publication in 2000...George Story died.
- The Eastern World, it is Explodin' - Some 260K people survived the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II—Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916-2010) was one of the very few who endured the horror of BOTH.
- Rebel With A Warning - Alec Guinness warned James Dean that if he drove his new Porsche 550 Spyder, he would be killed. The following Friday, Dean was speeding and collided with a Ford Tudor sedan, killing him on impact.
- The Deadly Double
- Unlucky Guess
- Crosscode Puzzle
- Bound by Fate
- Two Dam Deaths
- Had To Get Away
- From Beginning to END
This episode combines SS #2, SS #60, and TT #57.
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To watch each episode in video format, visit Rob Gavagan's Seriously Strange playlist on YouTube. Thanks for your support. Watch the shadows, and stay alive out there...
Coincidences—though infinitely interesting—can also be rather haunting.
- If at First You Don't Succeed
- They Lived as Brothers...
- The Best Worst Aim
- A Raw Diet
- Erdington Murders - The unsolved murder cases of Mary Ashford and Barbara Forrest both occurred in the same location.
- Poker Game - The dead man who won his son $2200
- Titanic Coincidence - The Titanic and Titan were both triple-screwed British passenger liners with the same capacity & top speed. Both were deemed unsinkable, didn't carry enough lifeboats, and sank in April in the North Atlantic after colliding with an iceberg on their starboard sides.
- The Life of Story & The Story of Life - One of the first pictures in the first issue of Life was, naturally, a baby. It was a newborn named George Story. A few days after Life announced it would cease monthly publication in 2000...George Story died.
- The Eastern World, it is Explodin' - Some 260K people survived the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II—Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916-2010) was one of the very few who endured the horror of BOTH.
- Rebel With A Warning - Alec Guinness warned James Dean that if he drove his new Porsche 550 Spyder, he would be killed. The following Friday, Dean was speeding and collided with a Ford Tudor sedan, killing him on impact.
- The Deadly Double
- Unlucky Guess
- Crosscode Puzzle
- Bound by Fate
- Two Dam Deaths
- Had To Get Away
- From Beginning to END
This episode combines SS #2, SS #60, and TT #57.
Please Support the SHOW by donating today!
To watch each episode in video format, visit Rob Gavagan's Seriously Strange playlist on YouTube. Thanks for your support. Watch the shadows, and stay alive out there...
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The Rosenheim Poltergeist is the name given to claims of a poltergeist in Rosenheim in southern Bavaria in the late 1960s by German parapsychologist Hans Bender. Bender alleged that electrical and physical disturbances in the office of the lawyer Sigmund Adam were caused by the telekinetic powers of 19-year-old secretary Annemarie Schaberl.
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