Rumors about Edgar Poe’s time machine. Edgar Poe’s “The Tale of the Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym” tells how four survivors of the shipwreck were forced to eat sailor named Richard Parker. The author claimed that the story is based on real events, but in reality it was not so. 46 years after the writing of this book, a shipwreck really happened and the survivors of the crew ate their youngster, who was called… Richard Parker. This gave rise to rumors that the writer had a time machine.
Unhappy brothers. In July 1975, a 17-year-old resident of Bermuda Erskine Lawrence Ebbin rode a moped, he was hit by a taxi. Almost a year before the accident, also in July, Erskine’s brother, who was also 17 years old, died. He was riding the same moped and he was also hit by a taxi. At the wheel was the same taxi driver, and he drove the same passenger.
The first and last soldiers. The graves of the first and last of the British soldiers who died in the First World War are 6 meters away and directed towards each other. This arrangement was an absolute accident.
A case that is similar to reincarnation. Enzo Ferrari, the founder of the company “Ferrari”, passed away in 1988. About a month later a football player Mesut Ozil appeared. Looking at their portraits, it seems that they are twin brothers.
Coincidence in the biographies of Lincoln and Kennedy. A lot of strange correspondences exist between the two presidents of America – Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy. Both presidents were shot in the back of the head on Friday before the holiday (Lincoln – on the eve of Easter, Kennedy – on the eve of Thanksgiving). Each of them was accompanied by his wife and other married couple. Both presidents had four children. Kennedy had a secretary named Mrs. Lincoln. Lincoln had a secretary named John. The successors of both became vice-presidents named Johnson.
Rare book and Anthony Hopkins. One day Anthony Hopkins urgently needed a book to study the role in the film “The Girl from Petrovka” based on the novel by George Fyfer. He could not find this book in any of the bookstores, but then accidentally stumbled upon a forgotten by someone copy of this novel on a bench in the subway. When later Hopkins met with Fayfer, he said that he himself did not have a single copy – the last he lent to a friend, and he lost the book somewhere at the station in the subway.
Cars that found each other. In 1895, two cars collided in Ohio. The oddity of this case is that in those years in the whole state of Ohio there were only two cars.
Predicting the victory of Donald Trump in the animated series “The Simpsons.” The creators of the animated series “The Simpsons” in one of the series in 2000, accidentally predicted the victory of Donald Trump in the election of the US president.
The tragedy at Hoover Dam. One of the first people who died during the construction of the dam was George Tierney, he passed away on December 20, 1922, during the preparatory work. The last person who died during the construction was Patrick Tierney – the son of George Tierney, he also passed away on December 20.
A special name for the Roman Empire. Rome was founded by the brothers Romulus and Remus. Romulus became the first king of Rome. Romulus Augustus became the last ruler of the Western Roman Empire, however, at birth he was given the name of Flavius Romulus Augustus. It so happened that the name of “Romulus” began and ended the history of the greatest of ancient empires.
Neighbors with a difference of two centuries. The great composer Georg Friedrich Händel lived next door to the famous guitarist Jimi Hendrix, though with a difference of 200 years. Handel lived in London at 25 Brook Street, and Jimi Hendrix lived in a nearby house at 23 Brook Street. Surprising is the fact that both were brilliant musicians who had a strong influence on the development of music.
Prediction of the crash of the Titanic. In 1898, 14 years before the collapse of the Titanic, science fiction writer Morgan Robertson wrote a novel “Futility”, in which he spoke of the death of a ship called “Titan”. Both ships were considered unsinkable, had similar technical characteristics, in both of the crash appeared a shortage of boats and both faced an iceberg in the North Atlantic.
Another amazing similarity. Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence looks very similar to the Egyptian actress Zubaida Tervot.
