The mysterious explanation for coincidences often taps into ideas beyond simple chance or probability, suggesting that there might be some hidden forces or patterns at play.
1. Man breaks the fall of a baby who fell out a window – TWICE!
A man called Joseph Figlock was cleaning a street in Detroit in the 1930's when a baby fell from a fourth story window. Miraculously, the child landed directly on Figlock, breaking the fall. Both survived with minor injuries.
A year later Figlock was in the exact same street when the same baby fell out of a window and landed on Figlock who broke its fall again. Both survived.
2. King shares exact life and death story of a doppelganger
In 1864 King Umberto I went to a restaurant in Italy and got talking to the restaurant owner. They discovered they had eerily identical lives: They both had the name Umberto, born on the same day (14th March 1844), both born in Turin, both married a woman called Margherita. The restaurant opened on the same day as Umberto I was crowned King.
The creepiest part: On the same day 29th July 1900 within hours of each other both were killed in a mysterious shooting.
3. A novel predicts exactly what happens 46 years later
Edgar Allan Poe's novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) contains an eerie prediction of a real-life shipwreck in 1884. In the book, 4 survivors resort to cannibalism and the victim is named Richard Parker. In real life 46 years later, 4 survivors of a yacht sinking also resorted to cannibalism. The victim was also named Richard Parker.
4. The Lincoln-Kennedy Coincidences
Both elected to congress exactly 100 years apart. Both elected President 100 years apart. Both vice presidents named Johnson, born 100 years apart. Both assassinated on a Friday. Both shot in the head. Both assassins known by three names with 15 letters each. Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre, Kennedy shot in a Ford car.
5. The Titanic's "Unsinkable" survivor
Violet Jessop survived disasters on three sister ships: the RMS Olympic collision (1911), the Titanic sinking (1912), and the HMHS Britannic sinking (1916). She lived until 1971.
Coincidences are fascinating. Whether you believe they are nothing but chance or they have some other spiritual intervention.