And here’s another case... The Belarusian authorities invited me to a book fair in Minsk just at the time when the “Normandy Four” - Putin, Merkel, Hollande and Poroshenko - locked themselves in the capital of Belarus for negotiations on the pacification of Novorossiya. In the morning, from the train, I

We offer you incredible matches as well as incredible stories that happened to people in different times, in different places around the world, just incredible! These incredible coincidences are sometimes so incredible that no one could have imagined them. to the common man, not a single science fiction writer. Science fiction writers most likely would not dare to write something like this, for fear of reproaches from readers for being defiantly implausible.

Only life itself has the right to weave threads so bizarrely and incredibly human destinies, by the way, no one has the right to accuse her of lying. We offer you the most incredible stories and coincidences from real life that happened with different people to different historical times, in different places on our planet.

There are coincidences in life

In 1848, the tradesman Nikifor Nikitin “for seditious speeches about a flight to the Moon” was exiled not just anywhere, but to the distant settlement of Baikonur! There are coincidences in life.

Greetings from the Moon

When American astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the Moon, the first thing he said was: “I wish you success, Mr. Gorski!” As a child, Armstrong accidentally overheard a neighbor quarrel - married couple with the last name Gorski. Mrs. Gorski scolded her husband: “The neighbor boy would sooner fly to the moon than you satisfy a woman!”

And no secrets

In 1944, the Daily Telegraph published a crossword puzzle containing all code names secret operation to land Allied troops in Normandy. Intelligence rushed to investigate the “information leak.” But the creator of the crossword puzzle turned out to be an old man school teacher, puzzled by such an incredible coincidence no less than the military personnel.

Geminis are twins

Two foster families who adopted twins, not knowing about each other's plans, named the boys James. The brothers grew up unaware of each other's existence, both received legal education, married women named Linda and both had sons. They only found out about each other when they were 40 years old.

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In one of the supermarkets English county Cheshire, as soon as the cashier sits at the cash register at number 15, within a few weeks she becomes pregnant. The result is 24 pregnant women and 30 born children.

His name was Hugh Williams

Forgotten script

Actor Anthony Hopkins received main role in the film "Girls from Petrovka". But not a single bookstore in London could find the book on which the script was written. And on the way home on the subway, he saw on a bench this particular book, forgotten by someone, with notes in the margins. A year and a half later, on the set, Hopkins met the author of the novel, who complained that he had sent his last copy with notes in the margins to the director, but he had lost it on the subway...

Air combat from the past

Muscovite Pankratov was reading a book while flying on a regular plane in 1972. The book was about air battles during the Great Patriotic War, and after the phrase “The shell hit the first engine...”, the right engine on the Il-18 suddenly really began to smoke. The flight had to be aborted halfway...

Plum pudding

As a child, the poet Emile Deschamps was treated to a new dish for the French - plum pudding - by a certain Forgibu who had just returned from England. 10 years later, Deschamps, passing by the restaurant, saw that they were preparing a dish he remembered, but the waiter complained to him that another gentleman had already ordered all the pudding and pointed to... Forgibu. A few years later, while in a house where plum pudding was served for guests, the poet amused those gathered with the story that he had eaten this dish only twice in his life and at the same time had only seen Forgibu twice in his life. The guests began joking with each other that now... And the doorbell rang! Of course, it was Forgibu, who, having arrived in Orleans, was invited to visit one of the neighbors, but... mixed up the apartments!

Fish day

This is what happened one day to famous psychologist Carl Jung, within 24 hours. It started with the fact that he was served fish for lunch. While sitting at the table, he saw a fish van drive by. Then, over dinner, his friend suddenly started talking about the custom of “making April fish” (that’s what April Fool’s pranks are called). Unexpectedly, a former patient came and brought, as a token of gratitude, a painting, which again depicted big fish. A lady appeared who asked the doctor to decipher her dream, in which she herself appeared in the form of a mermaid and a school of fish swimming behind her. And when Jung went to the shore of the lake to calmly think about the whole chain of events (which, according to his calculations, did not fit into the usual random chain of events), he discovered a fish washed up on the shore next to him.

Unexpected scenario

Residents of a Scottish village watched the film “Around the World in 80 Days” at the local cinema. At the moment when the movie characters sat down in the balloon basket and cut the rope, a strange crack was heard. It turned out that he fell on the roof of the cinema... exactly the same as in the movies, balloon! And this was in 1965.
Greetings from the Moon

Out of the blue

In the 30s of the last century, Joseph Figlock, a resident of Detroit, walked down the street, and, as they say, did not bother anyone. Suddenly, from the window of a multi-story building, a one-year-old child literally fell on Joseph’s head. Both participants in the incident escaped with minor fright. Later it turned out that the young and careless mother simply forgot to close the window, and the curious child climbed onto the windowsill and, instead of dying, ended up in the hands of her stunned, involuntary savior. Miracle, you say? What would you call what happened exactly a year later? Joseph was walking down the street, not touching anyone, and suddenly from the window of a multi-story building, literally, the same child fell on his head! Both participants in the incident again escaped with slight fright. What is this? Miracle? Coincidence?

Prophetic song

Once, Marcello Mastroianni, in the midst of a noisy, friendly feast, sang an old song “The house where I was so happy burned down...”. Before he could finish singing the verse, he was informed about a fire in his mansion.

Debt payment is red

In 1966, four-year-old Roger Losier nearly drowned in the sea near the American city of Salem. Luckily, he was saved by a woman named Alice Blaze. In 1974, Roger, who was already 12, returned the favor - in the same place he saved a drowning man who turned out to be... the husband of Alice Blaze.

Continuation of incredible coincidences and stories

Sinister book

In 1898, writer Morgan Robertson described the death of giant ship"Titan" after a collision with an iceberg on its first voyage... In 1912, 14 years later, Great Britain launched the ship "Titanic", and in the luggage of one passenger (of course, completely by accident) there was a book "Futility" about the death of the "Titan" " Everything written in the book came to life, literally all the details of the disaster coincided: an unimaginable hype was raised in the press around both ships even before going to sea due to their enormous size.

Both supposedly unsinkable ships hit the icy mountain in April with a host of celebrities on board. And in both cases, the accident very quickly escalated into a catastrophe due to the captain’s carelessness and lack of life-saving equipment... The book “Futility” with detailed description the ship sank with him.

Sinister Book 2

On an April night in 1935, seaman William Reeves stood watch at the bow of the English steamer Titanian, heading to Canada. It was deep midnight, Reeves, impressed by the novel Futility he had just read, suddenly realized that there were shocking similarities between the Titanic disaster and the fictional event. Then the thought flashed through the mind of the sailor that his ship was also in present moment crossing the ocean where both the Titan and the Titanic found their eternal rest.

Then Reeves remembered that his birthday was the same exact date The Titanic sank on April 14, 1912. At this thought, the sailor was seized with indescribable horror. It seemed to him that fate was preparing something unexpected for him.

Strongly impressed, Reeves sounded a danger signal, and the steamship's engines immediately stopped. The crew members ran out onto the deck: everyone wanted to know the reason for such a sudden stop. Imagine the amazement of the sailors when they saw an iceberg emerging from night darkness and stopped right in front of the ship.

One destiny for two

The most famous copy people who lived at the same time are Hitler and Roosevelt. Of course, they were very different in appearance, moreover, they were enemies, but their biographies were in many ways similar. In 1933, both gained power with a difference of just one day.

The day of the inauguration of US President Roosevelt coincided with the voting in German Reichstag to give Hitler dictatorial powers. Roosevelt and Hitler took exactly six years to lead their countries out of a deep crisis, then each of them led the country to prosperity (in their own understanding). Both died in April 1945, 18 days apart, being in a state of irreconcilable war with each other...

Letter with prophecy

Writer Evgeny Petrov had a strange and rare hobby: all his life he collected envelopes... from his own letters! This is how he did it: he sent a letter to some country. He made up everything except the name of the state - the city, the street, the house number, the name of the addressee, so after a month and a half the envelope was returned to Petrov, but already decorated with multi-colored foreign stamps, the main one of which was: “The addressee is incorrect.” But in April 1939, the writer decided to disturb the New Zealand Post Office. He came up with a town called "Hydebirdville", a street called "Wrightbeach", house "7" and the addressee "Merilla Ogin Wasley".

In the letter itself, Petrov wrote in English: “Dear Merrill! Accept sincere condolences in connection with the death of Uncle Pete. Brace yourself, old man. Sorry I haven't written for a long time. I hope Ingrid is okay. Kiss your daughter for me. She's probably quite big already. Yours Evgeniy.” More than two months passed, but the letter with the appropriate note was not returned. Deciding that it was lost, Evgeny Petrov began to forget about it. But then August came, and he waited... for a reply letter. At first, Petrov decided that someone was playing a joke on him in his own spirit. But when he read the return address, he was no longer in the mood for jokes. On the envelope was written: "New Zealand, Hydebirdville, Wrightbeach, 7, Merrill Augin Wasley."

And all this was confirmed by the blue stamp “New Zealand, Hydebirdville Post Office”. The text of the letter read: “Dear Evgeniy! Thank you for your condolences. The ridiculous death of Uncle Pete threw us off track for six months. I hope you will forgive the delay in writing. Ingrid and I often remember those two days that you were with us. Gloria is very big and will go to 2nd grade in the fall. She still keeps the teddy bear that you brought her from Russia.” Petrov never went to New Zealand, and therefore he was all the more amazed to see in the photograph a powerfully built man who was hugging... himself, Petrov! On back side The photo was written: “October 9, 1938.”

Here the writer almost felt bad - after all, it was on that day that he was admitted to the hospital in an unconscious state with severe pneumonia. Then, for several days, doctors fought for his life, not hiding from his family that he had almost no chance of survival. To sort out these either misunderstandings or mysticism, Petrov wrote another letter to New Zealand, but did not wait for an answer: the second one began world war. From the first days of the war, E. Petrov became a war correspondent for Pravda and Informburo. His colleagues did not recognize him - he became withdrawn, thoughtful, and stopped joking altogether.

Letter with prophecy

In 1942, the plane on which he was flying to the combat area disappeared, most likely, it was shot down over enemy territory. And on the day the news of the plane’s disappearance was received, a letter from Merrill Wasley arrived at Petrov’s Moscow address. Wasley admired the courage Soviet people and expressed concern for the life of Evgeniy himself. In particular, he wrote: “I was scared when you started swimming in the lake. The water was very cold. But you said you were destined to crash on a plane, not drown. I ask you to be careful and fly as little as possible.”

Deja vu

Sank on December 5, 1664, off the coast of Wales. passenger ship. All crew members and passengers were killed except one. The lucky guy's name was Hugh Williams. More than a century later, on December 5, 1785, another ship was wrecked at the same place. And I was saved again the only person named... Hugh Williams. In 1860, again on the fifth of December, a fishing schooner sank here. Only one fisherman survived. And his name was Hugh Williams!

You can't escape fate

Louis XVI was predicted to die on the 21st. On the 21st of every month, the frightened king sat locked in his bedroom, did not receive anyone, and did not assign any business. But the precautions were in vain! On June 21, 1791, Louis and his wife Marie Antoinette were arrested. On September 21, 1792, a republic was proclaimed in France and abolished royalty. And on January 21, 1793, Louis XVI was executed.

Unhappy marriage

In 1867, the heir to the Italian crown, Duke d'Aosta, married Princess Maria del Pozzodella of Cisterna. A few days later, the princess's maid hanged herself. The gatekeeper then cut his own throat. The royal secretary was killed by falling from his horse. The Duke's friend died of sunstroke... Of course, after such monstrous coincidences, the life of the newlyweds did not work out!

Sinister Book 3

Edgar Poe wrote a gruesome story about how shipwrecked and food-deprived sailors ate a cabin boy named Richard Parker. In 1884, the plot of the horror film came to life. The schooner "Lace" was wrecked, and the sailors, maddened by hunger, devoured the cabin boy, whose name was... Richard Parker.

Opportunity to give back

A resident of Texas, USA, Allan Folby had an accident and damaged an artery in his leg. He would probably have died from loss of blood if Alfred Smith had not passed by, who bandaged the victim and called “ ambulance" Five years later, Folby witnessed a car accident: the driver of the crashed car lay unconscious, with a severed artery in his leg. It was... Alfred Smith.

Gave away secrets

In 1944, the Daily Telegraph published a crossword puzzle containing all the code names for the secret operation to land Allied troops in Normandy. The crossword puzzle contained the following words: “Neptune”, “Utah”, “Omaha”, “Jupiter”. Intelligence rushed to investigate the “information leak.” But the creator of the crossword puzzle turned out to be an old school teacher, puzzled by such an incredible coincidence no less than the military personnel.

A terrible date for ufologists

By a strange and frightening coincidence, many ufologists died on the same day - June 24, although in different years. So, on June 24, 1964, the author of the book “Behind the Scenes of the Flying Saucers,” Frank Scully, died. On June 24, 1965, film actor and ufologist George Adamsky died. And on June 24, 1967, two UFO researchers - Richard Chen and Frank Edwards - left for another world.

Let the car die

Famous actor James Dean died in a terrible car accident in September 1955. His sports car remained intact, but soon after the death of the actor, some evil rock began to chase the car and everyone who touched it. Judge for yourself: Soon after the accident, the car was taken away from the scene. At that moment, when the car was brought into the garage, its engine mysteriously fell out of the body, crushing the mechanic’s legs. The motor was purchased by a certain doctor who placed it in his car.

He soon died during a racing event. James Dean's car was later repaired, but the garage where it was being repaired burned down. The car was exhibited as a tourist attraction in Sacramento when it fell off a podium and crushed the hip of a passing teenager. To top it all off, in 1959 the car mysteriously (and completely independently) fell apart into 11 parts.

Bullet fool

Henry Siegland was sure that he was able to cheat fate around his finger. In 1883, he broke up with his lover, who, unable to bear the separation, committed suicide. The girl's brother, beside himself with grief, grabbed a gun, tried to kill Henry, and, deciding that the bullet had reached its target, shot himself. However, Henry survived: the bullet only slightly grazed his face and entered the tree trunk. A few years later, Henry decided to cut down the ill-fated tree, but the trunk was too large and the task seemed impossible. Then Siegland decided to blow up the tree with several sticks of dynamite. From the explosion, the bullet, which was still sitting in the tree trunk, broke free and hit... right in Henry's head, killing him on the spot.

Twins

Stories about twins are always impressive, and especially this story about two twin brothers from Ohio. Their parents died when the babies were only a few weeks old. They were adopted different families and separated the twins in infancy. This is where the series begins incredible coincidences. To begin with, both adoptive families, without consulting or suspecting each other's plans, named the boys the same name - James.

The brothers grew up unaware of each other's existence, but both received legal education, both were excellent draftsmen and carpenters, and both married women with same name Linda. Each of the brothers had sons. One brother named his son James Alan, and the second - James Allan. Then both brothers left their wives and remarried women...with the same name Betty! Each of them was the owner of a dog named Toy... we could go on and on. At the age of 40, they learned about each other, met and were amazed that during the entire forced separation they lived one life for two.

One destiny

In 2002, septuagenarian twin brothers died within an hour of each other in two unrelated traffic accidents on the same highway in northern Finland! Police representatives claim that there have been no accidents on this section of the road for a long time, so the report of two accidents on the same day, an hour apart, was already a shock to them, and when it turned out that the victims were twin brothers, police officers could not explain what happened nothing more than an incredible coincidence.

Monk Savior

The famous nineteenth-century Austrian portrait painter Joseph Aigner attempted suicide several times. The first time he tried to hang himself at the age of 18, he was suddenly stopped by a Capuchin monk who appeared out of nowhere. At the age of 22, he tried again, and was again saved by the same mysterious monk. Eight years later the artist was sentenced to the gallows for his political activity, however, the timely intervention of the same monk helped mitigate the sentence.

At the age of 68, the artist committed suicide (he shot himself in the temple with a pistol). The funeral service was performed by the same monk - a man whose name no one ever learned. The reasons for the Capuchin monk’s reverent attitude towards the Austrian artist also remained unclear.

Unpleasant meeting

In 1858, poker player Robert Fallon was shot by a losing opponent who claimed that Robert was a cheater and had won $600 by cheating. Fallon's place at the table became vacant, the winnings remained lying nearby, and none of the players wanted to take the “unlucky seat.” However, the game had to be continued, and the rivals, after consulting, left the saloon onto the street and soon returned with a young man who happened to be passing by. The newcomer was seated at the table and given $600 (Robert's winnings) as his opening bet.

The police arriving at the crime scene discovered that the recent murderers were playing poker with passion, and the winner was...a newcomer who managed to turn a $600 initial bet into a winnings of $2,200! Having sorted out the situation and arrested the main suspects in the murder of Robert Fallon, the police ordered the transfer of 600 dollars won by the deceased to his closest relative, who turned out to be the same lucky young gambler who had not seen his father for more than 7 years!

Arrived on a comet

The famous writer Mark Twain was born in 1835, on the day when Halley's comet flew near the Earth and died in 1910 on the day of its next appearance around earth's orbit. The writer foresaw and himself predicted his death back in 1909: “I came into this world along with Halley’s comet, and next year I will leave him with her.”

Sinister Taxi

In 1973, in Bermuda, a taxi hit two brothers who were driving along the road in violation of the rules. The blow was not strong, the brothers recovered, and the lesson did not benefit them. Exactly 2 years later, on the same street on the same moped, they were again hit by a taxi. The police established that in both cases the same passenger was traveling in the taxi, but completely ruled out any version of a deliberate hit-and-run.

Favorite book

In 1920, American writer Ann Parrish, who was on vacation in Paris at the time, came across her favorite children's book, Jack Frost and Other Stories, in a used bookstore. Anne bought the book and showed it to her husband, talking about how she loved the book as a child. The husband took the book from Ann, opened it and found title page caption: "Ann Parrish, 209N Webber Street, Colorado Springs." It was the same book that once belonged to Anne herself!

One destiny for two 2

King Umberto I of Italy once stopped at a small restaurant in Monza to have lunch. The owner of the establishment respectfully accepted the order from His Majesty. Looking at the owner of the restaurant, the king suddenly realized that in front of him was his exact copy. The owner of the restaurant both in face and physique strongly resembled His Majesty. The men got to talking and discovered other similarities: both the king and the owner of the restaurant were born on the same day and year (March 14, 1844).

They were born in the same city. Both are married to women named Margarita. The owner of the restaurant opened his establishment on the day of the coronation of Umberto I. But the coincidences did not end there. In 1900, King Umberto was informed that the owner of a restaurant where the king liked to visit from time to time had died in a gunshot accident. Before the king had time to express his condolences, he himself was shot by an anarchist from the crowd surrounding the carriage.

happy place

Inexplicable miracles have been happening in one of the supermarkets in the English county of Cheshire for 5 years now. As soon as the cashier sits at the cash register at number 15, within a few weeks she becomes pregnant. Everything is repeated with enviable consistency, total - 24 pregnant women. 30 children born. After several control experiments that ended “successfully”, during which the researchers placed volunteers at the cash register, no scientific conclusions followed.

Way home

The famous American actor Charles Coghlan, who died in 1899, was buried not in his homeland, but in the city of Galveston (Texas), where death accidentally found a touring troupe. A year later, a hurricane of unprecedented force hit this city, washing away several streets and a cemetery. The sealed coffin with Coghlen's body floated at least 6,000 km in the Atlantic for 9 years, until finally the current brought it to shore right in front of the house where he was born on Prince Edward Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Loser thief

A tragicomic incident recently occurred in Sofia. Thief Milko Stoyanov, having successfully robbed the apartment of a wealthy citizen and carefully put the “trophies” in a backpack, decided to quickly go down the drainpipe from the window overlooking a deserted street. When Milko was at the second floor level, police whistles were heard. Confused, he let go of the pipe and flew down. Just at that moment, a guy was walking along the sidewalk, and Milko fell right on top of him.

The police arrived and handcuffed both of them and took them to the station. It turned out that the guy Milko fell on was a burglar who, after many unsuccessful attempts, was finally tracked down. Interestingly, the second thief was also named Milko Stoyanov.

Unlucky date

Is it possible to explain coincidence tragic fate American presidents elected in a year that ends in zero?

Lincoln (1860), Garfield (1880), McKinley (1900), Kennedy (1960) were assassinated, Harrison (1840) died of pneumonia, Roosevelt (1940) of polio, Harding (1920) suffered a severe heart attack. An assassination attempt was also made on Reagan (1980).

Last call

Can the documented episode be considered an accident: Pope Paul VI’s favorite alarm clock, which regularly rang at 6 a.m. for 55 years, suddenly went off at 9 p.m., when the pope died...

There will be a continuation of incredible coincidences and stories, because we live!