5 AMAZING COINCIDENCES

1. James Dean's car curse
In September 1955, James Dean was killed in a horrific car accident whilst
he was driving his Porsche sports car . After the crash the car was seen as
very unlucky.
a) When the car was towed away from accident scene and taken to a
garage, the engine slipped out and fell onto a mechanic, shattering both of
his legs.
b) Eventually the engine was bought by a doctor, who put it into his
racing car and was killed shortly afterwards, during a race. Another
racing driver, in the same race, was killed in his car, which had James
Dean's driveshaft fitted to it.
c) When James Dean's Porsche was later repaired, the garage it was in was
destroyed by fire.
d) Later the car was displayed in Sacramento, but it fell off it's mount and
broke a teenager's hip.
e) In Oregon, the trailer that the car was mounted on slipped from it's
towbar and smashed through the front of a shop.
f) Finally, in 1959, the car mysteriously broke into 11 pieces while it was
sitting on steel supports.

2. A falling baby, saved twice by the same man
In Detroit sometime in the 1930s, a young (if incredibly careless) mother
must have been eternally grateful to a man named Joseph Figlock. As
Figlock was walking down the street, the mother's baby fell from a high
window onto Figlock. The baby's fall was broken and both man and baby
were unharmed. A stroke of luck on its own, but a year later, the very
same baby fell from the very same window onto poor, unsuspecting
Joseph Figlock as he was again passing beneath. And again, they both
survived the event. (Source: Mysteries of the Unexplained)

3. A bullet that reached its destiny years later
Henry Ziegland thought he had dodged fate. In 1883, he broke off a
relationship with his girlfriend who, out of distress, committed suicide.
The girl's brother was so enraged that he hunted down Ziegland and shot
him. The brother, believing he had killed Ziegland, then turned his gun
on himself and took his own life. But Ziegland had not been killed. The
bullet, in fact, had only grazed his face and then lodged in a tree. Ziegland
surely thought himself a lucky man. Some years later, however, Ziegland
decided to cut down the large tree, which still had the bullet in it. The
task seemed so formidable that he decided to blow it up with a few sticks
of dynamite. The explosion propelled the bullet into Ziegland's head,
killing him. (Source: Ripley's Believe It or Not!)

4. Twin Boys, twin lives
The stories of identical twins' nearly identical lives are often astonishing,
but perhaps none more so than those of identical twins born in Ohio. The
twin boys were separated at birth, being adopted by different families.
Unknown to each other, both families named the boys James. And here
the coincidences just begin. Both James grew up not even knowing of the
other, yet both sought law-enforcement training, both had abilities in
mechanical drawing and carpentry, and each had married women named
Linda. They both had sons whom one named James Alan and the other
named James Allan. The twin brothers also divorced their wives and
married other women - both named Betty. And they both owned dogs
which they named Toy. Forty years after their childhood separation, the
two men were reunited to share their amazingly similar lives. (Source:
Reader's Digest, January 1980)

5. Just like Edgar Allan Poe's book
In the 19th century, the famous horror writer, Egdar Allan Poe, wrote a
book called 'The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym'. It was about four
survivors of a shipwreck who were in an open boat for many days before
they decided to kill and eat the cabin boy whose name was Richard
Parker. Some years later, in 1884, the yawl, Mignonette, foundered, with
only four survivors, who were in an open boat for many days. Eventully
the three senior members of the crew, killed and ate the cabin boy. The
name of the cabin boy was Richard Parker.