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33 Historical Coincidences and Patterns That Prove Time Is A Flat Circle

October 28, 2023

If these historical incidents were movie plots, we’d all be screaming, “Oh come on! A bit on the nose, don’t ya think?!”

Like, you’re telling us that the costume designer for The Wizard of Oz went to a thrift shop, found a jacket for the actor who was playing Oz, and by sheer coincidence, that jacket was originally owned by the guy who wrote the Oz novels?!Our brains aren’t wired to believe coincidences that implausible. We’re just pudding-brained apes, after all; these astounding facts are liable to permanently alter our entire worldview.

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Due to technical limitations, Deus Ex didn't include the World Trade Center in its skyline. It was explained in-game as the result of a terrorist attack. The game came out in 2000 - a year before 9/11. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Anthony Hopkins

While preparing to film The Girl from Petrovka, Anthony Hopkins couldn't find a copy of the book anywhere. Then he found one abandoned on a bench. Some time later he met the author while filming, and it turned out that he had found the author's own lost copy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1957, Richie Ashburn hit a foul ball into the stands, striking a woman in the face. Then he hit another foul ball and struck the same woman again. The woman's husband was a sports editor in the newspaper Ashburn would end up writing for. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 2002, a 70-year-old Finnish man was killed by a truck while riding his bicycle. A couple hours later, his twin brother was also killed by a truck while riding his bicycle. Both accidents happened one mile apart on the same highway. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Seven U.S. vice presidents died while in office. Most of them around Thanksgiving. Elbridge Gerry, Henry Wilson, Thomas Hendricks, and Garret Hobart all croaked in late November, a few days from Turkey Day. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1950, a gas explosion destroyed a church in Nebraska minutes after choir practice was scheduled to start. But everyone was running late that evening. Nobody got so much as a scratch. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In a 1977 Spider-Man comic, the villain Equinox causes a massive blackout in New York City. THE LINES CAN'T HANDLE THE OVERAGE--AND RATHER THAN BURN OUT THE ENTIRE MANNATTAN POWER GRID-- A massive blackout hit New York City the week it came out. The comic even nailed the looting and rioting that happened during the blackout. CRACKED.COM — Source

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FOR 10 YEARS, LIZA DICK WAS MISSING. HER BROTHER WENT TO THE NEWS FOR HELP. A photographer snapped a photo of the remaining family for the story. Liza, the long-lost girl, just happened to be walking past in the background when the photo was taken. CRACKED.COM — Source

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MORGAN ROBERTSON WROTE ABOUT A SHIP. IT'S 800 FEET LONG, HITS AN ICEBERG, AND SINKS. As was the Titanic. Robertson's ship even hit the iceberg 400 miles from Newfoundland, just like the Titanic. The book came out 14 years before the Titanic sank. The fictional ship's name? The Titan. CRACKED.COM — Source

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MARK TWAIN WAS BORN IN NOVEMBER 1835. HALLEY'S COMET FLEW THROUGH THE SKY. The next time it appeared was when Twain died, 76 years later. And he predicted that would happen. I came in with Halley's Comet, he said. It is coming again ... and I expect to go out with it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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POE WROTE ABOUT A SHIP LOST AT SEA. THE CREW DREW LOTS TO SEE WHOM TO EAT. The loser was cabin boy Richard Parker. 46 years later, in real life, three men aboard a ship called the Mignonette drew lots and decided to eat their cabin d crew boy. His name: Richard Parker. elle CRACKED.COM — Source

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JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER NEVER MISSED A TRAIN. NOT FOR 28 YEARS, ANYWAY. Then on December 18, 1867, he arrived to the station moments after the train left. That train's last two cars detached and crashed into a gorge. All but two of the passengers in Rockefeller's car burned alive. CRACKED.COM — Source

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TSUTOMU YAMACUCHI VISITED HIROSHIMA. AN ATOM BOMB FELL AS НЕ STEPPED OFF A TRAM. Eardrums destroyed and temporarily blind, Yamaguchi spent a night in an air raid shelter. Then he went home. To Nagasaki. A few days later, another bomb fell, again two miles from him. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BRUCE LEE PLAYED AN ACTOR KILLED BY A PROP GUN A PROP GUN LATER KILLED HIS SON BRANDON. Asked about the bizarre coincidence, director Rob Cohen commented: I believe in some forms of higher power, like Fate, and sometimes, I'm embarrassed to say it, God. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE CIVIL WAR BEGAN AT WILMER'S HOUSE. IT ENDED THERE TOO. The Battle of Bull Run broke out near Wilmer McLean's hometown, and a cannonball went down his chimney. Не fled the area and moved to Appomattox, Virginia. In April 1865, General Lee officially surrendered ... in the parlor of Wilmer's new home. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A CHILD RELEASED A BALLOON WITH A MESSAGE, AND FOUND HER DOPPELGANGER. CRACKED.COM Laura Buxton released a balloon with her name and address written on it in hopes of getting a pen pal. We cannot stress enough how much you SHOULD NOT do this - but, it worked out for Laura as the balloon made its way to another girl named Laura Buxton, who had the same pets (a labrador, rabbits, and guinea pigs). — Source

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THE PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS WAS DISCOVERED AND PUBLISHED BY TWO MEN, A YEAR APART FROM EACH OTHER. y IIIB IVB VE VIB vile VIII 18 IB A الا HB VI - Phosphone Children - 300 - 30 4R 5R GR 78 28 28.1855 32.000 BLAST 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 L 32 33 35 36 Ni a - NOT - 46 54 Br Pd Palladium g) TEX 78 86 la Pt PND nue Passum 195.00 110 U la Ds S - Dermatori USA para 64 ide G U George - MMT 96 de Th — Source

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TWINS, SEPARATED AT BIRTH, LIVED ALMOST IDENTICAL LIVES. CRACKED COM Jim Lewis and Jim Springer were twins, separated at birth. Their adoptive parents both named them Jim, both men married twice, first to women named Linda, and then to women named Betty, both had childhood dogs named Toy, had sons named James Allen/Alan, both worked as sheriff deputies, and drove the same Chevrolet. — Source

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A MAN CAUGHT THE SAME BABY FALLING OUT OF THE SAME WINDOW, TWICE. CRACKED.COM When Joseph Figlock was walking down the streets of Detroit in the 1930s, the last thing he expected was to catch a falling baby, but catch one he did. A year later, unthinkably, the same baby fell from the same window, and Figlock was there on the street to catch it once again. — Source

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CRACKED Hounton WOW! 7-13 HEY! WAS LIKE YOUR TUMMY'S YOU WHEN WAS YOUR TWICE THE SIZE AGE, SO YOU'LL BE LIKE REMEMBER, ME WHEN YOU'RE DAD! MY AGE. ©2009,NORTH America Synd. MARCH 12: TWO COMICS WITH THE SAME NAME LAUNCHED On March 12, 1951, two unrelated comics called Dennis the Menace were released - one in the UK and one in the US - even though neither knew what the other was doing, — Source

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CRACKED JULY 4: JEFFERSON'S AND ADAM'S DEATHS John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both passed away on July 4th, 1826 - the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence being signed. — Source

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Dahmer

CRACKED MAY 10: ONE SERIAL KILLER'S BAPTISM AND ANOTHER'S DEATH On May 10th, 1994, Jeffrey Dahmer was baptized in prison while John Wayne Gacy was being put to death -- and, as a kicker, a solar eclipse was happening across North America. — Source

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CRACKED DECEMBER 30: BOBBY FARRELL'S AND RASPUTIN'S DEATHS On December 30, 2010, Bobby Farrell, the lead singer of Boney M, died in St. Petersburg, Russia - the same place where Grigori Rasputin, who Boney M wrote a song about, had been killed in 1916 on the same date. — Source

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CRACKED SAMSED DAVID'B9 TWA cleur LECER MARiPEES 400 NOVEMBER 9: PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING IMPORTANT IN GERMANY This has been a major date for Germany. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the Jewish Pogrom of 1938 occurred, Hitler's attempted coup in 1923 failed, the German Republic was declared in 1918, and Robert Blum was executed in 1848. — Source

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CRACKED DAME JUDI DENCH'S CONNECTION TO SHAKESPEARE. As a Shakespearean actor, her first ever role was as Ophelia in Hamlet. The play is set in Denmark's Elsinore castle (where Ophelia lived), and Dench's 10x great-aunt was a lady-in-waiting to the Queen of Denmark in that very castle. BFI LON FESTIVA — Source

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Napoleon and Hitler were born... 129 years apart. They came into power... 129 years apart. They declared war on Russia... 129 years apart. They were defeated... 129 years apart. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The car in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated had a license plate reading A III1188 AMPH8 The war resulting from this act ended A III 118 with an Armistice on 11-11-18. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1895 there were only two cars in the entire state of Ohio... 21 DC 28 2016 ...and they crashed into each other. GRACKED COM — Source

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CRACKED COM THE GRAVES OF THE FIRST BRITISH SOLDIER AND THE LAST BRITISH SOLDIER TO DIE IN WORLD WAR 1 ARE JUST 7 YARDS AWAY AND THEY FACE EACH OTHER. THE PLACING OF THE GRAVES WAS NOT DELIBERATE. — Source

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CRACKED CON In 1974, a moped driver in Bermuda was killed when a taxi -ran-into him. One year later, that man's brother was killed while riding the same moped on the same street. Не was hit by the same. taxi on driver who was carrying the same passenger. — Source

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To achieve the right sort of seedy look for Professor Marvel, MGM ...that costumers selected a unknown to them tattered ratty-looking originally second-hand belonged thrift-store to Oz writer coat... L. Frank CRACKED.COM Baum. — Source

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CRACKED COM 112 MEN DIED DURING THE HOOVER DAM PROJECT. THE FIRST WAS ON DEC. 20, 1922. HIS NAME WAS J. G. TIERNEY. THE LAST WAS ON DEC. 20, 1935. 13 YEARS TO THE DAY, PATRICK TIERNEY DIED. НЕ WAS J. G. 'S SON. — Source

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