20091117_170337_20个令人惊奇的巧合.doc

20 most amazing coincidences James Deans car curseIn 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牵引 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 Deans driveshaft fitted to it.c) When James Deans Porsche was later repaired, the garage it was in was destroyed by fire.d) Later the car was displayed in Sacramento加州首府, but it fell off its mount and broke a teenagers hip.e) Finally, in 1959, the car mysteriously broke into 11 pieces while it was sitting on steel supports. A falling baby, saved twice by the same manIn 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 mothers baby fell from a high window onto Figlock. The babys fall was broken终止 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) A bullet that reached its destiny years laterHenry Ziegland thought he had dodged躲闪的 fate. In 1883, he broke off a relationship with his girlfriend who, out of distress, committed suicide. The girls 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（difficult） that he decided to blow it up with a few sticks of dynamite炸药. The explosion propelled 推进the bullet into Zieglands head, killing him. (Source: Ripleys Believe It or Not!) Twin Boys, twin livesThe stories of identical twins nearly identical 同一的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木工手艺, 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: Readers Digest, January 1980) NOTE: our reader Linus wrote us after reading local newspaper Helsingin Sanomat: “Your story about the Finnish twins is missing some details: The first brother was killed by a lorry while riding his bike and crossing highway 8. He apparently didnt notice the lorry in the snow blizzard暴风雪. The second brother was killed by a lorry only two hours later while riding his bike and crossing highway 8. The second brother couldnt have been aware of the first brothers death, as the police was still trying to identify the victim. Just like Edgar Allan Poes bookIn 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. Eventually the three senior members of the crew, killed and ate the cabin boy. The name of the cabin boy was Richard Parker. Twin brothers, killed on the same road, two hours apartOn 2002, Seventy-year-old twin brothers have died within hours of one another after separate accidents on the same road in northern Finland. The first of the twins died when he was hit by a lorry while riding his bike in Raahe, 600 kilometres north of the capital, Helsinki. He died just 1.5km from the spot where his brother was killed. This is simply a historic coincidence. Although the road is a busy one, accidents dont occur every day, police officer Marja-Leena Huhtala told Reuters. It made my hair stand on end when I heard the two were brothers, and identical twins at that. (Source: BBC News) Three suicide attempts, all stopped by the same MonkJoseph Aigner was a fairly well-known portrait painter in 19th century Austria who, apparently, was quite an unhappy fellow: he several times attempted suicide. His first attempt was at the young age of 18 when he tried to hang himself, but was interrupted by the mysterious appearance of a Capuchin monk. At age 22 he again tried to hang himself, but was again saved from the act by the very same monk. Eight years later, his death was ordained判定 by others who sentenced him to the gallows绞刑架 for his political activities. Once again, his life was saved by the intervention of the same monk. At age 68, Aiger finally succeeded in suicide, a pistol doing the trick. His funeral ceremony was conducted by the same Capuchin monk - a man whose name Aiger never even knew. (Source: Ripleys Giant Book of Believe It or Not!) Poker winnings, to the unsuspected sonIn 1858, Robert Fallon was shot dead, an act of vengeance by those with whom he was playing poker. Fallon, they claimed, had won the $600 pot through cheating. With Fallons seat empty and none of the other players willing to take the now-unlucky $600, they found a new player to take Fallons place and staked him with the dead mans $600. By the time the police had arrived to investigate the killing, the new player had turned the $600 into $2,200 in winnings. The police demanded the original $600 to pass on to Fallons next of kin - only to discover that the new player turned out to be Fallons son, who had not seen his father in seven years! (Source: Ripleys Giant Book of Believe It or Not!) A novel that unsuspectedly described the spy next doorWhen Norman Mailer began his novel Barbary Shore, there was no plan to have a Russian spy as a character. As he worked on it, he introduced a Russian spy in the U.S. as a minor character. As the work progressed, the spy became the dominant character in the novel. After the novel was completed, the U.S. Immigration Service arrested a man who lived just one floor above Mailer in the same apartment building. He was Colonel Rudolf Abel, alleged（claimed） to be the top Russian spy working in the U.S. at that time. (Source: Science Digest) Mark Twain and Halleys Comet彗星Mark Twain was born on the day of the appearance of Halleys Comet in 1835, and died on the day of its next appearance in 1910. He himself predicted this in 1909, when he said: I came in with Halleys Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. Three strangers on a Train, with complementary互补的 last namesIn the 1920s, three Englishman were traveling separately by train through Peru. At the time of their introduction, they were the only three men in the railroad car. Their introductions were more surprising than they could have imagined. One mans last name was Bingham, and the second mans last name was Powell. The third man announced that his last name was Bingham-Powell. None were related in any way. (Source: Mysteries of the Unexplained) Two brothers killed by the same taxi driver, one year apartIn 1975, while riding a moped摩托自行车 in Bermuda, a man was accidentally struck and killed by a taxi. One year later, this mans bother was killed in the very same way. In fact, he was riding the very same moped. And to stretch the odds even further, he was struck by the very same taxi driven by the same driver - and even carrying the very same passenger! (Source: Phenomena: A Book of Wonders, John Michell and Robert J. M. Rickard) Swapped Hotel FindingsIn 1953, television reporter Irv Kupcinet was in London to cover the coronation加冕礼 of Ellizabeth II. In one of the drawers in his room at the Savoy he found some items that, by their identification, belonged to a man named Harry Hannin. Coincidentally, Harry Hannin - a basketball star with the famed Harlem Globetrotters - was a good friend of Kupcinets. But the story has yet another twist. Just two days later, and before he could tell Hannin of his lucky discovery, Kupcinet received a letter from Hannin. In the letter, Hannin told Kucinet that while staying at the Hotel Meurice in Paris, he found in a drawer a tie - with Kupcinets name on it! (Source: Mysteries of the Unexplained) Two Mr. Brysons, same hotel roomWhile on a business trip sometime in the late 1950s, Mr. George D. Bryson stopped and registered at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. After signing the register and being given his key to room 307, he stopped by the mail desk to see if any letters had arrived for him. Indeed there was a letter, the mail girl told him, and handed him an envelope addressed to Mr. George D. Bryson, room 307. This wouldnt be so odd, except the letter was not for him, but for room 307s just-previous occupant - another man named George D. Bryson. (Source: Incredible Coincidence, Alan Vaughan) Twins brothers, same heart attackJohn and Arthur Mowforth were twins who lived about 80 miles apart in Great Britain. On the evening of May 22, 1975, both fell severely ill from chest pains. The families of both men were completely unaware of the others illness. Both men were rushed to separate hospitals at approximately the same time. And both died of heart attacks shortly after arrival. (Source: Chronogenetics: The Inheretance of Biological Time, Luigi Gedda and Gianni Brenci) A novel that predicted the Titanics destiny, and another ship that almost followedMorgan Robertson, in 1898, wrote “Futility”. It described the maiden voyage of a transatlantic luxury liner named the Titan. Although it was touted兜售 as being unsinkable, it strikes an iceberg and sinks with much loss of life. In 1912 the Titanic, a transatlantic luxury liner widely touted as unsinkable strikes an iceberg and sinks with great loss of life on her maiden voyage. In the Book, the Month of the Wreck was April, same as in the real event. There were 3,000 passengers on the book; in reality, 2,207. In the Book, there were 24 Lifeboats; in reality, 20. Months after the Titanic sank, a tramp steamer不定期航行的货船 was traveling through the foggy Atlantic with only a young boy on watch. It came into his head that it had been thereabouts that the Titanic had sunk, and he was suddenly terrified by the thought of the name of his ship - the Titanian. Panic-stricken, he sounded the warning. The ship stopped, just in time: a huge iceberg loomed out of the fog directly in their path. The Titanian was saved. A writer, found the book of her childhoodWhile American novelist Anne Parrish was browsing随意翻阅 bookstores in Paris in the 1920s, she came upon a book that was one of her childhood favorites - Jack Frost and Other Stories. She picked up the old book and showed it to her husband, telling him of the book she fondly remembered as a child. Her husband took the book, opened it, and on the flyleaf衬页 found the inscription: Anne Parrish, 209 N. Weber Street, Colorado Springs. It was Annes very own book. (Source: While Rome Burns, Alexander Wollcott) A writers plum puddingIn 1805, French writer mile Deschamps was treated to some plum pudding by the stranger Monsieur de Fortgibu. Ten years later, he encountered plum pudding on the menu of a Paris restaurant, and wanted to order some, but the waiter told him the last dish had already been served to another customer, who turned out to be de Fortgibu. Many years later in 1832 mile Deschamps was at a diner, and was once again offered plum pudding. He recalled the earlier incident and told his friends that only de Fortgibu was missing to make the setting complete and in the same instant the now senile de Fortgibu entered the room. King Umberto I doubleIn Monza, Italy, King Umberto I, went to a small restaurant for dinner, accompanied by his aide-de-camp副官, General Emilio Ponzia- Vaglia. When the owner took King Umbertos order, the King noticed that he and the restaurant owner were virtual doubles极为相似的人, in face and in build. Both men began discussing the striking resemblances between each other and found many more similarities.a) Both men were born on the same day, of the same year, (March 14th, 1844).b) Both men had been born in the same town.c) Both men married a woman with same name, Margherita.d) The restauranteur opened his restaurant on the same day that King Umberto was crowned King of Italy.e) On the 29th July 1900, King Umberto was informed that the restauranteur had died that day in a mysterious shooting accident, and as he expressed his regret, he was then assassinated by an anarchist in the crowd. The 21st, a bad day for King Louis XVIWhen King Louis XVI of France was a child, he was warned by an astrologer to always be on his guard on the 21st day of each month. Louis was so terrified by this that he never did business on this day. Unfortunately Louis was not always on his guard. On June 21st 1791, following the French revolution, Louis and his queen were arrested in Varennes, whist trying to escape France. On September 21st 1791, France abolished the institution of Royalty and proclaimed itself a republic. Finally on January 21st 1793, King Louis XVI was executed by guillotine断头台. Strange dreams- coincidences or not?President Abraham Lincoln had this dream shortly before he was assassinated. “About ten days ago, I retired very late. I had been up waiting for important dispatches派遣、快件 from the front. I could not have been long in bed when I fell into a sleep, for I was weary. I soon began to dream. There seemed to be death-like stillness about me. Then I heard subdued(被压抑的) sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. I thought I left my bed and wandered downstairs. There the silence was broken by the same pitiful sobbing, but the mourners were invisible. I went from room to room; no living person was in sight, but the same mournful sounds of distress met me as I passed along. It was light in all the rooms; every object was familiar to me; but where were all the people who were grieving as if their hearts would break? I was puzzled and alarmed. What could be the meaning of all this? Determined to find the cause of a state of things so mysterious and so shocking, I kept on until I arrived at the East Room, which I entered there I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque（灵柩车）, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng（群集） of people, some gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. Who is dead in the White House? I demanded of one of the soldiers The President was his answer; he was killed by an assassin! Then came a loud burst of grief form the crowd, which awoke me from my dream. Ward Hill Lamon, Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1885, 1911. Sometimes the dreamer can avoid death. Adolf Hitler reportedly had a dream that saved his life. During the first world war he was asleep in his trench when he dreamed of himself and his fellow soldiers being engulfed by earth and molten融化的 metal. He awoke and left the trench(沟壕). Whilst he was away the trench was hit by a shell炮弹 and the other soldiers killed. Thus a single dream changed the course of history.Albert Einsteins theory of relativity was inspired by a dream whereby he was going down a mountainside ever faster, watching the appearance of the stars change as he approached the speed of lightThe following incident occurred to young Samuel Clemens when he was yet a young junior pilot on the Mississippi river boat, Pennsylvania. While the boat was tied up in St. Louis, Sam, and his younger brother Henry went ashore to visit their sister. After dinner that night, Henry went back to the boat, but Sam stayed on at his sisters house. As he dropped off to sleep, he had a terrifying dream in which he saw the body of his brother Henry lying in a casket(coffin) which was balanced across two chairs. On top of it was a bouquet of white roses with a single red one in the middle. The dream was so vivid that Sam awoke with his heart pounding. Thinking it had really happened, he rushed downstairs expecting to find his brothers body there. But to his intense relief, he learned that Henry was perfectly alright. It was just a dream. A very bad dream. Happily, Sam went back to bed. One week later, in New Orleans, Sam was transferred to another boat. Henry continued on up the river on the Pennsylvania. Three days later Sam heard the fearful news that the boilers had blown up while his brothers boat was just below Memphis. One hundred fifty people were killed or injured. Among them, Sams beloved brother Henry. Hurrying at once to Memphis, Sam reached his brothers side the night before he died, and sat with him during his final hours. The next morning, sick with grief, he went down to the room where the bodies of t