1. Walter Kellner
In 1979, Germany magazine - Das Besteran - held a writing contest. The authors must send the unusual story, but should be based on a true story.
The winner, Walter Kellner of Munich, eventually won the contest and the story published.
He wrote about accident when he flew a Cessna 421 between Sardinia and Sicily. The plane experienced a problem at sea, landing on the water, he finally floated with emergency floats for a long time before finally rescued.
This story was accidentally read by an Austrian citizen, whose name was also Walter Kellner, who accused the German Kellner had plagiarized the story. Austrian Kellner said that he flew a Cessna 421 over the same sea, experienced engine trouble, and finally had landed in Sardinia. So basically, it's the same story, but with a different ending.
The magazine checked both the truth of their stories, and both was right, almost exactly the same.
2. King Umberto I
On July 28, 1900, Italian King Umberto I have dinner at a restaurant in the city of Monza. Apparently the owner of the restaurant face exactly the same as the king. The name of the owner of the restaurant was also Umberto, and his wife's name is also similar to the name of the queen, even the restaurant was opened on the same date with the inauguration of the king.
The restaurant owner Umberto was shot dead the next day. So did King Umberto.
3. Claude Volbonne
Volbonne kill Baron Claude de Tarazone Rodemire from France in 1872. 21 years earlier, the Baron's father had been killed as well by someone else who was also named Claude Volbonne
4. Jean Marie Dubarry
On 13 February 1746, a Frenchman, Jean Marie Dubarry, was executed for having killed his father.
Exactly 100 years later, on 13 February 13, a French as well, also named Jean Marie Dubarry, was executed - also for the murder of his father.
5. GreenBerry Hill
On November 26, 1911, three men were hanged at Greenberry Hill in London after being found guilty of the murder of Sir Edmund Berry. The name of three of them, among others, Green, Berry and Hill.
6. George Feifer
British actor Anthony Hopkins delighted when he got the lead role in a film based on a book called The Girl From Petrovka written by George Feifer. A few days after signing the contract, Hopkins went to London to buy the book. He tried several bookshops, but nothing is selling. While waiting for the train home in Leicester Square, he saw there was a book that lay abandoned on a waiting chair. Miraculously, it turns out that the book title was The Girl From Petrovka. It turned out that coincidences do not stop only there only.
Two years later, while filming in Vienna, Hopkins was visited by George Feifer, author of the book.
Feifer mentioned that he lost his own book. He lent his books - with some notes in his own handwriting - to his friend, who then lost the book somewhere in London. With astonishment, Hopkins gives Feifer the book he found. 'Is it your book? " he asked, 'with notes on the outskirts of the page? " It's the same book.
7. Haunted by the Lightning
A British officer, Major Summerford, fell from his horse because it struck by lightning while fighting in the Flanders region in February 1918, and he became paralyzed from the waist down. Summerford retired and moved to Vancouver.
One day in 1924, when he was fishing on the riverbank, a lightning struck the tree where he was sitting and paralyze his right part body. Two years later Summerford was sufficiently recovered and was able to walk in the park. And he was walking in the garden in the summer in 1930 when a lightning snatched back, and eventually incapacitate permanently. He died two years later. But the lightning seems to have not satisfied and still catch up. Four years later, during a storm, lightning struck the cemetery and destroyed a tombstone. Who is buried under a gravestone? Major Summerford
8. Deadly Lightning
In 1899 a lightning killed a man when he stood in his backyard in Taranto, Italy.
30 years later, his son died in the same way in the same place.
On 8 October 1949, Rolla Primarda, grandson of the first victims and children from the second victim, is become the third victim in the same way and place.
9. Catch by Destiny
Ziegland Henry thought he had managed to escape from his destiny.
In 1883, he broke with his girlfriend. Due to stress, the girl killed herself. The girl's brother is very angry that he was pursuing Ziegland and shot him.
The man once thought he had killed Ziegland, using that pistol to kill himself. But Ziegland is not dead. Bullet, it appeared only scratching his face and lodged in a tree. Ziegland so convinced that he is a lucky man.
But a few years later, Ziegland decided to cut down the tree, which still have bullets in it. The task seems difficult, so he decided to blow it up with some dynamite.
The blast threw a bullet to the head and killed Ziegland
10. Separated Twin
The story of identical twins who live together are almost as stunning, but perhaps nothing can equal the story of two identical twins who were born in Ohio. The twin brothers separated at birth, adopted by different families.
Although not know each other, these two different families together they named James. And the incident is not stop there. Both James grew up not knowing each other, but both are looking for law-enforcement training, both had the same ability in mechanical drawing and carpentry, and they are both married women named Linda.
They both had a son, the one named James Alan and the other one named his son James Allan. The two twin brothers also divorced their wives and married other women - who are both named Betty. And they both had dogs named Toy.
Forty years after they separated, both twins were reunited, and then share their life stories that were similar to each other (Source: Reader's Digest, January 1980)
11. Based on True Story that Didn’t Happen Yet
In the 19th century, the famous horror writer, Egdar Allan Poe, wrote a book called 'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym'.
The book tells of four people who survived the accident at sea, they were on the ship on the open sea for days before they finally decided to kill and eat the cabin officer named Richard Parker.
Several years later, in 1884, a ship, Mignonette, sank. The survivor only 4 people, who are in a small boat for days. Then known, the more senior crew members, kill and eat the cabin staff.
Cabin Officer's name was Richard Parker
12. Same Way and Time
In 2002, two 70-year-old identical twin brothers died within the same hour on the same path but different accidents in Finland.
His brother died when he was hit by a lorry as he rode the bike in Raahe, 600 kilometers from Helsinki. And the younger brother died just 1.5 km from the place where his brother was killed."This really happened worth remembering. Although the course was fairly heavy, but accidents do not happen every day, "
The police officer Marja-Leena Huhtala told Reuters in an interview "I was so cringe when I know they were brothers and identical twins. I got to thinking maybe that's up there has a plan for this.
13. Saved by the Monk
Joseph Aigner was a portrait painter in the 19th century in Austria who seems to be a man who is not happy.
He attempted suicide several times. The first time, at the age of 18 he tried to hang himself, but prevented by the presence of a mysterious Capuchin monk.
When he was 22 years old, he tried to hang himself again, but he was rescued by, again, the same monk.
Eight years later, he submitted to the gallows for his political activities.
Once again, his life was saved by the intervention of the same monk. At age 68, Aiger finally managed to commit suicide, this time using a pistol.
Funeral ceremony led by the same Capuchin monk - a man who even Aiger just never knew his name. (Source: Ripley's Giant Book of Believe It or Not!)
14. Lucky Winning
In 1858, Robert Fallon was shot dead by his poker mate.
Fallon, according to them, have won $ 600 by cheating. After Fallon's position is empty and no one player was willing to take the money $ 600 which “ full of bad luck”, they then found a new player to replace Fallon seat and gave the money of the dead, $ 600 for the stake.
When police arrived to investigate the murder, a new player has doubled the money, from $ 600 to $ 1.200.
Police ask for $ 600 to be given to the Fallon descendants - and apparently the new player is the son of Fallon, who has never met his father for 7 years!
(Source: Ripley's Giant Book of Believe It or Not
15. Russian Spy
When Norman Mailer started his novel Barbary Shore, he does not plan to use a Russian spy as a character in his novel. But while he writes, he began to introduce a Russian spy as a minor character.
The more he writes, the spy became the dominant character. Having finished his novel, U.S. Immigration Service arrested a man who lived one floor above Mailer in the same apartment.
He was Colonel Rudolf Abel, a suspected Russian spy working class in the U.S. at that time. (Source: Science Digest)
16. Bingham Powell
In 1920, three Englishman were traveling by train through Peru.
By the time they met, only those in the room. Their introduction never imagined.
Men's last name was Bingham, and 2nd man last name was Powell. The third man was named Bingham Powell.
The three of them are not related at all.
17. Deadly Taxi Driver
In 1975, while riding a motorcycle in Bermuda, a man was accidentally hit death by a taxi.
One year later, the older brother of this man's death with the same way. In fact, he rode the same motorcycle.
Not only that, he was also struck by the same taxi driver, even the taxi was carrying the same passenger!
18. Lucky Late
In 1950, in Nebraska, 15 people of the town choir members should gather at the church at 7:20. They rarely late, even almost never, but they all came late in that day for various reasons. Suddenly at 7:25, church were destroyed, hit by a plane. 15 people had survived by chance
19. Baby Saver
In 1976 a baby fell from the 14th floor and landed right in the arms of a British man named Joseph Figlock. A year later, a baby fell from the same floor, and re-saved by Joseph Figlock
20. The Ring
A Dutch woman finding her own ring that has long disappeared, inside the potato which she wanted to eat. Possibly the ring fell into the fields of potatoes and finally be in potatoes
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