Have you ever felt that certain coincidences are so bizarre they could belong in a movie? Yet, reality often proves to be even stranger than fiction. These stories challenge our understanding of the ordinary and make us question whether there’s a mysterious force guiding our destinies. Here are 15 eerie coincidences that will leave you questioning the forces at play.
15. The Tragic Fate of Twin Brothers
In 2002, Finland was struck by an unbelievable coincidence: two pairs of identical twin brothers died within hours of each other in separate accidents. The two men were riding their bikes along the same road when they were hit by trucks—just 1.5 kilometers apart. However, there was no direct connection between the two accidents. The first tragedy was heart-wrenching enough, but the second one happening so soon after made it even harder to believe. It’s as if fate had some unexplained force at work.
14. Edgar Allan Poe’s Prophecy
Edgar Allan Poe’s writings often seem to carry an eerie sense of “prophecy.” In his 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Poe describes a group of shipwreck survivors who are forced to eat one of their own. Fast forward 46 years, and the real-life Mignonette shipwreck bore an uncanny resemblance to Poe’s tale. The victim, Richard Parker, was even named the same as Poe’s character. It’s an unsettling coincidence that makes you wonder if fate truly has strange connections. 
13. Chris Benoit’s Wikipedia Edit
In June 2007, the wrestling world was shocked by the heinous actions of Chris Benoit. However, what happened 14 hours before the police arrived at his home is chilling: someone edited his Wikipedia page, stating that he would miss an upcoming WWE event due to the death of his wife, Nancy. The edit came from an IP address in Stamford, Connecticut—the headquarters of WWE—and was later updated from Australia. The anonymous editor claimed it was based on rumors circulating online, but the eerie timing of this coincidence is enough to send shivers down anyone’s spine.
12. Flight 666 to “HEL”
This isn’t a joke. For years, Finnair operated flight 666, bound for Helsinki, with the airport code “HEL.” On Friday, October 13, 2017—widely considered an unlucky day—the flight completed its final journey. Despite the superstitions and the eerie date, flight AY666 landed safely without incident. The bizarre coincidence left many passengers and crew with a chill down their spines.
11. The Disappearance of Flight 19
Have you heard of Close Encounters of the Third Kind? This story might remind you of some of its plot points. In 1945, five U.S. Navy planes, known as Flight 19, mysteriously disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle, one of aviation’s greatest mysteries. The squadron lost contact during a training exercise and was never heard from again. A rescue plane was sent, but it too vanished without a trace. To this day, no wreckage from Flight 19 or the rescue plane has ever been found.
10. The Bullet That Came Back
In 1914, Henry Ziegland narrowly escaped death in what seemed like a miraculous survival. He was shot by his ex-girlfriend’s brother, and the bullet grazed his cheek before embedding in a tree. The shooter, believing Ziegland to be dead, committed suicide. Six years later, Ziegland tried to use dynamite to remove the tree. However, the explosion dislodged the bullet, which then struck and killed Ziegland. It seems fate might delay, but it never misses.
9. Two George D. Brysons
How low are the odds? In 1953, two men named George D. Bryson booked rooms at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver on the same day. They were strangers to each other but shared the same name. The hotel staff got so confused that they kept passing messages meant for one George to the other. Eventually, the two had to meet face to face. Whether or not they became friends, we can only guess.
8. Anthony Hopkins and the Lost Book
When preparing for his role in The Girl from Petrovka, Anthony Hopkins searched high and low for a particular book but couldn’t find it. Surprisingly, he stumbled upon a copy at a train station. Even more incredible, when he later spoke to the author, George Feifer, he discovered that this was the same copy Feifer had lost years before—and it even contained his handwritten annotations.
7. James Dean’s Cursed Porsche
James Dean tragically passed away in a car crash in 1955, but the story of his Porsche 550 Spyder, nicknamed “Little Bastard,” did not end there. The car seemed cursed. After the fatal accident, the car was involved in several other crashes, injuring multiple people and even claiming another life. Strangely, the car’s parts were later installed in other vehicles, which subsequently were involved in fatal accidents as well. The car’s eerie legacy continued, and its wreckage mysteriously disappeared during transport, adding yet another chapter to its strange history.
6. The Book That Found Its Way Back Home
Imagine the thrill of finding an old book in a secondhand store, only to realize it’s the very one you loved as a child. This is what happened to American author Annie Parrish in the early 20th century. She was in a bookstore in Paris when she found a book she cherished as a child—Jack Frost and Other Stories. The real shock came when her husband opened the book’s cover and found her name written inside. It turned out this was the very book she had owned years ago. Sometimes, destiny has a way of returning things you never expected.
5. The Choir Saved by Their Tardiness
Sometimes, fate saves people in the most unbelievable ways. On March 1, 1950, a tragedy almost struck the Westside Baptist Church in Beatrice, Nebraska. That evening, the choir was due to rehearse, but due to various delays—some members had car trouble, others were caught up with homework—the entire choir arrived late. Had they been on time, they would have been in the church when the furnace exploded, causing a massive fire. The small delays saved their lives, proving that sometimes fate really does intervene.
4. Frank Sinatra’s “Deadly Song”
It sounds unbelievable, but between 2000 and 2012, singing Frank Sinatra’s My Way at karaoke bars in the Philippines was linked to six deaths. The song, which seemed to spark violent confrontations, led to fatal incidents. Whether it was a disagreement over the singing or the provocative lyrics, My Way seemed to trigger deadly events. This led many karaoke bars to remove the song from their playlists, turning it into a sort of taboo.
3. A Meteor Strikes the Comette Family
The odds of a meteorite hitting Earth are about 1 in 1.6 million, but in 2011, a meteorite struck a house in France. What made this event even more incredible was that the family living in the house was named Comette (French for “comet”). A meteorite hitting a family named after a comet? The coincidence was truly astonishing.
2. Stephen Hawking’s Cosmic Connection
Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest minds of the 20th and 21st centuries, had a strange connection to two of the most brilliant scientists in history: Galileo and Einstein. Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo’s death, and, perhaps even more remarkably, he died on Einstein’s birthday. This uncanny synchronicity makes it seem as if the universe had some mysterious plan in mind for these legendary thinkers.
1. Robert Todd Lincoln’s Strange Encounters
Robert Todd Lincoln, the only one of Abraham Lincoln’s children to survive his parents, had an extraordinary life full of strange coincidences. On one occasion, while waiting for a train in New Jersey, Lincoln accidentally fell onto the tracks, only to be saved by a passerby—Edwin Booth, the brother of John Wilkes Booth, the man who assassinated his father. If that wasn’t eerie enough, Robert Todd Lincoln also witnessed the assassination attempts on Presidents Garfield and McKinley. His life seemed to be entwined with death in the most unsettling of ways.
