Top 10 Creepiest Coincidences in History - Summary

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**Title:** Top 10 Creepiest Coincidences in History

**Summary:**

WatchMojo presents a countdown of the top 10 most unsettling coincidences in history. These bizarre events include:

1. **The Titan and the Titanic**: A novella from 1898 eerily predicted the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
2. **Mark Twain and Halley's Comet**: Mark Twain's birth and death coincided with the comet's appearances (1835 and 1910).
3. **The 27 Club**: Over 40 musicians have died at age 27, including famous cases like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Amy Winehouse.
4. **Thomas Jefferson and John Adams**: The two US founding fathers died on the same day (July 4, 1826), 50 years after signing the Declaration of Independence.
5. **The Cannibalized Boy**: Edgar Allan Poe's story about a character named Richard Parker being killed and eaten mirrored a real-life event years later.
6. **Twin Boys**: Identical twins died in separate accidents on the same road, just hours apart (2002).
7. **The Mysterious Monk**: A painter was repeatedly saved by the same capuchin monk, who also conducted his funeral.
8. **Finish Brothers**: Two brothers died in the same manner (hit by a truck while biking) on the same road, just 2 hours apart.
9. **The King's Double**: King Umberto I of Italy met his doppelganger, with whom he shared many bizarre similarities; the double died on the same day as the king (1900).
10. **Karma Kills**: A man's breakup led to a chain of tragic events, ultimately resulting in his own death in a bizarre circumstance.

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**1.** Henry Ziegland broke up with his girlfriend in the late 19th century, leading to a chain of events resulting in three deaths.

**2.** Ziegland was shot by his ex-girlfriend's brother but survived; years later, while trying to blow up the tree where the bullet lodged, the blast propelled the bullet into his head, killing him.

**3.** King Umberto I of Italy met his body double, a restaurant owner, by chance in the late 19th century.

**4.** The king and his double shared numerous coincidental similarities, including birthdate, wife's name, and the day the king was crowned matching the day the double opened his restaurant.

**5.** The restaurant owner was killed in an accidental shooting the day after meeting the king, who was also assassinated on the same day (July 29, 1900).

**6.** In 2002, twin brothers died in separate accidents on the same road within hours of each other.

**7.** The first brother was hit by a truck while riding his bike; the second brother died two hours later under identical circumstances about 1.5 kilometers away.

**8.** Painter Joseph Eichner was stopped from committing suicide multiple times by the same Capuchin monk.

**9.** Eichner eventually killed himself at age 68; the same monk conducted his funeral ceremony.

**10.** Identical twins Jim Springer and Jim Lewis, separated at birth, shared numerous similarities in their lives, including spouses' names, children's names, and careers.

**11.** Edgar Allan Poe wrote about four shipwreck survivors killing and eating a boy named Richard Parker in his novel "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket".

**12.** Years later, a real-life yacht named "Mignonette" sank, and its survivors killed and ate a cabin boy also named Richard Parker.

**13.** Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, founding fathers of the United States, died on the same day, July 4, 1826, exactly 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

**14.** The "27 Club" refers to a group of famous musicians who died at age 27, including Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse.

**15.** Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835, two weeks after Halley's Comet was visible, and predicted he would die with its return.

**16.** Mark Twain died on April 21, 1910, one day after Halley's Comet's perihelion (closest point to the Sun) during its return.

**17.** Morgan Robertson published a novella in 1898, "Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan", about a British luxury liner (HMS Titan) that sinks after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic.

**18.** The RMS Titanic sank in 1912 under remarkably similar circumstances to Robertson's story, including size, "unsinkable" status, and the timing and location of the iceberg collision.