COINCIDENCE OR CALL OF KARMA

Coincidences in our  Life are amazing,
Many unnoticeable yet some are conspicuously unbelievable

[15]  CHILDHOOD BOOK

While American novelist Anne Parrish was browsing bookstores in Paris
in the 1920s, she came upon a book that was one of her childhood
favourites - 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 found the inscription: "Anne
Parrish, 209 N. Weber Street, Colorado Springs."
It was Anne's very own book.

[14] POKER LUCK

In 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 Fallon's seat empty and none of the other players willing to take
the now unlucky $600, they found a new player to take Fallon's place
and staked him with the dead man's $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 Fallon's next of
kin - only to discover that the new player turned out to be Fallon's
son, who had not seen his father in seven years!

[13] TWIN DEATHS

In 2002, seventy-year- old twin brothers 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 don't 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. It came to mind that perhaps someone from
upstairs had a say in this," she said.

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[12] POE COINCIDENCE

In 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.

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[11] ROYAL COINCIDENCE

In Monza, Italy, King Umberto I, went to a small restaurant for
dinner, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, General Emilio Ponzia-
Vaglia.
When the owner took King Umberto's order, the King noticed that he and
the restaurant owner were virtual doubles, in face and in build.
Both men began discussing the striking resemblance between each other
and found many more similarities.
1. Both men were born on the same day, of the same year, (March 14th, 1844).
2. Both men had been born in the same town.
3. Both men married a woman with same name, Margherita.
4. The restaurateur opened his restaurant on the same day that King
Umberto was crowned King of Italy.
5. On the 29th July 1900, King Umberto was informed that the
restaurateur had died that day in a mysterious shooting accident, and
as he expressed his regret, an anarchist in the crowd then
assassinated him.

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[10] FALLING  BABY

In 1930s Detroit, a man named Joseph Figlock was to become an amazing
figure in a young (and, apparently, incredibly careless) mother's
life.
As Figlock was walking down the street, the mother's baby fell from a
high window onto Figlock.
The baby's fall was broken and Figlock and the baby were unharmed.
A year later, the selfsame baby fell from the selfsame window, again
falling onto Mr. Figlock as he was passing beneath.
Once again, both of them survived the event.

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[9] Mystery Monk

In 19th century Austria, a near-famous painter named Joseph Aigner
attempted suicide on several occasions.
During his first attempt to hang himself at the age of 18, a
mysterious Capuchin monk interrupted Aigner.
And again at age 22, the very same monk prevented him from hanging himself.
Eight years later, he was sentenced to the gallows for his political activities.
But again, his life was saved by the intervention of the same monk.
At age 68, Joseph Aigner finally succeeded in suicide, using a pistol
to shoot himself. Not surprisingly, the very same Capuchin monk - a
man whose name Aigner never even knew, conducted his funeral ceremony.
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[8] PHOTOGRAPHIC  COINCIDENCE

A German mother who photographed her infant son in 1914 left the film
to be developed at a store in Strasbourg.
In those days some film plates were sold individually.
World War I broke out and unable to return to Strasbourg, the woman
gave up the picture for lost.
Two years later, she bought a film plate in Frankfurt, over 100 miles
away, to take a picture of her newborn daughter.
When developed the film turned out to be a double exposure, with the
picture of her daughter superimposed on the earlier picture of her
son.
Through some incredible twist of fate, her original film, never
developed, had been mislabeled as unused, and had eventually been
resold to her.

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[7] BOOK FIND

In 1973, actor Anthony Hopkins agreed to appear in "The Girl From
Petrovka", based on a novel by George Feifer.
Unable to find a copy of the book anywhere in London, Hopkins was
surprised to discover one lying on a bench in a train station.
It turned out to be George Feifer's own annotated (personal) copy,
which Feifer had lent to a friend, and which had been stolen from his
friend's car.

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[6] TWINS

The twin brothers, Jim Lewis and Jim Springer, were separated at
birth, adopted by different families.
Unknown to each other, both families named the boys James.
Both James grew up not knowing of the other, yet both sought
law-enforcement training both had abilities in mechanical drawing and
carpentry, and each had married women named Linda.
Both had sons, one of who was 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.

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[5] REVENGE  KILLING

In 1883, Henry Ziegland broke off a relationship with his girlfriend
who, out of distress, committed suicide.
The girl's enraged brother hunted down Ziegland and shot him.
Believing he had killed Ziegland, the brother then took his own life.
In fact, however, Ziegland had not been killed.
The bullet had only grazed his face, lodging into a tree.
It was a narrow escape.
Years later, Ziegland decided to cut down the same tree, which still
had the bullet in it. The huge tree seemed so formidable that he
decided to blow it up with dynamite.
The explosion propelled the bullet into Ziegland's head, killing him.

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[4] GOLDEN SCARAB

From The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche:
"A young woman I was treating had, at a critical moment, a dream in
which she was given a golden scarab.
While she was telling me this dream I sat with my back to the closed window.
Suddenly, I heard a noise behind me, like a gentle
I turned round and saw a flying insect knocking against the windowpane
from outside.
I opened the window and caught the creature in the air as it flew in.
It was the nearest analogy to the golden scarab that one finds in our
latitudes, a scarabaeid beetle, the common rose-chafer (Cetonia
aurata) which contrary to its usual habits had evidently felt an urge
to get into a dark room at this particular moment.
I must admit that nothing like it ever happened to me before or since,
and that the dream of the patient has remained unique in my
experience."
- Carl Jung

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[3]  TAXI

In 1975, while riding a moped in Bermuda, a man was accidentally
struck and killed by a taxi.
One year later, this man's brother was killed in the very same way.
In fact, he was riding the very same moped.
And to stretch the odds even further, the very same taxi driven by the
same driver - and even carrying the very same passenger struck him!
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[2]  HOTEL DISCOVERY

In 1953, television reporter Irv Kupcinet was in London to cover the
coronation 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 Kupcinet's.
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 Kupcinet's name on
it.
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[1] HISTORICAL COINCIDENCE

The lives of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two of America's founders.
Jefferson crafted the Declaration of Independence, showing drafts of
it to Adams, who (with Benjamin Franklin) helped to edit and hone it.
The Continental Congress  approved the document on July 4, 1776.
Surprisingly, both Jefferson and Adams died  on the same day, July 4,
1826 - exactly 50 years from the signing of the Declaration of
Independence.