Really strange coincidences happen every day. We know this.
ABC Family
However, some of the coincidences we come across are just mind-blowing. Like, how The Simpsons has been able to somehow predict the future.
20th Century Fox, Drew Angerer / Getty Images
Or how the 2011 movie Contagion so closely aligns with the current coronavirus pandemic.
Warner Bros.
There are other eerie coincidences, like in Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, in which a man named Richard Parker gets eaten by survivors after a shipwreck. Then, in 1884, a man named ā you guessed it ā Richard Parker was eaten by survivors of a shipwreck.
Nascar
Another example is a nurse named Violet Jessop, who survived all three disasters on the sister ships Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic.
NBC
Perhaps you work with someone who looks exactly like you, but you're not related in any way ā and it freaks everyone out.
GlasgowComa / Via reddit.com
So, what really bizarre coincidences have you not been able to shake? Tell us in the comments, and you could be featured in an upcoming BuzzFeed Community post!
