51 Unbelievable Coincidences That Might Make You Wonder If Everything Happens For A Reason

Chris Benoit, a former WWE wrestler, was a no-show for a pay-per-view back in 2007. There was a post on Wikipedia that stated that Chris Benoit was mourning the passing of his wife.

What makes this coincidental and creepy is that this was posted 14 hours before police entered the home of the Benoit family to confirm not only was Nancy gone, but that Chris Benoit and their son was gone, too. Chris Benoit did not communicate with anyone, at all, within this timeframe. And to top it off, this Wikipedia entry was added by an IP address based out of Stamford, Connecticut, where the WWE Headquarters is located.

The Big Bopper was not supposed to be on the plane with Buddy Holly. He won the seat from somebody else by flipping a coin for it. Imagine all the things that had to occur, not only in his life but in everyone else's, to arrange it so that on that particular night, the Big Bopper was in a position to live or pass away depending on a flipping coin.

There was a guy named Wilmer McLean who lived in Virginia. When the Civil War broke out, his house was used as the Confederate HQ during its first battle, the Battle of Bull Run.

He moved to a village called Appomattox and his house was the location where the Confederates surrendered to the Union.

A U.S. Ship disguised itself as a German ship then sunk the German ship it was disguised as... The ship they sunk was disguised at the U.S. Ship that sunk it

During the Cold War, Russian spies used hollow coins to pass messages to each other in America. One spy accidentally used his hollow coin as actual currency, and it ended up in the general population. The coin was found when it was given to a paperboy, who discovered the message in the hollowed out container when he dropped it and it split open. There was a message written in Russian code, so the boy handed it over to the authorities.

The government spent years trying to decode the message, with no luck. Eventually, a Russian spy defected to America, and in the process of handing over Russian secrets, the spy was asked about the coded message in the hollow coin.

The man translated the message, and it turned out to be a "Welcome to America, here's the way our operations work" message from Russia, meant for the very spy who decoded the message for the American government.

Calculus was invented completely independently by two comtemporaries: Isaac Newton and Gottfried Liebniz. Science is actually full of coincidences like this; it's as if scientific discovery itself is fated and inevitable and humans are just tools for it.

EDIT: A lot of people have made some really good comments about the 'coincidentiality' of scientific discovery. To sum up; one discovery always rests on many others, many discoveries naturally lead to others, and often a problem has only one basic solution. Thus, 'coincidences' are natural in scientific discovery and are to be expected; they only look like coincidences to the outside observer. This is what I mean by the discoveries being 'fated' and inevitable. If Newton and Leibniz hadn't discovered/invented calculus, someone else would have, because it was a solution to many many scientific problems, and other mathematical discoveries had paved the way for it.

Eleanor Rigby:

“Eleanor Rigby” was released by The Beatles on August 5, 1966, which was a week before the band’s last commercial tour. In 1966, McCartney gave an interview about how he came up with the lyrics for the song. He said that he originally came up with the idea of “Father McCartney” but figured it was inappropriate to use his dad’s name, so looked in the phone book and found “McKenzie.” Ultimately, the name “Father McKenzie” was used in the song’s lyrics.

McCartney came up with the name “Eleanor” from actress Eleanor Bron and “Rigby” from a store in Bristol named Rigby & Evens Ltd, Wine & Spirit Shippers. In 1984, Paul was quoted: “I just liked the name. I was looking for a name that sounded natural.” In the 1980s, a grave was discovered in St. Peter’s Parish Church in Woolton, Liverpool, with the name Eleanor Rigby on it. Even more coincidentally, a few yards from Eleanor’s grave is another tombstone with the last name “McKenzie” on it.

The cemetery is located near the spot where Lennon and McCartney first met, and the two spent a lot of time in the cemetery sunbathing as teenagers. In response to the news that there was a gravestone with the name Eleanor Rigby, McCartney said that he might have been subconsciously influenced by the name on the gravestone. The coincidence is one of the most famous in rock history and gave momentum to the “Paul is gone” conspiracy.

Two comic book characters were invented in the 1950s, both called Dennis the Menace. Both were first seen in comics that were sold on the same day. One character was the red and black striped one that we have in England and the other was the little blond dude you Americans have that inspired a film about a precocious kid who stops his next door neighbour seeing a plant flower.

Similarly, autism was independently discovered and named by psychologists in 3 different countries, and each called it autism.

Sports one:

Archie Manning is replaced by Oliver Luck as the QB of the Houston Oilers.

Years later:

Peyton Manning replaced Jim Harbaugh as the QB of the Indianapolis Colts.

Years later:

Jim Harbaugh recruits a QB named Andrew Luck.

Years later:

Peyton Manning (Archie's kid) is replaced by Andrew Luck (Oliver's kid) as the QB of the Indianapolis Colts.

In 1274 and 1281 the Mongols invaded Japan. Both times a typhoon decided to wreck their stuff.

In both cases, Japanese forces most likely wouldn't have been able to repel the invasion without help from mother nature.

I had a miscarriage at about 6 weeks pregnant and only me, my boyfriend, father, and step mother knew. The day after I miscarry my aunt texts me to ask me if I'm pregnant. No one had told her she just had a hunch. I just told her she was wrong.