These Coincidences Are TOO WEIRD to Be Real

Some moments in history are so strange they sound like someone made them up. But every one of these really happened. Mark Twain was born when Halley's Comet appeared, predicted he'd die when it came back, and did. Two Founding Fathers died on the same day: the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. One man watched the Civil War start on his farm and end in his living room. Abraham Lincoln's son was saved by the brother of the man who killed his father. And in 1838, Edgar Allan Poe wrote about shipwreck survivors eating a cabin boy named Richard Parker. 46 years later, it happened for real. Which one is the weirdest? Tell us in the comments 👇 ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:21 Mark Twain & Halley's Comet 1:31 Adams & Jefferson: Same Day, July 4th 2:36 Wilmer McLean: The War Followed Him Home 3:49 Robert Lincoln Saved by a Booth 5:01 Edgar Allan Poe's Prediction: Richard Parker 6:30 Which One Is the Weirdest? 🔔 Subscribe for more history that sounds fake but isn't. 📚 SOURCES & REFERENCES Mark Twain & Halley's Comet Albert Bigelow Paine, "Mark Twain: A Biography" (1912), Twain's 1909 comet quote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley%... John Adams & Thomas Jefferson Founders Online, National Archives (Adams–Jefferson correspondence): https://founders.archives.gov/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_... Wilmer McLean Appomattox Court House National Historical Park (NPS): https://www.nps.gov/apco/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmer_... Robert Lincoln & Edwin Booth Robert Todd Lincoln, letter to Richard Watson Gilder (1909), published in The Century Magazine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_B... Richard Parker & Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" (1838) R v Dudley and Stephens (1884) 14 QBD 273 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nar... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Dud... 🖼️ IMAGES & SOUND Archive photos, paintings and documents: Library of Congress & Wikimedia Commons (public domain) Map data ©Google Sound effects: Wikimedia Commons (public domain / CC0) #history #coincidences #historyfacts