17. Name of a Victim
The last woman believed to have been killed by Jack the Ripper was named Mary Kelly. The second to last woman was Catherine Edwards, who was murdered shortly after being released by the police. While at the police station, she had provided a fake name to the cops. The name? Mary Kelly.
Oooooooooh. That one is legitimately spooky.
16. The Book From The Bench
The Girl from Petrovka is a film from 1974 starring Anthony Hopkins. Upon his casting in the movie, Hopkins set out to find a copy of the book the film was based on. After a day of searching throughout London, he was unable to find a single copy for sale. Right as he was calling it a day, he found a stray copy of the novel sitting on a bench. When the time came for production to begin, he met with the author of the novel George Feifer, who admitted to Hopkins that he didn’t even have a copy of the book, as a friend he lent it to lost it on a park bench
15. Brother Like Brother
One day in 2002, a cargo truck struck and killed a 70-year-old man who was bicycling along a highway 600 kilometers (approx. 373 miles) north of Helsinki, Finland. Two hours later, another 70-year-old man was killed after being hit by a cargo truck while riding along the highway, also 600 kilometers north of Helsinki. It turns out that these men were identical twins, who just happened to have the same idea that day.
14. Old Bottles
Mark Anderson and Andrew Leaper were friends who also happened to be fishermen. In 2006, Anderson secured himself a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records by retrieving a message in a bottle while out on the sea that turned out to be the oldest ever found. Anderson annoyed his friend with incessant bragging for years, until 2012, when Leaper found an even older message in a bottle while manning the very same boat Anderson had been on when he found his message in a bottle.
13. Identical Lives
Sometimes you cannot escape your own fate. In Ohio, there was two male twins who were separated at birth. Neither of these men knew about their history and lived ordinary lives. That is, until they met, and found out that not only were they separated at birth, but that they were both named James, both worked as police officers, were both married to women named Betty, divorced from women both named Linda, had named their sons James Allan, and also had a dog called Toy. You can’t make this stuff up.
