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Two brothers killed by the same taxi driver, one year apart
In 1975, while riding a moped in Bermuda, a man was accidentally
struck and killed by a taxi. One year later, this man's bother was killed
in the very same way. In fact, he was riding the very same moped. And
to stretch the odds even further, he was struck by the very same taxi
driven by the same driver - and even carrying the very same
passenger! (Source: Phenomena: A Book of Wonders, John Michell and Robert J. M.
Rickard)
A novel that predicted the Titanic's destiny, and another ship that
almost followed
Morgan Robertson, in 1898, wrote "Futility". It described the maiden
voyage of a transatlantic luxury liner named the Titan. Although it was
touted as being unsinkable, it strikes an iceberg and sinks with much
loss of life. In 1912 the Titanic, a transatlantic luxury liner widely
touted as unsinkable strikes an iceberg and sinks with great loss of life
on her maiden voyage. In the Book, the Month of the Wreck was
April, same as in the real event. There were 3,000 passengers on the
book; in reality, 2,207. In the Book, there were 24 Lifeboats; in reality,
20.
Months after the Titanic sank, a tramp steamer was traveling through
the foggy Atlantic with only a young boy on watch. It came into his
head that it had been thereabouts that the Titanic had sunk, and he was
suddenly terrified by the thought of the name of his ship - the Titanian.
Panic-stricken, he sounded the warning. The ship stopped, just in time:
a huge iceberg loomed out of the fog directly in their path. The
Titanian was saved.