Cool coinicidences

[Daniel Ferguson]

This year marks two 18th birthdays.

1. My writing group is turning 18 this year (we think) and we're putting together an anthology of speculative fiction titled, imaginatively, 18. We're working out what that means, but we are pretty much unlimited; it just has to be recognisable as some sort of fantasy, science fiction or horror (or all three, or something with elements of said genres).

2. Today, as it turns out, is the 18th birthday of my favourite store, Pulp Fiction, which sells the kind of books we naturally tend to read and write - SFFH.

Pretty cool coincidence, in my book. (haHA! Writing pun!)

What cool, weird or crazy coincidences have you experienced?

 

[Wickatricka]

I don't know if this is cool but I am now living in a house that a old lady lived in until she died. When I was six years old I was playing at the park and thought she was trying to abducted me and that marked the day in my life that I would be forever afraid of old people and for real I actually think she's trying to haunt me. Keep hearing weird noises coming from upstairs like multiple people whispering back and forth to each other. Actually no shit just as I was writing this the door blew open... might of been the wind... have no idea...

 

[Hero of Lime]

While I have no personal cool coincidences, the amount between President Lincoln and President Kennedy along with their assassinations is pretty staggering. A quick google search, and you too may realize everything deserves a crazy conspiracy theory. Here's a list:


-Both presidents were elected to the House of Representatives in '46.
-Both presidents were elected to the presidency in '60.
-Lincoln defeated incumbent Vice President John C. Breckenridge for the presidency in 1860; Kennedy defeated incumbent Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency in 1960.
-Both their predecessors left office in their seventies and retired to Pennsylvania. James Buchanan, whom Lincoln succeeded, retired to Lancaster Township; Dwight D. Eisenhower, whom Kennedy succeeded, retired to Gettysburg.
-Both their Vice Presidents and successors were Southern Democrats named Johnson (Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson) who were born in '08.
-Both presidents were concerned with the problems of black Americans and made their views strongly known in '63. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, which became law in 1863. In 1963, Kennedy presented his reports to Congress on Civil Rights, and the same year was the famous March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
-Both presidents were shot in the head.
-Both presidents were shot on a Friday in the presence of their wives.
-Both presidents were accompanied by another couple.
-The male companion of the other couple was wounded by the assassin.
-Both presidents had a son die during their presidency.
-Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre; Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald in a Lincoln automobile, made by Ford.
-Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy who told him not to go to the theatre; Kennedy had a secretary named Evelyn Lincoln who warned him not to go to Dallas.
-Both presidents' last names have 7 letters.
-Both presidents have five syllables in their full name (which counts Kennedy's middle initial).
-There are 6 letters in each Johnson's first name.
-Booth ran from a theatre to a warehouse; Oswald ran from a warehouse to a theatre.
-Both Johnsons were succeeded as President in '69 by Republicans whose mothers were named Hannah

 

[Glongpre]

That is the most ridiculous amount of coincidences I have ever read.^^^^^