Amazing Coincidences

Read the text about COINCIDENCES and think of your own amazing life stories!

A falling baby, saved twice by the same man

In Detroit sometime in the 1930s, a young (if
incredibly careless) mother must have been
eternally grateful to a man named Joseph
Figlock. As Figlock was walking down the
street, the mother's baby fell from a high
window onto Figlock. The baby's fall was
broken and both man and baby were unharmed.
A stroke of luck on its own, but a year later, the very same baby fell from the very
same window onto poor, unsuspecting Joseph Figlock as he was again passing
beneath. And again, they both survived the event. (Source: Mysteries of the
Unexplained)

Twin Boys, twin lives

The stories of identical twins' nearly identical lives are
often astonishing, but perhaps none more so than
those of identical twins born in Ohio. The twin boys
were separated at birth, being adopted by different
families. Unknown to each other, both families named
the boys James. And here the coincidences just begin.
Both James grew up not even knowing of the other,
yet both sought law-enforcement training, both had
abilities in mechanical drawing and carpentry, and
each had married women named Linda. They both had
sons whom one named James Alan and the other named James Allan. The twin
brothers also divorced their wives and married other women - both named Betty.
And they both owned dogs which they named Toy. Forty years after their
childhood separation, the two men were reunited to share their amazingly similar
lives.

Three strangers on a Train, with complementary last

names
In the 1920s, three Englishman were traveling
separately by train through Peru. At the time of their
introduction, they were the only three men in the
railroad car. Their introductions were more surprising
than they could have imagined. One man's last name
was Bingham, and the second man's last name was
Powell. The third man announced that his last name
was Bingham-Powell. None were related in any way.
 A writer, found the book of her childhood
While American novelist Anne Parrish
was browsing bookstores in Paris in the
1920s, she came upon a book that was
one of her childhood favorites - Jack Frost
and Other Stories. She picked up the old
book and showed it to her husband, telling
him of the book she fondly remembered
as a child. Her husband took the book,
opened it, and on the flyleaf found the
inscription: "Anne Parrish, 209 N. Weber
Street, Colorado Springs." It was Anne's
very own book. (Source: While Rome
Burns, Alexander Wollcott)

The 21st, a bad day for King Louis XVI

When King Louis XVI of France was a child,
he was warned by an astrologer to always be on
his guard on the 21st day of each month. Louis
was so terrified by this that he never did
business on this day. Unfortunately Louis was
not always on his guard. On June 21st 1791,
following the French revolution, Louis and his
queen were arrested in Varennes, whist trying
to escape France. On September 21st 1791,
France abolished the institution of Royalty and
proclaimed itself a republic. Finally on January
21st 1793, King Louis XVI was executed by
guillotine.

Do YOU believe in COINCIDENCES? Explain your point of view.

Discuss the stories above in the classroom and WRITE down you own life story
where funny similarities and coincidences took place!