Top 10 Creepiest Coincidences in Recent World History

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When fate gets freaky, the results will send chills down your spine... Join us as we explore bizarre coincidences that defy explanation! Our countdown includes Flight 666 landing in HEL on Friday the 13th, a man who saved both father and son from drowning 30 years apart, and the eerie symmetry of Stephen Hawking's life dates. Have you ever experienced a spine-tingling coincidence? Let us know in the comments!

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00:00Only time, money, and the continued desire for answers separate us from the moment of

00:06discovery.

00:07Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're taking a look at some freakish flukes that occurred

00:12in recent history.

00:13In a way, it kind of like, it sums up the fact that it was over for the photographic

00:19magazine that had been so successful from the 30s onwards.

00:25Flight 666 flew into hell on Friday the 13th.

00:32Airports around the world are represented by three-letter codes.

00:35The code for Helsinki-Vanta Airport, the primary airport of Finland's capital, is HELL.

00:41Finavia, the airport's owner, has had fun with the initials.

00:44In October of 2017, they had a PR campaign, hashtag Life in Hell.

00:50It was a mixed media campaign with TV and online content.

00:54They even had a well-known Chinese actor spend a month living at the airport.

01:01Three days after the launch of the campaign, on Friday the 13th, Finnair's regular flight

01:06666 from Copenhagen flew straight to hell.

01:10There was no bad luck to be found, but what a way to tempt fate.

01:14The story of Shu Weifeng.

01:17Despite a seemingly constant influx of bad news filtering into our media diet, it's important

01:21to remember the world is filled with unsung heroes.

01:25One such hero is Shu Weifeng, a resident of Zhengzhou Province in China.

01:29One day in 2018, Mr. Weifeng happened upon an eight-year-old boy drowning in a river.

01:35Despite being 80 at the time, and having some pre-existing injuries from a fall, Mr. Weifeng

01:40left into action.

01:42He saved the boy, much to his family's relief.

01:44The story would have ended there, but for a truly bizarre bit of random chance, Mr. Weifeng

01:50had saved the boy's father from a nearly identical situation 30 years before.

01:55There is a reason why meteors are incredibly valuable.

02:13Many meteoroids break up in the atmosphere after hurtling through space for millions or

02:17billions of years.

02:18According to National Geographic, the chances of getting hit by a meteor are approximately

02:221 in 1.6 million.

02:25In 2011, one meteoroid fell to Earth and landed on a house in France.

02:29Fortunately, nobody was hurt.

02:37This sort of event was newsworthy thanks to its unlikelihood alone.

02:41However, there is an odd wrinkle to this particular story.

02:44The home was owned by the Comet family.

02:47The beginning and end of life.

02:52Life magazine helped define popular American culture in the 20th century.

03:00It was ubiquitous, on shelves of every magazine stand, waiting room, and grocery checkout in

03:05the country.

03:06The first issue of the magazine as we currently know it was published on November 23, 1936.

03:11The first interior photo in the magazine's history was a picture of a baby being cradled

03:16by his doctor after being delivered.

03:18The caption read, Life Begins.

03:21That baby was George Story, who himself ultimately grew up to become a journalist.

03:26Decades later, on April 4, 2000, Life magazine announced that it would stop publication.

03:32Story died of heart failure a few days later.

03:38A Dutch cyclist and a plane crash dodger.

03:45Martin de Jong is a former professional cyclist from Holland.

03:49His career peaked in 2014, with a first place win in stage four of the Tour of Thailand.

03:54What makes de Jong's life remarkable is not his career.

03:57Instead, he's known for his shockingly good luck.

04:00The same year that de Jong won the aforementioned race, two separate Malaysia Airlines flights crashed.

04:05One, Flight 370, went missing.

04:07The other, Flight 17, was shot down over Ukraine by Russia.

04:11De Jong was allegedly planning to be on both flights.

04:14In the case of Flight 370, he decided to take a flight earlier in the day.

04:19With Flight 17, he ultimately chose a cheaper flight home.

04:22Two Finnish brothers.

04:24They say that twins have an incredibly strong bond, and often know what the other is thinking,

04:29feeling, or doing.

04:30These two Finnish brothers took that bond to a whole other level in 2002, when both died

04:35on the same road, in separate accidents, within hours of each other.

04:40The first brother died when he was hit by a truck while riding his bike.

04:44The second brother died two hours later, under the exact same circumstances, about 1.5 kilometers

04:50from the spot where his brother had been killed earlier.

04:53Stephen Hawking's birthday and death day.

04:56We will discover new structures when look at the universe on smaller and smaller scales.

05:02Stephen Hawking was one of the most famous physicists and cosmologists of the 20th and

05:0621st centuries.

05:07He built on the work of astronomers and mathematicians going all the way back to Galileo.

05:12He deepened our understanding of the Big Bang, black holes, and time.

05:16Coincidentally, Hawking was somewhat famously born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death.

05:23Adding to the creepy and bizarre symmetry, Hawking died on the birthday of Albert Einstein.

05:28It was as if the universe was determined to inextricably link three men responsible for

05:33our understanding of the cosmos.

05:35Does that mean that there is a universe out there where I am smarter than you?

05:40Yes, and also a universe where you're funny.

05:44The Double Survivor.

05:46September 11th, 2001 was the worst terrorist attack on US soil.

05:50There are many stories from survivors about how fickle twists of fate saved their lives.

06:00One such person was a man named Matthew, who came face to face with fate not once, but twice

06:06in his life.

06:07Matthew was passing the Twin Towers at the time, on his way to a business meeting.

06:12Fourteen years later, Matthew was in Paris, enjoying a show at the Bataclan Theatre.

06:18Once entered the club, shooting dozens upon dozens of the concert goers.

06:22Matthew was one of those shot, though he survived by slowly crawling to safety.

06:27It's hard to gauge the quality of Matthew's luck, having barely survived two separate terrorist attacks.

06:33This is an attack not just on Paris, it's an attack not just on the people of France,

06:40but this is an attack on all of humanity and the universal values that we share.

06:45The My Way Killings.

06:47And now, the end is near.

06:53The Philippines saw a truly bizarre series of violent incidents between 2000 and 2012.

06:59Though they were seemingly unconnected, there was one through line.

07:03They were all responses to karaoke performances of Frank Sinatra's song, My Way.

07:08These incidents often occurred in bars and karaoke clubs, where patrons would sing the song,

07:18provoking assaults and murders.

07:21The reasons behind the violent reactions are varied.

07:24Some were disputes over off-key renditions.

07:27One theory is that the song's lyrics lend themselves to perceived arrogance by the singers.

07:39Whatever the reason, many karaoke bars in the Philippines removed My Way from their song lists.

07:44By the end of the phenomena, at least six people had been killed.

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08:0427 Club.

08:06The 27 Club refers to a group of famous people, mainly musicians, who have died at the age of 27.

08:12It started in the late 60s when Rolling Stone, Brian Jones, Doors frontman Jim Morrison,

08:18Janice Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, all died at this age. Two and a half decades later,

08:24Kurt Cobain took his life at 27. And recently, Amy Winehouse died from substance use disorder

08:30issues at the age of 27. Winehouse actually stated years earlier that she was worried about dying at

08:3527. All in all, the club has claimed over 60 artists, musicians and actors since the start of the 20th

08:42century. Amy's blood alcohol level was four to five times higher than the drink driving limits.

08:47Maybe a combination of her eating disorders and the alcohol just made her heart stop.

08:54Have you ever experienced an eerie coincidence? Let us know in the comments.

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