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Actually if you think about it closely, the Tecumseh curse is still thriving in a different role. The 2000 election was a farce that ended in a court battle. a year later, 9/11 happened followed by years of tumultous wars. Its 2020 and guess what? We got Coronavirus-19, murder hornets, and riots. Trump is an extremely unpopular President who shows signs of autotariaism.
W Bush is still alive and kicking having been elected in 2000, so is Gore, if you wonder about hanging chads in Florida much... Given the ages of the 2020 candidates though... makes you wonder!!
@@willyolio9590 ooooorrrrrr a pro Trump rights an NRA supporter will be fed up with the last 4 presidency's....an He'll go on a suicide mission to restore America's honor supposedly... And start retaliating shotting any went everyone for honor of their Confederate flag... And he'll go down as a civilian hero with the far right....
I'm curious if Mark Twain wrote "The Prince and the Pauper" before or after the King Umberto incident. That story is so strange, made even stranger by the fact that they were both killed... If they hadn't been, I would have just said long-lost twin, but the assassinations make it so damn mysterious.
I had a "twin" living just 10 mi. south of me. When I'd venture down to San Rafael, once in a while someone would call out, "Hi Carolyn!" But my name is Marilyn. It happened often enough that it was finally explained to me that I was a dead ringer for this Carolyn and am only sorry I never met her. Odd that our names were even similar.
I live in a very small town in Alabama (big shocker!) and my mom's name is Robin Wright. Every where she's goes the dr, stores with savings accts, the hardware store. The hardware store tried to sell my mom the paint the other woman had premixed and was going to pick up that day my mom went to gave somepaint mixed too. Even one time at a hospital over 100 miles away they pulled up the other Robin Wright had a test there the same day as my mom and SHE'S NEVER SEEN THE WOMAN! We wouldn't know her if they were standing side by side.
@@andiward7068 Funny enough, I know someone whose father left his first family in Germany after WWII and then married another woman (becoming a bigamist) and named his children from his second after his kids from his first marriage. His Canadian family found out when he was dying. Turns out the man had been a Nazi on the run and was a horrible man and father.
#8 - I do remember that "curse" as a young man. When Reagan was elected, I told my friends he might die in office. When he was shot, the curse was the first thing I thought of. I guess he broke the curse.
The graphic at 6:50 says it was the SAME baby falling out of the SAME window hitting the SAME guy a year later, but Simon says it was different kids, a girl and a boy. Some people just don't know when to quit promoting an AMAZING story.
Yup. Even a basic grasp of probability shows you that nothing is impossible, just very improbable. It frustrates me how the superstitious view coincidences.
The maddest coincidence I ever heard of was in 1975 where a 17 year old boy on a moped was hit by a taxi and killed. Amazingly his brother was killed the year before by the same taxi, the same driver, on the same moped in the same place, spooky...
Simon. Love your channels. I know of another coincidence if you decide to do part 2. The building of Hoover Dam in Nevada was a huge, long undertaking. During the being phase a man died due to a catastrophic accident. Many years later as it was still under construction, the son of that man was working on the dam, his name was the same and there was the same accident and he died exactly the same way.
I have really come to love watching these list, reminds me of the Book of Lists by the Wallace family back in the day and I can see Simon putting narration to them (still have a couple of the books too). Cudos the too ten team!
I've heard, in relation to tragedies involving loss of life, there instances where there are less people killed because there are less people where they would normally be. This memory was sparked by the story of the absent choir. When a train traveling from the blue mountains to Sydney Australia there were less people on the train than normal and so less people died. As I write I remember I was in an acting co. That had a play called "6:04 to eternity". The time of the train left the blue mountains that ran into the bridge at Granville a suburb of Sydney.
Poe writes and publishes in his typical gruesome style, a story ab a shipwreck and cannibalism. Fast forward nearly 50 yrs there's a shipwreck and the men are like, "what are we going to do?!" and one of the shipmates is like, " I did read this thing in a story one time and it's a little gross but....."
Yeah, if babies keep falling on you in the course of your work you need to A) champion and inquiry into why this might be happening and reforms to correct the problem B) Start wearing an extra wide bassinet hat specifically designed to catch babies as safely as possible while you work.
I am from Illinois. I was coming home from Nebraska. Before leaving, we stopped at a Hardee's. A couple walked in shortly after us. I was focused on the menu. While we were ordering I looked at the couple behind us. "Maggie!", I gasped. There was my former boss & her husband. They were heading to the coast on vacation. They got hungry & stopped to eat. As large as the world is, it is a small world.
What about the story of the Japanese guy who survived the bombing of Hiroshima, only to board a train and find himself in Nagasaki for the second bomb.
Street sweeper isn't a coincidence. The most interesting those kids had seen all week was a dude sweeping the street. Being little kids they naturally would have tried harder and harder to see him as he passed leading them to fall out the window.
I think the weirdest thing about the Violet Jessop story is when years later she supposedly got a phone call from the baby from the Titanic, but despite the expectations of a friendly reunion, it was kind of creepy.
I have friends/colleagues who swear up and down, they saw my doppelganger. One day, I was enjoying a bit of time off from work when my roommate (and co-worker) called me. I was immediately suspicious he might be trying to summon me to work...but he was not the boss, so had no such authority. So I answered, and he said "Where are you?!" "I'm, at home, getting drunk!" I said, establishing early my inability to work. "You been there all day?" "Yuh" "I swear you were just here! Not five minutes ago! But you were ordering like a customer! I was like, what the h** is he doing here? Some kina practical joke?" EDIT: Folks say I look like Pedro Pascal (and I agree, if we were compared with him today, and me 17 years ago), and I live in a place that is commonly visited for TV and film production. Seems possible they may have seen him or a look-alike at my former place of employment, which happily catered to the public.
McCleans original house was dismantled after sold at auction to be rebuilt at another location. The house in Appomattox was rebuilt as a museum. We've been there.
Hi, just wanted to point out a small mistake. In number 4, about miss unsinkable. You said the ship the Birttanic was sunk in 1916, that puts it in WW1, not WW2.
I was born 3 weeks late -- don't know how a doctor lets that happen -- on Jan. 10, the same day as my half-brother who is 3 years older. We have different mothers, but are somehow identical and share a kind of twin psychic ability.
Oh my, It is HALLEY'S COMET, Rhymes w/ Sally. A 50's rock group named "Bill Haley & the Comets” wrecked the correct pronunciation ever since but let's give Sir Edmund Halley his due!
@@johnbarber4549 just how us Nebraskans decided to say it. We also have a town Norfolk that we say as Norfork. I feel like everyone has a different story of why lol
Actually the peer reviewed study shows that on average each of the choir members had a 1 in 4 or 25% chance of being late on any given day so still pretty crazy odds when you have a factor of fifteen!! :)
Pertaining to Tecumseh's curse. 7 presidents fall to it. In decision making natives use the 7 generation rule. So Reagan surviving makes sense. It was never broken it just ran its course.
Re: The Joseph Figlock coincidence, the titles on screen say, "The SAME baby fell from the SAME window." That's not what you say happened. It was different babies, though that's coincidence enough.
I've heard about the guy who saved the children before.the parents must have been so relieved! One of my Maltese great grandfathers Emmanuel musket was a sailor who got a job as a stoker on the titanic and then the Lusitania but both times he was two hung over to get there!
Love your channel, but Appomattox was not the last battle of the Civil War, it was the last battle for the Army of Northern Virginia. There were many skirmishes fought in the following weeks.
Strangest is the John Adams and Thomas Jefferson who had one of the most interesting and important relationships in US History as first allies and friends, then founders of the political party system in the US and enemies, then later friends again with perhaps the most important long train of correspondence in US History. Turns out they died the same day, the 4th of July 1826 the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence whose writing and ratification they are most famous for.
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Actually if you think about it closely, the Tecumseh curse is still thriving in a different role. The 2000 election was a farce that ended in a court battle. a year later, 9/11 happened followed by years of tumultous wars. Its 2020 and guess what? We got Coronavirus-19, murder hornets, and riots. Trump is an extremely unpopular President who shows signs of autotariaism.
Np poo iu
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In the Ms Unsinkable story..Should be World War 1 if it was 5 years from the Titanic.
"Of COURSE truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense." ~ Mark Twain
What’s a Mark Twain?
@@gamingshortz7912 Mark Twain is a riverboat term for determining depth, but it is more famously the pen name of Samuel Clemens.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi - the man who survived both nukes dropped on Japan
That's not very impressive, 99% of earth's population survived both nukes dropped on Japan
@@evanosburn718, he is remarkable because he lived through being subjected to both.
This could make a decent biographics if enough information exists about him.
@@KyraDestinyCR i dont think you understand sarcasm
In the book ‘Life of Pi” the author named the tiger ‘Richard Parker.’ Love that reference.
Loved that book!
Still makes me smile
the story about everyone escaping the fire is like a reverse final destination
Babies just casually falling out of the sky, poor fella.
He suffered from a fear of storks, from that day on.
He was a babe magnet.
@@ElliottStoddard LMFAO great entry
He should've put a note on the front door saying 'quit throwing your kids off the windows'.
The guy said it was the same baby....I THINK THE PARENTS ARE TRYING TO KILL IT!!
There are a lot of unsinkable ships at the bottom of the ocean...
maybe companies should lable their ships "sinkable" to see what happens
As if the 2020 election wasn't tense enough as it is.
Makes me think that choice of VP is even more important!
W Bush is still alive and kicking having been elected in 2000, so is Gore, if you wonder about hanging chads in Florida much... Given the ages of the 2020 candidates though... makes you wonder!!
trump will lose, refuse to leave office, then the crazy gun nuts will start shooting the democratic winner.
@@willyolio9590 Okay there Nostradamus
@@willyolio9590 ooooorrrrrr a pro Trump rights an NRA supporter will be fed up with the last 4 presidency's....an He'll go on a suicide mission to restore America's honor supposedly... And start retaliating shotting any went everyone for honor of their Confederate flag... And he'll go down as a civilian hero with the far right....
I'm curious if Mark Twain wrote "The Prince and the Pauper" before or after the King Umberto incident. That story is so strange, made even stranger by the fact that they were both killed... If they hadn't been, I would have just said long-lost twin, but the assassinations make it so damn mysterious.
"The Time Machine", a book by H. G. Wells published in 1895, one year later he wrote it.
This and all Simon's channels are what wake me up in the morning
Likewise
Strongly agree
Get a life
That's a little sad, tbh.
ALLEGEDLY ;)
I had a "twin" living just 10 mi. south of me. When I'd venture down to San Rafael, once in a while someone would call out, "Hi Carolyn!" But my name is Marilyn. It happened often enough that it was finally explained to me that I was a dead ringer for this Carolyn and am only sorry I never met her. Odd that our names were even similar.
Does your Dad have a secret family.
I live in a very small town in Alabama (big shocker!) and my mom's name is Robin Wright. Every where she's goes the dr, stores with savings accts, the hardware store. The hardware store tried to sell my mom the paint the other woman had premixed and was going to pick up that day my mom went to gave somepaint mixed too. Even one time at a hospital over 100 miles away they pulled up the other Robin Wright had a test there the same day as my mom and SHE'S NEVER SEEN THE WOMAN! We wouldn't know her if they were standing side by side.
@@brandihigginbotham136 Robin Wright is also Jenny from Forest Gump. Wright is a common name
As you wish.
@@andiward7068 Funny enough, I know someone whose father left his first family in Germany after WWII and then married another woman (becoming a bigamist) and named his children from his second after his kids from his first marriage. His Canadian family found out when he was dying. Turns out the man had been a Nazi on the run and was a horrible man and father.
the west side church one is the most intriguing, until the falling babies... wth
2:40 Human eyes are only that disproportionately huge in character creators on The Sims. Is that a photograph? Is it real?
He's a real anime character
Babies fallin on one's head seems like some kind of twisted nightmare.
It probably becomes less of a surprise when it happens more than once.
#8 - I do remember that "curse" as a young man. When Reagan was elected, I told my friends he might die in office. When he was shot, the curse was the first thing I thought of. I guess he broke the curse.
I still think Bush broke the curse, Reagan survived due to medical advances he really should have died was so lucky!
@@LB1973 Bush was almost killed by a flying shoe
The graphic at 6:50 says it was the SAME baby falling out of the SAME window hitting the SAME guy a year later, but Simon says it was different kids, a girl and a boy. Some people just don't know when to quit promoting an AMAZING story.
If there is one coincidence that needs to be on this list, then that is - without a doubt - the book "The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility"
Miss Unsinkable is covered in full on "Ask a Mortician." It's... quite a tale!
At that point if I saw her on my ship I'd just leave
Simon,
I’ve loved so many of your shows.
This was was fantastic. I have a new
favorite. Loved it !!! Ty
I live in Manassas, VA and the battlefield of Bull Run is right up the street from my house.
That’s pretty interesting. I would love to visit America and see the civil war battlefields.
Statistically there will always be coincidences. No need to thank me!
Yup. Even a basic grasp of probability shows you that nothing is impossible, just very improbable. It frustrates me how the superstitious view coincidences.
Some scientist remarked that it would be incredible if there were no incredible coincides.
The maddest coincidence I ever heard of was in 1975 where a 17 year old boy on a moped was hit by a taxi and killed. Amazingly his brother was killed the year before by the same taxi, the same driver, on the same moped in the same place, spooky...
@overclockeador not cool..
Plot twist: Violet was a unscrupulous naval sabatuer.
Yes. But how she smuggled that iceberg into the ocean is still a mystery.
The guy who looks just like the king definitely was murked by the same anarchist who killed the king. He thought he was right the first time.
Love these so much and you are one fly guy 💙
The RUclips narrators from like 10 different channels that all look and sound the same with the same name. AMAZING!!!
Simon. Love your channels. I know of another coincidence if you decide to do part 2. The building of Hoover Dam in Nevada was a huge, long undertaking. During the being phase a man died due to a catastrophic accident. Many years later as it was still under construction, the son of that man was working on the dam, his name was the same and there was the same accident and he died exactly the same way.
This was in this video...duh
I have really come to love watching these list, reminds me of the Book of Lists by the Wallace family back in the day and I can see Simon putting narration to them (still have a couple of the books too). Cudos the too ten team!
I do not know the guys name but by coincidence there is a man from Japan who survived both the atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Heroshima.
I’ve been to McCleans plantation I believe. It was pretty but they wouldn’t let us go upstairs
Simon is king for history information on RUclips! Who else puts on his videos at night when you go to bed? Peaceful
I've heard, in relation to tragedies involving loss of life, there instances where there are less people killed because there are less people where they would normally be. This memory was sparked by the story of the absent choir. When a train traveling from the blue mountains to Sydney Australia there were less people on the train than normal and so less people died. As I write I remember I was in an acting co. That had a play called "6:04 to eternity". The time of the train left the blue mountains that ran into the bridge at Granville a suburb of Sydney.
"You can't kill someone else to save your own life [because murder]" What is state-sanctioned war then?? o.
Hypocrisy
Hey, you realise that it's my phone's screen that gets smashed every time right? The button appears to be somehow impervious to damage..
"The most drastic measure imaginable" McDonald's?
"Cannibalism" oh. The second most drastic measure, you mean.
Videos like this are why I love this channel! Always something fun and interesting!
2:12 did anyone else get a Cabbage Guy vibe or do I need to stop watching Avatar: The Last Airbender on loop? lol!
I was waiting for the meme.
MY CABBAGES!!
Yes, I saw my double. The guy was even wearing my clothes.
Poe writes and publishes in his typical gruesome style, a story ab a shipwreck and cannibalism. Fast forward nearly 50 yrs there's a shipwreck and the men are like, "what are we going to do?!" and one of the shipmates is like, " I did read this thing in a story one time and it's a little gross but....."
I think the coincidence was also in the fact that the victim's name was the same, but... yeah :-)
Bizarre Historical Coincidences : this video comming out with THAT thumbnail barely 2 months after Puppet History did a video about the Lady ;)
Yeah, if babies keep falling on you in the course of your work you need to A) champion and inquiry into why this might be happening and reforms to correct the problem B) Start wearing an extra wide bassinet hat specifically designed to catch babies as safely as possible while you work.
The curse kills a little more than 10% of the presidents and sometimes doesn’t kill a president that should’ve died, that’s quite a curse.
I am from Illinois. I was coming home from Nebraska. Before leaving, we stopped at a Hardee's. A couple walked in shortly after us. I was focused on the menu. While we were ordering I looked at the couple behind us.
"Maggie!", I gasped. There was my former boss & her husband. They were heading to the coast on vacation. They got hungry & stopped to eat.
As large as the world is, it is a small world.
Sometimes I envision BB Simon doing his other videos. Can’t imagine the fun he would have had in this one.
What about the story of the Japanese guy who survived the bombing of Hiroshima, only to board a train and find himself in Nagasaki for the second bomb.
Street sweeper isn't a coincidence. The most interesting those kids had seen all week was a dude sweeping the street. Being little kids they naturally would have tried harder and harder to see him as he passed leading them to fall out the window.
That baby one sounds like a spoof of a nightmare. Jeez that poor guy
Edit: that poor baby
its not "doubleganger" it's doppelganger ...
Some of those are truly bizarre.
I think the weirdest thing about the Violet Jessop story is when years later she supposedly got a phone call from the baby from the Titanic, but despite the expectations of a friendly reunion, it was kind of creepy.
top 10 times anarchists effectuated cosmic balance
Are we ever going to get another edition of "True facts that sound like BS?"
Never get on a ship with Violet Jessup
Odds on for the 2020 winner........age will do it on its own.
Sales pitch in the middle of the video. Well played.
There is a book by author Mike Martell that describes bin laden's end. It was written in the late 90s.
Was the prediction accurate?
@@dannydaw59 pretty damn close, check it out. It's called seals strategic warfare.
Going from Business Blaze to literally any other simon whistler channel is so jarring
#6 Now I know where the phrase "tossing the baby out with the bath water" comes from.
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
I have friends/colleagues who swear up and down, they saw my doppelganger. One day, I was enjoying a bit of time off from work when my roommate (and co-worker) called me. I was immediately suspicious he might be trying to summon me to work...but he was not the boss, so had no such authority. So I answered, and he said "Where are you?!"
"I'm, at home, getting drunk!" I said, establishing early my inability to work.
"You been there all day?"
"Yuh"
"I swear you were just here! Not five minutes ago! But you were ordering like a customer! I was like, what the h** is he doing here? Some kina practical joke?"
EDIT: Folks say I look like Pedro Pascal (and I agree, if we were compared with him today, and me 17 years ago), and I live in a place that is commonly visited for TV and film production. Seems possible they may have seen him or a look-alike at my former place of employment, which happily catered to the public.
Virginian here! It’s actually pronounced McLAIN, even though it’s spelled McLean
One of the best videos of the channel
Did anyone notice how big that guys eyes were from the first one
haha. yes, freaked me out.
McCleans original house was dismantled after sold at auction to be rebuilt at another location. The house in Appomattox was rebuilt as a museum. We've been there.
Fort Sumter is the start of the Civil War, not Bull Run.
And? This video didn't say it was, it said Bull Run was the first major battle, not the first battle.
That is a pretty fun coincidence...even if is not 100% accurate, the guy claimed it in his family history 😂
Mark Twain the original Florida Man
Hi, just wanted to point out a small mistake. In number 4, about miss unsinkable. You said the ship the Birttanic was sunk in 1916, that puts it in WW1, not WW2.
Those are some big historical anime eyes at 2:42
That article said it was the same baby that fell both times, and Simon said it was a different baby that fell the 2nd time!
I am soo glad reagen survived that and broke that curse
we'll see what happens to Biden
Interesting. Thanks.
Violet Jessop and the RMS Brittanic were in WW1 not WW2.
Another coincidence is Bruce Lee's character in "Game of Death "dying the exact same way as his real life son Brandon...
Wonder if Richard Parker the Tiger in Life of Pi was named after the cannibalised Richard Parker..
Some of the best stuff on the interwebs these days... thx!
Such a sad boring world when we just call everything a coincidence.
I was born 3 weeks late -- don't know how a doctor lets that happen -- on Jan. 10, the same day as my half-brother who is 3 years older. We have different mothers, but are somehow identical and share a kind of twin psychic ability.
Oh my, It is HALLEY'S COMET, Rhymes w/ Sally. A 50's rock group named "Bill Haley & the Comets” wrecked the correct pronunciation ever since but let's give Sir Edmund Halley his due!
That always grates with me too. :)
Even though I know all of these stories. But I still enjoy your delivery Playboy!
This is one of those videos where hovering over the thumbnail gives you no idea of what to expect
Parker is a common name tbf. A friend of mine who died last year was called Andy Parker.
Love your narration.
The Great Fire of London started at Pudding Lane and ended at Pie Corner.
Beatrice (Nebraska) is pronounced "bee-at-triss" with stress on the 2nd syllable.
Yep
Why?.
@@johnbarber4549 Why not?
Sorry. I really don't know. This is just the way I've always heard it pronounced.
@@johnbarber4549 just how us Nebraskans decided to say it. We also have a town Norfolk that we say as Norfork. I feel like everyone has a different story of why lol
05:00 7. The Church Explosion-In an interview it was learned that no one ever arrived on time.
Actually the peer reviewed study shows that on average each of the choir members had a 1 in 4 or 25% chance of being late on any given day so still pretty crazy odds when you have a factor of fifteen!! :)
Pertaining to Tecumseh's curse. 7 presidents fall to it. In decision making natives use the 7 generation rule. So Reagan surviving makes sense. It was never broken it just ran its course.
I think someone was throwing baby's at that guy
Cant be the same baby, babies grow up. Must have been the same child, once a baby, later it fell as a toddler.
Re: The Joseph Figlock coincidence, the titles on screen say, "The SAME baby fell from the SAME window." That's not what you say happened. It was different babies, though that's coincidence enough.
Number 2 was an eerie coincidence.
Mark Twain didn't really die. The aliens who take Halley's comet out for a joyride every 75 years stopped and picked him up.
John Parr was also the name of an 80s one hit wonder.
I wish I had a nickname as cool as Miss Unsinkable.
The Bull Run guy has some creepy eyes.
I've heard about the guy who saved the children before.the parents must have been so relieved! One of my Maltese great grandfathers Emmanuel musket was a sailor who got a job as a stoker on the titanic and then the Lusitania but both times he was two hung over to get there!
Love your channel, but Appomattox was not the last battle of the Civil War, it was the last battle for the Army of Northern Virginia. There were many skirmishes fought in the following weeks.
Is it just me or does Wilmer Mclean have some unusual eyes????
Strangest is the John Adams and Thomas Jefferson who had one of the most interesting and important relationships in US History as first allies and friends, then founders of the political party system in the US and enemies, then later friends again with perhaps the most important long train of correspondence in US History. Turns out they died the same day, the 4th of July 1826 the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence whose writing and ratification they are most famous for.
Edmond Halley's surname rhymes with alley, as in cat. The Ae-lee error is due to a band call "Bill Haley and His Comets".
The comets. Not his comets.