Post by WitchBoy on May 16, 2002 10:37:16 GMT -5
There are enough weird theories surrounding president john f Kennedy to fill an entire bookshelf, but one of the more amusing is that he was connected to president Lincoln, by unusual synchronicity.
The first, and most simple observation, is that both the names Lincoln and Kennedy have 7 letters, while Lincoln was shot in a theatre, and his assassin ran into a warehouse, the opposite happened to Kennedy, lee Harvey Oswald, shot from a warehouse and then ran to a theatre. Another coincidence is that president Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy, while president Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln.
After their assassinations, both were replaced as presidents by men named Johnson.
On the 5th of December 1664, a ship sank in the menai strait off the coast of Wales. On December 5th 1785, another ship sank in the same place. On the 5th December 1866, a third ship sank there as well. In each case there was only one survivor, and each time he was called Hugh Williams.
On a June night in 1930, police patrolman Allan Falby, from Texas, had a car crash and ruptured an artery in his leg. The bleeding was so severe that he would have died if it weren’t for the intervention of a passer-by called Alfred Smith. He applied a tourniquet to Falby’s leg and saved him.
Five years later, when Falby was back on the beat, he was called to the scene of a car crash. There, he found a man with a ruptured artery in his leg. It was Alfred Smith, the same man who had recurred him before in identical circumstances.
A topical coincidence comes from Arthur Koestler who tells of a man who was on the bridge of a ship in 1939 at the exact spot where the titanic sank. Something told him to stop the ship. He did. Ahead a giant iceberg loomed out of the darkness, the ship was damaged, but not sunk. Its name was the Titanian.
The great American writer of sea stories, Morgan Robertson, wrote a novel called ‘futility’ in 1898 about a great ship, which was struck, in the Atlantic by an iceberg on her maiden voyage. The ship was called the Titan.
On 26th November 1911, three men were hanged at Greenberry Hill in London after being convicted of the murder of Sir Edmund Berry. Their names were Green, Berry, and Hill.
Erskine Lawrence Ebbin and his brother Neville both died, exactly a year apart, at the age of 17.
They were both riding the same moped in Bermuda, which was hit by the same taxi, which was carrying the same passenger, on the same street.
