1. In 1979, the magazine Germany - Das Besteran - held a writing contest.
Readers sent in unusual stories, but must be based on a true story.
The winner, Walter Kellner of Munich, eventually won the race and the story published.
He writes about when he flew Cessna 421 between Sardinia and Sicily. The plane experienced a problem at sea, landed on the water, he finally awash with emergency floats quite a while before finally rescued.
This story was read by an Austrian, also named Walter Kellner, who accused the German Kellner had plagiarized the story . Austrian Kellner said that he flew a Cessna 421 over the same sea, experienced engine trouble, and finally had landed in Sardinia. So basically, it's the same story, but with a different ending.
The magazine checked both the truth of their story, and dua2nya was correct, almost exactly the same.
2. On July 28, 1900, Italian King Umberto I to dinner at a restaurant in the city of Monza. It was the restaurant owner exactly as the king's face. The name of the owner of the restaurant was also Umberto, and his wife's name is also the same as the name of the queen, even the restaurant was opened on the same date with the inauguration of the king.
The restaurant owner Umberto was shot dead the next day. Similarly, King Umberto.
3. Volbonne kill Baron Claude de Tarazone Rodemire from France in 1872. 21 years earlier, the Baron's father has been murdered as well by someone else who is also named Claude Volbonne
4. On 13 February 1746, a Frenchman, Jean Marie Dubarry, was executed for having killed his father.
Exactly 100 years later, on February 13, 13, a Frenchman too, also named Jean Marie Dubarry, was executed - also for the murder of his father.
5. On November 26, 1911, three men were hanged at Greenberry Hill in London after being convicted of the murder of Sir Edmund Berry. Name three of them, among others, Green, Berry and Hill.
6. British actor Anthony Hopkins delighted when he got the lead role in a film based on a book called The Girl From Petrovka written by George Feifer. A few days after signing the contract, Hopkins went to London to buy the book. He tried several bookshops, but there is nothing to sell. While waiting for the train home in Leicester Square, he saw a book lying on a chair waiting. Miraculously, it turns out that the book The Girl From Petrovka. Apparently it did not happen to stop there.
Two years later, while filming in Vienna, Hopkins was visited by George Feifer, author of the book.
Feifer mentioned that he lost his own book. He lent his books - with some notes his own handwriting - to his friend, who then lost the book somewhere in London. With astonishment, Hopkins gave Feifer the book he found. 'This is the book? " he asked, 'with notes in the margins? " It's the same book.
7. A British officer, Major Summerford, while fighting in the Flanders region in February 1918 fell from his horse because of lightning and he became paralyzed from the waist down. Summerford retired and moved to Vancouver.
One day in 1924, when he was fishing on the riverbank, a lightning struck the tree where he was sitting and paralyzing the right side of the body. Two years later Summerford was sufficiently recovered and was able to walk in the park. And he was berjalan2 in the garden in the summer in 1930 when a lightning struck her again, and finally permanently incapacitate. He died two years later. But the lightning seems to have not been satisfied and still after him. Four years later, during a storm, lightning struck the cemetery and destroyed a tombstone. Who is buried under a gravestone? Major Summerford
8. In 1899 a lightning killed a man as he stood in his backyard in Taranto, Italy. 30 years later, his son died in the same way in the same place. On 8 October 1949, Rolla Primarda, grandson of the first victims and the children of the second victim, a victim of the third.
9. Ziegland Henry thought he had managed to escape from his destiny. In 1883, he broke with his girlfriend.
Because stress the girl later committed suicide. Laki2 girl's brother was so angry that he chased and shot him Ziegland.
The man once thought he had killed Ziegland, used his gun to kill himself. But Ziegland not dead yet. Bullets, it turns out just scratching his face and lodged in a tree. Ziegland so convinced that he is a lucky man.
But a few years later, Ziegland decided to cut down the tree, which still have bullets in it. The task seems difficult, so he decided to blow it up with some dynamite.
The blast threw a bullet to the head and killed him Ziegland
10. The story of identical twins who live together usually almost as stunning, but perhaps none can equal the story of two identical twins who were born in Ohio. The twin brothers separated at birth, adopted by different families.
Although not knowing each other, two different families who share their name James. And the coincidence has not stopped it at that. Both James grew up not knowing each other, but both are looking for training law-enforcement training, both had the same ability in mechanical drawing and carpentry, and they were both married women named Linda.
They both had sons, one named James Alan and one son named James Allan. Both twin brothers also divorced their wives and married other women - who are both named Betty. And they both had dogs named Toy.
Forty years after they separated, both twins were reunited, and then share their life stories that were similar to each other (Source: Reader's Digest, January 1980)
11. In the 19th century, the famous horror writer, Egdar Allan Poe, wrote a book called 'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym'.
The book tells of four people who survived the crash at sea, they were on the ship in open sea for days before finally they decided to kill and eat the cabin officer named Richard Parker.
A few years later, in 1884, a ship, Mignonette, sank. Survivors only 4 people, who are in a small boat for days. Then known, the more senior crew members, kill and eat the cabin staff.
The name of the officer's cabin Richard Parker
12. In 2002, two men 70-year-old twin brothers died within the same hour on the same path but different accidents in Finland.
twin brother died when he was hit by a train lorry while he was riding his bike in Raahe, 600 kilometers from Helsinki.
He died only 1.5 km from the place where his brother was killed. "This is really a coincidence worth remembering.
Although the course is quite dense, but accidents do not happen every day, "
police officer Marja-Leena Huhtala told Reuters in an interview "I got goose bumps when I knew they were brothers and identical twins. I got to thinking maybe that's up there had a plan for this. "(Source: BBC News)
13. Joseph Aigner was a portrait painter in the 19th century in Austria who seems a man who is not happy.
He attempted suicide several times. The first time, at age 18 he tried to hang himself, but was prevented by the presence of a mysterious Capuchin monk.
The time was 22 years old he tried to hang himself again, but he was rescued by a monk lagi2 same.
Eight years later, he submitted to the gallows because of his political activities.
Once again, his life was saved by the intervention of the same monk. At age 68, Aiger finally managed to commit suicide, this time using a pistol.
funeral was led by the same Capuchin monk - a man who even Aiger just never knew his name. (Source: Ripley's Giant Book of Believe It or Not!)
14. In 1858, Robert Fallon was shot dead by playmates pokernya.
Fallon, according to them, have won $ 600 by cheating. Once the position Fallon empty and no one player was willing to take the money $ 600 a full misfortune, they then found a new player to replace Fallon and gave the money of the dead $ 600 to be at stake.
When the police arrived to investigate the murder, that the new player has double the money $ 600 so $ 2.200.
The police requested that $ 600 was given to descendants of the original Fallon - and apparently the new player was Fallon's son, who had never met his father for 7 years! (Source: Ripley's Giant Book of Believe It or Not
15. When Norman Mailer began his novel Barbary Shore, he does not plan to use a Russian spy as a character in his novel. But while he writes, he began to introduce a Russian spy as a minor character. The more he wrote, the spy became the dominant character. After the novel was completed, the U.S. Immigration Service arrested a man who lived one floor above Mailer in the same apartment.
He was Colonel Rudolf Abel, who was suspected of spying for the Russian working class in the U.S. at that time. (Source: Science Digest)
16. In 1920, three Englishman were traveling by train through Peru.
By the time they met, only those in the room. Their introduction they never imagined before.
The first man's name finally Bingham, and the second man's name eventually Powell. The third man was named Bingham Powell.
The three of them are not related at all.
17. In 1975, while riding a motorcycle in Bermuda, a man was accidentally hit by a death of a taxi.
One year later, the older brother of this man laki2 die the same way. In fact, he was riding the same bike.
Not only that, he was also hit by the same taxi driver, even the taxi was carrying passengers the same!
18. 1950 in the town Nebraska 15 choir members should gather in the church at 7:20, in his late sekalit they rarely, almost never, tp they all came late in the day for various reasons, tiba2 course at 7:25, church were destroyed was hit by a plane. 15 people survived a coincidence that an
19. In 1976 an infant fell from the 14th floor and landed in the arms of a British man named Joseph Figlock, a year later, an infant fell from the same floor, and re-saved by Joseph Figlock
20. A Dutch woman finding her own ring that has long gone, the potatoes who want to eat it, the possibility of the ring falls into the potato fields and eventually in potato
Sources: kaskus.us
