The Most Bizarre Coincidences in History: Fate or Chance?

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[@dazzrods]

This was the worst placement for an ad at that particular point of the video! 😂

[@Bubbaist]

We have a local legend in San Diego named Jack Ridout. He was one of the survivors of the Tenerife air disaster. A year and a half later, he had a ticket for PSA 182. But because the AC was broken in the house where he was staying, he changed his ticket to the night before. The flight he missed crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, killing everyone on board and 7 people in their homes. We still call that day “The worst day in San Diego.” But Ridout wasn’t on it. If that’s not enough, he was drafted into Vietnam, but was let off after he was hit by a drunk driver on the way to recruitment.

[@paulnolan4971]

wtf man wow

[@adenkyramud5005]

Mf is a cat in a human costume... 9 fuckin lives

[@BankC6969]

WHOA AND WOW 😮

[@thegreenbee83]

He did survive being hit by the car tho? How bad were his injuries?

[@Bubbaist]

@@thegreenbee83 From what I've read he had a couple of broken bones.

[@jessica_in_japan]

One of my Japanese language professors in university was a Japanese American born in Hawaii, living there during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Her parents sent her to live with her grandparents in Japan for high school afterward (though she was treated as an outsider because she was an American citizen). She and her grandparents lived in Hiroshima, though she was lucky enough to be on errand just outside the city center when the bomb was dropped. She unluckily experienced both of those events, which is so crazy to think of. One of the kindest and most humble ladies I've ever met.

[@Enjoymentboy]

Jessops doesn't sound like she was lucky as much as she was a curse to any ship with a name that ended in "ic".

[@sammieconsalvey4448]

🤣 savage

[@christopherkelly577]

Yamaguchi San is a legend. Two Atomic bombs,in rapid succession. Bonkers 😮

[@paulc6471]

He could not be killed by man made weapons

[@RHCole]

I love weird stories like this. Bring it on, FACTBOI!

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

It's amazing that Yamaguchi lived a long life, despite being exposed from radiation from both bombs.

[@Epidombe]

Radiation is more effective on your genetics. Theres a documentary called "Babushkas of Chernobyl" that shows a group of women who never left the high-risk exclusion zone after the Chernobyl disaster. They even eat food that they grow in the radiation zone.

[@Epidombe]

@@RockBrentwood how much longer than 94 do you think he would have lived lol

[@wardarcade7452]

13:52- And one of (if not the) saddest parts of the immediate aftermath was that virtually the last words of the Archduke Ferdinand was to his dying wife Sophie, 'Sophie Dear! Sophie Dear! Don't die! Stay alive for the children!'.

[@themoojuice89]

Despite knowing lots about this event and having read about it dozens of times, this is something I never knee. Thankyou for the novel, if tragic, information.

[@seanmalloy7249]

What is more tragic is that the entire situation occurred because Archduke Ferdinand loved his wife and wanted to be seen with her. Because Sophie Chotek was not of a high enough social class, she was either excluded from Austrian social events or seated well away from the Archduke. However, in the Archduke's position as Inspector-General of the Austro-Hungarian military, he was outside of the social strictures, so in travel to inspect the troops engaged in exercises near Sarajevo, he was able to bring his wife with him. Had the social strictures of the Austro-Hungarian nobility not pushed his wife so far into the shadows, he may not have been driven to make the trip to Sarajevo so that he could be seen in public with his wife... and been exposed to Gavrilo Princip and the other conspirators. The house of cards that was the interlocking series of alliances between European countries and the utter inflexibiliity of troop deployments -- once the railroads had been retasked for the movement of troops, the plans did not allow for deployments to be stopped and drawn back -- it is virtually certain that another fuse would have lit the powderkeg to start WWI, but the Archduke would have lived to participate in it.

[@Bubbaist]

I remember a creepy coincidence that occurred 32 years ago. In 10th grade English I sat next to a girl, and had a crush on her if I’m honest, whose biological father had known Charles Manson. When Geraldo Rivera interviewed Manson that year, she told everyone about her father’s take on it. Well, two years later, she and her mother were the last two victims of serial killer Cleophus Prince, the Clairemont Killer.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:00 - Chapter 1 - The survival of tsutomu yamaguchi 2:25 - Mid roll ads 3:40 - Back to the video 4:40 - Chapter 2 - The (un)luckiest seafarers 7:35 - Chapter 3 - The 9th of november germany's day of fate 10:20 - Chapter 4 - Mexico day of earthquakes 12:10 - Chapter 5 - The sandwich that let to war

[@stardog62]

I have heard of several of these coincidence before and was glad to see them gathered together in one video, because they are some of the most amazing coincidences I have ever heard of. One I would like to see more about is the time Robert Todd Lincoln fell from the platform at the Washington D.C. train station and would have been killed by the oncoming train, except for at the last second he was pulled from the tracks by the brother of John Wilkes Booth.

[@nicholasmartin787]

My great granddad was a stoker from Hong Kong, first on a merchant ship - The Agamemnon - and then for the royal navy, he survived two separate torpedo sinkings.

[@GhostOfSnuffles]

Mexico "i should do an earthquake drill today" Tectonic plates "I'll do my part!"

[@Streamedrevolution]

Earthquake “this is not a drill”

[@nbarnes6225]

I cannot belive that nurse got on the third boat. I'd never get on any boat ever again. What a bamf.

[@polumathes9729]

One of the most interesting coincidences for me as a Jew has always been the frequent appearance of the Tisha B’Av, or the ninth day of the Hebrew month Av, in our tragedies. Both the first and second Temple were destroyed in this date, the Bar Kokhba Revolt was crushed on this date, the Jews were expelled from England in this date (and from France the day after and from Spain two days before), and the so-called “Final Solution” was received formal approval on this date.

[@anthonydavid5121]

I am also Jewish and the 9th of Av is indeed one looked at with suspicion. The surf in Israel is differnt on this day and many won't go into the sea, except me of course, and what happenend. I got stung by medusot, which ic Hebrew for jellyfish!!!! (for those who dont know, the 9th of Av is around the 8 and 9th of August)

[@DarkKnight52365]

reality can sometimes be stranger then fiction

[@qlqnen]

than*

[@MrDan708]

One of the saddest cases of people dying who deserved a better fate involved an American riverboat called Sultana. Right after the Civil War ended, it was assigned to carry a group of Union soldiers who had survived the Confederate prison camps in Cahaba, Alabama and the infamous Andersonville, Georgia. The ship had three of its four boilers explode which led to it sinking near Memphis, Tennessee. Casualty counts vary, but at least 1100 of the Sultana's 2100+ passengers died.

[@TauGDS]

the sandwich detail of the story comes from a 90s Argentinian fiction book if I remember right, still baffles me how it gets perpetuated unquestioned despite so many historians telling people there's no evidence for it

[@nelliethursday1812]

The Archduke's driver took a wrong turn after the first attempt on his life failed the wrong turn lead to someone coming out of a coffee shop at just the right time

[@chrisbutler1668]

Yes, Princip wasn't in a delicatessen eating a sandwich. He was on the street laying in wait because the assassans' were aware of their return route. The car stalled right in front of him. The myth was perpetuated by the novel "Twelve Fingers" from 2001.

[@Adrian-zd4cs]

Damn. The Mexico earthquake story is definitely creepy! Nature is scary and apparently checks her calendar!

[@JoshuaLittke]

Thanks for all the hard work you and your team put in

[@Strider91]

So, what your telling me is. . . Mexico is getting better, after each drill the casualties are decreasing! Good job Mexico 🇲🇽

[@darkwynggryph]

We’re so badass we get tested on our earthquake drill knowledge with the real thing shortly afterwards 😂 (Ok no, but seriously, thank the authorities for the national seismic drill, and the seismic alert system)

[@Ensign_Nemo]

May 31 is the day with the worst history of bad weather in Pennsylvania. In 1985 the worst tornado outbreak of the decade killed 90 people and injured over 1000, as 44 tornadoes touched down, including the only F5 tornado ever to hit Pennsylvania, and seven F4 tornadoes. One F4 was two and a half miles wide and was on the ground for 69 miles. In 1889 the South Fork Dam failed at Johnstown after heavy rains, releasing almost 4 billion gallons of water, killing 2208 people and doing over half a billion dollars in damage, in current dollars.

[@iTeerRex]

Lighting does strike twice. At my brothers yard, the same poor tree got hit twice, and there were lots of other trees and structures around it too, and it wasn’t the tallest either 🤷‍♂️

[@sadmermaid]

It truly is actually so common lol

[@Between_Scylla_and_Kharybdis]

If lightning didn’t strike more than once in the same spot, lightning rods would be single use

[@iTeerRex]

@@Between_Scylla_and_Kharybdis Well rods are designed specifically to do this.

[@danoliver7044]

Also rods are designed to attract lightning strikes so that, for example, other parts of a churches roof or steeple don't get hit instead

[@tremorsfan]

The funny thing is that Yamaguchi's co workers didn't believe him when he told him it was just one bomb. Also, the sandwich story is a myth. Sandwiches were not popular in Bosnia at the time.

[@charlesdalton985]

Came here to write the same about Yamaguchi.

[@alexlubbers1589]

Heres another good one. "Cyclone Day" A town in Kansas was hit by a tornado 3 years in a row, on the exact same date each time. From then on, May 20th is now known as "Cyclone Day".

[@baddreams0919]

Here in mexico some universities actually started investigating the relation between the september month and the earthquakes

[@mikenco]

This is one of your best videos, in my HO. I love the music snippets you use to introduce each chapter.

[@jbw53191]

I was in the third earthquake in Mexico in 2022. Being that it was my first earthquake, it was a very strange experience.

[@pamelamays4186]

My older brother was in Germany when the Wall fell. He gifted a few pieces of the Wall to our Mom.

[@PatrickMersinger]

I like videos like this. I had heard the first story before. History has many odd stories to report.

[@littlemissgwendolen1466]

I adore the story of Violet Jessop. She also wrote a memoir (Titanic Survivor) which is amazing and really worth a read.

[@Iamthelolrus]

When i saw the title i immediately thought of Tsutomo Yamaguchi's story. Whats the chance of that? lol

[@thepakistanipotato]

Give this man a moment and soon simon will be running every channel on youtube

[@North_West1]

Doesn’t he already. Well with the help in his basement.

[@pooryorick831]

In the SF Bay area we have the great coincidence of a major earthquake striking the region just as its two baseball teams were about to play each other in the 1989 World Series. Seeing both the Oakland A's and the San Francisco Giant get to the series in the same year was a big coincidence. Having a strong earthquake right in the middle of it was truly uncanny. The ironic thing is that the freeways and bridges that collapsed had much lighter traffic than usual because people went home early to watch the game on TV. So thearthquake happening right at the start of the game made for fewer casualties. The timing spared lives. 👍🏻🙂✌🏻

[@UltravioletRabbit]

Damn that ad placement was in such bad taste, mid sentence about one of the harshest moments in human history and cutting to advertisement crap

[@jsl151850b]

*In 2001 or so, my car's battery failed....while I was in the parking lot of Interstate Batteries of Goshen, NY.*

[@CK_Loves_Tea]

It makes you wonder just how many lives have been saved by doing nation-wide earthquake drills. Good job, Mexico.

[@Aloh-od3ef]

If you look at the left side of the building. In the picture at 2.10. You can see the wall outside the building, it was straight. But it has been pushed towards the building by the force of the explosion! The blast continued, pushed the outside wall in. Also managed to curve the wall inside the building!!

[@SiriSayWhat]

I’ve watched all your videos 😊 all 6,872 videos my brain box thanks you

[@Jesse-cw5pv]

There's 8 billion on earth. 1 in a billion coincidences happen 8 times a day

[@Between_Scylla_and_Kharybdis]

I’m not sure it works that way…

[@Jesse-cw5pv]

@@Between_Scylla_and_Kharybdis The law of averages says that yes it does. With 8 billion people, on average 8 people have a 1 in a billion experience every day

[@Between_Scylla_and_Kharybdis]

@@Jesse-cw5pv yeah; doesn’t work like that. The law of averages would also say that there’s a 50/50 chance of a coin landing on heads or tails and yet, it’s closer to 51/49 Something considered common to someone on one side of the planet could be impossible for someone elsewhere. How do you average that?

[@Jesse-cw5pv]

@@Between_Scylla_and_Kharybdis Bro I'm talking about 1 in a billion experience in general, if you have 1 billion people, on average one person will have a 1 in a billion experience every day. That's just common sense. Im not talking about a specific experience like eaten by a shark, because not everyone goes swimming in the ocean so clearly not everyone has a chance to be eaten by one. I'm talking about general coincidences. And you're actually trying to say the law averages are wrong because a coin a slightly higher chance of landing on the side it started facing up? Like okay let's say it is 49/51, then the law of averages says it will even out to 49/51. The law of averages also say if something has a 1 in a billion chance, on average it will happen once a day if you have a billion people. Might not happen every day, might happen a couple times a day, but average, that is EXACTLY how it works. I think it's funny your argument is 'a coin is actually 51/49' like that has anything to do with people having coincidental experiences.

[@Jesse-cw5pv]

@@Between_Scylla_and_Kharybdis since you're really struggling to comprehend this concept that most middle school students would instantly understand, let's use a different analogy that even some of my slower students would understand..... Let's say we give everyone a 1 billion-sided dice and had them roll it every day. On average 8 people would roll a 1 every day. Some days you might have no one roll a 1, some days you might have 20 people roll a 1. But on average, over enough time, there would be 8 people rolling a 1 every day. That is the law of averages. And every day every person rolls many, many, metaphorical dice with their unique experiences. People having different experience does not change anything, a fisherman in china can have a 1 in a billion experience, so can 9 year old in Canada, and an old man in Africa. It just means different coincidences can happen. If you cant understand that then you would fail a middle school math class

[@thelastorca]

What I learnt from this video: Ships sink a lot; you need to be close to a nuclear explosion to survive it.

[@heathergarnham9555]

Isn't Mexico City built on an old dry lake bed and is structurally unsound?

[@simonwyndham]

There’s an informal club for surviving two atomic bombs. Their stories would be worth a video on its own.

[@Svensk7119]

There's only one guy in it...

[@davidioanhedges]

"while he was being told by his supervisor that he was "crazy" after describing how one bomb had destroyed the city, the Nagasaki bomb detonated" ... The *most* I told you so moment in history Get her name right ... Violet Constance Jessop (Not Jessops)

[@sothere1]

Quick note - the Richter scale hasn't been used for about 40 years, we use the M scale now and refer to quakes as "Magnitude 7.5" etc - the measurements are different, I assume the number you gave was magnitude scale not Richter scale.

[@dazzrods]

This was the worst placement for an ad at that particular point of the video! 😂

[@cxzact9204]

Okay, you just completely glossed over the craziest part of the Yamaguchi story: the fact that trains were running THE DAY AFTER the bomb hit Hiroshima. That is some insanity that shows what the Japanese people are made of.

[@je25ff]

Nice segue to the ad...atomic destruction, blind, crawling...HEY here's an ad. LOL

[@NightridingDoom]

the worst part about crystal nacht: the name is from kistallöö, the day that estonians revolted against their german occupiers. their revolt was brutally put down, but not before multiple buildings, including a monastery was taken down. but the name was removed from estonian history books after the horrors of germany and replaced with jüriöö ülestõus. it did happen on 23rd of april, but it is very interesting how one mans actions can literally change the history

[@fullmetalf4i]

Hearing Simon talk about the Titanic I have to give a quick plug to the "Titanic with Zombies" audio book narrated excellently by Simon (we even get his southern american woman voice).

[@benjamindeh873]

How dare you make a video about surviving multiple sunken ships without including the mighty unsinkable Sam? x)

[@simonkenna1990]

Does anyone one else think Simon records all the advertisements in one sitting and just swaps out his clothes 🤔.

[@douglasw9624]

Not historical but odd. My parents moved into a new home when I was a young boy. Three house down was a house whose first 4 owners had some misfortune befall them. Owners in order: 1) first owner of the home had just passed his test to become a doctor when he and his young son were killed in a small plane crash; 2) one of owners children got cancer and had a leg amputated; 3) owner was on vacation in Idaho, hit a patch of black ice. His vehicle slid sideways into another vehicle killing his son, 4) Owners were going to their children's school open house and were hit by a car (both survived). All of this happened in the course of about 15-20 years. Dont know if anything bad happened to later owners as it has now been 50 years and the house appears dilapidated in a neighborhood of nice homes. Not superstitious but I'm not sure I'd buy that home.

[@ssokolow]

The law of truly large numbers is truly an astounding thing.

[@pamelamays4186]

Yamaguchi. A true survivor legend.

[@zovaynezovanyari5442]

One my favorite coincidences is John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (2nd & 3rd US presidents) died on 7-4-1826, exactly 50 years after they signed the declaration of independence 7-4-1776.

[@loristephens3016]

The Spanish decided to build their capital city where the Aztecs had a major city. On a lake bed. A very bad decision. I don't remember the year, but an earthquake struck the west coast of Mexico. The energy from the quake traveled eastward and caused the soil under Mexico city to liquify. It also set up harmonic tremors in many of the tallest buildings. I guess you could say that the Atzec's got their revenge.

[@Svensk7119]

Seventy years passed from Robert Blum's execution to the fall of the Kaiser. What happened on that day in between?

[@RedfishCarolina]

This isn't the strangest Titanic coincidence. Look up the book "Wreck of the Titan", written barely a few decades prior to the Titanic. A ship over 800ft long named the Titan scrapes an iceburg, sinking in the North Atlantic, in April, with woefully too few life boats. The Titanic was over 800 feet, hit an iceburg in the same way, and sank with too few life boats.

[@heathergarnham9555]

Now a sub called Titan has disappeared while investigating Titanic, full circle

[@RedfishCarolina]

@@heathergarnham9555 wow. Man this is terrible!

[@heathergarnham9555]

@RedfishCarolina it's very sad, it just disappeared and noone knows what happened

[@joewillis3125]

Can't help but notice you neglected to mention Uncle Albert :)

[@exactinmidget92]

im mexican and my mom was devastated with the last earthquake. i mean what are the odds of the same thing happening in the same place on the same day and the same time.

[@DJAUDIO1]

11:45 Michoacan is pronounced "Meech-wah-khan". Great videi, neverthelesw, Simon. ❤

[@issyf9589]

I feel like you could put the surf shark ad somewhere more respectfully placed in video 😢

[@DabbleDo]

I love Simon’s Island of Lost Video Topics

[@ericshepherd5672]

Two things, first the worst job on steam ship isn't the stoker it's the trimmer.. It's the trimmers job to climb into the coal bunkers and ensure the supply of coal to the shoot where the stokers can get to it isn't interrupted.. Secondly the estimated death toll for WW2 is not 20 million it's 70 million..

[@celebrityrog]

Heres another bizzare coincidence.... This video was released 3 days ago, mentions the Titanic disaster... Low and behold another Titanic disaster is unfolding as we speak. A submarine has been lost at the Titanic wreck site, with 5 people on board. Coincidence?

[@josephgillmer10]

My coincidence - I almost always look up at a clock at 12:34 - day or night, for, literally, decades. Truth us, it's a time that catches my attention, as I don't notice the other 100 times looking at a clock, but it does feel weird when I see the 12:34 again

[@australien6611]

Thats a habit not a coincidence.

[@josephgillmer10]

@@australien6611 solid point. It's a pernicious habit when it come during the witching hour.

[@ExestentialCrisis]

I see 10:13 almost every day. AM or PM, or on my speedometer or a page in a book or the amount of a receipt. It's very odd.

[@angelitabecerra]

Same. But for me the time is 7:04

[@ixiairisborne1695]

"That all you got, USA? A paltry two nukes?! Hah!"

[@minervacuervo4662]

I cannot explain to you how traumatic the 1985 earthquake was to Mexico City inhabitants.

[@photosbyjf]

june, 8 1980 Evansville, IN 100 mph straight line winds whipped thru town taking out many of the city's large trees power was out for more than a week for some of us. 13 yrs later, June 8, 1993 the same type of storms with 100 mph winds hit us again.

[@aidanmargarson8910]

I wonder if the underlying issue is a lack of understanding of what Random actually means?

[@glennl5375]

While it's true that the sandwich did start ww1, the fact is that tensions in Europe were so high at the time that it didn't have to be a sandwich. It could have been a pretzel.

[@mikewhitfield2994]

LMAO +1

[@chrisbutler1668]

It's not true, it's a work of fiction. Princip wasn't in a delicatessen eating a sandwich. He was on the street laying in wait because the assassans' were aware of their return route. The car stalled right in front of him. The myth was perpetuated by the novel "Twelve Fingers" from 2001.

[@Galamoth06]

I was expecting a fun little video about coincidences, but it was pretty much just a list of disasters and atrocities.

[@micheleupchurch3725]

thank you!❤

[@develdomex]

Déjà vu I can absolutely swear I seen this video before

[@sammieconsalvey4448]

I think he's just definitely talked about all of these before but yeah I was thinking the same

[@djbarratt]

It's either been re-uploaded or full sections of it were in another video a few weeks back.

[@user-ib5mx8ro4k]

I want him to say, “Hello, my name is John Malkovich.”

[@willadeefriesland5107]

Something to ponder when eating at a Subway sandwich shop...

[@M-_-O]

0:42 “Stories that make no sense and seem to bend the very rules of our world” Shows a cold cuts sandwich with onions on it 😂 Yes I watched the whole video but that initial incongruous juxtaposition was very funny to me for some reason. Also I thought you’d include the couple of people who was struck by lightning several times in their life (and in one case, after life).

[@alysdexia]

were

[@murrayscott9546]

Jessop must have been a hit on those cruise-liers ! Scored a seat at The Captain's Table often for those stories !

[@Sarutulf_Lertimud]

Princip was actually having a shwarma!

[@sariahmarier42]

I remember watching the Berlin Wall come down live. It was a Big Deal

[@gendo1123]

So if I'm in Mexico on 19/9 and there is a earthquake drill I should try to get to the middle of nowhere where there is no builds?

[@aidangriffin7892]

The assassination of Franz Ferdinand itself did not cause World War 1, but rather the belief among the Austro-Hungarian government that elements of the Serbian government were behind his assassination. So, in response, Austria-Hugary sent Serbia a list of ultimatums they knew Serbia would refuse, and when Serbia did, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia and World War 1 began.

[@MF-zj3zl]

I thought it started when a bloke named Archie Duke shot an ostrich because he was hungry.

[@Paigeofmaces]

@@MF-zj3zl The poor ostrich died for nothing

[@BryanTTga]

Ironic a video about the titanic right before the Titan was lost

[@desperado8605]

Sail heck I wouldn't get on a car with that Stoker

[@kieronparr3403]

Imagine Brain Blaze Simon ripping this apart

[@enigma51ted]

OMG - this is gonna make me lose sleep tonight :O

[@zephyer-gp1ju]

I have heard historians say that the sandwich story isn't true.

[@BankC6969]

Yamaguchi was definitely something amazing!

[@Foxhound141_67]

Lighting on the titanic does indeed strike twice

[@sixmonkeys4796]

Ofc he was uninjured by the 2nd blast. Everybody knows the same attack won't work twice on a Gold Saint.

[@Sir_Uncle_Ned]

You'd think Mexico would stop holding earthquake drills on September 19

[@angelitabecerra]

Probably has saved many lives. You might have notice that their death count from earthquakes on each of those dates has fallen dramatically from the one before

[@steadfastandyx4947]

Mr Priest was spared as because how many others would do his job.

[@user-ib5mx8ro4k]

I want him to say, “My name is John Malkovich.”

[@globalrevolution]

I was offered November 9th as date for our wedding but firmly declined, even if it was the last saturday available that year.

[@nunyobidness2358]

Proof there is a god... and he hates Tsutomu Yamaguci

[@mathieuleader8601]

I learnt first about Yamaguchi from a cutaway from Family Guy

[@dewiz9596]

9 November, 1963. . . We dropped an engine on my foot, crushing it. 13 days later, as JFK was assassinated, I was informed I had a gangrenous toe, resulting its amputation. . .

[@KesMonkey]

You misunderstand what "coincidence" means. A coincidence is when two or more similar things happen at the same time.

[@martinstallard2742]

0:54 the survival of Tsutomu Yamagutchi 3:42 end of sponsorship 4:35 the (un)luckiest seafarers 7:29 the 9th of November Germany's day of fate 10:18 Mexico's day of earthquakes 12:03 the sandwich that lead to war