5 Bizarre Historical Events: Historians have uncovered countless odd, unexpected, and downright unusual events that seem too crazy to be true. History doesn’t just revolve around monarchs, conflicts, and dates; people throughout time have practiced bizarre customs, caused horrifying incidents, and experienced astonishing coincidences. These strange events remind us that life can often be stranger than fiction. So, get ready to explore five bizarre historical events that might make you question everything you thought you knew about the past.

1. Separated Twins Live The Same Life:

The Jim twins, separated at birth, reunited at the age of 39 and discovered striking similarities. Both Jims worked in security. Each married and divorced a woman named Linda, then married a woman named Betty. They shared the same voice and had crooked smiles. They both suffered from severe headaches, loved woodworking, and left love notes around the house for their wives.

2. Man Who Survied Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombings:

The only individual known to have survived both atomic blasts, Tustomu Yamaguchi, was severely burned when the United States launched the first bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Amazingly, he went back to his homeland of Nagasaki just three days after the second explosion.

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3. An author who predicted the Titanic Sinking:

Morgan Robertson published his novella Futility in 1898, telling the story of the “unsinkable” Titan that sinks after hitting an iceberg. Fourteen years later, the Titanic met the same tragic fate. Robertson’s fictional story eerily foreshadowed one of history’s worst maritime disasters, as both ships shared striking similarities; they were nearly the same size, sank in April, and lacked enough lifeboats.

4. Startling Coincidence of Hawking’s Death:

Two centuries after Galileo’s death, on January 8, 1943, Stephen Hawking was born. He died on March 14, 2018. He passed away on Pi Day and Albert Einstein’s 139th birthday, aligning himself with two of the greatest scientists in history.

5. A woman who survived 3 ship disasters:

In the early 1900s, ship stewardess Violet Jessop miraculously survived three major maritime disasters. In 1911, she was on board the Olympic when it crashed. The following year, she escaped the sinking Titanic by boarding a lifeboat. In 1916, she jumped from a lifeboat being pulled toward the Britannic’s propellers and survived that disaster as well. She lived to the age of eighty-three, and people remember her as the “unsinkable” woman.

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