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Description: From Mark Twain's comet to a man being struck by lighting several times, here are 12 Incredible Coincidences that Defy Logic. Subscribe to Knowledge Feed for awesome mysteries, discoveries, fun topics and all around AWESOME videos! 7. Bullet Time It’s hard to believe this story and as it can’t be confirmed that’s easily a route you could take here. But Ripley’s Believe it or Not published the story as fact and it’s all around the internet so here it is. Henry Ziegland of Honey Grove, Texas broke up with his sweetheart in 1893. His heartbroken lover decided to take her own life. That woman’s brother approached Ziegler bent on revenge and with a heart full of rage. He attempted to even the score with a gun and thought he had struck his foe with a fatal blow. Satisfied that his deed was done he turned the gun on himself. But he had missed his mark, only grazing Ziegland while the bullet had become imbedded in a nearby tree. Years later in 1913 Ziegland was landscaping and decided to cut the tree that contained the wayward bullet. Having a tough time he decided to use dynamite, which dislodged the bullet and sent it flying directly into his head, killing him instantly. 6. Poe’s Prophecy Best remembered for his poems and short works Edgar Allan Poe wrote one complete novel called The Narrative of Arthur Pym of Nantucket. In one part of the story four sailors find themselves shipwrecked and with nothing to eat resort to sacrificing one, Richard Parker for sustenance. To be sure it’s not one of Poe’s more famous works, but it’s remembered for its eerie similarities to the story of the yawl Mignonette, which in 1884 foundered. It’s four survivors were stranded for many days before the three senior members ate the cabin boy whose name just so happened to be Richard Parker. Apparently this crazy coincidence inspired Yann Martel to name the stranded tiger in his famous novel Life of Pi Richard Parker. 5. Nic Cage is a Vampire There are plenty of celebrity doppelgangers floating around on the internet but this one involving Nicolas Cage may be the best of them all. Rumors abound when this photo of a Civil War era man that bore a striking resemblance to the current day actor surfaced on the internet. Either it’s an incredible coincidence, the man is a relative of Cage’s or Cage is a vampire. It’s also possible that he’s a time traveler just for the record. 4. Twin Fates Throughout their lives those around twins John and Arthur Mowforth noted that what happened to one brother usually happened to the other. Unfortunately nothing could confirm this better than the ways they perished. On May 22, 1975 both experienced severe chest pain and died of heart attacks at precisely the same moment in hospitals that were one hundred miles away from each other. At the time neither them nor any of their family members realized the incredible, unfortunate coincidence that was happening. 3. Booth Saves Lincoln One of the most infamous moments in American history came on April 14, 1865 when John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre during the play Our American Cousin. Though no one was thinking about it at the time the assassination was the bookend to an incredible coincidence. Sometime shortly before the murder took place Lincoln’s son Robert was at a train station when he fell off of a platform and into the path of an oncoming train. Before he could be fatally struck a man grabbed him by the collar and back onto the safety of the ledge. Looking up Robert saw that his hero was none other than Edwin Booth, John’s brother. Edwin for his part had been a huge Lincoln supporter, a stance which drove a wedge between he and his infamous brother. 2. Lightning Man Though Guinness won’t acknowledge it in their records due to a lack of evidence South Carolina man Melvin Roberts claims that he was struck by lightning not once, not twice not even seven times, but a full eleven times, and all in the period of a dozen years. Roberts backs his claims with medical records, multiple exit wounds and the negative cumulative effects of the strikes which include memory and speech difficulty. The strikes, according to Roberts are akin to being cooked inside out and took his sense of taste for many days each time. 1. Vienna Hosts the Future The year was 1913, the city, Vienna, the capital of Austria. In a coincidence of epic proportions huge figures that would shape the coming century all lived within its borders for very different reasons. Sigmund Freud, a well established psychoanalyst lived and practised within a section called Berggasse. Josip Broz, who would go on to gain fame as Yugoslavian leader Marshal Tito was, at the time working in a Daimler automobile factory. Two revolutionaries, Lean Trotsky and Joseph Stalin were on the run. Finally a failed painter was living in a doss-house near the Danube who would eventually become known the world over as German fuhrer Adolf Hitler.