Beyond Coincidence (33 page)

Lawless and Lynch (lawyers)

Lawrence, Arthur

Lennon, John

Lennon, Julian

Leo and Me
(Canadian sitcom)

and early-onset Parkinson's disease

LeRoy, Mervyn

Lewis, David

lighting strikes

as a jinx

odds of being struck

and
The Passion of Christ

surviving

Lincoln, Abraham

John F. Kennedy, similarities with

Lincoln, Mary Todd

Lindsey, Robert

literature

doppelgängers in

Living to Tell the Tale
(Marquez)

Loch Ness monster

Loffert, Dan

Loffert, Mark

Loffert, Ralph

Loffert, Rebecca

Loffert, Todd

Long, Michael

Lord of the Rings
(Tolkien)

Louis XIV, King of France

“Love Me Tender” (song)

Lovell, Mrs. Willard

luck

antique plane part

bank robber

a charmed life

Empire State Building, survivor of B52 bomber crash

gambling

heart attack on transatlantic flight

lot maps

lottery

The Passion of Christ,
lightening strike during filming

rescue at sea

scholarship examination

Fred and Rosemary West, victims of

Luck Factor, The
(Wiseman)

“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” (Lennon song)

as a reference to LSD

Macbeth
(Shakespeare)

McClashan, Alan

McCready, Bill

MacDonald, Kenny

McKay, Brendan

McMann, Douglas

McVeigh, Timothy

Madrid

bombings in

Mailer, Norman

Mandel, Mike

Mann, Thomas

Mansfield, Jayne

manuscript

return of a lost

Maracic, Chris

Maracic, Ila Manner

Maracic, Kari

Maria del Pozzo della Cisterno, Princess

maritime incidents

Herald of Free Enterprise
disaster

Mermaid,
crew and passengers of

Mignonette,
cabin boy and cannibalism

Titanic

Márquez, Gabriel García

marriages

announcements

jinxes

Martaux, Charles

Martens, Sharon

Martika, Martha

mathematic of probability

Mathews, Eddie

Matson, Vera

Mauna Loa volcano (Hawaii)

curse of

Melchior, Lauritz

“Memories” (song)

Mermaid
(ship)

meteorites

odds of being struck by

Mignonette
(ship)

Mikkelson, Barbara and David

Milgram, Stanley

Miller, Arthur

Mills, Tony

Minor, Major

Moby-Dick
(Melville)

Moctezuma Xocoyotl

Monroe, James

Montezuma
(ship)

Moon and Sun

symbolism of

Moore, Dudley

Moore, Roger

Morgan, Frank

Moron, A.

Morris, Nixon

Mortification: Writers' Stories of their Public Shame
(Armitage)

Moussaoui, Zacharias

Mowforth, Arthur

Mowforth, John

Muir, Margaret

Mullen, J. D.

murder

coincidences concerning

odds of being victim of

Murrah Building (Oklahoma City)

bombing of

“My Sweet Lord” (Harrison song)

Naipaul, V. S.

names (coincidences concerning)

Margaret Bird's accident

Frederick Chance

Thomas Crapper

Groaner Digger (undertaker)

Doctor Doctor

Preserved Fish Jr.

Reverend God

Mike Kafka

Lawless and Lynch (lawyers)

Major Minor

A. Moron

Nieves (snow) and the seven dwarfs

two Kevin O'Briens

Zoltan Ovary (gynaecologist)

two Belinda Lee Perrys

Ian Purvis's accident

Mr. Rose (gardener)

Mrs. Screech (singing teacher)

I. C. Shivers (iceman)

Shine Soon Sun (geophysicist)

Ronald Supena (lawyer)

Justin Tune (chorister)

Sallie Turpin

Susie Turpin

Mr. Vice (career criminal)

Mr. Vroom (motorcycle dealer)

Hugh Williams

Narrative of Arhur Gordon Pym of Nantucket The
(Poe)

natural phenomena

as harbingers of specific events

lighting strikes

neutrinos

New York Yankees

Newton, Isaac

Newton, Jill

Nieves (“snow”) and the seven dwarfs

9/11 terrorist attack

avoiding death at

intelligence agency attack simulation

Madrid bombings and

National Commission report

and the New York Lottery

Nostradamus and

Party Music
album cover art and

survivors of

and
The Two Towers
film

Noestmo, Evelyn

Nolbrow, Samuel

Norowzian, Mehdi

Nostradamus

and the September 11 terrorist attack

Nothing by Chance
(Bach)

numbers

Bible numbers

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
and the number forty-two

ninth symphonies

Oklahoma City Bombing

“7”

“666”

“13”

See also
dates

“O God Our Help in Ages Past” (hymn)

O'Brien, Kevin, shared name

O'Connor, Pat

O'Donnell, Lucy

Obregon, Alvaro

Oedipus

Oedipus Rex
(Sophocles)

“Oh What a Circus” (song)

Oklahoma City Bombing

Oliver, Betty Lou

“One Minute Silence, A” (Batt/Cage)

“Only When You're Lonely” (song)

Ono, Koichi

oracles

Orfini, Mario

Osborne, Nigel

Osborne, Stephen

Oswald, Lee Harvey

Ovary, Zoltan

Owen, Laurence

Palme, Olof

Palmer, Scott

Pan-Am flight (Lockerbie, Scotland)

avoiding death on

parallel lives

the Cheethams and the Rivers

Martin Guerre

the identical car

the Lincoln/Kennedy coincidences

patients with the same name and complaint

Ping-Pong medals

twins

two Umbertos

two Wanda Marie Johnsons

paranormal

lawsuits and

science and

telepathy

Parker, Craig Hamilton

Parker, John

Parker, Keith

Parker, Nigel

Parker, Richard (cabin boy)

Parker, Richard (playwright)

Parker, Ferdi

Parrish, Anne

Party Music
(album)

cover art

Passion of Christ, The
(film)

lightening strike during filming

Pasternak, Boris

Patel, Trupti

Paul, Marilyn

Paul VI, Pope

Pauli, Wolfgang

Peng Kai

Perry, Gaylord

Perry, Belinda Lee

shared name

Persons, Chuck

Peskett, John

Peskett, Shirley

Picture of Dorian Gray, The
(Wilde)

Pink Floyd

plagiarism

coincidences and

Planck, Max

plane crash

odds of dying in

Plimmer, Martin

Poe, Edgar Allan

Polybus, King of Corinth

Poulton, George R.

Powell, Anthony

Prelude in C (Bach)

presentiment

presidential coincidences

Jefferson/Jackson

July 4 deaths and births

Lincoln/Kennedy

Presley, Elvis

prophetic dreams

Pryor, Richard

psi

psychokinesis

Purvis, Ian

accident involving another Ian Purvis

quantum mechanics

Rabi, Tamara

Rabin, Yitzhak

Radcliffe, Amanda

Radin, Dean

Raft, The
(Parker)

Rail Gazette International

railroad accidents

odds of being involved in

Raine, Craig

Ramage, Howard

Rankin, Ian

Rathbone, Henry

Raymond, Mrs. Allison

Razey, Patti

Redfield, James

Reeve, Christopher

Reeves, George

relativity

Remarkable True Coincidences

Resden, S.

Richards, Christina

Richardson, Joseph

Richardson, Nellie

Riches, Kevin

Richter, Mischa

Rigby, Mrs. M.

Riley, “Boots,”

Rines, Robert

Ripley's Giant Book of Believe It or Not

Rips, Eliyahu

Rivers, Albert

Rivers, Betty

road accidents

coincidences concerning

risk of being killed in

Roberts, Jennifer

Robertson, George

Robertson, Morgan

Robertson, Peter

Robinson, Mrs. J.

Robinson, Tim

Rolling Stone
magazine

Roots of Coincidence, The
(Koestler)

Rose, Mr.

Ruby, Jack

Ruffles, Hazel

Rusk, James, Jr. (Harrison James)

Ruth, Babe

Sagan, Carl

Said Business School

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Schubert, Franz

Schumacher, Michael

science

and coincidence

and the paranormal

Scott, Adriana

Scott, Christopher

Scott, Sir Peter

Scott, Robert Falcon

Screech, Mrs.

Segovia, Andrés

Seifert, George

Seinfeld, Jerry

Selfridges (junk shop in Clapham)

Sense of Being Stared, The
(Sheldrake)

September 11 terrorist attack

avoiding death at

intelligence agency attack simulation

Madrid bombings and

National Commission report

and the New York Lottery

Nostradamus and the

Party Music
album cover art and

and
The Two Towers
film

survivors of

Serafino, Domenico

Seymour, Peter

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
(album)

Shakespeare, William

Sharp, Derek

Sharp, Derek (uncle)

Shaw, Bernie

Sheldrake, Rupert

Sherman, C. E.

Shivers, I. C.

Shuster, Joe

Sibelius, Jean

Siegel, Jerry

Simmins, Richard

Simpson, Joyce

Sin, Cardinal

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Sinking of the Mignonette, The

six degrees of separation

“666”

Skeptical Inquirer

Skinner, B. F.

Smith, Alfred

Smith, Donald

Smith, Roy

Snopes.com

Soilih, Ali

“Somebody Else” (song)

Sophocles

Sothern, Edward H.

Sothern, Edward H., Jr.

Sothern, Sam

Spassky, Boris

Spears, Britney

Spencer, Anne

Spencer, Stuart

Spicer, Jabez

Splatt, J. W.

sports

athletes, superstitions of

coincidences concerning

Curse of the Bambino

Sports Illustrated
cover

curse on

Stephens, Edwin

Stewart, Dave

Stewart, Ian

Sting

Stingers, The
(Frank)

stock market scam

Stones of Aran
(Robinson)

Strange Meeting
(Hill)

Styler, Trudie

Sullivan, Roy Cleveland

Summerford, Major

Sun, Shine Soon

Sun and Moon

symbolism of

Sunday Times

Supena, Ronald

Superman curse

Superstition
(Ambrose)

superstitions

of Americans

of athletes

and the fall of the Aztec Empire

“superstition in the pigeon” research

Swain, Pat

Swiftsure
(ship)

synchronicity

Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle
(Jung/Pauli)

Tale of Two Cities, A
(Dickens)

Talented Mr. Ripley, The
(film)

Tamara, Adolfo Gomez

Tanner, Roscoe

Tant, Julia

Technical Asset Management (TAM)

telepathy

Tenzing, Sherpa

“13”

Thompson, Ron

family of

Thomson, D. C.

Thornton, Abraham

Thornton, Michael

Titanic
(film)

Titanic
disaster

predictions and

and
The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility
(Robertson)

Tolkien, J. R. R.

tombs of the pharaohs

curse on

Trent, Howard

Trial, The
(Kafka)

triskaidekaphobia

Tucker, Bev

Tudor, David

Tune, Justin

Turner, J. D.

Turpin, Sallie

Turpin, Susie

Tutankhamun

Twelfth Night
(Shakespeare)

twins

Two Towers, The
(film)

Two Towers Protest Organization

Umberto (restaurant owner)

Umberto I, King of Italy

Universe

Albert Einstein'S view of

as a hologram

hyperstring theory

quantum mechanics

relativity

van der Post, Laurens

Vandergrift, Ladona

Vaughan, Alan

Vaughan Williams, Ralph

Vernoni, Andrea

Vernoni, Cristina

Vernoni, Vittorio

Vice, Mr.

Villeneuve, Jacques