Unbelievable Historical Coincidences Around The World

human history is riddled with an uncomfortable amount of coincidences many of which seem too crazy to believe like the fact almost every American president is descended from one particular Ancient King or the disturbing reason many disconnected cultures around the world have historical myths about vampires and how about the 19th century book that prophesized Donald Trump join me to investigate all of this and much more as we Voyage into the most bizarre historical coincidences around the world presidential coincidences you know it's worse than sharing a birthday sharing a death day and no one knows this more

than John Adams and Thomas Jefferson the second and third presidents of the United States of America these Heroes coincidentally died within 5 hours of each other on a very significant day indeed in 1826 a 90-year-old Adams was on his deathbed just before he died he proclaimed Thomas Jefferson still survives happy that the Revolutionary Spirit still lived on in his compatriot little did Adams know Jefferson had died only hours before the most remarkable part of this coincidence is that they died on the 4th of July which also happened to be the 50th anniversary of American independence

the only other president who since died on Independence Day was James Monroe the fifth president now I don't know about you but the second third and fifth presidents all dying on the 4th of July smells like one angry British Revenge conspiracy or you know a bizarre coincidence what do you think and while I'm yapping about presidential coincidences did you know Presidents Obama and Washington are practically cousins yeah turns out every American president except old Martin Van Bern is a descendant of the the 13th century English Tyrant King JN you see four of King Jon's descendants

were passengers on the Mayflower one of the first ships to bring European settlers to the Americas those four English passengers are ancestors of all the US presidents up to and including President Obama it gets even weirder when you learn just how interconnected family trees are in general now think about this your DNA comes from your two parents four grandparents eight great grandparents 16 great great grandparents and so on this doubles each generation so by 20 Generations back which is roughly 600 years ago you have over a million genetically contributing ancestors by 40 Generations back that

number is over 1 trillion now this seems confusing given that the population of the world 40 Generations ago around the year 800 was only around 250 million people but here's why it works many of these ancestors are actually overlapping repeats as family trees weave back on themselves a ton yep having Offspring with distant relatives is a lot more common than it's comfortable to think about so with regard to Old King John it only typically takes a couple of generations for Royal offsprings Offspring to rejoin the regular folks genan pool every person's lineage is an enormous

insanely complex overlap network of ancestors consisting of both commoner classes and upper classes alike so we can tell from genetic research that DNA is shared at the Grand scale between people who can trace their ancestry to specific geographical areas like England for example there actually aren't detailed ancestral records forming a direct chain from each president to the king for the most part these records don't exist or they've been lost over time and while many the earlier presidents were from landowning families which did have more direct and recent Royal links the connecting lines of later presidents

are more a case of Association by the sheer number of common ancestors accumulated over a certain number of generations instead the presidents only need to trace their lineage as far back as English men aboard the Mayflower to make the Royal connection and amazingly for that reason a sizable percentage of you folks watching this are also Rel related to King John statistically almost anyone with English ancestry feeling special now your majesty bizarre presidential connections don't end there Kennedy and Lincoln share an uncomfortable amount of coincidences and no I'm not talking about how both men love neck

ties and hats both presidents began their careers a century apart with Lincoln getting elected to congress in 1846 and Kennedy doing the same in 1946 then both men became president also a century apart with Lincoln winning in 1860 and Kennedy winning in 1960 it gets weirder though both presidents have seven letters in their last names were heavily involved in civil rights lost children while living in the White House and were both fatally popped in the Noggin on a Friday Lincoln was targeted in Ford's Theater while Kennedy met his maker in a Ford Lincoln both men's

assassins were also ganked before their trials spooky both presidents were succeeded by vice presidents named Johnson who were also born a century apart Andrew Johnson born in 1808 and Lyndon Johnson born in 1908 but the presidential coincidences continue on into more recent presidencies specifically two 19th century books by Inger Soul Lockwood which read like they've been written for Donald Trump and his son Baron Lockwood's novels follow a wealthy young young man called Baron Trump Baron being his title not his name in Baron Trump's marvelous underground Journey Baron Trump sets off on an adventure after being

given a manuscript written intriguingly by a character referred to as dawn like Baron Trump Dawn is his title not his name but as Baron Trump Journeys to the mystical underground lands he meets various Fantastical peoples each with a Wise lesson the first group warn Trump against considering the loudest man in the room the greatest the second criticize surface ruler vanity the third teach about the dangers of being hot- headed then finally the fourth are a group of small-headed people who end up so terrified of Trump's huge head that they push him back to surface world

through a portal Baron then returns to Castle Trump Having learned very little now some folks have noted it's pretty coincidental how all of the lessons are relevant to Donald Trump in as much as these are traits his critics have applied to him in another of Lockwood's books a decisive political Outsider wins the presidential election causing New York City to erupt into chaos Lockwood calls specific attention to how a fifth avenue hotel will be the first to feel the fury of the mob the street where Trump Tower now stands indeed New York saw a number of

protests when Trump was elected in 2016 several of which spilled over onto to Fifth Avenue and the vicinity of Trump Tower pretty crazy right now while these are all very bizarre coincidences it doesn't necessarily mean Donald Trump has access to a time machine then again his uncle had Direct access to Nicola Tesla's files and who knows what kind of scientific Marvels were hidden within if you don't know Tesla was a groundbreaking inventor credited with many revolutionary inventions like the induction motor and pioneering Wireless technology but some folks are convinced Tesla was also working on technology

that was far more advanced 2 days after Tesla died the FBI called an MIT Professor to go through Tesla's estate that Professor was John Trump Donald Trump's Uncle John Trump claimed that he didn't find much saying that the files were speculative philosophical and promotional despite dismissing them only 60 of the 80 trunks of files were sent back to Tesla's home what was inside those extra 20 trunks will always remain a mystery but I'm betting it had blueprints for a flux capacitor and the location of a DeLorean hidden in a cave Global Immortals now it's time

to sink our teeth into something a little darker this bizarre coincidence explores how the legends of many seemingly unconnected cultures all feature a version of the same monstrous fiends with batlike features you may know them as vampires in Togo and Ghana West Africa a vampiric creature called the adzy haunts the aay people's folklore the tales of a firefly that transforms into a human possessing and feeding on its victims as they sleep the Ashanti people also from Ghana have a similar tale of an iron toothed creature the asanam which stalks its human prey from the trees

then over in Madagascar there are stories of the ronga a creature who would drink Noble blood and eat toenail clippings over in Zanzibar the popo Bawa is an evil spirit that takes animal form during the day usually a bat and changes into a human at night to seduce its victims before finally feeding from them over in India Hindu folklore tells of the vitala a Sinister creature that haunts cemeteries and possesses the dead while over in the Philippines the Manan angal is very similar to traditional European vampires having a thirst for blood and a fear of

garlic and sunlight Tales of vampiric creatures go back Millennia with stories from ancient Babylonia Assyria and Persia telling stories of demons with a taste for blood now you're probably most familiar with the European take on the concept as laid out with Bram Stoker's terrifying 1897 novel Dracula but the earliest literary mention of vampires in Europe comes from the glory of the duche of carniola an encyclopedia published in 1689 it features the tale of a recently deceased peasant who started harassing his widow and feeding on his former neighbors back then European vampires were known as dark

red skinned bloated Undead creatures that visited loved ones and caused trouble in their old neighborhoods this fun European myth made its way over to North America and gripped parts of New England in a period known as the great vampire Panic between the late 18th and late 19th centuries families were rampantly digging up and burning departed relatives fearing that vampires had taken over the region often encouraged by local doctors in hindsight the people of New England were seeing their friends and families ravaged by a disease they called consumption it's victims would rapidly lose weight develop fevers

and suffer extreme exhaustion along side more ghastly side effects making it look like they were being consumed by a supernatural Force unable to explain it medically the superstitious people would attribute the sickness to vampires instead of what we know today as the bacteria cause disease tuberculosis as a matter of fact this misunderstanding of germs and expired bodies could explain the presence of vampire myths worldwide as the no longer living often carry plenty of of diseases extended exposure to them can make people sick back before modern medicine came up with germ Theory diseases were believed to

be spread by either bad smells or malicious entities the undead being among them humans have understood the need to keep the dead buried away from the living for a long time with the oldest intentional burial site dating back 100,000 years to a cave in kava Israel much later between the Fifth and Third third centuries BCE the ancient Greeks would sometimes lay heavy stones or Pottery fragments on top of the Dead to pin them down in case they Rose as Undead keeping away from human remains would have been a valuable survival Instinct that kept us disease

free in our earliest Primal days as a species not least because in the simplest terms if something killed that guy it might still be around to get you too so having stories passed down through generations met metaphorically highlighting the danger of the Dead in simple terms and dead like makes a lot of sense or maybe just maybe vampires used to be a lot more common and have since either been hunted to Extinction or simply understood that hiding is the only way to survive what do you think Wars of Fate imagine if a number close to

you like your phone number or even your license plate predicted a significant event caused by by your death that'd be unbelievable right well it happened Arch Duke France Ferdinand and his wife were driving around Saro a city in the former Austria Hungary on June 28th 1914 that afternoon the arch dukee coincidentally drove past an assassin who'd failed to take him out earlier that day the Assassin was sitting in a cafe when he noticed the arch Duke's open top car pull up on the opposite side of the street seizing the bizarre coincidence the Hitman didn't let

the arch dukee get away again and so sparked World War I the best detail about this bizarre coincidence is that if we take a look at the arch Duke's Car number plate it reads A 111118 in other words Armistice November 11th 1918 the date World War I ended Armistice Day now it's worth noting that the first three identical figures are actually the letter I but it's certainly still a remarkable visual 20 years later another curse seemed to have caused the next World War in 1941 Soviet archaeologists were hunting down the remains of teer the lame

under direct orders from Stalin tear was known as one of Asia's most ruthless military generals during the 14th century during his ferocious 40-year career 17 million people died as a direct result of his tyrannical military rule Soviet archaeologist mik gasimov wanted to examine the remains to see what teer looked like so he could create a sculpture of the Tyrant this Soviet leaders hoped would enable them to control the historical narrative cementing their influence over Central Asia when the Soviets found his tomb and dragged open the heavy coffin lid an inscription lay waiting it read whoever

opens my tomb shall un leash an Invader more terrible than I 2 Days Later the Soviet Union was invaded by Germany terrible coincidence or a powerful curse make your vote down in the comments historical wartime coincidences haven't been exclusive to the 20th century though in the summer of 1861 Wilmer McLean and his family were living on his wife's Plantation near Manasses Junction Virginia when confederate general board commandeered his farm transforming it into his Battlefield headquarters and hospital for the upcoming Battle of Bull Run the first major battle of the American Civil War and while Wilmer

didn't exactly have a choice he didn't object either as a young man he was an officer in the Virginia militia and so he understood that sacrifices sometimes have to be made however by the end of 1862 his wife was pregnant and the danger suddenly far outweighed any potential profits it was so dangerous in fact that board rather humorously recorded in his diary that when he sat down for dinner in the McLean's house a cannonball came through into the kitchen and embedded itself in the fireplace totally ruining dinner by the end of 1863 the McAn family

relocated 120 Mi Southwest to aomax County 2 years later Wilmer had been supplying sugar to the Confederate Army when on April the 9th he was approached by Confederate Colonel Charles Marshall the colonel was scouting a safe location for a secret meeting despite Wilmer suggesting other places they eventually settled on the McLean family house at 1:00 that afternoon Confederate General Robert E Lee and Union general ulyses srant met in the McLean parlor to discuss the confederacy's surrender half an hour later the war was over the union had won and in the home of the very same

family who hosted the war's beginning to thank the mle family for their Hospitality Union Soldiers then plundered the family home of souvenirs forcing money into a protesting Wilmer hands no good deed goes unpunished eh Telegraph timing in 1837 scientists separated by thousands of miles coincidentally invented and patented the same revolutionary device the electric Telegraph in England Sir William fill cook and Sir Charles wheatstone patented an electric Telegraph system meanwhile across the Atlantic Samuel Morse the man who also created Morse code was also granted a patent for his version of an electric Telegraph system Morse designed

an electronic transmitter called a port rule that could send signals through an open circuit the transmitter had ridges representing dots and dashes the basic components for morse code to send something you'd arrange the dots and dashes in the desired sequence then crank an arm to transmit it this arm then made and broke contact with two cups of mercury opening and closing the circuit the resulting electronic pattern would then spell out your message in Morse code on the other hand the cook and wheat Stone invention was easier to use it had five needles that pointed to

letters when they received electrical signals the sender would use Simple electrical pulses to send the message making it far more accessible both inventions received their fair share of success in 1843 Morse secured Government funding to build a 35m long prototype Telegraph line between Washington DC and Baltimore a year later the system was finished and the first message was telegraphed in the United States launching the 100-year telegraph era in the USA meanwhile in the UK the cook and wheatstone system was adopted by the British Railway to standardize timings and signals both inventions paved the way for

the age of communication and were both sparked at essentially the same time in the perspective brains of scientists able to see the technology of their time and build a vision for the future Bronze Age Blitz 3,200 years ago the Bronze Age Mediterranean World disintegrated in what's now known as the late Bronze Age collapse s leaving an archaeological trail of destroyed cities dating between 1250 and 1150 BCE evidence of devastating earthquakes droughts famines rebellions and invasions by mysterious marauding sea peoples coincidentally gripped the Mediterranean all at once with hellish effects between 1225 and 1175 BCE a

powerful series of violent Tremors often referred to as an earthquake storm Savaged the Mediterranean the sequence of earthquakes began with a large Tremor that weakened a fault line leading to other earthquakes days months and even years later evidence suggests that over a 40 to 50-year period magnitude 6.5 earthquakes repeatedly struck the region Tremors strong enough to bring down modern buildings let alone Bronze Age ones around the same time between 1250 and 11 00 BCE a mega drought coincidentally ravaged the region for 150 to 300 years the land became the driest it had been for the

entire Bronze Age a 2,000-year period civilizations located near Dependable water sources such as Egypt with its Nile River managed to survive but others were plunged into famine this would have undoubtedly caused Mass migration as climate refugees desperately searched for resources historians suggest that this is a possible origin of those sea peoples I mentioned earlier the historical term sea peoples refers to a group of ancient tribes credited with the destruction of many Bronze Age Empires while many civilizations that encountered these Marauders were destroyed the ancient Egyptians survived their records tell of a people coming from the

sea likely from various Mediterranean Islands but include few details the only thing we do know is that the Egyptians watched as the sea peoples destroyed The Hite Empire the meinian Greek civilization and several other cypriot kingdoms as well as devastating many independent cities along the lentine coast they were finally scattered when they decided to try their luck against Ramsey III the ruler of Egypt who defeated them in a surprise Ambush and an ensuing Land Battle and while we don't fundamentally know who these people were we do know that they're the final cherry on top of

the very unhappy series of coincidences that triggered the Bronze Age collapse which altogether spelled absolute disaster for countless souls in the region the spark Ranger park ranger Roy Sullivan aka the spark Ranger must have angered Zeus because he was struck by not one not two not three but seven bolts of lightning it began in April 1942 when Mr Sullivan took Shelter From a storm in a fire lookout tower in Shan andoa National Park where he worked lacking a lightning rod the tower was struck eight times setting it a blaze just as Mr Sullivan ran out

the door a stray bolt struck him burning his leg and leaving a hole in his shoe uh that's enough for a lifetime but nearly three decades later in 1969 Mr Sullivan was driving when another bolt deflected off a tree right into his open truck window he escaped with his hair eyebrows and eyelashes a light but otherwise mostly unharmed then in 1970 while standing in front of his house lightning deflected off a nearby Transformer right into his left arm he survived albeit with a medium rare shoulder the fourth happened in 1972 while Roy was working inside

his ranger station a bolt of lightning found its way in and struck his head setting his hair on fire again then in 1973 Sullivan was driving to escape a storm and the second he stepped out of his truck thinking he' reached safety he was struck again he walked away with scorched arms legs and another flaming haircut the sixth came in 1976 when Sullivan was lying on the forest floor having sprained his ankle as he noticed storm clouds forming overhead he tried to stand but was struck immediately talk about a bad day the final strike happened

in 1977 during a fishing trip when Sullivan's head was once again set Ablaze by a lightning bolt panicked he ran for the sanctuary of his car when at that very moment a hungry bear emerged sniffing Sullivan's Hall of fish Sullivan the lightning crazed Maniac ran at the Beast chased it away and saved his fish while Sullivan was reportedly avoided by folks out of fear that they too might be struck by lightning he thankfully passed on the remainer of his life without another strike but talk about a chain of shocking coincidences Monumental chances as everyone knows

ancient Egyptians built pyramids as tombs for the Pharaohs they contained everything a monarch could need in the next life food clothes and in one 200-year period within the 3,000-year timeline of ancient Egypt even a handful of servants and religious loyalists thrown in it can't be rolling into the Afterlife without an Entourage and of course there was always heaps of gold Egyptian pharaohs were basically like I love gold but here's where the coincidence comes in throughout history highly similar pyramids have appeared thousands of miles away as early as 4,000 bcee down the street in ancient Mesopotamia

they built zigurat pyramids for astrological and religious reasons similar to the mesoam American pyramids in South and Central America which appeared between 1,000 and 400 BCE in North America for about 200 years on either side of 1,000 CE the Hopewell and Mississippian peoples made their versions of pyramids that were used as burial sites and platforms for temples over in China pyramids have been built in various levels of size and complexity since as early as the Neolithic Hong Shan culture centuries before ancient Egypt and later in more sizable forms by the Han Dynasty it wasn't just

pyramids either Stone megaliths have repeatedly coincidentally appeared in vastly separate cultures throughout history England's Stonehenge for example began construction around 3,000 BCE and is just one of hundreds of stone megaliths in Britain and thousands worldwide from the NAB tolia Standing Stones on the most easterly tip of the Sahara Desert constructed back as far as is 7,500 BCE to mongolia's Deer stones from 1400 BCE distant disconnected tribes have consistently chosen to create specific Arrangements of Standing Stones while some believe this round the world a seemingly synchronized emergence of very similar archaeological sites and Designs is proof

of a lost ancient Global Mega civilization it's not necessarily that complicated the multiple Discovery or simultaneous invention hypothesis explains that in its simplest form great minds think alike the multiple Discovery theory states that independent development often finds the same Solutions so two disconnected cultures having the same problem would both find the easiest solution when multiple societies were having trouble building large buildings they separately figured out that logically pyramids with their geometrically sturdy bases are the solutions if they were having difficulty tracking Harvest times they'd put up Standing Stones to help accurately track the sun stars

and Seasons all humans experience the same laws of physics so it makes sense that we all come to the same conclusions what's more difficult to explain is this next weird coincidence that many geographically separate cultures mythologies all feature seven headed entities and creatures in Central America Chico meatal the Aztec goddess of food food and sustenance is also known as seven serpents we can see her here represented by seven snakes sprouting out of an Aztec person's neck over in West South and Southeast Asia a seven-headed serpent is often depicted alongside cherished deities Crossing religious affiliations both

Buddhist and Hindu deities are protected by this seven-headed snake referred to as a seven-headed Naga Naga meaning snake in the 8,000 year-old Sanskrit over in kakia Russia this 5,000-year-old Neolithic Petroglyph was found depicting a seven-headed deity the region wasn't settled at the time so it was likely left by nomadic peoples as they moved from place to place further south Albanian mythology talks of a creature called kedra depicted as a large seven-headed Dragon 4,500 years ago the ancient Sumerians also told myths of beasts with a body of Al and seven snake heads at the same time

in ugarit modern-day Syria they believed in a monster with seven heads they called loton even in the Bible's Book of Revelations a seven-headed beast with 10 crowns is described as emerging from the sea the list goes on and on but what caused these cross-cultural seven-headed coincidences well the most intriguing Theory suggests that the myths all grew out of an original ancient Sumerian creation ation myth that uses a metaphorical seven-headed monster to represent the seven dry months of the year and this tablet a hero God wearing Grain on their head can be seen using a sickle

to fight the seven-headed dragon it's widely interpreted as the culture's metaphorical depiction of the harvest season coming along to kill the dry season ending famine and drought since so many Sumerian Tales are found adapted in later mythology around the world this ancient story being the birthplace of the others is quite plausible not to mention the fact that the effect of the seasons on crops is a relevant issue all over the world much like how the great flood can also be found in lots of cultures Mythos a story also originating in Sumerian mythology well it's all

very interesting sure but was anyone else kind of hoping we'd uncover a real seven-headed Beast or two fingers crossed the genan splicing scientists of the near future will make those dreams come true for us uh actually maybe best not what's the biggest historical coincidence you've ever heard about comment below thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one [Music]