5 Creepy Coincidences You Won’t Believe Actually Happened

#4. The Vast, Left-Handed Conspiracy

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By now we’ve cycled through enough American presidents that we’ve got a big enough sample-set to start pulling out patterns. For instance, it turns out we really like blue- and green-eyed leaders, since we’ve only elected 5 presidents with brown eyes ever, in the history of the United States. To be fair though, blue or hazel eyes among white men aren’t that uncommon, and we’ve historically been pretty gung-ho about electing white men. They’re not nearly as rare as, say, being left-handed.

While only 10 percent of the U.S. population is left-handed, you’d never know it just by looking at American presidents. It turns out that over half of the last 14 presidents were all lefties, and recently, five of the last seven presidents were left-handed. Keep in mind that up until the 1970s, kids were still forced to become right-handed in school, so it took a special kind of stubbornness to remain a southpaw into adulthood.

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The scissors situation is enough to break most children.

Where it Gets Really Weird:

In fact, in most recent elections you really didn’t have a choice, since over the past two decades, nearly every presidential candidate has been left-handed. In 2008, both Barack Obama and John McCain were left-handed. In 1992, all three candidates for president were lefties: Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, and dear old Ross Perot.

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We have some more pictures of Clinton using his left hand, but none of them are work-safe.

What are the odds? They’re so long that the nation would never see something like that again until … the very next election. As you may remember, 1996 Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole was left-handed, running against the incumbent, Ole’ Leftie Bill. What the hell? It’s not like there’s some cultural bias toward left-handers — we bet most of you had no idea any of these people were even left-handed at all, until we told you.

So what’s the only other answer if not bizarre coincidence? That left-handers are secretly a superior race who are naturally born to rule the other 90 percent of society?

#3. John F. Kennedy’s Eerily Accurate Assassination Theory

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The JFK assassination has made Encyclopedia Browns and Nancy Drews out of more conspiracy theorists than you can shake a second rifle at. That said, if you are expecting some big conspiracy-salad of government agencies and secret societies here, then you will be sorely disappointed. This coincidence comes from the lips of John F. Kennedy himself, just hours before his assassination.

According to “Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,” by White House aides Kenneth P. O’Donnell and David F. Powers, when the Kennedys arrived in Dallas in 1963, they opened up the local Dallas Morning News and found a full-page anti-Kennedy advertisement “bordered in black, like a funeral notice.”

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P.S. That was an ironic “welcome.”

Sounds like pretty poor taste for any occasion, never mind for the arrival of a president, right? Well, it turns out nobody knew what kind of hostile territory they were entering better than the president himself.

Where it Gets Really Weird:

The ad rattled Jacqueline Kennedy more than the president. In fact, he tried to calmly reassure the First Lady that everything would be fine with these ominously prophetic words: “We’re entering nut country today. But, Jackie, if somebody wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop it, so why worry about it?” Apparently, he was a Mad fan.

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That exchange took place on the morning of November 22, 1963. As you probably know, Kennedy was assassinated that afternoon by a rifle fired from the window of the Texas School Book Depository. And if you’re thinking, “Well, duh, how else would you assassinate a world leader?” The answer is, “basically any other way but that.” Seriously, here’s a huge list of prominent assassination attempts over the centuries.It’s always a nut charging the guy with a pistol or knife (see: Lincoln) or some convoluted plot involving a bomb that never works (see: Hitler).

As far as we can tell, the number of prominent human beings who have been shot “from a window with a rifle” can be counted on one hand. It’s simply not done that way. And if he simply meant, “We have protection against every possible assassination method except if some nuts shoots me from a window with a rifle, in which case we’re utterly screwed!” then it seems like that’s the sort of thing he should have shared with his Secret Service detail.

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“Thanks for making us look bad.”

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