Parallel Lives. It’s hard not to believe there’s a secret connection between them
There are some pretty amazing similarities out there between human events that have nothing to do with each other…
There are some pretty amazing similarities out there between human events that have nothing to do with each other.
Take the stories of the two women named Edna and the two presidents, Lincoln and Kennedy. The coincidences are too precise to be a coincidence.
Maybe each of us has a “doppelganger“, someone who lives our life as a photocopy of a design already drawn in the great book of destiny.
The scholar J. Goodavage has spent years collecting countless stories that are definitely worth a closer look.
He’s found some pretty surprising similarities between the lives of people who had no idea they even existed.
The coincidences he’s found are sometimes mind-blowing and out of the ordinary.
In his book “Astrology : The Space Age Science“, Goodavage talks about how the lives and deaths of two people have a lot in common. Donald Chapman and Donald Brazill, both born on September 5, 1933, the former in Eureka, the latter in Ferndale, California.
On a Sunday morning, September 10, 1956, exactly five days after Chapman and Brazill’s birthdays, the two young men were driving their cars on Highway 101 south of Eureka, heading to their homes.
They had just dropped their girlfriends off, who lived in each other’s town, when they crashed head-on, killing them instantly.
Death certificates say both died from severe head injuries.
Another case of parallelism, also told by Goodavage, is about two women born on the same day and with the same name, but not related : Edna Hanna and Edna Osborne.
In 1939, both women gave birth to two girls at the same time at Hackensack Hospital in New Jersey.
They even named the girls the same thing, Patricia Edna.
After chatting with them, Goodavage found out some more info.
Their husbands had the same job and owned a car of the same make and color.
They had both married on the same day three and a half years earlier.
The two men were born in the same year, month, and day, and so were their wives.
Both women had brown hair and blue eyes, the same height and weight.
They even bought a dog on the same day, naming it Spot.
There are a lot of other examples of people’s lives that are very similar.
On November 8, 1981, Il Giornale d’Italia reported an unbelievable fact about the simultaneous death of two siblings.
Ada and Guido P. died at the same time, in similar circumstances, and from the same causes.
The two siblings died about 300 kilometers apart. Guido P., a professor at the “Normale” in Pisa, lost control of his “127” near Pisa due to an illness and drove into a tree.
He was rescued, but he died before he could reach the hospital, which was 1 p.m.
At the same time, in Milan, his sister Ida, who was also a teacher, was driving her car when she got sick and crashed into a tree.
She died.
And there’s another story from Professor T. Bouchard of the University of Minnesota in the June 12, 1980 “Physician’s Courier” that’s just as shocking.
Jim Springer and Jim Lewis were twins who’d been adopted by two families in Ohio, but they didn’t know each other.
They both went to law school and started working part-time as sheriff’s aides in Volusia County, Florida.
They both chose Florida as their vacation spot.
They even got a dog together, naming him Toy.
There’s another fact that just came to light in Germany.
Professor Franz Block realized with horror that he had accidentally come into possession of a camera that casts the evil eye on people portrayed with it.
Turns out, of the ten people he photographed, six had died in traffic accidents, one in a fire, two drowned while fishing with the boat, and the tenth had died of suffocation after swallowing a chicken bone.
The most chilling discovery came when the professor, driven by curiosity, investigated one of the many bystanders immortalized by chance in the photos and discovered that he had been cut down by a brain hemorrhage two days after the photo was taken.
The professor immediately donated the camera to parapsychology scholars and, terrified, said, “This camera was manufactured by the devil himself and came straight from hell“.
And there are even more mysteries in the lives and deaths of American presidents like Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) and John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963).
There’s even a rumor going around that Lincoln always appears on the eve of another president’s death, and that he appeared to John Kennedy the day before he died on that fateful trip to Dallas.
There were a lot of coincidences in the lives and deaths of these two presidents.
There are just too many of them to be a coincidence.
First, Lincoln was elected president in 1860.
And then, 100 years later, it was Kennedy’s turn, in 1960.
Lincoln was assassinated on a Friday, with his wife there.
And Kennedy was also assassinated while at his wife’s side, and again it was Friday.
Both presidents were shot from behind, in the back of the head, and in the same area.
After the attempted assassination, their wives gave them first aid.
They both died without regaining consciousness.
There are other details about their deaths, too.
Lincoln’s wife lost a son while they were living in the White House.
The same thing happened to Kennedy’s wife.
Both Lincoln and Kennedy had four kids, but at the time of the killing, only two of them were alive.
Lincoln’s deputy was named Johnson and was born in 1808, 100 years apart.
Kennedy’s deputy was also named Johnson and was born in 1908, exactly 100 years apart.
But the similarities don’t stop there…
Lincoln’s assassin was John Wilkes Booth, born in 1839.
Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was born in 1939, 100 years after the other.
It’s interesting to note that the sum of the letters in the first and last names of Lincoln’s assassin adds up to 15, and the same is true for Kennedy’s assassin.
But the similarities don’t stop there.
John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald were both Southerners.
Both presidents fought hard for black civil rights: Lincoln with the Emancipation Proclamation and Kennedy with the Civil Rights Act.
When Kennedy was assassinated, Lincoln and Kennedy were with a couple of friends, as well as their wives.
The women in the pair of friends weren’t hurt, but the men were, in 1865 and 1973, respectively.
Lincoln’s secretary was named Kennedy and tried to talk the president out of going to the theater that night.
Kennedy’s secretary was named Lincoln and she also tried to talk the president out of going to Dallas.
Another interesting detail is that the husbands of both women were named Abraham, just like Lincoln.
When the assassination attempt took place, Kennedy was driving through the streets of Dallas in a Lincoln car that happened to be manufactured by the Ford group.
Booth assassinated Lincoln in a theater and took refuge in a warehouse.
Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and took refuge in a theater.
Booth died eleven days after Abraham Lincoln, also at 7:20 a.m.
Oswald died 48 hours after Kennedy, also at the same time, 1 p.m.
Lincoln was succeeded by Andrew Johnson and Kennedy by Lindon Johnson.
During their final year as president, both Andrew and Lindon Johnson got caught up in a political scandal that kept them from running for another term.
Some scholars think that numbers have special powers.
There are some pretty astonishing cases of historical cyclicality.
Mouèsan de la Villoret talks about seven.
The first one says there’s “…a constant relationship between the actual number of the heads of a state or princes of a dynasty and the sum of the numbers, either of the first date or of the last or of the two dates combined“.
When Mouèsan de la Villoret studied the Merovingian dynasty, he found that the coronation of Clodion, the first king, happened in the year 427.
When you add 4 + 2 + 7, you get 13.
The coronation of the last king, Childerico II, happened in the year 670 (6 + 7), and that still gives 13.
The Merovingian kings were 13.
Another statement says that if you flip the starting date of a monarchy, you’ll get the year it ended.
For example, if we invert the starting year of the Carolingian reign (789), we get the year the Carolingian monarchy ended.
The dogate of Venice began in 697, so if we invert that year, we get 1796, which is when it ended.
The number 3 had a big impact on Prince Bismarck’s life.
He served three kings, fought three wars, helped create three peace treaties, and got three emperors to meet. He also set up the Triple Alliance.
His household’s heraldic symbols were clover and oak leaves, with the motto “In trinitate rebur“.
He also had three sons, three estates, and influence over three parties: the conservatives, the liberals, and the ultramontans.
There’s a really interesting example from the history of the kings of England that talks about cycles of mourning.
I’m talking about the “Black Saturday” of the English monarchy.
On March 18, 1702, William II died.
Then, on another Saturday, August 1, 1704, Queen Anne passed away.
Then, on another Saturday, June 10, 1727, George I passed away, and on another Saturday, October 25, 1760, it was George II’s turn.
George III also died on a Saturday, on January 29, 1820.
And George IV also died on a Saturday, June 26, 1830.
Edward VII had the same fate, dying on May 7, 1910, also on Saturday.
J. G. Bourgeat shows an interesting example of these subtle and, to say the least, unique relationships, using the number 539 as a striking example.
I’ll sum up Bourgeat’s study here, which was inspired by a book called Research on the Providential Functions of Dates and Names in the Annuals of All Nations.
If you add 539 to the birth year of Louis IX (April 23, 1215), you get the birth year of Louis XVI (August 23, 1754).
And when you add 539 to 1225, which was the birth year of Louis IX’s sister Elizabeth, you get 1764. That was the year Louis XVI’s sister, who was also named Elizabeth, was born.
And if you add 539 to the year of Louis IX’s father’s death (Louis VIII, 1226), you get 1765, which is the year of Louis XVI’s father’s death, Louis (Dauphin).
Doing the same calculation for the year Louis IX got married (1231), we get a total of 1770, which is the same as the year Louis XVI got married.
And finally, adding 539 to 1225, the year Louis IX came of age and started ruling independently, gives us 1774, which is the year Louis XVI took the throne.
And when we add 539 to 1243, the year Louis IX made peace with Henry III, we get 1782, the year Louis XVI started talking peace with George III.
Back in 1249, a nobleman from the East and his ambassador told Louis IX that he wanted to convert to Christianity.
If you add 539 to the year in question, you get 1788, which is the same as the year when an ambassador from the Orient told Louis XVI that his prince wanted to become a Christian.
And 1250, the year Louis IX was imprisoned and abandoned by his people, added to 539 equals 1789, which is the year of Louis XVI’s imprisonment (Oct. 5 and 6) and abandonment by his people.
And if you add 539 to 1253, which was Louis IX’s mother, Queen Blanche’s, death year, you get 1792.
That was also the year the Kingdom of Lys, or the “death of the white monarchy“, as it’s also called, died.
In 1254, Louis IX died and joined the Jacobins, and also in the same year, he visited Magdalene in Provence.
If you add that year to 539, you get 1793, the year Louis XVI was captured by the Jacobins and led to the gallows.
He was buried in the cemetery of La Maddalena, where he was taken by Provençals called Marseillais.
Some numbers seem to have strange relationships with people’s lives.
Take Father Pio’s life, for example. It’s packed with the number 5: he was born on May 25, 1887, at 5 p.m.
The year he was born was also the fifth anniversary of St. Francis’s birth, which is why he was named Francis.
At the time, Pietrelcina, the saint’s village, had 5,000 people.
His parents, Orazio Forgione and Maria Giuseppa De Nunzio, had a total of five kids.
He joined the Capuchin Order and took the name St. Pius V, whose feast day is on May 5.
He was ordained a priest in May of 1910, when he was still 5, and he stayed in Pietrelcina for five years.
Then, he left for World War I.In 1918, he was sent to the convent of San Giovanni Rotondo, where there were five priests, and he was assigned cell number 5.
He was awarded a fifth-category war pension.
And what about the similar experiences of popes Sixtus V and Clement XIV ?
From August 5 to 7, 1918, he had his first and best encounter with God.
Then, forty-four days later, he received the stigmata.
Then, on October 5, 1925, he had emergency surgery by Prof. Giorgio Festa for an inguinal hernia.
In 1936, Padre Pio predicted the death of George V, King of England, the day before.
After he started showing the stigmata, Professor Luigi Romanelli visited him a bunch of times. The Father Provincial of Foggia asked him to, and in his final report, Romanelli wrote, “I visited Padre Pio five times in 15 months.”
On May 5, 1956, Padre Pio cut the ribbon on the new hospital complex he had been working on, and he celebrated Mass on the steps of the hospital.
For five decades, the stigmata—five wounds on his hands, feet, and side—marked the holy friar’s limbs.
And what about the similar experiences of popes Sixtus V and Clement XIV ?
They both joined the Franciscan order and were elected pontiffs at 64.
They were both raised to the papal threshold, unanimously elected, at the age of 64.
They were popes for about the same amount of time: five years, four months, and three days.
They both died at 69.
Coincidence ?
They’re so similar that it’s hard not to believe there’s a secret connection between them, like they’re connected on some deep level, as if they’re both part of the same destiny.
