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by Martin Plimmer


  Cammish, David

  cannibalism

  Caple, John

  Cappi, Graham

  card games

  odds concerning

  Carl Jung and the Story of Our Time (van der Post)

  Carnarvon, Lord

  Caroline (play)

  Caroline (ship)

  Carr, Barbara

  Carroll, Robert Todd

  Carson, Charles

  Carter, Howard

  Carvey, Dana

  Cats (Broadway musical)

  Caviezel, Jim

  Cela, Camilo Jose

  Celestine Prophecy, The (Redfield)

  Challenge of Chance, The (Koestler)

  Challenger space shuttle

  explosion of

  Chance, Frederick

  accident involving another Frederick Chance

  Cheek, Allan

  Cheetham, Albert

  Cheetham, Betty

  Chess in Iceland and in Icelandic Literature

  Chivers, Alison

  choir practice

  explosion at

  choking to death

  odds on

  Christie, Agatha

  Churchill, Winston

  Clancy, Anthony S.

  Clancy, Tom

  Clark, Captain

  Clark, Sally

  Classical Graffiti (album)

  Clear and Present Danger (Clancy)

  Clinton, Bill

  Coghlan, Charles Francis

  Coincidence File, The (Anderson)

  Collier, Marie

  Comet (ship)

  comets

  and the fall of Aztec empire

  as harbingers of specific events

  Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP)

  Connally, John

  Conner, David

  Conquest of Space, The (Bonestell)

  Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena, The (Radin)

  Cook, Peter

  Coolidge, Calvin

  copyrights

  ownership disputes

  Corbett, Boston

  Corelli, Marie

  Cortés, Hernando

  Coup, The (hip-hop group)

  Court, Susie

  Cowley, Joseph P.

  Crapper, Thomas

  creationism

  Cremen, Neil “the Dog”

  criminal trails

  coincidences and

  DNA evidence

  Croesus, King of Lydia

  Cross, Joseph

  Cross of Saint Andrew, The (Cela)

  cultural properties

  coincidences and plagiarism

  “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” and LSD

  Curse of the Bambino

  curses and jinxes

  Curse of the Bambino

  James Dean’s sports car

  kimono, curse of

  Leo and Me (Canadian sitcom) and early-onset Parkinson’s disease

  lightning strikes

  Mauna Loa volcano

  Sports Illustrated cover

  Superman

  supermarket checkout counter and pregnancy

  tombs of the pharaohs

  voodoo curse of “Papa Doc” Duvalier

  weddings

  Czermak, Vera

  D-day

  crossword answers and

  Daily Telegraph

  Dance to the Music of Time, A (Powell)

  Dark, Alvin

  Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd album)

  and The Wizard of Oz (film)

  dates

  birthdays

  July 4th

  September 11th

  See also numbers

  Davies, Rose

  Davis, Ben

  Dawe, Leonard

  Dawkins, Richard

  de Fortgibu, M.

  de Toit, Danie

  Dean, James

  Deeks, Nick

  Deen, Andrew

  Delphic oracle

  Denard, Bob

  Denman, Chip

  Dennis the Menace

  coincidence and

  Descartes, René

  Deschamps, M.

  devil

  communication with

  DiCaprio, Leonardo

  Dickens, Charles

  Digger, Groaner

  Dix, Sophie

  DNA evidence

  Doctor, Doctor

  Doppelgänger Syndrome

  doppelgängers

  in literature and drama

  Dostoevsky, Fyodor

  Double, The (Dostoevsky)

  dowsing

  Doyle, Arthur Conan

  drama

  doppelgängers in

  dreams

  as a portent of death

  Drosnin, Michael

  du Tilh, Arnaud

  Dudley, Thomas

  Duvalier, “Papa Doc”

  voodoo curse on Robert Debs Heinl

  Duvalier, Simone

  Dvořák, Anton

  Dylan, Bob

  Eades, James B.

  earthquakes

  animal behavior and

  Eastwood, Clint

  Eccleston, Christopher

  Einstein, Albert

  Electrification of the Soviet Union, The (opera)

  Ellwood, Robert S.

  Elwell, Dennis

  Empire State Building

  survivor of B52 bomber crash

  Erickson, John

  Escobar, Pablo

  ESP (extrasensory perception)

  Estes, Royena

  Evans, Mark

  Evans, Richard

  Eves, Colin

  Evita (Broadway musical)

  Fair Game (film)

  Falby, Allen

  Fallon, Robert

  Fanshawe, Simon

  Feifer, George

  feng shui

  Fennell, Sheila

  Fennell, Stephen

  Figlock, Joseph

  and the falling baby

  Fischer, Robert

  Fish, Preserved, Jr.

  Fishel, Chris

  Fitzgerald, Penelope

  Flammarion, Camille

  Fletcher, Dorothy

  Florens, Marc

  Forrest, Barbara

  42nd Street (musical)

  “4'33” (Cage)

  Fox, Michael J.

  Frank, Leonhard

  Frazee, Harry

  Freer, Graham

  French, Christopher

  French, Ronald

  Frentzen, Heinz-Harold

  Freud, Sigmund

  Fugue in E Flat (Bach)

  Galileo

  gambling luck

  odds

  Garciaparra, Nomar

  Garfield, James

  Garland, Judy

  Gate of Angels, The (Fitzgerald)

  Gauquelin, Michel

  Geist magazine

  Genis, Darryl

  George, Mark

  ghosts

  Giamatti, Bart

  Gibbs, Mick

  Gibson, Mel

  Gibsons, The (band)

  Gielgud, Sir John

  Girl from Petrovka, The (Feifer)

  God, Reverend

  Godfrey, Sir Edmund

  Golding, Hilda

  Golding, Robert

  golf

  “hole in one” odds

  Goodship, Barbara

  Goodship, Daphne

  Goosens, Leon

  Governor Ready (ship)

  Gowers, Tony

  Grange, Keith

  Gretzky, Wayne

  Guerre, Martin

  Guerre, Bertrande

  Guiteau, Charles

  Hacker, Maria

  Hale-Bopp comet

  Hall, Doris Jean

  Halley’s comet

  Halton, Ernest

  Handel, George Frederick

  Hannin, Harry

  Hargitay, Mickey

  Harris, Clara

  Harris, Pat

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sp; Harrison, George

  Harrods (junk shop in Clapham)

  Hart, Nancy

  Hart, Tracy

  Hartston, William

  Haubold, Art

  “He’s So Fine” (song)

  Hearst, Patty

  Heaven’s Gate mission

  suicide of

  Heinl, Nancy

  Heinl, Robert Debs

  Henderson, Tim

  Hendrix, Jimi

  Henslin, James

  Heraclitus

  Herald of Free Enterprise disaster

  Herold, King of England

  comets foretelling the defeat of

  Hesketh-Harvey, Kit

  Highland County Atlas

  Hill, Susan

  Hillary, Edmund

  Hippocrates

  Hitchcock, Alfred

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Adams)

  and the number forty-two

  Hladkyj, Stephen

  Hobbes, Thomas

  Hodges, Ann

  Hopkins, Anthony

  horoscopes and astrology

  How Many Miles to Babylon? (Johnston)

  Howard, John

  Hudson, Elaine

  Huhtala, Marja-Leena

  Hunziker, Douglas

  Hutcheson, Ebenezer

  Hutcheson, John

  Hutcheson, Jonathan

  Hutcheson, Richard

  Hutcheson, Thomas

  Hutcheson, Thophilus

  Hutcheson, Titus

  Hutton, Barbara

  hyperstring theory

  “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” (song)

  Incredible Coincidence (Vaughan)

  information

  profligacy of

  Institute of Environmental Health and Forensic Sciences (Auckland, New Zealand)

  Internet World Population Clock

  Jack Frost and Other Stories

  Jackson, Andrew

  Jackson, Michael

  Jackson, Peter

  James, Harrison (James Rusk Jr.)

  Jane Eyre (Brontë)

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Jenkins, Rev. William

  Jerusalem

  comets foretelling the fall of

  Jesus Christ Superstar (Broadway musical)

  “Jesus Christ Superstar” (song)

  jewelry

  finding lost

  jinxes and curses

  Curse of “Papa Doc” Duvalier

  Curse of the Bambino

  James Dean’s sports car

  kimono, curse of

  Leo and Me (Canadian sitcom) and early-onset Parkinson’s disease

  lightning strikes

  Mauna Loa volcano

  Sports Illustrated cover

  Superman

  supermarket checkout counter and pregnancy

  tombs of the pharaohs

  weddings

  Jocasta, Queen of Thebes

  Johansen, Robert

  John Dollar (Wiggins)

  Johnson, Andrew

  Johnson, Lyndon

  Johnson, Vincent Leon

  Johnson, Wanda Marie (Adelphi, MD)

  Johnson, Wanda Marie (Suitland, MD)

  Johnston, Jennifer

  Jones, Cyril

  Jones, Jean

  Jones, Warren

  “Joy” (short film)

  July 4

  presidents who died on

  Jung, Carl

  Jupiter (ship)

  Jupp, Mickey

  Kafka, Franz

  Kafka, Mike

  Kallidusjian, R. T.

  Kammerer, Paul

  Karpin, Peter

  Keaton, Buster

  Kehoe, Erin

  Kelly, Jim

  Kennedy, Jacqueline

  Kennedy, John F.

  Abraham Lincoln, similarities with

  Kepler, Johannes

  Ketcham, Hank

  Keys, Alicia

  Kidder, Margot

  Kilsby, Mrs. G. L.

  kimono, curse of

  King, Brian

  Kinmont, Jill

  Kit and the Widow (cabaret act)

  Klempel, Walter

  Knight, Mark

  Knox, Ken

  Koestler, Arthur

  Krantzer, Herbert

  letter to

  Kupcinet, Irving

  Labertouche, Mr.

  LaBrash, George

  Laius, King of Thebes

  Land of Kingdom Come (Sherman)

  Last Summer, The (Pasternak)

  Laurel, Stan

  Law, Arthur

  Law of Seriality, The (Kammerer)

  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

 

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