Unbelievable! Quotes

“But one strand of conspiratorial thinking has proven quite eerie, and that is the extraordinary number of elevens associated with the attacks. There are eleven letters in ‘New York City’, ‘The Pentagon’, ‘George W. Bush’ and ‘Afghanistan’. New York was the eleventh state admitted to the union. American Airlines Flight 11 was the first plane to hit the Twin Towers, which incidentally looked like a giant 11, with 92 people aboard; 9 + 2 = 11. United Airlines Flight 175, which struck the South Tower, was carrying 65 people; 6 + 5 = 11. Meanwhile, 11 September is the 254th day of the year (2 + 5 + 4 = 11), with 111 days remaining. Even the popular rendering of the date – 9/11 – adds up to eleven (9 + 1 + 1), as well as resembling the US emergency number, 911. Coincidence? It gets weirder. On 11 March 2004, ten coordinated explosions on four packed commuter trains killed 191 people in Madrid. Numerologists were quick to point out that the date not only contained another eleven and added up to eleven (1 + 1 + 3 + 2 + 0 + 0 + 4 = 11), as did the number of victims (1 + 9 + 1 = 11), but also that it fell exactly 911 days after 9/11.”
― Jenny Crompton, Unbelievable!: The Bizarre World of Coincidences

“On holiday in Ibiza in 2001, a young woman from Edinburgh met a young man from London and he gave her his number on the back of a bar receipt. But when she got home, the receipt was nowhere to be found. Chalking it up to carelessness, she called her mother to tell her about the holiday – only for her suitor to answer the phone. She had misdialled her mother’s mobile number, which was only one digit different from his.”
― Jenny Crompton, Unbelievable!: The Bizarre World of Coincidences

“Coincidences are all around us, if only we can find the link that transforms two unrelated–and often uninteresting–circumstances into an incredible tale.”
― Jenny Crompton, Unbelievable!: The Bizarre World of Coincidences