One of the oddest coincidences ever recorded spans a period of nearly 200 years.  On December 5, 1664 a ship with 81 passengers sank in the Menai Strait off the coast of Wales, leaving only one survivor, a man named Hugh Williams. 

On December 5, 1785, 121 years later, another ship sank  in the Menai Strait and again all of the passengers perished except one - named Hugh Williams.  Two ships sinking in the same area on the same day of the month certainly isn't earth-shattering.  When each of them has only one survivor and both are named Hugh Williams, it's a little eerie.  But the story doesn't end at that.

On December 5, 1860, yet another ship, a small 25 passenger vessel, sank in the Menai Strait and once again there was only one survivor - and once again his name was Hugh Williams ...........

The most celebrated case of transposed senses was reported by Dr. C. Lombroso, a highly regarded neuro-logist and psychiatrist.  Three months after a 12-year old girl had suddenly become quite ill, she completely lost her sight.  Even though her eyes were non-functional, however, the girl claimed she could see.  Her mystified parents took her to Lombroso who conducted a series of tests to determine if she was telling the truth.

The neurologist placed blindfolds over the girl's eyes and then placed objects in front of her.  Amazingly, she could in fact see them, identifying colours and even reading a letter.  A bright light shone against her ear lobe, however, caused her to wince in pain.  And when the doctor poked his finger at the tip of the girl's nose, she angrily exclaimed, 'Are you trying to blind me'? 

Evidently, the girl's sense of vision had relocated to the tip of her nose as well her ear lobe.  But more than her sight had been transposed: apparently she could also smell through her chin.

At first, it might have seemed like an entertaining gift, but A.W. Underwood grew tired of his ability to set objects aflame by simple breathing on them.  It was after all, a talent he had to guard carefully.  And despite months of tests, and the eventual celebrity status he achieved, not a single expert could explain what caused this bizarre phenomenon.

According to L.C. Woodman, the first physician to examine the fire-starter, when Underwood held items such as a cotton handkerchief or dry leaves against his mouth they would burst into flames in a matter of seconds.  The doctor rinsed out the 24 year old man's mouth with various solutions.  He made him wear rubber gloves.  Not matter how rigorous the examination, neither Woodman nor his colleagues could find any trace of trickery.  Nor could they determine any medical condition that would have such symptoms.

An FBI document appended to a 1983 court order quoted an Air Force investigator as saying three flying saucers had been recovered near the Pentagon's huge radar apparatus in the New Mexico desert in 1950.  

According to the memo, each circular craft had a diameter of approximately 50 feet and contained a raised section in the centre.  Their occupants were humanoid, it continued, three feet tall and wearing metallic bodysuits .....

In the annals of legendary cursed clothing, perhaps none created nearly as much furore and destruction as that attributed to a mid-seventeenth-century Japanese kimono.

Three young women each successively owned the garment and all three died before they eve had a chance to wear it.  Believing the kimono was evil and the cause of the girls deaths, a Japanese priest declared that it should be cremated in February 1657.  but as the kimono was set ablaze, a sudden and violent wind blew up and fanned the flames until they were out of control.  The ensuing fire destroyed three-quarters of Tokyo and killed 100,000 people.

The sitters were all laughing, when they heard a loud thump on the table, and several of them screamed.  One of them lit a lamp and there in the middle of the table sat Mrs Guppy.  She seemed to be in a trance and held a pen and an account book in her hand.

When the medium was gently roused from her trance, she was a little perturbed.  The last thing she remembered was sitting at home three miles away.  The sitters escorted her home, where an anxious friend awaited.  Apparently, the two had been in Mrs Guppy's room together when Mrs Guppy suddenly disappeared, leaving only a slight haze near the ceiling.

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