8 Shocking Co incidents that are hard to believe

Error of computer

A computer error gave two women in America called Patricia the same social security number. When the two women were brought together in an office to rectify the blunder they discovered that

They had both been born with the names Patricia Ann Campbell

Both of their fathers were called Robert Campbell

Their birthdays were on 13th March 1941

They had both married military men in the year 1959 (within eleven days of each other)

They each had two children aged 19 and 21

They both had an interest in oil painting

Both had studied cosmetics

Both had worked as book-keepers

Death is the inevitable

In 1893, Henry Ziegland ended a relationship with his girlfriend.

Tragically, his girlfriend took the news very badly, became distraught

and took her own life.

Her distressed brother blamed his sister's death upon Henry, he went

round to Henry's house, saw him out in the garden and tried to shoot him.

Luckily, the bullet only grazed Henry's face and embedded itself in a

nearby tree.

In 1913, twenty years after this incident, Henry decided to use

dynamite to uproot a tree in his garden. The explosion propelled the

embedded bullet from the tree straight into Henry Ziegland's

head - killing him immediately.

Lucky man beating death again and again

On December 5th 1660, a ship sank in the straights of Dover - the only

survivor was noted to be Hugh Williams.

On 5th December 1767, another ship sank in the same waters - 127 lost

their lives, the only survivor was noted to be Hugh Williams

On 8th August 1820, a picnic boat capsized on the Thames - there was

one survivor - Hugh Williams.

On 10th July 1940, a British trawler was destroyed by a German mine - only two men survived, one man and his nephew - they were both called

Hugh Williams.

She is behind you

Michael **** had been traveling around the UK with his family to

track down his daughter, Lisa - who he had lost contact with ten years earlier.

After a long fruitless search, he approached the Suffolk Free Press,

who agreed to help him by putting an appeal in their newspaper.

Fortunately, his long lost daughter saw the appeal and the pair

were

reunited. The odd thing was, his daughter had been right behind him

when the free paper took the photograph - shown in the photograph

above. What are the chances of that!

Lightning never strike twice? is it so

British cavalry officer Major Summerford was fighting in the fields of

Flanders in the last year of WW1, a flash of lightning knocked him off his horse and paralyzed him from his waist down.

He moved to Vancouver, Canada, six years later, whilst out fishing,

Major Summerfield was struck by lightning again and the right side of his body became paralyzed.

After two years of recovery, it was a summers day and he was out in a

local park, a summer storm blew up and Major Summerfield was struck by lightning again - permanently paralyzing him.

He died two years after this incident.

However, four years after his death, his stone tomb was destroyed - it was struck by lightning!