When coincidence strikes, there will always be those who believe fate is responsible and skeptics who try to use reason to find a logical explanation.

Life is packed full of serendipitous happenings, but coming up are some coincidences that are sure to leave you lost for words.

You're listening. You're listening to be amazed. for words.

Back in 1973, Hollywood actor Anthony Hopkins agreed to appear

in a screen adaptation of George Fyfer's novel,

The Girl from Petrovka.

To prepare for the role, Hopkins realized that he should probably read the book first,

but he couldn't find a copy no matter how hard he searched.

That is until one day when a heavily annotated copy suddenly turned up on a bench in a subway

waiting room.

When Hopkins eventually met Fyfer two years later,

he retold the story of his unexpected fine only to discover, it was far luckier than he ever

could have guessed. Fyfer explained that he didn't own a copy of the book himself because he'd lent

it to a friend who lost it while riding the subway. Hopkins then produced the book, and to his surprise, Fyfer identified it as his original copy by

recognizing his handwriting. There's no word whether Hopkins returned the book to its

rightful owner, though. Now here's a Titanic prediction. An 1898 U.S. writer Morgan Robertson

published a novella named Puteleity.

But it wasn't until over a decade later that it started gaining some unexpected attention.

The novel details a shipwreck, which occurs after a ship of record size, collides with an iceberg in the North Atlantic,

and the name of that ship just so happens to be the Titan.

Sound familiar?

That's right, Robertson pretty much predicted the most famous shipwreck in history 14 years before the Titanic liner sank near Newfoundland,

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