5 Strangest Coincidences In History

After President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on April 14, 1865, there was a 3-week funeral procession along the East Coast to honor his life. Almost a century later, author Stefan Lorant unearthed a photograph showing the cortège as it passed by Cornelius van Schaack Roosevelt’s house. And right there, looking through the window, was a future President of the United States... On April 25, 1865, President Lincoln’s casket advanced through New York City in a somber procession. Thousands of people gathered in the streets and looked out their windows to pay their respects. In the late 1940s, author Stefan Lorant was looking through photographs as part of research for a book on Lincoln when he noticed an uncanny coincidence captured in one of the photos.