Some of the Most Shocking Coincidences in History

9. Edgar Allen Poe’s Shocking Story

When it was published in 1838, “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket” was considered a ghastly, macabre tale from author Edgar Allen Poe. Within the narrative, someone recounts a tale of four sailors who are left adrift at sea. After days without food, the four men kill and eat a poor cabin boy named Richard Parker. In 1884, after a ship sank, four men were reduced to cannibalism in real life, devouring the unfortunate cabin boy, a young man named Richard Parker.