🎬 CUTTING ROOM FLOOR: You Won't BELIEVE This Eerie Coincidence! (Podcast Exclusive)

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:13):
What do we got there on the cutting room floor today?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Friend, I've got a story of crazy coincidence, yep, a
giant what are the chances? And a sad what are
the chances? This is the story that apparently sounds impossible,
but it is one hundred percent trip okay. On July eighteen,
nineteen seventy five, a young man called erskine Eben tragically

(00:37):
lost his life when his moped collided with a taxi
in Hamilton and unfortunate I'm reading the story an unfortunate
but not uncommon accident. But here's where it gets eerie?
Are you ready? Lean En Brendon, exactly one year earlier,
July eighteenth, nineteen seventy four, his brother Neville died in

(01:00):
the exact same way, riding the same moped, crashing into
the same taxi driven by the same driver carrying the
same passenger on the same stretch of road, both boys
age seventeen. WHOA, that's a giant? Whoa the chilling coincidence

(01:23):
that says his sparked a full inquest, ultimately clearing the
taxi driver of any wrongdoing.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
How weeds that? And the passenger? You think you know?
This is the opposite of a lucky day for everyone.
So the odds of that happening do the mass really hard?

Speaker 2 (01:38):
They are so the mystery, they say here, Even though
the taxi driver was cleared of wrongdoing, the mystery refuses
to fade.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Some believe it was a glitch in the matrix. No, yeah,
the Pete Evans is of the world.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah right, but maybe maybe in parallel universe as there's
a giant glitch because coincidence is like this. Sure they
can happen, but what and they say, others suspect something
more sinister, theories of fate deja vous a planned murder,
like why would you the same passenger that's the that's freezing,

(02:13):
same bicycle, be same taxi driver, same taxi, same passenger,
same place.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
And same date. There are a lot of variable family.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
I've not as in any way as amazing as that
when I first got my first radio job.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
I can't imagine this would be anywhere near in Western Australia.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
I landed in Perth and the taxi driver that took
me from the airport to where I was going to
stay before I went on the next flight up to Kartha,
we just got to talking and I talked about radio
and all that sort of stuff from all my hopes
and dreams, and he said, well, good luck with that, mate,
and we had this great chat.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
We had a really good chat, me and this guy,
and then he said good luck.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
I hope to see you get Two years later, I've
left Cartha and I'm now heading home to take a
job in Musclebrook. I get out of the off the
at the airport, I get into the cab and the
guy goes you again. Two years later, Wow, exactly the
same cab, same driver, He said where he after? I

(03:17):
said I've got a new job. I'm going back to
Sydney and he said, oh, well you got a boat
job on the big time radio. No, no, no, Musclebrook.
But you know, to me it was the big time
and and he didn't charge me. He took me and
took me to where I was staying, and that was it.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
He said it back. See, these things can happen, can't
they It can, but it can happen.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Like I went to London and a friend of mine said,
look up my brother and see if I'm going to
do that. And I on the last hoft obliged to better
have a look and he was living in the flat
underneath where I was staying. And I only knew that
because I saw his name on the on a letter
that was left at the front door.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
What are the chances? What are the chances stuff can happen?

Speaker 2 (03:56):
It's easy for us say what are the chances the
poor parents of these two boys?

Speaker 1 (04:00):
But well that's bad chances.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
You want, you want good chances. Like that story of
that guy who won.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
A million dollars.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
So it was on the lot, remember this Australian man,
and then the news crew filmed him re enacting filling
out the lotto form. And while they're filming him, he goes,
I've won and they go yeah, we know. He goes, no,
I've won again, won again.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
What are the chances? What are the chances? Is that
what Abba wrote about? So you win again? Got this song?

Speaker 3 (04:28):
I knew there was a chance.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
You bring up some horrible reference. What are the chances
coat tomorrow?

Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah,