Viral Lists

3 pages on this site touch on this topic.

• Lincoln and Kennedy: the viral list, checked — The most famous coincidence list in America mixes a few real, checkable facts with several claims that are false, exaggerated, or manufactured after the fact.
• The found book: a story that resists checking — Anthony Hopkins reportedly found a discarded book that turned out to be the author's own lost copy — a beloved story this site could not fully verify.
• The novel that "predicted" the Titanic — A 1898 novella about an unsinkable liner hitting an iceberg predates the Titanic by 14 years — but its famous matching numbers are from a later edition.