General "Did you Know?"s

[SERIOUSLY THOUGH*]

http://www.mandatory.com/2012/07/24/an-1...ted-an-18/

Edgar Allen Poe wrote a story about 4 crewmen who are lost at sea and turned to eating the cabin boy named Richard Parker. 46 years later, an English yacht sank and the remaining 4 survivors in a life boat turned to eating the Cabin Boy after he fell ill, also named Richard Parker.

To quote a certain "Satanspanties" on Reddit 

"Parker was never said to be the cabin boy in the book, I think that's something people add on to make the coincidence seem creepier.

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is a strange book, as you might expect from Poe. It starts as a very standard adventure novel and descends into mutiny, cannibalism, unexplained death, mass slaughter, and a dash of good old fashioned nineteenth century racism."


I think the coincidence is creepy enough without embellishing it further.