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** Perhaps it has something to do with the [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons|giant bird/lizard]] bones found all over.
*** The Cinderella fairy tale also seems pretty widespread.
*** A myth about an otherworldly shapeshifter woman who transforms from her natural form to that of a beautiful maiden through the use of her garment exists. A young male passerby spies her bathing and (eventually or immediately) steals her garment, hiding it away and forcing her to marry him and bear his children. After many years, she discovers her garment (sometimes herself, sometimes because her husband permits her to see it, and sometimes because of her unknowning child finding it) and, taking it, departs forever, leaving husband and children. Now, am I describing the Orkney and Shetland selkie, the Japanese Tennyo, the Swedish Swan Maiden, the German Three Swans, or one of several other similar stories together classified as [[
* An apparent real-life example is documented [http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/010764.html here] at [[Overheard]].
** My guess: George and Martha.
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** Also, one of the examples on the link, "Is God A Mathematician", is the name of a book.
* Directors Alex Proyas and [[Darren Aronofsky]] both independently thought up the [http://www.head-fi.org/t/423593/jennifer-connelly-on-a-pier almost identical] striking image of [[Jennifer Connelly]] standing at the edge of a pier for their respective movies ''[[Dark City]]'' (1998) and ''[[Requiem for a Dream]]'' (2000). ''[[House of Sand and Fog]]'' (2003) did it too only a few years later, by which time you might start to suspect that Connelly puts a "pier clause" in her movie contracts.
* When [[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee]] couldn't decide if ''[[Infamous (video game series)|
** Y'know, if they think this much alike, it explains why they made [[Dueling Games]] (released too close together for [[Follow the Leader]] to be a plausible explanation) in the first place.
* Pyramids. Unless you believe the [[Ancient Astronauts]] theory.
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* Might fit better under mythology, but a ''lot'' of the Creation myths involve the world getting flooded at some point, with very few people left to repopulate. Take that as you will.
** Lots of ancient cultures liked to settle near fresh water sources and heavy seasonal rains repeatedly killed off a lot of them, leaving just a few survivors to repopulate?
** Archaeological evidence exists for [[w:Black Sea deluge hypothesis|a catastrophic overflow of the Black Sea circa 5600 BCE]], although the speed at which it occurred is still debated. [[w:Flood myth#Claims of historicity|There are also other candidates which may or may not have inspired the myth.]]
* Hank Ketcham and David Law, on the same day, an ocean apart, [[Dennis the Menace|began publishing comics of a trouble-making kid named Dennis.]]
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