The Taxi Brothers

Many incredible coincidence stories seem too good to be real. Once you start digging, they disintegrate. Yet, a well-known rumor of two brothers who were slain one year apart by the same taxi driver while driving the same passenger could potentially be true.

Records on the incident are somewhat scarce because it is said to have occurred in Bermuda in 1975. Yet, internet sleuths looking to solve the mystery have combed through the evidence to locate the answers. There is a 1975 Telegraph article that presents the occurrence as actual fact. The brothers died one year apart while riding the same scooter on the same road when they were both 17 years old. In some sources, the taxi driver's name and even the roads where the boys were struck are mentioned.

A 1974 bulletin from a Bermuda worker's union did have a brief statement of sympathy following the passing of a 17-year-old with the same name as the original account, giving the entire affair a lot of credence even though verifiable details are hard to come by.