The sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912, is now one of the most well-known tragedies in history, and 114 years to the day that the ship submerged, an Illinois exhibit dedicated to the Titanic was flooded.
Per NBC News, the Volo Museum in Volo, Illinois, flooded due to thunderstorms on the 114th anniversary of the ship's sinking. Stranger still, the museum reported that the Titanic exhibit was the sole exhibit in the museum that was affected by the water.
A Titanic exhibit at the Volo museum in #Illinois flooded from thunderstorms on the exact anniversary of the infamous ship's sinking.
♬ original sound - nbcnews - nbcnewsThis is far from the only disconcerting coincidence when it comes to the Titanic disaster. Most notably, on June 18, 2023, OceanGate's Titan submersible had seemingly gone missing while on a trip to the Titanic wreckage.
Ultimately, however, it was confirmed that the Titan had suffered a catastrophic implosion, leading to the deaths of all five people onboard, including OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, French explorer and submariner Paul-Henri Nargeolet, businessman and pilot Hamish Harding and businessman Shahzada Dawood, along with his 19-year-old son, Suleman Dawood.
This tragedy gained significant public attention for myriad reasons, including the eerie coincidence that the submersible, with a name that was (intentionally) so similar to the Titanic, had been destroyed on its way to the wreckage, in the very same waters.
However, arguably even more captivating to many was the initial belief that, rather than an explosion or implosion, the Titan had lost contact with the Polar Prince, the surface ship from which the Titan departed, and was now floating somewhere at the bottom of the ocean with mere days of oxygen remaining. That desperate search had been plastered across the news and social media.
Public and media interest continued when it was revealed that OceanGate had engaged in practices that many alleged had led to this catastrophic implosion, including related to the ship's carbon fiber hull, which experts have since said had no chance of surviving the ocean's intense pressure.
Among the voices who called OceanGate out for these practices was James Cameron, the filmmaker and deep-sea explorer who created the iconic 1997 Titanic movie.
Neither OceanGate's Titan submersible tragedy nor this most recent flooding at the Volo Museum's Titanic exhibit have helped to deter the public belief that there is some sort of supernatural factor, be it a curse or otherwise, tied to the Titanic.
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