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Charles Coghlan was born in 1841 to a poor Irish family  living in Canada, in Prince Edward Island.

His parents wanted the best for their son and so he was sent to England to study.

Some years later he returned home and he had obtained a good university degree.

However he wanted to be an actor but his father did not approve at all about that; Charles left the island and he was right to believe in his abilities;he was a talented actor and he had success.

A day he visited a fortune teller who made him a shocking prediction: she said he would die suddenly when he would be at the peak of his popularity, in a city in the south of the United States but the fortune teller added that his body would never rest until it returned home to Prince Edward Island.

That happened in1898, while he was playing Hamlet in Galveston, Texas; he was fifty-seven years old, at the peak of a brilliant career when he died on stage.

A week later, he was buried in a lead-lined-coffin on Galveston Island.

In 1900 a great hurricane hit Galveston and a lot of the island was washed into the Gulf of Mexico, including the cemetery  where Coghlan was buried.

Some years later some fishermen found his coffin off the coast of Prince Edward Island.

The fortune teller's prediction had come true.