After a road bridge collapsed in Maryland earlier this week, netizens were left stunned by its uncanny similarity to a disaster depicted in a novel.
In Leave the World Behind, written by Rumaan Alam in 2020, a family finds itself isolated after the bridge they were crossing gives away.
Videos of the actual Baltimore bridge breaking apart sent chills down spines as the fictional scene seemed to play out in real time.
From the location of the collapse to visuals of twisted metal and fractured concrete, the parallels could not be more precise.
While the novel might be coincidental, it highlights how vulnerable modern infrastructure can be to unpredictable calamities.
The Baltimore accident reaffirmed how art sometimes imitates real terrifying incidents in strangely accurate ways.
It sparked a debate on the lines between fiction and reality, blurring as the fallen bridge connected the two worlds in an uncanny loop.
