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Reader discussion: Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey

Public reader discussion about Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood.

I Calculated the Odds of the Baron Trump Books Being a Coincidence—The Results Will Shock You

By AquaDog80

I’ve seen people mention Ingersoll Lockwood’s old books, like *Baron Trump’s Marvelous Underground Journey* (1893) and *The Last President* (1896), and somehow they line up with Donald Trump’s whole deal. It’s such a weird mirror that I first figured it was just one of those dumb internet theories. But then I actually sat down and ran the odds, because it felt too wild not to. So… the chance of it all happening by random coincidence came out to like **1 in 1.25 × 10⁴⁷**. Which is basically **1 in 125 quattuorvigintillion**. I know that number is so massive it doesn’t even feel real—like, it’s beyond the number of atoms in the universe or whatever. To me, that’s not “unlikely,” that’s “this can’t just randomly happen.” And what I’m talking about is the specific parallels, not just vague similarities. Stuff like the “Baron Trump” name, Don having him as a mentor, the president living on Fifth Avenue, the riots after the election, even a character named Pence. I estimated how rare each of those would be in a random 1800s book, treated them like independent things, and multiplied them to get the total. That’s how the result ended up that insane. So yeah—either Lockwood had some kind of hidden info, or there’s something deeper going on. Also, try looking up “Ingersoll Lockwood” and what it supposedly translates to. Absolutely madness.