Anne Hathaway has a very eerie connection to Shakespeare — and people are totally spooked

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• Recently, people have been buzzing about how Anne Hathaway doesn't seem to have aged at all since "The Princess Diaries" was released in 2001, but now, something even stranger has started making the rounds.
• One Twitter user pointed out that Hathaway's husband looks just like William Shakespeare — and she shares the same name as Shakespeare's wife.
• Now, people are hitting Twitter to talk about this eerie connection.

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Anne Hathaway might have been off the grid for awhile, but she's back — and since "Ocean's 8" hit theaters last month, she's become a huge topic of conversation. But now fans are buzzing about her for a different reason, and it all has to do with William Shakespeare.

As Twitter user @PEACHYBLACKG0RL pointed out, there are more than a few connections between Hathaway and Shakespeare, and now, her tweet is going viral with more than 160,000 retweets and growing.

"Anne hathaway is being talked about for her beauty but what about the fact that her husband looks very similar to William Shakespeare and William Shakespeare's wife's name was literally ANNE HATHAWAY......" the tweet read.

Strangely enough, this is all true. There obviously aren’t any actual photographs of Shakespeare, but the artwork that does exist showing what he looked like is very similar to Hathaway’s real-life husband, Adam Shulman. And as for Shakespeare’s wife herself? She was, in fact, named Anne Hathaway. Spooky, right?

Maybe not. According to a 2008 article in The Telegraph, Hathaway was actually purposefully named after Shakespeare’s wife, but the actress herself has yet to confirm that fact — and it still doesn’t explain why her husband looks so much like poet.

And of course, plenty of people have turned to Twitter to share how much their minds have been blown because of this connection.

So what’s the deal with Hathaway and Shulman? Are they actually time travelers, or is this all just one big coincidence? Either way, it’s pretty cool that she and the legendary poet (and his wife) share these similarities.

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