Danny James Buff and Oedipus

In the story of Oedipus is was said that he would grow up to marry his mother. When he found this out he left home and a few years later when he came back he had met an attractive woman. He married that woman and later on found out it was actually his mother. A 26 year old man named Danny James Bass had married his 43 year old mother Anne Garton Bass and claimed that he did not find out she was actually his mother a months after their marriage. Both Danny and Oedipus felt attraction to their mothers and married them without knowing who it was.

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/24/us/man-who-married-his-mother-is-indicted-on-incest-charges.html