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People Are Sharing Weird Coincidences They Can’t Explain And Here’re 30 Of The Most Mysterious Ones
It’s no secret that not everything in this world can be explained. Like dark matter, the Bermuda triangle, deja vu, and whatnot—they remind us that there’s a seed of doubt, an underlying level of uncertainty in things we share this planet with.
No wonder some people are more superstitious than others. But even if you stand on the rational ground and have an explanation for virtually everything, it doesn’t mean weird stuff won’t happen to you. Like, these people in a Reddit thread who found themselves in experiences that defy words.
So when someone posed the question “Reddit, what's your creepiest/weirdest coincidental experience?” it resonated with many and the answers started flooding in. Get your popcorn ready, ‘cause this is better than film.
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#1
Six years ago, because of my drinking, I'd been homeless for about 8 months. I'd been at a shelter for a few weeks and one day, as I walked from the library back to the shelter for dinner, I decided I couldn't take anymore. I was ready to kill myself. That prior August my mother had passed away, so on the street that evening I said to her, "I can't take it anymore, mom. Help me." Back at the shelter, after dinner, us bums waited for showers and bedtime. That evening the shelter had more residents than usual and many of them needed clean socks or underwear, etc. On this night, it wasn't scheduled, but the shelter opened the basement where they kept donated clothes. I didn't need anything, but I was bored, so I went downstairs. I browsed the racks and didn't find anything to my liking so I headed for the stairs. That's where I found 'LeMutt'. 'LeMutt' is a toy, a little stuffed dog, and I'd had one when I was a kid. In fact, I clearly remembered my mother and I in the store, 20+ years ago, buying him. I was in 3rd grade then. I asked a volunteer if he knew where the dog came from. He shook his head. This was, and still is, a men's homeless shelter. People were not dropping-off stuffed animals for the junkies and drunks. I don't know where the dog came from, but I kept him. Still got him. Anyway, my life is much better, and different, today. I'm set to graduate with a BFA next month. Life is really, really good. Thanks, Mom. I love you.
#2
Back about 10 years ago, I went on a first date with someone I met online through match.com. I lived in the Philadelphia suburbs, she was in the city. I drove into the city for your typical dinner and a movie, or a movie (Memento) and then dinner in this case. We enjoyed the movie and while we were talking and walking to dinner afterwards, I told her what I did for a living, which was write image processing software at a small company she'd likely never heard of.
She paused and asked, 'you don't by any chance know [name of coworker/friend I've known for many years], do you?' Why yes, yes I do, I say. Turns out she knows him through some online forum having to do with singing, and they'd actually met before at some event. We reflect about the unlikelihood of this.
But that is not the coincidence I am writing about.
We continue to the restaurant, having a great conversation, hitting it off. About halfway through dinner, I feel comfortable enough to tell her about having gone through colon cancer the year before, and the long recovery after having had my colon removed. Not your typical first date conversation perhaps, but she was interested. Anyway, after I mention the surgery, she asks where I had it done. Penn, I say. She pauses. 'Who was your oncologist?' she asks. Oh-kayyyy, I think, not the question I would have expected, but I tell her. She pauses even longer. Then she says, in fact demands, 'Who. Was. Your. Oncology. Nurse?' I tell her.
At this point she gets the most amazed expression I'd ever seen and says 'You're...you're...that Jerry!' And starts laughing uncontrollably. Every time the laughter starts to die down, says says 'you're that Jerry!' again, which sets off another fit of laughter. She literally can't get out anything coherent for at least five minutes, she's laughing too hard. The suspense is killing me.
Maybe ten minutes and a dozen "that Jerry's" later, I finally am able to piece together that about a year before, she was sharing an office at Penn with my oncology nurse (she's not in medicine herself, it just had to do with a shortage of space, I think). The nurse used to tell her, 'I have this one patient who would be perfect for you, if only he wasn't recovering from surgery and going through chemo.' She even told her the name of this patient.
Of course 'he' was me, and she and I ended up dating for a year or so and are still good friends to this day.
It seems that some people are more prone to weird events happening to them. Like your high school friend who swore they saw a ghost in their house one night in a creepy encounter that changed how they feel sleeping in darkness to this day. Isn’t it just because some of us are more superstitious, while others are realists who seem to always find an explanation for almost everything, even things that by their own definition are unexplainable?
In order to dig deeper into the topic, Bored Panda contacted Susan Petang, a certified life coach, teaching adults and teens. Susan runs “Quiet Zone Coaching” where she teaches essential life skills and coping tools people need when stress is overwhelming and life is hard.
#3
Once on the Fourth of July, our dog Svejk escaped the yard and ran for it during the fireworks. He was missing for a couple of days, during which we plastered signs all over town with his photo.
A family called, thinking they had our dog. We drove over there (about three miles away, across a busy highway and on the other side of a major commercial district), and sure enough, it was him. They said they almost considered keeping him, as he was so sweet and they had lost their dog Norman on the same night.
The next day, an old woman two doors down the street from us called, having seen our flyer and thinking she may have seen our dog in her yard (also a black lab). We told her we already had Svejk back, but she called again and insisted we come over (she was a little senile).
We walked over, and on a whim, called "Norman?". He immediately came running droolingly over and followed us home. We drove him the three miles back across town, and sure enough, it was him. We've always wondered if the two dogs met each other during their respective epic journeys
#4
In high school in Los Angeles I drove a friend down to Dana Point, CA to look at a car on sale on Craigslist. At the house of the car owner I shared a moment with the cute girl living next door via prolonged eye contact as she left her house. Friend bought the car. We left.
Five years later I move to south Orange County and take a job near Dana Point and start dating a girl I sort of worked with. When I went to her house for the first time I stopped cold while walking up her driveway as I realized where I was. It was the house. She was the girl. She asked me what was wrong because she could almost literally see my mind exploding. I told her the story, and we shared another moment on that same lawn from five years before.
We're getting married next July.
Susan confirmed my inkling that some people are indeed more superstitious than others. “Many folks take their cues from their parents. What we were taught to believe as children can become important to us as adults,” the life coach explained.
“For example, if we were raised in a very religious family, we're more likely to be religious as adults, Susan said and added: “If people we loved and respected as kids were superstitious, we'll have a tendency to be superstitious, since that way of thinking is familiar to us.”
#5
I'm adopted.
I'm about 18 and moving to the big city to start uni, looked at heaps of apartments and finally found somewhere nice. The real estate agent shows me around the apartment and I decide to take it. A couple of days later I'm in the realtor's office to sign the lease, chatting away with the ladies. Just the usual 'Where are you moving from?' chatter as I filled out all the paperwork, and the nice agent who showed my the apartment gave me the keys.
Cut to a few weeks later and the phone at my new apartment rings. It's my realtor calling to tell me that she's my birth mother.
She swears to this day that she recognized my familiar family facial features on the day she showed me the apartment (and it's true, I do look a lot like my cousins and her daughters), and the day I signed the lease she got all my details, birth date, etc. It took her a few weeks to contact me because she wanted to confirm with the Government Adoption agency and to let her family know what was happening.
Bit of a spin out.
#6
Around six or seven years ago, a large portion of my neighborhood burned down in the fires that swept through southern california. While helping my friend's family pick through the rubble of their home for anything that could be salvaged, I saw a speck of white paper in the midst of one of the more blackened areas. I picked it up and read it--the only text on this bit of paper, left over after the rest of the page had burned away, was "from the ashes, new life is born".
#7
My wife and her brother were traveling through Europe in the spring of 1986. I was home working in California. I knew their itinerary but did not know exactly where they were. I hadn't talked to them in a couple of days. Got bored, called an overseas operator, and got her to call a pay phone outside of Monet's Garden in Giverny. After about 15 rings, someone finally picked up the phone. It was my wife. Needless to say, it blew both out minds. One of the strangest thing that ever happened to me in my life.
At the time cell phones were still in the distant future. And the operator picked this phone, not me. Because of the itinerary, it was not a total shot in the dark, but the fact that the time and place lined up for the phone to ring will baffle me until the day I die. My wife said she and her brother were walking out of Monet's Garden when they heard a pay phone start ringing. They ignored it, walked past it, and for some reason, my wife stopped, walked back and answered it. I have no explanations, just a very strange and cool experience. And a great story.
When we experience something out of the ordinary, Susan argues that we tend to look for explanations since humans like to understand things. “We're curious, and if something doesn't make sense, we look for reasons why. We also seek explanations for things that we fear,” she added.
#8
My grandmother was in her first year of high school when the United States began sending soldiers over seas for World War II. She said it was very common for the young men to toss scraps of paper with their names and addresses onto the ground when they drove through cities - hoping someone would pick up the paper and write to them while they were deployed. One day when my grandmother was working at the local penny store, a convoy drove by. She rushed outside and snapped up the first scrap of paper she saw. She began to write the solider, and they quickly became interested in one another.
Several months later, the principal of her all-girls catholic school pulled her out of class, saying a young solider had come to see her. The principal allowed her to meet with the solider for ten minutes (supervised) in the school's auditorium. It was the young solider that she had been writing too these past few months. He told her that he was in love with her, but he was going to go back to battle in a few days. He gave her a pocket watch, and reminded her to wind it every night before she went to bed. He promised that he would come back for her, and that he would continue to love her for as long as the watch ticked. He was soon sent back over seas, and they continued to write one another.
One night, the watch would not wind. My grandmother was heartbroken, but figured that she would save her money from her job at the penny store and have the watch repaired. Two days after the watch stopped working, my grandmother received a call from the solider's mother. He had passed away in battle two days before, at the same time that the watch had stopped ticking. My grandmother was distraught, and soon mailed the watch back to the solider's mother.
Two years later, she met a young man and fell in love again and eventually married him. He had the same first, middle and last name as the deceased solider. They also would have been the same age.
#9
I worked at a library for a very long time, and in an effort to not lose my soul, I collected stuff I found in books. My favorite discovery was a hilarious postcard between two friends. I immediately thought, 'I'd like to meet these people.' I kept it next to my computer for a few years.
After a few years passes, I'm going through my papers and find a postcard from my girlfriend that I don't recognize. It takes me a few minutes to understand that I'm reading the postcard I'd put aside years earlier, between someone who was now my girlfriend and another person I'd come to know as a friend. It was probably the weirdest event in a series of events that defied probability regarding a ton of surreal linked events in our lives.
#10
My dad was visiting our summer house (he lives about 500 miles away). It was really windy one day and this random guy who was kayaking decided to come ashore and set up camp on the beach. We went and talked to the fella and offered him to stay at our guest house. Turns out this guy lives in the apartment under my father and had paddled the whole way. The cool thing is that my dad (he is in a wheelchair) is having trouble getting snow and ice of his car in the winter but for the last two winters his car was mostly snow and ice free in the morning. It turns out this guy was taking care of that every time he was doing it to his own car.
Meanwhile, a lot of superstitions have been established a long time ago in our culture and they’re not something new that just pops up one day. “They have their origins in times when we didn't have as much scientific information about how things work. The appearance of comets meant something bad would happen, for example. Droughts were viewed as punishment from the gods.”
#11
was at a gas station a while ago and i bought a pack of cigarettes, the clerk asked for my ID and commented how we have the same birthday, but he was born 10 years earlier. the guy behind me hearing the date repeated a few times started laughing and showed us his license, same date just ten years after me.
Summary: a gas station clerk, some guy in line and I, all happened to have the same birthday, just 10 years apart
#12
I used to play the flute in elementary school. I put these tie-dye hippie stickers on the case so I could tell it apart from everyone else's and scribbled my name under the velvet liner. I grew bored of it a few years later and let my parents sell it to a family friend.
Fast forward 10 years and I'm over at my boyfriends parent's house one day. I'm sitting on the couch and his little sister comes in from school and plops down next to me and shows me her new instrument. Lo and behold it's my old flute! It still has the stickers, so I pull back the liner and there is my name. Apparently they had bought it off someone that lived fairly close to my parents.
Well 5 years, a marriage and a beautiful baby girl later we still get to play on it some times.
#13
When I was eight years old a man walked up behind me, called my name and said, "You won't remember me, but we are proud of you. We are watching you. Be good now. You are important."
I ran inside the barber shop to my mom and told her. She went outside, but there was no one there. Ever since then I've felt like I'm being watched, but that I'm destined for something special. Epic troll possibly, but inspiring none the less.
However, Susan believes that “while we now understand how many things work, there are always going to be times when it's just more fun to be superstitious.” She gave an example: “my husband and I see 11-11 all the time—in phone numbers, coincidentally when we look at clocks, totals on shopping receipts, etc. It doesn't mean anything, but it's a lot more fun to think it does,” the life coach concluded.
#14
I went to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington when I was 12. When you first go in, they give you this passport thing which tells you the story of someone who lived during the Holocaust. The one that I got had a young man whose birthday was the same as mine, except 50 years prior. The day I went to the museum was 50 years to the day since his death.
#15
Here's one that mum told me. A while back, mum and her family were gathered around her uncle in his home, who had been terminally ill with cancer, and wanted to die in his home. Anyway, being Catholic, he wanted to receive his last rites. His breathing pattern was extremely odd until the priest arrived, and gave him his rites. He died about 15 seconds after the priest had finished. But here's the weird part.
After roughly 30 seconds of being out of it, he 'came back.' He turned to his wife and muttered very softly 'I can't go yet, it's too busy.' He then slipped into a state of unconsciousness, and died probably 2 hours later. The next day we turned on the news, and last night at seriously 15 minutes after his first 'death' was the detonation of the historic Bali bombings that killed many people.
I've never really been sure on religion/afterlife, but this experience of mum's has always made me think.
MauKini 3 years ago
Ive had a similar experience when my gran died. After having witnessed this I started to develope hope for a afterlife / better place.
JessG 3 years ago
You should check out the work of Lisa Smartt. She wrote a book called: Words at the Threshold: What We Say When We’re Nearing Death. The book is based on data collected through The Final Words Project, an ongoing study devoted to gathering and interpreting the mysterious language at end of life. wwwfinalwordsproject.org
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LH25 3 years ago
The night my dad died unexpectedly from a heart attack, his aunt sat down and wrote "I'm OK, Grandma and Grandpa [last name] were here to greet me". She wrote that before she heard of his death, and Grandma and Grandpa had died some years before. She said she just had to write that line.
WildHoneyPie 3 years ago
When my Uncle died I was holding his hand. I told him "save a place for me". I swear I had this vision of him as a 12 year old boy (approx) just smiling so happily! I really had the feeling that he had been the happiest at that age and he will save me a place!
Lynne Monteith 3 years ago
During WWII my Maternal Grandmother was ill in the hospital and her brother came in and sat on the end of the bed and said "Never mind, Win. You'll soon be with me." and left. She asked the rest of the family about him and they not wanting to worry her said he was fine. She got upset and said that he'd just been in to see her so she knew he was dead.
Amanda Hunter 3 years ago
I've come to the conclusion that this life here on earth is Hell, when our punishment is over we can move on.
Paola Belgini 3 years ago
Have a wonderful book talking about afterlife that is called “Astral City” by “Chico” Xavier and André Luis
Misha Writer 3 years ago
When my grandfather was dying, we knew it was the end. He kept asking if it was Wednesday yet, he was 67th in line, and when Weds morning rolled around, he died peacefully.
Terd Fergison 3 years ago
Stay skeptical. This obviously could have just been coincidence. Don't believe everything you read on the internet.
howdylee 3 years ago
So... he's Catholic, and the majority of the people in Bali are of different religions... yet when he was trying to get into what he believes is heaven just for fellow Jesus-believers, it was busy with people of mixed religions... hmmmm
noralin 3 years ago
What makes you think it was heaven he was talking about.
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#16
I got into my car once after having driven to a different city. I flipped on the radio and all there was was silence. I shrugged and was about to change the channel, assuming it wasn't a valid station, when all of the sudden it said "Daniel." This is my name, so I said "yes?" out of amusement, and the voice said "I am the Lord your God, Daniel. You must follow My commandments". Another pause as I freaked the [hell] out for a moment. Then the voice came back and was like "and this is the part in the bible..." and I realized that the classic hits channel in cincinnati was a bible thumper channel in Bloomington
#17
My grandmother had schizophrenia and severe paranoia. One of her major fears was that she was being watched, specifically people filming her. This is a common symptom, so we didn't think it was that strange. One day, we were visiting a large city (far from our home), and there was a man with one of those old hand-held cameras pointed at us. This was making my grandmother quite upset, so my dad went up to ask the guy if he could put the camera away, but the guy took off running. About 10 or so feet into his run, he smashed into another guy and dropped his camera. He kept on running and after a bit, I think he realized he didn't have the camera, because he looked back, had this big face of fear and anger, shook his head, and kept on running. Dad picked up the camera and on it was about three-to-four hours of us walking around the city.
Only us walking around the city.
We never saw the guy again. A few years later my grandmother died. This isn't the first strange thing that's happened to my family though.
#18
Back at University, me and my (randomly assigned) flatmate separately took the train down from Newcastle to Bradford to visit our best friends. Turns out they were also (randomly assigned) flatmates. I found that pretty bizarre.
#19
My grandmother died, so my family cleaned out the house and did the usual thing when people die. A few year later, my mom, being a crafty lady, went to a craft store and purchased a pack of papers with different designs on them (maps, newspaper clippings etc). One of the papers was a collage of recipe cards. She recognized the writing and the recipes. It was my dead grandmother's recipe cards that had been scanned and turned in to artsy paper. These were thrown out in garbage bags in Toronto. The paper company was from California. Crazy!
#20
I was taking some picture at a graveyard for a class and my friends were there modeling for me. I ask one of my friends to try fake cry, while I adjust my camera. When I go to take her picture, I see she is doing a great job crying. I take a couple of pictures before realizing that she is looking at this big family grave... with the exact same names of her relatives. There was her dad's name, mom's, sister's and brother's, exact name with exact last name.
Her family lives in another state and they are alive. So that was spooky, but later on we are all in my car, and we are listening to some music off a USB device. We were listening to a song for like the third time, when the sound goes off and a horrible voice says 'Get back from where you came from,' and the song continues where it left off. We were so creeped out we had to stop and catch our breath.
#21
This didn't happen to me, but it happened to my ex. He was at a singles tennis tournament as a kid and he was reading the roster. According to the sheet, he was playing himself. Turns out, his opponent had the same very uncommon first name, middle initial, and last name. Years passed, and someone shouted his name in a grocery store and he turned around... so did his tennis opponent.
#22
A couple years back, I had a dream of my grandfather, who I was not particularly close to by any means. In my dream I saw his casket formally covered by an American flag-- he served in the military. He stood next to me in a room full of mourners and held my hand. He told me not to follow him out of the doors when he left. I watched him leave. When I woke up and went downstairs to get breakfast and call my father to tell him happy birthday, my older brother informed me that my grandfather had just passed away in his sleep while I also slept.
TL:DR: My father's father came to me in my dream on the night of his death to wish me goodbye, which was also on my father's birthday
#23
The first was the day I interviewed for a graduate assistantship. That evening, the girlfriend and I hit an Asian joint, and my fortune read, "An important discussion involving you will take place today." A day later, I was offer the position.
A week or so later, we got take-out from the same restaurant and went to a local park to eat. At the table we sat at, someone had left an iPod . There was no identifying information on the device, so I pocketed it and taped a note to the table telling whoever it was to check Craigslist lost and found for instructions on how to retrieve their Touch. They never replied, so I wound up keeping it, which my fortune cookie wanted me to do, anyway, because after finishing my meal, I was met with "You will soon receive an unusual gift freely given. Accept!"
Another week passes, and we again order take-out from the same place. Before getting our meal, though, I stop at a small used book store and buy a few novels. After lunch, I'm told "Treat yourself to a good book for a needed rest and escape."
The next time I ate there my cookie contained "You will live a long and healthy life," which I hope is as true as the previous trio. And, as if breaking the chain, the one after that was empty.
#24
When we were kids a group of us used to hang around near a small stream. One night we were there I got a really bad feeling, and told my friends I was going home. I begged them to come with me, but only one did. I practically legged it up the hill from the stream, I was so afraid. The next day I found out the girls that stayed got beaten by a girl gang less than fifteen minutes after I and our friend had left.
Still freaks me how I knew to get outa there.
#25
My grandpa has always been the type of guy to love science fiction and the paranormal. One time he told me a story that has always freaked me out:
Years ago when my mother and her sisters were little, my grandpa had a ouija board that he liked to mess around with down in their basement. One day, he asked the ouija board questions about himself that the board could answer, i.e., 'Where am I from?' 'What's my address?' 'Who is my mother?', just to see what it would say. He asked 'How many daughters do I have?' and it responded with '3.' My grandpa said, 'I have four,' and the board responded with, 'Not for long.'
Two weeks later one of his daughters died in a car crash.
#26
My aunt (dad's sister) died young of cancer on October 3, 2007, when I was a junior in high school. In my senior year, I took advanced art and we were working on clay sculptures one day. At the tables of four, one person was instructed to go and grab a stack of old newspapers from a cabinet that contained hundreds of old newspapers the teacher supplied for protecting the tables during projects. Another guy goes to grab the paper and tosses me some for my area of the table. I begin work on my sculpture and realize my materials are on the obituary section. I read over them for a second and see my aunt's obituary right where my hand was. The date happened to be October 2, 2008, and since 2008 was a leap year it was a full 365 days from my aunt's death.
The stack of coincidences seemed too much for me, I believe it was her trying to give me a sign of something.
#27
In high school there was a kid who had the same middle and last name as me, the same birthday, and our parents had the same names. Not even kidding. It blew my mind.
#28
When I was in 7th grade I had a serious crush on a girl. One day her mom was driving a bunch of us somewhere and everyone was talking and making jokes. I can't remember the exact conversation, but I had a moment of silence where it was my chance to make everyone laugh. I made a super lame joke that brought silence. My moment to impress was ruined.
Come 10 years later. I am driving a car with the kids of family friends. In the same seat in the back sits a kid that reminds me of me, and there is a girl in the front seat he likes. The EXACT conversation (something about not enough of us to do something) starts progressing. I look into the rear view mirror at the kid and was thinking "don't say we will multiply. Don't say we will multiply!" (Seriously wish I remember exactly what the conversation was). I was going to intervene before he said it but BAM he drops the same lame joke I did 10 years before. And it seriously had no context or comical value at all.
I was in awe like I was psychic (a useless one apparently). I'm assuming he did not get the girl either.
#29
My grandmother was in hospice back when i was still in high school. My aunts family and my mom and all my siblings went to see her. As is common, she was pretty drugged with all kinds of morphine and wasnt making much sense. Didnt know who we were. Gibberish really. but she would keep mentioning, there was people near the ceiling and stuff. my aunt and mom kept trying to talk to her, asking if she was comfortable etc. then all of a sudden, she turns her head and stares at me. in the clearest voice id heard from her all day, she says, "oh my, there's a little one next to you", and smiles.
Still freaks me out.
#30
My last boyfriend was a Dutch man from Amsterdam that I met in Saint Petersburg, Russia- and now I am seeing a man from Saint Petersburg, whom I met in Amsterdam. Mildly strange.
What do you think ?
Nadine Debard 3 years ago (edited)
On the 10th of January, while driving on the highway, I saw about 30 storks in a field. Storks never nest in this area and it was so noticeable than the newspapers mentioned it. As I was trying to get pregnant for 3 years, with 3 miscarriages, I told the storks off for not bringing me a baby. When driving again on this highway 2 weeks later, I thanked the storks for my positive pregnancy test! They disappeared a few days afterwards. According to my first ultrasound, I got pregnant on the 13th of January. Now I'm on my 19th week and everything seems OK so far. Thank you, nice and majestic storks!! (Now I'm growing cabbages and roses, just in case...)
Steve Wilson 3 years ago
Decades ago my friend was hitchhiking in Wyoming when somebody picked him up. “Where you going?” the driver asked. “Illinois “, my friend said. They drove through SD, MN, & WI exchanging only small talk. When they crossed the Illinois state line the driver asked him where he was going specifically. When he mentioned the town the driver seemed surprised as that was where he was going, too. A few more questions & it turned out that the driver was the brother of the person my friend was going to visit. They were both going to the same house & had a good story to tell when they got there. A few years later the same friend was coming to visit me in Okla City. He’d never been there before so when he got there he pulled into a gas station & as he was pumping gas he asked the guy at the pump next to him if he knew how to get to a certain address. The guy looked at him & said “What’s that address?” When he repeated it the guy said “that’s my house”. Guy was my brother.
MauKini 3 years ago
8 years ago i met this very handsome man, we rushed into a relatioonship. Turned out that we were born in the same hospital six days apart and "knew" each other from that day. Also we have been asigned to the same job, covering the same event in the united states. We are both from germany and neither of us lived in USA. Also we fond a picture from me at a party in a whole different town. He is also in the picture with his friend in the background. Next monday we will be married two years.
Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago (edited)
Interestingly, this article is selections from an 8 year old Reddit thread.
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Treessimontrees 3 years ago
I was flying from London to Delhi and was a bit nervous. The lady sat next to me said she was nervous too, we chatted for a while before take-off. We went our separate ways in Delhi. I then started a job 6 months later in Sydney and she was the receptionist at the company. Gets a bit crazy now. After we talked for a while we realised we were renting apartments on the same street. We mutually knew someone getting married in a few weeks and were both going to the same wedding. We were talking at the wedding about future trips and so on, and we'd both booked to go diving on the Great Barrier Reef in July that year. We were flying on the SAME flight. If we'd been sat together again we'd both have had to accept the universe was putting us together. We're still good friends to this day!
Kris Cummins 3 years ago
An ex of mine lived in Maryland during high school and right after graduation her house was robbed. A couple years later she is visiting her grandma in Pittsburgh and decides to kill some time by going into a p**n shop. She’s perusing the jewelry and she finds her class ring which was stolen in Maryland. Do the odds on that one, I’ll wait.
JessG 3 years ago
BP censored your word P**N, I guess they thought it was that other word P*RN. For a second I was like "you're looking at jewelry in a P*RN shop?!?! Lol, it took me a second:-D
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Ali Marie 3 years ago
For high school graduation my cousin and I were given a trip to visit Ireland. We were out at a bar our last night there and apparently this group of young American soldiers had been looking for an excuse to talk to us. Now my cousin straight up looks like a super model so no surprise right. Anyways apparently we looked irish enough these guys thought we were locals. The bar was closing and everyone was leaving so they sent one of the group to "break the ice" and ask me for a late night place to get some food, as I was clearly the "more approachable " one. The minute I spoke to tell them I had no clue where to go it was clear I was also american. So he asked where I was from and turned out that he was the childhood best friend of my best friend from a completely different town! The whole conversation was one if those "no way you too" moments that has always stuck with me. If all the gin joints in all the world right...
JessG 3 years ago
And?! Did you hang out? Keep in touch? What happened? I must know!
Load More Replies... Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago (edited)
Before my mother died we were going through her papers & there were the love letters she & my dad exchanged while he was stationed in Germany after the war. She told me I could read them. I said no they're private between you & dad. After she died I found them again. My best friend came to visit & I decided to burn them without reading them, like the smoke from the letters returning to them. They burned quickly and easily because they were thin overseas mail paper. I have had depression my whole life and wondered if any of it was genetic. We got to one letter from my dad that would not burn no matter how long we held it to the flame. My friend said "I think you're supposed to read it. I did, and what he wrote to my mom laid it out so clearly to me that he was deeply depressed, drinking himself to sleep each night. I had my answer in that letter! I folded it up, we again put it to the fire and it quickly and thoroughly burned up. Gibbs rule #39: There are no such things as coincidences
Natalia Lopez 3 years ago
A couple of years ago I had a dream where a friend was pregnant. I called her that same day and told her. She was like “I’m sure I’m not pregnant”. A month later she called me saying she was one month pregnant.
ChickyChicky 3 years ago
I had a dream about a friend who had two kids at the time. In the dream she had five kids, two of which were twins. I told her about the dream on FaceBook and we laughed about it, and forgot. Years later, after she had moved to a different state and mostly fallen out of touch, she tagged me in the same post to laugh about her twins, and the one more she had after them.
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Seabeast 3 years ago (edited)
I went on a hiking trip with my sister and for various reasons (mostly weather related), we ended up driving back to town hours later than we'd planned, just before sundown. I spotted a woman on a bicycle that I vaguely recognized riding on the shoulder and stopped to offer her a ride as it was nearly dark, the city limits were still 50km away, and the sun was about to set. (She turned out to be a cycling clubmate.) We had only just put her bike in the back and turned to get into the car, when the skies opened up and a torrential thunderstorm started. Somehow I was there *just* in time to rescue her. When I think of all the changes of mind my sister and I had throughout the day, all the unexpected delays, it was as if I was supposed to be there at exactly that time.
Misha Writer 3 years ago
I worked in a very small day care back in the day. It was in an old house, and the various rooms were classrooms, thus each class was very very small. The toddler class had four kids, but was allowed five. The kids birthdays were December 16, 17, 18, and 19. The teacher for that class was a December 20 baby. A prospective parent called in asking about the toddler room, if there was space for her kid. We all jokingly said only if the kid's birthday is December 15 or 21. Mom comes in, fills out the paper work, and the kid's birthday is December 21.
Hseed 3 years ago
I was on a video tape my best friend has, when I was like 15 and he was 19. This wouldn't be strange despite the fact that I didn't know him then and we were both in the summit of a mountain like 200 km from home.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Hubby and I were at the same museum on the same weekend for school field trips ----- but didn't meet till we were in college years later. A group photo my friend took of our group shows *his* group in the background. Sometimes, life just gets weird!
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Mad Mar 3 years ago
I took my cousin and her friend roller skating about a mile from our houses. We were dropped off but planned to walk home. But after a long afternoon of skating we were standing outside getting ready for the walk an one of the girls goes "I don't know if I can make it back". I said "well I guess my dad an grandma will drive over the hill an come get us in a second". Which we all looked at the hill an then my dads car crested an came down. I waved and he stopped to load us up with grandma in the front seat. Both the girls were freaking out but it was one of those times I knew what was going to happen before it did. I just had witnesses.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
I never share my weirds, but this one.... I was walking a battlefield from the US Civil War, tracing the exactly movements of the unit in which my ancestors served (on that particular case), and envisioning it all in my head, etc. The whole day felt strange, like wind blew, but there was no wind. OK, whatever, psychology, neurology.... I get home and hear a "click" when I hit the tile floor. Embedded in the shoe tread? A spent minie ball (lead ball). I contacted the battlefield park hteys aid, sure, send it. I used the address they gave. Three times. It was always returned. Proper postage? Yes. Adddres OK? Yes. It NEVER ONCE GOT THERE. So it still sits in my house in the box, ready to mail, and make of that what you want.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Addendum: Believe me, the park service was confused, too. I even sent it the third time registered, but it showed up agt my house again. That's when I gave up.
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Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago
Definitely not that one about hearing the voice telling them to “get back to where you came from.” Crazy how people just have no discernment and flat out believe what they’re told.
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Jennie-Lind Normand 3 years ago
I moved 500 miles away to attend college. The town I lived in for high school wasn't the same as the one I lived in. Because it was so far from home I lived in residence (dorms). Since everyone there was from somewhere else we always ask 'where are you from'. Met a nice guy from the town I was born in, not all that odd. We became friends and were hanging out one day and he was looking at my photo album and come across a picture of my Nana and Popa (grandparents) and he says they look familiar, what are their names? I figure our hometown is a very small place he had likely heard of them so o say their names. He pauses and asks if I'm related to so and so. I say yes, that's my aunt and uncle, he says 'oh, mine too!' Our uncle was my moms brother while our aunt is his moms sister!
Rae Reyn 3 years ago
In high school I worked in a pizzeria that my future husband went to every Thursday after tennis. After HS I became an EMT and responded to a car accident. My unit took one guy, the other ambulance took my future husband. Then I switched careers and became a medical tech, at the doctors office my future husband went to. We met on Match.com.
Happy Daihatsu 3 years ago (edited)
Back in 2003, my mom went hiking in an Arizona desert. She didn't take the trail, and just wandered around. When she got back to her car, she realized she lost her keys. At the time, my dad was in California helping his parents with something. So she couldn't just ask him to pick her up. She walked back to look, but since she didn't take the trail she couldn't find them. She stopped and prayed to God to help find her keys. She looked down, and there were her keys. I think that it was just a coincidence, but she thinks it was God.
magnadar 3 years ago
A friend of mine dated this new girl. When it was about time, he took her to his parents to let them know each other. They found out that her father and his father are in the same fishing group and good comrades in there. They even have photos of them together from the last fishing trip :)
Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago
That’s pretty common though. People who live in the same area knowing each other and all.
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Lori Reese 3 years ago
When I was a child we lived overseas. A neighbor had a child, she was a princess of sorts and we became friends. She had me for lunch one day, their meal of the day, it was big and colorful and had tons of food, served by the servants. She came for lunch at my house one day and we had peanut butter and jelly and then helped Mom clean up. She had never done that before and enjoyed "our" traditions. Decades later I'm working on a golf course in the states. I'm raking a sand trap and the folks who live in the house right above the hole come out and talk to me a bit. They mention that they just got back from a wedding in this country and it was truly beautiful. I said I had a "friend from there years ago, we had lunch together with..." and the lady finished my sentence..."peanut butter sandwiches" I was dumbfounded. It was my friend's from years ago wedding, she had talked about that day and this woman put two and two together. It was the weirdest thing.
Sara Bonner 3 years ago
My best friend's dad has been married three times. All three wives had the exact same first and last name before (and after of course) marrying him.
Rannveig Ess 3 years ago
In 1998 I was visiting the U.S. and went to the Mohave Desert with my childhood friend who had moved to California. At the time there was a lone phone booth literally in the middle of this desert on a road in the middle of nowhere. It was a "thing" for many years to just call the phone number of the booth and see who, if anyone, picked up. There was a book at the booth where you would put the time and date with the pencil, and your name, and the person's name who had called and where they were calling from. It was really amazing. My friend and I went to the phone booth wanting to get a phone call and give someone a thrill by answering it, and then have our 15 minutes of Fame by being able to put in an entry. We answered 3 calls but prepared to leave because others had come along and they wanted the fun of this. We answered 1 more call and it was my friend's mother, who lived in Florida. She had just heard a program about this booth and thought it'd be fun to call.
InfectedVoice 3 years ago
Went to NYC with my wife about 15 years ago, was walking up the Empire State Building and an ex-girlfriend was walking down, that was weird seeing as we both came from a small town in Southern England and hadn't seen or talked to each other for years.
Danielle Edgington 3 years ago
One time, my MIL and I were going to watch a movie in her bedroom while all the guys were downstairs watching sports. She hates scary movies but I really wanted to show her a tiny part of one. About 10 seconds before I was ready to press play when I got to it, something scares the crud out of us. She had an antique washing stand (a dresser for a bowl of water to wash hands, a mirror, and a rod to hang towels) up against one of her walls. She had a short green ivy garland on the wall above the mirror portion. It was very firmly hung up with 3 nails. It somehow popped off two of the nails and swung its free end back and forth across the glass. It made us jump out of our skin, and my MIL was white as a ghost. The first words that came out of my mouth was "damn you David". I said it without even thinking, I did NOT think about saying, it just came out! I asled her if it ever fell down before and she said "in the 13 years I've lived here, never. Not unless I took it down to dust it". That's when I realized....it HAD to be my little brother. He passed away a little while before that and he LOVED to scare people. The fact that I blurted out his name and it happened when I tried to show her something scary, blew my mind. I knew it was him.
Alexandra Nara 3 years ago
Coincidence is the kind of god that cheats on the game, when the other gods don't watch for a moment
Vanta Black 3 years ago
"There are no large coincidences or small coincidences! There are only coincidences!"
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meepmeep 3 years ago
My step-mom's daughter and son have the same names as my dad's first daughter and only son, so I have a sister and a step-sister, and a brother and a step-brother, with the same names. It's a little less weird for my brothers' because it's a common boy name, but my sisters' name is uncommon, so that makes it very strange
B-b-bird 3 years ago
I have even few which proves that world is super small. Will tell one: I was going to italy with my family for vacation and thought to chat a bit in couchsurfing community forum of city that we were going to. Thought ill find some people to show me around and have a pint together, get some advices what to visit. We klicked pretty well with guy named AL of the same age, met and it was a blast (we remain friends to this day). Then...i have other friend of italian origin Named Mark but he has moved from italy some 20y ago, in one exotic country has his own restaurant. (Later will tell why restaurant is important in this story) So one day on Facebook i see Marks vacation pic from greece with friends... and here we are, my friend Al is among those friends...like whaaaattt?! Then it gets better. Few years passed and few of my coworkers gone for business trip to that very same exotic country of Mark. Another post on FB, they are writing “amazing restaurant we found!”..yes,same restaurant
Melanie Pond 3 years ago
my grandfather was in hospital suffering because of a severe illness, one day my aunt says “please mom come e take him with you!”. He died right after that sentence!
Bex 3 years ago
Around 2004 I was at a Ren Fest and there was a gorgeous guy working there. He was exactly my type - a big guy with long hair and bright blue eyes. It was a small place, and I ended up walking past him several times that day (not on purpose, the place was just really small). Every time I did, he'd stop what he was saying or doing and watch me go past, making eye contact with me. But I couldn't get up the nerve to say hi, so I never talked to him. Then in 2013 I'm on a dating website and a guys long hair and blue eyes messages me. He looks familiar but I can't place him. We chat a little and he tells me he's currently driving from FL to MA, and he'd love to talk while he's driving. I called him and we spent most of the next 24 hours on the phone. When I met him in person two weeks later, I realized it was the guy from the Ren Fest - about 100 lbs lighter which is why I didn't recognize him at first. We ended up dating for 2 years and he's still one of my best friends.
Axolotl King 3 years ago
I was born at 8:14 pm, my sister was born at 4:18 pm. Me and my sister always say it proves we're opposites because we really are. She's social and athletic, I'm more shy and a bookworm
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
My grandmother had been in hospice for a few weeks. We knew it was just a matter of time. She was a wonderful, kind woman, but a bit absentminded. Often, we would discover her wearing a piece of clothing either inside out, backwards, or both. The night she died, I had laid out my clothing for the following day, arranging everything so I could dress quickly. When the inevitable phone call came at 1am, I got up and began to get dressed. My shirt felt awkward and wrong, so I looked down to discover that, even though I had laid it out neatly, I had put it on both backwards and inside out. I knew then that, wherever she had gone, she was fine. (Earlier that evening, while we were visiting her, she suddenly looked past where we were and began talking to her father, who died before I was born. That's when we knew.)
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I was in the blood bank, waiting to donate. The phlebotomist came out and said "last four digits XXXX?" Three of us stood up, me, a much older gentleman, and a middle aged guy. We looked at each other and laughed, so the phlebotomist said "birthday XX/XX? " We all had the same birthday, just in different years.
XxGlitched_CherryxX 3 years ago
When I was around three, (Keep in mind I had no idea what a shark was and had never even heard the word before,) I would sing a little song: "I once had a daughter, she fell in the water, and then the shark got her and brought her home." and my mom told me that I would tell her that she was the daughter I had had. Next, around the same time, my mom had just finished putting my little brother to sleep and, as I was wide awake at night, I was still awake, just sitting there. So, my mom, not wanting to disturb me, crawled into my room and lay on the floor waiting fo me to fall asleep. We both fell asleep and awoke in the early hours of the morning (Two or three am) to hear a ball popping toy going off (You press a button and little balls jump up.). My mom looked in my bed and I was just sitting there calm as can be. I got annoyed and said "Be quiet," just then, the toy stopped going off. My brother was only a baby so he couldn't have done it and my dad was sleeping in his room.
XxGlitched_CherryxX 3 years ago
My mom had the toy thrown out the next day. Third story: Every day at mealtimes, I would set the table for an old lady. We didn't live with any of my other relatives so my parents had no idea who I was talking about.
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Patti Vance 3 years ago
my grandmother was born on jan 6. my brother, sister, and i were all born on the sixth of the month, march, february, and october, respectively.
rynn 3 years ago
A year ago my uncle went crazy, I guess? He kept saying curse words put into a sentence with "sick" and "death". My family was confused so we didn't think much. Eventually we found out he was taking too many pills. But take away the cussing, you get "sick" and "death" which is what's happening. The coronavirus. I told my best friend and she we both had to take a long minute to think, shocked. Still creepy.
Gael Purchase 3 years ago
A few years ago my daughter who was living in Sydney, Australia at the time, met a new friend. She messaged me asking if I knew a family named **** from the town we used to live in NZ. I said yes, they were my next-door neighbours through my teenage years. Although I knew her grandparents and father's siblings better and still keep in contact with some of them 30+ years later, I did know of her. Even though my daughter has since married and moved back to Qld and her friend moved back to NZ, they are still BFF's
Logic and Reason 3 years ago
A few minutes ago I clicked on an article expecting it to be lies and basic coincidences... purely by coincidence, that article was this article, and I was right.
Sloopi 3 years ago
What a silly title. A coincidence is literally defined as an concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection i.e there -is- no explanation.
Hugo A-niro 3 years ago
Why do people try to rationalize whst they can't explain.?
Load More Replies... Vanta Black 3 years ago
I've got a little list: 1) I was born on Friday 13th on a maternity ward where I was one of 13 kids born that day. 2) I was born at 10:37pm. My younger brother was born at 9:37am. My youngest brother was born at 3:37am, and my sister at 8:37pm. 3) In the year I turned 21, my younger brother and a cousin both turned 18, another cousin also turned 21, one of my uncles turned 50, and my step-brother turned 40.
Y T 3 years ago
I have two things: 1) When me and my husband got married we had a very small wedding, only family and a few friends. Some of my relatives took the bus to get to city hall. On that bus were my mum's best friend. There were literally hundreds of buses but she was on that one. Of course she was invited to the wedding. :) 2) I had a relationship with a man I really liked. Met his family several times. But things didn't work out so we stopped seeing each other. Like ten years later I was at my parents house. I was just browsing through a newspaper they subscribed to and happened to land on the obituaries, which you never read, but this day I did. The first one was for my ex's mum who had just passed away. ex myexex ex
Kris Cummins 3 years ago
Had an ex who lived in Maryland growing up and right after high school her house was robbed. Two years later she is visiting her grandma in Pittsburgh and decides to go into a p**n shop to kill some time. As she peruses the jewelry, she finds her class ring which was stolen in Maryland. Do the odds on that one, I’ll wait.
22Rincut 3 years ago
This is a pretty common in my small town where everbody is related to each other, but my story was still amazed me. I have a very close group of friends back in my high school, there are four of us. In the first year we realized that the three of us (me not included) is related (by blood and by cousin’s marriage). In the third year I was visiting one of my friend and she asked me to accompanied her to her aunt house. The moment we reached her aunt’s house I startled because that’s my step aunt house, we have the same grandpa XD - the relationship between the wifes of my grandfather was not good so we are not close with each other-.
Hugo A-niro 3 years ago
My mother's great uncle was a very dedicated doctor . because he worked with those with TB when there wasnt a cure he was a clean freak and did not want famiky visiting him. He always told them if I get it I will let yiu know. One night they were eating when the lights in house all started going on and off. My mother remember ed what her uncle said and they all ran to his house the police were there he had become infected and killed himself.
Nadine Debard 3 years ago (edited)
On the 10th of January, while driving on the highway, I saw about 30 storks in a field. Storks never nest in this area and it was so noticeable than the newspapers mentioned it. As I was trying to get pregnant for 3 years, with 3 miscarriages, I told the storks off for not bringing me a baby. When driving again on this highway 2 weeks later, I thanked the storks for my positive pregnancy test! They disappeared a few days afterwards. According to my first ultrasound, I got pregnant on the 13th of January. Now I'm on my 19th week and everything seems OK so far. Thank you, nice and majestic storks!! (Now I'm growing cabbages and roses, just in case...)
Steve Wilson 3 years ago
Decades ago my friend was hitchhiking in Wyoming when somebody picked him up. “Where you going?” the driver asked. “Illinois “, my friend said. They drove through SD, MN, & WI exchanging only small talk. When they crossed the Illinois state line the driver asked him where he was going specifically. When he mentioned the town the driver seemed surprised as that was where he was going, too. A few more questions & it turned out that the driver was the brother of the person my friend was going to visit. They were both going to the same house & had a good story to tell when they got there. A few years later the same friend was coming to visit me in Okla City. He’d never been there before so when he got there he pulled into a gas station & as he was pumping gas he asked the guy at the pump next to him if he knew how to get to a certain address. The guy looked at him & said “What’s that address?” When he repeated it the guy said “that’s my house”. Guy was my brother.
MauKini 3 years ago
8 years ago i met this very handsome man, we rushed into a relatioonship. Turned out that we were born in the same hospital six days apart and "knew" each other from that day. Also we have been asigned to the same job, covering the same event in the united states. We are both from germany and neither of us lived in USA. Also we fond a picture from me at a party in a whole different town. He is also in the picture with his friend in the background. Next monday we will be married two years.
Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago (edited)
Interestingly, this article is selections from an 8 year old Reddit thread.
Load More Replies... Treessimontrees 3 years ago
I was flying from London to Delhi and was a bit nervous. The lady sat next to me said she was nervous too, we chatted for a while before take-off. We went our separate ways in Delhi. I then started a job 6 months later in Sydney and she was the receptionist at the company. Gets a bit crazy now. After we talked for a while we realised we were renting apartments on the same street. We mutually knew someone getting married in a few weeks and were both going to the same wedding. We were talking at the wedding about future trips and so on, and we'd both booked to go diving on the Great Barrier Reef in July that year. We were flying on the SAME flight. If we'd been sat together again we'd both have had to accept the universe was putting us together. We're still good friends to this day!
Kris Cummins 3 years ago
An ex of mine lived in Maryland during high school and right after graduation her house was robbed. A couple years later she is visiting her grandma in Pittsburgh and decides to kill some time by going into a p**n shop. She’s perusing the jewelry and she finds her class ring which was stolen in Maryland. Do the odds on that one, I’ll wait.
JessG 3 years ago
BP censored your word P**N, I guess they thought it was that other word P*RN. For a second I was like "you're looking at jewelry in a P*RN shop?!?! Lol, it took me a second:-D
Load More Replies... Ali Marie 3 years ago
For high school graduation my cousin and I were given a trip to visit Ireland. We were out at a bar our last night there and apparently this group of young American soldiers had been looking for an excuse to talk to us. Now my cousin straight up looks like a super model so no surprise right. Anyways apparently we looked irish enough these guys thought we were locals. The bar was closing and everyone was leaving so they sent one of the group to "break the ice" and ask me for a late night place to get some food, as I was clearly the "more approachable " one. The minute I spoke to tell them I had no clue where to go it was clear I was also american. So he asked where I was from and turned out that he was the childhood best friend of my best friend from a completely different town! The whole conversation was one if those "no way you too" moments that has always stuck with me. If all the gin joints in all the world right...
JessG 3 years ago
And?! Did you hang out? Keep in touch? What happened? I must know!
Load More Replies... Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago (edited)
Before my mother died we were going through her papers & there were the love letters she & my dad exchanged while he was stationed in Germany after the war. She told me I could read them. I said no they're private between you & dad. After she died I found them again. My best friend came to visit & I decided to burn them without reading them, like the smoke from the letters returning to them. They burned quickly and easily because they were thin overseas mail paper. I have had depression my whole life and wondered if any of it was genetic. We got to one letter from my dad that would not burn no matter how long we held it to the flame. My friend said "I think you're supposed to read it. I did, and what he wrote to my mom laid it out so clearly to me that he was deeply depressed, drinking himself to sleep each night. I had my answer in that letter! I folded it up, we again put it to the fire and it quickly and thoroughly burned up. Gibbs rule #39: There are no such things as coincidences
Natalia Lopez 3 years ago
A couple of years ago I had a dream where a friend was pregnant. I called her that same day and told her. She was like “I’m sure I’m not pregnant”. A month later she called me saying she was one month pregnant.
ChickyChicky 3 years ago
I had a dream about a friend who had two kids at the time. In the dream she had five kids, two of which were twins. I told her about the dream on FaceBook and we laughed about it, and forgot. Years later, after she had moved to a different state and mostly fallen out of touch, she tagged me in the same post to laugh about her twins, and the one more she had after them.
Load More Replies... Seabeast 3 years ago (edited)
I went on a hiking trip with my sister and for various reasons (mostly weather related), we ended up driving back to town hours later than we'd planned, just before sundown. I spotted a woman on a bicycle that I vaguely recognized riding on the shoulder and stopped to offer her a ride as it was nearly dark, the city limits were still 50km away, and the sun was about to set. (She turned out to be a cycling clubmate.) We had only just put her bike in the back and turned to get into the car, when the skies opened up and a torrential thunderstorm started. Somehow I was there *just* in time to rescue her. When I think of all the changes of mind my sister and I had throughout the day, all the unexpected delays, it was as if I was supposed to be there at exactly that time.
Misha Writer 3 years ago
I worked in a very small day care back in the day. It was in an old house, and the various rooms were classrooms, thus each class was very very small. The toddler class had four kids, but was allowed five. The kids birthdays were December 16, 17, 18, and 19. The teacher for that class was a December 20 baby. A prospective parent called in asking about the toddler room, if there was space for her kid. We all jokingly said only if the kid's birthday is December 15 or 21. Mom comes in, fills out the paper work, and the kid's birthday is December 21.
Hseed 3 years ago
I was on a video tape my best friend has, when I was like 15 and he was 19. This wouldn't be strange despite the fact that I didn't know him then and we were both in the summit of a mountain like 200 km from home.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Hubby and I were at the same museum on the same weekend for school field trips ----- but didn't meet till we were in college years later. A group photo my friend took of our group shows *his* group in the background. Sometimes, life just gets weird!
Load More Replies... Mad Mar 3 years ago
I took my cousin and her friend roller skating about a mile from our houses. We were dropped off but planned to walk home. But after a long afternoon of skating we were standing outside getting ready for the walk an one of the girls goes "I don't know if I can make it back". I said "well I guess my dad an grandma will drive over the hill an come get us in a second". Which we all looked at the hill an then my dads car crested an came down. I waved and he stopped to load us up with grandma in the front seat. Both the girls were freaking out but it was one of those times I knew what was going to happen before it did. I just had witnesses.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
I never share my weirds, but this one.... I was walking a battlefield from the US Civil War, tracing the exactly movements of the unit in which my ancestors served (on that particular case), and envisioning it all in my head, etc. The whole day felt strange, like wind blew, but there was no wind. OK, whatever, psychology, neurology.... I get home and hear a "click" when I hit the tile floor. Embedded in the shoe tread? A spent minie ball (lead ball). I contacted the battlefield park hteys aid, sure, send it. I used the address they gave. Three times. It was always returned. Proper postage? Yes. Adddres OK? Yes. It NEVER ONCE GOT THERE. So it still sits in my house in the box, ready to mail, and make of that what you want.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Addendum: Believe me, the park service was confused, too. I even sent it the third time registered, but it showed up agt my house again. That's when I gave up.
Load More Replies... Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago
Definitely not that one about hearing the voice telling them to “get back to where you came from.” Crazy how people just have no discernment and flat out believe what they’re told.
Load More Replies... Jennie-Lind Normand 3 years ago
I moved 500 miles away to attend college. The town I lived in for high school wasn't the same as the one I lived in. Because it was so far from home I lived in residence (dorms). Since everyone there was from somewhere else we always ask 'where are you from'. Met a nice guy from the town I was born in, not all that odd. We became friends and were hanging out one day and he was looking at my photo album and come across a picture of my Nana and Popa (grandparents) and he says they look familiar, what are their names? I figure our hometown is a very small place he had likely heard of them so o say their names. He pauses and asks if I'm related to so and so. I say yes, that's my aunt and uncle, he says 'oh, mine too!' Our uncle was my moms brother while our aunt is his moms sister!
Rae Reyn 3 years ago
In high school I worked in a pizzeria that my future husband went to every Thursday after tennis. After HS I became an EMT and responded to a car accident. My unit took one guy, the other ambulance took my future husband. Then I switched careers and became a medical tech, at the doctors office my future husband went to. We met on Match.com.
Happy Daihatsu 3 years ago (edited)
Back in 2003, my mom went hiking in an Arizona desert. She didn't take the trail, and just wandered around. When she got back to her car, she realized she lost her keys. At the time, my dad was in California helping his parents with something. So she couldn't just ask him to pick her up. She walked back to look, but since she didn't take the trail she couldn't find them. She stopped and prayed to God to help find her keys. She looked down, and there were her keys. I think that it was just a coincidence, but she thinks it was God.
magnadar 3 years ago
A friend of mine dated this new girl. When it was about time, he took her to his parents to let them know each other. They found out that her father and his father are in the same fishing group and good comrades in there. They even have photos of them together from the last fishing trip :)
Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago
That’s pretty common though. People who live in the same area knowing each other and all.
Load More Replies... Lori Reese 3 years ago
When I was a child we lived overseas. A neighbor had a child, she was a princess of sorts and we became friends. She had me for lunch one day, their meal of the day, it was big and colorful and had tons of food, served by the servants. She came for lunch at my house one day and we had peanut butter and jelly and then helped Mom clean up. She had never done that before and enjoyed "our" traditions. Decades later I'm working on a golf course in the states. I'm raking a sand trap and the folks who live in the house right above the hole come out and talk to me a bit. They mention that they just got back from a wedding in this country and it was truly beautiful. I said I had a "friend from there years ago, we had lunch together with..." and the lady finished my sentence..."peanut butter sandwiches" I was dumbfounded. It was my friend's from years ago wedding, she had talked about that day and this woman put two and two together. It was the weirdest thing.
Sara Bonner 3 years ago
My best friend's dad has been married three times. All three wives had the exact same first and last name before (and after of course) marrying him.
Rannveig Ess 3 years ago
In 1998 I was visiting the U.S. and went to the Mohave Desert with my childhood friend who had moved to California. At the time there was a lone phone booth literally in the middle of this desert on a road in the middle of nowhere. It was a "thing" for many years to just call the phone number of the booth and see who, if anyone, picked up. There was a book at the booth where you would put the time and date with the pencil, and your name, and the person's name who had called and where they were calling from. It was really amazing. My friend and I went to the phone booth wanting to get a phone call and give someone a thrill by answering it, and then have our 15 minutes of Fame by being able to put in an entry. We answered 3 calls but prepared to leave because others had come along and they wanted the fun of this. We answered 1 more call and it was my friend's mother, who lived in Florida. She had just heard a program about this booth and thought it'd be fun to call.
InfectedVoice 3 years ago
Went to NYC with my wife about 15 years ago, was walking up the Empire State Building and an ex-girlfriend was walking down, that was weird seeing as we both came from a small town in Southern England and hadn't seen or talked to each other for years.
Danielle Edgington 3 years ago
One time, my MIL and I were going to watch a movie in her bedroom while all the guys were downstairs watching sports. She hates scary movies but I really wanted to show her a tiny part of one. About 10 seconds before I was ready to press play when I got to it, something scares the crud out of us. She had an antique washing stand (a dresser for a bowl of water to wash hands, a mirror, and a rod to hang towels) up against one of her walls. She had a short green ivy garland on the wall above the mirror portion. It was very firmly hung up with 3 nails. It somehow popped off two of the nails and swung its free end back and forth across the glass. It made us jump out of our skin, and my MIL was white as a ghost. The first words that came out of my mouth was "damn you David". I said it without even thinking, I did NOT think about saying, it just came out! I asled her if it ever fell down before and she said "in the 13 years I've lived here, never. Not unless I took it down to dust it". That's when I realized....it HAD to be my little brother. He passed away a little while before that and he LOVED to scare people. The fact that I blurted out his name and it happened when I tried to show her something scary, blew my mind. I knew it was him.
Alexandra Nara 3 years ago
Coincidence is the kind of god that cheats on the game, when the other gods don't watch for a moment
Vanta Black 3 years ago
"There are no large coincidences or small coincidences! There are only coincidences!"
Load More Replies... meepmeep 3 years ago
My step-mom's daughter and son have the same names as my dad's first daughter and only son, so I have a sister and a step-sister, and a brother and a step-brother, with the same names. It's a little less weird for my brothers' because it's a common boy name, but my sisters' name is uncommon, so that makes it very strange
B-b-bird 3 years ago
I have even few which proves that world is super small. Will tell one: I was going to italy with my family for vacation and thought to chat a bit in couchsurfing community forum of city that we were going to. Thought ill find some people to show me around and have a pint together, get some advices what to visit. We klicked pretty well with guy named AL of the same age, met and it was a blast (we remain friends to this day). Then...i have other friend of italian origin Named Mark but he has moved from italy some 20y ago, in one exotic country has his own restaurant. (Later will tell why restaurant is important in this story) So one day on Facebook i see Marks vacation pic from greece with friends... and here we are, my friend Al is among those friends...like whaaaattt?! Then it gets better. Few years passed and few of my coworkers gone for business trip to that very same exotic country of Mark. Another post on FB, they are writing “amazing restaurant we found!”..yes,same restaurant
Melanie Pond 3 years ago
my grandfather was in hospital suffering because of a severe illness, one day my aunt says “please mom come e take him with you!”. He died right after that sentence!
Bex 3 years ago
Around 2004 I was at a Ren Fest and there was a gorgeous guy working there. He was exactly my type - a big guy with long hair and bright blue eyes. It was a small place, and I ended up walking past him several times that day (not on purpose, the place was just really small). Every time I did, he'd stop what he was saying or doing and watch me go past, making eye contact with me. But I couldn't get up the nerve to say hi, so I never talked to him. Then in 2013 I'm on a dating website and a guys long hair and blue eyes messages me. He looks familiar but I can't place him. We chat a little and he tells me he's currently driving from FL to MA, and he'd love to talk while he's driving. I called him and we spent most of the next 24 hours on the phone. When I met him in person two weeks later, I realized it was the guy from the Ren Fest - about 100 lbs lighter which is why I didn't recognize him at first. We ended up dating for 2 years and he's still one of my best friends.
Axolotl King 3 years ago
I was born at 8:14 pm, my sister was born at 4:18 pm. Me and my sister always say it proves we're opposites because we really are. She's social and athletic, I'm more shy and a bookworm
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
My grandmother had been in hospice for a few weeks. We knew it was just a matter of time. She was a wonderful, kind woman, but a bit absentminded. Often, we would discover her wearing a piece of clothing either inside out, backwards, or both. The night she died, I had laid out my clothing for the following day, arranging everything so I could dress quickly. When the inevitable phone call came at 1am, I got up and began to get dressed. My shirt felt awkward and wrong, so I looked down to discover that, even though I had laid it out neatly, I had put it on both backwards and inside out. I knew then that, wherever she had gone, she was fine. (Earlier that evening, while we were visiting her, she suddenly looked past where we were and began talking to her father, who died before I was born. That's when we knew.)
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I was in the blood bank, waiting to donate. The phlebotomist came out and said "last four digits XXXX?" Three of us stood up, me, a much older gentleman, and a middle aged guy. We looked at each other and laughed, so the phlebotomist said "birthday XX/XX? " We all had the same birthday, just in different years.
XxGlitched_CherryxX 3 years ago
When I was around three, (Keep in mind I had no idea what a shark was and had never even heard the word before,) I would sing a little song: "I once had a daughter, she fell in the water, and then the shark got her and brought her home." and my mom told me that I would tell her that she was the daughter I had had. Next, around the same time, my mom had just finished putting my little brother to sleep and, as I was wide awake at night, I was still awake, just sitting there. So, my mom, not wanting to disturb me, crawled into my room and lay on the floor waiting fo me to fall asleep. We both fell asleep and awoke in the early hours of the morning (Two or three am) to hear a ball popping toy going off (You press a button and little balls jump up.). My mom looked in my bed and I was just sitting there calm as can be. I got annoyed and said "Be quiet," just then, the toy stopped going off. My brother was only a baby so he couldn't have done it and my dad was sleeping in his room.
XxGlitched_CherryxX 3 years ago
My mom had the toy thrown out the next day. Third story: Every day at mealtimes, I would set the table for an old lady. We didn't live with any of my other relatives so my parents had no idea who I was talking about.
Load More Replies... Patti Vance 3 years ago
my grandmother was born on jan 6. my brother, sister, and i were all born on the sixth of the month, march, february, and october, respectively.
rynn 3 years ago
A year ago my uncle went crazy, I guess? He kept saying curse words put into a sentence with "sick" and "death". My family was confused so we didn't think much. Eventually we found out he was taking too many pills. But take away the cussing, you get "sick" and "death" which is what's happening. The coronavirus. I told my best friend and she we both had to take a long minute to think, shocked. Still creepy.
Gael Purchase 3 years ago
A few years ago my daughter who was living in Sydney, Australia at the time, met a new friend. She messaged me asking if I knew a family named **** from the town we used to live in NZ. I said yes, they were my next-door neighbours through my teenage years. Although I knew her grandparents and father's siblings better and still keep in contact with some of them 30+ years later, I did know of her. Even though my daughter has since married and moved back to Qld and her friend moved back to NZ, they are still BFF's
Logic and Reason 3 years ago
A few minutes ago I clicked on an article expecting it to be lies and basic coincidences... purely by coincidence, that article was this article, and I was right.
Sloopi 3 years ago
What a silly title. A coincidence is literally defined as an concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection i.e there -is- no explanation.
Hugo A-niro 3 years ago
Why do people try to rationalize whst they can't explain.?
Load More Replies... Vanta Black 3 years ago
I've got a little list: 1) I was born on Friday 13th on a maternity ward where I was one of 13 kids born that day. 2) I was born at 10:37pm. My younger brother was born at 9:37am. My youngest brother was born at 3:37am, and my sister at 8:37pm. 3) In the year I turned 21, my younger brother and a cousin both turned 18, another cousin also turned 21, one of my uncles turned 50, and my step-brother turned 40.
Y T 3 years ago
I have two things: 1) When me and my husband got married we had a very small wedding, only family and a few friends. Some of my relatives took the bus to get to city hall. On that bus were my mum's best friend. There were literally hundreds of buses but she was on that one. Of course she was invited to the wedding. :) 2) I had a relationship with a man I really liked. Met his family several times. But things didn't work out so we stopped seeing each other. Like ten years later I was at my parents house. I was just browsing through a newspaper they subscribed to and happened to land on the obituaries, which you never read, but this day I did. The first one was for my ex's mum who had just passed away. ex myexex ex
Kris Cummins 3 years ago
Had an ex who lived in Maryland growing up and right after high school her house was robbed. Two years later she is visiting her grandma in Pittsburgh and decides to go into a p**n shop to kill some time. As she peruses the jewelry, she finds her class ring which was stolen in Maryland. Do the odds on that one, I’ll wait.
22Rincut 3 years ago
This is a pretty common in my small town where everbody is related to each other, but my story was still amazed me. I have a very close group of friends back in my high school, there are four of us. In the first year we realized that the three of us (me not included) is related (by blood and by cousin’s marriage). In the third year I was visiting one of my friend and she asked me to accompanied her to her aunt house. The moment we reached her aunt’s house I startled because that’s my step aunt house, we have the same grandpa XD - the relationship between the wifes of my grandfather was not good so we are not close with each other-.
Hugo A-niro 3 years ago
My mother's great uncle was a very dedicated doctor . because he worked with those with TB when there wasnt a cure he was a clean freak and did not want famiky visiting him. He always told them if I get it I will let yiu know. One night they were eating when the lights in house all started going on and off. My mother remember ed what her uncle said and they all ran to his house the police were there he had become infected and killed himself.
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