Some people believe in fate, that everything in life happens for a reason, is predetermined and therefore out of your power. Others believe in an existence that is more of a series of random events and occurrences that, no matter how bizarre they may seem, are purely chance coincidences.
Wherever your beliefs lie on the fate-coincidence scale, these odds-defying scenarios will blow your mind. Bored Panda has compiled a list of a few times when coincidences were just so perfect, occurrences so rare that even the most ardent skeptic may wonder if there weren’t some supernatural forces at play.
What’s the weirdest coincidence that you have ever encountered? Let us know in the comments below!
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This Bird Landed On The Page About Itself
What Are The Chances?
"20 years ago I went to an air show with my Grandpa and Uncle. One of the aircraft I sat in was the OH58 Kiowa. This was the day that I decided that I wanted to be a pilot. Today while looking through some old photos I found the picture below of me sitting in the Kiowa. I thought it was cool because that's what I've been flying the past month. Upon arriving to the airfield today I asked operations if they have ever had a Kiowa with the tail number listed on the aircraft that I sat in when I was eight years old. (What are the chances right?) They looked it up and not only had they once had that aircraft there, but it was sitting on the ramp. I went out and took a picture with it and realized that I had actually been flying that specific Kiowa this past month. Twenty years later I am flying the exact aircraft that helped spark my dream to fly."
My Friend Just Got This Once In A Lifetime Picture
Dog Gave Birth To Three Puppies, Each With Their Own Corresponding Number On Their Back
Looks like something out of a children's show. "Count the puppies! One! Two! Three! Way to go! There were... three puppies!"
Close
The Mountains And Trees Lined Up Perfectly On This Camper On The Highway
Hometown Zip Code, T-Shirt, Race Number, Finishing Time - All 33607
What To Do After A Car Crash?
A Dragon Fly Landed On My Friends Foot And Mirrored Its Own Tattoo
I dont really think it's a coincidence this one.. But maaaaybe the dragonfly want to... Mate?
Right Place, Right Time
Fire Breather Looks Like He's Kissing A Fire Dragon
I Call Bullsh*t, They Obviously Rehearsed This
So My Dad, A Fisherman At Lake "attersee", Austria, Just Fished Up His Old, Lost Wallet In One Of His Fishnets, After He Had Dropped It Into The Lake 20 Years Ago
Brother Spent A Year Trying To Get A Lightning Photo. He Caught This Last Night, I Just Noticed The Boat In The Bottom Left
In Very Rare Circumstances It Is Possible To See A Full 360 Degree Rainbow From An Airplane
Butterfly Bro Lands On His Own Picture
There is actually a chance it thought that the picture was real, and came to mate/socialise
Managed To Catch This Balloon Popping On My Phone
Oddest Odd Possible
A Flamboyance Of Flamingos… Shaped Like A Flamingo
Mosquito Killed By A Dart
Swedish Guy Accidentally Captures Green Meteorite While Searching For The Northern Lights
My Blind Son Found A Four Leaf Clover On His Own. What Are The Odds?
Rare Cloud Phenomenon Over Eastern Victoria, Australia
What Are The Odds?
These are the mugshots of William West and William West, and they are not related. They were both sent to Leavenworth Prison at the same time, in 1903, and after some confusion, the staff understood they had two different prisoners with the exact same name, who looked exactly alike. They are part of the reason fingerprints are now used as identification.
Two Collided Bullets From The Battle Of Gallipoli
Bad Timing
Man Slides Into Pool But Never Swims
My Dog's White Stripe Lines Up Perfectly With The Water's Edge
My Brother Accidentally Wore The Same Outfit As My Daughters Birthday Present
Triple Rainbow
My Friend's Father Caught A Blue Lobster The Other Day. Odds Are 1 In 2 Million
4 Strangers Same Outfit
Cell Phone Picture From Friday Nights Storm. The Lighting Happened Right After The Camera Started Taking The Picture
The People You May Know Section Of Facebook Put Up These Pictures That Align Perfectly With Unrelated People
Lottery Ticket Vs. Winning Numbers
This Car Owner Is Just Lucky
An Albino Deer I Spotted In Northwestern Wisconsin Yesterday
That's not very unusual. Unfortunately they are the first to go because they aren't camouflaged.
Restaurant Sign Saved By Chance
One Shot, One Opportunity
What Are The Odds Of This Accident?
Eggsperts Say Odds Are 11 Billion To 1
I Dropped A Plate By Accident,and It Spilt In Half Perfectly. No Shards Or Chips
Once In A Lifetime
Almost 12 Years Ago My Dad Caught A Picture So Rare That No One Believed Us When We Told Them. Today I Finally Found The Picture To Prove It...
The Print On The Lorry In Front Is In The Same Spot My Wife Took Her Background Photo
Friend Tried To Toss Me His Keys At Work, They Got Stuck On Piping In The Roof Like This
These Licence Plates
We Got Another Rare Lobster In At Work. This Time He's A 1 In 30 Million Calico Lobster
This Lady's Dress
Aussie Currently Traveling Around Greece, I Just Found Half An Australian Bank Card Out The Front Of My Hotel. The Name, Valid Date And First 6 Numbers That Are Visible Are Exactly The Same As My Own Card. I Ran Upstairs And Pulled Apart My Bag And Found Mine Completely Intact Where I'd Left It
I Saw A Gull Standing On Top Of Another Gull
How Does This Even Happen?!?
My Dad Started Learning Archery 2 Years Ago. He Comes Back From Lessons With This Once In A Lifetime Shot
Sequential License Plates
Today, I Think I Found The Rarest Thing I Will Ever Come By And Never Seen One Until This Morning On My Front Tire. An Albino Fly
What Are The Odds?
Talking to a friend at my local coffee shop, and my mom comes up in conversation. I haven't spoken to her in a few days, so I call her. She's driving down the same street, passing the coffee shop, so she says "I'll come in and say hi!" We were both wearing the exact same outfit
Car's Lucky Day
Lucky Speeder
The Irony
My Friend Captured Possibly The Rarest Thing That's Ever Happened
These Two Local Doctors. Two These Doctors Local
Both Lines At McDonalds Had The Same Cars
The House My Sister Is Looking At Buying Has A Picture I Painted When I Was In High School For A History Project On Their Wall
Identical License Plates But From Different States
On Our Way To An Amusement Park When We See A Man Holding A Sign Saying "Jesus Is This Way". Start Joking That Jesus Is At The Amusement Park. This Is What We Park Next To
Hrishikesh, not laughing about god; laughing about an Hispanic man named Jesus.
She Was Born For This Job
After Having It For 2 Years, I Accidentally Found My Phone Background The Other Day Near Santa Cristina, Italy
I Just Dropped My Bank Note On The Floor And I Thought It Had Disappeared
My Sister, Other Sister, And Parents Accidentally Bought Me The Same Birthday Card
Or you sisters asked your dad to buy them a card at the store and your dad, being a dad, bought 3 of the same. Sorry-I just call it like I see it. And I have a dad. haha
This Guy Had Two Nails From A Nail Gun Hit His Leg, And They Both Missed His Femur And His Kneecap
My Default Router Password Described My Rare Birthmark
Is This Going To Be A Bad Day Or A Good One?
What Are The Odds?
I Mean, What Are The Odds?
This Captcha Password
The Left Door Perfectly Describes The Right Door's Condition
Leaf Meets Crack In The Gate
Lucky Car
I Found 5 Peanuts In A Shell
"Beware Of Death" Sign Above An Unexploded Shell In A Tree During WW1
Yesterday I Got Lucky, I Ride Again
My Friend Threw His Homework In The Air
The View Of Street From My Work
After Finding 3 Four-Leafed Clovers And Buying Them Tape With $7.77 On The Receipt, I Hit Frontpage. 5 Hours After Posting, My Brother Showed Me That His Odometer Was 77,777 Miles
My Cousin Caught A Lobster With Double Pinchers. Both Claws Work
My Worksheet For Statistics Said I Wouldn't Get The Same Numbers When I Used A Random Number Generator. I Did
3 Eggs. All Twins. The Odds Of This Happening Are About 0.003%
My Daughter Got A Book In The Discarded Book Pile At Her Hs That My Wife And My Wife's Mom Also Checked Out In Hs
My Phone Captured A Card Being Dealt, Total Accident But Mildly Interesting Consequence
These Two Bullets Hit Each Other At The Battle Of Gettysburg
Couple Wins Lottery For The Third Time
Dices Got Stuck In My Friend's Glass While Shuffling
Cheating Death
Can I Get $100 On "Christ That's Lucky" Please Jim
Someone Flipped This Up There
or someone reached over the ledge from the roof and sat it there?
Gunpowder Shooting Up Out Of A Miniature Cannon Lands Directly In A Container Of Gunpowder
How Fast Can A Moth Even Fly?
My Friends Order Number Was The Same As Her Total
My Pinball Stopped Exactly... Here
Lesson For Today: Do Not Shake Your Starbucks Iced Coffee Over Your Laptop Because There's A One In A Million Chance The Bottom Will Fall Off
Shot An Arrow Into A Public Archery Target And Accidentally Re-Tipped My Arrow With Another Arrowhead That Was Stuck Inside
This Bill Is Exactly 11111
Threw My Phone Into The Air On A Timer Many Times (Yes, It Did Land In The Water Eventually), And Somehow Got This Wonderful Photo
This Wasp Got Crushed By My Garage Door As It Closed
I had that happen with a yellowjacket, after the dang thing stung me. When I found it crushed under the garage door (where it was sitting when it stung me), I did a little dance.
Top 3 Spots Of This Nascar Race Belong To Numbers 1, 2, And 3
I Accidentally Washed A Couple Of Dollar Bills And One Turned Out To Be A Counterfeit
The Events That Aligned To Make This Happen Are Uncanny
Darn. This is a good picture, but the somewhat grotesque position is only earning downvotes. That's a shame.
I Shot A Spider With A 23GA Nailgun From 4 Feet Away And Scored A Headshot
My grandma was once out cycling with a girl friend and decided to have lunch in front of a local castle. Coincidentally, my grandpa was also out cycling with a friend that day! They saw the two girls having lunch and asked if they could join them. Two couples were born that day and they were happily married for over 50 years!
I was in gros morne national park one day and I went to a local church for dinner, as I stood up to go get my food I bumped into a guy. I apologized and didint think much of it as I'm very clumsy. The next day I went to the visitor center to hear about the park. After the program I got up to leave and ran smack into a guy, LO and behold it was the same guy from the day before! I laughed it off and left. A few days later I hiked down to a boat dock to take a boat tour. My boat was ready to go but I noticed it was quite windy so while walking to the boat I was putting my hair up not paying much attention to where I was going. I bumped smack dab into soneone I looked up abd guess who it was? The same guy from before! This time we both laughed a bit and I raced off to the boat so embarrassed that I tripped over the same guy not once, not twice but THREE times!
This story would be better if you ended up marrying him.
Load More Replies...My grandma was once out cycling with a girl friend and decided to have lunch in front of a local castle. Coincidentally, my grandpa was also out cycling with a friend that day! They saw the two girls having lunch and asked if they could join them. Two couples were born that day and they were happily married for over 50 years!
I was in gros morne national park one day and I went to a local church for dinner, as I stood up to go get my food I bumped into a guy. I apologized and didint think much of it as I'm very clumsy. The next day I went to the visitor center to hear about the park. After the program I got up to leave and ran smack into a guy, LO and behold it was the same guy from the day before! I laughed it off and left. A few days later I hiked down to a boat dock to take a boat tour. My boat was ready to go but I noticed it was quite windy so while walking to the boat I was putting my hair up not paying much attention to where I was going. I bumped smack dab into soneone I looked up abd guess who it was? The same guy from before! This time we both laughed a bit and I raced off to the boat so embarrassed that I tripped over the same guy not once, not twice but THREE times!
This story would be better if you ended up marrying him.
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