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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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#1
This Bird Landed On The Page About Itself
#2
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."
#3
My Friend Just Got This Once In A Lifetime Picture
#4
Dog Gave Birth To Three Puppies, Each With Their Own Corresponding Number On Their Back
Jolo Atlantis 7 years ago
Looks like something out of a children's show. "Count the puppies! One! Two! Three! Way to go! There were... three puppies!"
#5
Close
#6
The Mountains And Trees Lined Up Perfectly On This Camper On The Highway
#7
Hometown Zip Code, T-Shirt, Race Number, Finishing Time - All 33607
#8
What To Do After A Car Crash?
#9
A Dragon Fly Landed On My Friends Foot And Mirrored Its Own Tattoo
Mr. Curtis 7 years ago
I dont really think it's a coincidence this one.. But maaaaybe the dragonfly want to... Mate?
#10
Right Place, Right Time
#11
Fire Breather Looks Like He's Kissing A Fire Dragon
#12
I Call Bullsh*t, They Obviously Rehearsed This
#13
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
#14
Brother Spent A Year Trying To Get A Lightning Photo. He Caught This Last Night, I Just Noticed The Boat In The Bottom Left
#15
In Very Rare Circumstances It Is Possible To See A Full 360 Degree Rainbow From An Airplane
#16
Butterfly Bro Lands On His Own Picture
CatShatBrix 7 years ago
There is actually a chance it thought that the picture was real, and came to mate/socialise
#17
Managed To Catch This Balloon Popping On My Phone
#18
Oddest Odd Possible
#19
A Flamboyance Of Flamingos… Shaped Like A Flamingo
#20
Mosquito Killed By A Dart
#21
Swedish Guy Accidentally Captures Green Meteorite While Searching For The Northern Lights
#22
My Blind Son Found A Four Leaf Clover On His Own. What Are The Odds?
#23
Rare Cloud Phenomenon Over Eastern Victoria, Australia
#24
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.
#25
Two Collided Bullets From The Battle Of Gallipoli
#26
Bad Timing
#27
Man Slides Into Pool But Never Swims
#28
My Dog's White Stripe Lines Up Perfectly With The Water's Edge
#29
My Brother Accidentally Wore The Same Outfit As My Daughters Birthday Present
#30
Triple Rainbow
#31
My Friend's Father Caught A Blue Lobster The Other Day. Odds Are 1 In 2 Million
#32
4 Strangers Same Outfit
#33
Cell Phone Picture From Friday Nights Storm. The Lighting Happened Right After The Camera Started Taking The Picture
#34
The People You May Know Section Of Facebook Put Up These Pictures That Align Perfectly With Unrelated People
#35
Lottery Ticket Vs. Winning Numbers
#36
This Car Owner Is Just Lucky
#37
An Albino Deer I Spotted In Northwestern Wisconsin Yesterday
Kori K. Warriner 7 years ago
That's not very unusual. Unfortunately they are the first to go because they aren't camouflaged.
#38
Restaurant Sign Saved By Chance
#40
What Are The Odds Of This Accident?
#41
Eggsperts Say Odds Are 11 Billion To 1
#42
I Dropped A Plate By Accident,and It Spilt In Half Perfectly. No Shards Or Chips
#44
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...
#45
The Print On The Lorry In Front Is In The Same Spot My Wife Took Her Background Photo
#46
Friend Tried To Toss Me His Keys At Work, They Got Stuck On Piping In The Roof Like This
#47
These Licence Plates
#48
We Got Another Rare Lobster In At Work. This Time He's A 1 In 30 Million Calico Lobster
#49
This Lady's Dress
#50
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
#51
I Saw A Gull Standing On Top Of Another Gull
#52
How Does This Even Happen?!?
#53
My Dad Started Learning Archery 2 Years Ago. He Comes Back From Lessons With This Once In A Lifetime Shot
#54
Sequential License Plates
#55
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
#56
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
#57
Car's Lucky Day
#58
Lucky Speeder
#60
My Friend Captured Possibly The Rarest Thing That's Ever Happened
#61
These Two Local Doctors. Two These Doctors Local
just a thought ! 7 years ago
Their names too seem Indian ... Maybe malyalis ? Idk ...Cherian seems like a Mallu name
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Susan Gardner 7 years ago
They are not related? I"m sure they are both John Cherian, but one is written Cherian, John without the comma (?)
Jimmy Two Times 7 years ago
Nope, the names are written correctly. They are father and son.
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#62
Both Lines At McDonalds Had The Same Cars
#63
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
#64
Identical License Plates But From Different States
#65
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
therealpixie 7 years ago
Hrishikesh, not laughing about god; laughing about an Hispanic man named Jesus.
#66
She Was Born For This Job
#67
After Having It For 2 Years, I Accidentally Found My Phone Background The Other Day Near Santa Cristina, Italy
#68
I Just Dropped My Bank Note On The Floor And I Thought It Had Disappeared
#69
My Sister, Other Sister, And Parents Accidentally Bought Me The Same Birthday Card
Christina Waide 7 years ago
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
#70
This Guy Had Two Nails From A Nail Gun Hit His Leg, And They Both Missed His Femur And His Kneecap
#71
My Default Router Password Described My Rare Birthmark
#72
Is This Going To Be A Bad Day Or A Good One?
#73
What Are The Odds?
#74
I Mean, What Are The Odds?
#75
This Captcha Password
#76
The Left Door Perfectly Describes The Right Door's Condition
#77
Leaf Meets Crack In The Gate
#79
I Found 5 Peanuts In A Shell
#80
"Beware Of Death" Sign Above An Unexploded Shell In A Tree During WW1
#81
Yesterday I Got Lucky, I Ride Again
#82
My Friend Threw His Homework In The Air
#83
The View Of Street From My Work
#84
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
#85
My Cousin Caught A Lobster With Double Pinchers. Both Claws Work
#86
My Worksheet For Statistics Said I Wouldn't Get The Same Numbers When I Used A Random Number Generator. I Did
#87
3 Eggs. All Twins. The Odds Of This Happening Are About 0.003%
#88
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
#89
My Phone Captured A Card Being Dealt, Total Accident But Mildly Interesting Consequence
#90
These Two Bullets Hit Each Other At The Battle Of Gettysburg
#91
Couple Wins Lottery For The Third Time
#92
Dices Got Stuck In My Friend's Glass While Shuffling
#93
Cheating Death
#94
Can I Get $100 On "Christ That's Lucky" Please Jim
#95
Someone Flipped This Up There
Olivia Kuczynski 7 years ago
or someone reached over the ledge from the roof and sat it there?
#96
Gunpowder Shooting Up Out Of A Miniature Cannon Lands Directly In A Container Of Gunpowder
#97
How Fast Can A Moth Even Fly?
#98
My Friends Order Number Was The Same As Her Total
#99
My Pinball Stopped Exactly... Here
#100
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
#101
Shot An Arrow Into A Public Archery Target And Accidentally Re-Tipped My Arrow With Another Arrowhead That Was Stuck Inside
#102
This Bill Is Exactly 11111
#103
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
#104
This Wasp Got Crushed By My Garage Door As It Closed
Kori K. Warriner 7 years ago
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.
#105
Top 3 Spots Of This Nascar Race Belong To Numbers 1, 2, And 3
#106
I Accidentally Washed A Couple Of Dollar Bills And One Turned Out To Be A Counterfeit
#107
The Events That Aligned To Make This Happen Are Uncanny
Thomas Hollingshead 7 years ago
Darn. This is a good picture, but the somewhat grotesque position is only earning downvotes. That's a shame.
#108
I Shot A Spider With A 23GA Nailgun From 4 Feet Away And Scored A Headshot
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Joelle Jansen 7 years ago
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!
lindsaymad2000 7 years ago
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!
Shari H 7 years ago
This story would be better if you ended up marrying him.
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Paul Osborne 7 years ago
I squirted out some moisturiser onto my finger in the exact shape of a dove. It just happened to be Dove moisturiser
Vincent Tiggelman 7 years ago
And i was born on the same day my mom birthed a child! I kid you not! And on my birthday as well! Awesome!
Red Ruffensor 7 years ago
I was in a group hiking in the Canadian Rockies. We arrived at a remote lake, and waved at two people in a canoe across the way, and they paddled over to say hello. One of them was a high school friend of one of my group, whom she hadn't seen since grad in Toronto thirty years earlier.
Tiny Dynamine 7 years ago
Many years ago, I finished a cigarette and threw it to the floor. It landed so that it was standing on end. I've never done it any other time nor heard of anyone else doing that.
Victoria Dreyer 7 years ago
My family has a legend, as many families do. Until recently, I discounted it as just a story.
Stopped for breakfast on my way back from a trip, and had this little dude sit on my wing mirror while I was getting ready to drive. She sat there for a good ten minutes, staring at me with first one eye, then the other eye. It was super weird, but I didn't think much of it.
An hour later, I was hit by a truck.
That wing mirror was torn off, and my car was seriously damaged, but I was miraculously unhurt. It wasn't until weeks later when I was going through my phone looking at the pictures from the trip that I remembered the little bird sitting on my wing mirror, looking at me so oddly...
How does that relate to my family legend? According to Dad, he's had birds act weird before bad things happen before. Like they're trying to warn us. Probably just a coincidence... but I'm listening to the birds just in case from now on! 20140603_0...e8c3c8.jpg 
Ning Pieya 7 years ago
Me and my sister have a same birthday... I born on 19.03.1995 and she was born 19.03.2001...
Karen Winslow 7 years ago
#42 The white/albino deer. we have quite a few in the Northwoods and most hunters dont shoot them either
Rena Yarbrough Howe 7 years ago
I have a photo taken last fall of the same lottery ticket situation. Exactly the same..What kills me is that I picked the numbers.... 024-59cd32...153449.jpg 
Rich Stephens 7 years ago
#3 and #6: Photoshop skills lined up perfectly for these amazing shots! 😆
Bubbles 7 years ago
After my separation, I went to a solicitor about keeping the marital home because I'd just given birth a few weeks earlier. I was very sad and called a telephone help line. Turned out the counsellor at the end grew up in the house I was living in and had been to the solicitor about.
kanga 7 years ago
The auto-generated password was uneven iris. Person's eye (iris) has uneven coloring.
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Ivan Yamanaka 7 years ago
Another video that should be included is the one where a tire goes back on its own rim!
Kassa Wilson 7 years ago
I think it's that there are three kids next to each other that happen to look like the Harry Potter kids.
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Nytha Jarrett 7 years ago
#91 3 double-yolkers in a row? Big deal! Bought a dozen eggs at the local supermarket and out of the 12 eggs 11, yes ELEVEN, were double-yolkers. I have 2 questions. 1. How did that single-yolker sneak into that lot? 2. What the hell kind of hormones are the egg producers feeding the hens?
Sumitra Suradinata 7 years ago
woooowww... so amazing and very nice see also at https://goo.gl/SjXmKv
Sherri French 7 years ago
One plate says Yea (yes) and one says Naw (No).
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Jennifer Richardson 7 years ago
Shooting an arrow with another arrow is certainly not rare. Rare, but not once-in-a-lifetime unless you stop shooting archery right after doing it. :/ Took archery for a few years myself and of the 25 people in my league (most were beginners) about 15 of them pulled off that shot at least once, 2 of them kids around 10 years old. My dad had 3 of them himself resting over his deer head trophies on the wall.
Joelle Jansen 7 years ago
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!
lindsaymad2000 7 years ago
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!
Shari H 7 years ago
This story would be better if you ended up marrying him.
Load More Replies... Paul Osborne 7 years ago
I squirted out some moisturiser onto my finger in the exact shape of a dove. It just happened to be Dove moisturiser
Vincent Tiggelman 7 years ago
And i was born on the same day my mom birthed a child! I kid you not! And on my birthday as well! Awesome!
Red Ruffensor 7 years ago
I was in a group hiking in the Canadian Rockies. We arrived at a remote lake, and waved at two people in a canoe across the way, and they paddled over to say hello. One of them was a high school friend of one of my group, whom she hadn't seen since grad in Toronto thirty years earlier.
Tiny Dynamine 7 years ago
Many years ago, I finished a cigarette and threw it to the floor. It landed so that it was standing on end. I've never done it any other time nor heard of anyone else doing that.
Victoria Dreyer 7 years ago
My family has a legend, as many families do. Until recently, I discounted it as just a story.
Stopped for breakfast on my way back from a trip, and had this little dude sit on my wing mirror while I was getting ready to drive. She sat there for a good ten minutes, staring at me with first one eye, then the other eye. It was super weird, but I didn't think much of it.
An hour later, I was hit by a truck.
That wing mirror was torn off, and my car was seriously damaged, but I was miraculously unhurt. It wasn't until weeks later when I was going through my phone looking at the pictures from the trip that I remembered the little bird sitting on my wing mirror, looking at me so oddly...
How does that relate to my family legend? According to Dad, he's had birds act weird before bad things happen before. Like they're trying to warn us. Probably just a coincidence... but I'm listening to the birds just in case from now on! 20140603_0...e8c3c8.jpg
Ning Pieya 7 years ago
Me and my sister have a same birthday... I born on 19.03.1995 and she was born 19.03.2001...
Karen Winslow 7 years ago
#42 The white/albino deer. we have quite a few in the Northwoods and most hunters dont shoot them either
Rena Yarbrough Howe 7 years ago
I have a photo taken last fall of the same lottery ticket situation. Exactly the same..What kills me is that I picked the numbers.... 024-59cd32...153449.jpg
Rich Stephens 7 years ago
#3 and #6: Photoshop skills lined up perfectly for these amazing shots! 😆
Bubbles 7 years ago
After my separation, I went to a solicitor about keeping the marital home because I'd just given birth a few weeks earlier. I was very sad and called a telephone help line. Turned out the counsellor at the end grew up in the house I was living in and had been to the solicitor about.
kanga 7 years ago
The auto-generated password was uneven iris. Person's eye (iris) has uneven coloring.
Load More Replies... Ivan Yamanaka 7 years ago
Another video that should be included is the one where a tire goes back on its own rim!
Kassa Wilson 7 years ago
I think it's that there are three kids next to each other that happen to look like the Harry Potter kids.
Load More Replies... Nytha Jarrett 7 years ago
#91 3 double-yolkers in a row? Big deal! Bought a dozen eggs at the local supermarket and out of the 12 eggs 11, yes ELEVEN, were double-yolkers. I have 2 questions. 1. How did that single-yolker sneak into that lot? 2. What the hell kind of hormones are the egg producers feeding the hens?
Sumitra Suradinata 7 years ago
woooowww... so amazing and very nice see also at https://goo.gl/SjXmKv
Sherri French 7 years ago
One plate says Yea (yes) and one says Naw (No).
Load More Replies... Jennifer Richardson 7 years ago
Shooting an arrow with another arrow is certainly not rare. Rare, but not once-in-a-lifetime unless you stop shooting archery right after doing it. :/ Took archery for a few years myself and of the 25 people in my league (most were beginners) about 15 of them pulled off that shot at least once, 2 of them kids around 10 years old. My dad had 3 of them himself resting over his deer head trophies on the wall.
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