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Biggest/spookiest 'coincidence' you've ever had?

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Trapordo · 14/04/2020 22:36

I thought I'd ask, it's interesting.

Mine off the top of my head - I thought of a boy I met as a young teenager. I couldn't remember his surname, only his first name. The day later, he appeared on my suggested friends for Facebook. No mutual friends etc. We met in Tunisia. I hadn't searched for him either. Last time I saw him was about 10 years ago.

I always had a gut feeling my dad would 'appear' into my life when I became an adult. I just always imagined it from as young as 8. He messaged me on my 18th birthday. Hadn't seen him since before I learned to walk.

Last one, my mum's good friend moved to Cornwall when I was little. I thought of her before going down there for sma weekend recently. It turns out that the person I hired wetsuits from was her husband. We took a photo together out for lunch. My mum said she almost choked as she thought she'd fallen off the face of the earth.

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NumberMonkey · 14/04/2020 22:45

First one was at a market in South if France years ago while on holiday. Was looking at something with my Mum when our next door neighbour from home turned round and said hello! We also bumped into them at an auto route service station on another trip!

Second was when I went to uni. I was put into an a flat with 4 strangers. One of them was much younger than her siblings - her eldest brother lived in the same town as my parents and was their dentist. His ex-wife’s parents lived on the same street as my Grandma in another city! None of these places were local - Newcastle, Leeds and Birmingham Shock

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Trapordo · 14/04/2020 22:51

Number Now that is a nosey neighbour Grin

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WutheringFrights · 14/04/2020 22:59

Mine is a bit Woo although I have always considered myself non-Woo...

The night my dad passed away I was sleeping in the room above his with my then 10 month old baby.

I had a really vivid dream which I put down to the situation as he had been allowed to come home from hospital to die.

In the dream I woke up, walked downstairs, opened the front door and flew up into the sky, I then said you’ve got the wrong person I need to go back.

Then I woke up .... and a little later he passed away.

About half an hour after he died my DD woke up.

Four years later I was putting my DD to bed and she said mummy do you remember that time at grannies house when I had that really lovely dream....and described exactly the dream I had.

Just....coincidence!?

Notso · 14/04/2020 23:13

My Grandma loved a gin and tonic. Had to be Gordon's and Schweppes and she always had a dish of plain crisps in the evening with it.
The day after she died I had a shopping delivery. As I unpacked my order I found a knotted bag that contained two bottles of Gordon's gin a pack of Schweppes tonic cans and a multi pack of plain crisps.
I definitely hadn't ordered them, they weren't on the list and when I phoned the customer service they said it was a mistake and to keep them.

PhantomErik · 14/04/2020 23:25

I had an argument with a then boyfriend & called in sick to work (waitress job age 18). About half an hour after I should have left my Dad had a heart attack. My Mum & brother were at work so I was on my own with him. If I'd gone to work who knows what would have happened!

Luckily he recovered but he was upstairs when it happened & the phone was downstairs - not sure he could have called for an ambulance himself.

Fuzzywuzzyhadnohair · 14/04/2020 23:28

Today I was working while my son was doing a Twinkl worksheet where he had to find spelling mistakes in a passage. He brought it to me to check and he’d missed one, ‘Chrismas’. As I was showing him and asking him what the correct spelling was, I received an email from my boss. In it was the word Christmas, misspelled the exact same way Shock

Elieza · 14/04/2020 23:32

My friend was in France. Stopped off randomly at an old graveyard to stretch their legs. Walked around and randomly stopped at a random gravestone, read the name. The first name he’d read in the graveyard. Only read the one. It was his surname. Freaky.

Biscusting · 14/04/2020 23:34

I knew exactly what my second child would look like. Completely different to our first child. Before I was pregnant or really planning to be. I felt a weird sense that I was just going to meet this little person who I already knew.

I brushed the thought off when I did become pregnant many months later, but I couldn’t visualise the baby I was carrying looking any other way.

When she was born sure enough, exactly how i’d imagined.

Poor DH was confused at the birth when he commented on her sex, hair etc, that I was like ‘I know, duh’ 🤣

The radio was also playing the song we walked out of the church to when we got married at the moment she was born. Total wtf moment

Fuzzywuzzyhadnohair · 14/04/2020 23:48

Another one, a couple of years ago I was playing Words with Friends (like Scrabble) with a few different online opponents, all strangers. One of them played the word MAGI in a game. The next day, another opponent played the exact same word in exactly the same position! I was absolutely dumbfounded, I don’t know much about probability but that struck me as a very unlikely coincidence.

Knittingnanny · 14/04/2020 23:53

Years ago when my children were young we went on holiday to Florida. We had done one round of crazy golf and the boys and dad wanted to do another, I was hot so I sat on a bench to wait. I heard my name being called.
It was a near neighbour who had moved away 5 years previously. If I had gone round the course again I wouldn’t have see her!

Fuzzywuzzyhadnohair · 14/04/2020 23:56

@Biscusting I thought I knew exactly what my first baby was going to look like. He looked nothing like I’d imagined. His brother, born 4 years later did, though.

TheLowry · 14/04/2020 23:56

I was on holiday in the US with a friend when we bumped into someone who I knew from the UK, but even more weird was the fact my friend knew her too but through a completely different connection. We had no idea we were all mutual friends.

MrsHoolie · 15/04/2020 00:06

@TheLowry that’s so weird!

HL123 · 15/04/2020 00:06

I'm a social worker and one of the children I used to see (4 years old) always called me Mary, even though it's nothing like my actual name. I hadn't told him that when I was a child I loved the name Mary, and asked my family and teachers etc to call me by that name for a while.
The same child once randomly said to me during a visit to him 'are you the marble maker?'. I'd had a really vivid dream the night before about playing a marble run game. So strange!

detachablehoof · 15/04/2020 00:12

Tonight DH and I were discussing whether to have a tipple or not (becoming a daily habit since lockdown) and decided it would be good to have a night off. I opened the duolingo app to practice some German. The phrases it asked me to translate?

The woman drinks wine
He is thirsty
The wine is good

😂

Wolfgirrl · 15/04/2020 00:15

I met my best friend 10 years ago when she was my flatmate (flat share, didnt know her before moving in). Both from south west but different counties far apart, no friends or acquaintances in common, etc. She mentioned a few years ago her granddad was going that weekend to a very tiny village on exmoor as he grew up there and sometimes went back to visit. I knew said village was where my grandparents lived for some years, turns out they knew each other in the 60s! Which is a really lovely link.

Stroller15 · 15/04/2020 00:20

Years ago, I had lots of dreams about a blue eyed blonde little boy. The dreams itself weren't very exciting but I told a friend about them as I had them so often. She said it's maybe just my subconscious. I then fell pregnant with my first boy and were a bit weirded out when I found out it was a boy as I grew up in a family of girls. That night I had a dream where the same blonde boy came and told me not to worry, it was going to be okay. Now that boy is 4 years old, still blonde, still blue eyed while both DH and I have black hair and brown eyes.

FurryCat1978 · 15/04/2020 00:30

It had been a few months since I’d spoken to my older sister when a picture of her popped into my mind. I picked up my phone and called her. Exactly the same time, she called me. Neither of our phones rang and neither of us heard a ring tone...we just pressed the dial buttons on our phones and we were connected at the same time. Never happened before or since. Spooky but comforting!

Clevererthanyou · 15/04/2020 00:32

My father died very suddenly 2 years ago and it was horrific and traumatising. He was my closest relative and we were best friends ☺️ I was in my garage with my husband trying to find a board game when I was overwhelmed with a feeling of missing my dad, I put my hand in the Frustration box and I found his Northern Ireland medal, at that very moment the radio began to play the song I played at his funeral. I know it was a coincidence but it brought me such wonderful comfort when I needed it most Grin

Livingthecovidaloca · 15/04/2020 00:32

Moved half way around the world, had dinner with a group of people. Found out one of the women had dated an ex-boyfriend of mine at university.

WatcherintheRye · 15/04/2020 00:32

Having been admitted to a hospice that day for respite, my Dad died there at 1.05 am, two days before I gave birth to ds2 at home at 1.05 am, in the same room my Dad had been staying in before being taken to the hospice. I'm not usually someone who reads things into coincidences, but I did find that one strangely comforting.

My Birthday is the day after my Mil's and Dh's Birthday is the day after my Mum's!

dialmformmmm · 15/04/2020 00:39

To feel like murdering my husband and then, woah, found a knife in my hand standing over him screaming IF YOU SNIFF ONE MORE TIME IT'S THE END!

Day 34 of lockdown. What a coincidence.

toohardforme · 15/04/2020 00:41

My parents wedding;

My mum was born to English father, Scottish mother, brought up abroad . Met my dad in Scottish town having moved back to U.K. . Met his family (father adopted at birth) .

Day of wedding, it became apparent very quickly that a large part of father’s adoptive family were in fact already very close friends with mother’s maternal family . All from a very rural area in the Scottish highlands . Shared a surname, shared a croft, and all sorts . My mum’s grandfather, and my fathers uncle, had known each other for 60+ years - shared a desk at school in 1920 .

Parents very thankful that my dad being adopted means there’s no chance they’re actually related . Very odd coincidence though . They are long since divorced but both say what a wonderful night their wedding party was - like a family reunion of sorts .

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Trapordo · 15/04/2020 08:18

These are all so fascinating! Sometimes I do wonder the probabilities of these things. Must be similar or rater in chance than a lottery win for lots of examples

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MsTSwift · 15/04/2020 08:24

We were in Westminster abbey there is a huge book under a glass case with the name of all fallen soldiers airforce navy in Ww2. My great uncle died aged 28 on a torpedoed ship - he died a hero saving others. When we looked at the book it was open on the page with his name on it. Hundreds of pages.