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

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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.

Another dd one!

One day I was alone in the house (again) when I suddenly caught a really strong smell of Parma violets. About 5 mins after I started smelling them, dd rang me from work (she worked in a confectionary company). Told her about the odd smell and she said she’d just come out of a meeting where they’d been talking about ... yup, Parma violets! (They clearly have very interesting meetings there)!

When I went into labour with my first I didn't tell anyone we where in hospital. Eventually after an emergency c section our DD was born at 422am on the day of my Nans birthday. After joining the ward later that morning I called my nan to wish her a happy birthday and to tell her our news. She answered they phone and before I could tell her she told me how tired she was, that she'd had a very odd night and that she'd woken up at 422am and couldn't get back to sleep.

A clear childhood memory is my grandmothers house smelling of rumours lavender spray. No word of a lie every time I get out the shower I smell the scent really strong. I moved house in Dec so thought it won’t happen but it still does.

Went on holiday to Spain met a family on the plane chatted loads then we went to different hotels on the way back we chatted again then said our good byes. 4 ish years later we where on the Dreamliner to Mexico and I popped to the toilet and who Did I pass on the plane ??? That very same family . Totally diff time of year /plane and destination.

My DH’s DMum and my DDad were born on the same day, 10 years apart! Always thought how weird that was, especially as they’re the parents we were/are both closer to... 😧

Nothing spooky about this one but this thread has just reminded me. Several months ago DH and I went to Liverpool for the first time and went to the Cavern. The ceiling is covered in graffiti where people have signed their names. It was packed as you would expect so we found a spot to stand and have a drink. After we had been stood there for a bit we looked up and realised we were standing right underneath where people had written the same names as our children.

My grandma was dying of cancer and she kept coming out with a strange surname we hadnt heard before. Nobody understood what she meant. Her grave is surrounded by the graves of people of that particular surname.

Loving this thread. I have a thing with the number two in my life - it's always been a significant number. It's always popping up everywhere! Not least the birthdays of those special to me. My partner's birthday is 22nd of the month, my DD's birthday is the 2nd and my DS was due on the 12/02/2020 - however I had a feeling he would be late and come on 22/02/2020 so there were more twos in the date! Low and behold he arrived on that exact date as I said he would. Don't think I'll be having any more children as two seems to be the perfect number for me

When I was 19 and still living at home, I had been unable to sleep one night with no explanation. I called in sick the next day as I couldn’t face going into work exhausted. I went downstairs for breakfast to see that my mum and brother also hadn’t gone to work, they all reported the same thing, couldn’t sleep etc.

As we was all together and it was lovely weather, we went for a walk with our very much loved 15 year old dog. 2 hours after getting back from our walk he suddenly passed away.

We all felt and still feel today, that we was gifted that one last walk as a family and it is such a strange but lovely coincidence.

My best friend and I live 3 hours apart so only see each other a couple of times a year but text every few weeks.

One night I had an overwhelming urge to text and check on her, but I got distracted and ended up forgetting. I woke up in the middle of the night with an awful feeling and still thinking about her. The next morning I text and she didn't reply all day. I just couldn't settle at all. When she eventually text me back later that night she told me her Dad had died the previous day.

My Dad is currently in hospital with Covid and very unlikely to pull through. A couple of days ago I was sat in the kitchen around 6.30am feeling really low and having a cry to myself while DS and DH were still in bed.

My phone pinged and it was my best friend asking if I was ok.

Not me but an ex friend 's birthday was the same as his daughters and grandaughters (different years obviously!)

A couple of years ago I was on holiday in Naples (where we had never been before) with DH and DS. We had visited a museum in the afternoon and DS had been disappointed that some of the rooms he wanted to see were closed because of a new exhibition which was being opened with an event that evening. As we walked down the road away from the museum I became aware of a man shouting my name - it was an old friend from university, who was with his partner and two other people. They were on the way to the museum, where his partner was giving the speech to open the exhibition. Their companions were the organisers, from the British Council. We said good bye and arranged to text later about meeting up the next night - the last of our stay.

That evening, DS insisted that he should choose the restaurant, and poured over guidebooks and then directed us the place of his choice. It was fantastic - the best meal we had had there. Later, my friend texted and suggested we meet the next night at a restaurant: I said yes, and suggested this place as it had been so good. He replied - 'that's extraordinary - that's where I was going to suggest: the owner is the husband of the woman you met us with this afternoon.'

The timing of getting together with DH. We’ve always joked that we had a very small window of opportunity for it to happen as I’d been with my ex for years and was never the type to so much as look at another man when in a relationship.

I hit OLD while in the rebound phase, just wanting to get out there and have fun as soon as I split with my ex. Now DH messaged me a lot over a week or so then we met up for a drink. During that week, within his existing friendship group a new woman was introduced, a friend of one of the existing group members and she made it obvious that she was most interested in DH. Luckily he didn’t do anything even though she was attractive and seemed nice, out of respect to what was unfolding in the very early days with him and I.

So, the new woman turned her attentions on a different man in the group. They quickly got together and became serious, married and had children. She later developed serious MH problems and changed personality beyond all recognition, including causing massive legal problems for her lovely DH and her DCs have struggled so much (we are still friends with them).

It’s struck me how my DH would likely have been the one to have DCs with her and suffer in the same way as her DH if we hadn’t started OLD the week that we did.

Me and my dads 'thing' was dancing. We used to do the waltz together.
I was at work early in the morning five years ago when the call came from my mum to say that my dad had passed away. I left work, got in the car, turned the radio on and Dance with my father by Luther Vandross was playing.
About 4 weeks ago I was relaying this story to someone at work and just as I was telling him the story Dance with my father came on the radio again.

Oh Boredbumhead your post brought a tear to my eye .

In Guides/Scouts, leaders are often given various animal/bird names. From turning 18 until university, I was a Leader as my old Guide pack, and was given a bird name. I had a badge with that name on. Mostly forgot about it.

Now in my thirties, with Beaver/Cub aged children, I am a Cub leader. I took DHs name when we married- a bird name. DDs were looking through my old Guide stuff- and asked if I had that name because of Daddy... My Guide Leader name was the same as my married name.

About ten years ago I went to London with my DM, DB and his then girlfriend to watch a West End show. We live well over a 100 miles away. When we arrived we decided to have a wander down to the theatre just to check it out, as we did so we walked straight into one of my DFs old friends and his wife. Turns out they’d come down to London to see the same show on the same night and had been on the same train as us.

Walked into a garden party on my own and didn’t see the host. I said ‘Hello, I don’t know anyone here.’ A voice from the crowd piped up ‘You know me.’ It was my old boss from when I lived on the other side of the world, and 20 years later! Turned out she worked with the host, she’d emigrated 5 years earlier.

Middle of march I was sat with my oh looking through my phone trying to find a work colleague phone number and turned to my oh and said" I've still got dead bil phone numbers ' as I said that on came one of the songs that was played at his funeral ,after I'd had a little smile about it I thought no more until my DD rang me and said ' mum it's two years today since uncles funeral,
My fil was in hospital and the mil and sons had all raced off after getting a phone call ,my dm came to sit with me it had just gone midnight we had no TV on just a lamp and I remember saying to my dm I hope they get there in time as I said it a light shot from behind the TV up to the corner of the room and disappeared within seconds the phone was ringing it was my dsil telling us dfil had passed away

@ChicChicChicChiclana ah thanks I was in floods of tears. But it was very heart warming at the time.