What is the strangest coincidence you’ve had?

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Mine was I met someone on holiday in place A and had conversations several times during the week.

Fast forward 6 months and I got talking to someone on another holiday in place b and thought I know them but wasn’t sure where from, but not from that holiday or home but it turns out it was from holiday A.

Witchcraft happening here!

I was based on Station that the SAS worked out of. They didn't speak to anyone when using the bar, they played a few games of pool and had a beer and would leave without a word to anyone. He was probably there for a few months, so maybe some him half a dozen times. Twenty years after leaving that base i boarded a plane , as i walked down the aisle i noticed this SAS lad from the base many years before, we both looked at each other and gave the tiniest of nods. Five years later i went to pay for fuel in a garage in a very remote non touristy area of Denmark and he was there, again the tiniest of nods but with a wary look from both of us. Last Summer on a holiday in the Med, he walked into the bar i was in. this time we both said at the same time "are you following me" We actually sat and had a beer together talked a lot but said nothing, never mentioning our military pasts. I look forward to seeing him in some back of beyond place next time

These are amazing. Have had a few - some borderline woo though

1. like another pp said I often say or think something and it’s then said on the tv. This happens quite regularly and I don’t know why
2. at university i couldn’t find accommodation but in the end I did - and ended up living at halls in first year (room 524), randomly found an unrelated flat in my second year ( 524 in a block) and in my third year I found another set of halls (floor 5, room 24).
3. one night we were driving to pick someone up from the airport and there was such significant snow it became really dangerous but we were about 30 miles away . My mum was in the car and said she was going to pray to Saint Michael for safety. I didn’t believe in that. But she did and then a car pulled up in front with the number plate “Michael” and sheltered our car from the blizzard and gave us light - and we ended up following it for most of the way to the airport.

• my name js really unusual - hardly any on Facebook and my dad says he made it up. But when I went out one evening I met someone with my name who was 3 years younger than me, had grown up in my home town, gone to my grammar school in another town, studied the same subject I studied at university. but l hadn’t heard of her before. We are still good friends

Not mine but my mum's story.

Years ago my mum had pictures of my little sister (not with us anymore) on a laptop. She lived for only 1 day before suffering a heart attack. The laptop was erased when stolen but was recovered by police

That was that. My mum was heartbroken. One week later she came to visit me in Hitchin for a coffee. We had a little browse of the charity shops and there on a shelf, a picture frame with my sister's picture in.

Neither of us recognised the frame and I don't live in Hitchin, just visited for work related reasons.

The picture was definitely my mum's baby. The hospital tag was visible and said 'Baby Shapely' with a hospital number my mum insists she knew. I'd seen the picture many times too and it was identical to the picture I remember

She took it to the counter and paid, unable to stop crying really. But she didn't say to the shop assistant what was wrong. When she'd paid the £2 for the frame, the assistant said 'Have a nice day Tracey'

We didn't know the woman and I wouldn't have called her Tracey for her to overhear because I call her Mum!

Not qualifying but threads on here are like busses there is a great big red double decker one that looked at someone judgemental like , then someone has an issue with a neighbour looking at them funny on a big red bus

Coincidence?

A terrible way of me saying does anyone else notice the very similar threads that seem a daily thing on here?

We were at an airport halfway across the world and a bloke a relative was friends with was upstairs in a bar at the exact same time we were waiting for our plane, we didn't know till we got back home

I started Slimming World in April 2016.

Started following a shed load of SW accounts in instagram. Got chatting with 1 (and only 1) out of the 500+ I'd followed because of an interesting recipe shed posted.

We chatted quite a lot on IG messages but only slimming world stuff, nothing personal at all. No location, family set up, age careers or anything like that.

She didn't post photos of herself on the feed - just one very fuzzy animal filter of her face as profile picture.

In October 2016 my DM was admitted to hospital with end stage cancer.

The first day I walked in I saw a nurse across the ward and squinted at her thinking "it couldn't be, could it?".

Yes, she was my mom's named nurse.

The comfort that this offered me was incredible.

The universe works in strange ways.

Thank you "SP" for being a comfort in a terrible time.

I had a crush on a member of the entertainment team during my holiday, didn't really even talk to him much but my friend and I participated in the silly games etc and he definitely clocked me.

I absolutely loved his voice and found out his home town was just 30 mins from mine.

On the plane waiting to depart I check my then OLD account to suddenly see him for the first time at the top of my matches as his home location obviously meant he was local.

We started messaging and I ended up going out to visit him twice in 3 months before asking where we was going. The answer was no where but those holidays are for sure some amazing memories all because of the dating app match 🤣

I studied part time for a degree when I was in middle age. My final dissertation was about a particular famous woman in modern history who had died 30 years previously.

A year into researching and writing the dissertation, I sold my flat and moved into a Victorian house, which prompted me to do a bit of research into the house. Whilst in the local studies library, leafing through the 1950s Rates Books to find out who lived in the house and what each room was used for back then, the name of the subject caught my eye. Turned out that in the 1950s she owned and lived in the house next door to the one that I had just bought! I had absolutely no idea until that moment that she owned a house here. All (other) records showed that her home at that time was a country cottage 50 miles away.

Well, what an amazing surprise. I was poised, just about to post this exactly the same question myself! 😳

Just wanted to add

I had no idea how I recognised her, it was more of a vibe than a match of face to blurry photo.

And she lived 40 Miles from the hospital, so very odd that we'd come across each other at all, it's not like we were local to each other.

"he name of the subject caught my eye."

that should have read

the name of the subject of my dissertation caught my eye.

A few times, no more than 2 or 3, I would go to call my mum on the land-line only to find she was already there, no ring at her end, no dialling from me - she must have called me at exactly the same time, or I suppose very slightly earlier.
Has happened once with my youngest DD too.
Not for years though, as its all mobile phones now, and we seem to be in constant contact anyway.

Who was the celeb?

Was given a book aged 13. 'Come Back Lucy' it was called

Anyway, lost it over the years as you do.

I was having a fit of nostalgia some 30 years later and decided to buy a copy. It was out of print (unsure if still is) so I bought it second hand from a random Amazon marketplace seller based in Scotland. I'm in the south east of England

Book arrived and I opened it up to see my name and childhood address written in my handwriting on the front page.

Yep, it was my own book from over 30 years ago

Our first house was sold by the husband during a divorce. The ex-wife turned up one night with her mother with some story about a missing Hoover.

Fast forward some 40+ years, and I was getting rather cross about a book that hadn't been returned to me. Rang the number, only to find the person on the end of the phone had bought the house after my colleague had died.

It was none other than the woman who'd turned up on my doorstep in 1977. She told me her ex sold the house without telling her. We had a lovely chat, and she was very happily remarried.

Visiting Bristol from Plymouth and got talking to a lady. Bumped into her the following week. I have no idea who she is!

Went to an event in Chichester. 2 people (organiser plus his friend who was going to help me) knew I was going to be there. The first person to walk up to me was a friend of mine from Plymouth. We had no idea the other person was going to be there!

Me and DH were out at a restaurant in The Netherlands (on a city break holiday) reminiscing about the company we both used to work and where we first met. Talking away about how much we liked it and all the great people we’d worked with but lost touch over the previous 20 years. Suddenly a large group of about fifteen people walk in to the restaurant and make their way to the large table next to us. I look up and see someone I hadn’t seen for years - then realise that the whole lot of them are from the company we’d been talking about, most of whom I knew and were the colleagues we’d just been discussing! They were on a trip to a client in the city we were visiting. I hadn’t seen them for 20 years, had a good old chat with them all and just had a lovely evening, took lots of pictures. They all looked exactly the same, maybe a teeny bit older 😂. Wonder if it’ll be another 20 years before I see them again 😁

Once in London I was on the tube (central line so one every minute or two) and there was a family in the carriage with me. We got off at Oxford Circus, somewhere super busy. After my lunch finished got back on and same family was in my carriage also going home. What are the chances!

When I was 18 I went on holiday with my friend to Turkey. At the hotel we made friends with a group of lads. During the holiday these lads had befriended 2 girls who were in an awful hotel, and these girls 'moved into' the boys rooms for the rest of their stay. Turns out these girls were from the same town we were, although we'd never seen them before.

Fast forward a year, and the girls turn up at a nightclub my friend and I worked at - we had a good catch up.

Fast forward 5 years, and I was pregnant and ended up on an antenatal ward in the local hospital. Opposite me was one of the girls from the holiday - we had another good catch up.

Fast forward a further 5 years and I start a new job. The same girl above was in my new team.

I've not seen her for many many years now, but we did have a laugh about how we would randomly keep meeting each other!

Wow this gave me goosebumps!

@Blueberrywitch was the strangest thing ever! I just opened it up and thought 'ah! So that's where it got to then!'

Literally not got a clue how it would randomly end up in Scotland but was pleased to have it back

When my dad was in the war in Bosnia in the 90s, he met a man from the Russian armed forces. Both had the same grade in the military and the Russian guy had also a daughter that was the same age as me and had the same name.

When I started dating again after my marriage broke down I met a lovely chap, F, who had been living down on the coast but recently transferred offices in his company and moved back to our landlocked bit of the world and was trying to meet new people. We didn't date, but became good friends.

A few weeks later I met my (now) DP. As he lived near to F I invited F for a coffee when I was visiting DP (after we'd been dating a couple of months). Turned out they both worked for the same company.

I know I have a type, but I didn't realise it extended to specifics like that!

Just before my Gran died we took her tiny great-great grandson to let her see him. We'd been there about an hour when my Dad and sister arrived. Neither of us knew we'd be there.