Something just happened and I have no explanation for it

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Six years ago I was in Belfast (I live in the North of England) and I lost my debit card, I cancelled the card and got a new one. I know for a fact I lost it there because it was in my purse (It was my only card and the one I had been using on my trip to Belfast) and I left my bag on a bus and never got it back.

Today I had a new couch and chair delivered, When the delivery guys left I took the seat cushions off the couch (It’s the kind you can move the cushions and swap them around etc) and there was a debit card there, Picked it up and its the exact one I lost in Belfast six years ago.

Never even sat on this couch yet so it’s not like it fell out of my pocket, because I don’t have any pockets and I don’t have the same clothes I had six years ago, Since losing the card I have decorated my entire flat, All the rooms were empty with no furniture etc as I got it all done room by room, The couch arrived today and the debit card was in the couch.

I’m trying to figure out how this happened and to be honest I'm stumped!

Anything strange like this happened to someone else? Did you ever figure it out?

I picked up the phone at work in one town and I recognised the voice of a school mate from my home town 80 miles away.

There is another almost unbelievable tale that happened in my family, but it’s too outing to tell. But really weird stuff does happen.

I lost my Nan's eternity ring in the Lake District on holiday with my then boyfriend. I was devastated, and felt so guilty! We looked everywhere, turned the place we were staying in upside down looking for it. Years later, I went to my Mums who was selling her sofa, and I was helping her move it. I lifted the seat from the chair, and there was the ring, sitting right in the middle underneath the seat.

When dd was younger, I bought her a Nintendo ds for Christmas. She definitely put it on the dining room table and I saw it in the morning. By the afternoon it had disappeared despite dd being at school. We searched the house high and low.

A couple of weeks later, I bought her a replacement. Then when we were going away a few months later and packing all her stuff up including the replacement Nintendo ds, the original one suddenly appeared in the middle of the hallway floor. It was right in the way and a trip hazard. Neither dd, dh nor I put it there. Odd.

Ooooo I like this explanation but DD has my surname not DHs.

Yes that was it!

Wow, that is mad. That is weird. Even if somebody held on to the card for 6 years, how would they know that you'd order a sofa. Or that you weren't from Belfast, or that you were living in the North of England. Just mystifying.

A very posh shop rang me years ago and said ''Rachel Gillespie'' (fake name but about as common/frequent ''your ring is ready''. Confusion ensued for about two minutes. Eventually they revealed that their Rachel Gillespie was a doctor and worked in a hospital. I said ok, not me, bye. Later I was thinking, they had rung me on me on my mobile. I'd never ordered anything from that shop. In one way it sounds simple, two women with the same name, but the right woman wouldn't have given them my number! she didn't know I existed.

@HappyQuinn No, you were right with 1/10,000 - the odds of two numbers being the same. If we wanted to specify the odds of both people having the particular number "5337" for example, then we multiply 1/10,000 x 1/10,000. But, for the statement of the second person having the same it doesn't matter what the first number is.

I've been researching my family tree and have found a few coincidences, e.g my dad's parents were living in 1921 (before dad was born) - census released last year - in the exact same house that my mum was trying to buy in Exeter in the early 2000s (sale fell through). She knew they'd lived in Bristol but had no idea they had ever lived in Exeter. But reading through the stories on the Ancestry FB page, there are loads of similar 'coincidences'.
One I remember from a TV programme was of an old lady browsing a second hand book stall in a London market. She saw a book she remembered her mum having years before, and decided to buy it. When she opened it, it had her childhood address in the front in her mum's writing - it was the same book!

My guess would be it got caught in some clothing - you thought you put it in your bag in Belfast but instead it fell into a seam in your coat (for example) - then fell out when you were plumping up cushions in the coach.

Were you wearing any old clothes from six years ago when it happened?

She's not coming back

Well this didn’t really happen did it? 🙄

Wow

I'm having a sofa delivered tomorrow. Hopefully OP will turn up inside it. Will keep you all posted 🤣😂🤣😂

Can't believe people actually believed this

I went to Peterborough for my new passport and bought a lovely scarf from Wallis whilst there.
I took the scarf with me whilst backpacking in Australia. One day whilst wearing it, it fell out of my hair from an open top car. My friend and I went back to look for it but never did find it.
We often talked about my lovely scarf that I lost, on the rest of the years travels.
When I returned home I unpacked my suitcases of winter clothes I'd left behind at my parents. In the middle of the old clothes was the scarf I'd lost.
Immediately called my friend and we had an omg moment.
I lost the scarf on my next holiday. Checked when I got home and it never turned up again. 😪

😂 certainly more likely than her story

One of my most treasured possessions is a letter my Nanna received when she was a young cotton mill worker in the 1930s, to tell her she'd reached the finals of the Cotton Queen competition.

My Nanna passed away in 1985, I always kept the letter in the same place, folded inside an envelope in a handbag that had belonged to Nan in a cupboard at my Mum's house.

Recently I had to stay at my Mum's for a few months to take care of my poorly Brother. Whilst there I took the handbag out to look at the letter. It wasn't there. I searched high and low, asked Mum had she seen it, Mum said no, it always stays in the handbag, no reason for it not to be there. I looked everywhere for it but after a few days of intermittent searching I gave up.

A couple of days after giving up searching I got home (to Mum's house) from work late, to an empty house, walked in the living room and there on the armchair seat, opened out flat was the letter. I later asked Mum and Brother (only other occupants of house) about it, neither of them had seen it or put it there.

I'm not a person who believes in ghostly goings on but I have no explanation for how the letter was placed on the chair....

I remember a true story from quite a few years back - a driver reversing in a carpark at corfe castle, Dorset, reversed into a pedestrian, low speed, no injury. Twenty years later the same driver reversing in a carprak in Canada reversed into the same pedestrian! Extraordinary coincidence.

This didn't happen.

😂🤣😂

Unbelievable.

People will believe any old shite on here.

This is not like "something on a Derren Brown show" as per a PP.
DB explains everything and emphasizes that there's nothing woo going on. That's the whole bloody point.

How long before you lost the card and you reported it lost? Usually thieves who steal credit cards know they have a very short window of time to use it before the bank cuts it off. If no one used the card, I must suspect that the card was never stolen, it's been in your house the whole time.

OR, maybe the delivery guys noticed it outside, like wedged in the side of your house or in a window, pulled it out, and dumped it into your couch cushion because they didn't want you to think they stole it? That's a bit of a crazy idea on my end, but honestly, this whole thing is really freaky!!!

Years ago l was walking to work, l had to pass through a supermarket car park. There on the floor was a credit/ debit card. I picked it up and it was the exact same name as myself. Same title, first name and surname. I had to check l had my own card as it really threw me.
I handed it in the relevant bank and told them it was the same name as myself, they couldn't have cared less and l had to ask if l could claim reward, it was either £5 or £10.
I could have had a field day, this was before chip and pin.

That is crazy OP!!