Weird coincidence - tell me yours

[RedPlumJammy]

The weirdest thing happened to me today. I was waiting at an international airport terminal for a family member and getting coffee when I thought I spotted a famous sports player next to me. I spent a few mins trying to surreptitiously look sideways and eventually he got up and I realised it wasn’t him.

I then went to the arrivals gate to wait for family member. About 15 mins later - I kid you not - the actual real life famous sports person exited the arrivals gate and walked past me. It was 100% not the same man from earlier.

Am I insane - or is that an insane coincidence?! I’m sure you'll all think I’m crackers but I’m always looking for a meaning or sign from the universe too 🤣

I met my now best friend 26 years ago she was a work client at the time. A few years later I found out that a very close friend of hers was the best friend of my cousin and client work friend knew all of that side of my family. At pretty much the same time one of my work colleagues turned out to be the best friend of the same cousins brother ( so also my cousin ) and knew all of that side of my family too.

My aunt R and her partner were together for years but sadly decided to separate, it was all amicable and her ex partner lets call him Mr M, would often still come to family parties etc. He is a really nice funny man.
I had another aunt (Aunt A) on the same side of the family, who had been a victim of domestic abuse and was tragically killed by her husband. During the years of abuse Aunt A's neighbour would let her take refuge in her home and was a real pillar of support, a really nice woman.
Fast forward 30 years and at a family wedding reception Mr M was invited and he brought along his new partner, it was my Aunt A's old neighbour from years ago who had been supportive.
The whole family were so happy to see her and to thank her again for the help she gave our aunt through such a horrible time. She the neighbour had like us been devastated at my aunt dying the way she did, she moved away as she couldn't bare to live in the house next door anymore after what had happened.
She had been on holiday and had got talking to Mr M, they hit it off, kept in touch, got together afer a while and realised they were linked through my 2 aunts and are still together.

Another one, not mine but my best friend, who when 18 went to work on cruise ships as a photographer, she had to share a cabin with another ship worker who happened to come from the next town to ours, which made her think what a small world, then on her first official day of work, part of her job was to take photo's of the holiday makers embarking onto the ship, she was in Florida and was about to take a photo of a couple when she realised it was her dentist from back home.

Used to work in events and ended up having breakfast in UK at the hotel of someone who once showed our company around another country about 20 years ago! Had no idea they lived in UK now.

My sister went to primary school in northern England and secondary in the south. She had a friend called Megan in each school and lost touch with the first Megan. Both Megans took gap years in Spain and ended up sharing a flat. They found out when Megan 1 told Megan 2 where she was from and Megan 2 recognised our rather rural hometown as being where her best friend (my dsis) was originally from.

Second one, my car was registered in a town 300 miles from where I live now. The reg was AB10 CDE. I was driving through my current town and passed an identical car with the reg AB10 CDF.

Out with my sister and our dogs she realised that her bracelet had come off. As well as the sentimental attachment it was also hugely expensive (insured thankfully).

We tried to trace our footsteps but of course in the woods we often would go off the beaten track so it was impossible to walk back the exact way.

It's a place mainly used by dog walkers and not that many.

We looked again the next day and found a dog collar complete with tag. We joked around that she could wear that instead.

The collar looked new and I phoned the number on it and a woman answered and gave us her address.

We called round and it was a lovely lady who hadn't been very well and hadn't long been widowed and she hadn't been able to keep up with her dog in the woods and his new collar was a bit loose and had come off but she hadn't seen where!

She was pleased to get it back because of the tag with her details on it. Between my sister and I we said we had lots of dog collars so we would bring some over to her to see if they were a better fit.

She was very grateful and as we said goodbye, she said, 'I don't suppose either of you lost a bracelet?!'

She had found it when she had gone over to pick up her dogs poo and saw it glistening nearby! It wasn't broken, my sister thinks she just didn't do it up properly that morning.

We are talking about a huge area of woodland!

It was one of those feel good days and we have kept in touch with her and have taken her dog out with ours when she had been unwell.

Many years ago I worked doing tele-sales when I was a student. I got chatting with one punter (female) and we had an immediate rapport, it was really weird. It felt like we were old friends? She has an unusual name which I always remembered.

A few years later, I started a new job and was introduced to a new colleague and recognises sed her name. Turns out she was my tele-sales soul mate!

25 years later she's still one of my closest friends and is DD2's godmother.

Talking to a woman who I didn't know at a parkrun. We bumped into each other at another parkrun the following week

My divorce came through (the final consent order) on the exact same day as my wedding anniversary.

That is weird! Maybe something jogged your memory...?

I was chatting to someone at work a while ago and mentioned how this tutor I had at university did this particular thing one day (it isn't that interesting and too long to explain here). That same day I got an email about some mandatory training. Who should be delivering said training? Tutor from university who I hadn't thought about or seen since I graduated in 2008!

Also, (a bit morbid sorry), I woke up the day a celebrity died (they were ill) and I just knew she was dead. It was in my head "so and so has died". Turned on the news and I was right

Oh, and my oldest friend (for over 40 years)'s first child and my first child were born on the same day (different years).

I haven’t read the whole thread so apologies if someone has already mentioned this. But this kind of thing has happened to me so many times where I see someone who I think is someone I know, it isn’t, but then I see the actual person not long after. And I found out (on here, there was a thread about it a few years ago) that this is an actual thing, it’s called the doppelgänger effect or something. Really weird.

Back in the 70s towards the last days of the Vietnam War children ( many fathered by GIs) were being evacuated to the USA. I had an awful dream where a plane crashed, debris was strewn along a beach. There were nuns and children. The next evening on the news a plane had crashed onto a beach when leaving Vietnam, nuns taking children to new homes in America. 😢

That honestly happens to me alllll the time with people I know. There's not one month that passes when it doesn't happen, it's so weird and I don't have any explanation for it.

On holiday, on the beach when our children were younger. My children get playing with a little boy - all happy. The mother and I take them to the sea to paddle and swim and get chatting. They live about 100 miles away from where I live.

Turns out my youngest and her child have the same medical condition, see the same consultant at a specialist hospital, would be there on the same morning the week after our hols for their next appointments.

When we registered the birth of our eldest DC, we were asked if we had already registered them in Wales. We said no and asked why, and the lady explained and that a a baby with the exact 4-part name and birthdate had already been registered!

None of the 4 names are especially unusual but the exact combination combined with the exact DOB seemed like a huge coincidence!

Had a dream about a Simon and Garfunkel song that I hadn’t heard in years, it’s my mums favourite song. Started the car the next morning and it was playing on greatest hits radio.

Travelled several thousand miles from home to London, got on Tube a few evenings later and a voice said, "Hello, Ghost." It was a cousin from home who I didn't even know was studying in London.

I was in my early 20's and at work, one of the company's we used to do business with often, the owner of the business and I used to get on really well. He was old enough to be my Dad but we just got on well, as work acquaintances and he became one of my favourite suppliers. I had just split with my boyfriend at the time and he wanted to set me up with his son for a date. We would joke about it all the time and he would say how perfect we would be for each other. We never did meet. Shortly after I left the company and as a result I obviously no longer saw him. I then met and married someone else, and he cheated on me and we divorced.

Fast forward to my early 30's and I dipped my toe in online dating. Met an amazing man who I hit if off with immediately. We dated and started to fall in love. As we got to know each other he was telling me about his family and how his Dad owned a company. I couldn't believe it when the company his Dad owned was THAT company that I used to do business with all those years ago, and his Dad was the owner and was the guy who wanted to set me up with his son! So after all that time we actually ended up going on the date that his Dad wanted to set us up on all those years ago. Fate, coincidence or what?

We joke about how we were maybe always destined to be together somehow. I have now been happily married to him for nearly 20 years and I have the most amazing FIL.

About 15 years ago, a friend and I went to Tenerife, we travelled to the other side of the island to an animal park, we were sat watching a show when we spotted someone we knew from back home in the same show. I messaged him to confirm it was him, bumped into him and his friend on the same bus back to the other side of the island. He then said that 2 of our other friends were also on the bottom level of the same bus! So weird!

A long time ago an ex boyfriend broke up with me over the phone at 8pm at night. We were living in different countries at the time. Went to put my watch on the next day, which he had given to me as a birthday present not that long before, and the watch had stopped at the exact time he called me to break up! Took it back to the shop and they couldn't fix it even with a new battery. And it was fairly new and a good quality brand! Bizarre but I took it as a sign that we weren't meant to be.

We were on holiday in Cornwall and one afternoon, went to Port Issac (Doc Martin village) and, while sitting on a bench eating a pasty, got talking to some Australian tourists. Turned out, they were about to travel to a small village at the other end of the UK the next day to visit where their ancestors from the 19th century were buried - yep, it's where we live.

Best ever coincidence I heard though, was a chap on a walking holiday down south somewhere, many miles from home, who answered a ringing public phone in a small village. The caller turned out to be HR from where he worked who'd mistakenly dialled his employee number instead of his home phone number with a query about his wages.

My DH was in London for work last week (we live in Liverpool) and he ran into an old friend (from Liverpool but lives in Felixstowe and a traffic crossing.

Also on the course was a woman who came to our wedding as a guest of my friend!

i told my work friends that there was no way Michael Jackson was going to be able to do all those London live shows ....they blamed me when he died the next day!

also - walking over Millenium Bridge a thought popped into my head "it's a girl and she'll be fine".

i now have a teenage girl

The very first scientific study of paranormal phenomena was based on 'crisis apparitions' of this sort. They are common, and, I believe, real, not coincidence.

What! So it’s an actual thing? Tell me more !!