What is the strangest coincidence you've ever experienced?

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A close family friend was waiting outside the church at my aunts funeral when she saw a woman who had been one of my aunts closest friends from when she was young but had moved abroad. They had literally not heard from her in twenty years (it was before facebook etc.) and the family friend was surprised that she knew about my aunts death and the funeral etc.

Here's the weird bit- she had absolutely no idea. She had been visiting her brother who had just moved to the area, a random suburb of a city 200 miles from where they had all lived when they were young. Went out for a walk and stumbled across her childhood friend's funeral in the most random of places that none of them had any connection to.
My mum stayed in touch with her for a little while afterwards as she attended the funeral, so I guess it was probably an nice coincidence in the end, but it really gives me the chills.

On a 3 day stop over in New Jersey on way home from holiday we dropped off the hire car and jumped on the monorail to get to the airport terminal. The tram made another stop at a different parking lot and a couple and their 3 DC's got on.
We were all when we saw that it was DBIL and DSIL having a stopover at the start of their holiday.
Neither brother had realised that they would be away on holiday at the same time or even the others destination.

I was TTC for over a year, my DH suggested we got a cat for me to "mother", visited cats needing a home, 2 weeks later cat arrives and I conceive that night

Turns out I went to school with ds teacher's mum and uncle. This was in the opposite end of the country from where I now live. Mighty weird coincidence.

When I left school at 18 I got a job as a trainee accountant in a very small firm (6 employees in total). Another guy started the same day as me. We found out that we actually had the same birthday (and year).

Told my mum, joking she might have been in hospital next to his mum. Then discover that his parents and my parents were friends as teenagers in a village in Norfolk, his parents married 2 weeks after mine and his mum wore my mums wedding dress. They had lost touch over the intervening 18 years as his parents had separated and his dad had emigrated. The guy didnt stay in the firm for long and our parents didnt reconnect but the coincidences that must have come together was staggering!

Dd1's due date was niece2's birthday.

Dd2's due date was niece 1's birthday.

Dd1 arrived early, 5 days before nephew 1's birthday.

Dd2 arrived early, 3 days before nephew 2's birthday.

My DH and I both had siblings who died at a young age. DH's mum also passed away when he was a toddler. I found it a bit spooky to discover that DH's mum and brother are not only buried in the same graveyard as my brother (considering there are several in our area), but the plots are right next to each other!

OH was spooked the other week to discover that the PIN for my bank card is the same as his ex's PIN (both self-selected and both chosen as being part of an old friends phone number as a child so very memorable) and that one of my email passwords is the same as one of hers too.

My two daughters were conceived on the same day (years apart) and born on the same day at 41 + 11 with the same birth weight.

When I fell pregnant with ds1, my (now) ex and I decided that our parents should all meet properly for the first time as they all lived away from us. So my mum and her dh were there, then ex's mum and her dh arrived. The atmosphere was a bit strained from the get go.

My mum cornered me in the kitchen about 15 minutes later and asked when my dad was due to arrive. I explained that he was ill so had to cancel. My mum looked very relieved.

My ex's mum was married to her driving instructor, who she had had an affair with behind ex's dad's back and was the reason they got divorced.

Turns out that my mum also had an affair with him about 6 years earlier and although it didn't break up my parents, it did cause a lot of trouble in their relationship.

Ex and I at least had the opportunity to explain to our respective dads in private.

Working in Switzerland in my late 20s. FINALLY met a guy I liked. Invited him around for a coffee. He's looking around my studio flat and then stops dead at my family photo and says 'I know her!' pointing at my sister. 'No, you can't know her', says I. It's my sister who lives in England. 'Oh yes!' says he. 'When I was 17yrs, I went to England for the summer and dated that girl...her name was XXX'. Yep....it WAS my sister. Put me right off him...

I learned to drive long after I left home. Parents lived up North, I lived down south. After I passed my driving test, partner offered to sit with me whilst I tried out motorway driving. I got on to the motorway, and the car that allowed me out was actually my Dad, 200 odd miles from his home, whilst he was travelling with his job. He then went in the middle lane and waved at me, shocked to see me driving on the motorway. Partner was able to wave back whilst I stared ahead gripping the steering wheel!

Last year in Kathmandu I met a woman who not only came from my hometown, but we were born at the same hospital!

I'm a twin. My sister was born at 5:54. I was born at 6:06. When I was at uni I shared a flat with a girl who was born at 6am all of us on the same day obviously.

I once picked up a ringing telephone in a big supermarket (It was a few years ago) as I walked past. It was someone trying to reach me, they'd misdialled my number.

Still makes me feel weird when I think about that one.

During a Cruise my husband was playing Roulette but wasn't having any luck. Try the Granchildrens Birthday dates I suggested, the 19th and the 31st. Strangely the next number to win was 31 and the following was number 19. What are the odds of that?

I got chatting to a guy in the Building Society, who was queuing next to me. He told me it was his first day out of hospital after having a heart attack. He seemed like a really nice person and I sort of felt I already knew him. Later that evening my best friend 'phoned me to say her brother was just out of hospital after having a heart attack. I'd never met her brother until that morning in the building society.

I used to take 999 calls for the ambulance service and about two weeks into the job I took a call from a man who'd been out walking and had discovered someone unconscious in some woods. I ended up being on the phone with him for a long time because it was very difficult for him to describe exactly where within these words he was, and about halfway through the conversation it dawned on me why he sounded familiar - I'd gone on a date with him a few nights previously having met him via online dating. Later on in the conversation I think he realised who I was as well because he said 'i think I know you don't I? I didn't really answer him though because it wouldn't have been very professional in the context of the telephone call! Considering that ambulance service covered four counties the chances of speaking to anyone I knew were absolutely tiny. (Fortunately the injured person was okay as far as I know)

Me and DH live in England and met a lovely American couple whilst we were all on our honeymoons in Jamaica. We swapped details to keep in touch and both couples promptly lost them.

Several years later DH is heavily into a Facebook game that requires you add lots of strangers as friends in order to progress in the game. These people must also play the game and must also be in the same 'family' within the game. DH adds around 200-300 people in the end and never checks their profiles (they use nicknames in the game). One day he adds another random and on a whim decides to look at her profile.

It was the woman we'd met in Jamaica. We're still friends now.

I've been volunteering at my local charity shop in the book department for just over 2 years.
For about the same amount of time, a lovely lady called Caroline has been volunteering in the book department as well but on a different day to me. We see each other at meetings and if we pop into the shop when the other is working but that's about it. We have a chat when see each other in the shop or the shopping centre but mostly about the book department, not really personal stuff.
Just after Christmas, she had to change the day she worked that week and ended up working the same morning as me. We got chatting and she asked where I lived. I told her the name of the street and she said she knew it well because she lived on the same street.
When we told each other the house numbers, it turned out she lived next door but one to me!
I've lived here 3 years and have never seen her on the street. Ever.
That's not the only coincidence, though. My husband said we should send Christmas cards to more of the neighbours to try and get to know the people on the street so it turns out we'd sent each other Christmas cards without realising it as well!

I got myself a job so I could move closer to fiance who lived the other side of the country to where I was living, first day went to pub for a bite and a chat to get to know immediate boss better. Chatting away and I specifically asked him where he was from as his accent was niggling me. A village nr xyz he said, oh I said I used to live up there as a child was it xyz village - "errr yes" he said. Turns out he used to be a milk boy on the round that delivered to our house when I was a kid - think village was 100s miles North of where we were and was around 400 population. If that wasn't enough 3 yrs later moved jobs to a building round the corner and who should work there but my sisters best friend from school in the same village!!! Its a v small world really

A old school friend of mine put some old photos on FB recently. Some were from a club night we went to in Manchester, when we were 18 (we didn't live in Manchester so travelled there).

In the background of several photos, that I was dancing away in, was my ex (who grew up hundreds of miles from Manchester in the opposite direction to me). I didn't actually meet him until I was 24!

That was so odd. I tripled checked as thought maybe it was just someone who looked a lot like him. Then I rang him and he confirmed it must have been him as he remembered the night, plus clothes he was wearing, very well!

Some years ago I picked up a German translation ov a detective novel by Anne Holt (Norwegian) which I found just difficult enough for me to get some benefit from reading it as well as being a good read in itself - she was not then available in English. I got more of them from Amazon.de.

And there came a day when I was on a train and the chap opposite me looked at the back of my book and said "How likely is that?" and showed me that he was reading it in Norwegian!

I have a friend, we both have the same first name, our husbands also share the same forename, our sisters share the same forename. Our husbands are in the same profession. we are in the same sector and we've worked together at two different employers whilst the other was there. (Both getting jobs at these employers within a month or two of each other!) We also have the same wedding anniversary and we have two boys each, our first boys are 6 weeks apart in age, our second 4 weeks apart in age (we also lost one in the same month in between boys)
Living parallel lives!!

Another one - when I was on holiday in the US afew years ago, I recognised the bank teller when I went in to get money out.

He was an Australian guy who we'd spent a couple of days sharing a hostel room with on an Inter-rail trip 17 years beforehand. He had long bright blue hair, piercings galore and was very, very skinny when I first met him. I recognised him instantly even though he now had a crew cut, no piercings and he'd put on about ten stone since.