What is the strangest coincidence you've ever experienced?

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Seeing footage of my deceased grandad on a local news report (he was the local police sergeant) on TV on the anniversary of his death.

I met a very famous person twice in EXACTLY the same completely random circumstances, several years apart. I still can't believe it now. It won't happen a third time as he sadly passed away last year.

I was visiting family in Australia and was in a shop in Manly. As I walked through the shop browsing, I heard my name being said and it was my friend's parents shopping in their too!

Whilst checking into one of the backpackers in Darwin, Australia saw that the girl who'd signed in further up the page was someone I'd been at school with in England & hadn't seen for 6 years. We managed to meet up for just one night as she was flying home the next day

And another one... I bought some old textbooks in a charity shop about 200 miles away from home. A couple had notes written in the margin and a few post it notes stuck inside with notes on. I thought the writing looked familiar, checked inside the front cover, and they had previously belonged to my work colleague!

I asked her about them when I got back. She was baffled as she'd never been to the town where I bought them, though did remember giving them to the local Oxfam bookshop.

I would speak to a lady at the chemist whilst waiting for my mothers prescriptions every week.... she had a son in London, I had a son in London... we talked about them, and life in general, for 2 years... then one day, we discovered her son and my son were flatmates... I knew Matt shared with a lad called Dan.... she knew her son shared with a lad called Matt.... we never made the connection. Not earth shattering but still weird.... now WEIRD was how my late uncles first wife was killed in the blitz... didn't know a lot about them, but someone doing a family tree thing discovered their address, and it was my sons flat.....

My now fiancé and I met in Australia. We now live in Ireland with our 2 kids. I am originally from Germany. When I was 20 I lived in London for a year as a nanny. I lived in Fulham. Turns out he had a gf at the time in London who he visited on weekends. He stayed in putney. Which is very close.
We would both separately not knowing who each other are go to the same pub on weekends.
We never met officially but could have easily sat on the same bus going to said pub on weekends. Really weird. The year after he broke up with His gf and went to coogee australia. It was a spontaneous decision. Meanwhile a friend of mine asked me will I go to Australia with her? 2 weeks later we were in coogee. 😁😂 small world... was it meant to be???

After Uni I worked at BT ringing randomly generated numbers to try and sell them stuff. I got connected one night to a friend I went to school with

Went to a members Cheese and Wine evening at our gym. Seating of couples was 8 people to each table, the man next to us, who we didn't know had the same date of birth as my husband and he was a guest, so the club wouldn't have known.
Went on a weeks holiday to Zante, we were sat in a bar and at the next table was someone my husband went to junior school with.

I was great friends with a guy that moved from one end of the country to the other and came to my senior school. I spent alot time in his house & knew his mum really well too. Fast forward 30yrs and I've moved to the city he originated from. A big city. My dd made friends with a girl. Her surname was the same as his. Turns out it's his niece! She'd never met her gran (died before she was born) so was nice to tell her about her.
I'd been on a date with a guy (seriously boring, never repeated ) many years ago. I subsequently met a lady through a new job who I became friends with. She had her fb page open and was scrolling through pictures and there was his face! Turns out he was her brothers step son (who had passed away suddenly ).
Before the big move my dd and I had a sunny holiday. The first week after the move I bumped into a woman we'd met while away!
My world does seem very small sometimes 🙄

I was on a camping holiday in the south of France with my sister and her husband. The weather was shocking so they decided to head back north a few days before us. No other plans to meet up other than at the tunnel terminal. The day before we were due to go, we drove into another random campsite to see them pitching their tent! To make it even stranger, my parents turned up an hour later in their caravan and they had been touring completely separately from us.

My Brother, his ex wife, their daughter, my cousin, and now my Grandson all share the same birthday, Jan 13, unlucky for some :/
My sister and a late Uncle share the same birthday, nothing odd or coincidental I know, but this week, on a routine ante natal with my daughter, we were asked if it was ok for a student to sit in on CTG, I looked at her and said, something about school work experience leave, She/ Dr tb, replied, I'm 23 next week, after which I replied oh, happy birthday, it's MY birthday next week also, she asked, what date, and yes we both share the exact same BD, 11th.
Yesterday while visiting said daughter on scbu, (pre-term delivery) my partner exchanged a bit of banter with another 'grandad', we went to the same floor in the lift, the same ward and same wing, I asked who he was, partner said, he was a work colleague from where he delivers some of haulage, partner works away most of the week...coincidentally.

Dd is at university (away from home) They had to live out in 2nd year. All organised then one person dropped out so they had to find someone else. Anyway finally got another student from a different uni in the city. Turns out his girlfriend was one of dd's preschool pals but who left our area when they were 4. We still have the little garden gnome she bought dd for their first Christmas!

My husband's Godfather is my uncles long lost uncle. Neither of us knew until our wedding. We were bought up a hundred of miles apart so had no idea of any connection. At the wedding my uncle and my husbands godfather were in tears at their reunion (there had been a family feud decades before). So walking down the isle to seeing that was a strange but lovely coincidence!

I live in a village 300 miles away from where I grew up and I got here via somewhere else..etc -so no way of anticipating I would end up here.
We had new neighbours - 3 doors down - asked them where they came from...they came from the next small town from where I grew up - the place my grandparents had lived.
Also I went on holiday /to visit my sister in California -we had plans to travel around a bit - go for a couple of days to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego etc. We had an itinerary.
A few days before I left I got talking to a new starter at work - he was off to California too - a few days after me. He was going to marry his American girlfriend in San Francisco. On one of the days I was planning to be there....I got a last minute invite to the wedding.

I love things like this! Two weird ones backpacking...

Whilst in Oz got chatting to a Swedish guy who asked where I had worked before going away. I told him (Merrill Lynch in London) and he said "oh my friend from school works there". At the time it was a big company so thought unlikely I would know him but turns out he sat at the desk behind me in my department.

Whilst in Malaysia I recognised a guy staying in my hostel. He recognised me too but neither could work out how we knew each other. After going through previous schools, jobs etc we worked out he has sorted my visas for me at the travel agents in London, months previously.

Small world!

DH ended up getting a long distance job a few years ago and rented a flat there. Turns out that his mum lived 5 minster away for a good part of her childhood and we didn't know (or rather hadnt8put two and two together).

My parents second son was born, and died on 2/2/66. My son was born on 2/2/96. I remember when my parents met my son for the first time, my mother cradled him so tenderly and my father held them both. It was so beautiful. My father didn't tell me about my brother until after my mother died many years later. Their son and my son have the same first and middle names.

I was on a plane from Dublin and was sitting next to an excited couple who were going to meet their son's first child who had been born on 2/2/16, on the midwife's sons birthday. Turns out I had delivered the baby, who also had the same first name as my son and brother

Happened to me just today; I live about an hour away from the city where I grew up and where all my family still live. Grandfather was never really a big part of my life, moved to to the other end of the country shortly after I was born and only moved back a few months before he passed away, therefore I know little about his life etc.
So today I'm talking to DM about arranging DS's christening and mention the church it's going to be at and explained how it's the same church connected to school I'd eventually like DS to attend, she then tells me that it is church where Grandfather was christened as a baby and also the school he went to. I was very shocked by that, but even more so that in the 2 years since I moved to current town she had never mentioned to me that it's the town he was born and lived in until he was 10.

I moved 400 miles away from where I grew up and all of my family were. Went around to my next door neighbour's house to say hi and my dad answered the door. I hadn't seen or heard from him in 9 years and then I moved next door to him! Very weird and awkward.

My parents second son was born, and died on 2/2/66. My son was born on 2/2/96. I remember when my parents met my son for the first time, my mother cradled him so tenderly and my father held them both. It was so beautiful. My father didn't tell me about my brother until after my mother died many years later. Their son and my son have the same first and middle names.

I was on a plane from Dublin and was sitting next to an excited couple who were going to meet their son's first child who had been born on 2/2/16, on the midwife's sons birthday. Turns out I had delivered the baby, who also had the same first name as my son and brother

I was in a London handbag store and a man sat at the counter started chatting to me. I assumed he was a bored husband waiting for his wife to finish shopping. He asked where I came from, and then said there was an art gallery there with a fantastic staircase. That is now my dining room I replied! So strange that of all the buildings in our town he was familiar with mine. He was the owner of the handbag store.

I used to date a guy from school but it never really went anywhere. I'm from Oxford. My brother lived in Thailand and was seeing a girl who was travelling there from London. When she came back she got together with the guy I used to see and now they are married with a kid!

My children have the same names as my partner's children. They're not that common names either. I think some people think we just lacked imagination when it came to naming our children 😂

Got chatting to a woman on a message board, turned out we were not only from the same small town in Scotland but, we were now living in the same town in Germany.