What is the strangest coincidence you've ever experienced?

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I heard a lovely story on the radio a few months ago. A couple split up when he went off to war at the start of WW2, because he didn't think he'd be coming back. He did come back, relocate to a different part of the UK but never married. His sweet heart also moved and also never married. They found each other through Facebook last year; turns out they'd lived 2 streets apart for over 50 years.

Mine are not that great compared to some on here but here they are anyway!

When I was 20 I went travelling in Australia and whilst walking through kingscross station in Sydney I met a guy who I went to school with back in a very small town in Scotland. To be fair, though, half the people I know went to aus for a year then!

I moved 500 miles from my wee town in Scotland and when I had my first baby I booked on to a baby massage course. The course trainer was a girl I was im choir with back in Scotland 20 years previously.

My mum was dying of cancer and toward the end said a lot of strange things and got confused with all the drugs, she kept saying she was so pleased I was pregnant and was having a girl. I kept telling her I wasn't pregnant. 3 weeks after she died I found out I was pregnant and yes it did turn out to be a girl.

Also, my mum died at 5:54am and my dc2 was born at exactly the same time.

When in NY on holiday I got chatting to a girl in a bar. Later I said I'd walk her back to her hotel & not only was she staying in the same hotel as me but she was in the room directly opposite mine. How many girls, hotels (this one had 28 floors) are therein NY. It's the biggest coincidence I've ever been party to.

Talking about all the celebrity deaths after Christmas lunch, someone remarked how they had expected to wake up that morning to hear Carrie Fisher had died (she hadn't at this point- she was in hospital). Then my sister in law said 'we're just waiting for another 'whammy' one' to which I jokingly said, ' oh no, please not George Michael'. A few hours later they announced his death. Weirdest thing ever. So sad 😓

A friend began an affair with a married Australian man who was here in the U.K. on a short term project. After a few conversations about him I realised he lived, with his family, in the same Sydney suburb as my DM and DS. A few more questions later gleened he lived one street from my DM and that DM also knew his wife.

When I went to college In a town about 50 miles from home I rented a room there. One day I Got talking to the owners and it turned out that they had owned my parents house before them.

Also I lost a baby 10 years to the day before I had ds1. I was in the same bed in the same ward too!

As a young woman, my Gran was talked into taking on a pen pal in the RAF by her friend. She thought it was a bit silly, but did so anyway. They got on wonderfully until they lost contact out of the blue. My Gran also did hospital visits with the St Vincent de Paul, and met a young man who was recovering from tuberculosis, after falling ill in Singapore while stationed there - with the RAF. He had stopped writing when he fell desperately ill and had to be flown home. My lovely grandfather later proposed to her in the hospital gardens, and they had five children.

A friend who is a teacher was walking topless on a far-flung beach & came face to face with a yr 11 boy she teaches. Not sure who looked more horrified.

This is mine, when I met my now husband I lived in Hereford him in Gloucester so I knew nothing of each other's family's. I took him to meet my aunt and uncle who live in Cornwall. When I introduced him to my uncle my hubby told us had an aunt and uncle who lived in Cornwall quiet common maybe but it turned out my uncle had been working for his uncle that very day with out any of us knowing we all knew each other ! This hasn't been the only thing his family are all from Suffolk so the other side of the country to mine yet another of my uncles used to work in the very town my husband grew up in and at our wedding we found out his uncle from Cornwall had served with my great uncle in the raf ! There have been many other coincidences that have come to life since we've been married .

My OH is American & we were in the US, invited to an outdoor social event that had a political meet & greet element with a prospective candidate strongly tipped to win. My OH said he wasn't sure about him & I had to agree. That particular (married) politician has spent months trying to hook up with me in the UK prior to my meeting my now OH.

Fairly outing but nvm.

Years ago I found a number saved in my then-boyfriend's phone of a girl who'd chatted him up.
Before breaking up with him I'd written the number down, I don't really know why.
The next day I went to work, and got a funny feeling about one customer. As part of my role I needed her telephone number- it matched the number written from then-bfs phone. Same girl. It was so odd.

These have been amazing to read!

Was once jokingly complaining that two of my good friends shared a birthday right down to the same year, on a significant day e.g Boxing Day. Guy I'd just started dating at the time stares at me and says 'that's MY birthday too!'

Setting up Christening party venue for DGS. See a familiar face from teen fast food job over 30 years before. Turns out he is uncle to DGS's dad!

Really skint after exh left. Teen DS tells me he wants to buy a supersize plush teddy for his then GF. They're usually £100+ and he doesn't even have a part time job so I tell him there's no chance. A couple of days later an immaculate one comes up for sale on a local selling page- £50. I say nothing to DS and mull it over, really couldn't afford it. The price gets dropped to £25 and I cave. Had a hilarious car journey home with it strapped in the passenger seat, it was bigger than me and got a lot of double takes! When I got in, there was a Premium Bond prize cheque waiting. £25.

I can't think of my own coincidence at the moment, but this is interesting!
m.lovethispic.com/image/182810/13-weird-coincidences-between-abraham-lincoln-and-john-f.-kennedy

My lucky numbers have always been 4 and 7 and when I went to hospital to have my first baby we parked on floor 7 of the car park, i was put in room 7 on the labour ward when we got there for induction, I was moved to room 7 in the delivery suite when she was being born, and my baby was born on the 4/4/14. Weighing 7lb 7oz. Lol. It was all very bizarre.

My sister went to a cricket match on a Sunday and got talking to a bloke (I'll call him Fred Bloggs) at the bus stop on the way home. Got on like a house on fire.

Next day she started a new job - her section manager (not met at interview) turned out to be - Fred Bloggs!

Visited a friend once and she showed us photos of a camping trip she'd been on with peeps she knew thru work, one of the guys tall, my type, 'he's nice' I said.

About a year later on an industrial placement somewhere random, chatting to new acquaintances, talking about camping trips, turns out they were the same group of people. 20 yrs later and me and the tall, 'he's nice' guy are still very happy.

In 1959 my grandparents were in Turkey and got talking to a German man who was studying the movement of the collared dove across Europe.

In 1989 my parents were Cornwall and met a nice man studying studying the movement of collared doves... it was his son.

Not sure if these ones belong in this thread, when growing up I never liked the number 17. I actually remember the Christmas that I would have been five years old, I got a Barbie and the matching car. That day I remember saying I HATED the number 17- we had discussed the age you could drive. I don't know why. I hated the number.
Still don't love it, but I realised last year that 17 is a recurring number in my life. My birthday is on the 17th, husbands birthday, 17th, I became a mum at 17, i met my husband on the 17th. I split up with my first love on the 17th. Bit weird.

I veryine who I've ever shared a deep connection with, has a matching mole to me in exactly the same place on their body to me.

On my very first freshers night at university, I randomly started talking to a girl. Her boyfriend was at another university's fresher event that night, my boyfriend was also out that night in the same city as her boyfriend.
We found out the next day when respective boyfriends came to visit us that they had randomly started talking to each other while waiting to be served at a bar and got on like a house on fire, not realising that their girlfriends had also just met for the first time that same night as well.'Was so weird!! Me and the girl are best friends still, although the bfs are long gone but still keep in touch with each other apparently!

Another incident was about 15 years ago, my dad had a serious accident and was in a coma; the doctors weren't confident at all that he'd pull through. Whilst leaving the hospital one evening upset and anxious, I was solemnly walking back to my car, which was parked on a street around the corner from the hospital, when I looked up and saw my dad's old van being driven by the person who my dad had sold his business to about 2 years prior. It still had my dad's branding and logos on it which is why I knew it was his old van. It brought me a great feeling of hope, like that was a signal that my dad would pull through and defy the odds. And he did, still here all these years later

Twice I've met one half of a fraternal twin set and they have had the same first names as me and my twin.

First time was about 20 years ago and the women was about 8 years younger than me. I said 'hi my name is x' she said that was here name too. I then said, 'I bet you have a twin called y', she did.

Next time was a few months ago with a man about 20 years older than me. We were asked to find something in common with each other with the person sitting next to us as an ice breaker.

When I moved out of my parents house, I'd moved into a tower block.
There was a car parked opposite the flats, think run down tower block, so his sports car stood out a bit.

My sister really liked the car, it was red, and I wasn't so sure, the one thing I remember saying is "I bet the bloke who drives it, is an absolute geek"

This was an ongoing thing, she was quite adamant even if he was a geek, she'd go out with the man who drove that car. I was a bit puzzled... told her she would change her mind when she saw the man who drove it (hadn't seen him, but gathered that I knew what type he would be)

So about 8 months later, I see the car, as it's driven up the kerb as the driver isn't paying attention to driving, obviously!

I moved about six months after this, hadn't seen the car for a few months by this point.

I meet a man on Okcupid. Not my type at all, but I like him. Six months later we piece together that his old car, is the car that used to be parked opposite my flat.

The time he mounted the kerb, he was looking at a woman who was pushing a pram along the street, who he had seen a few times and had a bit of a passing crush on,

We ended up getting married. Seemed a bit like we were supposed to meet.

I go to the races a couple of times a year and have a modest flutter. Over the course of one 18 month period, I had three really good wins (for context, I never bet more than a fiver per race and these all netted me between £100 and £200). All three horses had names beginning with 'A'.

I was looking at a race horse website to see if any of the horses would be racing again in the near future, and idly looked at the histories of my winners - I discovered they were born on the 18th, 19th and 20th of the same month respectively, in the order I'd bet on them.

If I ever find another 'A' runner born on the 21st of that month, I might be tempted to increase my normal £5 bet!

On another parenting site I used to frequent, someone was BVU on a subject I know quite a lot about. I was arguing with them when another poster came on to agree with me. The discussion got pretty vicious and afterwards the poster who'd agreed sent me a PM to thank me. We got chatting. It turned out that whilst at the the time we lived hundreds of miles apart, we were about to move to the same area. We ended up as neighbours for a few years with our dc at the same nursery.

In Toronto with sis at CN Tower going up a long elevator See on opposite down elevator man I recognise from DH rugby club at home but ive never known his name. Shout out name of rugby club, he hears and looks over I wave madly, he sort of waves. Next time we meet months later at home I remind him of Toronto, apologise for not knowing name. He begs me to wait while he goes get his wife. "please tell her it was you in Toronto". Turns out he was on business trip wife had joined him after few days they were sightseeing at CN Tower and when I shouted out to him his answer of "I don't know who she is" wasn't believed.

When DS started pre school, he made a friend and I was talking to his mum one night after cleaning up after a fundraiser.
Her DMum lives in the same house my Dgrandparents had lived in for 40 years before they passed on 20 years ago! and it is also in the same street that my mum now lives in (Dmum bought a smaller house just down from the house Grandparents had lived in when she retired).