What is the strangest coincidence you've ever experienced?

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As above.

I have a few.
When I graduated I got an interview for a job in Florida but the interview was in London. Another girl was going for an interview on the same day, for the same company, but a different position. She looked really familiar. Turns out we'd met when we were 11 and both sat an entrance exam for the same school. Neither of us went to that school but we were clearly meant to meet as we both got the job. We're still friends.

Another is that my MIL was born on the 7th of the month. My SIL had a miscarriage on MILs birthday, then her first four grandchildren all arrived on the 7th day of different months (my first two and my SILs first two). The following two (our two 3rd borns) arrived on the 14th and my last was born on the 21st.

About 4 years ago I mentioned to my mum that it was sad I'd lost touch with a girl called Claire from school. The next day my mum got on a bus, the woman sitting next to her said "excuse me are you Bundao's mum? I'm Claire from school". They exchanged numbers and I got back in touch with Claire.

Recently I got off a flight in Brazil where I live but really far from my home town and I saw a man in the airport who looked really familiar, he looked at me like he knew me too, he came over and said "Sophia right?" I said that's not my name and we couldn't place each other, he was from Argentina and I'm English. He had never been to England and only to Brazil on holiday a couple of times, I have been to Argentina only once so there's no way we actually knew each other but yet we both felt like we did. It was spooky.

Finally at uni I had a flatmate who really reminded me of a girl I went to primary school with. The girl had a really unusual name. I said "You remind me of X who I went to school with" she said "I know x" turns out x was best friends with an old primary school friend of my flatmates.

Do you have a strangest coincidence to add at all OP?

Agree worra

soppy claxon
When i was in nursery, and primary school i had a boyfriend, had.my forst kiss with him etc. We used to play 'mummies and Daddies' and used to use my teddy as the baby.
I moved away to a different country in teens.
6 years ago i moved back , and last week, the 4yr old dd i have with said boyfriend was playing at "babies" with the very same teddy with her little friend from nursery.

Obviously we got back together 6 yrs ago when i moved back! And have had 2 dcs in that time. Juat realised how badly I'd explained that.

Or Wright Show scavenger seeing what the harpies are up too

I studied in Cornwall in 2004 and one of my housemates had some friends to stay for the weekend. They were from Devon but North Devon so miles from where I'm from in Plymouth. I start a job in 2010 in Plymouth and who should be my supervisor but my housemate's mate!!

My sister was living in London with her boyfriend. One weekend she came home and raided my mums' wardrobe of "special" clothes she had kept from the 70s and took them back to her London flat. A few weeks later she and her boyfriend got engaged.

A few weeks after that she came back home and we were looking at pictures of the day she got engaged. My mum turned white and explained that the dress my sister was wearing when her bf proposed was the same dress she had worn when my dad proposed to her about 35 years earlier.....:a lucky dress!!

We eloped to get married in vegas - just us two as no one else knew. Song we walked down the aisle to was by the style council. After we got married we went back to the hotel to get changed to go out for dinner and on the way out the music in the lift was playing the same song! We were like "noooooooo way" We never heard it played again there but are taking that as a good sign

Met my best friend 18 yrs ago at mother and toddler group, turns out we were from the same town 60 miles away and when a few weeks later she introduced me to her OH (also from same town) I had had a one night stand with him several years before (before she was with him).

Both our marriages are long over but we are still best mates

When we were in Florida, we met a classmate of DD's in the shop at Universal Studios. A couple of days later we went to Kennedy Space Centre. When DS went back to school, one of his classmates told him he'd seen him at Kennedy (he was on one of the buses, so couldn't speak to DS)

DH was born on his mother's birthday, which was also his grandmother's birthday.

My Dsis and DH's DBro were born on the same day, in the same hospital and on the same ward. Our mums were in beds next to each other and DH and I both visited at the same time. I am in one of his family's photos and he is in one of mine. We also discovered that we had holidayed in cottages next to each other (four hundred miles from our hometown) when we were about seven years old, and again, we are in each other's family photos.

Travelling through hong kong in 1998, my ex wife knew exactly one Hong Kong chinese person(population 6 million at the the time) who she’d not met in years. Bumped into him in the airport. Unfortunately we’d had lunch with a random Kiwi stranger who had proceeded to buy us more alcohol than I’d normally drink in a week so we were both as pissed as handcarts. We must have made a great Impression.

I used to have a photo of me and a friend in a frame. It was taken during our uni days.

Fast forward a few years and I met my DP. He looked at the photo and realised that he was in the background. He isn't from my hometown and happened to be out there that night with friends.

So I had a photo of DP in my bedroom for years before we actually met!

I moved from the north to the Home Counties 12 years ago with my ex. After 3 years we split up and went our separate ways and never contacted each other. I moved to another own in a neighbouring county, I had no idea where he'd gone.

Five years later, my team at work had organised our Christmas party at a restaurant in London, we decided to take the train into London together. Even though most of us live in the same town, the group decided that it would be better to travel to another nearby town so that we could take a different train line into London, which would arrive at a better station for the underground for our onward journey. We arrived at that station in London, and I bumped into my ex on the main concourse!

I stopped to chat for a couple of minutes, turns out he was living in a city up north and was waiting for the train home having being in London for a meeting.

We went our separate ways and I've never heard from him again. It still weirds me out that by chance we both happened to be in that particular station at that time!

I live 250 miles away from my parents. When my dad was doing his family tree he discovered that his ggg grandparents had lived in the same town I'm living in now!

Doing my family tree I discovered that my GreatGM had been a live in servant when she was young. This was about 50 odd miles from where she'd been born.
I have moved all over England due to my DHs job before we settled in this random place.

As an adult only a few years ago student nurse on one of my placements, I walked past the house she had lived to get to the village sandwich shop.

DM used to get the train to school, back in the 1950s. She and her sister used to get on the same carriage every day, and there was always a man sitting in the corner, wearing a hat, reading a paper. Occasionally he would look up and smile and nod, but they never spoke.

Years later, DM met my SDad, and was taken home to meet his family. Sitting in the corner of the living room was a man reading a newspaper. Her FIL-to-be!!

I come from a very small hamlet in the Dales. There are literally 5 houses in our little clump.

I went to Uni in elsewhere when I was 18, and from there moved to France.

Last month, a man at my French office saw my coffee mug, which has a picture of the Dales on it.
Him: "Oh, I'm from that area!"
Me: "Me too! Whereabouts?"
Him:
Me: "Oh, I'm close to there! Near "
Him: "Me too, actually, I only name the city as people never know where I'm from. I'm actually near your town too!"
Me: "haha, next you're going to tell me you're from ".

Silence.

Yep, he lived next door to me when I was a kid, and still lives there now (my parents are still in that house).

Bizarre! The only two English people in my (smallish) French office and we're from the same group of 5 houses!!

(He commutes every Mon/Fri, by the way)...

About 10 years ago, my then DH and I went shopping in the local town centre. As we were walking past the cinema, and feeling all spontaneous I said to him "lets go into the cinema here and watch whatever film is showing next". So we did.

I won't say what film it was because it would be too outing, but halfway through the film I SAW MYSELF ON THE SCREEN. Turns out I'd been at an event about six or nine months previously, and although there was a bit of low-level filming going on, I thought they were making a promotional event video or something, not an actual film. And so not paying attention to what was going on, I managed to get myself in the background. But in the background, full screen and massive. Can't tell you what a shock it was.

I have the film on DVD. It's crap and embarrassing, but nevertheless. I am still immortal.

My DS was born on the exact same day as me, and at the exact same time.

Me and my DP have the same surname and same birthday (different years)

I'm getting married in May on a Thursday. We have dealt with the same girl at a well-known mainstream jewellers since my engagement ring and now our wedding rings. We've got to know her so was chatting one day and she said she is also getting married in May. Turns out her wedding is the same Thursday as ours, she has the same number of bridesmaids and the same colour scheme as us (baby blue).

One day, bored at work I decided to FB search her and see what her h2b looks like (nosey) there she is in a picture with my first love! we were together from the age of 16 to 19 and he went travelling so we split up! we got back in touch twice through our 20's the most recent time being 1 week before I met my H2B in the same bar I ended up meeting my H2B in!

Mine is a holiday one too! Sat next to a lovely German couple on the flight out. Couldn't speak a word of German, they couldn't speak English but we managed to communicate enough for me to swap my smoked salmon (yuk!) for his bagel and Philly! Result - we both had a breakfast we enjoyed! Two days later we bumped into same couple in the Empire State Building queue - mutual calls of "bagel!" And "salmon!" All those millions of people in Manhattan.

1/. when I was 14/15 in the days of analogue telephones c. 1970, I went to call my friend, picked up the phone to dial & was aware the line was "open" - my friend was on the other end - she had gone to ring me.

Neither of us had started to dial the numbers - it was not as if I'd picked up just as her call to me connected. We lived about 10 miles apart & used different telephone exchanges. Very odd.

2/. In my early twenties I travelled to Edinburgh to visit a friend (the same friend as above, as it happens) for New Year, with her elder brother. He was driving. As we came back down the A1, I recognised a car we were overtaking - it was my housemate from Nottingham, on her way back from her parents' in Newcastle!

We all stopped in a lay-by & I transferred into her car, as it was out of my friend's brother's way to take me home.

I was in a restaurant in Kent when someone called out to me who knew me from school in Yorkshire. I pretended I knew who they were but had no idea.