To ask for your stories of strange coincidences?

[Pepperwand]

Today I stopped at a petrol station and wanted to put £30 of fuel in the car but it blipped over to £30.10. When I went to pay I also bought two lottery tickets for £5 so paid £35.10. As I was putting the tickets in my purse I found two old lottery tickets so got them checked. First one won £30 and the second £5.10!

So, can I ask for your stories of coincidences?

My sons birthdays are all the weight of my
Middle sons birthday. 8.15..
Birthday are 8/9 1/2 and 5/2
My children’s and partners first letters of their names spell tram- I was thinking of getting a tattoo of the initials ... I’m not now /
My dad died in a tram accident.
And my sons went to the same preschool as and ex boyfriends baby brother.

Was on a night out at college, went to college in Uk but from Ireland. A gang back to apartment after for drinks and we were sitting around talking about birthdays, turned out I shared a birthday with one of the lads there. We discussed further and discovered we were born the same day in the same hospital ( quite a small private hospital), his mother was over a few weeks later and we met. She remembered my mother and was in the bed beside her at one stage before the babies ( us!) arrived.

My cousin lives in a very religious city in a US state well-known for a certain religion. Her best friend's boyfriend went on a religion-related trip and ended up in a city in England, and was paired with my best friend's brother (we're all English)! They were 'together' for two years and are still great friends.

That was a hard story to tell without details.... sorry if it didn't make any sense 🙈

A friend was showing me some old photos in an album. One of them was her at a party when she was 10 and in the background was a little boy ( birthday girl's cousin), who she met years later and eventually married him. They'd both seen the photo previously, years ago and she kept it because of the coincidence True story.

My National insurance number is the same as the phone number we had when I was a child .

Ooo and when I was studying for my PGCE we had to be CRB checked (as it was then).... one of my classmates came back that he had all these really serious charges against him (GBH for example) and the uni said they couldn't let him on the course. Classmate was totally shocked as he'd never been in trouble in his life.

Some digging is done into the situation and it turns out that a person with the exact same first, two middle names and surname was born on the same day, in the same hospital!! He had to go to the local police station and give a DNA sample to prove which one he was. Given how many times he's probably been checked, I dread to think what an impact this has had on his life!!

I did someone's hair and makeup recently. Turns out she's Irish, so am I. We're both 'dark Irish' so neither of us thought the other was initially because ither people always assume we are not . Her dad died 8 days before my mum did of the same disease - kidney failure. They probably went to the same dialysis center. We talked about psychic experiences (my son heard a banshee and told me about it. I attributed it to being Halloween time. Five minutes later I get a call from my brother saying the doctors have said there is nothing more they can do for my mum and we should come say our goodbyes). She told me of her own experiences (lights flicker majorly at dinnertime and her husband is an electrician and said there's technically nothing wrong with them - she's convinced it's her nan who spent many hours teaching her to cook). Anyway, talk about other psychic stuff including something she told me about Michael Jackson and his sister. Sadly she also tells me about how she had a miscarriage a few years ago. We also talked about travel and stone circles (she's going to Malta in a few weeks and I said she has to visit the temples there, how my grandfather always said it was our ancestors who built the stone circles, stone circles all over Europe and oldest ones are in Turkey etc)

This is where it gets really weird. We had the TV on in the background the whole time and it was a morning show. Then a segment with a famous psychic (Jon Edwards?) comes on. We said 'hmmm, that's weird we were just talking about that stuff'. Then the next segment was an Australian actress from Home and Away who is a fairly big Hollywood T.V soap actress now. She was on the show to talk about the foundation she has started for women who have experienced miscarriages. By now we're half-seriously wondering if there's a bug in my client's living room There were a couple more segments unrelated to anything we were talking about (except a makeup advert) and then a segment on Michael Jackson comes on. It was just so weird. I was half expecting a travel segment on Stone Henge after that.

My MIL died on DD1 3rd Birthday & DD2 was born on the date that my mother died- granted 56 later but I still feel strongly like it had some kind of powerful meaning.

My first and middle names are exactly the same as DH’s 2sister’s first names, both derivatives of longer names, like Becky Liz. We both have brothers with the first two names ie Alexander David.

Many years ago I attended a student party at a city about 2 hours from home. I got into a drunken conversation with a boy I’d never met and knew nothing about and (why????) boasted that I knew everyone in England (I know ). Anyway, he had a think and mentioned the name of a girl who I’d been at school with an did know really quite well.

I began to describe her and gradually realised he was, in fact a former boyfriend and gave him several details that really made him look absolutely creeped out. Including the broad details of this boyfriend (him).

I never tried that again, figuring there were probably about 60million people I didnt actually know and that I had, in fact been a bit lucky with that coincidence.

I bought a new car last year and my parents were with me. They thought the salesperson was familiar and it wasn’t until we went in and saw the surname on his desk we realised he sold them their insurance and pensions 30 years ago back when the agents did home visits (that lasted 3 hours each time and were mind numbingly boring for a 4yo).

In further coincidence he now lives in the town where I was born and knows lots of my parents old neighbours from when I was a baby (not the same town we lived in when he sold insurance).

Getting divorced in the USA. I was given the name of a lawyer. Her secretary was the aunt of one of my brothers mates in scotland. This kid was always in my house growing up and I didnt even know he had an aunt in the USA
Attended one of my other brothers weddings, in Scotland,( with my exh who I was still married to at the time). Sat chatting to the people next to us at the reception. They were cousins of my exh next door neighbors growing up. He knew the whole family but again didnt realize they had people in Scotland. The were the brides next door neighbors. I hope that makes sense

Boy I had a huuuge crush on at high school was born in the same hospital as me, same day. He then moved to a completely different part of the country. His family then moved to the area that my family had also moved to, where we ended up in the same class at school.

@Chosennone my dd was born at 22.22

My in laws grew up in my home town.
My MIL went to my primary school and secondary school
My FIL's mum is buried at the church I was christened in.
My parents and inlaws drank in the same pubs

My in laws moved away and when I met my H we lived 22 miles apart.

There was a woman living in the house that I grew up in with the same name as me. First name last name. 100 years on from when I lived there.. I don't have a common name.

Also, I was doing hair and makeup for a client a couple of years ago. She was Lebanese and about the same age as me. My name is Miriam. Hers is Mariam. Her eldest daughter's name is Leyla, mine is Lali. Her son is the same age as mine , both the youngest child and they are both called Zach (well technically my son is Kiran but we call him by his middle name). Her husband's name was Sam, my husband's name is Sriram and he's occasionally thought of shortening it to Sam to make it easier for others to pronounce. Her dad's name was Ilan, mine is Allan.

It was really spooky.

I broke down on the side of the road on the way home from work recently. Was stuck in the middle of nowhere with no phone signal at about 10pm.

Just at that moment, my friend who lives in another town drove by on her way home. She doesn't work anywhere near my house or my work. She stopped and gave me a lift home, luckily for me

My friend (who grew up 300 miles from where we both live now) and I were in a second hand bookshop when I picked up an old Enid Blyton and showed her. She said " I used to have a copy of this", opened the cover, and there was her name and old address, in her hand writing! Still blows my mind!

My mum died recently and it triggered a string of coincidences. Names have been changed in this post to tell you what happened.

I didn't pick the undertaker, the sheltered accommodation called one of ten undertakers in my town and so I just went with them. The funeral director I was assigned from the few that worked there, she was lovely. She was called Pam, same as my mum. Coincidence one.

I was having a tough time financially as well as emotionally, as my mum died to alcoholism and there was no money to pay for the funeral (had to crowdfund it eventually). The funeral director was extremely sympathetic, as it turns out that she lost her dad to alcoholism and went through a lot of what I had. Second coincidence, albeit a small one.

A few days later, I had registered mum's death and returned with the documentation that authorised a cremation. As Pam looked through it, she went pale. My mum's first married name was the same as Pam's, the surname isn't a common one at all and that was freaky for Pam to see her own name on the death certificate. Coincidence three.

Oh but there's more, Pam's middle name is Clair, same as my mum, exact same spelling too. Coincidence four.

Not only is Pam's full married name the exact same as my mum's, but she was born in the same year too. Coincidence five.

Day of the funeral, as we are saying thank you outside the crematorium, a pall-bearer from the undertakers approaches me and asks if I recognise him, I sort of do, but don't. Turns out he's my mum's brother-in-law from her second marriage. I'd not seen him since he moved to Spain 25 years ago. Coincidence six.

At the wake, I step out of the pub function room to get some air. Get talking to a lady who's having a drink and smoke outside the pub, turns out she knew my mum 20 years ago, through mutual friends. Coincidence seven.

Finally, anther local joins us outside chatting and turns out his wife has just lost her mum, we get talking. His wife's name is Pam too, and her surname is the exact same surname as my mum's third (and final!) married name. Eight coincidences. I was blown away!!

Oh, sorry.. There was actually one more. The celebrant the undertaker assigned to us, turned out that outside of his funeral work, he worked in the same very niche industry as me, doing the same job and he'd worked at two same organisations as me, but we missed each other both times by about a year, so never met, but had plenty of friends in common.

I've got a few
Lived in SE Asia, and got on a bus only to bump into an ex-colleague
Went to a small island in SE Asia, and found somewhere to eat, the chef was from my hometown and I knew his family restaurant
Lived in SW England, first job there, a colleague turned out to be from my hometown, her family ran a very well known butchers

I read a story in a newspaper about a married couple who were looking through some old family photos of the woman when she was little. When the man looked at one (it was a beach holiday) he noticed that him and his family were sat behind her family in the sane photo! My dc had a friend lets call him george who had a mum lets say from brazil. A few yrs later made a new friend with the same name with a mum from brazil. They also had the same dob. One day my dc was in a high street he looked one way and heading towards him was george one and the other direction george two and they actually crossed paths! Their birthday is also the same date as my dcs grandad!

I’m into Family History. I have found that, years back, My great great aunt, married my father in law’s cousin. So my husband and I share distant cousins.

I travelled 50 miles to London to see my best friend who lives there. We started off the night at the Civil Service members' club, where I met some of my BFF's colleagues.

One of BBF's colleague was a much older man called Brian, never met him before, nice bloke. We all decide to move on and Brian said he'd get us into some members' club. A tipsy night ensued with good crowd and Facebook accounts were swapped.

Two years later, my friend Mel in my home town goes, "How do you know Brian?" I'm like, "Who?" and she points out he's a mutual FB friend. So I tell her how I met him. I'd forgotten I was FB friends with him as he's a lot older and barely posts.

Turns out the property that Mel and her husband own in Turkey, they go to a couple of months a year and the owner of the villa next door to them, is my BFF's colleague Brian. 😂

My one is a bit boring but it happened recently.

Was driving around all weekend with the kids to remote places, and on Monday morning I dropped them off and set off to work which is about two miles away.

On the way I decided, for no apparent reason, to stop at a big hypermarket to get a few things that were not urgent or important and the stop would make me late for work.

When I approached the car and pressed the key button to unlock the door, the door wouldn't open. Turned out the battery inside the key had ran out and there was no way to get inside the car. Luckily I was parked outside the only shop in the whole town by miles that changes batteries in car keys! The key showed absolutely no signs of dying prior to this. I felt so lucky because I could've been stranded anywhere during that weekend with two small kids in tow.

Took a year off to go travelling. Was in a small town in northern Thailand and went to a bar run by a friendly woman from Liverpool. Got chatting and mentioned I had only ever been to Liverpool once but had a great time in a fab pub and stayed for a lock in. Turned out the pub was owned by her and her ex was running it while she travelled!
Next day I was waiting to cross the border from Thailand to Loss, got chatting to a young woman. Turns out she was friends with the woman from Liverpool but had no idea she was in the area. Weird!
Another one. My sister and her bloke hired a camper van to explore New Zealand. They were miles from nowhere and decided to book into a random hotel for the night to have a proper shower and bed. Turned out the couple who owned it had a son who lived two doors down from me on the other side of the world.