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?

Ooh, I thought of another one - I was on holiday with my parents, hundreds of miles from where they live. Went to the (small, not very well known, beach) and bumped into someone with a familiar accent (my family are from outside the Uk).

Got chatting and turned out not only was this random stranger from the same town, in the same country where my mom grew up, but she knew my cousin and worked with her at the same school! So strange 😂

I was friends with a girl called Sarah in primary. She moved about 150 miles away when we were about 10. Eight or nine years later at Uni in a random city I became friends with a girl called Jo. She had been best friends with Sarah at secondary as Sarah had moved to where Jo lived! What are the chances of that!?

My real dad moved to Another country when I was a baby so never seen him never been Intouch with him. He never told anyone apart from his sister & brother!

A few weeks ago out of curiosity I had a search for him on Facebook to see how many kids he had now etc but when I've looked we had over 20 mutual friends. One of them being a friends mum & dad and it turns out their best friends from school. I see my friends mum everyday walking to school and she has no idea I'm his daughter. I also found out he went the same high school as me.

Also I started a new job a few years ago and a colleague said "I've just had this lovely woman in her name is poppy" (not her actual name but her name is a very unusual name) it turns out she's his mum & I see her in work nearly every week and she has no idea who I'am & lives a 5 min drive from me. (I already knew his mums name but never seen her)

Another one, as Ventures/ Ranger guides we were hiking in the Peak District. Boy found a grave with his name on it, same spelling (which was a bit unusual) and same - again slightly unusual - surname - Spooky!! 👻👻

Years ago I travelled to a remote Greek island, so remote that it didn't have it's own airport, with dh.
On the first night we went into a small bar. As we entered the bar, the Greek barman shouted to us asking where we were from. Dh told him the county and the barman asked where abouts within the county. Dh replied with the town where he was born. The barman then said x road in y village within that town. Remarkably dh was born at home on that exact street.
We stood there thinking how on earth does a Greek man, On a remote Greek island know the street where dh was born? We kept going into the bar on an evening and every time we went in the barman would shout "Oh, x road in y village".

DH was born at ten to midday, I was born at ten to midnight. We are the same blood type (ok, not a rare one). We were exactly the same birthweight. We got exactly the same GCSE, A Level, and degree results.

My daughter was born 7/7/7 at 7.07 and then shortly afterwards here in Gloucestershire there was mass flooding
Me and my husband joked she'd started the apocalypse

I have loads. Two that came to mind.

I was at a team building day with others from the same company, but different departments. We had to be put into teams of three for the getting to know you bit, I mentioned I was going away for my birthday in two weeks and it turned out that the other two ladies had the exact same birthday as me, day month and year. One of the other ladies had been to the place I was going for her birthday the previous year and the other lady was born there.

When I was 15 I went abroad and made friends with a girl, we exchanged addresses but my mum lost the bit of paper. Many years later we went on holiday to Cornwall and on the way we started to talk about the childhood holiday as we hadn't been away together since then. We went to get a drink from an ice cream stand and the woman serving recognised my mum (who somehow hasn't aged, witchcraft). It was the girl from my holiday. She had only moved there the month before as well. Chatted away, took her details, mum put them in her handbag as I didn't have one with me. Got back to the hotel and couldn't find them. Went back to the stand the next day but it was closed l, being a Sunday and we were leaving that afternoon. Guess I am not fated to keep in contact

We've had similar on holiday in Turkey, eusta. We went on a tour and were picked up by a minibus with like, 12 seats it. There were 8 in our group, we got chatting to the other group of 4 with us, and they all grew up in the small village we live in.

Love this thread!

I have several but I'm quite woo too so I like to think there's some meaning behind them

My nana died in Feb 2003 very suddenly. My grandad was ill at the time in hospital. My nana and grandads birthdays are 3 days apart in June. Grandads first. On his birthday he told my uncle that she was waiting for him. On the morning of Nanas birthday he was in hospital and told the nurse who came round with the medications that he wouldn't need them today. He died less than 5 mins later. I like to think she came for him as she didn't want to celebrate on her own ❤️

I have a friend who I met at university. On our first night out, we came out of our rooms and were wearing the same clothes. Our birthdays are 2 days apart. We don't live in the same city and haven't done for several years but there have been numerous occasions where we have bought the same/wore the same clothes over the years 😂. We have had relationships start and end at the same time on more than one occasion which neither of us knew about until we called for a chat. We have both had jobs finish within the same week for different employers.
I had my daughter and shortly after had a son. Last year she fell pregnant and had the same due date as I did with my daughter. Her son was born 5 days after my daughter, 2 years apart. She is now pregnant with her second. Her due date is the same as mine was with my son. Time will tell if this one follows suit 😁. We will have the same age gap between our children.

My dad died 10 years ago and whenever I'm sad or feel alone, a Robin appears. I've even had one land on my wing mirror whilst stuck in traffic which frightened the bejesus out of me. I like to think my dad is still looking out for me and comes as a robin to give me comfort when I need it.

My dad died at 10:41pm. My son was born at 10:41am.

There's probably loads more I can think of but these are the ones that stick out the most

We have friends who DP grew up, with now live in a little remote highland village 450 Miles away from their home town. I am not from their hometown, but from approx 1.5hrs away in the other direction.

Last time we were up visiting we got chatting to their recent new neighbours, who said I looked familiar. I asked where they were from as they didn't have the local accent, and it turns out they are originally from my little home village & recognised me from working in a local pub as a teenager 20yrs ago. We know mutual people, and they could describe my parents house.

When I was a teenager I invented a password for all my email and other accounts.
10 years later when I met my now husband and after dating for a couple of months he needed to send an email for me from my account so asking me for my login details. When I gave them to him he chuckled and said "you're using my last name?"
I hadn't realised until then

Have so many spooky coincidences but the latest one this morning was coming back to my car after a run, which I parked where I only do so very occasionally. I had a sudden memory coming to me from when I was parked there about 6 months ago, and I was listening to a - not common at all- song on the radio which made me think of a friend of me. I had that exact same thought about her coming to me, then turned the engine on, radio tuned on, and the exact same song was on. Weird feeling!

On holiday in Marmaris (Turkey) with my aunt and my adult ds we were reminiscing about ds’ primary school teacher who had been very kind to him. We walked into a cafe for a drink and there she was!

I attended a primary school for a couple of months aged about 6, then for various reasons I moved schools.
Ten years later, I met first boyfriend in a senior school where I had moved for Sixth Form. Eventually we worked out we had briefly been in that same class together at primary school & not liked each other!! Our paths had never crossed in between & we lived in different towns.

We live in a random and not especially populare part of SW London. About 5 years ago we were bathing the kids and the doorbell rang. DH answered and it was a woman who had just moved around the corner - she could see our loft conversion and wanted to know what it was like/which builder we had used etc.

Her husband was a few metres behind her with their toddler daughter. He stepped forward and said "DH's name" and DH followed with "neighbour's DH's name". He had been the head boy in DH's year at their secondary school. In Auckland.

Roll on a couple of years and we were camping near Corfe Castle with this family. Everyone went down during the day, but neighbour DH had to work and got the train down later and a taxi to the camp site. Turns out that some years earlier, the taxi driver bought a house near a random surf beach in NZ from neighbour DH's brother.

As a teen some friends did a Halloween "spell" to say the initials of my true love. Twenty years later I married someone with those initials.

In Italy we climbed up the side of a mountain to visit a historic monastery/church on the summit. Having arrived we discovered that one of the monks was from Islington , London - the birth place of my husband

My mother has 4 children.

2 are born on the 15th
2 are born on the 16th.

Think that's about it.

DD went off to USA to do CA last summer, got chatting with a girl, turns out from same town but had moved away. Girl came to our town to meet up with relatives who turned out to be my old childminder's GD who i know to chat to.

My DC were exactly same weight when born and born at 10.40 at night.

I arranged a date with a guy I met online for two weeks’ time. We picked a specific time, date and place to meet in a very large, busy city.

In the intervening week I went on a night out and ended up pulling a guy and we swapped numbers but I didn’t hear from him.

A week later I turned up the appointed time and place to meet my online date and the guy I had pulled the previous week was standing there! More strange than that...he wasn’t my online date!! He’d just agreed to meet another online date at the exact same place and time on the same day! This was in a massive city with thousands of places you might agree to meet someone and we hadn’t picked one of the most obvious ones by any stretch!

Was very awkward!

Recently had a baby (4 months ago) when I was admitted on to the labour ward and giving my details to the midwife she said oh my , you're my birthday twin! Oh wow I said, and she was like yeah literally the exact same year too! (Both 1988) turns out we were also born in the same midwifery unit that is no longer open & within an hour of each other so our mums would likely have been on the same ward!

DH and DF share the same birthday- and have the exact same personality traits! So when people say 'you end up marrying someone like your father' I definitely did in my case!

When I was at school, our school bus driver used to give a lift to a random woman he was seeing.

That random woman is now my next door neighbour in a city about 100 miles away from that school bus route.

My mother has 4 children.

2 are born on the 15th
2 are born on the 16th.

Twins? Four, with two born each side of midnight?
If not, then it's odd, yes.

My sister and her husband were born in the same day, but years apart. However, he was born the same year as I did.

Ten years ago in a town I used to live in I went into a baby room in a shopping centre to feed my daughter and found a changing bag someone had left. It had their contact details in so I let them know I had it and returned it to the mum.

Ten years later we've moved areas, about 30 miles away, and my daughter started a new school where the mum is one of her teachers!

My daughter has been there since September and I only made the connection last month.