To ask your "woo" stories - or weirdest coincidence?

[MeredithGray2]

Hi all,

Not a journalist before you all jump on me for that haha I don't read the dailyfail don't worry - I've just had a weird thing happen and got me thinking about other weird things that happen to people - it's just a bit fun that's all.

Bit of background 10 years ago I was in college and had a college boyfriend that I was awful to, I really broke his heart and was just not a very nice person I think it was a mix between having an undiagnosed mental health disorder (BPD), being a teenager and being really inexperienced.

I got help with my mental health and really wanted to apologise to this guy because it was guilt I carried around for absolutely ages so about 3/4 years ago I sent him a message, a really long winded kind cringe apology but because we weren't Facebook friends I knew it'd go into his spam so I deleted it straight after and just thought he'd never read it.

Today four years later I receive a message from him really randomly just basically saying I've only just seen this, thank you for the apology. Hope life's good for you - bless him, seems like he's still a decent bloke (I don't intend on carrying on the conversation or anything) just nice to know there's no bad blood.

But here's the weird part, I've not thought about him or the message since I sent it but not last night, the night before I had a dream about him and how like we were okay etc like no bad blood between us and I mentioned it to my husband being like isn't your subconscious weird and how you can dream about someone you've not thought about in years etc and then he messaged me out of the blue.

I know it's just a coincidence but it's a bit "woo" haha do you have any stories? Can be spooky, coincidental or whatever you want!

I love these kinds of discussions.

You might want to ask for your thread to be moved to 'the unexplained' and you might get more replies there too 😊

Oh! I didn't realise there was an unexplained section.

I'll ask for it to be moved but I'll also stalk that section and read all the stories.

Thank you 😊

It’s not that exciting, but weird.

I was on holiday a few years and me and my sister were planning to go up and do karaoke. We were debating the song and settled on ‘I’m glad you came’ by the wanted.

just as we were about to go up and put our names down, another pair of sisters got called up to do their song.

They had the exact same names as me and my sister, and they were also singing ‘I’m glad you came’. It was so odd!

When I moved house, I remained in London, but friendships from my old neighbourhood and church dwindled naturally, with no ill-feeling. Contact details got mislaid, etc.....
At the end of a long, hot day, I picked a friend up from the station by arrangement. The drive home took us past a pleasant-looking pub with a pretty garden. I had often driven past it and remarked how nice it looked, but never been in.
My friend suggested that, as a thankyou for the lift, we should break our journey so that he could treat me to a cool drink at the end of a tough week.
Inside the pub were a group having a small leaving "do" for a fellow worker. One of these recognised me; she and I had been fellow-members of a church youth club back in the day, and she was trying to organise a reunion, but had lost my contact details.
She had never been in that pub before, either; one of her colleagues had suggested it because of the pretty garden.

England : 2012 (ish)

My mom brought me a dress, it was lovely but not my style. I had it in my wardrobe for a year or so before deciding to try and sell it at a clothes fair in our local town. It still had the original tags, so I wrote my full name on a sticker and £3 (following the instructions for the fair as that’s how they sorted out payment).
it didn’t sell and was returned to me. So I put it in one of those cancer research donation bags and it was collected by volunteers.

Australia (really rural Australia) : October 2019

my mum passed away in the august. It was coming up to Halloween and I was checking out the local vinnies op shop with my friend to see if we could find something Halloween. As soon as I walked into the shop, I spotted what looked like the dress I once owned. I didn’t think it was the actual dress, but it was the same design etc. Feeling sentimental I decided to go and look at it and touch it. Oh wow, original tag attached like my old one. Turned it over to see the price to find my name on a sticker alongside £3, partially covered with a $7.49 sticker.

The person I really wanted to call and tell was my mom but obviously couldn’t. Part of me feels like she knows, wherever she is.

I'm not typically into the whole woo thing but for a short time I had reoccurring dreams and the location was always the same, I remembered the detail of the street layouts and house designs and playing fields etc, very different to where I live and the places I've visited. I was on a bus in another UK country about 2 years after last having these dreams and there it was, the location exactly as I recalled in my dream. I have never been to this place before and have no prior connections and is probably too obscure to have seen on TV etc. It felt very calming to put a name to the place and to do a bit of Google mapping.

@Aussiegirl123456 sorry for your loss but that is an amazing story, gave me goosebumps

A few years ago we were coming back home on the motorway along with other relatives. We stopped at the same services, them ahead of us. When we got there, there was panic because they'd managed to lose their car keys. Everyone was searching and I said I'd check the ladies thinking they might be around the sinks; but I couldn't go round checking every stall as they were being used obviously.

Anyway I went in and needed a wee so I went to go towards a stall, but something made me stop sharp, and go into another 2 stalls away instead. And on top of the loo roll holder were the keys.

Some years ago, way before my daughter was born, my uncle Ray died. We weren’t close - it was sad of course as he was reasonably young, but life moves on. He’s not someone I’ve ever really mentioned to my daughter. We don’t have photos of him in the house etc.

My mum throws a family party every year. A few weeks ago I was chatting about the party to my 3 year old daughter. I said ”who did you meet there?”. She said “Uncle Ray, he talked to me. He ate some of my cake”.

I have no idea…. Perhaps she heard someone talking about Uncle Ray and she got a bit confused and thought one of the other people there was him, or perhaps he really did pay a visit to her. Either way. She seemed very clear that was his name and that she’d met him. It gave me the shivers (in a nice way. He was a good man).

Non-weird, but fun - my mum and my dad's aunt have some funny stuff in common:

• The same first name


• The same birthday


• Both their maiden names mean "chicken" in their respective languages

@Aussiegirl123456

That is remarkable! I hope you bought the dress, it really wants to belong to you. Maybe your daughter will like it..

That's insane! I wonder what the odds are for that happening?