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Weird coincidences. Please shate yours.

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malificent7 · 20/08/2024 22:09

I find it really strange that the codefendant of the tech billionaire that is missing from the yacht in Sicily was killed in a road accident on the same day in a different country. Two totally different accidents. Both were aquiited of fraud and involved in the same case. Totally bizarre.

On a more personsl note a met someone from my year at school at a remote waterfall in Nepal about 20 years ago.

Please share your stories.

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malificent7 · 20/08/2024 22:09

Share not shate!!

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thaisweetchill · 20/08/2024 22:28

It was my son's birthday the other day and a family friend asked randomly 'what time was DS born 5 years ago?' I looked at my watch and it was the exact time he was born!

newnamethanks · 20/08/2024 22:54

I don't have a coincidence but these concurrent tragedies will spawn a billion conspiracy theories, I feel them forming in the ether already. They are both awful tragedies and sympathy to all those affected by them.

FuckThePoPo · 20/08/2024 23:01

I mean that's the coincidence of since forever!!! But you can't pay nature so....a coincidence it is

mine is that I was in a hotel in Majorca and I tripped and fell into some random blokes lap - but it turns out it wasn't random at all it was the husband of one of the PTA wives at my DC school!! I'd honestly never met him before 😂 you can imagine haha

Theunamedcat · 20/08/2024 23:05

Back in the days when I had asolod front door I walked down my (windowless) stairs and flung open the front door to the postman who was just about to knock with a parcel I literally have no clue why I did it uts just a wierd coincidence that someone was there when I did 😅

Theunamedcat · 20/08/2024 23:05

A SOLID front door

Fubarred · 20/08/2024 23:08

I think this one is a coincidence. Not so sure about the Marconi deaths though- some of them were beyond strange and all written off as suicides

MadisonAvenue · 20/08/2024 23:14

Visiting family in the US years ago and got talking to a man in a diner who heard our English accents. He said his family had come from England and that there was a hotel and it’s surrounding area named after them.

The hotel was in our town and we’d actually pulled onto the car park on the way to the airport to check we had all necessary documents before getting onto the motorway.

Watercolorbird · 20/08/2024 23:14

A few years ago we were looking for a house to rent and I was too ill to go to a viewing so my DH went alone. He came back and described the lady that lived there - glasses, shoulder length brown hair, slim, French accent. I had a work colleague of the same description that I knew lived in the area of the house he viewed. I asked her if it was her. She said no, but she had lived at that exact address 5 years previously. I found this an astounding coincidence but no one I’ve told (including my DH) thinks it’s that strange. Please tell me they’re wrong and I’m right to be in awe of this!

Barkingupthewrongtrees · 20/08/2024 23:16

I met a guy and it turned out that our grandparents lived next door to each other and had known each other for years!

Bluemincat · 20/08/2024 23:21

My ex gave me an expensive watch for my birthday. About a year or so later he went away on a business trip and broke up with me over the phone. I was devastated as thought he was "the one" (looking back he was a dick so I had a lucky escape).

The next morning I went to put on my watch (hadn't been wearing it the evening before when he called to break up with me) and it had stopped at the exact same time that he called to break up with me. Seriously freaked me out! Not sure I would believe the story if someone else told me.

Didimum · 20/08/2024 23:25

In a queue at Disney World Florida, bumped into next door neighbour from 1996.

Travelling around Australia and crossing a road in Sydney, also crossing the road in opposite direction was a guy I went to school with.

TheFairyCaravan · 20/08/2024 23:28

Me and my Granny were really, really close. My Grampy was in the RAF and they had 2 sons 2 yrs and 10 days apart. The oldest, my dad, looks like my Granny, my uncle looks like my Grampy.

I married DH, who was in the RAF, and we had 2 sons who were born 2 yrs and 10days apart. DS1 looks like me, DS2 looks like DH.

NotaCoolMum · 20/08/2024 23:35

I’ve got a GREAT ONE!!!!

10 years ago my DS best friends grandma and I were good friends from seeing eachother at school pick-up and drop offs etc. she went on holiday to another country where her and her husbands best friends live (the best friends introduced them in fact). When she returned she said “NotaCoolMum- I need to talk to you…. We were sitting around best friends fire place drinking wine and talking about our children and grandkids etc… Best friend (male” said he has a photo album of his DS and DD and brought it out- my friend opened the album and yelled- “Oh my god!! That’s NotaCoolMum!!”. Turns out she is best friends with my bio dad who left when I was 3. I saw him a couple of times in my young adult life. But haven’t seen him in almost 25 years now!

Newbie8918 · 20/08/2024 23:36

Bare with, I'll try and keep this short.

My Dsis met my BIL at 11 in high school. They're now 32.

BILs grandma recently passed and we all attended the funeral as our families are close. During the eulogy, they spoke about how lucky their grandma was and recalled some tales of her remarkable luck.

One was of a holiday abroad when the grandchildren were young, when she fell over in the sea and resurfaced, holding a gold ring.

I saw my parents immediately look at each other.

In the early 90s both families had visited the same obscure location, a few years apart. They had previously discussed it and remarked that it was a coincidence as it was quite obscure for that time.

Whilst there, dad was snorkelling and lost his very distinctive wedding ring. It was heavily engraved and had his initials inside. Mum had saved every penny to replace and it took years as they had very little spare money.

At the wake, Dad asked BILs parents, if the story about the ring in the sea was in X location and it turns out it was and grandma had actually kept it somewhere and they'd try dig it out when they sort her things.

2 weeks later. BILs parents called into my parents with the ring. It was dad's wedding ring, same engraving and his initials inside.

Sis and BIL would have been 7 (when lost) and 9 (when found) when this happened.
They didn't meet until 11 and the ring was handed back 25 years later.

Dad wears it on his necklace and tells everyone he meets about it 🤣

NotaCoolMum · 20/08/2024 23:37

Newbie8918 · 20/08/2024 23:36

Bare with, I'll try and keep this short.

My Dsis met my BIL at 11 in high school. They're now 32.

BILs grandma recently passed and we all attended the funeral as our families are close. During the eulogy, they spoke about how lucky their grandma was and recalled some tales of her remarkable luck.

One was of a holiday abroad when the grandchildren were young, when she fell over in the sea and resurfaced, holding a gold ring.

I saw my parents immediately look at each other.

In the early 90s both families had visited the same obscure location, a few years apart. They had previously discussed it and remarked that it was a coincidence as it was quite obscure for that time.

Whilst there, dad was snorkelling and lost his very distinctive wedding ring. It was heavily engraved and had his initials inside. Mum had saved every penny to replace and it took years as they had very little spare money.

At the wake, Dad asked BILs parents, if the story about the ring in the sea was in X location and it turns out it was and grandma had actually kept it somewhere and they'd try dig it out when they sort her things.

2 weeks later. BILs parents called into my parents with the ring. It was dad's wedding ring, same engraving and his initials inside.

Sis and BIL would have been 7 (when lost) and 9 (when found) when this happened.
They didn't meet until 11 and the ring was handed back 25 years later.

Dad wears it on his necklace and tells everyone he meets about it 🤣

That’s amazing!!!

Newbie8918 · 20/08/2024 23:39

@NotaCoolMum honestly, if it weren't my family, I'd find it hard to believe!

The look mum and dad gave each other in the pew in front when the penny dropped, still gives me chills 🤣

Belshels · 20/08/2024 23:43

My son and my grandfather were born exactly 100 years apart on the same day, (1905 and 2005). My mum thinks they have similar mannerisms and looks!

Cattenberg · 20/08/2024 23:44

I grew up in a semi-detached house. For many years, a couple lived in the adjoining house until they divorced and he moved out.

Several years later, I bought my first flat in a different part of town. It was one of only two flats in the building. I saw a familiar name on some post addressed to the other flat - yep, it was my former bloke-next-door.

patchysmum · 20/08/2024 23:51

My grandad died on April 14th he was 65,my mum died on April 14th she was also 65.,my husband also died on April 14th

Cecilly · 20/08/2024 23:55

My first job, found out that my father and my colleague's father had been best friends and that my father had saved his life.

lololove · 21/08/2024 00:06

My dad and a next door but two neighbour ended up with the same cars as each other about 4 times in a row when we were kids. Right down to the same colours of one two tone car. Neither set out to copy the other it just happened, twice they were bought on the same day as each other and only found out when returning home to see the same car being parked/had already been parked outside the other house.

Gagaandgag · 21/08/2024 00:14

Me and my best friend both have two children.

My older son was exactly the ssme birth weight as her older daughter - born 3 months apart.
My younger daughter was exactly the same birth weight as her younger son- born 3 months apart.

ARichtGoodDram · 21/08/2024 00:17

My father was a nasty, abusive man.

I grew up 500 miles from DH and his family.

DH's uncle intervened when my father was beating one of my brothers and I on a beach, in the middle of winter in Scotland, when I was three.

It came up at the uncles funeral when I was in my early 40's so he never knew what became of the children he tried to help.

Laughtillyoupee · 21/08/2024 00:24

I started my periods on my grandma’s birthday. So did my sister two years later. So did her daughter, my niece, 26 years later.

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