Weird coincidences. Please shate yours.

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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.

At school I was talking to a friend and we realised that we both had an aunt living 120 miles away in burnham, they literally lived next door to each other and both of our sets of parents were due to visit that weekend

Met my DH 30 years ago. We were both in our late 20's. I was from Sussex, he was from London.

Turns out our fathers were both born on the same day - in the same hospital in East London...The Salvation Army Mothers Hospital....Long since gone....

Omg!!

I'm saving this thread to read again, but absolutely blown away by all these coincidences! The universe works in mysterious ways is just not a saying then.

Friends nephew met an American girl, who was back packing across Europe. They fell in love, she stayed, moved in with nephew at his mum and dads. Dumped her boyfriend in America.

Friends went to some place in South Asia. Sat on a cliff to watch a sunset. Couple joined them with their son.

Transpired the son was the dumped boy in favour of the friends nephew.

They took a photo together just for cringe value.

Ooh, that's brilliant!

Is that the book that spawned a children's TV series in the 70s? The opening sequence used to scare the bejesus out of me as it was a girl brushing her hair in the mirror but when she turned round she had no face? I loved that series. I might have to go and see if it's on YouTube now!!

Our non verbal (at the time) ASD/GDD daughter who couldn't even draw a basic stick man, drew a picture of a coffin with a cross on it and brought it to me.
We thought it hilarious and I shared it on my FB.
3 days later her granny (my hubby's mum) died suddenly at home!!
I have picture evidence somewhere on my phone. Post I made about the funny coffin picture was on 18th March and the next post I shared was the death announcement of my MIL.

My uncle, unborn baby and mum all died on Boxing Day on consecutive years. Uncle hung him self 2019, ectopic 2020 and mum died of cancer 2021

Another one....
As a teen my mum gave me her bankcard one day to withdraw money for her with her pin. I noticed it was exactly the same pin as mine
Next time we were in the bank we mentioned it thinking it was something the bank done for family etc. They couldn't believe it and said they're randomly generated and chance of us both having the same pin was unbelievably small.

Last year, on our 25th wedding anniversary, DH and I went out for a meal in a local restaurant. It was midweek and very quiet, and there was only one other couple having a meal. As we were leaving we overheard them say to the waiter that it was their anniversary. Yep. It was their 25th anniversary too.

When my husband and I met he was renting his grandparents’ house from his parents. They’d been left the property in their will. Eventually I moved in from my mum’s house and brought all my own stuff along. There was some random stuff, documents and papers I’d dumped in the spare room to sort at a later date.

A couple of months down the line, I came around to sorting it out and found my paternal grandma’s birth certificate under my stuff. This was very random. My dad had died long before his mum and my mum hated her mother-in-law (my grandma) so it seemed odd she would have it. It seemed though I’d scooped it up with my stuff during the move. I called my mum and she couldn’t remember ever having it or why she’d have it.

Husband (then boyfriend) came home from work and I told him the story. He agreed it seemed odd, but conversation didn’t go much beyond that.

Next morning he goes into the spare room and announces : “Aha! What’s with you and the grandma birth certificates? I see you’ve also dug out my nan’s certificate!”

At this point we realise we both have a grandma with exactly the same name (not super unusual, but possibly not super common either - think Eliza Jayne Harding) born on the same day, same year (1918) in the same small town.

We put in some very frantic calls that evening to check if we were related! Fortunately, they were two separate ladies with a lot of coincidences. They were the only two people born in our area that day with the same name.

They are absolutely wrong! 😮

Yikes!! 😯Yep, that’s a good one

I was helping out with brownies and brown owl gave me her phone to take some photos. Phone locked itself and without thinking I put in my pin and the phone opens. Freaked out I speak to brown owl to apologise for opening the phone and mention the pin, her birthday - and my DH’s (and so my pin) turned out to be the same…

My grandad came to the UK from Poland in WW2. He kept in touch with his family from his home country but after he died in 1979, all contact with them was lost. They spoke no English and my grandma/Dad spoke no Polish.

Around 2013 I started asking my Dad questions about my grandad, he’d died before I was born and I was always curious. My dad didn’t know much, like many Poles in exile he didn’t talk much about his previous life. We started researching what we could and looking through his old photos, identified the city he lived in and decided to take a trip. We found burial records from the local (enormous) cemetery and realised that several of his (15!) siblings were buried there, so visited to see if the headstones gave clues to any other relatives. We found the grave of his sister, which was old and not at all looked after. We spent a few minutes tidying it a little and moved on - just as an elderly lady showed up, lay some flowers and walked off.

Curiosity was too much for me, I tried to speak to her but she didn’t speak any English… we eventually found someone who could do some basic translation and discovered she was my grandfathers niece, now well in her 80’s but we had loads of photos and letters she’d sent my grandad in her 20’s.

We’d had no knowledge of or contact with family in Poland for over 30 years. The graveside meeting was the weirdest coincidence but within days we were introduced to 20+ members of the family we’d spent several years trying to trace, and they welcomed us completely. We’re still in touch now 😊

I live in NI and my friend and her husband share a birthday!

I was invited to a wedding as a plus one, wanted to get my hair done for it, so asked my mum to come into town with me. She asked why I was getting it done I said, I had a wedding at the weekend. She said oh me too! I said it was in edinburgh (300 miles away) she said omg me too! We both looked at each other and at the same time said Phil and Alison? Both invited as plus ones

Exboyfriend and I were 18 and 19. He left home to drive to Cheltenham for 3 days at the races, leaving at 0800 on a weekday morning.
Twenty minutes later he was involved in a crash. A driver had a heart attack and crossed the central reservation and wrote off boyfriend’s car sending both vehicles into a field.. Sadly, the other driver died. Bf walked away with scratches.
Meanwhile I was on the train to work. At exactly 08.20am I fainted unexpectedly and woke, rather embarrassingly, to find myself lying on a three seater seat . All the commuters had cleared the packed carriage to allow me some space. The train incident happened between two stations so could be timed precisely at 08.20 am.

Oh wow such a coincidence, such joy and yet such sorrow. The circle of life right there! I've experienced that when my dad died in hospital, and my daughter made her West End stage debut on the same night. Not quite the same in terms of the coincidence though.

Not terribly interesting as a conicidence but Im currently watching an episode of Grace on ITVX and a character had flying ducks on their wall. I thought 'so unusual to see those these days'. I then went on Mumsnet a moment ago - still watching Grace - and someone's started a thread about where to get flying ducks for a wall!

The other day I was listening to a podcast called The Rest Is Politics US and Anthony Scaramucci was saying how he loves reading spy novels by Daniel Silva, a writer I've never heard of. I then popped to the shops, and passed a community centre that has second hand books for sale on a trolly outside. Two large hardbacks immediately caught my attention - they were spy novels by Daniel Silva. They were the first books I saw and looked at. How weird is that?!

@MistressoftheDarkSide it is indeed! Loved the tv series too

Jesus calm down. I agree yours sounded made it.

That's so very sad. I'm sorry to hear that.

this is......dire .actually....i were in a horrific dv shituation years ago. accused and beat up for all kinds of non events.
followed me in town one day(could have came with me but...)so am in Gap,buy me n my son matching long sleeved tshirts reduced to £2.50....white bck fronts\yellow sleeves(i was so fractured i fat kids sizes)anyway....at till...i looked up and there he was-head sweating like a madman..teeth grit
and elvis "suspicious minds " came on.

My DH and I were born in the same country, grew up in 2 different countries and moved back to our home country as teenagers and met a couple of years later.

A mutual friend put us on the phone to each other randomly cos he couldn’t hold his phone, we ended up talking online for about a month then met in person. It turned out we had literally bumped into each other on a ferry years before, I’d hit him with my bag. The month and year we met were also 2 very significant numbers in my life since I was a child. Really weird.