Weird coincidences. Please shate yours.

[malificent7]

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.

My mum died in 1995, and I was raised by her youngest sister.
Last year my aunt was admitted to hospital, and I said to my sister this room is freaking me out and I thought was the room my mum died in, she wasn't sure until my uncle commented on it later that day.
My aunt died the day before my mums anniversary, in the same room and her last word where my mums name.

Part coincidence part spooky.

In 1996, I was 18 weeks pregnant with our first baby and we’d just moved into our first house in a completely new area. A week later I went for a scan only to discover that the baby had died and I needed to go to hospital to give birth to the poor thing. In all this trauma, I was looked after by a lovely nurse or midwife who was so kind to me. Really gentle and sensitive. At one point she was reading my notes and she spotted my address. She was born in that house! Had very happy memories of living there. In all that heartache, she gave me hope that we would go on to be happy in our new home. We lived there for five years, had two gorgeous sons, who still live with us in a bigger house two streets away. They are 26 & 24 now! I’ve never forgotten her kindness.

That's the only thing that could have happened if someone was responsible. The captain has a lot of questions to answer - why wasn't the keel lowered? Why wasn't the tender stowed away and the hatches closed when 'atrocious' weather was expected? The ship was meant to be unsinkable.

I was born on 26th August but should have been born on the 19th, while my mum was born on 26th October and also should have been born on the 19th.

When my uncle and aunt moved house back in 2002, they made friends with this couple - the wife's birthday is August 26th and the husband's is October 26th.

Just remembered this one, years ago back in the days of MSN Messenger, I logged in one night and apparently I'd been added as a contact by this address I didn't recognise, start talking to this guy who says my address just randomly appeared in his contacts and he hadn't a clue who I was either. So, we just laughed about how stupid Hotmail was, he told me his name, age and what county he was from, and it turned out he was about to start the same university where I had already been attending for two years.

It suddenly dawned on me that my ex's best friend (I was still part of their friendship group at the time) had a younger brother, same name, age and county, who was about to start our university that year, so I asked "You're not B's brother by any chance?" Turned out he was. We never did find out how that happened - he's always said he never added me, and I didn't add him (didn't even know his address to have been able to do it) - but we always stayed friends independently even after I left that friendship group.

I live in the north in the UK. I dated a guy for a few a while and my friend met him. Some time later my friend went to work out in a large city in the states. She became friendly with an irish girl who was also working out there. Spending some time together the Irish girl was showing her some photos which included one of my by then ex who she had met when she was in Spain working and he was on holiday with friends. My friend included the pic in her letter (pre mobiles)

Wtf?

This poster is talking about trying to escape an abusive relationship while having an eating disorder, and basically only mentioning any of it because some other poster accused her of lying, and you tell her to "calm down"?

Wtf is wrong with some people?

This happened to me!

Friend A from school met friend B from university in a remote village in Kenya. Friend A explained she was from home town (quite obscure little place) and Friend B said "Oh do you know Rhubarb?"

I think that was probably more him deliberately stalking you than coincidence! Did you by any chance have your name in your MSN address?

No way that was a coincidence. He obviously lied!

We bought our first house years ago. While I was at work my husband took up the living room carpet, and in the corner was a piece of old newspaper. The date on that paper was the exact day I was born, day, month and year!

Further to my earlier post, I’ve remembered another coincidence. We have a neighbour called Sheila who used to be a childminder and at the time, she looked after two little boys, brothers called Luke and Oliver.
One day, I was at the local shops and saw her walking ahead of me holding hands with her charges. As I hadn’t seen her to talk to for a while, I called her name but when she turned round, it wasn’t her! I apologised and when I’d explained my mistake, she said she’d turned round because her name was Sheila and was a childminder. We laughed and I said, ‘I suppose these little boys are brothers called Luke and Oliver, too!’ And they were!

My parents were on holiday in a part of the country my Dad's family came from and they looked in the graveyard and found the gravestones of their family.

A lady was walking past and saw them and they got chatting and it turns out she was a distant cousin of my Dad's.

It was a coincidence that she happened to be there at the same time as my parents were passing through.

When I still lived at home, I had a lovely friendship group with some other church members, but as time passed, we went our separate ways, and made our own homes, in different places, and I lost touch with most of them.
I had been up in London for the day, and a friend offered to pick me up at the railway station. It had been very hot, and I was feeling pretty frazzled, so he suggested a cold drink in the pub near the station. I had never been in there before, but it looked nice, so why not?
There was another group of drinkers already in there; apparently a little farewell "do" for one of their fellow workers. One of the party had a familiar face - one of my friends from decades ago! She had never been inside this pub before either, but came along to bid farewell to her colleague.
It turned out that she was one of the people trying to organise a reunion of the old friendship group, and we were able to swap contacts.

This is the well documented coincidence the other poster is referring to http://coincidenceandsynchronicity.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-aa-phone-call-coincidence.html

I think the people involved told the story on TV a few years after.

So very similar and you can see why they may have been suspicious but if it happened once I guess it could well happen again.

And although unlikely maybe your landline number wouldn't be that dissimilar to the payphone number if it was local to you.

3 coincidences I can think of. When I was little my dad one evening brought a kitten home for my sister and I. We decided to call her Rusty. The following morning our neighbours told my mum they had got a kitten and were going to call her Rusty! We renamed our cat to Tibby (not very imaginative!).

When we went to America some years ago, I was browsing in a shop when I bumped into a lady I used to work with years ago (who was also on holiday).

Lastly we were going on holiday to Cornwall and decided to stop for lunch in a pub we had passed by. Went up to the bar and there was my cousin and family. We were so surprised!

I had something similar. My friends often looked after my dog (and vice versa), she is quite a distinctive breed people tend to fall in love with and attracts a lot of attention. My friends were at a dinner party and the couple sat next to them who they had not met before starting to talk about dogs and then specifically about this one particular breed. They said they had seen one a few months previously and excitedly got out their phones to show my friends the pictures they had taken.

It turned out it was mine and my friend's dog they had photos of. My friend had been looking after my dog and had taken her and her dog to a country fair that the other couple had attended.

This sounds like the story I remember. I think it happened in the 90s (or just before) to a man called Jason and I remember Jason telling the story on TV.

He said he didn’t usually answer ringing call box phones, but answered this one. His colleague was on the line and told him to come into the office as there was a lot going on and the fax machine had broken down. He asked her how she knew where he was and she told him to stop mucking about! Later, his colleague was shaken to realise that she’d dialled Jason’s payroll number.

I’ve also read an article about a similar coincidence in the US, written by the man involved. I can’t remember the details, but he and his partner ended up talking to each other on the phone. I do remember that the subheading was something like, “the time the laws of probability bent just for us” which isn’t really how probability works.

Went to view a remote cottage around an hours drive away and it took us ages to find. When we finally arrived, the owner opened my car door and said "Hello Elsie". I worked with him years back. I had been telling my DH about a very difficult client at the firm I worked for who was verbally abusive to staff. And yes, the next house we viewed a few months later, it was her who showed us round. Tbh, she was still someone you would not want to cross. Tbf, DH said I had described her pretty accurately!

My best friend's birthday was on the same day as mine - she was a twin. Her first daughter and mine also shared the same birthday in July.

Haven't had time to read full thread yet but it has happened to me a few times.
My first job was in the office of a factory . It was quite a remote area and the factory provided a bus. The manager asked me to phone a potential new employee to ask if she would need transport. I had never met her and not heard of her before. The manager gave me her phone number . His handwriting was a bit difficult to read but I dialled what I thought it was.
A lady answered . I asked if she was Mrs X ( it was not a common name) and it was . I asked to speak to her daughter ,again ,not a common first name She said she wasn't there and offered to take a message . After some minutes of confusion we realised I had dialled a wrong number ,in a distant part of the country but the daughters names were exactly the same.
Another time whilst attending to a patient in hospital he began to talk about his early life . He had worked restoring vintage vehicles. He described a man who had sold some vehicles to his firm and who had been driving a very distinctive one of his own . He had a little girl with him . That was me 54 years before.
I frequently used to experience coincidences ( often thinking about something apparently random ) and it would happen . For example be thinking about old school friend who would call the same day. Or thinking about a book and it would be mentioned on the radio .But it was most frequent just before a period . (Don't laugh ! ). It's stopped after the menopause.

I was visiting a university in Tanzania for work about 15 years ago and one of the professors there told me that he studied at Cambridge and had remained friends with a fellow student from England, did I know her? I rolled my eyes of course.
It was my DS’ best friend’s mum 😮😃

That has just reminded me of another one. A few years ago now a neighbour knocked at the door, he was very upset and told me he had some bad news for me, my cat had been run over, and was lying dead on the road not far away.

As he was talking he noticed my tabby cat sat next to me, looking up at him, and I could see the neighbour looking at the cat, then me, back to the cat… before trailing off and apologetically mumbling ‘sorry, not your cat’

My great aunt was welsh and married a man from a tiny English village. Her sister bought home her boyfriend who was a soldier and none of their family had met him (they had met in London where they were both away from their families) it was the husbands brother!

So both Welsh sisters married the two Cornish brothers

That's amazing 😳

Also on Honeymoon in a random hotel in India and we met a lovely couple from the same area. They had just bought a house in our village