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.

Chatting to a guy in a bar in the opposite side of the country. Think way north from the south.
Not attracted to him, so very unusual for me.
Turns out he was the brother of my flatmate who I was currently living with. We were both gobsmacked. She had never mentioned him. No photos in the house.
Most bizarre thing that’s ever happened to me!

Another one.

Before having children DH and I moved away from where I grew up.

I became friends with someone when DS was small as her DS was about the same age.

I was at her house one day and she was saying when she was a child she used to play with a boy on the street she now lived on who had the same name as my DS.

I asked if he had a brother called Chris name changed. She said yes.

It turns out that the boys she used to play were sons of my family friends. The family friend was her godmother. I did know that the family had moved to the village my new friend lived in, so not totally random.

My aunt and her mum were both godmothers of one of the sons, so they would have met.

I live in a different town to the one I grew up in. I was chatting to a client one day and maiden names came up. I mentioned mine and she said her mums husband had the same name. Turned out her mum is married to my uncle. They had been estranged so although I knew her younger sister well I'd never met her or even knew she existed!

My sister dated a creepy older guy in her late teens. We were very disappointed when he showed up at my engagement party a few years later. He was married to my dh to be's aunt!

Sorry for your loss. Do you find this coincidence a comfort or distressing?

When my ex partner was a child they had a budgie, one day it bit him, cross with it, he got the budgie and let it out the door and off it flew never to return.

As my ex mil was telling me the story, I had my own story in return. That same year and the same colour budgie turned up on our doorstep one morning and it became our family pet.

Will never know if its the same budgie, we lived about 5 miles apart at the time but you don't find many budgies flying around.

If it was the same budgie, it didn't find his true love but it did find his future wife, thankfully I am not with him anymore, damn budgie, might be his fault why I married someone not worthy! 😆

Used to share a house with my sister and have too many times to count where we went to go out the door and just laughed when we saw each other because we were wearing basically a variation of the same outfit by complete chance.

Oooh just thought of another.

The house that I live in now (our dream house. V old and a do er upper) had a serious of coincidences which led us to buy it.

It's on a street that we used to drive down daily. It's one of 8 but they never go up for sale. When we'd drive past, DH used to ask 'which one do you want babe?' And I'd always reply 'that one'. (Our house)

One evening, my friend told me she'd put her house up for sale. I searched for it to show DH and the search returned THE HOUSE. No for sale sign outside. Been listed that day.

We weren't prepared to buy/sell but went to look anyway and clicked with the owner. We put in an offer and the estate agent refused immediately as our house was not under offer. She passed it on to the buyer regardless (legally had to) and they told her that no one else was getting this house other than us, so accept it. She said 'the house was singing with them in it.'

We put our house up for sale the next day. Our agent called us and said she had a lady on a waiting list for our street and asked if she could view the same day, even before it was listed or photographed. She made an offer immediately and it sold.

We exchanged 8 weeks later and when we moved in, it transpired that our seller had the same birthday as me, so every alarm code, key box code, gate pin, was my DOB.

I was at work on my lunch break (working in a large city), in my building getting the lift down to reception. I was thinking “intently” about my forthcoming house move and my vendor. He was really on my mind. Should I chase him up, send him a personal email, all these things (badly wanted this house).
Lift doors opened and there he stood, he had been called as a service man by the company to fix a leaky radiator.

The city I worked in was an hours drive from the town we both lived in!
it totally freaked me out to be thinking of a person and have elevator doors just open up on his face!

This is a well know urban legend so not sure I believe this one I'm afraid.

I just remembered a funny one. Not my coincidence but her twin girls.

At 18 they gave a brief "we're not doing everything together, we are separate people with separate interests and friends so we're going on separate holidays" speech. It was entirely themselves that they were trying to convince at the time. I'd always insisted they weren't treated as 'the twins' and the only people that saw them as a pair was actually them!

So, off they went to two different travel agents in the next town with their best friends to book their first solo holidays abroad...

Came back having booked the same apartment complex in the same week originally having planned totally different destinations each 😂 For a few days they were fuming with each other, but eventually they got excited and had a brilliant holiday as a bigger group.

My family have a really rare genetic condition that doesn’t have a name, but at the time they were only aware of 5 families having it in the world. 3 from the UK, 1 in USA and one in Japan. My grandma happened to marry my grandad, who both have the same condition, purely by chance. They didn’t know it at the time and was only discovered after they died. My grandad was from Wales and met my grandma when working in the North of England.

Hello Deborah!

My husband and I grew up geographically distant from each other. When we first started dating we did the usual checking to see if our paths might have crossed previously, but drew a blank. But since then two weird coincidences came to light. We both went to university far away from home and each other. We both ended up living far away from home and university locations.

1. I worked closely with a small team of people and one of these had an unusual (but not out there!) first name. Talking about work one day, husband said ' Oh I also used to know an X, we were at school together'. The conversation continued about work and nothing more was said. However, a few months later, husband had cause to meet me at work and join me for lunch in the staff canteen. I took him over to the table with unusual named colleague. After a few minutes polite conversation the penny dropped that these two knew each other from school, 15 years ago, and about 300 miles away!
2. Just recently on holiday with some friends. These friends are a couple we have known for years since the lady and I worked together (at same place as previous story). Her husband and mine hit it off and the friendship has been going for years now, despite job changes and relocations. This couple came to our wedding back in 2008. Anyway, on holiday, and friend's husband starts talking about his school days and mentions a lad in context with a story. Husband and I interrupt him by simultaneously repeating back the lad's name in astonishment. We knew him! He was a friend of husband's from university. And the funny thing was, he also was at our wedding. Neither of these two men had clocked each other at our small, intimate, all day wedding. We've put them back in touch with each other.

It is a small, small world.

Our family group covering 3 generations is made up of 11 people, 8 of whom are the same star sign/horoscope.

I was visiting my mum and we were talking about traditional food from different countries that I had had including pierogies in Poland and gelato and pizzas in Sicily . I was telling her about frites and mayonnaise in Brussels and as I was tell her my husband sent me a memory pic from our honeymoon in Brussels from eight years ago of me holding a cone of frites and mayonnaise!

I decided to catch a train to the first seaside town shown on the departures board from a London station and ended up in Blackpool. Had never been up north or planned to go. I suddenly had an urge to contact an adopted daughter and found out that she lived in the next street. Synchronicity is a concept which describes events that seem to coincide in time and have a meaningful connection, but there is no clear cause. Weird or what.

different land heights so i ended up in the background of the photo but higher above their head due to the land height

I went to visit a friend in the Cotswolds. About five years earlier I had been living in Poland. I sold my car there before moving back to U.K. We pulled into a pub car park, and there was my Polish car - it had a very distinctive number plate so I knew it was mine. The landlord said that the people who owned the car were staying at the pub but had gone out for the day hiking, so I never met them.

Thats not possible youd have to be born at the exact same time and place.

Er no. That’s not how horoscopes work.

A few years ago my (young) son decided he wanted to wear his orange tshirt and jeans so he could look like a fox for the day. We all went to the park that afternoon and as he was running around I pretended to think he really was a fox and shouted 'oh look, there's a fox in the park!' I suddently realised the people near me were saying 'oh yes, how strange', and when I turned around there actually was a real fox, right in the middle of the park in the middle of the day! My husband still doesn't believe that I hadn't seen it and was talking about our son instead!

Hate to break it to you, but yes, that is precisely how it works. Geography is also a factor in astrology. Your astrological identity, based on the alignment of celestial bodies at your birth, determines your sun sign. This alignment varies by location, giving each person a unique zodiac sign that reflects their traits and qualities.

My niece sadly lost her 4 year old dc to
cancer. She had no other children and her partner left her.
She met a lad and 5 years later she got pregnant, her baby was born on the day her first dc died.

😮

When my son died, he was living in Australia.

He ended his life on Christmas Day 2020.

Shortly after i was trying to "piece things together" (so many unanswered questions) and trying to find out if there was any Sydney newspaper articles about him (there wasn't) but I found an obituary for someone in Cuba, Missouri, who had the same name as my my son, and also ended his life on Christmas day 2020.