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 eldest son was born at 2:10am, weight 10lb 9oz and my youngest son was born at 10:02am weighing 9lb 10oz. Spookily bizarre!!

I used to work with someone years ago, I randomly saw them in the airport a few months ago when I was going on holiday, then to find they were on my flight! We stayed in a busy capitol city and I saw her TWICE more out and about and then again on our flight home (not a package holiday so the odds of being there for the same duration was slim).
The worst bit being I didn't think she'd remember me, so I didn't even say hello 😳

Agree with OP, something not right. Also
only this boat damaged, odd.
Weird Coincidence story:
Was talking to someone in a London pub.
We both lived 2 streets away at one point in my current town some distance away.
Got talking about house/kitchens etc.
I'm quite sensitive/feel
energies/have 6th sense.
Described a house in yet another location once looked at to buy.
It had the most divine huge kitchen/ orangery, beautiful setting, interior, garden etc.
I felt something bad had happened there and just couldn't shake off the feeling walking all 3 storeys of it.
Very unsettling.
Did not buy house.
It was this person's former family home !!!!
What was the chance..
They also designed the kitchen etc.
Before this person bought it it turns out a former resident committed suicide in the house.

After had my first baby I got an evening job in a supermarket. On my first day I went for my break and sat next to another lady. We got talking and it turned out we both had babies born on the same day! Then another woman sat down with us. It was her first shift too on a different department, and very very weirdly her daughter was also born in the same day. I didn’t really have any mum friends, and had got that job as I was a bit lonely. I never expected to find friends for me AND my daughter. We’ve lost touch now, sadly. Our babies are almost 26, but we got each other through those first years

Wowzers

Visiting australia. We were on a road trip from Melbourne to Adelaide and saw signs for a town called Harrow. We hadn't planned to stop but last minute we decided to go there and get something to eat and drink.
Walking into the bar there was a young Irish women serving. We got talking and discovered that she came from the same area as my grandmother had come from. Further digging and we discovered we were relations. her branch of the family was from my nan's brother.

I came over to Sydney to see a friend from secondary school.

We went to a bar on the first night, turned around and saw a women who I went to Primary school with.

I grew up in rural Devon and moved to Oxford for work when I was 20. I got a room in a house share and a few months later a chap moved in who was British but grew up in South Africa and had attended a small private school over there.
My best friend from rural Devon also ended up finishing college and moving to Oxford for work in a field unrelated to mine, so we were reunited again. I introduced my friend to my housemate and they became a couple marrying 4 years later in South Africa, where my housemate grew up. I went over for the wedding and took some photos of them. When I got the photographs developed there was a lovely photo of them both, so I brought a frame and had it engraved with their names and wedding date. I took the negative I wanted to a specialist photo lab in Oxford to have it enlarged and printed. When the photo was ready I went to pick it up and the lady at the desk asked me to wait. A man with a South African accent came to the desk to hand the photo over and asked me to check it was OK. Then asked about the picture. It turns out the South African at the photo lab was my housemates best friend from school in South Africa and they had lost touch. I was able to reconnect them both. So not only had I moved hundreds of miles and coincidently reconnected with my best friend, my housemate and his best friend had also done the same through me!

I was living and working abroad, in Tokyo. A Malaysian colleague brought her husband to a work event, and he turned out to have grown up on my street in a village in northern England two decades earlier.

I was hiking a random mountain in New Zealand when a middle aged dad and his son asked me to take their photo. We realised we were from the same part of the UK from our accents but then it kept getting more and more specific. To the point where it turned out the dad actually grew up down the street from where I did.

On the same trip, I was in a random cafe in Vietnam and was seated on a table next to someone I'd worked with years before in a shop.

So either the world really is very small or British people all travel to the same destinations!

Duxford? I've lost count of the number of elderly American men we've talked with who did part of their military service very near us and remembered the area with great fondness, one had met and married a woman from our village though she had sadly died a couple of years earlier.

On one US trip we started in Salt Lake City and took the opportunity to visit the Mormon Family Research centre as we're very keen on genealogy. On a table was a massive open book of old OS maps and looking at it I almost fainted! A week before starting the trip we'd moved into our present house, a converted post office, and the OS map in Colorado was of our village, showing the road we live on and the PO clearly indicated. I think the woman thought I was kidding, it was too bizarre!

Just remember another one.

In the middle of the jungle in a far flung Asian country and bumped into a colleague of mine. I really though I had chosen a complete 'get away from everything' location!

Oh I thought of another great one!

I have a very rare surname. According to the Forebears website which tells you the distribution of your surname across the world there are less than 1000 of us with this surname.

One day though a family member was working and a customer (American tourist) had to give her name and she had the SAME NAME. Not just the rare surname but also the same first name.

Grandparents died 8 years apart. Both at 7am on the 12th

Dad has a brother and cousin with the same name. Both born in the same year. One born in the UK and the other in Australia

Mums half brother has the same name as my dad. Parents wedding anniversary is the same date as her half brother's birthday but different years

We moved to a small village on an island.

The person who bought our mainland house , was from the small island village we were moving to! And his mother was besties with the lady whose house we were buying!

We were answering the whole " Why are you selling" question. Said we were moving to the island and he was like "NO WAY"

We bought our car 2 years ago from a big garage about 20 miles from our home, we had never been to that garage before and we purchased the car off a new salesman fast forward 2 years and I’ve met a lovely friend through work and it turns out the salesperson is her brother!

My best friend has lived in Spain for the past ten years - I've lived in Surrey for about 17 years. One year we realised we were both going to be back at our childhood town for Christmas (family still there!) and we decided to go to the pub on Boxing Day for a catch up. Childhood town is small town in Dorset.

Whilst at the pub my friend bumped into another friend that she used to work with - not unusual, a lot of our childhood friends haven't moved from the town. But this girl was on a date with someone we didn't know. As the night went on we got chatting to them and I mentioned that I lived in Reigate. The date said 'oh my brother lives in Reigate!' We all thought that was a funny coincidence. Then it clicked for me - his mannerisms and cheeky accent - I said 'is your brother Jason?' And he was dumbstruck.... 'yes?!' He says.... turns out his brother lived opposite me on the same road!! We called him up immediately and he couldn't believe it!

Another one that has occurred is my gran bought me a wee tartan strapped watch, I rarely wore it as it wasn’t me however the clock stopped at the time that’s on my grans death certificate!

I work as a childminder. Had a family who came to see me about childcare- they'd just moved into the area. Discovered they'd moved into the house that was my childhood home!

As a child I grew up in a very very remote and rural part of Southern Africa. My dad worked with an English guy. Fifteen years later we were buying tickets to see a show in the West End while on holiday in London, when this guy walked past, glanced in and saw us. Blew all of our minds to meet up like that again.

When I was about 14 I stayed with my French pen friend and she and her family took me on a local walk. It wasn't a touristy area. I bumped into one of my teachers.

Also bumped into another teacher about a year later in Edinburgh, even though I was at school near London.

In my 20s, I stayed in a youth hostel in San Francisco. My dormitory mates were British and knew my brother.

A few years later, I was sitting in a bar in a remote part of Belize and got chatting to a German guy. Turned out we had a mutual friend.

When I was in my late 30s , we had a holiday in Portugal and there were TWO couples on the flight who I knew (they didn't know each other).

The world is a surprisingly small place.

Disney store had an offer on stitch soft toys, i put 2 differing types in the basket, as i went to pay one sold out. Fine, ordered an alternative. Box turns up with 3 soft toys (definitely ordered 2!) And the extra one was the one that id tried to order in the first place!

Also sorry to whoever didnt get theirs :/

Before they met, my DW and DSis lived about 5 minutes away from each other and DW often used the bus stop directly outside Dsis's flat.
When we announced our relationship, my Dsis asked where abouts in X city DW previously lived and that's when they realised that they'd probably passed each other many times, not knowing they would end up related by marriage.

I'm sorry I can't make head nor tail of that.
Whose the male BF? Who had the album?

🎶oh we were born within an hour of each other, our mothers said we could be sister and brother🎶. Is your name Deborah by any chance lol?