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.

Just remembered something that spooked me at the time but wasn't really! OH had taken up a job in a Med country and I joined him a few weeks later once he was settled. At a party a woman I'd never been introduced to came up to me and very indignantly said 'You bought that dress from Shop, on Road, in Town! I wanted it but it had gone out of the window when I went back!' In turned out that from OH she knew where I'd worked and it was very near where she lived in the UK, she had indeed seen the dress that I'd bought walking past the shop on my way into work, she wasn't a weird psychic after all.

My very first boyfriend and I had the same birthday but one year apart.
Another boyfriends dad had the same name as my own dad, and his sisters were called the same as my mums two sisters.

7 weeks ago my cat went missing. The day after we last saw him a dead cat was found 5 miles away. I went to see the cat to try and identify it but it's head was missing but otherwise looked just like my cat. The fact I couldn't be 100% sure it wasn't him led me to continue with my search and putting up posters in our village. For 7 weeks with 0 sighn of our cat I started to believe he was the dead one (the council recovered the body but I never got a call back as to whether they checked his microchip)
3 days ago our cat was spotted 2 streets away right by the entrance to vast fields and woodland. He had been lost! We got him back! He's fine now. Just needs feeding up because he's lost 0.5kg.
At the time of seeing the dead cat my husband said "if it's not him it's one he'll of a coincidence "

Is your name Deborah?😀

I spent a year studying in Spain many moons ago. I moved into a flat with 2 spanish girls. One of them was delightfully bonkers and loved telling me about the english boy David she had fallen in love with aged 14 who she had met whilst living in a different part of the country and he’d been on holiday there. She was obsessed about him to put it mildly. This was before email never mind social media etc so she’d had no way of knowing where he was and what he was doing/they hadnt swapped addresses or anything like that…. we were now all 20 at this stage.

I met other british students graduallly and one day invited a couple of guys back to the flat for coffee….David and his mate. And yes, when we walked in, he and my flatmate stood staring at one another….he was THE David!
David being v common name at that time it hadnt ocurred to me to consider that possibility.

They did get together but it didnt last sadly.

I was doing some family tree stuff and found that in 1939 my Nan (pregnant) and my aunts and uncles (all small children) were evacuated 100 miles from Chelsea to a tiny village in Cambridgeshire.

Fairly standard, until I realised my husband’s great grandparents (and teen Grandfather) ran the village shop and post office.

So if Nan needed any supplies or to write home she needed to interact with them, and probably knew them to talk to - which is SO weird!

Husband and I met by chance during the late 1990’s in Surrey. He’d moved down for work. The world is a weird small place sometimes.

When I was a student I once went to a party at my friend's flat. He had one of those calendars on the wall with a box for each day of the year. I drunkenly wrote 'F this day' on a random day, he laughed that it was the day after his birthday. I didn't know that as we'd recently met.

A couple of months later, he went out partying for his birthday and came home with a female friend. She got really drunk and was on her period, so he spent the day after his birthday cleaning vomit and blood from all over his room and bathroom. Girl was OK, but he laughed later that I'd predicted he'd have a shitty day.

Two years later, another dear friend of mine died very suddenly on that same day.

@Newbie8918, you win the thread for sure!
I was on the train chatting to a new colleague. Turns out our dads were both academics in the same field of rare, niche medicine at neighbouring universities. Sadly both passed away by this time, but bound to have known each other when working. It was a lovely chat.

DS2 was due on January 14th but was born 3 weeks early on Christmas Eve. When DDIL said she was pregnant and her due date was January 16th, I said “ooh Christmas baby then…” DGS was born on Boxing Day!

DH & I went to Cape Verde on holiday and met a couple on the plane. The first night we were having drinks in the bar and the woman said her DS had just joined the army. Our DS1 was just about to join the army in to exactly the same regiment.

Not massively exciting ones but:

A Scottish colleague (living in England) got chatting to a client who mentioned that he used to live in Scotland about 10 years ago in his old job, turned out that he lived in the same area that she had grown up in. Then when he mentioned what his previous job had been, it turned out that her dad had been the clients boss at the time.

Also, another colleague of mine (about 25 years older than me) had been on exactly the same holiday (same hotel and everything) on the same month and year as my mother back in the mid 80s. I appreciate that it doesn't sound too odd, but if the destination wasn't too outing for me to say - you would see what a surprising coincidence it was. 🤣

In my late teens I ‘met’ a guy over the phone as a result of a wrong number being dialled. He had a lovely voice and we agreed to meet in London.

Unfortunately, the rest of him didn’t live up to his voice and that was the one and only meeting. He was a bit of a weirdo and continued to message and phone me, which was annoying. I told a fling about it, and being an undercover police officer (I want sure if I believed him about that, but had seen his warrant card) he said he’d sort it. I only knew weirdo’s mobile number, first name, town and that he worked for the police in a civilian role. Shortly after, the phone calls stopped.

Months later, I was regaling this tale to a mate, as part of a general chat about dating disasters. We had the tv on in the background - one of those silly Saturday morning quiz shows - and who should be on it but weirdo bloke!

Love this thread.

My friend sat down at a random table in a pub in our local town some years ago and we all gasped. Behind him was an old portrait from early 1900s of some men (a football team or similar) and one at the front right next to his head was his absolute doppelganger!
My friend is quite unique looking and I've never known anyone else to look like him but the likeness was uncanny! We never found out any connection but sometimes go back to the pub to have a look 😆

Also I remember having a crush on a boy who went to the same sports club as me as a young teen.

We were on a family holiday about 200 miles away and I was at the supermarket with my dad helping him pack the shopping. I looked up and crush was with his dad at the next till helping him pack too!
He still never spoke to me though ☹️🤣

I got friendly with one of the girls at work, we started meeting outside of work found both of our husbands had the same name.
We'd worked there a few years when a new girl started we got chatting, they'd moved back from Ireland. they'd lived here before they were married but then went to live in Ireland

Turns out they'd bought my childhood home and my friends husband was her husband's apprentice years before. We all became friends and I got to visit my childhood home again.

@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.
Pretty sure it wasn't the same day. Pretty sure the road accident was a week or so earlier

I once visited Poland with a friend and we did a guided tour of Auschwitz. Part of the tour was being picked up by a minivan and taken to the location. We were in the bus with 2 other couples, one British and one Polish. We just chatted normally and had a pleasant day (as pleasant as it can be in such a horrific location anyway). One of the women and I bonded and spent a lot of the day walking around together, however once the trip was over, that was kind of that.

A few months later, I was in London seeing friends. I was on the top deck of a bus on Oxford Street when some a woman came up to me and said hi. It was the woman from the minibus. We hadn't stayed in touch, neither of us lived in London. The odds of us even seeing each other in that time and place were just so small, I still think about it now 12 years later.

If you're on the Genealogy Facebook pages there are hundreds on there re places/houses where previous generations lived. I have two. One of them is that when the 1921 census was published in 2022 I found that my dad's family before he was born (mum and dad and older sibling) had lived at number 100 in a well-known road in my local city. We'd had no idea that they lived around here. What makes it spooky is that in the early 2000s my mum very nearly bought that exact same house, where her in-laws had been living 80 years before. I was the one who'd found and first viewed the house. I'm convinced that we have a DNA memory for places. Apparently the indigenous Americans believe this - that we return to or are attracted to places without knowing why.

When My twins were young they missed out sitting their sats as we was away on holiday. The day we returned they had to sit their maths sats with their teacher with each of them sitting across the room to each other, he later explained what happened. Oldest looked up staring at twin sister until the other twin looked up they stared at each other for a minute not speaking just looking. Then twin 2 picked up their rubber, He walked over to see what twin 2 was doing the youngest twin was rubbing out an incorrect answer and wrote the correct one. Their teacher said it was the strangest thing he had ever witnessed. Not the only story about twins I have but the shortest. Just to add they both had exactly the same mark.

Love this thread. Here's another.
My late grandmother always had a small black
and white photograph above her bed, given to her by her fellow nurse colleagues on a special occasion in the 50's.
It showed the church where I was christened in the background amongst other local scenery.
My family moved to
another town inc grandmother when I was 6.
I very very rarely return there now, it's quite emotional, had such fond childhood memories and was extremely close to DGM.
On the last occasion I went, drove by all the spots I remembered.
On my way out of town saw an antique shop on the other side of road.
Kept on driving.
Suddenly had this odd feeling and turned car around.
Walked into the shop.
Propped up inside
entrance was the much bigger print of the photograph above her bed in a beautiful
old frame.
It had just arrived minutes earlier from a house clearance, belonged to
an elderly couple who apparently received it around the same time as a wedding present, both photos are signed by same photographer.
Now both are happily reunited above my bed. 💕

A few years ago I contacted a museum dedicated to Grace Darling, the lighthouse keeper’s daughter who rescued several people from a shipwreck off the Northumberland coast in 1838. One of the rescued crew was an ancestor of mine. I received an email from them saying they had very recently heard from another descendant of the same survivor. The museum put us in touch and I met my second cousin. He lives just round the corner from where my late parents lived.

The day before my partner died his phone stopped working, and he couldn’t get it going.
After he died his brother managed to get it working and a message came through to my phone saying that he’d always be with me in spirit if not in body.
I don’t think it’s anything “woo” though. Just a coincidence.

My teenage dd bought a pair of tartan golfing trews in a charity shop. We are in UK. She decided to wear them a few months later. She pulled out a ticket from a pocket. It was a day trip to Alcatraz with the date and year of her birth. She’s still a bit freaked about that!

The dates of my parents deaths are weirdly symmetrical
Dad died 22/11/11 and Mum died 11/11/22.

My birthday is 2nd January, my mil is 2nd January and my sil is 2nd January.
I am adopted and when I traced my birth parents I found out I was born on my birth mums 20th birthday, 2nd January.
My birth father lives on a road with the same unique name of the village where I live. He shares the same name as my partner.

The other week family was out with DD for the day in a town about 30 miles from where we live. I have a DS as well who lives in sheltered housing. Both have disabilities. They sat on a bench when a complete stranger approached them and asked if my DD was (son's name) sister? She said she used to be 1 of the escorts that took DS to school just thought she looks like him.