Any weird coincidences when books cross over into real life?

[HarderToKidnap]

Sorry for clumsy title.

I was reading a book recently, a scary book. The hero has to go to a house where the scary ghost lives. The house in the book is the house next door to the one my mum grew up in, although its fictional. I.e. my mum grew up at 12 Moorton parade in Fulham, and this book was set at 14 moorton parade in Fulham, but no 14 didn't actually exist. The road, the shop, the park etc are all described exactly as they really are. The book was set at the time my mum was living in the house too!

Weirdly, my mum always swore blind this house was haunted, and also some weird shit happened there wrt to her parents... They sort of lost it, went mad and did some seriously fucked up and horrible stuff to her and my aunt. My mum always said there was a malign influence in the house.

So, has book life ever crossed over into your real life?

Clearly the book was written by someone who lived in the same area and/or heard of the same haunted house story as your mum.

Am I missing something?

Years ago, when I was at school, a friend bought Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith Towards the end there is a date and time given as the moment when the events of the story effectively started. By the weirdest of coincidences, that's when my friend bought the book - he had the receipt to prove it!