Any strange coincidences people?

[Rainbow123]

When I was about 13 I went on holiday in the south of France and met these three lads from Essex. I’m from Yorkshire.
About 2 years later I went on holiday to Florida and bumped into the three same lads in the queue for a water slide at wet and wild.

 

[TommyTBFC]

Looked at this forum but couldn’t find any.

I once had a unbelievable coincidence once and it’s 100% true & id like to hear yours!!

on a particular hectic week we had booked a holiday to Newquay but had to attend a wedding in the Yorkshire Dales on the Saturday. So on Friday we made the long trip up north but not before a spot of breakfast in a cafe. At the table at the side of us was a young couple with a small baby who we didn’t take much notice of but I picked up the babies dummy when she’d dropped it.
They left and so did we afew minutes after.

about 3 hours into the journey we decided to have a break and nip into McDonald’s in a service station. And about 3 tables down from us, was the young couple from breakfast earlier! We noticed one another and smiled in acknowledgement. Anyway it gets weirder!!
We finished our trip and we’re stopping at my husbands uncles house in a small Yorkshire dale village called Kettlewell as the wedding was in a neighbourhood village, anyone who knows Kettlewell will know its remote and not much there, we nipped into the local pub for tea and guess who walks in? Yes the young couple from earlier! Absolutely unbelievable! Turns out they lived up there and it was their favourite pub. We are still close family friends now!

anyone else have any??

 

[FaLaLaLaNahLer]

I won’t say the name, but there’s a very common name that my parents used to say they would’ve used if they had a son. I always loved the name too & named one of my large, grandmother made, Cabbage Patch like dolls this name. Fast forward 14 yrs & I met a handsome man...turns out that’s his name. Wasn’t a surprise, since again so common. About 10 yrs into marriage I came across the birth certificate from that doll. Turns out my husband & the doll not only had the same 1st name, but also the same middle name! That was a bit eerie to see. I was all of 11 when I named the doll.

 

[Annie101]

when i was 11 a boy in my class came to visit me at home with his BMX and dropped of love letter. I was very innocent and took no interest in him.
We never saw each other again after age 12. I never got married and had a fabulous life going out with my gay male friends. One night in a gay bar a man ((his brother) walked over to me and asked me if i am Annie. I said yes and he told me his brother was so in love with me as a child. So 28 years later, he was living in another city, flew to my town and knocked on my door without knowing if i am married or if i have kids. We have never been apart since and we have been married for 1 year.

 

[Bobinsky]

As a young teenager, i once shoplifted a lipgloss that was in a pack of 3. On christmas day morning, I unwrapped a pack of the same lipglosses as a present off my mum.. only one was already missing

 

[Sandra_1984]

Some of these are so freaky. Small world! Love love love reading these!!

I did just remember something which could be a coincidence, or something else.

I found out in May that I was pregnant, total surprise as our youngest child is almost 10. Every time I facetimed my mum who lived back home in England, she constantly asked if I was pregnant. So when I told her I was, she laughed. She was seriously unwell for many years so was delighted and wanted to know the gender. I got an early gender scan on August 1st, told her on August the 2nd that the baby is a girl (due this week ahhh!) and my lovely mum passed away on August 3rd

But that's not where the coincidences are. Since she's passed, lights are always filickering wherever I go. When I saw her in the mortuary the light above her was flickering and then at her wake, now all the time I'm back in Australia the lights are always flickering, even my Christmas tree ones.

Anyhow, we recently moved into a much bigger house and it was so empty so I needed to buy some new sofas to fill spaces. I went to a shop called early settler which had some gorgeous sofas, but even at half price, they were out of my price range. I'd put two different sofa suites on my wish list and then forgot about them. Checked facebook marketplace and someone was giving away a 2 seater and 3 seater sofa for free. It was one of the ones on my wish list. So we collected, gave the old owners wine as hate taking things for nothing. Happy as Larry.
Checked facebook marketplace a few days later and there was the other sofa on my wish list, for sale for $100 (about 50 quid!) instead of the $4600 shop price. It was in my suburb too so messaged immediately. The people selling lived along the same rural road as me and when I went to collect it, they were selling as were about to move back to England.

I think my shopaholic mama has been helping me get second hand bargains from the afterlife! So not so much as a coincidence but more wooowooo.

 

[Lolarose19]

My MIL was adopted when she was baby. A couple of years ago her adoptive mother was In hospital after having surgery. In the bed next to her was her birth mother after having the same surgery.

 

[lipsticktaser]

I've googled people, or looked up people from my past on facebook etc, then the next day they've died.
Happened 4 times. My friends now joke when they're having a tough time 'oh why don't you just google me and this will be over'.

 

[Mrs Cucumber]

When I was pregnant with my youngest, we hadn't found out the sex, I was in a lift in town with my mum and this old lady and her husband came in, the lady glanced at my bump and said to my mum, are you looking forward to having a granddaughter? We just laughed, 6 weeks later I popped out my daughter!!

 

[Itsallaboutmememe]

My parents went on holiday once and met another couple
we have an unusual surname but not so unusual first names
this couple not only had the shortened version of our surname-they also had the same names as my parents
their birthdays where the same months as my parents
if that wasn’t odd enough im the eldest and only girl
I have 3 brothers (last two are twins)
this couple had 4 kids-one girl three boys (not twins tho) who had the same names as us!and we where the same ages!
id just had a baby girl and named her-their daughter had her heart set on the same name (one letter different in babies middle name-think Louisa/Louise)for her baby who was due 2 months after me popping mine out
then (just to really freak my dad out some more) my parents live in a street that is named after a village about 30 miles from where they live I.e 60 village street
this couple lived in this village-and had the same house number

My dad was that freaked out he refused to ever speak of it again
my mother stayed in touch and she meets up with them every Christmas!

 

[Pesky Tarian]

My dads a lovely chap and on the day I was born he went out and bought all the local and national newspapers, kept them and gave them to me when I turned 21. On the front page of the first one.. none other than my husband who was rescued from a house fire by a kindly neighbour as a baby (Oddly his parents had never told him !)

 

[NapQueen]

Met two Danish brothers in a Belgian festival, got a drunken photo with them and thought nothing of it.

Four months later, I’m in another festival in Croatia and they’re camped in the tent literally next to us. Showed them the photo of us together and we’ve been good friends ever since.

 

[JustHereForTheAgriculture]

My grandmother has 13 grandchildren. The oldest and the youngest share the same birthday. It’s on the 13th.

 

[Milliehaha123]

Not mine sadly but a friends!
my friend was in blockbusters (back in the day) in Manchester picking a video for her and her then (new) boyfriend. She got talking to a guy next to her who recommended her a film and she decided to go with it. Went back- apparently the film was absolutely awful and almost like a soft porno! Said it was so awkward watching it with a new partner

fast forward two years she’s living in London and posting a letter at a letterbox. She arrives at the box at the same time as a guy- looks at him and recognises him as the video man! Says to him that film was rubbish btw and he said yeah I know sorry

they went on a date that night and they’ve been married for over ten years now

 

[Aromatic_bitters]

I went to a tiny Primary school in Wales, 10-12 pupils in a year...it was lovely. Anyway there were twin boys In the year above me and I never really saw them again past the age of 13.

Fast forward to my early 20’s I went inter railing around Europe , went to see the Berlin Wall and a small museum adjacent. You can sign a guestbook as you’re leaving, I happened to flick back a day and the last entry was from the twins I went to Primary school with. So bizarre!

 

[HappyFox]

I moved down to North London for my first job after uni. I wasn’t earning much so decided to get a weekend job in a pub to get me out at the weekends and earning a bit extra.
Someone posted on a local FB group that the pub at the bottom of my road were hiring - perfect! No travel costs either.
I drop my CV / letter of application round and the landlord rings me that evening and asks if I’ve applied as a joke? “No, why?”
Turns out we were from the same small town in the north west of England and his daughter worked at the same place as me
Fast forward 3 years, I’ve got married and myself and my husband decide we need to move further up north so we can afford a family home. We move to a small village and I start working at the local secondary school. I get chatting to one of the other teachers and he says he is leaving in the summer as his father in law owns a pub in London and he wants to retire so they are going to run it for him..... you’ve guessed it... that same tiny (and I mean tiny!) pub I worked in when first teaching, with his FIL being my old boss crazy!

 

[Paxobeans]

my next door neighbour and best friend moved to Aus with her family when we were about 5/6. Saw her a few times over the years (she always called round when they visited the uk- her grandparents lived in the same village still)
Fast forward to uni, I was chatting to an Australian girl on my course (really specific masters degree in the north of England, with about 13 people enrolled), mentioned my neighbours name.. turns out she lived next door to them in Australia! So spooky!

 

[PurpleRox]

Not sure if this counts
But I was on holiday in St Lucia, one night my boyfriend woke me up as he said I was crying hysterically in my sleep
I said to him I had a dream my mum died and her ghost was sitting on the sofa
Anyway I grabbed my phone to call back to the uk
Got no answer
When I finally got through the next day my dad said my mum had had a car accident and was taken to hospital- it was the same night. Had to be cut out the car - thankfully not hurt just shaken up
I still think of it time to time as I couldn’t believe it.

 

[lurkingaround123]

This is super weird but.

I was on a cruise with my dad and brother, got in a lift to go down to the restaurant and this old couple got in. It absolutely STANK of poo when we got in, i looked in the old mans hand and he had poo in it wrapped in a napkin I can communicate with my brother with just my eyes so i showed him where to look and he was like , my dad we just told once they'd left. We spent the rest of the holiday in hysterics over it. On the ship they take constant photos of everyone and then display them in a gallery to buy, so we made a point of always finding their photo too (don't know why we just have a weird sense of humour)

Cut forward about 6 months, I get a notification on Facebook saying ' **** has liked your photo', clicked the profile as i didnt know the name and it was the couple from the lift!!!!!!!!. I was in a fit of laughter on the drive for about 30 minutes unable to speak, rang my dad and showed him and my brother to double confirm it was them. They were mutual friends with my best mate who i also lived with at the time.

Managed to pull myself together and went in the house, later on i asked her in conversation who **** was, and she said my nan.


I have been in a lift, in a boat on the south coast of Europe with my best mates grandparents holding a poo. What are the chances of that

 

[Be More Pacific]

I had three in relatively quick succession when I was young, free and single.

I'm from Cheshire originally and, years ago, at my work Christmas do at a hotel in town, there were some guys up from Oxford on a conference. I ended up spending the night with one of them in his room. Left really early in the morning and didn't swap numbers or anything (first one night stand I'd ever had)

Four months later, I go to Blackpool on a work piss up weekend and the first bar we walked into (Yates' ) I see the lad from Oxford on a balcony. I completely freaked out. My mate kept saying "it can't be him" but I was convinced it was. Anyway, he was also at the club we went to later and she just marched up to him and asked him if he'd been at that hotel at Christmas time. He said yes. And then she introduced us (again) We has a quick chat but there was no repeat performance When we got back to our room, me & my friend were just lying on this double bed repeating "what are the chances of that?" (we were both big Harry Hill fans at the time)

A few months later, I had a bad breakup and it gave me the push to move to a new town in the Midlands miles away into shared house. There was still one spare room and, the week after I moved in, a girl from North Wales starts renting the other room. Anyway, it turned out, she not only knew my ex but had been best mates with his sister all the way through school! There were a few coincidences surrounding the new job I moved for too - the interview was at a football stadium (as my new employer sponsored the ground) and my ex had laid the turf there, after the interview, I got a fax through to me at my existing job from a customer but it was addressed to me with my new employers name underneath (by mistake) and then one of the guys in the office had been to a roadshow and walked in one day with a bag big with my new employers name on it. The same mate from Blackpool was convinced they were all signs I should take the job

Finally, before I moved, I'd gone out in Liverpool (with the same mate) and had a one night stand back at her place on the Wirral with a really hot lad from Liverpool. I'd stupidly agreed to drive him home in the morning which took me hours out of my way. Met his mum briefly when she opened the door, looked me up and down and said "so you're the reason he didn't come home last night" Fast forward a year and I'd gone in my new town and started chatting with a lad from Liverpool. He asked if I knew anyone from Liverpool and I jokingly mentioned this one night stand's nickname and the lad said "I know him". Told him I didn't believe him but he then reeled off his full name, where he lived, with his mum, and where he went out most weekends. Next day, I rang my mate and said "I met this lad from Liverpool last night...." and straight away, she said "He doesn't" and I was like "yep". Cue more "what are the chances of that happening" ad Infinitum