The Strange Coincidences Archive

This was taken from the Feb 11th edition of Arab News:

Fistfight Leads to Family Discovery

JEDDAH, 11 February 2006 ? Two young men who started a fistfight following a road accident on King Khaled Street, near the Sudanese
Consulate, did not know they were brothers with same father and different mothers. According to Al-Watan, the traffic police found that
the young men?s father was same while investigating the case. The father
had married another woman secretly some years ago. The two hugged each
other and relinquished their claims after the surprise reunion.

Once a man was struck by lightning in front of a cafe in France. The chances of this happening was one in 600,000. The strange thing was that his father and grandfather had both been struck by lightning in front of the SAME CAFE!

Once a man was walking down the street wearing a jacket that he had inherited from his dead brother who had been shot in the jacket a few years before. This man was then shot through the exact same bullet holes made in the jacket when his brother was killed. He also died.

occasionally , I will open the word processor on my computer and type
out all the things that are annoying me as a way of venting. I never save the document. Last week I did this and typed how how I thought human existence was pointless. The next day at work my co worker starts this conversation with me about the “pointlesness of it all” life that is.
Now my computer was not on the internet,I did not save the document,and
this person does not have access to the computer which is in my home.
This freaked me out a bit, I think I am under spiritual attack and this person is being used in that attack.

I am 82 years young,about six months ago,give or take I noticed that almost every time I looked at the clock it registered 2:22 or 11:11 and so on, I even woke up at 2:22am one morning and I started thinking this is too coincdental so mentioned it to a friend who said this was the first time anyone had ever mentioned anything ike this happening to them,I am wondering if any more people using your web site have had this or a similar experiance….
Marg Locking

I reluctantly took my mother who was visiting Canada for several weeks to see Billy Connolly (British comedian), live at the Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton. I had not pre purchased tickets so was hurrying to the box office in order to secure a pair of the remaining ‘door sales.’ I must add that my mother has never heard me swear (or is in denial) so I was not thrilled on sitting next to her at a Billy Connolly show as he is prone to using the f___ word constantly. Anyway, my wife couldn’t make it and happened to mention that her mum and husband were also attending that night and had previously purchased tickets. As I approached the box office, a lady offered me two tickets at face value. I refused at first but she explained that she had to cancel and was in a hurry to leave. Since she was obviously not a ticket tout, I accepted the offer for these excellent ‘gold’ seats.
As the theater filled up and showtime approached I could not see my mother in law in the crowd but I did have two empty seats to my left and my dear old mum on my right. As the curtain rose and and Billy said something like ‘It’s F__king COLD in Canada’, my mother in law sat down in the seat to my left. Since this show was practically sold out aside from seats about 30 rows back and one story up I can safey say it was another of a long list of coincidences I endure constantly. :)

When we went to Disneyworld, we stayed on a street called Buena Vista. A few weeks later, we bought a condo and coincidently, was on Buena Vista ave. 3.5 yrs later, we moved into a house and the neighborhood ( we didn’t know it at the time ) is called Buena Vista…. WEIRD!
We moved again and this time, NO BUENA VISTA!!!

usually when i go on vacation, i leave my expensive Omega watch at home and wear my “cheapo” timex watch.
So as i was getting ready to slip on my timex watch, i noticed it had stopped. ( This watch NEVER stops ) The time was showing a few hours “old” so it was apparent it had stopped some time before.

So not having enough time to deal with a new batery, i left it at home.

When i came back from vacation, i noticed the watch WAS WORKING again with the CORRECT time!

CREEEEPY!

I was once at a music festival called Glastonbury in England. For those who don’t know about it, at this time there would have been about 200,000 or more people there. I was sitting listening to a band, when I heard my name shouted really loud, from someone behind me. I looked round and there was the person who had shouted it. He didn’t shout anything else, and I didn’t know who he was. He must have found something funny in the magazine he was reading. I looked at the cover and saw that it was the local festival magazine. There were many copies around, so I picked one up to look through it. In the messages section I was suprised to find a message from an ex-girlfirend of mine, called Sarah, to me! Saying she hoped that I was having a good time, and maybe we could meet up later in the weekend. I would probably never have looked if the guy hadn’t shouted. There were only a handful of messages in the magazine anyway, and there was really no-reason for Sarah to expect or need to contact me. We were not that close at this time. It did give me a warm feeling, though. Quite beautiful. Hi Sarah!

My mother and my wife had ths same birthday.
My wife’s oldest brother and my oldest brother have the same birthday.
My wife’s youngest brother, my oldest brother’s son and I all have the same birthday.

My wife died 5 months ago,
I became disabled 5 years ago due to a brain aneurysm that happened 5/22/01 22 yards from an off ramp, my wife and I had been married 5 years and my sister’s birthday is 10/22.

Her name is Deanna, My wife’s older brother is named Jerry Allen Medinas, my name is Jerry Allen and his daughter’s name is Deeann.

I had a large faded brown birthmark in the middle of my right arm it disappeared on my wedding day and a smaller bright red birthmark appeared on my wedding day. On 7/1/3, my birthday is 7/31 it disappered.