The Strange Coincidences Archive

i was randomly repeating the word “please” for fun.then when i turned to face my storybook(still saying the word “please”, mind you),the first word i saw was “please”

Another weird coincidence happened to me three hours ago. I have quite an unusual surname and moved from UK to rural France about 9 months ago. Today myself and my wife went to see our lawyer about a problem we have. When we arrived and announced ourselves his secretary looked nonplussed but showed us into the waiting room. Sitting there was a man and his wife, also with the same name as us. They had made an appointment with the same lawyer on the same date at the same time as us. They are from UK and have just moved over here – they live about 40 miles from us and the lawyers office is about half way between. And today is my birthday!!

man some of these are pretty freaky.

well ive got one that might freak some out a bit, but honest to god its the truth.

the night of sept 10 2001 i fell asleep normally. but the dream i has wasn’t. i dreamt that there were terrorists had taken over 4 jumbo jets just near where i live now. then they started to transfer between the planes (keep in mind it’s a dream:P). and in the end, they all crashed just over the gatineau hills (i can see them from my house).

the next day as me and my brother were walking down our .5km drive way to wait for the bus i told him all of this. he didnt think anything of it, like me, until i heard about the WTC attack that happened later that day.

My ex boyfriend was Portuguese tech support worker who still lived with his mom and 8 year old sister…He owned a strange necklace he claimed was the only one of its kind. It was a piece of round glass with a translucent picture of an eye. He got me a laptop for my birthday, then asked me to pay $250 to him for it because he couldn’t afford payments on it.

Three years after I broke up with him, I met a nice guy at a party. On the first date we had, I learned the following about him: He is a portuguese tech support worker currently living with his mom and 8 year old sister.The next week he took me to his dad’s autoshop. Hanging on the wall, there was that exact same round eye necklace my ex had…He also asked me if I could give him $250 because he was broke.

Now this makes me wonder: Is there a secret organization of Poor Portuguese Tech Support Workers that consistently scam their girlfriends into giving them $250? Or was it all just a strange coincidence?

This morning (21/09/06) I was contacted by telephone by my son who is traveling round the world and is presently in Newcastle, Australia. I live in the UK. After 20 minutes or so into the conversation I happened to glance at a crowded bookshelf and saw novel about the ancient British Queen Boudicca, which had been bought by my wife a couple of months ago. I picked it up whilst still in conversation with my son. At this point I asked him what he was presently reading. He said he was reading a book about Boudicca which he had picked up in New Zealand a couple of weeks ago. It turned out to be the same book that I had selected from the shelf before I had asked him what he was reading! Needless to say, I was amazed by this strange coincidence.

A friend of mine Stuart used to work in Portugal as a time share salesman. He shared an apartment with another guy who worked for the same company, his flatmate was from Spain and he knew him only by his nickname Maz.

At Christmas Maz was going to see his girlfriend and who lives in the UK. Stuart decided that instead of going to the UK to see his family he would stay in Portugal for the festive season.

On Christmas day Maz called Stu and wished him all the best.

When Maz returned he proudly shown all his Christmas pic to Stu the pics were with his Girlfriends family. When Stu looked at them he realised that the people in the photos were his Mother Father and Sister. Maz’s girlfriend was Stuarts sister and niether of them knew it.

John and Arthur Mowforth were twins who lived about 80 miles apart in Great Britain. On the evening of May 22, 1975, both fell severely ill from chest pains. The families of both men were completely unaware of the other’s illness. Both men were rushed to separate hospitals at approximately the same time. And both died of heart attacks shortly after arrival.

Childhood Returned
While American novelist Anne Parrish was browsing bookstores in Paris in the 1920s, she came upon a book that was one of her childhood favorites – Jack Frost and Other Stories. She picked up the old book and showed it to her husband, telling him of the book she fondly remembered as a child. Her husband took the book, opened it, and on the flyleaf found the inscription: “Anne Parrish, 209 N. Weber Street, Colorado Springs.” It was Anne’s very own book.

The Vengeful Bullet
Henry Ziegland thought he had dodged fate. In 1883, he broke off a relationship with his girlfriend who, out of distress, committed suicide. The girl’s brother was so enraged that he hunted down Ziegland and shot him. The brother, believing he had killed Ziegland, then turned his gun on himself and took his own life. But Ziegland had not been killed. The bullet, in fact, had only grazed his face and then lodged in a tree. Ziegland surely thought himself a lucky man. Some years later, however, Ziegland decided to cut down the large tree, which still had the bullet in it. The task seemed so formidable that he decided to blow it up with a few sticks of dynamite. The explosion propelled the bullet into Ziegland’s head, killing him

Twin Boys, Twin Lives
The stories of identical twins’ nearly identical lives are often astonishing, but perhaps none more so than those of identical twins born in Ohio. The twin boys were separated at birth, being adopted by different families. Unknown to each other, both families named the boys James. And here the coincidences just begin. Both James grew up not even knowing of the other, yet both sought law-enforcement training, both had abilities in mechanical drawing and carpentry, and each had married women named Linda. They both had sons whom one named James Alan and the other named James Allan. The twin brothers also divorced their wives and married other women – both named Betty. And they both owned dogs which they named Toy. Forty years after their childhood separation, the two men were reunited to share their amazingly similar lives