The Strange Coincidences Archive

Meeting myself #1:
In 1980, at age 19, I traveled throughout the US by hitchhiking. I got a ride in Ohio by a nice gentelman who ended up buying me lunch and we spent several hours talking. At one pont he gave me his business card which i slipped into my backpack and forgot all about.

For the next year I traveled and ended up living in California and Oregon. I went back to Philadelphia in mid 1981 and stayed at my mothers house for 2 monthes while I got re-established with work and a place to live. My backpack went into the basemen for storage. I never used it again after that trip.

Some years later I was helping my mother clean out the basement when I cam across the backpack again. I felt something in the flap pouch and rediscovered all the postcards and memorabelia I had collected on that year long hiatus.

While looking through this treasure I came across that mans business card. I knew it was his because I remember that he worked in the air conditioning business. I was shocked to read my full name printed at the bottom of the card “David Wayne McCullough”. He had the same exact name as me and I never knew until years later.

Meeting myself #2:

Sometime around 1985 my sister showed me an old photograph of a young man, my age, dressed in clothing from around the 1890’s. Immediatly I recognized myself and I asked her “how did you do this?”

It turns out she had found this photo in an antique store. For all intensive purposes it looked exactly like me right down to the moustache that curled out on one side and in on the other. This photo was purchased in the same city that my family had lived in for generations but no one could confirm if this had been a relative or not. There is a studio stamped on the photo but I couldn’t find any record of it in that city.

I am English and recently visited my friend in Florida. When paying for a purchase in an out of town shop, the American cashier remarked on my English accent and mentioned that she had been born in England, but that I wouldn’t have heard of the place as it was such a small town. You’ve guessed it… the small town was my home town of Harpenden, about 30 miles north of London. And I live practically next door to the little hospital where she was born. Spooky.

I was counting a bunch of beads for sorting. I had about fifteen groups counted and marked their totals down on paper and added them up, totalled 5,555. I was telling a friend about the total number, and he say’s look at the time, it’s 5:55. About an hour later I was buying some fast food, the total was $5.55. Me being the fifth of 6 siblings, with a numerology # of 5, get a feeling that I have got to play the lottery that night and bet on #5 for sure for one of the numbers. That night the first # drawn was #5, and the mega # was #5 The next day I was telling my friend about the lottery, and everything else that happened (yesterday), and when I spoke of the clock incident, I turned and looked at the clock, and just as soon as I could see it, it changed to exactly 5:00. Very unlikely I agree, but totally 100% accurate and true.

Hey, This to me is weird.
I have a really cool history teacher who I have had for 2 years now. Everyone including others teachers say we are so much a like but what is weird is that when i get a haircut on a weekend and he gets one (That looks the same). But on the weekend i got new school shoes and my mates pointed out that he has got new shoes as well on the weekend. We aren’t related or anything.. But we are a like. Is this weird or just funny…or both??

Please do not include my name or address in this post but could you please forward any replys to me. Thanx

I decided to buy my first brand new bright yellow car in June of 2003. (The reason I’d decided on yellow was because it was bright and maybe less likely to be hit if people could see it.) After having it for barely two months, a driver pulled out in front of me and I slammed right into the back of him. It ended up being his fault, because he hadn’t given signal or checked his blind spot. Even though the car was said to be totalled, they decided to fix this car. I got it back in late September. Just two days ago, I was driving home from Walmart. As I approached this interesction, the light was green, but I just had this weird feeling. It almost felt like a flashback, even though my other accident hadn’t happened in an intersection. I just kept thinking that would suck if a car was turning left in front of me. It happened. A car coming from the opposite direction pulled out in front of me, thinking he had enough time to make it through before I got there. He didn’t. I slammed right into his passenger’s side. Both times in the accidents I was wearing my seatbelt. Both times, the airbags deployed. I wasn’t badly injured either time, just went to the hospital to make sure nothing was broken. This happened to me in this car two times in less than a year? Neither time was my fault, but is this just a little too strange to be a coincidence? Not sure.

I have many coincidences but here are some: This one day me and my sister Laura were driving in the car and we were saying that we have always wanted to see a SUV Limo. Then right as we came over the hill there was a big white one at this old bar. It was nuts. This other time me and Laura talking about my friend Katy and Katy’s favorite song came on the radio.
Have you ever had Telekenetic Energy happen to you before? You know where say you like way up and you are floating? It happens to my sister Laura all the time. I know this isn’t a coincidence, but o well.
I dont believe in coincidences. I think that they happen for a reason.
My sister Laura again was with her boyfriend and his parents house for Thanksgiving. Laura had like this voice come in her head and tell her that something very bad was going to happen to Mike’s father. Mike is Laura’s boyfriend. That he was going to get very ill and possibly die. So Laura told Mike about it and they told his dad. Then the two weeks later the father died of a very bad illness. Strange huh?
Well I have many more strange coincidences but I’m sure this is long and boring so goodbye!
I really want to know more about this kind of stuff so please email me!

Well I have about 20 something from the past 3 months but I’ll just post a few.
One night I had a dream about a lady walking along the roof in turned up shoes. Then in the morning I woke up thinking about it and at breakfast Mum showed me a shoe catalogue with the most hideous turned up shoes. I’ve never seen anything like them for sale til then.

My friend passed away in January 2004 and I had written a script for fun in 2003 about a group of teenagers. It was getting boring so I got one of them to have passed out drinking and was sent to hospital then needed a kidney transplant. I was reading this after my friend had died and I noticed some things. In real life my friend had sacrificed her life for her sister (she held her head above the water but drowned herself). In my script a guy sacrifices his life for the transplant. In real life the drowning started at around 4pm. In my script a friend says ‘so what exactly happened since around 4pm yesterday?’ which is when the guys had started drinking. In real life the funeral was on the news. In the script a character says ‘we might be on the news with all this.’ And finally the story was set just before school started again for the new year. The real life tragedy happened a week before school started…

Lats night I had a dream that my guy friend was dying and today I told him and he showed me a lump on his arm from where he was bitten by a white tailed spider last night.

I asked out my boyfriend then later realised the date I had done that was exactly 6 months since me and my first boyfriend had been going out.

I wrote some songs called “Epic Ending”, “Love Chords” and “With You On the Beach” which now seem appropriate to my friend who drowned.

Well that’s it for now. :)

Whilst working as an apprentice in Swindon (Southwest England), I spent some at the British Rail training school. One day working alone in the sheet metal department, I slipped into a daydream, the daydream was about the training boss Bob who had just been told he was being made redundent and the other apprentices and I wanted to a put a petition together to save him. I suddenly slipped out of the daydream, realised it was teabreak and decided to meet the other apprentices. When I got to them in the turning department they were all crowded together having a discussion, I asked what it was about, one of them said “Bob has been made redundent, we want to put a petition together”. I was working no where near them so I could not have heard any conversations, I find that spooky.

We have one of those play dice at home which makes decisions for you eg:Pub, Washup, Watch TV, Bed, Walk Dog and Work. One day I decided to throw the dice for myself, my wife and four kids for a laugh. I threw the dice six times, each time getting a differnt result,Pub, Washup, Watch TV , Bed, Walk Dog followed by Work. I dont now about coincidences but we found it a bit strange. I was happy, I got Pub.

I WAS IN THE NAVY WHEN I WAS 19.I AM NOW 33.I JUST RECENTLY DECIDED TO JOIN A SUBMARINE VETRANS GROUP.I DOCKED SUBMARINES ON THE RESOLUTE AFDM-10 BACK IN 1992.I WAS LOOKING AT NAVY MEMORABILIA ON E-BAY AND I SAW A PROGRAM FOR SALE SHOWING MY SHIP HAD JUST BEEN DE-COMMISSIONED.I BOUGHT THE PAMPLET FROM E-BAY.I BOUGHT A LARGE WHITE LEATHER BOUND BOOK TITLED“THE NAVY” WHILE WAITING FOR MY E-BAY ITEM TO ARRIVE IN THE MAIL.WHEN I OPENED THE NAVY BOOK…I OPENED IT TO THE “SUBMARINE“SECTION ON ACCIDENT.THERE WAS A PICTURE OF MY SHIP!THE “RESOLUTE AFDM-10”!THEN MY E-BAY ITEM ARRIVED IN THE MAIL.WHEN I OPENED IT UP…IT SAID THE RESOLUTE DOCKED ITS FIRST SUBMARINE ON JANUARY 4TH 1984. MY BIRTHDAY IS JANUARY 4TH!!!!! I WAS BORN JAN 4TH 1971!THEN LAST NIGHT ON PBS(CHANNEL 11)HERE IN CHICAGO A SUBMARINE SPY PROGRAM CAME ON “NOVA”....I HAD TO LEAVE TO MEET A FRIEND…I WANTED TO STAY AND WATCH THE PROGRAM BUT I HAD TO LEAVE QUICKLY SO I PUT A TAPE IN THE VCR TO RECO RD IT WHILE I WAS GONE.WHEN I GOT BACK I I PRESSED PLAY AND BEGAN TO WATCH THE SUBMARINE SPECIAL…AS I WATCHED IT I COULDNT BELIEVE WHAT I SAW:THEY WERE TALKING TO A NAVY SUBMARINE SAILOR NAMED “DAN ROGERS”...MY NAME IS DAN ROGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!