The Strange Coincidences Archive

My (American) grandparents lived in Iran during the early ‘50s when they worked for the federal department of agriculture. One night, at a fancy dinner party, they struck up a conversation with a French couple. Eventually, the conversation turned to a nice young American soldier the couple had befriended during World War II a few years ealier. Yes, you guessed it, their friend was my grandparents’ son, my father.

I recently met a guy who was in the company of a few mutual friends. I immediately felt a real affinity with him. I found out later that he has the exact birthday of my ex-husband who I felt this exact same affinity with when I met him.

As our relationship ended cos my ex turned out to be a real psycho, do you think this is a sign that this new guy is sooooooo unsuitable? (I do) Am steering clear of any guy with this birthday!!

About ten years ago, when I was in my early 30s, I was in a bar with a friend discussing how little our looks had changed since we were children. Sure enough, just then someone I thought was a complete stranger walked into the bar and recognized me from elementary school, when we were about eight years old!

My brother, who has lived in England for nearly 30 years, came to visit me in Texas. He couldn’t remember how to find my house so he stopped at a convenience store/gas station near my neighborhood. The clerk commented on his British accent. It turns out that the clerk’s son also lived in England and was the photographer who took the family portrait that my brother had in his wallet!

Like a lot of people, I had boxes of old family photos stored haphazardly under the bed. One Friday night I felt a compulsion to scan then and put them on CDs. I stayed up until nearly 3 a.m. doing this. I made a scrapbook of the photos for my elderly aunt, who lived far away and whom I hadn’t seen in nearly ten years. The day after she got the album, she had a stroke and died.

Just reading these stories, and thinking when was the last time I bumbed in to my number 6 (according to numerology), when I get a call from a customer asking for service on 6th of june at 6pm… go and figure… thought it was funny though

First of all, I am pleased that a site such as this one exists. Since I can remember I have noticed so many coincidences surrounding me. Recently though I have stumbled upon something very strange and I feel it has only just begun.
It starts with a clairvoyant I happened to meet a couple of years ago. She lived in my apartment building. I did not know this until I came to meet her roommate where I worked. Crystal, her roommmate, was hired at the restaraunt where I worked. Temple is the name of the clairvoyant. One night she came over and I ended up asking her a few questions about my love life. I wondered who I should look for. She said that she kept seeing the word “phoenix” and someone with blue eyes.
A year and a half later I was at a going away party for my friend who was going to Costa Rica. My mother was also in town visiting me and came with me to the party. Later that night, my good friend left to get more cigarettes and beer.(routine procedure) This time however she came back and told me she had met someone that she thought I would like. She
said she had been in the convenience store and noticed a guy that she thought would like to come out to the party. After they talked a moment they realized that they had a small connection. This guy was living with an old roommate of hers(my friend’s) So he came out to the party and she introduced me to him. I found him attractive but really thought nothing of it. Well, some how or another this guy kept popping up in my life. Such as his best friend working as a dj in my bar where I bartend. We ended up seeing eachother and one night I looked at a tatoo on his shoulders. It was a tatoo of the phoenix!
Oh, and he has blue eyes. But that is not all. We went on a trip together to California. I told my mother and she said that she happened to be in Phoenix, AZ while we were there! And I noticed many other things related to the phoenix on the trip. I am lost in so many
coincidences right now I don’t know what to do! I must be on the right track! Sorry so long!

This happened to a friend and I about 10 years ago. We were both about 17.

My friend used to record music videos off the tv and we would watch them when we were bored. One day we were watching one of these tapes and it was playing the song “Return of the Space Cowboy” by Jamiroquai. After the song finished we stopped the video and turned the TV on to the music video channel. A song was playing (that was NOT Return of the Space Cowboy.) But when the title of the song came up it did indeed label the song as Return of the Space Cowboy by Jamiroquai! But it was a completely different song!!! My friend and I freaked!

There are a LOT of factors at play in this coincidence. Consider:

We turned the video off only seconds before the video displayed the wrong labelling. The videos are hardly ever titled wrong. The title happened to be the exact video we were just watching.

In 1981…
Prince Charles got married
Ken and Deirdre got married (Coronation Street)
There was a new Doctor Who
Liverpool finished fifth in the League
Liverpool won 17 league games
Norwich were relegated
Crystal Palace were relegated
Liverpool won the European Cup

In 2005…
Prince Charles got married
Ken and Deirdre got married (Coronation Street)
There was a new Doctor Who
Liverpool finished fifth in the League
Liverpool won 17 league games
Norwich were relegated
Crystal Palace were relegated
LIVERPOOL WON THE EUROPEAN CUP!!!!

Not my coincidence but still very strange!

A couple of weeks ago, I was in a town called Hexham (25 miles away from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne), I needed to buy a gift for a friend who was about to embark on a year’s travel, I could have bought the gift in Hexham, however, the shop I wanted to look in didn’t open until 10am and it was 9.30. I could have gone for a coffee and waited, but a thought in my head kept nagging me to go shopping in Newcastle…......so I got in my car and drove the 25 miles and wandered around, bought the gift and decided to have an early lunch before returning home. The cafe I went to is a wholefood cafe called “Supernatural”, after ordering and sitting down, I thought I recognised a woman from Leeds (I used to live there 8 years ago). Feeling strange, I decided to approach the woman and sure enough, it was someone I had met at a party about 9 years ago at a friend’s house, she asked me how our mutual friend was and unfortunately, I had to break the bad news that she had died two years ago. The biggest coincidence is that when we sat down to talk, we found that we had both been reading the same book that week – “The Celestine Vision” by James Redfield, it is a book which recognises coincidences and encourages you to acknowledge them and grow and learn from them.

Since then, I have been having more coincidences like seeing a car similar to a friends car three times in a row which made me decide to ring her and finding out that she was about to ring me at that moment.

I love coincidences and am finding that they can be life-enhancing.