The Strange Coincidences Archive

My sister and I were born ten years and some months apart, nothing special there, but there have been several coincidences with us during our lives.
The first one I can remember was when I was in third grade ( I am currently 26). I had to go home with severe stomach cramps, so bad that I was in tears. I was taken to the emergency room, and they could find nothing. That evening, my sister, who was with her husband, stationed in Hawaii (I was in Oklahoma), delivered her son.

The next is also a sort of medically related thing. From the time I was about 5 to about 9 or 10 yrs old, I had epilepsy. I had grand mal seizures relatively regularly. About 6 months after I had, according to several doctors, grown out of this, as childhood epileptics sometimes do, my sister started having seizures, and has them to this day. I’ve had none in 16 yrs.

Also, there are various daily coincidences. When she lived less than 2 miles from me, and even now that she’s over 350 miles away from me, we often find, usually more than once a week, that we’ve made the exact same thing for dinner, stupid little things like that.

So, I’ll let you come to your own conclusion. Were we twins born 10 years apart? Or are these just strange coincidences? :o)

Okay, here’s a good one for all of you :o)
My husband was born on Jan 8

I was born on Feb 8

Our first son was born on Aug 8

Our second son was born at 1:38 PM

Our daughter was born at 10:08 PM

And finally, our last son was born at 8:50 AM

Now, where in the world did all those 8’s come from? This is the honest truth, I promise. I have the birth certificates and marriage license to prove it. I also have submitted a lot of coincidences b/t my sister and I. I hope both of these get posted, and all of you enjoy :)

NO need to post my email again, as I have already allowed it on the first post that I submitted. Thanks! Amanda

This isn’t anything huge, but a coincidence nonetheless.
A couple of weeks ago I was hanging out with some friends listening to music. We also had the TV on, though it was muted. At one point in the song, the singer yells out “NO.” At that precise moment (and I mean, that PRECISE moment), the TV flashed a big “NO” on the screen. Kinda weird, I think.

These sorts of things happen quite a bit, actually. I can’t think of any specific examples… but I know there have been times when I’ve been talking to someone about something, and the TV or Radio almost seems to interact with our conversation. Like one of us asks the other something, and then all of a sudden the dialogue in the movie is an answer to the question. Or someone says something, and then the character on TV says the exact same thing. I don’t know, maybe this sort of situation isn’t such a great coincidence, but I always think it’s funny when it happens.

A friend and I were sitting on a park bench at our
University. Then suddenly, this guy who struck me as rather mysterious appeared
from nowhere. He walked towards the main building that was about a hundred yards
away from us. When he was almost at the front door, I said to my friend, “Hey,
it’s that creepy guy.”

“Who?” my friend asked.

“Ben,” I said, and Ben looked at our direction as if he had heard someone
call him. Then he bowed and continued to walk. I looked behind us to check if
there was anyone there. I found none.“Ooooohhhh…so now you got this radar
thing in your head, huh? Okay, let’s see…one more time.”

He looked for a moment then bowed.

“Okay,” I said. “That’s creepy. Let’s try another one.”

He stopped, turned around and looked straight at our direction.

I never mentioned his name again.

An individual I am friends with has an odd coincidence in
his general life. It appears that every Thursday before he leaves campus the
last person to be with him (who is not leaving campus that weekend) somehow
develops one of his streaks of bad luck. A few examples:

1. My friend used to have bad luck when he drank. Whenever he drank something
bad would happen. One Thursday before he left campus he was drinking with a
friend and that Saturday after my friend was gone his drinking buddy was
drinking once again and got stabbed in the arm. The individual has since had
poor luck whenever he drinks while my friend no longer has any worries involved
with drinking.

2. My friend used to get used and manipulated because of his
kindness. The same Thursday as in my last example he was also with a young lady
who from that point on has been screwed over and manipulated by several guys
while my friend’s luck with ladies has increased.

3. Also the one I have the
strongest conviction too, the Thursday before last I was relaxing with my friend
that Saturday. I picked up one of his streaks of bad luck that he used to attract
psychotic clingy women, since then I have had a young lady that I met that
Saturday who has been like this.

4. Finally my friend’s roommate used to be very outgoing and lucky with girls, after spending a
Thursday before only one of them was leaving with my friend, his roommate has
since been depressed and had very poor luck. This trend has yet to have a flaw
so at this point we’re advising people not to hang out with my friend on
Thursday’s before he is leaving for the weekend.

One night in December 1993, I came home after working late.
I ate dinner and got ready for bed. Before going to sleep, I asked the girl
next to me what she would do if I died of a heart attack in the middle of the
night. It was a strange question, completely out of the blue, and she reacted
to it as such. About four in the morning, I got a phone call. My dad had died
of a sudden heart attack in the night.

I have two coincidences actually:

The first coincidence began one day at work, at about 2p.m. I began to feel that
I needed to leave right then. I wasn’t due to be off of work until 4:30, but I
had a nagging feeling that it was time for me to leave. I asked my boss for
leave and she granted it, so I began my drive home. Imagine my suprise when I
overcame my fiance walking home from his place of employment, when he too
shouldn’t have been off work until 4:30! He had a meeting let out early and was
just walking home for a nap. We happily spent the rest of the day together.

The second coincidence happened at an internship of mine. I’m interning at a
Senior Citizen’s Center and we were cleanig up around the building one day when
we happened upon an album of old postcards and greeting cards. The cards were
dated between 1911 and 1918 and imagine our shock when the very first card we
opened was from the exact date—February 12 only not 2003, but 1913!

In late fall of the late 80s on a bus in Denver, conversing
with a lady, 40ish, the conversation turned to names and we both declared
emphatically that we had rare last names, really rare.

NOTE: While there where then just 59 families in the United States with the
name WEATHERMON that was her and my last name!

One night driving through Times Square, I thought about the
upcoming millenium and wondered about the mass of people that would be occupying
the streets where I was driving. As I thought about this, the DJ on the radio
station I was listening to suddenly gave a “time left until the new year”
countdown, right down to the minute.

In December 1999 I went to see my doctor about getting
pregnant and my doctor told me I couldnt get pregnant, At the same time my
boyfriend’s nan was in hospital dying from cancer and she always nagged us about
when is she gonna be a great grandma. Sadly my boyfriend’s nan passed away on
27–12-99. One week later I went to my local GP’s to get a pregnancy test and to
my excitment I was one week pregnant. We were all shocked and amazed by the
coincidence. Was my daughter my boyfriend’s nan who sadly passed away? And me and
my boyfriend didn’t have sexual intercourse at that time for me to get pregnant,
And my daughter loves everything that her great grandma used to like from the
food to her favourite colour.