The Strange Coincidences Archive

My name is Brian from central Texas. This summer my wife and I took our kids to Disney World in Florida along with my parents, my brother and his son. Our first day in Florida we went to the Disney theme park. As we were sitting in a smoking area (in a corner where they usually stick us…lol), my brother looked past me and said, “That looks like Uncle Jerry!” I turned around, and there was my Uncle Jerry and his entire family!

What is so strange about this is that they are from Minnesota (and as I stated, we are from Texas). Neither side of the family had any idea that we were going to Disney! My father was walking into a restroom and his brother, Jerry, was walking out of the same restroom! They just happened to see each other. It was our first day there and their last day. We couldn’t believe it!

I’d been living in London for ten years. My father had said that he had a cousin, Gordon, living there. He didn’t know where. I worked at Trafalgar Square and caught the same bus at the same time to Streatham and had done so for four years. This day I was first in the bus queue. A bus came along it was nearly full and the conductor said one only. The seat was for upstairs. Smoking in those days. I went up top and sat next to this man. The conductor asked for my fare so I told him. When he’d gone the man next to me said “Are you a Geordie.” I am and at the time spoke with a strong accent. We got talking. Anyway to cut a long story short, this man was my Father’s cousin. I’d love to know the chances of this happening. When I told my Father he was amazed.

I am a retired police officer. One summer morning in 1979 I was on duty in the middle of Manchester, England. The time was 5.30am. A young man approached me dressed in an army type overcoat, jeans and trainers. He spoke with an American accent. He asked if there was an all night cafe open. With curiosity, I asked him how he came to be in Manchester. He explained that he was a soldier stationed in Germany and had hitch-hiked from there to attend a Christian meeting at Manchester University. He told me he lived in Morris Plains, New Jersey. I asked him if he had heard of the Reverand John Walsh. He said, “He’s dead” I said yes I know. I explained to him that just a few days previously my family and I had met his widow. The Rev John Walsh Memorial Handbell Ringers were on a weeks visit to the school that our daughter attended. The soldier told me that this was his first visit to England and I was the first person in this country he had had a conversation with. Small World!

Hi, I had a strange coincidence when I was in my car and I prayed for angels to be with me through out the day. Once I prayed, (my radio that does not work,) worked perfectly. Music flowed beautifly on each channel but the strange thing was, when the music came through the song played was “In the Arms of an Angel.”

Last month I was really stressing about money. My child support check was over two weeks late and I was not getting any answers to where the money was from the enforcement bureau. I work the night shift and one day when I woke up after getting some sleep in the morning, my daughter told me that the phone was not working. I picked up the phone and sure enough, there was no dial tone. I got out the phone book and tried to find the number for telephone repair as I figured I would just call them to report it on my cell phone. I could not find the number in the phone book, I called information on my cell phone and they gave me the wrong number. So that’s when I went into my room and started digging through a box of unfiled paperwork, receipts, old bills, etc.. to locate a previous phone bill and they would have the trouble line on it to call. As I was digging through this mountain of paperwork, I saw an envelope from Child Support that had the edge torn !
off. I picked it up and it felt like there was something in it. I tore the envelope completely open and there was a check that had been sent to me the previous February. Wow, I hit the jackpot and how could I have missed that check. I must have gathered it up with a bunch of old mail one day when I was picking up and the check got mixed with all the old mail. I looked at the date and luckily for me, there was still another month to go before the check was no longer valid. I was amazed and shaking over my good fortune. I stuck the check on my dresser and continued to dig through the paperwork to find an old phone bill. As I was doing this the phone rang. I picked it up. No one was there, but, there was a dial tone and my phone was back in service.

This is a bit strange and came to my sudden realization one evening while thinking about some facts I had run across in some reading I had been doing….It’s personal but see if you can see all the tie-ins…..for me it was a shock and still when I think about it too heavily…a little scary.

I was born in May 1960 in Saint Albans, WV. I was delivered caesarean.

Accordingly, my Zodiacal symbol is Gemini. In Roman culture to be delivered caesarian was, for some reason called, being “born of the wolf”. The sign of Gemini is represented by the twins, Romulus and Remus, that were raised by wolves….and by incredible happenstance I was nicknamed Remus in junior high school…a nickname that I’m still known by today. Strange nickname, huh?

Anyway,The legend holds that Romulus and Remus…after being “born of the wolf” so to speak-went on to a greater life from such small beginnings-Romulus founding Rome and Remus founding a town in the Alba Hills from which came the name of the Catholic saint-Saint Albans-the name of the town where I was born and raised. So let’s see if I can make this more clear…

1-Born in May, birth sign-Gemini

2-born Caesarean, Romulus and Remus (Born of the wolf nicknamed Remus in Junior High School.

3-Lived in Saint Albans, Remus founded a town in the Alba Hills (from which came the name-Saint Albans

The rest of the story goes that Remus had built a “castle” with hidden walls and secret hallways…and he would have his soldiers hide in the walls and bang their shields with their swords, making crashing echoes-indistinguishable from thunder and some trick of light to mimic lightning and would exalt himself as more powerful than God and would claim to be able to make Him cease the storm. Upon learning of this subterfuge, his subjects set upon him in revolt and killed him. No synchronicity there in my life other than the fact that I have always felt an affinity for storms and lightning-experimenting with high voltage coils (Tesla coils,etc.)...I don’t know if I’ve written this in such a way that it brings with it any of the astonishment that came during the period of its rising to the surface but it still fascinates me that so many coincidences pack themselves together like this..virtually-to the point of my silently expecting something more to come of it.

Beginning around ten years ago, I have been repeatedly told that I have a very “bad mouth”. Here is why.

Around ten years ago, I owned a nice big sedan which was a few years old. One day I told my boyfriend that I would probably need to replace the car in another year or two, given the distance I had to drive to work. We went window shopping for cars that evening just for entertainment. I test drove a car that I really liked but explained to the salesman that I was not yet in the market for another car.

The next day, my boyfriend picked me up from work in my car. On our way home, my car caught fire in the middle of the freeway in the middle of rush hour. No one was hurt, but firefighters had to scrape the tire rubber off the pavement. It burned to a crisp. That evening we went back to the car salesman and bought the car that I test drove the night before.

This second car served me well for two years. Two years after I purchased it, while again driving home with my boyfriend, I forgetfully mentioned that this car, too, would need to be replaced in another year or so. We were stopped peacefully at an intersection waiting for the red light to change to green, when we were violently rear-ended by another car whose driver claimed he did not even see us. I believed him because there were no screeching sounds prior to the collision. Later in the emergency room, my boyfriend reminded me that two coincidences had occurred after talking about getting rid of my cars.

Another year later, while typing on my sturdy electric typewriter at home, I decided to take a break for a while. I went to the kitchen and told my boyfriend that we should think of getting a newer model typewriter. He just glared at me but I laughed it off. I went back to my typewriter and it had stopped working. I had to buy a new one.

A few weeks ago I was telling a friend of mine that one day I’ll need to get a new washer and dryer. We then proceeded to meet my boyfriend for lunch, where he announced that the dryer had given up the ghost earlier that day.

My computer is just fine and I’ll never replace it.

My favorite saying is “coincidences do not happen coincidentally.”

You experience them and then we try and figure out what they are telling us or drawing us to. I believe the more in tune we are to these coincidences the easier it becomes to acertain where they are leading us.

A recent example being, I had ended a long term relationship last year and it has taken just about that long to mend the hurt. After six months I re-entered the dating arena but even after 9 – 10 dates with different men I was still struggling with never finding Mr. Right…and if I did happen upon him would I be willing to let down those guards I had built up getting over the last hurtful relationship. As it goes, I met someone who I was intrigued with but wasn’t willing to take that big dive. I prayed for a sign or signal something to show me that I should move in the direction that would make me the happiest in the long run.

Here’s where this coincidence comes in…I wore a watch my ex had bought me years ago (the only nice thing I think he ever gave me)
The morning after I had had this mental dialogue with myself (show me a sign) I looked at the face of this watch…..it had completely turned half way around so that the 12 oclock was actually at the 6 o clock position….by the way…..I’m fully in love.

This is about me and a guy that I used to like, and possibly still do. About four years ago we were both at our friend’s birthday party with a lot of people dancing. I had asked to hear K-Ci and JoJo’s song “All My Life.” When the song came on, I grabbed the first guy I could find, coincidently, it was the guy I liked. Since then whenever I hear that song I think of him. Now, he works at Home Depot and every single time I pass his work, “All My Life” comes on the radio. I just thought that was a little strange.

Hi, I have had many strange coincidences involving myself and a man that I have known since I was sixteen. At first glance I knew that he was the one for me and I became very intrigued by him. After about a year I actually began to talk to him the first time. I felt as if we were both almost the same person in the way we spoke to each other. After our first date we heard a song on the radio that stuck in both our minds. The next date occured and that song was played, I thought in my mind how that song reminded me of him, he all of a sudden blurts out that he always thought of me when that song played. That was only the begining of all the strange coincidences. We began to accidently mismatch our socks and notice that we both mismathced the exact same socks. Then at one time we both wore black socks on the same day and neither of us ever wore black socks at any time. Now I know if I am going to see him, I will hear over ten songs on the radio that remind me of him. Usually more the signs I get that I will see him, that usually means I will talk to him for a long time. Those are just small examples on how I will be reminded of him even though we are no longer together. Our relationship has been on and off for three years and we just cannot make it work consistently yet we will always keep in touch. I have always had a bond with him that I can talk to him for hours and have fun with him while doing nothing at all. The boyfriend I have now keeps reminding me of him because he says things that he used to say. Adam was a very unusual guy and that is weird that my boyfriend would ever say anything that he would say. For example my boyfriend has his initials on his license plate, a sticker of where he goes to college and a sticker of where he works out. Every song that I have thought reminds me of him for one reason or another, reminds him of me too. Now that we are with different people, I wonder what all those coincdences are all about. We are still young yet and maybe will be tog
ether someday. Do you have any logical explanation for why I have strange, off the wall coincidences with just ONE individual?