The Strange Coincidences Archive

I was driving home one evening after dark some years ago and noticed a car that seemed to be keeping pace with me. So erring on the side of caution, instead of going straight home, I turned down a side street thinking that the car would not follow. But it did. I then thought to avoid it by turning into a random apartment complex parking lot. So I did and turned the car around. To my surprise, the car turned in and stopped, blocking what I suddenly realized was the only exit. The driver got out of the car and started walking toward me.

I was really spooked by this time, but 3 or 4 seconds after he got out of the car, and before I had a chance to consider what I might do, two large emergency fire trucks suddenly appeared driving up from opposite directions at exactly the same time in a way that was symmetrical to the to the parking lot exit. They stopped with their lights flashing, equidistant on either side of the exit, and and the firemen started to dismount and prepare for some unknown circumstance.

The person who was walking toward me looked around and did a double take. He was obviously surprised and confused. He immediately jumped in his car and quickly drove away.

Years later, I’m still scratching my head over that one. No earthly agent that I know could have known about the developing situation much less have the where-with-all to arrange the arrival of the two fire trucks with such perfectly timed synchronicity. So I am stuck with a most unlikely coincidence.

However, there is that little nagging doubt that says it was just too pat to be a coincidence, and there is this little question that never quit gets formulated but that never quit goes away. Unfortunately, I can do nothing about considering it, and can only let it sit there in the corner of my mind to be noticed every once in a long while.

In 1997 I flew to the USA (from Britain) for the first time, to work on an important journalistic assignment in Roswell, New Mexico (of all places!). While I was away, my colleagues were moving to another office, and we’d all packed our personal effects in crates, having each been given a unique random number to stick on them. My number was 258. When I reached Roswell, I found that the number of my hotel room – “the last room in town”, I was told – was also 258. For months after that, I would keep finding this number cropping up on raffle tickets, lottery tickets and cloakroom stubs. It dawned on me one day that 258 also represents my birthday: I was born in February 1958, or 2/58. I made a friend a couple of years later, who became my best friend, and I later discovered that 258 represents his birthday too: he was born on the 25th of August (25/8, as we write it in Britain). Maybe the Roswell aliens were trying to tell me something!

Just now i was reading some of the coincidences on here- in one a man says he was in he nebraska state pen. His coincidence involved a girl named Errika. Just seconds after reading it, my friend called me- She works at the state pen here in nebraska and found out she is having a baby girl- the name they picked-Erica!! I am no longer a skeptic.

shortly after xmas while at bible study the pastor said there were several ties in the back he didnt want, most were religious, except the one i snatched up, it was an eqyptian tie, pyramids sphynx foreign writing 100% silk, this in itself was so strange to me, cause i know only one egyption, gave this to him with a framed picture, knew nothing about this eqyptian uprising, then it happens, first time ever hearing so much about egypt, a revolution to boot, then later on tv today our president is returning a tie he borrowed from his press secretary since hes leaving,and it was framed in glass so similar to what i gave my friend, this is the weirdest coincidence thats ever happened to me in my long life,he hasnt yet called me about it, this haunts me so much, wish someone could decipher any meaning to this, appreciate any sane response, thx ageroann@yahoo.com.

Today, I woke up and went towards the toilet, as I was a couple of footsteps away, I felt excruciating back pain.
I told my identical twin brother, and he said he had dreamt he was attached to some kind of harness, and it broke, causing him to land on his back and experience back pain.

..I just wrote about evil calling on the phone…..today this shows up in the news….
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41394158/ns/local_news-sacramento_ca/?gt1=43001

..I watched the seventies show rerun, where the dude has got his cousin saying she was adopted, an they could hook up…she’s got a “crush” tshirt on…..about an a hour later on the news, they show a some kind of can of “crush” thats got some kind of thc or drug aimed at kids….

..I look down and see a long bolt…later in the day..in another town..I look down and see the exact kind of bolt laying on the ground..

A guy calls me sayin he’s “evil”..last number of his phone number is 9000, I go play four dollars on the lottery acouple days later, I wanted to play times but only had four dollars…..acouple days later, 9000 people were said to win the lottery by playing four numbers…I just got a call from 9000, 9000 people win the lottery..I play four times….the 9000 people won by pickin four numbers off of lost….acouple days later I got an rent the movie Case39, had no idea what the movie was about…..the movie was about evil callin on the phone…....hmmmmmmm…..a lot of the cowincidences are documented on www.hippledipple.com like I said below, plus I am trying to find a girl to marry that can understand an not be rattled by these cowincidences….there are good cowincidences as there are bad ones…..

..my buddy calls me up in the morning and tells me about a car wreck where a guy sent him down a hill off a highway….later that night a car flys by me, spins out almost hitting me,and lands at the bottom of a hill…..

..a girl tells me of a wreck she was in that a semi went to move over in a lane ,and bumped her car…then her car ended up getting pushed down the street by the semi…the next day, I am driving down the road, and a semi goes to move over, bumps the back of a car and ends up pushing the car down the road just like the girl who told me the story did…..hmmmm

..they are endless…man…endless…but with them comes knowledge of the world we live in…..

go to www.hippledipple.com for alot of the cowincidences I have experienced in the last five or so years…...crazy man…crazy..heres one of the not so good ones in the last couple weeks…..I watched 60 mintues and they showed the shooter of the government official and the video of where the guy lit himself on fire to protest, that the shooter was watchin….an hour later I watched the movie,...“mansion”...and in the part where she was going to get an abortion there was the figure of the Quaker that lit themselves on fire back in history with the war protest on her stomach…the shooter was said to say that things mean nothing as like a cup is not a cup…in the mansion movie the girl on the stand says the same thing…..acouple days later, a man lights himself on fire in Egypt….

My wife and I were driving on the highway in our old beat-up car and we were discussing the car we should think about getting. I thought the new Nissan line was good. She asked what the latest year Nissan Maxima looked like, and just then, I found that we were driving right behind the new Nissan Maxima model, so I said: “Here it is,” we had a good look at it for a good ten seconds. Then I said: “The Altima is the slightly smaller model.” Then the Maxima changed lanes and moved off, and lo and behold, there was the Altima in the next lane. I thought it would be strange if we could see the Sentra next….and wouldn’t you know it, the Altima slowed down for some reason and then the Sentra came into view just in front of us!

The weird thing was they were all black, as if we had just been given an apples-to-apples comparison of the three models by some omniscient Nissan car salesman.

In high school once, I was sitting in a circle with 5 other friends just chatting when the person to my left said: “Hey, don’t you owe me $10?” Sure enough, I had forgotten about it and gave him the money. Then he turned to the person on his left, and said: “Here’s the $10 I owe you.” That person then passed the note to the guy on HIS left; apparently he owed that much, too. And it went around the circle, until it got to the guy on my right. He owed me $10, too! So when he paid me, I still had the $10, but all debts got settled.