Comments on: Top 15 Amazing Coincidences

By: shifty

shifty — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:10:36 +0000

I had a rather vivid dream that i was washing a dead baby. The following day i met my sister and mentioned my dream to her. She told me she just came back from the doctor who told her she had suffered a miscarriage. Neither I nor her knew she was pregnant. It still creeps me out when I think about it

By: xiii

xiii — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:56:51 +0000

Proof that God has a sense of humour….

By: loopyallie

loopyallie — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:10:27 +0000

In 1977 ( I was only a baby then) my mum got a phone call in the night saying that her grandfather had died. She asked which one? Both of them… They both had died in thier sleep around the same time (but in different places) How weird is that both your parents fathers die at the same time?

Another one, my friend#s birthday is on the same day as her two brothers on consecutive years…

By: Twirly

Twirly — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:05:43 +0000

I’ve heard the one about the guy with the bullet in the tree was fake.

Also, my husband got put on the no-fly list once because someone with his name first, middle, and last name AND his name birthdate was meant to be put on the list. He had to show his social security card (which, of course, had a different number) to get cleared.

By: David Hopkins

David Hopkins — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:34:49 +0000

An interesting coincidence happened while my family and I were at vacation on Saltspring Island. We decided to play Scrabble one evening. At the beginning of the game, my Dad, my Mum and myself drew one tile each with all our eyes closed to determine who would start. One by one, we looked at and read our tiles in the following order: My Dad had drawn a T, my Mum had drawn an E and I had drawn a D. My Dad, whose name is Ted had drawn the highest letter in the alphabet, so he got to start.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:44:30 +0000

Hi there,

I don’t know if you’ll read this,

but this guy ripped this complete list off your site, and tried to post it as his own… He posted it in May.

It can be found here: http://www.mindcafe.org/top-15-most-astonishing-coincidences-of-all-time

I left him a comment saying he should take it down.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:34:11 +0000

My wife was born in Doncaster three months after I was born in Manchester.

I first met her walking towards me on a dark November evening in London
She was being harassed by a couple of rather drunk chaps. I said “hi not seen you in ages” this had the desired effect of removing her unwanted companions.

We were married twelve months later.

Both of us were adopted as babies. Both of our adoption papers were finalised on the same day. Both sets of papers were signed by the same registrar Mr J M Tovey.

By: David Hopkins

David Hopkins — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:29:17 +0000

When I was little, I signed up for a play at Bonkers at Toys r Us. The lady at the desk asked me when my birthday was. I answered November 28. Amazed, she exclaimed, ‘That’s my birthday!’

By: Debunker

Debunker — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:27:59 +0000

The Bulgarian lottery just had the same numbers two weeks in a row… The official said, ‘Coincidences happen’. I rest my case.

By: Debunker

Debunker — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:15:38 +0000

I guess what all this points to is that coincidences are not that special, and the world is a far smaller place than we realise.

Living in Norway, with our tiny population I get crazy coincidences all the time.

I went on a one night stag party in Edinburgh and decided to take a rest from the twenty wasted guys and sit on my own. A girl asked if the seat next to me was free and I noticed a foreign accent, she was Norwegian. After talking for a while it turned out that she had met my girlfriend a week earlier through a mutual friend, whilst she (my girlfriend) was in Glasgow playing a concert.

I have around 20 of those stories, but I also have one that is more ’supernatural’.

Around ten years ago my parents and myself were moving house, and for a short time we owned both properties. Asleep in the new house I had a dream that I was trying to get a black bird out of a house. On waking I went downstairs and met my mother who had just got back from a check-up visit to the old house. She told me that she had open a window to air the place and a crow had flown in the window, and she’d spent some time in getting it out again. This must have been around the exact time I was dreaming of the same thing…

I don’t believe in any sort of supernatural stuff, but coincidences just happen. It’s just a game of odds. If you had enough monkeys and enough typewriters…