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The origins of the universe are still one of life’s greatest unsolved puzzles. Some say it started with science, others believe in something divine—but every so often, reality glitches just enough to make you think we’re all part of a simulation.
Because how else do you explain the Matrix-level weirdness these people went through? We’ve got no good answers. Scroll down and see if you do.
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#1
Developed a rapidly growing mass in my left eye socket. Multiple doctors said it was an infection and would go away on its own. Left my last doctor's appointment to get dinner and happened to sit next to a retired orbital surgeon visiting from another country who told me I would need surgery ASAP. She connected me with the best surgeon in my country and I’m recovering now ❤️
superfluous 2 months ago
I, a lay person, hear the term 'mass in eye' and definitely do not think infection! Mass = tumor, right? Why would a doctor think a growth in an eye was an infection????
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#2
I was in an airport once and I had this book in my bag and as I was going through security I realized that the lady in front of me was the author and then she signed the book for me :)
#3
I found my mom's library card in a cave when I went on a spelunking tour in Australia last year (I’m from Sweden btw smh).
#4
The night I met my BF we were talking and figured out we lived in TWO of the same childhood homes, and had the same rooms. My family moved in right after he moved out each time.
Glen Ellyn 2 months ago (edited)
This is almost creepy. I wonder if he thought he was being stalked? Just kidding, but what a coincidence!
#5
Met a guy at a bar in a different state than I lived in. Started talking & realized not only were we from the same state, we lived at the same apartment, same floor, and in fact were next door neighbors. We are now in a relationship lol.
#6
You know how when you're little, your parents take you to a park where you make a friend and never see them again after that? My husband is that friend I made all those years ago.
#7
I travelled to Italy in 2017. I ordered a cab to get from my airport to my hotel. The driver was really nice. We had a great convo the whole way there. I got laid off in 2023, so I signed up to drive uber. My friends told me to go to the airport for guaranteed money. My first customer was that cab driver from Italy.
#8
I'm from America. I had a pen pal from the UK. Went on a class trip to Spain and just randomly ran into her.
Sathe Wesker 2 months ago
What’s really cool about this they randomly met in neither of their respective countries
#9
I used to run a comedy show in San Francisco with a few friends. One of them did a 10 min bit about how bad Third Eye Blind was. Then she was like “ok I feel mean. But it’s not like Stephen Jenkins is here.” From the audience a man goes “yes he is.” And it’s Stephen Jenkins.
#10
I checked out a book at my high school library, the old library card fell out of it with my mom’s signature on it. She had checked it out in the 80’s.
GlitterPanda 2 months ago
Apparently literary preferences can be genetic? That is a really cool find though, especially if it had an old pic of your mom on it!
#11
I had this childhood bestie Leslie, we lived in the same apartment complex, she moved & I was so sad, my fam also moved a week later, we unexpectedly moved across the street from Leslie.
Glen Ellyn 2 months ago
Lucky you! My daughter was crushed when her best friend, who lived just across the way (shortcut to her house through two backyards) moved away. The two of them were about 8 years old at the time.
#12
I ran into someone from my school at a gas station in New Jersey. We grew up in a New Zealand town of 31,000 people.
#13
My girlfriend and I, 12 years before we met each other on hinge, were in the same tap dancing class and performed on stage together less than a metre apart.
It’s on tape and everything.
And the song were performing to is
“It’s a small world”.
Debby Keir 2 months ago
Had my tonsils out age 5, but the whole ward came down with chickenpox. Met a guy 15 years later - turns out he was on the same ward (for tonsils) and was the one that gave everyone chickenpox.
#14
In high school, my great—uncle passed away…told my classmates. A friend said hers had died too. Turns out, we were talking about the same funeral — we found out we were cousins after that.
Riley Quinn 2 months ago
I dated someone in high school... right up until we found out we had the same grandfather.
#15
My neighbor bought a used car and found a picture of me as a child in the glovebox.
superfluous 2 months ago
Need more details! Did OP (or family member) used to own the car or was it an unknown car? How did the neighbor recognize the child in the picture as OP? Do people keep pictures in gloveboxes (I didn't)? Wouldn't it have been odder to buy a NEW car with OP's picture as a child in the glovebox?
#16
I moved into the same apartment as my mom’s first apartment without knowing that she ever lived there.
#17
My mom had decided on my name (Phoebe) before she gave birth and the nurses who helped deliver me were Monica and Rachel.
#18
When I was a kid I used to sell earings and they were little flowers i made with my signature on it (I live in Quebec). Ten years later I was in Croatia and the lady sit next to me on the bus was wearing the earings I made.
#19
I traveled several states away, went to a flea market and found a one of a kind post card OF MY GRANDPARENT’s HOUSE from 1911.
#20
One day I was walking through the city when I saw my doppelgänger across the street. That’s not the weird part. Although seeing one’s doppelgänger is uncommon, it does happen sometimes. Where it got into “glitch in the matrix” territory was that she was wearing the exact same dress that I was and her hair was styled in the exact same way.
Luke Branwen 2 months ago
If I saw my doppelgänger, the only thing I'd think would be "poor guy".
#21
It’s not that juicy but I ended up at a new friends house and three out of four of us had the exact same birthday. October 31st, 1995.
Upstaged75 2 months ago
At my last job my boss and I basically got hired at the same time. (She was a few weeks before me) And we turned out to have the same birthday.
#22
My mom died when I was 8 and the exact same day she died three years later I saw her doppelgänger and she said I looked familiar.
StrangeOne 2 months ago (edited)
I had to read that a few times to get it. "My mom died when I was 8. On her deathday, three years later, I saw her doppelganger, and she said I looked familiar."
#23
My mom’s first love was the dad of my first love.
#24
My dad ran into his boss on vacation in a random small town in France.
Debby Keir 2 months ago
In the 1960's our family (UK) were camping in Italy, and ran into a boy from our school, who was also camping there with his family.
#25
My friend found her cat on the side of the road in Washington. She moved to Spain and met a girl from New York who found her cat on the side of the road in Washington. Their cats are siblings.
#26
My finance’s mom was one of the nurses who took care of my mom after she gave birth to me.
#27
My parents (Ray and Karen), bought my childhood home from a couple named Ray and Karen…. Then sold our house to a Ray and Karen.
KnightOwl86 2 months ago
When my aunty Linda got married, her and her husband Tam (short for Thomas) moved into an apartment where they had their son Mark. About 6 months later their elderly neighbours moved out and a young family moved in. My aunt went over to introduce herself and welcome them and was stunned to find out they were also called Tam and Linda and had a 6 month old son called Mark. The funny thing is the dad's didn't make any effort to get to know each other, the mum's became best friends and the 2 sons were friends as kids but grew up to hate each other (they're now in their 40s and still can't stand each other.)
#28
I moved to the Detroit from Congo at 8yrs old in 3rd grade. We briefly moved to NC in 8th grade and the boy who used to bully me IN AFRICA was in one of my classes in Cary, North Carolina!!!
#29
I took a trip to Ireland and met a wonderful local couple at a pub.
Completely different trip, this time to the UK, stopped somewhere for some dinner in London and was sat down at a table right next to the same exact couple.
#30
One of my students moved half way through her 8th grade year and moved across the state. I moved over the summer and she walked into my classroom for the first day of her 9th grade year.
#31
Me and a classmate of mine were born on the same day, my mom said she remembers congratulating my classmate's mom cuz she was born before me. We later found out our moms have the same bday as well.
Debby Keir 2 months ago
My mother in law (now 100 years old) married on April 21st, which happenes to be the birthday of the late Queen Elizabeth. She lives in Edinburgh, and every year, there would be a 21 gun salute to mark the occasion. One year she was in hospital, and gaily told the wifey in the next bed to her that if she listened carefully she'd hear the salute to her wedding anniversary.....
#32
My family went on vacation in PuntaCana this year and ran into a group of girls we met 5 years prior on another family vacation in Mexico.
Debby Keir 2 months ago
Went on holiday to Turkey, early 80's and met an English girl who'd just started working at the hotel Went to a totally different part of Turkey 5 or so years later, and the same girl was working at the 'new' hotel.
#33
Turned down a spelunking date in 9th grade. 15 years later the rejected boy was my tour guide. On an 8 hour spelunking tour. My husband and I were the only 2 that signed up.
#34
Classmate dies in 5th grade, I attended visitation, saw him in his casket. Later on 2 summers later, I swim to the bottom of the pool to find a necklace…same necklace he wore in his casket, he drowned.
StrangeOne 2 months ago
If it was a popular type of necklace, this could have been a coincidence. But still unnerving.
#35
Once went to a museum in Ottawa when I was 7, met a kid there from Toronto and played with him for a few hours. Went back to the same museum 2 years later and met the same kid. Was wild.
superfluous 2 months ago
Well there's an explanation for this one - the kid never left. They want to play forever and ever.
#36
Lost my contact lense in my friend’s swimming pool one summer. The next summer after coming to the surface, my friend found it stuck to my cheek!
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thismyid 2 months ago
I met my first girlfriend at 17 at summer school in St. Andrews, Scotland. We lived in Ohio in the 1970s when we went. Turned out that we lived two blocks away from each other for years and never met previously. She died at 22 and I have never forgotten that I got to live (so far) 46 more years.
Lori James 2 months ago
I'm a retired RN. One nightshift, I floated to the Ortho floor. Every staff member had the same first name. No, we didn't write our last names or initials on the white boards. Which led to an amusing night for us, but an incredibly confusing morning for the Docs that made early morning rounds.
painttheyellowsubgreen 2 months ago
First year of middle school I made friends with GeGe, who was the only person I'd ever met who was white than me. I added white professional face paint to my foundation because back then Ghost wasn't a foundation option. She literally glowed in the dark. Second semester we make friends with Alice, also incredibly pale. Turns out they live in the same apartment complex with their single mothers. We mostly hang at GeGes, but finally ended up at Alice's one day. We piled into her mom's room to ask to go swimming and GeGe asks why Alice's mom had a picture of her dad. Alice says that is her dad, here's where we see the power of recessive genes. Pic is of a black man. Alice and her mom get upset and tell GeGe that's not a funny joke, she says I can prove it. The 3 of us go to GeGes and she pulls a pic of the same guy out of her dresser drawer. Guy cheated on his wife with both of them at the same time. Both moms found out he was married and ditched him, but didn't find out about each other.
thismyid 2 months ago
I met my first girlfriend at 17 at summer school in St. Andrews, Scotland. We lived in Ohio in the 1970s when we went. Turned out that we lived two blocks away from each other for years and never met previously. She died at 22 and I have never forgotten that I got to live (so far) 46 more years.
Lori James 2 months ago
I'm a retired RN. One nightshift, I floated to the Ortho floor. Every staff member had the same first name. No, we didn't write our last names or initials on the white boards. Which led to an amusing night for us, but an incredibly confusing morning for the Docs that made early morning rounds.
painttheyellowsubgreen 2 months ago
First year of middle school I made friends with GeGe, who was the only person I'd ever met who was white than me. I added white professional face paint to my foundation because back then Ghost wasn't a foundation option. She literally glowed in the dark. Second semester we make friends with Alice, also incredibly pale. Turns out they live in the same apartment complex with their single mothers. We mostly hang at GeGes, but finally ended up at Alice's one day. We piled into her mom's room to ask to go swimming and GeGe asks why Alice's mom had a picture of her dad. Alice says that is her dad, here's where we see the power of recessive genes. Pic is of a black man. Alice and her mom get upset and tell GeGe that's not a funny joke, she says I can prove it. The 3 of us go to GeGes and she pulls a pic of the same guy out of her dresser drawer. Guy cheated on his wife with both of them at the same time. Both moms found out he was married and ditched him, but didn't find out about each other.
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