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People Are Sharing Weird Coincidences They Can’t Explain And Here’re 30 Of The Most Mysterious Ones
It’s no secret that not everything in this world can be explained. Like dark matter, the Bermuda triangle, deja vu, and whatnot—they remind us that there’s a seed of doubt, an underlying level of uncertainty in things we share this planet with.
No wonder some people are more superstitious than others. But even if you stand on the rational ground and have an explanation for virtually everything, it doesn’t mean weird stuff won’t happen to you. Like, these people in a Reddit thread who found themselves in experiences that defy words.
So when someone posed the question “Reddit, what's your creepiest/weirdest coincidental experience?” it resonated with many and the answers started flooding in. Get your popcorn ready, ‘cause this is better than film.
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#1
Six years ago, because of my drinking, I'd been homeless for about 8 months. I'd been at a shelter for a few weeks and one day, as I walked from the library back to the shelter for dinner, I decided I couldn't take anymore. I was ready to kill myself. That prior August my mother had passed away, so on the street that evening I said to her, "I can't take it anymore, mom. Help me." Back at the shelter, after dinner, us bums waited for showers and bedtime. That evening the shelter had more residents than usual and many of them needed clean socks or underwear, etc. On this night, it wasn't scheduled, but the shelter opened the basement where they kept donated clothes. I didn't need anything, but I was bored, so I went downstairs. I browsed the racks and didn't find anything to my liking so I headed for the stairs. That's where I found 'LeMutt'. 'LeMutt' is a toy, a little stuffed dog, and I'd had one when I was a kid. In fact, I clearly remembered my mother and I in the store, 20+ years ago, buying him. I was in 3rd grade then. I asked a volunteer if he knew where the dog came from. He shook his head. This was, and still is, a men's homeless shelter. People were not dropping-off stuffed animals for the junkies and drunks. I don't know where the dog came from, but I kept him. Still got him. Anyway, my life is much better, and different, today. I'm set to graduate with a BFA next month. Life is really, really good. Thanks, Mom. I love you.
MauKini 4 years ago
I am so sorry you had to go through all of this. Your mom was always on your side and will be looking after you forever. I wish you all the best.
Mahayana 4 years ago
I had a similar story. The first year my mom died, on the first Christmas, I went to her tombstone in the cemetery and placed a candy (turtle) in a metallic wrapping on top of it as a kind of joke gift. I remember because it was the only thing I had in my pocket. A year and a half later, I was really, really depressed and went to see my mother’s tombstone and I asked her for help, hope, anything!! I use to go quite often. It wasn’t like I hadn’t gone for the year and a half. And right there, just after I made my request of hope, I found on the ground the wrapper of the same candy (which is not a common candy where I live). And keep in mind that we had 2 winters so no way that wrapper would have survived. It was the day I started so feel better and have hope again in life. I really felt like she was sending me a message. It’s been 14 years ans every time I feel down, I remember that wrapper.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
I work with the homeless and i know that it is not easy for someone to give up the drinking especially when they are on the streets depressed. What this man has achieved is a hell of a lot and good luck to him.
Kiss Army 4 years ago
I have LeMutt! He was my best friend and confidant all through my childhood... he has survived many "operations" and washing and is a little worse for the wear but I will never part with him. When I saw this picture, I yelled "LeMUTT!" I didn't think anyone else knew what a LeMutt was!!!
Lynn Marie 4 years ago
What a wonderful experience! I love that he got what he wanted when he needed it, and that he shares this account with others. I'm sorry he thought of himself and others as "bums", though. That's not how God sees His children, or how we should see each other.
Evelyn Petisce 4 years ago
His mom sent him love and encouragement through a toy. How wonderful!
MangleTangle 4 years ago
Even if this person isn't religious, in my religion i would consider this a sign from God to keep pushing on.
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#2
Back about 10 years ago, I went on a first date with someone I met online through match.com. I lived in the Philadelphia suburbs, she was in the city. I drove into the city for your typical dinner and a movie, or a movie (Memento) and then dinner in this case. We enjoyed the movie and while we were talking and walking to dinner afterwards, I told her what I did for a living, which was write image processing software at a small company she'd likely never heard of.
She paused and asked, 'you don't by any chance know [name of coworker/friend I've known for many years], do you?' Why yes, yes I do, I say. Turns out she knows him through some online forum having to do with singing, and they'd actually met before at some event. We reflect about the unlikelihood of this.
But that is not the coincidence I am writing about.
We continue to the restaurant, having a great conversation, hitting it off. About halfway through dinner, I feel comfortable enough to tell her about having gone through colon cancer the year before, and the long recovery after having had my colon removed. Not your typical first date conversation perhaps, but she was interested. Anyway, after I mention the surgery, she asks where I had it done. Penn, I say. She pauses. 'Who was your oncologist?' she asks. Oh-kayyyy, I think, not the question I would have expected, but I tell her. She pauses even longer. Then she says, in fact demands, 'Who. Was. Your. Oncology. Nurse?' I tell her.
At this point she gets the most amazed expression I'd ever seen and says 'You're...you're...that Jerry!' And starts laughing uncontrollably. Every time the laughter starts to die down, says says 'you're that Jerry!' again, which sets off another fit of laughter. She literally can't get out anything coherent for at least five minutes, she's laughing too hard. The suspense is killing me.
Maybe ten minutes and a dozen "that Jerry's" later, I finally am able to piece together that about a year before, she was sharing an office at Penn with my oncology nurse (she's not in medicine herself, it just had to do with a shortage of space, I think). The nurse used to tell her, 'I have this one patient who would be perfect for you, if only he wasn't recovering from surgery and going through chemo.' She even told her the name of this patient.
Of course 'he' was me, and she and I ended up dating for a year or so and are still good friends to this day.
Catmomma 4 years ago
Am I the only one who got sweet bubbly butterflies running around in my body from this?
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
If that is not known as a coincidence then i would like to know what is?
Demongrrrrl 4 years ago
Not if the nurse only gave his first name. Lots of Jerrys out there.
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It seems that some people are more prone to weird events happening to them. Like your high school friend who swore they saw a ghost in their house one night in a creepy encounter that changed how they feel sleeping in darkness to this day. Isn’t it just because some of us are more superstitious, while others are realists who seem to always find an explanation for almost everything, even things that by their own definition are unexplainable?
In order to dig deeper into the topic, Bored Panda contacted Susan Petang, a certified life coach, teaching adults and teens. Susan runs “Quiet Zone Coaching” where she teaches essential life skills and coping tools people need when stress is overwhelming and life is hard.
#3
Once on the Fourth of July, our dog Svejk escaped the yard and ran for it during the fireworks. He was missing for a couple of days, during which we plastered signs all over town with his photo.
A family called, thinking they had our dog. We drove over there (about three miles away, across a busy highway and on the other side of a major commercial district), and sure enough, it was him. They said they almost considered keeping him, as he was so sweet and they had lost their dog Norman on the same night.
The next day, an old woman two doors down the street from us called, having seen our flyer and thinking she may have seen our dog in her yard (also a black lab). We told her we already had Svejk back, but she called again and insisted we come over (she was a little senile).
We walked over, and on a whim, called "Norman?". He immediately came running droolingly over and followed us home. We drove him the three miles back across town, and sure enough, it was him. We've always wondered if the two dogs met each other during their respective epic journeys
Tiger Pearl 4 years ago
Yea but poor Norman must’ve got the address wrong 😂
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Patti Vance 4 years ago
not sure if this is considered a coincidence but my family calls me the 'hobbit' of animals. why? in the hobbit book, a wizard puts a mark on the hobbit's door, showing that this is the place to the dwarves. in my case, all sorts of animals in need show up at my house or in my path. my son tells me it's because they 'know' i will take care of them, not put them in shelters or ignore their needs. i have literally had animals show up on their dying legs, needing a place to pass on - as if they knew they would get comfort in their final moments. i also seem to get animals who have special needs or behaviors that others have considered too hard to deal with but, with me, their behavior calms down. this is mostly with 'domesticated' types of animals. my dad, on the other hand, has a gift with wild animals who take to him to the point that they hang out at his house and wait for him to emerge. he talks to them and they listen to him as if they are trained. deer, squirrels, hummingbirds.
Kristy White 4 years ago (edited)
mine and my exes dog got out while we were at his mams house, and made her way back from the exes mothers house to 3 streets away from where we lived, about 8 mile she walked in total, we'd never walked her that way before, or even for that long, yet that baby found her way back home to our friends just round the corner, i was amazed by her
GalacticLion 4 years ago
I had a dog that also ran during the 4 of July, she ran all the way from the park back to our house. (Chased her for about 8-9 minutes.)
#4
In high school in Los Angeles I drove a friend down to Dana Point, CA to look at a car on sale on Craigslist. At the house of the car owner I shared a moment with the cute girl living next door via prolonged eye contact as she left her house. Friend bought the car. We left.
Five years later I move to south Orange County and take a job near Dana Point and start dating a girl I sort of worked with. When I went to her house for the first time I stopped cold while walking up her driveway as I realized where I was. It was the house. She was the girl. She asked me what was wrong because she could almost literally see my mind exploding. I told her the story, and we shared another moment on that same lawn from five years before.
We're getting married next July.
Couldnt_Find_A_Good_Name 4 years ago
*inhales* Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Aroace tiger 4 years ago
The onion ninjas. They stick around emotional posts to strike
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third molar 4 years ago
Good to hear such good coincidences. Only coincidence i had was sister of the guy i hated in school turned outs to be a colleague. Not a friend but a ok sort of colleague in diff team. Cant do anything about it. More like meh coincidence!!
Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
Meant to be. Yiddish word for this is beshert. She is your destiny.
Susan confirmed my inkling that some people are indeed more superstitious than others. “Many folks take their cues from their parents. What we were taught to believe as children can become important to us as adults,” the life coach explained.
“For example, if we were raised in a very religious family, we're more likely to be religious as adults, Susan said and added: “If people we loved and respected as kids were superstitious, we'll have a tendency to be superstitious, since that way of thinking is familiar to us.”
#5
I'm adopted.
I'm about 18 and moving to the big city to start uni, looked at heaps of apartments and finally found somewhere nice. The real estate agent shows me around the apartment and I decide to take it. A couple of days later I'm in the realtor's office to sign the lease, chatting away with the ladies. Just the usual 'Where are you moving from?' chatter as I filled out all the paperwork, and the nice agent who showed my the apartment gave me the keys.
Cut to a few weeks later and the phone at my new apartment rings. It's my realtor calling to tell me that she's my birth mother.
She swears to this day that she recognized my familiar family facial features on the day she showed me the apartment (and it's true, I do look a lot like my cousins and her daughters), and the day I signed the lease she got all my details, birth date, etc. It took her a few weeks to contact me because she wanted to confirm with the Government Adoption agency and to let her family know what was happening.
Bit of a spin out.
SN1PERKN1GHT 4 years ago
Luke tells no and jumps from apartment to a truck with cushions below XD
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NeonDisco 4 years ago
What if u didn't know about being adopted?. unless u had previously told her during a conversation , her telling u could have caused irreversible damage to ur past and future.
Wouldiwas Shookspeared 4 years ago
Not telling a child that they are adopted opens up to the situation you say happening. If a parent does not tell the child they are adopted, that is the parents fault and an awful thing to do.
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corpsehusband'sbestie 4 years ago
imagine what it would be like if you were in your mother's place- you sold her a house-----
#6
Around six or seven years ago, a large portion of my neighborhood burned down in the fires that swept through southern california. While helping my friend's family pick through the rubble of their home for anything that could be salvaged, I saw a speck of white paper in the midst of one of the more blackened areas. I picked it up and read it--the only text on this bit of paper, left over after the rest of the page had burned away, was "from the ashes, new life is born".
#7
My wife and her brother were traveling through Europe in the spring of 1986. I was home working in California. I knew their itinerary but did not know exactly where they were. I hadn't talked to them in a couple of days. Got bored, called an overseas operator, and got her to call a pay phone outside of Monet's Garden in Giverny. After about 15 rings, someone finally picked up the phone. It was my wife. Needless to say, it blew both out minds. One of the strangest thing that ever happened to me in my life.
At the time cell phones were still in the distant future. And the operator picked this phone, not me. Because of the itinerary, it was not a total shot in the dark, but the fact that the time and place lined up for the phone to ring will baffle me until the day I die. My wife said she and her brother were walking out of Monet's Garden when they heard a pay phone start ringing. They ignored it, walked past it, and for some reason, my wife stopped, walked back and answered it. I have no explanations, just a very strange and cool experience. And a great story.
Glynna Bowood 4 years ago
Similar incident- I was in London on a solo vacation and feeling tired, went to bed quite early (630 pm). Dreamed my Mother was tucking me into bed and I was crying and telling her how lonely and sad this vacation has been when I was awakened by someone knocking loudly at my hotel door. "Telephone call", he says "You can take it on the hall phone" and when I answer it's my Mother! She said she got this overwhelming urge to call me to make sure I was ok!
David Snyder 4 years ago
That is an outstanding story. We really are connected a great deal more than we think.
When we experience something out of the ordinary, Susan argues that we tend to look for explanations since humans like to understand things. “We're curious, and if something doesn't make sense, we look for reasons why. We also seek explanations for things that we fear,” she added.
#8
My grandmother was in her first year of high school when the United States began sending soldiers over seas for World War II. She said it was very common for the young men to toss scraps of paper with their names and addresses onto the ground when they drove through cities - hoping someone would pick up the paper and write to them while they were deployed. One day when my grandmother was working at the local penny store, a convoy drove by. She rushed outside and snapped up the first scrap of paper she saw. She began to write the solider, and they quickly became interested in one another.
Several months later, the principal of her all-girls catholic school pulled her out of class, saying a young solider had come to see her. The principal allowed her to meet with the solider for ten minutes (supervised) in the school's auditorium. It was the young solider that she had been writing too these past few months. He told her that he was in love with her, but he was going to go back to battle in a few days. He gave her a pocket watch, and reminded her to wind it every night before she went to bed. He promised that he would come back for her, and that he would continue to love her for as long as the watch ticked. He was soon sent back over seas, and they continued to write one another.
One night, the watch would not wind. My grandmother was heartbroken, but figured that she would save her money from her job at the penny store and have the watch repaired. Two days after the watch stopped working, my grandmother received a call from the solider's mother. He had passed away in battle two days before, at the same time that the watch had stopped ticking. My grandmother was distraught, and soon mailed the watch back to the solider's mother.
Two years later, she met a young man and fell in love again and eventually married him. He had the same first, middle and last name as the deceased solider. They also would have been the same age.
glowworm2 4 years ago
The part about the watch failing to wind and stopped working after being repaired is so eerie.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Yeah I don't know why but i already pictured Ryan Gosling as the soldier!
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Draga Millani 4 years ago
i think i couldn't have handled the constant correlation, but good for your grandmda! Glad she's happy
#9
I worked at a library for a very long time, and in an effort to not lose my soul, I collected stuff I found in books. My favorite discovery was a hilarious postcard between two friends. I immediately thought, 'I'd like to meet these people.' I kept it next to my computer for a few years.
After a few years passes, I'm going through my papers and find a postcard from my girlfriend that I don't recognize. It takes me a few minutes to understand that I'm reading the postcard I'd put aside years earlier, between someone who was now my girlfriend and another person I'd come to know as a friend. It was probably the weirdest event in a series of events that defied probability regarding a ton of surreal linked events in our lives.
Demongrrrrl 4 years ago
A sign in front of a local church once said, "A coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous."
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Kari Panda 4 years ago
The collecting stuff found in books is a common thing among librarians :) I found a letter from an emigrant from the 1930s once - that was as amazing as it was chilling. (Of course, if it’s personal things, we try to find the owner. I still have a photo of a baby that I found a year ago and can’t bring myself to throw away because - it’s someone’s baby! What if someone someday comes looking for it?)
Stille20 4 years ago
They found a stranger's postcard, kept it and later met the people
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#10
My dad was visiting our summer house (he lives about 500 miles away). It was really windy one day and this random guy who was kayaking decided to come ashore and set up camp on the beach. We went and talked to the fella and offered him to stay at our guest house. Turns out this guy lives in the apartment under my father and had paddled the whole way. The cool thing is that my dad (he is in a wheelchair) is having trouble getting snow and ice of his car in the winter but for the last two winters his car was mostly snow and ice free in the morning. It turns out this guy was taking care of that every time he was doing it to his own car.
Zayne Lewis 4 years ago
It's a case of a helpful neighbor, Tina. He might be a stalker, but Marie is right.
Meanwhile, a lot of superstitions have been established a long time ago in our culture and they’re not something new that just pops up one day. “They have their origins in times when we didn't have as much scientific information about how things work. The appearance of comets meant something bad would happen, for example. Droughts were viewed as punishment from the gods.”
#11
was at a gas station a while ago and i bought a pack of cigarettes, the clerk asked for my ID and commented how we have the same birthday, but he was born 10 years earlier. the guy behind me hearing the date repeated a few times started laughing and showed us his license, same date just ten years after me. Summary: a gas station clerk, some guy in line and I, all happened to have the same birthday, just 10 years apart
A 4 years ago
Once I was in line to pay for something at the grocery story. The cashier looked at the purchases of the lady in front of me said something like "Oh, you must be celebrating something special" She said, "It's my anniversary tomorrow!" He told her it was his anniversary tomorrow as well. Well, wouldn't you know it, it was my anniversary the next day too and I told them. We all stood there a bit shocked for a moment.
Char Nydegger 4 years ago
I send postcards around the world anonymously through Postcrossing. My very first card went to a woman in Germany. Turns out we were born on exactly the same day and year. We call ourselves twins and continue to communicate.
JenMiddleChildSmith 4 years ago
My dad, my husband and my niece all share the same birthday, each exactly 30 years apart...my niece was born the day my dad turned 60 and my husband turned 30. My best friend also shares the same birthday. And another story...my daughter was born on Mother's Day (her birthday is on mother's day this year too) and my son was born the day after my birthday. Best birthday gift and mother's day gift I've ever received
Marilyn Ransberry 4 years ago
On vacation in Europe on a river cruise a lady seated next to me and I discovered that we had the same birthday . The next night I told another lady about it and she had the same birthday! The original conversation started with me saying that I never meet anyone with the Sam birthday as me!
#12
I used to play the flute in elementary school. I put these tie-dye hippie stickers on the case so I could tell it apart from everyone else's and scribbled my name under the velvet liner. I grew bored of it a few years later and let my parents sell it to a family friend.
Fast forward 10 years and I'm over at my boyfriends parent's house one day. I'm sitting on the couch and his little sister comes in from school and plops down next to me and shows me her new instrument. Lo and behold it's my old flute! It still has the stickers, so I pull back the liner and there is my name. Apparently they had bought it off someone that lived fairly close to my parents.
Well 5 years, a marriage and a beautiful baby girl later we still get to play on it some times.
Tia Goonaratna 4 years ago
Same! My brother bought a piano secondhand when he was a teenager. Years later, in his 20s and in uni he met his girlfriend. She was over at our place one day and said she used to have a piano like that as a kid and she stuck stickers inside. Yep. Same stickers. Same piano. They're now married with a kid.
#13
When I was eight years old a man walked up behind me, called my name and said, "You won't remember me, but we are proud of you. We are watching you. Be good now. You are important."
I ran inside the barber shop to my mom and told her. She went outside, but there was no one there. Ever since then I've felt like I'm being watched, but that I'm destined for something special. Epic troll possibly, but inspiring none the less.
Laura Craig 4 years ago
I want this stalker!!! Mine just sits in the bushes and looks grumpy
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Vasana Phong 4 years ago
I remember many moons ago, I was in a really bad abusive relationship, was afraid to leave until I just couldn’t anymore, I was walking to the bus stop and thinking really hard, I made a plan to leave, right as I was walking I looked up and a lady yelled out loud “ well it’s about time!” I stood shocked for a sec, when i turned around she was gone
Raynell 4 years ago
I am so glad you took that step. I hope you're thriving 💓
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However, Susan believes that “while we now understand how many things work, there are always going to be times when it's just more fun to be superstitious.” She gave an example: “my husband and I see 11-11 all the time—in phone numbers, coincidentally when we look at clocks, totals on shopping receipts, etc. It doesn't mean anything, but it's a lot more fun to think it does,” the life coach concluded.
#14
I went to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington when I was 12. When you first go in, they give you this passport thing which tells you the story of someone who lived during the Holocaust. The one that I got had a young man whose birthday was the same as mine, except 50 years prior. The day I went to the museum was 50 years to the day since his death.
Tim Mannens 4 years ago (edited)
I know several musea like that make you fill in your own b'day and then select a survivor (or whatever the theme is) with the same b'day to be on your passport. So its not that creepy at all. they do it on purpose to create a bond with the character.
Holes2Heaven 4 years ago
So he was born and died on the same day??? I think someone needs to check his writing out before he posts
Parmeisan 4 years ago
I feel like you could try to make that happen and never succeed. Like if you worked at the museum you could specifically hand out cards where the death date was the current date some milestone # of years in the past (multiples of 5, perhaps) and do your best to guess the age of visitors to hit the same # of years, and you would never get lucky enough to do it right.
Meredith Adams 4 years ago
My dad died on his mom’s birthday. She died before any of us kids were born, but while we were cleaning out my dad’s house we found an old bible that had belonged to her that had her date of birth written inside of it. It definitely gave us something to think about. Such an eerie coincidence!
#15
Here's one that mum told me. A while back, mum and her family were gathered around her uncle in his home, who had been terminally ill with cancer, and wanted to die in his home. Anyway, being Catholic, he wanted to receive his last rites. His breathing pattern was extremely odd until the priest arrived, and gave him his rites. He died about 15 seconds after the priest had finished. But here's the weird part.
After roughly 30 seconds of being out of it, he 'came back.' He turned to his wife and muttered very softly 'I can't go yet, it's too busy.' He then slipped into a state of unconsciousness, and died probably 2 hours later. The next day we turned on the news, and last night at seriously 15 minutes after his first 'death' was the detonation of the historic Bali bombings that killed many people.
I've never really been sure on religion/afterlife, but this experience of mum's has always made me think.
MauKini 4 years ago
Ive had a similar experience when my gran died. After having witnessed this I started to develope hope for a afterlife / better place.
JessG 4 years ago
You should check out the work of Lisa Smartt. She wrote a book called: Words at the Threshold: What We Say When We’re Nearing Death. The book is based on data collected through The Final Words Project, an ongoing study devoted to gathering and interpreting the mysterious language at end of life. wwwfinalwordsproject.org
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LH25 4 years ago
The night my dad died unexpectedly from a heart attack, his aunt sat down and wrote "I'm OK, Grandma and Grandpa [last name] were here to greet me". She wrote that before she heard of his death, and Grandma and Grandpa had died some years before. She said she just had to write that line.
WildHoneyPie 4 years ago
When my Uncle died I was holding his hand. I told him "save a place for me". I swear I had this vision of him as a 12 year old boy (approx) just smiling so happily! I really had the feeling that he had been the happiest at that age and he will save me a place!
Lynne Monteith 4 years ago
During WWII my Maternal Grandmother was ill in the hospital and her brother came in and sat on the end of the bed and said "Never mind, Win. You'll soon be with me." and left. She asked the rest of the family about him and they not wanting to worry her said he was fine. She got upset and said that he'd just been in to see her so she knew he was dead.
Amanda Hunter 4 years ago
I've come to the conclusion that this life here on earth is Hell, when our punishment is over we can move on.
#16
I got into my car once after having driven to a different city. I flipped on the radio and all there was was silence. I shrugged and was about to change the channel, assuming it wasn't a valid station, when all of the sudden it said "Daniel." This is my name, so I said "yes?" out of amusement, and the voice said "I am the Lord your God, Daniel. You must follow My commandments". Another pause as I freaked the [hell] out for a moment. Then the voice came back and was like "and this is the part in the bible..." and I realized that the classic hits channel in cincinnati was a bible thumper channel in Bloomington
Danieletc 4 years ago
Daniels get a lot more attention than others in the Bible. Daniel gets his own Book. There is a Tribe of Dan. If your first name was BubbaGowGow DeSquirrelDuck, you would not have been on Bloomington Radio... so, that's one less odd thing to happen in your life. Blame your parents for your name.
JessG 4 years ago
Oh wow!! BubbaGowGow DeSquirrelDuck was my uncle's name!!!!
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Sheila Stamey 4 years ago
But... Seriously...I think that might have been for real to get your attention.
Robin Childers 4 years ago
I wouldn't make fun of the radio station if it were my name being called like that.
#17
My grandmother had schizophrenia and severe paranoia. One of her major fears was that she was being watched, specifically people filming her. This is a common symptom, so we didn't think it was that strange. One day, we were visiting a large city (far from our home), and there was a man with one of those old hand-held cameras pointed at us. This was making my grandmother quite upset, so my dad went up to ask the guy if he could put the camera away, but the guy took off running. About 10 or so feet into his run, he smashed into another guy and dropped his camera. He kept on running and after a bit, I think he realized he didn't have the camera, because he looked back, had this big face of fear and anger, shook his head, and kept on running. Dad picked up the camera and on it was about three-to-four hours of us walking around the city.
Only us walking around the city.
We never saw the guy again. A few years later my grandmother died. This isn't the first strange thing that's happened to my family though.
Eva the Egg 4 years ago
"This isn't the first strange thing that's happened to my family though." WAIT THERES MORE???
Scagsy 4 years ago
Yes! I need to know too! Come back! What else is there?
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“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren’t after you.” - Catch 22
Paola Belgini 4 years ago
I was listen to Nirvana-Territorial Pissings while read this ...
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Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
“old hand-held camera” there folks: the nail on the lid of the coffin for many camera makers.
#18
Back at University, me and my (randomly assigned) flatmate separately took the train down from Newcastle to Bradford to visit our best friends. Turns out they were also (randomly assigned) flatmates. I found that pretty bizarre.
Parmeisan 4 years ago
This is just like when my brother and I started school in a new city, we each made a new friend on the first day and were invited to go to their houses after school. I have a vivid memory of playing hide-and-seek with this friend for maybe half an hour before walking into a room and unexpectedly seeing my brother. I hadn't even known he was at a friend's house, so it was quite the surprise! It's not so weird if you think that these kid's parents just taught them well to be nice to the new kids, but it was sure a shock at the time. If anyone is curious, we both remained friends with the respective new friends for many years until we moved away. :)
#19
My grandmother died, so my family cleaned out the house and did the usual thing when people die. A few year later, my mom, being a crafty lady, went to a craft store and purchased a pack of papers with different designs on them (maps, newspaper clippings etc). One of the papers was a collage of recipe cards. She recognized the writing and the recipes. It was my dead grandmother's recipe cards that had been scanned and turned in to artsy paper. These were thrown out in garbage bags in Toronto. The paper company was from California. Crazy!
Ria C. 4 years ago
Why throw away family recipes? I would kill to have my great grandmother's recipes especially her pumpkin pie and chicken and dumplings. Alas she didn't write them down, just had them in her memory.
Jill 4 years ago
My thoughts exactly! Who in their right mind throws away something so irreplaceable?? I wish like crazy I had my grandmother's recipes.
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JennyLaRue 4 years ago
It's kind of reassuring that there must be some kind of pre-sorting of waste going on to have this kind of re-use happening.
#20
I was taking some picture at a graveyard for a class and my friends were there modeling for me. I ask one of my friends to try fake cry, while I adjust my camera. When I go to take her picture, I see she is doing a great job crying. I take a couple of pictures before realizing that she is looking at this big family grave... with the exact same names of her relatives. There was her dad's name, mom's, sister's and brother's, exact name with exact last name.
Her family lives in another state and they are alive. So that was spooky, but later on we are all in my car, and we are listening to some music off a USB device. We were listening to a song for like the third time, when the sound goes off and a horrible voice says 'Get back from where you came from,' and the song continues where it left off. We were so creeped out we had to stop and catch our breath.
Sasy 4 years ago
Her family were all in witness protection before she was born and took the identities of a passed family.
Nomadus Aureus 4 years ago
Ugh, I have a similar story. My dad used to be an incredibly reckless driver. One time, he called me to say that he's going to pass through our town and will visit on his way back. (My parents are divorced.) On my way home, I saw a towing company carry a smashed-up car that was the same model and colour as his. I was a bit nervous but hey, it's a popular car in a generic colour. Later in the afternoon, I had to attend the funeral of a distant relative. As I was bored, I started looking around, reading the various headstones. The moment I turned around, I saw it: a stone with my dad's name on it. I started crying so hysterically, that we had to leave and my mom spent the next two hours calling everyone and their mother to get hold of my dad who was in a meeting with his phone turned off. If anything good has come out of it, is that for a while he stopped trying to break the speed record...
Alex K 4 years ago
i know that song. GET THAT THING BACK WHERE IT CAME FROM OR SO HELP MEEEE SO HELP ME SO HELP ME AND CUT
Elise Hansen 4 years ago (edited)
if that happened to me i would destroy the usb and wouldn't sleep at night
#21
This didn't happen to me, but it happened to my ex. He was at a singles tennis tournament as a kid and he was reading the roster. According to the sheet, he was playing himself. Turns out, his opponent had the same very uncommon first name, middle initial, and last name. Years passed, and someone shouted his name in a grocery store and he turned around... so did his tennis opponent.
WildHoneyPie 4 years ago
We had tickets to a "Price is right" show at a local casino. Kind of lame I don't recommend. But one name being called produced two contestants. When they tried to narrow it down with birthdays turns out they both had the same birthday! I think they finally used their social security #s...
Robin Childers 4 years ago
I was in our local Wal-Mart once in college and my mom had me paged. Two of us turned up. another girl much younger than me, has the same name. We look absolutely nothing alike.
#22
A couple years back, I had a dream of my grandfather, who I was not particularly close to by any means. In my dream I saw his casket formally covered by an American flag-- he served in the military. He stood next to me in a room full of mourners and held my hand. He told me not to follow him out of the doors when he left. I watched him leave. When I woke up and went downstairs to get breakfast and call my father to tell him happy birthday, my older brother informed me that my grandfather had just passed away in his sleep while I also slept.
TL:DR: My father's father came to me in my dream on the night of his death to wish me goodbye, which was also on my father's birthday
Ria C. 4 years ago (edited)
My dad has come to me in dreams a few times. But the most significant was I walked into a hospital room and he was laying on the bed (not sick), he sat up and smiled at me as I peeked around the curtain. A week later I was in the hospital for appendicitis surgery. The next morning after surgery they made we walk the floor. The floor is only used for surgery recovery on Mondays and Tuesdays for ER overflow. Just outside my door was the bridle of the sire to a horse he was a part owner of and just near the nurses station were the jockey silks for the farm my uncle worked at for over 30 years (he passed the same year as my dad 2019).
Sammi Unni 4 years ago
This happened with my Dad's mom when she passed. I had a dream the exact moment she passed (I know because i wake up multiple times in the morning hours before I actually get up, and always look at the clock and im like UGH not yet!) I had a dream where a matriarch figure had passed, and i was literally analyzing my emotions IN my dreams with critical thought. I woke up crying, texted my mom that I loved her, then went to work. I find out at 130pm that I had the dream at the exact moment that my grandma passed. I think I was channeling my dad though in the dream. Because I knew i would feel other things if my own mother passed (we don't have the best relationship...)
Womaninsky Kasinsky 4 years ago
Awwwhhh, that’s so great! Just because they’re gone doesn’t mean they’ve left you.
wifeofweasley 4 years ago
that's really sad but also sweet of him to say good bye one last time before he leaves this earth.
KombatBunni 4 years ago
I had a dream about my grandpa the morning he passed away. I dreamed I was sitting next to him on his bed and he was upset because I wouldn’t be there with him when he left, so I said it’s okay Da, (my sister’s and my name for him) you can go. I’ll see you when I get there. And then the next thing in the dream was him in a coffin, wearing a blue suit. And of course in the morning when I woke up, I got the call that he had passed and freaked my mother out by telling her I already knew because my grandpa had told me in the dream. The craziest part? At his funeral he was in the same coffin I saw him in when I had the dream, wearing the same suit. The worst part was I forgot to tell him I loved him the last time I saw him alive :(
#23
The first was the day I interviewed for a graduate assistantship. That evening, the girlfriend and I hit an Asian joint, and my fortune read, "An important discussion involving you will take place today." A day later, I was offer the position. A week or so later, we got take-out from the same restaurant and went to a local park to eat. At the table we sat at, someone had left an iPod . There was no identifying information on the device, so I pocketed it and taped a note to the table telling whoever it was to check Craigslist lost and found for instructions on how to retrieve their Touch. They never replied, so I wound up keeping it, which my fortune cookie wanted me to do, anyway, because after finishing my meal, I was met with "You will soon receive an unusual gift freely given. Accept!" Another week passes, and we again order take-out from the same place. Before getting our meal, though, I stop at a small used book store and buy a few novels. After lunch, I'm told "Treat yourself to a good book for a needed rest and escape." The next time I ate there my cookie contained "You will live a long and healthy life," which I hope is as true as the previous trio. And, as if breaking the chain, the one after that was empty.
François Carré 4 years ago (edited)
At the supermarket where I usually run errands, there are screens above the cash registers that display local ads, TV programs... and horoscopes. Most of the times I end up reading them, as I am bored and waiting for my turn to pay ; the horoscope messages are pretty lame, of course, but sometimes they're a bit sassy or oddly relevant. I especially remember this one : "now you can truly be proud of yourself". I couldn't see anything to feel proud of at the moment. But two days later I happened to adopt a kitten that had been found on the street, and I felt very proud about it.
Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
One where I fall asleep halfway through. Or it’s Adam Sandler’s sequel to “Click”, called “It Comes With The Check”
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wifeofweasley 4 years ago
that was also my first tought hahaha I had to read the entire story to realize he wasn't high
Load More Replies... María Hermida 4 years ago
This reminds me of a TV series called "flash forward", where something causes every human being to have a short vision of themselves in six month's time. Those who didn't see anything knew they were going to die within that time...
#24
When we were kids a group of us used to hang around near a small stream. One night we were there I got a really bad feeling, and told my friends I was going home. I begged them to come with me, but only one did. I practically legged it up the hill from the stream, I was so afraid. The next day I found out the girls that stayed got beaten by a girl gang less than fifteen minutes after I and our friend had left.
Still freaks me how I knew to get outa there.
David Snyder 4 years ago
i hate when girl gangs that rove the country side beat the crap out of me. It has happened enough that it is now a fetish
#25
My grandpa has always been the type of guy to love science fiction and the paranormal. One time he told me a story that has always freaked me out:
Years ago when my mother and her sisters were little, my grandpa had a ouija board that he liked to mess around with down in their basement. One day, he asked the ouija board questions about himself that the board could answer, i.e., 'Where am I from?' 'What's my address?' 'Who is my mother?', just to see what it would say. He asked 'How many daughters do I have?' and it responded with '3.' My grandpa said, 'I have four,' and the board responded with, 'Not for long.'
Two weeks later one of his daughters died in a car crash.
Tiger Pearl 4 years ago
I have to say I am skeptical of Ouija boards and stories concerning them... but I will never mess with a Ouija board... just in case.
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Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
Never ever mess with a Ouija board. Nothing good ever comes from one of those.
TheAlienOctopus 4 years ago
Tbh I thought one of the daughters was gonna be trans...”How many sons do I have?” “1” “Wait...but I don’t have any sons.” “Yes you do...”
LeeBreezy 3 years ago
yeah, cause god forbid people believe something you dont
Load More Replies... corpsehusband'sbestie 4 years ago
my ouija board predicted my brother's birth and that my next boyfriend would dump me for his grades, and it happened it even told me the exact date and EXACT TIME he would be born.... it was correct............................................ still shook over it
Jane Alexander 4 years ago (edited)
A young man tried automatic writing. When he read it he had written; "Dear _____ you are doing this to your own ruin, Love, Grandma"
#26
My aunt (dad's sister) died young of cancer on October 3, 2007, when I was a junior in high school. In my senior year, I took advanced art and we were working on clay sculptures one day. At the tables of four, one person was instructed to go and grab a stack of old newspapers from a cabinet that contained hundreds of old newspapers the teacher supplied for protecting the tables during projects. Another guy goes to grab the paper and tosses me some for my area of the table. I begin work on my sculpture and realize my materials are on the obituary section. I read over them for a second and see my aunt's obituary right where my hand was. The date happened to be October 2, 2008, and since 2008 was a leap year it was a full 365 days from my aunt's death.
The stack of coincidences seemed too much for me, I believe it was her trying to give me a sign of something.
Batgirl Kitty 4 years ago
Ok, what makes this even creepier is that i am reading this on October 3rd.
#27
In high school there was a kid who had the same middle and last name as me, the same birthday, and our parents had the same names. Not even kidding. It blew my mind.
Eithne Griffiths 4 years ago
I was born 07/07/57 my address was, Severn house, Severn Square,next to the river Severn.
GaeFrog 4 years ago
There was a kid in my 2nd grade class who was the same age as me and when i say that i mean he was born within the same hour as me also we where born in the same state (it was far from the school i went to then)
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
If someone ever claimed to be born in the same place, same room as I was born in, I'd ask them how the heck they gained access to my grandparents' house XD.
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#28
When I was in 7th grade I had a serious crush on a girl. One day her mom was driving a bunch of us somewhere and everyone was talking and making jokes. I can't remember the exact conversation, but I had a moment of silence where it was my chance to make everyone laugh. I made a super lame joke that brought silence. My moment to impress was ruined. Come 10 years later. I am driving a car with the kids of family friends. In the same seat in the back sits a kid that reminds me of me, and there is a girl in the front seat he likes. The EXACT conversation (something about not enough of us to do something) starts progressing. I look into the rear view mirror at the kid and was thinking "don't say we will multiply. Don't say we will multiply!" (Seriously wish I remember exactly what the conversation was). I was going to intervene before he said it but BAM he drops the same lame joke I did 10 years before. And it seriously had no context or comical value at all. I was in awe like I was psychic (a useless one apparently). I'm assuming he did not get the girl either.
Abigail Nagel 4 years ago
Same here I think I’m hilarious but most of the time I’m not lol
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#29
My grandmother was in hospice back when i was still in high school. My aunts family and my mom and all my siblings went to see her. As is common, she was pretty drugged with all kinds of morphine and wasnt making much sense. Didnt know who we were. Gibberish really. but she would keep mentioning, there was people near the ceiling and stuff. my aunt and mom kept trying to talk to her, asking if she was comfortable etc. then all of a sudden, she turns her head and stares at me. in the clearest voice id heard from her all day, she says, "oh my, there's a little one next to you", and smiles. Still freaks me out.
PixxelDust 4 years ago
or seeing ghosts - lost of people die in hospitals
Load More Replies... Marilyn Ransberry 4 years ago
At the end of life people are often on drugs that make them hallucinate. My own mom sawall kinds of thongs that weren’t real.
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
I hate it when I see thongs that aren't real, it makes me think that someone's been messing with somebody else's underwear drawer ;).
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Seabeast 4 years ago
Was her vision going? Charles Bonnet syndrome? https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/eyes-charles-bonnet-syndrome#:~:text=Charles%20Bonnet%20syndrome%20refers%20to,as%20age-related%20macular%20degeneration.
Nubmaeme 4 years ago
Sometimes those near death will hallucinate. Maybe they're able to see things the rest of us can't because they are, for a short time, in two realms. During the last day of her life, Mom would talk about people coming down through the ceiling and others coming up through the floor. She would try to step on the ones coming up through the floor and push them back down. She said she didn't like them but she did like the ones coming through the ceiling. About 12 hours later, she passed away in Dad's arms.
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My last boyfriend was a Dutch man from Amsterdam that I met in Saint Petersburg, Russia- and now I am seeing a man from Saint Petersburg, whom I met in Amsterdam. Mildly strange.
#31
When my mom was pregnant with me, an old woman came up to her and told her she was pregnant and poked her in the stomach. my mom was only about 2 weeks along and she nor anyone else knew for a while. and she wasnt even trying to get pregnant. my mom was fairly thin at this time and didnt have a baby bump
Sam Chilton 4 years ago
Sometimes it's just the glow the woman has, or she acts a little different. I could tell a family friend was pregnant before she even told my mum later that day, and she was a skinny girl with no bump.
Hello Dolly 4 years ago
I had a friend who was very sensitive to the chances of odors women gave off he new I was pregnant before I even knew.
Lynne Monteith 4 years ago
I went into work one morning poured myself a cup of coffee, sat down and just looked at it. I couldn't drink it. My coworker looks at me and gives me the quizzical Hmm? look. I reply to her with a Maybe Hmm? look. By weeks end I knew, pregnant.
#32
My friend had told me that I would find out within 3 weeks that I was pregnant and it would be a boy. 3 weeks later, to the day, I found out I was pregnant. I didn't find out that I was having a boy until 3 days before I had him. And my friend called me a month and a half before I had my son to tell me that I would have him on the 20th. Sure enough after 36 hours of labor I had my son on Nov. 20th. I always thought it was kinda creepy that she got it right.
#33
My entire relationship with my boyfriend. He and I are both in college and didn't meet until earlier this year. However, we apparently lived about 15-minutes from each other our whole lives and he attended the high school I was supposed to go to (I went to a local magnet school sort of thing, which as it would turn out, he had applied to but was not accepted). He and I have a ton of mutual friends from my hometown. One of my best friends from high school is his best friend at college, which is how we finally met. We later found out that his mother and father both went to high school with my father, and mine is still in contact with a lot of his extended family about 30 years later. Over the summer, he and his family moved from a town over from me, to a town over to where my mom lived while she was my age and dating my father. They met when they were our age via a mutual friend, even during the same time of year. So now, I live in the same home my dad lived in when he was my age, dating the son of two people he knew in high school, and said son and his family live right near where my mom lived. He and I have unknowingly gone on dates to places my parents would go when they were our age.
#34
Dad died back in 1977. When my mom died in 2007 we came across my dad's old wallet while cleaning out her house. His driver's license expired the day that he died.
Hammer 4 years ago
I don't know where you're from but in the US driver's licenses expire on your birthday.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago (edited)
1. You don't know in which state or even country this person lives. 2. Even in the US the expiration date differs per state. In Oregon your license is valid for 8 years, in Texas it depends on your age and in Kentucky it's valid for 4 years at a time. Some expiration dates are indeed in sync with your birthday, in other states it's the date that the license was issued. 3. In other countries they may have other rules.
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What do you think ?
Nadine Debard 4 years ago (edited)
On the 10th of January, while driving on the highway, I saw about 30 storks in a field. Storks never nest in this area and it was so noticeable than the newspapers mentioned it. As I was trying to get pregnant for 3 years, with 3 miscarriages, I told the storks off for not bringing me a baby. When driving again on this highway 2 weeks later, I thanked the storks for my positive pregnancy test! They disappeared a few days afterwards. According to my first ultrasound, I got pregnant on the 13th of January. Now I'm on my 19th week and everything seems OK so far. Thank you, nice and majestic storks!! (Now I'm growing cabbages and roses, just in case...)
Steve Wilson 4 years ago
Decades ago my friend was hitchhiking in Wyoming when somebody picked him up. “Where you going?” the driver asked. “Illinois “, my friend said. They drove through SD, MN, & WI exchanging only small talk. When they crossed the Illinois state line the driver asked him where he was going specifically. When he mentioned the town the driver seemed surprised as that was where he was going, too. A few more questions & it turned out that the driver was the brother of the person my friend was going to visit. They were both going to the same house & had a good story to tell when they got there. A few years later the same friend was coming to visit me in Okla City. He’d never been there before so when he got there he pulled into a gas station & as he was pumping gas he asked the guy at the pump next to him if he knew how to get to a certain address. The guy looked at him & said “What’s that address?” When he repeated it the guy said “that’s my house”. Guy was my brother.
MauKini 4 years ago
8 years ago i met this very handsome man, we rushed into a relatioonship. Turned out that we were born in the same hospital six days apart and "knew" each other from that day. Also we have been asigned to the same job, covering the same event in the united states. We are both from germany and neither of us lived in USA. Also we fond a picture from me at a party in a whole different town. He is also in the picture with his friend in the background. Next monday we will be married two years.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago (edited)
Interestingly, this article is selections from an 8 year old Reddit thread.
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Treessimontrees 4 years ago
I was flying from London to Delhi and was a bit nervous. The lady sat next to me said she was nervous too, we chatted for a while before take-off. We went our separate ways in Delhi. I then started a job 6 months later in Sydney and she was the receptionist at the company. Gets a bit crazy now. After we talked for a while we realised we were renting apartments on the same street. We mutually knew someone getting married in a few weeks and were both going to the same wedding. We were talking at the wedding about future trips and so on, and we'd both booked to go diving on the Great Barrier Reef in July that year. We were flying on the SAME flight. If we'd been sat together again we'd both have had to accept the universe was putting us together. We're still good friends to this day!
Kris Cummins 4 years ago
An ex of mine lived in Maryland during high school and right after graduation her house was robbed. A couple years later she is visiting her grandma in Pittsburgh and decides to kill some time by going into a p**n shop. She’s perusing the jewelry and she finds her class ring which was stolen in Maryland. Do the odds on that one, I’ll wait.
JessG 4 years ago
BP censored your word P**N, I guess they thought it was that other word P*RN. For a second I was like "you're looking at jewelry in a P*RN shop?!?! Lol, it took me a second:-D
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Ali Marie 4 years ago
For high school graduation my cousin and I were given a trip to visit Ireland. We were out at a bar our last night there and apparently this group of young American soldiers had been looking for an excuse to talk to us. Now my cousin straight up looks like a super model so no surprise right. Anyways apparently we looked irish enough these guys thought we were locals. The bar was closing and everyone was leaving so they sent one of the group to "break the ice" and ask me for a late night place to get some food, as I was clearly the "more approachable " one. The minute I spoke to tell them I had no clue where to go it was clear I was also american. So he asked where I was from and turned out that he was the childhood best friend of my best friend from a completely different town! The whole conversation was one if those "no way you too" moments that has always stuck with me. If all the gin joints in all the world right...
JessG 4 years ago
And?! Did you hang out? Keep in touch? What happened? I must know!
Load More Replies... Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago (edited)
Before my mother died we were going through her papers & there were the love letters she & my dad exchanged while he was stationed in Germany after the war. She told me I could read them. I said no they're private between you & dad. After she died I found them again. My best friend came to visit & I decided to burn them without reading them, like the smoke from the letters returning to them. They burned quickly and easily because they were thin overseas mail paper. I have had depression my whole life and wondered if any of it was genetic. We got to one letter from my dad that would not burn no matter how long we held it to the flame. My friend said "I think you're supposed to read it. I did, and what he wrote to my mom laid it out so clearly to me that he was deeply depressed, drinking himself to sleep each night. I had my answer in that letter! I folded it up, we again put it to the fire and it quickly and thoroughly burned up. Gibbs rule #39: There are no such things as coincidences
Natalia Lopez 4 years ago
A couple of years ago I had a dream where a friend was pregnant. I called her that same day and told her. She was like “I’m sure I’m not pregnant”. A month later she called me saying she was one month pregnant.
ChickyChicky 4 years ago
I had a dream about a friend who had two kids at the time. In the dream she had five kids, two of which were twins. I told her about the dream on FaceBook and we laughed about it, and forgot. Years later, after she had moved to a different state and mostly fallen out of touch, she tagged me in the same post to laugh about her twins, and the one more she had after them.
Load More Replies... Seabeast 4 years ago (edited)
I went on a hiking trip with my sister and for various reasons (mostly weather related), we ended up driving back to town hours later than we'd planned, just before sundown. I spotted a woman on a bicycle that I vaguely recognized riding on the shoulder and stopped to offer her a ride as it was nearly dark, the city limits were still 50km away, and the sun was about to set. (She turned out to be a cycling clubmate.) We had only just put her bike in the back and turned to get into the car, when the skies opened up and a torrential thunderstorm started. Somehow I was there *just* in time to rescue her. When I think of all the changes of mind my sister and I had throughout the day, all the unexpected delays, it was as if I was supposed to be there at exactly that time.
Misha Writer 4 years ago
I worked in a very small day care back in the day. It was in an old house, and the various rooms were classrooms, thus each class was very very small. The toddler class had four kids, but was allowed five. The kids birthdays were December 16, 17, 18, and 19. The teacher for that class was a December 20 baby. A prospective parent called in asking about the toddler room, if there was space for her kid. We all jokingly said only if the kid's birthday is December 15 or 21. Mom comes in, fills out the paper work, and the kid's birthday is December 21.
Nadine Debard 4 years ago (edited)
On the 10th of January, while driving on the highway, I saw about 30 storks in a field. Storks never nest in this area and it was so noticeable than the newspapers mentioned it. As I was trying to get pregnant for 3 years, with 3 miscarriages, I told the storks off for not bringing me a baby. When driving again on this highway 2 weeks later, I thanked the storks for my positive pregnancy test! They disappeared a few days afterwards. According to my first ultrasound, I got pregnant on the 13th of January. Now I'm on my 19th week and everything seems OK so far. Thank you, nice and majestic storks!! (Now I'm growing cabbages and roses, just in case...)
Steve Wilson 4 years ago
Decades ago my friend was hitchhiking in Wyoming when somebody picked him up. “Where you going?” the driver asked. “Illinois “, my friend said. They drove through SD, MN, & WI exchanging only small talk. When they crossed the Illinois state line the driver asked him where he was going specifically. When he mentioned the town the driver seemed surprised as that was where he was going, too. A few more questions & it turned out that the driver was the brother of the person my friend was going to visit. They were both going to the same house & had a good story to tell when they got there. A few years later the same friend was coming to visit me in Okla City. He’d never been there before so when he got there he pulled into a gas station & as he was pumping gas he asked the guy at the pump next to him if he knew how to get to a certain address. The guy looked at him & said “What’s that address?” When he repeated it the guy said “that’s my house”. Guy was my brother.
MauKini 4 years ago
8 years ago i met this very handsome man, we rushed into a relatioonship. Turned out that we were born in the same hospital six days apart and "knew" each other from that day. Also we have been asigned to the same job, covering the same event in the united states. We are both from germany and neither of us lived in USA. Also we fond a picture from me at a party in a whole different town. He is also in the picture with his friend in the background. Next monday we will be married two years.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago (edited)
Interestingly, this article is selections from an 8 year old Reddit thread.
Load More Replies... Treessimontrees 4 years ago
I was flying from London to Delhi and was a bit nervous. The lady sat next to me said she was nervous too, we chatted for a while before take-off. We went our separate ways in Delhi. I then started a job 6 months later in Sydney and she was the receptionist at the company. Gets a bit crazy now. After we talked for a while we realised we were renting apartments on the same street. We mutually knew someone getting married in a few weeks and were both going to the same wedding. We were talking at the wedding about future trips and so on, and we'd both booked to go diving on the Great Barrier Reef in July that year. We were flying on the SAME flight. If we'd been sat together again we'd both have had to accept the universe was putting us together. We're still good friends to this day!
Kris Cummins 4 years ago
An ex of mine lived in Maryland during high school and right after graduation her house was robbed. A couple years later she is visiting her grandma in Pittsburgh and decides to kill some time by going into a p**n shop. She’s perusing the jewelry and she finds her class ring which was stolen in Maryland. Do the odds on that one, I’ll wait.
JessG 4 years ago
BP censored your word P**N, I guess they thought it was that other word P*RN. For a second I was like "you're looking at jewelry in a P*RN shop?!?! Lol, it took me a second:-D
Load More Replies... Ali Marie 4 years ago
For high school graduation my cousin and I were given a trip to visit Ireland. We were out at a bar our last night there and apparently this group of young American soldiers had been looking for an excuse to talk to us. Now my cousin straight up looks like a super model so no surprise right. Anyways apparently we looked irish enough these guys thought we were locals. The bar was closing and everyone was leaving so they sent one of the group to "break the ice" and ask me for a late night place to get some food, as I was clearly the "more approachable " one. The minute I spoke to tell them I had no clue where to go it was clear I was also american. So he asked where I was from and turned out that he was the childhood best friend of my best friend from a completely different town! The whole conversation was one if those "no way you too" moments that has always stuck with me. If all the gin joints in all the world right...
JessG 4 years ago
And?! Did you hang out? Keep in touch? What happened? I must know!
Load More Replies... Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago (edited)
Before my mother died we were going through her papers & there were the love letters she & my dad exchanged while he was stationed in Germany after the war. She told me I could read them. I said no they're private between you & dad. After she died I found them again. My best friend came to visit & I decided to burn them without reading them, like the smoke from the letters returning to them. They burned quickly and easily because they were thin overseas mail paper. I have had depression my whole life and wondered if any of it was genetic. We got to one letter from my dad that would not burn no matter how long we held it to the flame. My friend said "I think you're supposed to read it. I did, and what he wrote to my mom laid it out so clearly to me that he was deeply depressed, drinking himself to sleep each night. I had my answer in that letter! I folded it up, we again put it to the fire and it quickly and thoroughly burned up. Gibbs rule #39: There are no such things as coincidences
Natalia Lopez 4 years ago
A couple of years ago I had a dream where a friend was pregnant. I called her that same day and told her. She was like “I’m sure I’m not pregnant”. A month later she called me saying she was one month pregnant.
ChickyChicky 4 years ago
I had a dream about a friend who had two kids at the time. In the dream she had five kids, two of which were twins. I told her about the dream on FaceBook and we laughed about it, and forgot. Years later, after she had moved to a different state and mostly fallen out of touch, she tagged me in the same post to laugh about her twins, and the one more she had after them.
Load More Replies... Seabeast 4 years ago (edited)
I went on a hiking trip with my sister and for various reasons (mostly weather related), we ended up driving back to town hours later than we'd planned, just before sundown. I spotted a woman on a bicycle that I vaguely recognized riding on the shoulder and stopped to offer her a ride as it was nearly dark, the city limits were still 50km away, and the sun was about to set. (She turned out to be a cycling clubmate.) We had only just put her bike in the back and turned to get into the car, when the skies opened up and a torrential thunderstorm started. Somehow I was there *just* in time to rescue her. When I think of all the changes of mind my sister and I had throughout the day, all the unexpected delays, it was as if I was supposed to be there at exactly that time.
Misha Writer 4 years ago
I worked in a very small day care back in the day. It was in an old house, and the various rooms were classrooms, thus each class was very very small. The toddler class had four kids, but was allowed five. The kids birthdays were December 16, 17, 18, and 19. The teacher for that class was a December 20 baby. A prospective parent called in asking about the toddler room, if there was space for her kid. We all jokingly said only if the kid's birthday is December 15 or 21. Mom comes in, fills out the paper work, and the kid's birthday is December 21.
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