21 Wild Coincidences People Have Experienced

‘It turns out he’d spent a year in my parents’ hometown'
21 Wild Coincidences People Have Experienced

On one hand, I realize that the sheer size of our world and population means that things are usually more likely than expected. True randomness doesn’t feel nearly as random as we’d like it to be. In a room of 75 people, there’s a 99.9 percent chance two of them share a birthday. Statistics and probability have an incredible ability to be somehow interesting and boring at the same time.

But here’s my stance: Screw all that. I’m not on this earth to crunch numbers, I’m here to experience an occasional sense of wonder. Somebody has the same birthday as me? Heck yeah, brother. Quarter came up heads five times in a row? That’s my lucky coin forever. 

I encourage you to choose that same path of joy while reading the following list of bizarre coincidences that have befallen a bunch of Redditors.

EdithWhartonsFarts 1y ago When I was in 8th grade (around 1990) my family moved from one part of Houston to another, but it meant totally new schools, new friends, new everything. So, my dad being the adorable clueless guy he was bought pens with my name and number on them. Не thought my skater punk ass was gonna pass out sparkly purple pens with my number on them to 'make friends. Well, I thought they were so hilarious that I gave them out like crazy and had given them all out by like day 2. Well, flash forward about 15
shimmerer 1y ago My then-girlfriend and I drove a couple hours to the beach, hiked into the dunes a 1/2 mile, set up tent in the sand and spent the night. Next day we take down the tent, hike back, and realize we don't have her car keys after looking through everything twice. I go back and start randomly, hopelessly sifting through the sand around the campsite, doing a grid, thinking there's no way I'm going to find her keys. Finally my foot hits keys! I reach down and pick up...MY keys, which I didn't know I'd even brought, which
Zmirzlina . 1y ago Edited 1y ago 1.) I spent the night in a b&b in a small town in France and had a dream about my good friend. It was super vivid. Uncannily so. The next morning over breakfast I looked at the guest book and saw he had stayed there a few weeks before me. I waited until it was morning in the States and called him, figuring it was a sign to reach out. His wife answered and told me he had passed away earlier that night.
2.) we had a picnic in a park for a free summer concert and someone took a picture of my wife and I. In the background is another family with a small kid staring at the camera. The woman was a foster mom and two years later we were matched with a kid - it was the same one staring at the camera. We didn't notice this for a long time until the foster mom was over (she's now family) and noticed herself in the background of our photo on our digital frame. Our first family photo before being a family!
iscarafolha . 1y ago | sat next to my doppelgänger on a flight. Same name, same birthday-we were both headed to weddings. Here's the kicker: our dates were long-lost siblings reuniting. It felt like the universe hit copy-paste on our lives. Mind blown!
Tawny_Frogmouth 1y ago I was studying abroad halfway around the world when I met a guy who asked if he could sit down and practice his English with me. Не explains that he had learned as an exchange student in the US but hadn't had a lot of opportunities to speak it since. What part of the US, I ask? Oh, they sent me to the middle of nowhere. A tiny little nothing town. You wouldn't have ever heard of it. Well, I'm from the midwest, it's worth a try. It turns out he'd spent a year in my parents'
. 1y ago Went on vacation to another continent to celebrate my birthday. Met a member of staff at the hotel with my name, my age and the same birthday.
DOB THE HmNotToday1308 . 1y ago | randomly met a boy on the beach while visiting my grandmother. I was 10 he was 14. I'm American, He's English. Years later I'm on a message board trying to find out if Dead Like Me is coming back. Begin conversation with random guy on message board. It's him. We meet up and get married within months. 20 years and 3 kids later....
PAR Art-Soft 1y ago I, completely by chance, got tattooed in my mom's childhood bedroom. | made an appointment with a tattoo artist, and when | was on my way there, the address sounded familiar. So I texted my mom, and she confirmed that it was her childhood home, a pastors house built next to a church.
congenitalstupidity 1y ago I went to Iceland last year and didn't announce it to anyone or anything. I was driving the south coast and took a side quest to a waterfall. Was minding my own business and heard someone say 'you look just like my friend!'. I turned around and I WAS the friend. Ran into a girl I went to high school with (we grew up in a very small rural town) that I had not seen in probably 5 years? We just happened to be at the same waterfall, in Iceland, at the exact same time, with neither
notahouseflipper a 1y ago I was once in the military and stationed at a small base where everyone knew everyone. There was one guy who the girls thought a little strange, but harmless, I'll call him, Joe Smith. Whenever my then wife or I would say or do something dumb, the other would say, You're as dumb as Joe Smith. Fast forward 10 years. We haven't said his name in all that time and we're on the other side of the world. She did something dumb, I say the key phrase and we got a good laugh at that. 30
No_Angle875 1y ago Put an offer in on a house on a Friday. That same weekend Sunday, started using an online dating app after recently getting divorced. First and only girl I'm talking to seems pretty awesome. I ask if I can pick her up to take her out to eat. Tells me her address. Her house is 6 houses down on the same exact block as mine. Been married almost 3 years with 2 amazing kids.
JacPhlash 1y ago 1st date- we're going over all our background stuff and it gets to where did you go to school? She mentions her high school and I mention that | was a camp counselor there for many summers. She whips off her sunglasses and says, That's where I know you from! I did the quick math and realized she wasn't another counselor when I was there. She was a camper! I asked her if this was weird, and she said she was cool. (I was 40 and she was 30 when we started dating) We're celebrating our 3rd
No-Investigator-4030 OP . 1y ago Here's mine: A few years ago, I was randomly paired with a guy for a group project in college. We didn't know each other at all, but we worked really well together and got an A. Fast forward a couple of years, and I walk into a new job on my first day, and guess who's there? The same guy! We end up becoming best friends. The bizarre part? We discovered our parents had been high school sweethearts and almost got married. Now, our families joke that it's fate bringing them back together through us
AquamarineCheetah . 1y ago Was selected to work in a group with 4 randomly paired people at a course I was taking. 2 of the women found out that they had the same first name as the other's last name and vice versa. Relatively uncommon names too! We were pretty baffled and they showed their ID's to prove it. It would be about the equivalent (using pseudonyms of course) as Taylor Kennedy and Kennedy Taylor but probably even more rare than that. Very bizarre and we all had a perplexed laugh.
Longjumping_Golf_954 . 1y ago A day or two after I got back from my mom's funeral I was working my retail job. I was ringing up a customer for beer and they didn't have their ID. After a bit of complaining they said My name is ... ... and said my mom's entire name...first middle and last name. Freaked me out.
skrilledcheese 1y ago My (now ex) wife and I were heading down the interstate, we were in a neighboring state, and it was pretty late at night. We see a car pulled over with it's flashers on. It's late, we are in the middle of nowhere, so we decide to stop and see if they need help. We notice it's a lone woman. I'm a good dude, but I'm big (6'3, 240lbs) and a bit rough looking (prominent facial scars, arms tatted up), so my wife steps out with me. It's a good thing too, because it was her childhood
skinando 1y ago In the same year I had two: Walking to my gate in Amsterdam | bumped into a childhood friend. We were both flying to London. I was on vacation, he was on business. Не sat in the row in front of me. We were both from Brazil. We hung out in London. Back in Brazil some months later I was in a World Cup game. Behind me sat a couple speaking English. I turn around and it was my another friend and his wife.
AccordingAstronaut8 . 1y ago The most bizarre coincidence I've ever experienced was running into a childhood friend on a remote island while on vacation. Neither of us knew the other was traveling, and it still baffles me how we both ended up in the same obscure location at the same time.
danitykane 1y ago Probably too late, but I gotta add mine in. Was at the state fair with some friends in high school. My friend ran into his 1st grade teacher and was surprised that she still remembered him after all of those years. After they're done talking, we walk away and I say That's so cool. I wonder if my first grade teacher would remember me. Immediately after I say that, I hear my name and turn around to see my first grade teacher standing right behind me, totally remembered me and my family. Was such a weird experience.
treearemadeofbark . 1y ago Edited 1y ago A friend saw me at a busstop so he came and shook my hand. Then he said Sorry, you look like someone I know. That's when I realized it wasn't my friend and this guy just really looks like him. We both just happened to look like someone else in eachothers life.

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