58 Stories Of Crazy Coincidences That Made People Question Reality

"My daughter was hanging out in my bedroom chatting with me and for some reason she absentmindedly picked up my old address book and was thumbing through it. She randomly came across an old friends name and said Hey are you still in touch with Old Friend? I said I haven’t talk to him in four or five years. Last time he called he asked me for a reference for a new job. One hour later Old Friend called and asked me for a reference for a new job."

"My mum and I were heading out for a morning shopping trip so I was in the shower pretty early, around 7.15am or so. My grandpa had been ill with a cold - which could be concerning as he only had one lung - but was recuperating at home and had seemed perfectly fine when we spoke to him on the phone the previous day. Chipper, even. Yet out of nowhere, my brain suddenly went: "We're not going shopping, he's died". I have intrusive thoughts every so often so I just told myself to shut up and get on with the shampoo.

Five minutes later mum bangs on the door to tell me my grandpa had passed away in his sleep and we need to head over to his house.

I don't believe in psychics or precognition or anything like that, and I've never even thought of myself as a particularly perceptive person either. Like, I'm as dense as a brick most times. Which is why this still has me spooked fourteen years later."

“One time, me and my dad were discussing his friend while out driving at night without many other cars on the road. As we were talking, we pulled up to a red light, and the car waiting in front was my dad’s friend. He didn’t even live close to there.”

“I met this guy at work and we found out we used to live on the same street growing up in NY. And then we found out we even used to live in the same town in Brazil.”

"For years my pin number was the radio frequency of an old rock station that no longer exists. I used that pin for like 10 years, then one night, watching Futurama. Fry says the pin for his debit card, the price of a slice of pepperoni and a large coke or something like that, 10.77... MF just blurts out MY SPECIAL PIN NUMBER THAT ONLY I KNEW! Had to change it after that. The station btw was 107.7 The End, an old alternative rock station out of Seattle."

"One time while building a house I misdirected a crane operator and he accidentally put a hole in a plywood floor. We had to cut the hole out and put another piece of plywood in. I was already super stressed as it was my poor signalling that caused the accident, so the idea of taking more time and resources to fix the hole was an awful vibe. My boss cut the hole out at random, wasn't a perfect rectangle, 19in on one side, and 22.5in on the other. I went to the scrap pile of lumber to grab a piece of ply to measure and cut the piece out of, but there on the top of the scrap pile was a random piece of plywood that looked suspiciously close to the measurements I needed, I got my tape measure out and measured, sure enough it was 19in on one side, and 22.5in on the other. It fit the hole cutout perfectly. It probably only would have taken me an extra minute or two to measure and cut the piece I needed, but to have it randomly ready in a pile of garbage wood at the very end of the day in the waning evening light...I am not a religious man, it felt like the grace of God."

"When my older son was very young he’d talk about how he used to be “Burt Roberts” (last name changed to protect the innocent).

Burt had a twin brother named “Bern”. Burt’s wife was named Betty. Burt was from Idaho (location changed).

A lot of this was pretty obvious: my wife’s family is from Idaho. My wife’s name is Betty.

Later, for fun, I did a Google search.

There was a Burton Roberts from Boise, Idaho. He had a brother, Bernard (Bern). Burton was married to Betty. Burton died two weeks after my son was born; my son was born six weeks preterm.

Obviously just a coincidence, but man for a minute I was flabbergasted."

"Several years ago I was at a coffee shop with some friends and one of them had an ipad, another friend went to unlock it and asked him what his 4 digit unlock code was, so I just blurted out 4 random digits pretending like I knew it, and it actually worked. I had never unlocked it before or knew of the same numbers being used for anything else, or his phone number, etc."

"I've had a few, but this was the most recent:

About a month ago, I decided to put on a movie. But not just any movie. I wanted to put on a random movie. So I used a random number generator to pick a number between 1 and 1000, and I would then find the corresponding movie on Metacritic's Top 1000 Movies of All Time.

The first movie I landed on was "Particle Fever," a documentary about the search for the Higgs boson. Toward the end of the film, they reference "Cave of Forgotten Dreams," the Werner Herzog joint, one of my all-time favorite movies. I thought about putting that on next, but I reminded myself: naw, dawg; we're using the random number generator now. There are rules.

You can probably see where this is going. I used the random number generator a second time. I wound up with #463. #463: Cave of Forgotten Dreams.

Rough time sleeping that night, mateys."

“We probably scared the sh*t out of some poor old couple while on a road trip. We were going to my grandmother’s, and we followed the SAME freaking car for over 4 hours, and eventually stopped at the same restaurant, and the same gas station, and only ever stopped when we pulled into my grandma's residential neighborhood.”

“When I was in year 7 I used to always giggle when a kids name got called over the loudspeaker to go to the office cause it was a name that sounded rude. I didn’t know this kid they were in a different year level to me never met them just remembered the name cause it was funny. Fast forward to now I’m in my 30’s with kids and it turns out that funny named kid is my daughters best friends Mum.”

"Last week I am at work doing a job, my coworker strikes up a conversation with the homeowner at the job site and mentions that his parents live across the street from him, he also asks how long he had lived there. Homeowner responds that it has only been a few months, he just moved to the city from small town several hours away.

Co-worker laughs and says he was born and raised in that town. Then asks "Do you know the mini-plex at the corner of X street and Y street? I lived right across from that."

Homeowner looks confused, "do you mean at 103 X street? That was my house"

They talked more, and discovered that my coworkers parents had sold their house to this Homeowner when they moved to the city. He lived there for 15 years, and then sold it to move to the same city, across the street from the previous owners. Small world."

"A few years ago I was brushing my teeth thinking about how messed up designed obsolescence is. I had probably just watched a documentary about the pitfalls of capitalism or corporate personhood or something and thought to myself “good thing toothbrushes are pretty sturdy, yeah the bristles bend after a while but you can’t really work in an expiration date on something like this” when mid thought my toothbrush snaps clean in half. I’m left holding the handle in one hand and have the brush end sticking out of my mouth and I stare at my reflection in the mirror for a good 15 seconds completely baffled. 'God, is that you?'"

"I’ve had quite a few dreams that have “come true” more or less. It’s happened all throughout my life and I’ve forgotten most of them but a few I can remember off the top of my head are:

I once dreamt of receiving one of those big yellowish orange envelopes in the mail and a few days later I got one. It was some photos a friend sent me from a summer trip we went on. I was kinda expecting them but there was no reason for the big envelope I dreamt about. When I asked my friend why she sent them in that thing she said that’s just all she had.

Once dreamt I was in a police ride along and we went on a car chase. The following morning I just missed an important fedex delivery I jumped in my car and chased after the truck to get the driver to come back.

Dreamt I got stung by a bee. Got stung by a bee a few days later.

When I was about 10 I dreamt my aunt whom I barely knew was pregnant. I told my mom, my mom said no way, auntie doesn’t want any more kids…She was pregnant. She told the family a few days later.

Recently I had a really bad dream that I was in my car, eating lunch, and someone came up and shot me to death thru my window. About a week later someone was shot to death in their car in the parking lot of a place where I get lunch once a week."

“I went on a long ‘walk & talk’ with my SO. We were talking about the soul and speculating about its transcendent nature for the duration of the walk. As we headed home, we crossed the street and my SO gestured at the car waiting at the light. Its license plate was ‘SOUL’.”

"I got into the elevator at work after lunch and it was pretty crowded. I bumped into this guy so the doors would close and when I turned to apologize I recognized him as an old boyfriend's brother. So I said "Devon?" (real name because it's not very common which is important). He says "yeah? Do I know you?" I said "I used to date your brother ages ago! You were just a little kid." And he says "I'm an only child." And I said "but your name is Devon?" And he says "yeah, but I don't have any siblings."

It was the strangest thing."

"There’s a cafe in DC that I frequent when I’m in town. Every time I’ve gone to that cafe I’ve run into someone from different points in my life, neither of the people I’ve met live in DC. This has happened four times. The fourth time I had a friend from elementary school, high school, college and post college all in the same cafe. The crazy thing is that the cafe is called compass, which I associate with finding things."

“When my brother and I were little we went to my aunts Lakehouse for winter break. One of my aunts friends invited us over to dinner, it was my best friends family Who had family on the same lake and was vacationing at the same time.”

"I watched a (4 number) lottery on TV when I was a child. After the first number coincided with my home's address, I quickly said the other three out loud before they were pulled, those other 3 numbers came up one after the other.

My home address WAS the lottery numbers. I turned off the TV and went to bed after that."

“Was in Disney in January 2020 wearing a Bills hat. A fellow wearing the same bills hat shouted go bills to me. Later in the day, we both are at the haircut salon in Magic Kingdom having our sons get their first haircuts. We get to talking and turns out he lives on the same street as me and my wife. I see him from time to time, but haven’t talked much since. Small world we live in.”