58 Stories Of Crazy Coincidences That Made People Question Reality

"Slightly silly one imo, but in college I was assigned a 4 digit numbered mailbox. I began using it as a pin number for credit cards and such.

Imagine my husband's (then boyfriend's) surprise a few years later when I had him enter my PIN number to pull money from the ATM while I was sick - and it was the last four digits of his social security number?

I know it is just probability but it was so weird!"

"I remember being 6, and my family was driving in rush traffic to my grandmothers house to spend some of our summer. I was really sad because I had just finished kindergarten and my best friend were going to attend another school than me. I was crying and looking out the window when a car tried to overtake us, but the traffic were moving slowly so the car ended up driving next to us for a little while. And there sat my best friend, looking out the window at me.

Weird coincidence, and my parents did not believe me at first, but they recognised the driver, otherwise I would dismiss this memory as a dream or false memory."

"Mine aren’t as crazy but it’s legitimately happened two times in my life. The first time was years ago when I was only 12. Every Friday evening we used to go visit my Grandparents who only lived a few miles away. We were getting ready to leave and I had this thought of “how weird would it be if you were the last person to ever talk to someone before they died?” Anyways we drive home and as soon as we get inside the phone was ringing so I picked it up. It was my Aunt calling to tell us that my cousin had passed away unexpectedly. The other incident happened a few years ago. Normally I have zero issues falling asleep, but for whatever reason I just couldn’t sleep. I was tossing and turning. I tried pacing around the house and even taking a shower but no matter what I did, I couldn’t fall asleep. I was just laying in bed watching my alarm clock. I ended up calling into work saying I was “sick” because I knew I couldn’t go in on zero sleep. About 20 minutes after I called in, I got a phone call from my Mom saying a family member passed away in an accident.

I generally chalk these up to weird coincidences but still. It’s definitely weird."

"This may sound silly, but here goes. I'm not a superstitious person. I'm very skeptical and really just believe sometimes things happen. I was working in a big tourist town in northern Michigan. I got up late for work, like really late. I get dressed and start walking. I had about a 3 mile walk. It would take me at least an hour. As I'm walking fast. I start thinking, pleading please somehow let me get there on time. But I knew there was no chance. About that time my best friends mother stops beside me and asks if I needed a ride. I was so relieved I must have thanked her 20 times. it just seems odd. I walked this road every day an no one had ever stopped to ask if I wanted a ride. however the one time when I was desperate for a lift she stopped."

"When I was a freshman in college, on the other side of the State I lived in, the dorm had two wings (10-11 floors) joined by a central elevator bank. An acquaintance on my floor, the other wing, asked me to look after a friend of hers from home who was arriving while she was in class. I said yes. She put a note on her door for her friend to come to my room.

At the approximate time, there was a knock at my door. I opened it and the two of us stared at each other.

"You know," I said, "you look just like my cousin!"

"I AM your cousin, idiot," Trudy said.

Truth be told, we were 2nd cousins, and hadn't seen much of each other in our lives."

"I had a dream that a friend of mine and I were living in a loft style apartment with exposed brick and told him about it at band practice. He enjoyed the term “exposed brick” and used it , metaphorically, in a song he was writing. Fast Forward 7 years later, both of us living in separate areas than we grew up in all those years, multiple career changes for both, and by “coincidence” we both ended up back in the same (different than we grew up in) town. A guy I went to college with showed me his apartment, of which he loved and had a vacancy in their building...but I needed a roommate to help foot the bill...you guessed it, that same guy I had the dream about was looking for a new place to rent... this place had exposed brick and was one of few in the area, at that time."

"My mom had a weird vision of driving with my (then baby) niece. She started choking and my mom got her out of the car and performed the Heimlich maneuver (or whatever you call it on babies). It was really weird, so she kept it to herself. My sister calls our mom later that day freaking out because my niece had choked in their home. Her dad, my BIL, gave her the Heimlich maneuver. Our mom told her about her vision and my sister said to call her the next time she has one of those."

"I was at the doctor a few years ago for a rudimentary blood test. I never normally care about that sir if thing but for whatever reason I felt a little queasy. I decided to get a snack from a nearby store but remembered then that I had forgotten my wallet rushing out the door earlier. I looked down and a gust of wind blew a 100kr (like 10 dollars?) Note out from under a car."

"When I was in grade school, me and another kid named Rocky got put into timeout during P.E. We were told to sit in the hallway. This hallway was very long. We were at one end and a door leading outside was at the other. While sitting there Rocky was messing with his necklace. He took a piece off and threw it down the hallway. At the exact same time that it took the piece to reach the door.....BAAAAAM! Someone on the other side of the door kicked the door. It appeared as if the piece gained 40 lbs before hitting the door. We looked at each other in awe and for a split second contemplated all existence."

"My house, a cousin's house in my home country and a couin's house in Paris all caught on fire on the same day. My sister and my cousin back home both caused the fire almost identical fashion (playing with fire-matches). We know it was the same day as, when my mother called her sister (my aunty) to let her know on the day after it had happened, she said the same had happened to them.

As for my cousin/family in Paris (not sure if there's was the same day, but was definitely within the same week or so), they had sadly lost two lives: my aunty and my cousin (who was a kid and is/was the same age-ish as my sister and cousin who both caused the fires in each home). My uncle who survived had a really tough life thereafter."

"I was hanging out with 4 buddies, and looked at my phone and said ‘huh, my phones at 69% charge, nice’ The other 3 looked at their cell phones and also had 69% charge! It was the weirdest coincidence and we all started laughing. (Buddy #4 was at 80% tho, he could not join in on the fun)."

"One of my very good friends and I met in 2019. We are 4 years apart and live in different areas of the same country. We met in online communities and clicked due to similar backgrounds and interests. After several months, we realized that we are a lot closer and have more in common than what I would have thought humanly possible.

Despite not meeting until established adults, we have lived almost parallel lives. We’ve talked about it a lot and have found multiple points in time where we were both going through something life changing—in the same month of the same year. I think there may have even been a few times it was almost the same date. A few times we were going through the same thing.

Since becoming friends, there have been several times we have felt the other person going through something big. It’s like a twin sense. We still haven’t figured out what it means, but we both believe there is a reason for everything."

"When I was a university student, I went on holiday to Northumberland with my parents. On one of the days, we decided to spend an afternoon in Bamburgh. It was a cloudy day, so it wasn't particularly beach weather and we decided to walk down there purely for the wildlife and maybe look for sea glass.

As we were walking the path to the dunes, I saw a girl immediately in front of us who looked like my friend from university. It turned out my friend was visiting her boyfriend (in a town 60 miles away) and they'd chosen this cloudy day to go to Bamburgh, to the beach, to the little path on the dunes right in front of me.

We snapped a selfie, but her day trip was almost over and it would have been weird to tag along with her and her boyfriend, so we parted ways there and then."

“My phone rang, and said it was my friend JP. I picked it up, and someone else was on the line. The person who dialed me had gone to work at JP’s former employer, and had misdialed a number getting my phone, which had that number as a contact in it.”

"My Grandfather called my sister and I, Pete and George when we were kids. We always asked him which was which. He said he didn’t know. My sister married Pete and during his last hospital stay I told him about my fiancé, now husband, George. It took us a little bit to remember but then we were dumbfounded.

About 10 years earlier I was at work. I felt I just had to look at the clock. It was 11:45am. When I got home, my parents, sister, aunts and uncles were at the house. I said, calmly, "Great Grandma passed (nodding) at 11:45am." They were pretty shocked.

One more. We went to my husband (George’s) grandparents house. His grandfather was in the other room, with home hospice care. It was almost his time. He passed his guitar talents to George, stuck around to be with him once again, and we left to go to our hotel. What looked like a firework shot up into the sky. No boom or crackly sounds. George and I looked at each other and we knew that was him. George is from a small town and he said there is no place over there where something like that would happen. When we got to the hotel we got the call."

"Last week, I was driving my dog home from the vet. While turning onto my street, I noticed a woman sitting at the intersection while her collie sat in one place defiantly.

Twenty minutes after I got home, my mother asked if my dog should be having any kind of reaction to anything. I didn’t know, but after seeing my dog, I knew something was terribly wrong. I rushed her back to the vet where they stabilized her — she had gone into anaphylaxis as a result of a shot she received maybe half an hour earlier.

I called mom to tell her and she gasps, “We were out front earlier and a woman had to stop walking with her collie. She told us all about how her dog recently went into anaphylaxis.”"

"I took a year off in New Zealand to hike and travel. A friend and I were staying in a rentable camping spot with other campers before crossing mount doom the next day. As we finished setting up our tents, a camping wagon pulled up next us. An older couple from the same city in Germany gets out. A coincidence but not a big one, I know. We spent the night talking an had lots of fun, exchanged numbers and split up the next morning.

However 2 years later I was at the Oktoberfest in Munich with some friends from there. I get a call from the girl I was in New Zealand with asking if I was at the Oktoberfest, too. So we met up in of the tents and spent the day drinking together.

Remember we both don’t live in Munich and moved to different cities after our NZ trip.

As the Oktoberfest is about to finish and the tents are about to close a random old guy drunk AF shows up talking to my friend. Me being drunk AF as well thought he was hitting her. So I was about to confront him as my friend tells me that this guy is the man of the couple we met in NZ without having talked to them within the 2 years. We drank one more round and left and haven’t spoken with each other to this day."

"I fell sick. Had to quit a job that was going well, and did so from the leave. An assh*le move but such is life sometimes. At this point I'd been in the house for almost two weeks. Day after I quit, around noon, I had to finally leave for 10 mins to go pick up a prescription from the pharmacy. In that exact time window, my ex boss was passing in his car through the street the pharmacy was on, and saw me, enough to gesture at me that I've been an assh*le (and probably be stuck believing I ghosted for no real reason). It's a city of near 3 million people, and the work headquarters was 30-50 mins away depending on traffic."