Hey Pandas, What Is The Weirdest Coincidence To Ever Happen To You? (Closed)

When I was a kid, I was walking on the beach with my parents, and I found a coin lying on the sand. It was kind of an unusual coin, so I picked it up. A short while later I tripped and accidentally threw the coin away as I fell over. We searched all over and couldn't find it anywhere. My parents joked that I threw it so hard, it must have landed a couple miles up the coast. Two days later we went to a town a couple of miles up the coast. I see a coin exactly the same as the one I threw away, lying on the ground. It weirded us all out.

I went skiing for the first time ever, and was hundreds of miles from my home. After mostly tumbling down the mountainside, I crashed face first into a pit of ice. Another person suddenly face planted right next to me in the ditch. It was a friend who I hadn't seen in years, and it was his first time skiing as well.

I was working in sales at the time. I told a good customer that no deliveries would be made the following week because I would be on vacation. My wife and I were going to a long planned trip to Germany, but I didn't tell him that. The customer said, "No big deal. I'm out of town next week too." Flash forward to the next week. My wife and I are enjoying our vacation. We were in Munich in an enormous city square with around 2000 other people, and I walk past the customer! We both turned around and kinda gave each other puzzled looks. He was there for some kind of work conference and was heading to a meeting. Small world though.

2008. I was in Milan, Italy, with my wife. We were going to another city so we bought a train ticket and, although we had time to spare, decided to go straight to the platform. Once there, we starting walking towards our train. She was going straight for the first wagon and I told her, "let’s keep going because when rush hour comes everybody will try to hop in this wagon. So we keep going and enter a wagon near the middle of the train. It was a wagon with cabins and this was my first time in that king of train. Once again my wife went straight to the first cabin and once again I told her to keep going. We enter some cabin near the middle of the wagon, it was empty, so we sat on the seats on the left near the window. We didn’t notice, because we were taking a power nap, but with the departure time closing by, people started filling in the cabin. Once it was full another guy came, woke me up and ask me to see my ticket. I took one semester of Italian in college so I understand a little but because I was waking up from a nap I was a little confused. I show him my ticket and he gave it back to me. He then asked another couple for their tickets, said something and the other couple left the cabin and he and his wife/girlfriend sat on their places. Still confused I started to put what I just saw together and ask him, “excuse me, are these seats numbered?” and he told me “yes but you are ok”. So that is my coincidence, without knowing it we enter the correct train wagon, the correct cabin and sat in the correct seats (well at least in one of our correct seats but the other couple didn’t mind because we left them the one by the right window).

My best friend and I have the same middle name.

I once was in my dad's car, thinking of a random song. Then it started playing on the radio.

I met someone who looked exactly like me, and who was born on the exact day as me. freaked me out.

i was asleep having a dream that i was doing my homework, then my alarm went off, so i got up dressed, and picked up my homework so i could do it, and it was already done! that was the only time that ever happened in my life so far. i have never had another dream like that again.

My aunt recently passed away, and after I had heard the news that morning I made a little agreement with the Universe that someone was going to talk to me about their new Xbox whenever she made it to the other side. It was the most random thing i could think of at the time so it would be obvious when it happened. Several days go by and I was talking to my dad on the phone, about another possible lockdown or something, when all of a sudden he starts talking about how much he wants the Xbox Series X before shutdown so we can be comfortable in quarantine, blah blah blah, but I immediately thought of her and I was trying not to cry. I guess it wasn't really a coincidence but hey, it happened and it was real, might as well share it while I'm at it.

My name is supposed to be Jacob(yes, I was thought to be a boy before birth) and I know 15 people that are named Jacob and I have a relative whose younger than me named Jacob XD

I live in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I vacationed in San Francisco, and ran in to five people at four different times (2 were together) who I'd known from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Three of my family members got me the exact same gift for Christmas, a metal detector! Same brand, model, color, and everything!

I'm from England and used to teach English in Slovakia in the late 90s. Recently I was working at a company(back in England) where a Slovak woman worked, but we hardly spoke. Then after a month or so, we had a staff outing and I finally told her I used to live in her country. She asked me whereabouts. I'd lived in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, to which she replied that that's where she was from.
Then, she asked me which neighbourhood I'd lived in and again, it was where she had lived. We did the maths and it turned out we had lived there at the same time and had probably seen each other at some point before finally meeting 20 years later!

In 1962 my Irish father, who was living in Derby England, took my mother, who he had at this stage had been dating for a year, to his home in Ballinasloe in Galway. Mum bought postcards of the local area to send home ond one of a mountain in the north of Sligo 90 miles away. My dad asked her why that one when it wasn't in Galway and she just said she loved the look of the mountain Benbulben. 14 years later my parents had been married for 12 years and with 3 kids and we moved to Letterkenny in Donegal Ireland. We had to travel to Ballinasloe to see Granny Dad's, mum. To get there we had to drive down a main road that passed through the area where Benbulben the mountain mum fell in love with all those years ago from that postcard. We all loved that area as it is so beautiful because on one side you have the mountain and on the other side the sea surrounded by the countryside. Mum was delighted to see the area in real life as she loved the look of the area.
We left Letterkenny in 1985 for England for Dad's work. He was made redundant IN 1987 and went for, and got a job in Sligo Ireland . When we were living in rented accommodation there was a lady who lived over the back and she came over to say "hello" and my mother let her into our living room. She took one look at the portrait we had on the wall of my Grandad, my Dad's dad and exclaimed "That looks like Michael Colohan how do you know him? " My Dad who was coming down the stairs nearly fell over. "How do you know my dad he asked? The woman turned around and said "Oh for goodness sake , hello Brendan". She recognised dad even though he had left Ballinasloe in 1959 and this was 1987. She was great friends with my Grandparents and remembered my Grandad even though died in 1950 when dad was 7.
A few weeks later mum who was house hunting she came across a picture in an estate agent's window of a house in the area where the mountain that she had always loved, Benbulben is . We went to view it and when we got there we met up with the owners. All throughout the viewing mum kept looking dad and I noticed that mum and the male owner kept looking at each other in a funny way and towards the end of the viewing mum said to him "I'm sure I know from somewhere". The man Geoff said "The same but how"? then it clicked with both of them. In Letterkenny mum worked in an office of the Cash and Carry and dealt with all the invoices of for all the sales reps that came in to sell their goods to the Cash and Carry who then sold them to the local shops. Geoff came in regularly as he was a sales rep for Rowntree Macintosh a company that made sweets (candy). They ended up buying the house here in the area that my mother fell in love with 25 years earlier after seeing a picture of the area on a postcard when she was just 18. We moved in in 1987 and are still here now and even after living here for 33 years and loving it for 58 years she still loves it here.

me and my ex girlfriend drew exactly the same picture, but years before we met. The picture was of some girl. it was a portrait. She had a lot of piercings and both of our drawings had the exact same ones. (sadly cant add the pictures.) We ve broken up like 10 years ago. this year i got a praying mantis as a pet. we still talk occasionaly, so when i brought it up. she was like she just got one too. we had a connection that was outta this world. or once i wanted to surprise her, she wasnt home. when i called her she said she wanted to surprise me, and she was standing in front of my door and i in front of hers :D and we had plenty more coincidences like that.

My parents divorced when I was young and we moved into another city. I was separated from my step-sister and other members of the other half of the family.
When I was teen, I had a non-regular weekend job as a guide in caves. One day someone in the crowd asked me some question and when I was answering, I recognized her and I frozen in a shock. I was very ashamed immediately because it was simply not possible (last time I saw her I was about 5 yo), but she said my name and confirmed it is her. She was on her personal challenge to see all accessible caves in our state. So after 13 years I reunited with my sister and later with whole family.
I still couldn't believe the crazy coincidence.

I met someone on Instagram that is a year younger than me (for context my birthday is April 13th, 2004 and theirs is April 12th, 2003)

I cant remember the exact situations, but sometimes I will think about something, such as a show, and then later that day I do something similar to my thought. Its not that interesting but I wanted to share

I have several:

1. I have the exact same birthday as my biological brother

2. I know three couples, a Erin and Aaron; a Chris and Christina; and an Alexander and Alexandra.

I realise I've got a few related to my times living abroad. I worked in a school in Germany for a couple of years. After finding out where I'm from, a colleague mentioned they used to have another teacher from there. Upon enquiring about him, I found out that not only was he a teacher at the secondary school I went to, but he was my form teacher for one year.