69 Coincidences So Crazy People Still Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around Them

Two of my sons backed into each other on Parliment hill on Canada Day. There were thousands of people there.

My mother gave birth to my brother, her first child, early, 8 days after her 41st birthday. I gave birth to my first (and only) child, early, 8 days after my 41st birthday.

Last year, my dad passed away and he was burried in his village in Algeria.
In my culture, you wait 40 days after death and you prepare a big feast for the person who died
During that time, every day around 5am, I would walk to the cemetery and talk to him a bit. It was a 15 mn walk to go and back home
There are 2 times where I didn’t feel well and it was very hard for me to walk.
These 2 times, a neighbour passed with a car and helped me go home

When my mom and I were in Berlin, she needed the bathroom so we went to the McD nearby. Saw two people inside from the back and said to my mom “that looks like grandma and grandpa!” And lo and behold it was. Neither of us knew they were going to Berlin at the same time 😂

Went to see an old ghost town based on a Things to Do with Kids article in USA Today. My husband’s great great great grandfather and other relatives were buried in the graveyard of the little town

I’d never met another person named Hallie before, and definitely never seen it spelled the same way. When I was 15, I was introduced to my biological father’s side of the family for the first time. There I met my cousin, Hallie Anne. My name is Hallie Anne.

This is just a small slice of the story, but I met this random guy in a rock venue in 1995 and we hit it off and then found out a few weeks later that my dad was his dad's dentist (but NOT HIS DENTIST) (and we grew up in the same town briefly, went to the same summer camp, and spent time in the same small town in New Hampshire...but we'd never heard of each other & both had just returned to the Boston area from living elsewhere.)
Oh also we're married now. (And he can see this, hi honey.)

I found a guy’s wallet in a cab in NY on Saturday. On Sunday, he and his friend came to pick it up from me in Union Square. On Monday, I was randomly seated next to the friend at a movie in Bryant Park. On Tuesday, I literally ran into the friend coming out of Astor Place subway.

I was around the block from my (now former) apartment a few years ago, and there’s Paul Giamatti on the street. He’s distinct, you kind of can’t think he’s someone else or anyone else is him. TWO WEEKS LATER I’m on the street in Paris outside of Shakespeare and Co., and who ends up being there? Paul Giamatti.

Meeting my aunt randomly in a train station in a different country

I was sitting in a bar/restaurant and a yt woman came up talking to us, making random conversation. She noticed my t-shirt had New York written on it. She told me how her sister who she hasn't spoke with in years lives in NY. I told her it was a sign that she should call her sister. She came back later to tell me she called her sister and they are going to work on their relationship. I believe it was a devine coincidence.

We played Black Water by the Doobie Brothers, my dad's favorite song, at the end of his funeral. My favorite band was doing a benefit concert that night and I had been gifted a ticket that day so last minute decided to go. They encored with Black Water that night.

I never have anywhere to talk about this omg. In 2023 I went to exactly two concerts. At the first one I was vibing, enjoying the music, and I felt something hit my shoe. I looked down and there was an earring, so I picked it up and gave it back to the woman behind me. At the second concert, just vibing, when I once again felt something hit my shoe. I look down. Another earring. I picked it up and returned it to the woman behind me.
Completely meaningless, but I think about it a lot.

At a comic convention in France after signing my books, meet up with other artists I didn’t know. Started chatting with a young woman, also a comic book artist. Asks me where I’m from. I said Geneva. She said « oh I lived there as a kid ». I ask « oh what neighborhood? » She gives me the name of the one I used to live in. I go « OMG what street? »she said the exact street I lived on. Then « ok… what number? » « 8 ». This young woman lived two stories below me but we didn’t remember each other!

I met this really wonderful woman on a trip once, and we became besties overnight. it was awesome. few years later, I was walking through the living room one day and I hear her voice coming out of the TV?? and it turns out she's on a youtube show that my spouse loves. I just yelled "OMG I KNOW HER, WE WENT SHOPPING TOGETHER" and they were like... what? 😂

Photo on the left was from a box of tomatoes that was delivered to the Italian restaurant where I worked c.2011; photo on the right is me at that time.
Someone owes me royalty money.

By complete chance, three different times, our neighbors have gone to Disney World the exact same week our family has. All three times, out of four parks, we have randomly run into them at least once. I’m not a “this day is the best day to go to this park” planner so it’s not that. One time my daughter and I were getting onto Thunder Mountain at literally the same car they were getting out of.

I’m Norwegian and not once, but twice I have vacationed in the same place at the same time as my Danish cousin. First time in Portugal, the second time on Gran Canaria, Spain. Both times we found out via FB that we were close to each other and managed to catch up.

I was on a cruise in Norway and met a man from my (tiny) hometown who knew many of my relatives!

Just last week I went to my credit union. I haven't been there in 5 years. Saw a guy, Dave, I use to work with and who I haven't seen in at least 6 years. I leave there and drive 6 miles to a supermarket that has a fish market inside it and have never been inside before. Ten minutes later Dave walks into the same store. Eerie..