30 Stories About The Craziest Coincidences That People Can’t Forget About

My wife and I were stood behind our next door neighbours in a queue at an ice cream shop in Wales and we live no where near Wales.

I was standing at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a friend from highschool, let's call him B, was visiting and we went on one of those walking tours. Just as the Tourguide pointed at the French embassy 3 girls walked by and shouted Viva la France! Then walked off to take a Foto in Front of the gate. B suddenly peeled off from the group saying, hey, I think that's V! V was an exchange student from France while we were in highschool (Midwest USA btw) and indeed, there she was, visiting Berlin with some friends. She was so surprised when we talked to her, and we met up for drinks later that evening. We talked a long time and found out they were staying at a hostel , they had tried out couch surfing but said no one had responded to them so they gave up.
That's where I realized she had contacted me on Couch Surfing (without recognizing me) and I hadn't responded because all they wrote was: we are 3 French girls, do u live near the city? And I thought it was Spam.

I lived near Reading in the late 90s before going off on a backpacking trip to Australia. Few months later I was working in Sydney and started chatting to a girl. Turned out she'd moved into the same house I'd lived in just after I'd left the UK.

I also met a guy in a Sydney hostel and borrowed $10 from him, didn't see him the next day and then moved on. Few months later I'd moved to Munich and walking along the main shopping street, I saw him again, gave him 10dm and that was it, never saw him again.

At the start of Covid a David Mitchell event got cancelled in London, I was super disappointed. After covid during the same week as that David Mitchell event I met him outside the Plaza Cinema in Truro and nearly had a heart attack. The three people I had been going to that event with were literally at my house at the time. I still think about it.

We (UK residents) were on a train in Canada talking to a local. He asked where we lived and we discovered that his English penfriend lived on the same road as our ex-neighbours.

Same trip, a bus driver in North Vancouver was describing a coffee shop he'd loved and remembered fondly from a recent visit to the UK; It's two minutes walk from our home.

We stayed in a B&B. The woman that ran it was from the UK. She came from the same village as my Godmother.

I was visiting my grandparents in France from the US last year. The day I arrived I posted a story of a sunset from the balcony with the location tagged. A friend from the US I had lost touch with and hadn't spoken to for 8+ years (we didn't follow each other on IG, my profile is public) looked at my story and reached out saying he was visiting the city and we should catch up.

When we met up I said it was wild that he had reached out and happened to catch me when were both visiting this city (I don't go often, it was his first time). He said it wasn't entirely a coincidence, he had seen me a few days ago in a certain neighborhood but I was too far away to catch my attention so he decided to look me up on socials. I said that was impossible as I'd just arrived a few hours before I posted that story and came straight to my grandparents' home from the airport, so it couldn't have been me. His mind was blown as he said the girl looked just like me. Anyway we had a nice time catching up and have rekindled our friendship. Kinda felt like the universe was telling us we should lol.

Went to uni a few hundred miles from home, came from a relatively small town. First night there, the local pub had a welcome night for new students hosted by some of the second years.

Sat down with a couple of people I knew from home and a girl approached us. She was one of the ones there to show us the ropes.

She's in the middle of explaining that she moved from south Africa and only knew one Scottish family but they were nowhere near.

Yeah, my childhood best friend's yearly holidays to South Africa were with her family. It was her pool they saw a hippo in once.

Flew to Melbourne for a work trip. Queuing at passport control with hundreds of fellow passengers when I got off the plane I glanced around the immigration hall and caught the eye of the bloke in the adjacent line just at that moment snaking back on my line. It was actually a colleague from a previous company I had worked at seven years prior and hadn't seen since moving half way across the UK from Peterborough to Bristol. Turns out we were both there for two weeks for work meetings and staying half a mile away from each other and booked on the same return flight.

In 2009 I did the mongol rally and then after that I did a ski season in st Anton Austria.
One night in the mongol steppe we met a load of other ralliers. Then again in ulaan bataar again bumped into a load of ralliers. Then on the way back I drove to Moscow and bumped into more ralliers. Same guy each time.
He also happened to be living downstairs from my mates in st Anton also doing a ski season.

Someone I hadn't seen in years recognised me on Reddit me from a comment I made about running through a field away from a bull pished years ago. Small world.