People Share Their Wildest Coincidence Stories That Are Actually True

Coincidences are weird things. Sometimes two or more distinct circumstances occur; yet, they don’t seem to have a connection to one another. What’s even stranger about coincidences, though, is that there are times where they are completely meaningless, while other times, some would consider them to be supernatural occurrences determined by fate or a higher being. Either way, we’ve all experienced coincidences of some form, but usually, they’re small and pointless.

I, too, have experienced strange yet small coincidences. For instance, there have been several times where before I looked at the clock, I already correctly guessed the exact time. I’ve also had moments predicting exactly where my family would end up going out for dinner that night without even knowing what they were hungry for.

But sometimes coincidences get even weirder. My strangest and creepiest coincidences typically involve predicting specific events before they occur: certain people getting pregnant, a relationship starting between two specific people, a divorce or breakup between two people without even knowing what’s going on in their relationship – almost like a fortune teller. There have been several incidences where my partner and I would both text good morning to one another at the exact same time without having yet received the other person’s text. There moments where I “knew” I received a text from him, and lo and behold, I got his text that very same second I picked up my phone. Heck, once, I was at the mall with a friend. I told her, “I bet [person’s name] is here.” I kid you not, seconds later, I peer over and see that very same person!

How can the latter coincidences be explained? Some say it’s good intuition and a strong gut feeling. Others say it’s the fact that our predictions just so happen to end up coming true; there’s always that probability after all. Get ready for your eyes to bug out of your head when you read the following coincidences. They’re much more powerful than anything I’ve personally experienced, some of which involve two different people living synchronized or identical lives without even knowing each other. Scary stuff!

30. The Random Person’s House They Knocked On Wasn’t A Random Person At All

“A few years back, my dad went on a trip to Denmark for a business trip. My mom, being Danish, decided that she was going to come along. She had always heard stories about the side of the family that never moved to America, but she had no idea where they lived or if any of them were still around.

Anyway, after a week in the country, my mom and dad are driving down a country road when their car got a flat. There wasn’t really any cell reception, so they actually wound up walking up a driveway a bit to ask the locals to use their phone. They walk up the steps of this little cottage, knock on the door, and an elderly woman came to the door. Her eyes lit up, fixed on my mom and wound up giving her a hug. My parents were understandably confused as the old woman’s husband was also excited to see my mom.

They couple didn’t really speak any English, but they led my parents down the main hallway to their guest room. There, on the dresser, was a photo of my mom and her brothers from their high-school graduation. The old couple was my mother’s great aunt and uncle, the ones that never came to the USA. To this day, my parents still can’t explain it.” mikegecawicz

29. Her Biggest Fear Actually Happened

This spooky story really makes you think…

“My grandmother had schizophrenia and severe paranoia. One of her major fears was that she was being watched, specifically people filming her. This is a common symptom, so we didn’t think it was that strange.

One day, we were visiting a large city (far from our home), and there was a man with one of those old hand-held cameras pointed at us. This was making my grandmother quite upset, so my dad went up to ask the guy if he could put the camera away, but the guy took off running. About 10 or so feet into his run, he smashed into another guy and dropped his camera. He kept on running, and after a bit, I think he realized he didn’t have the camera, because he looked back, had this big face of fear and anger, shook his head, and kept on running.

Dad picked up the camera and on it was about three-to-four hours of us walking around the city. Only us walking around the city.

We never saw the guy again. A few years later, my grandmother died. This isn’t the first strange thing that’s happened to my family though.” Sithoiuz

28. She Tried To Get Us Together, Then We Did Without Realizing

“Back about 10 years ago, I went on a first date with someone I met online through match.com. I live in the Philadelphia suburbs, she lives in the city. I drove into the city for your typical dinner and a movie, or a movie (Memento) and then dinner in this case. We enjoyed the movie and while we were talking and walking to dinner afterward, I told her what I did for a living, which was written image processing software at a small company she’d likely never heard of.

She paused and asked, ‘You don’t by any chance know [name of coworker/friend I’ve known for many years], do you?’ Why yes, yes I do, I say. Turns out she knows him through some online forum having to do with singing, and they’d actually met before at some event. We reflect on the unlikelihood of this.

But that is not the coincidence I am writing about.

We continue to the restaurant, having a great conversation, hitting it off. About halfway through dinner, I feel comfortable enough to tell her about having gone through colon cancer the year before, and the long recovery after having had my colon removed. Not your typical first date conversation perhaps, but she was interested. Anyway, after I mention the surgery, she asks where I had it done. ‘Penn,’ I say. She pauses. Who was your oncologist, she asks. Oh-kayyyy, I think, not the question I would have expected, but I tell her. She pauses even longer. Then she says, in fact, demands, ‘Who. Was. Your. Oncology. Nurse???’ I tell her.

At this point, she gets the most amazed expression I’d ever seen and says, ‘You’re…you’re…that Jerry!!!’ And starts laughing uncontrollably. I’m like, what? What?? What?!? But every time the laughter starts to die down, she says, ‘You’re that Jerry!!!’ again, which sets off another fit of laughter. She literally can’t get out anything coherent for at least five minutes, she’s laughing too hard. The suspense is killing me.

Maybe ten minutes and a dozen, I finally am able to piece together that about a year before, she was sharing an office at Penn with my oncology nurse. She’s not in medicine herself; it just had to do with a shortage of space. The nurse used to tell her, ‘I have this one patient who would be perfect for you if only he wasn’t recovering from surgery and going through chemo.’ She even told her the name of this patient. Of course, he was me, and she and I ended up dating for a year or so and are still good friends to this day.” that_jerry

27. Mysteriously, My Wife Answered The Payphone

“My wife and her brother were traveling through Europe in the spring of 1986. I was home working in California. I knew their itinerary but did not know exactly where they were. I hadn’t talked to them in a couple of days.

Got bored, called an overseas operator, and got her to call a payphone outside of Monet’s Garden in Giverny. After about 15 rings, someone finally picked up the phone. It was my wife. Needless to say, it blew both our minds. One of the strangest things that ever happened to me in my life.

At the time, cell phones were still in the distant future. And the operator picked this phone, not me. Because of the itinerary, it was not a total shot in the dark, but the fact that the time and place lined up for the phone to ring will baffle me until the day I die.

My wife said she and her brother were walking out of Monet’s Garden when they heard a payphone start ringing. They ignored it, walked past it, and for some reason, my wife stopped, walked back and answered it. I have no explanations, just a very strange and cool experience. And a great story.” Reddit user

26. I Found The Matching Earring In Another State

“Before I divorced my husband but while we were still living in California, I used to adore going to thrift shops. One day, while visiting a shop in Venice beach, I saw, in the ‘odds and ends’ bowl, a very peculiar earring. It was a sort of ‘seashell’ design, hand made, with a pendant black pearl dangling from it. From the shape of the shell, it would only go ‘frontways’ on the left ear. It was obviously a shop project but was *so* unusual, I decided I had to have it! I could always take it apart and use the pearl for something… so I bought it for maybe $0.25. That was in 1979.

The earring went into my ‘scraps’ box. Years passed. I divorced, found my new love, we moved to Hollywood, then in 1988, to Albuquerque. One day, while walking to the book store I saw a sign: ‘GARAGE SALE!’ … well… I love garage sales, so I went to the house and looked around. The lady had a big wooden bowl set out with beads, rings, bits and baubles, and as I sorted through the jumble I saw,  very peculiar earring… with a stylized ‘seashell’ and a dangling black pearl! And it was hand made and fit the right ear! I immediately showed it to the lady, ‘I have an earring at home… that looks exactly LIKE this!’

The lady looked perplexed, ‘Well, dear… I don’t think so… My boyfriend made those for me in Shop… and I lost one of them many years ago.’

I froze. ‘Where?’

She smiled, ‘Oh, a long way from here… It was in California… I’ve forgotten the place… A beach… Named like a place in Italy.’

‘Venice Beach?’ I said, feeling a bit dizzy. She nodded eagerly. ‘Wait here!’ I said, somewhat illogically, after all it WAS her home, and when I came back with the matching earring, they were a PERFECT match! I offered to give my earring back to her, so she would have the completed pair again, but she refused. ‘I never liked him very much. You keep them, Dear.’

So, I still have them, a handmade pair, separated by hundreds of miles and nine years, and reunited completely by chance.” Penina Winisdatter

25. The Book I Bought Her As A Secret Santa Gift Turned Out To Be Her Favorite

“My old work ran a secret Santa once, the week before Christmas. It was a $10 limit and the person I was buying for I didn’t know very well. I left my buying to the last minute because I just didn’t know what to get her.

So I was in town and walking past some shops when lo and behold, I see an old copy of Oliver Twist in the window of the 2nd hand book store. It just called to me, so I went in and picked it up. I checked the first page for the cost and guess what? $10 – perfect.

So come the day of the secret Santa, we were all opening our gifts, some 150 people. Out of the corner of my eye, I see some people crowding around a woman who is crying. I keep listening and people are calling out for the person who was her Santa. I go over and reveal that it was me.

The lady I had bought for was crying and hugged me. She said 10 years ago her house burned down along with all her of possessions. The book that I bought her was her favorite and also the exact same edition so had the exact same cover she remembered.

Because it was a second-hand book it was even weathered in the same places she remembered, so it was as if I’d grabbed the book off her shelf before the fire and delivered it to her 10 years later.” Ripley2179

24. Our Lives Were Intertwined, And We Didn’t Even Know It

This story actually made me tear up!

“Went to college and met a cute girl.

‘Where’d you go to high school?’ she asks. ‘You’ve never heard of it,’ I reply. I grew up in a town of 1,200 people, graduated in a class of about 90.

‘Try me,’ she says.

And that was the beginning of finding out that not only had she heard of it, but she had almost attended it because her family had lived in one of the neighboring towns very briefly when she was growing up. We shared dozens of mutual friends and had apparently spent our young lives narrowly missing each other.

Later, after we started dating, we learned that one of our mutual friends had been trying to set us up with each other for YEARS. She was overwhelmed with laughter when she saw that we were finally together, completely without her involvement.

I asked her to marry me; she said yes. We went out to dinner with our parents so they could finally meet. Her folks arrive at the restaurant and see mine. Her mom goes, ‘Oh hey, [my dad’s name]. So this is your son, huh?’ They had been co-workers years ago.

Of course.

We’ve been married for eleven years now. Got a good thing going. We intend to keep it.” withgreatpower

Another User Comments:

Couldn’t have said it better!

“It’s insane that basically both of your entire lives were shaped to bring you two together, but in the end, it was the two of you who made it happen.” letmelive129

23. The Customer Service Rep Recognized My New Phone Number

“Had recently moved cities and had a new local phone number. Had to make a lot of calls to various utilities, etc. to get everything all set up.

I call one of them and am speaking with the customer service rep. All is going fine until she asks for my phone number. When I tell her, she starts freaking out on me. ‘Who are you?!?’ ‘How did you find me?!?’ ‘How do you know that phone number??!?’ kind of stuff.

Eventually managed to get her calmed down to the point where we could figure out what was going on. Turned out, she had been in an abusive relationship where her ex had stalked and harassed her, including him and his friends making threatening calls constantly. Eventually, she had moved to a different part of the city and taken a new, unlisted phone number.

My new phone number was her old one, and the moment I said it, she assumed he had tracked her down once again and the harassment campaign was about to begin anew.

I’m not sure she truly believed me when I explained it all, but we eventually got through the phone call.” moirende

22. My Brother And I, Who Were Separated, Ended Up Living Nearly Identical Lives

“When I was a baby, I was given up for adoption by my mother. She had a 10-year-old son and was going through a very rough patch in her life.

Fast forward 20 years, I’m a junior in college. I’d never known anything about my birth family except for the first names of my brother and mother. Never even seen a picture of them.

Anyway, my adoptive mom bought me an Ancestry DNA test kit for Christmas. When I got my results back, my number one match was this guy named Vincent. I looked him up on Facebook and thought, ‘D*mn, this guy looks like me.’ I sent him a message explaining everything, and he instantly knew that I was his brother. This isn’t the coincidental part.

After talking for a bit through messenger, we realized we only live 10 minutes apart. We decided to meet that night and reconnect.

Turns out, we both attend the same university, have the same major AND minor. He decided to go back to school and finish his degree 10 years later and happened to choose my university. All this time, we thought we were across the country from each other. Really makes one think about nature versus nurture.

We have a great relationship now, and it’s amazing to have an older brother!” hotchocolateballs

21. He Happened To Be Visiting The Country I Recently Moved To 

“I spent a few months living in the south of Spain last year doing a teaching internship. Prior to this, I had taught in my hometown in the UK and given some one-on-one tutoring sessions to students learning English as a foreign language.

One of my students was a really cool Spanish dude who had moved to the UK to work and improve his English. I taught him for about a year and we became friends and got on really well. Eventually, he moved back to his hometown in central Spain, and, unfortunately, we didn’t keep in touch much and didn’t hear from him that often.

Fast forward a year or so, and I move out to Spain for this internship. One day, I was sitting with a friend in a local park on a lovely Spanish sunny day having coffee and breakfast when I glance across to the main gate of the park and see my former student walking in with a friend. We both saw each other, did a double-take and ran up to each other shouting, ‘What are you doing here?!’

Turns out, the friend he was with was from the city we were in and he was visiting him for the weekend. Probably the strangest thing ever that he had decided to visit this city I was living in and had decided to go to the same park at the same time I was there and us bumping into each other after not having seen each other in a year in a different country.” oddball2194

20. We ran Into The Same Couple Three Times In Two Different States In One Day

Sometimes coincidences make zero sense.

“Nobody believes me when I tell this story, but one day my husband and I ran into the same couple at 3 different places, in 2 different states.

So, my husband and I had an errand to run out of state. We leave early and stop to get breakfast. The couple was sitting across from us. The lady had on a funky shirt, which is why she stuck out in my mind.

After breakfast we drive the next state over to the office we have an appointment at. We’re waiting in the lobby, and the couple from the breakfast joint walks in! Weird! So we spend the day finishing up our errands and then we drive back home.

I didn’t feel like cooking, so we stopped to get some dinner at the pub. We sit down at the table, and guess who’s already eating at the table behind us? The same freakin’ couple!” GiveHerTheWorks

19. Our Paths Kept On Crossing Until We Sat Down And Realized How Much They Really Do Cross

“My partner and I ran into this Japanese mother and son traveling through southeast Asia. We ran into them in Siem Reap at the Angkor Wat temples, then again in town that night. We left two days later to fly to Ho Chi Minh City and they were on the same flight. We politely nodded and smiled.

We landed in HCMC and went our separate ways. We went to our hotel they went to theirs. After dinner on the second night, we decided to go to a rooftop bar for a drink. We walked in and they were there. We all laughed and waved. Up to this point, we hadn’t actually spoken to each other. But we decided to sit down and chat to them for a short while. We didn’t actually discuss the rest of our travel plans beyond our departure dates from Vietnam.

A few days later we’re leaving our hotel to go back to the airport. A shuttle bus picks us up and the Japanese mother and son are on the bus. Turns out the two hotels shared a shuttle service to the airport.

We didn’t know where they were flying to but turns out they were also flying to Nha Trang and were seated in the row opposite us.

We get to Nha Trang and decided to share a taxi into the city. We were staying at the same hotel.

By this point, it was beyond ridiculous that our paths were crossing this much. So we just accepted it. And decided to hang out with them that night. Have dinner. And go out for drinks.

We get to chatting about our lives. I grew up in a small rural town in Australia. About 18 years earlier we had a Japanese exchange student live with us for about 3 months. Turns out this Japanese exchange student was the brother of the woman sitting across from us! It was mind-blowing. After all the weird path crossing we had already encountered over the last 10 days this was just the cherry on top.

I went back to the hotel that night and sent my mum a Facebook message to send me a photo of the Japanese exchange student. She dug through our old family photos and found one of him and me (I was 10 or 11 at the time). The next night we had dinner with them again and I show the mother the photo. She started laughing because it was her brother, and she thought I had been making a joke the night before!” YoungPatrickBateman

18. I Ran Into A Girl From My College Twice While Overseas

“Oh man, I to this day am amazed by this.

I was in the process of moving to France for school and needed to get a visa from the consultant in Chicago, six hours from my hometown. So I go there, and my dad drops me off at the building. However, during the appointment, I realize I had forgotten a piece of paperwork. Now, the woman working says that if I leave to go get it I’ll have to reschedule the entire appointment, but if my dad brings it up, that’s fine. So I go to call him, and at that moment, I realize my phone has completely stopped working. Like, dead as dead can get.

So, I sheepishly ask a girl about my age sitting in the lobby if I can use hers. She says yes, and to my surprise, her case has a logo for my university. Turns out, we go to the same school, and she’s getting a visa for another city in France. I thank her talk to her about some professors, and then my dad shows up and I finish my appointment.

But here’s where **** gets insane. 1 year later, I’m moving back home from France. I had bought a business class seat because, wow, long flights suck. I notice a girl looking very puzzled at me two rows behind me, and she looks very familiar. Everyone gets off the plane, and she comes up to me and asks if I remember her. Then it hit me. It was the same girl from the consulate. She had extended her stay in France. We both have a good laugh about the odds of that happening.” Phil567

17. My Nagging Stopped Us From Getting In A Potentially Fatal Accident

Disagreements come in handy at times.

“So my family has a cabin. When I was about 11, my dad and I went fishing at a pond that’s a short drive away from there. When we’d finished for the day, my dad wanted to go back the more direct way, which is about a 5-minute drive. I wanted to go on the backroads, which are more scenic but take about 15 minutes. After being a frankly annoying little ****, my dad agrees to go the backroads instead.

So we drive along and come out onto the road that leads to our cabin. As we crest a hill, we see a crowd gathered around a tractor-trailer that had careened off the highway and jumped the barrier onto the access road. A crowd of people from our campground were around it. It was just in front of the entrance to the campground on the section of road we’d have had to travel on to get back the direct way.

Dad asked some of the crowd what had happened, and they said that about ten minutes ago, it jumped the barrier and crashed, rolling over. Ten minutes ago would have been roughly the time dad and I would’ve been passing through there.” PhillyFashBash

16. I Moved 2,000 Miles Away And Accidentally Met A Guy I Met On A Video game

“When I was a kid, around 13, I played a lot of a video game called Diablo 2. I started a clan with a few people I’d met on the internet and we played every day. At some point, we were helping some random person and he asked to join. We thought he was nice enough, so we let him in.

As part of this clan, we had a shared account we used to store game items for each other. After about a month of playing, this new guy goes in and changed the password, steals the account and defriends everyone. He completely disappears off the map with all of our stuff.

Fast forward a year later, and my family moves to Texas. It’s my first day at school. I’m sitting in algebra class talking to the person in the seat next to me, and he mentions he plays Diablo. I said, ‘Me too,’ and that I ran a clan and everything. I asked for his username, and it was him. 2,000 miles away from where I first virtually met this guy, he’s sitting next to me in math class.

When I told him mine, his face went into total shock and he didn’t know how to respond. It was awkward for sure. Ended up telling him I didn’t care and was over it, but let’s just say we didn’t end up becoming friends.” hclpfan

Another User Comments:

“You blew your opportunity to befriend him, win his trust, gain access to his account, and steal all his ****.” StonedSpinoza

15. My Realtor Turned Out To Be My Birth Mother

Two strokes of good luck!

“I’m adopted.

I’m about 18 and moving to the big city to start uni, looked at heaps of apartments and finally found somewhere nice. The real estate agent shows me around the apartment and I decide to take it. A couple of days later, I’m in the realtor’s office to sign the lease, chatting away with the ladies. Just the usual, ‘Where are you moving from?’ chatter as I filled out all the paperwork, and the nice agent who showed me the apartment gave me the keys.

Cut to a few weeks later, and the phone at my new apartment rings. It’s my realtor calling to tell me that she’s my birth mother.

She swears to this day that she recognized my familiar family f****l features on the day she showed me the apartment (and it’s true, I do look a lot like my cousins and her daughters), and the day I signed the lease, she got all my details, birth date, etc. It took her a few weeks to contact me because she wanted to confirm with the Government Adoption agency and to let her family know what was happening.

Bit of a spin-out.” Salinger

14. Grandma’s Old Recipe Cards Showed Up In An Unexpected Place

Grandma’s secret recipes live on!

“My grandmother died, so my family cleaned out the house and did the usual thing when people die.

A few years later, my mom, being a crafty lady, went to a craft store and purchased a pack of papers with different designs on them (maps, newspaper clippings, etc.). One of the papers was a collage of recipe cards. She recognized the writing and the recipes.

It was my dead grandmother’s recipe cards that had been scanned and turned in to artsy paper. These were thrown out in garbage bags in Toronto. The paper company was from California. Crazy!” Margerine_Man

13. My Partner’s Little Sister Somehow Ended Up With My Flute

“I used to play the flute in elementary school. I put these tie-dye hippie stickers on the case so I could tell it apart from everyone else’s and scribbled my name under the velvet liner. I grew bored of it a few years later and let my parents sell it to a family friend.

Fast forward 10 years, and I’m over at my boyfriend’s parent’s house one day. I’m sitting on the couch and his little sister comes in from school and plops down next to me and shows me her new instrument. Lo and behold, it’s my old flute! It still has the stickers, so I pull back the liner and there is my name. Apparently they had bought it off someone that lived fairly close to my parents.

Well, 5 years, a marriage and a beautiful baby girl later, we still get to play on it some times.” Deliverme88

12. We Had The Same Name, Birthday, And Trike

“I live in New Jersey and my family had a house at the Jersey Shore during my childhood (we just sold it last year – RIP). So one day when I’m 2- or 3-years-old, my mom is watching me while I’m riding a Big Wheel trike down the street toward the bay. While this is happening, another mother is watching her child ride on his Big Wheel trike just down the block.

I guess we weren’t being watched closely enough because our clumsy selves crashed into each other, and the other mother shouts something like, ‘(Name), what are you doing?’ And my mother says, ‘Oh, my son’s name is (Name) too!’ They get to talking and eventually figure out that not only do we have the same name and we’re the same age… but we share the same birthday. I randomly crashed my little trike into a kid with the same name as me, who was born on the same day, 50 miles away.

Over 30 years later, we’re still best friends.” swaydog

11. I Lost All Contact With Him And Reunited With Him Over A Decade Later

The ending is a bit of a tear-jerker!

“When I was 18, I lived in a town a very long ways away from where I ended up moving. I struck up a friendship with this guy from work in that town, we play Halo, watch movies, etc., and he was awesome.

I ended up moving suddenly due to a family emergency and never got his contact information. I didn’t even remember his name a decade later, but I thought of him often as he was an awesome guy through all the years.

11 years later, I’m working at my job, carpooling with someone from my training class, and one night he asks if I mind his roommate being in the car as he was going to take the car after we got off at work and use it for the night.

He introduces us, I turn around, and in the back seat is the guy from the town a very long way away. We reconnected immediately and now live together. He’s my best friend, for sure, and the godfather to my children.” cannonman58102

10. We Went Identical Routes Without Communicating

“When I was in university, in Toronto, I was flying to England for a debating tournament. I booked my flight, then told my partner the date and time of the flight so he could book as well. The day before we left, we agreed to meet at a particular subway station and go to the end of the line to catch the bus to the airport.

The next day I go to the subway station at the agreed time, but he doesn’t show up (pre-cell phone days, so I can’t call him). Eventually, I have to go, so I take the subway/bus, get to the airport and go to the gate, but there’s no sign of him. I have him paged over the loudspeaker – no result. I tell this story to the gate agent who looks up the passenger list –he’s not on it. Confused, I fly to London.

I did find him the next day in London (which is another story all its own, almost as coincidental). It turned out that while I was on one level of the subway station waiting to travel north to catch a bus to Terminal One at the airport for my flight, he was on the other level of the same station waiting to travel west to catch a bus to Terminal Two for his flight, which was at exactly the same time on the same day, but on a different airline.

At every step of the way, we had been describing identical routes, but without ever having any overlap.” cyrano111

9. Almost A Year Later, She Accidentally Found Herself Adopting Her Runaway Dog

“Living in small-town Texas at the time, we always took in dog rescues to help find homes for them. It got to the point that people would dump them into our back yard.

One day, 4 dogs show up: two puppies, a brindle, and a beagle. We immediately get the puppies adopted out because they’re young and cute.

Fast forward 8 months, we’ve tried adopting out the beagle male twice he’s been returned to us. The brindle is an extremely tragic case, and I won’t get into her, but she was the mother and the beagle was the father of the puppies.

One fine Sunday, I decided that we need to swing by the volunteer-run animal shelter down the road from our house. It was a Sunday. 3 years I’ve driven past this place, 3 years I haven’t ever been because the owner and I know each other from around town and I do NOT care for her, and today I wanted to swing by because something about their new cages caught my eye. Why not? It’s closed anyway, no one’s there.

So we get out and look around. I notice there’s a green truck parked in the driveway. Shrug it off. This woman comes around the corner and asks us if we work there. Tell her no, but ask what she needs. She’s interested in adopting a dog. She’s been living in a different town 10 miles away for the last few months, and since she was in town today, she wanted to check this shelter. Her dog ran away about 10 months prior. So, I tell her we have two available for adoption. A brindle and a beagle. She says her dog that ran away was a beagle.

At this point, it might be exactly what you’re thinking, and you’re right. Somehow, someway, we’d ended up with her beagle in our yard and then coincidentally met her on a random day at a location I had never been to but driven past almost every day. The brindle, it turned out, was his girlfriend from next door that would escape with him. Those neighbors had skilled out on their rent shortly before the woman had moved and were not nice people.

So, she took the beagle, her beagle who had been missing for almost a year, home.

The final coincidence is that we named that beagle Bagel. And his original name? Brownie. Food names!!!” neverhooder

Another User Comments:

“That’s an amazing story. You know what I think when I hear stories like these? That it’s not just coincidence but that there are unknown and unseen forces present driving us to do certain actions, which make such coincidences happen.” abhiank

8. My Future Wife Accidentally C*ck-Blocked Me 12 Years Before We Met

Atta girl.

“When I was 18, I dated a girl who went to a private school. She told me they were having a dance, so I thought, ‘Ok, great, it’ll be a nice night.’ She told me that only boys from a specific boys’ private school were allowed to come because of an incident once when they let everyone in. Some girl got really drunk and puked on the headmaster’s shoes, so they limited it to one boys’ school after that.

Fast forward 12 years, and I’m with my fiancé (different girl) at a wedding shower. I overhear her: ‘I was so embarrassed when I puked on the headmaster’s shoes.’

I yelled, ‘THAT WAS YOU?… That’s awesome. I love you even more now that you’re famous.'” olafthebent

7. I Came Across A Postcard From My Girlfriend In An Old Library Book

“I worked at a library for a very long time, and in an effort to not lose my soul, I collected stuff I found in books. My favorite discovery was a hilarious postcard between two friends. I immediately thought, ‘I’d like to meet these people.’ I kept it next to my computer for a few years.

After a few years pass, I’m going through my papers and find a postcard from my girlfriend that I don’t recognize. It takes me a few minutes to understand that I’m reading the postcard I’d put aside years earlier between someone who was now my girlfriend and another person I’d come to know as a friend. It was probably the weirdest event in a series of events that defied probability regarding a ton of surreal linked events in our lives.'” Reddit user

6. The Teacher Handed Out Sample Essays, And One Was Written About Me

“In grade 10 English class, the teacher didn’t have anything planned for us to do and it was close to the end of the year I guess, so she goes to the big cupboard in the corner and pulls out a stack of copies. It’s examples of a successful essay written during a final exam, so we can learn what a good one looks like and how to build a narrative, etc. The topic of these was, ‘What was the most pivotal moment of your life?’

There are three examples ranging in proficiency. We read through the first two, and I volunteer to read the last one aloud. I start reading…and I stop. The essay was about…me. My big sister had gotten a really good mark 6 years earlier on her final exam essay which she wrote about the day I was born. I got pretty emotional about that one.” i***********s

5. She Asked For A Sign That Her Deceased Great Aunt Was Still There

This must have been a really special moment!

“After my great-aunt, Lynn passed away, my other great-aunt, Cynthia, was walking home in the rain. Obviously, she still felt pretty sad. She said, ‘Lynn, show me some proof that you’re still here.’

My aunt Lynn collected these rare things called Indian medicine bags. Somehow, Cynthia found one on the ground in the rain. Inside there were six paper dolls: four girls and two guys. One of the girls was wearing pants.

The coincidence? In her family, there are four sisters and two brothers. Aunt Lynn always wore pants.” Sarcasm_and_stuff

4. Five Years Later, I Realized She Was “The Girl”

“In high school in Los Angeles, I drove a friend down to Dana Point, CA, to look at a car on sale on Craigslist. At the house of the car owner, I shared a moment with the cute girl living next door via prolonged eye contact as she left her house. A friend bought the car. We left.

Five years later, I move to south Orange County and take a job near Dana Point and start dating a girl I sort of worked with. When I went to her house for the first time, I stopped cold while walking up to her driveway as I realized where I was. It was the house. She was the girl. She asked me what was wrong because she could almost literally see my mind exploding. I told her the story, and we shared another moment on that same lawn from five years before.

We’re getting married next July.” TheThingInTheBassAmp

3. My Future Husband And I Almost Could Have Met Several Times

Sometimes you have to meet the right person at the right time, no sooner and no later. The narrator even admitted in another comment that she thinks that due to various circumstances, they wouldn’t have ended up together if they had met earlier on in life.

“My husband and I met in our late 20s. We grew up near each other but went to different high schools and colleges, were a few years apart, and hung with completely different crowds.

My parents put in a bid on the house next door to his parents when I was about 11. It fell through and we moved elsewhere.

While in college, he traveled to my school to compete in a game. Since it was homecoming, he ended up briefly watching the parade. Out of hundreds of people, he remembers me and telling his friend I was a cool chick. Not only had I been drinking, but I was dressed as a crab and standing next to Ariel from The Little Mermaid. (I nearly crapped myself when he told me about watching me dance badly around in the street and take pictures with the little kids.)

While attending a house party with my now-husband, I was looking at pics on the walls taken at parties his friends had thrown back in high school. I was on one side of a pic and he was on the other side of the big group. I went to about 20 parties back in the day, and I do not remember ever partying anywhere near his area.

My husband and I were best friends with a guy and girl who are cousins. We both went to endless family gatherings but never met. We heard stories about each other and had never even seen a picture of one another. After six years, we finally met and were an item by the end of the night, and we’ve been together ever since.” baconwastaken

2. What I Wanted Basically Came To Me That Same Night

“I bought a portable machine to make music.

I wanted to buy some Apple headphones since I really liked the sound of them, but unfortunately, I had to go to work. I spent the whole day thinking about the headphones.

Flash forward to that same night, my friend and I hire a car to move through the city. I had been +1000 times on these cars and never had the thought of checking what’s in the glove box.

That night I checked, and surprise, some brand new iPhone headphones.

Really creepy.” DisproportionateWill

1. I Ended Up With The Water Bed My Now-Husband Made Before We Met

“My parents always had me buy anything extra as a kid. If I wanted a tv for my room I had to buy it, a phone, etc.

Well, I wanted a bed bigger than my little twin. My parents’ friend happened to know someone selling a waterbed. I was so excited: my own waterbed! I found out it was handmade by this other person’s son, and he had moved away.

About 3 years later, I meet my soul mate. We found out we had many missed connections over the years. Working at the same place at different times, he was best friends with my parents’ best friend’s son, etc.

We move in together and I bring my bed as he didn’t have one at the time. He looks at the bed and says, ‘That’s funny, this looks like a bed I made when I was younger.’ Sure enough, it was his bed, the one he handmade. We’ve been married for many, many years now.” Dsblhkr

Several tears were shed and endless chills were felt after I read the previous stories. How about you? It’s insanely wild how some of these occurrences could happen the way they did. Perhaps some of these stories got you to really think about fate, spirituality, religion, destiny, synchronicity, chance, luck, divine nature, or what have you. Let us know: do you think some coincidences are signs of something greater and more powerful or are they merely composed of things that happen by chance?