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From:	BikerChicBarbie	2001-04-20 02:30:11
Subject:	Tattoos
Comment:	My name is Barbara and I am a mother of 3 grown children. When I was just a girl in the late 50's, my mom bought me a Barbie doll. Since then, most of my friends have called me Barbie. When I was in my teens in the 70's I got involved with some boys and became the old ladie to SwitchBlade Steve. He is in Joliet Prison now, but back then we had alot of fun and over the years had 3 kids. My youngest daughter we named Barbie. Recently her daughter turned 6, and we bought her her own Barbie doll. What's coincidental is that upon opening the box, the Barbie doll has a skin blotch on it's left forearm exactly where I have my Harley Davidson tattoo!! Too Cool eh !!
From:	Sue	2001-06-19 20:19:15
Subject:	The Tilikum
Comment:	I have been doing research on a book I'm writing about Norman Luxton and his voyage from Victoria, Canada to Margate, England in a canoe (1901-1904). There was a picture showing several people on the boat just before it left Victoria. Onboard was an Oliver Ormond. I tracked down his great nephew who knew very little about the canoe or Norman Luxton. Just days after I found him he was going through some business papers (completely unrelated and nothing to do with his great uncle) and there he found letters written in the 1950's from Norman Luxton to Oliver Ormond. He had not ever seen or known of these letters till he got my letter just days before. They say spirits can be disturbed if their graves are vandalised. In 1923 my 3rd cousin died. His family had a falling out with all the relatives after he died and they moved 1000 miles away and have not had any contact since 1923. This year his gravestone was smashed and suddenly things started happening. The long lost family was reunited. We believe he has great power in that a hat he wore in 1923 and was kept by his mother, sister and later neice and worn often by all of them is in absolute brand new condition over 80 years later. It never fades, gets worn or gets dirty. Strange but true.
From:	MadPole	2001-07-17 18:19:56
Subject:	AMAZING!
Comment:	Sunday, 15th of July. I decided to obstain from ICC on that very day. But I wanted to change my finger notes on the queen server, for I knew that I would not encounter any living soul there. I got up when I got up, went for a walk when I did, popped around to work on my way home, walked back. I cleared in my mind what I wanted to change. This would take about 10 seconds. I logged on the queen and 3 seconds later... isolani arrived! If we was 7 seconds late, he would not 'meet' me there. There are 216,000 seconds in 24 hours. Considering that I needed 10 seconds.. he had to choose one of the 21,600 'slots' to enounter me. And he did. That is not all. He started to talk about the subjects I thought about this very day during my walk. The subjects I haven't thought about previously at all. Some call it COINCIDENCE, I call it simple COGNITION. There was no effort on both parts, none of us was expecting this and, in fact, we both knew that our plans were to stay from ICC this day all together. As far as 'subjects' are concerned - isolani was just talking for the sake of talking, not in order to guess my current state of mind. It just happened. We were 'connected'. Nothing unusual or coincidental about that.
From:	MadPole	2001-07-17 18:46:10
Subject:	Simplicity...
Comment:	Coincidences are part of life. Coincidences are here to stay. So many coincidences happened in my life that I simply don't treat them as coincidences anymore. I treat them as a natural phenomenon, such as going to the 'rest room' as our yankie friends call it. I am generally disappointed if I don't encounter at least one coincidence a day. I prefer the word 'Cognition', for, for me, it implies that there is no such thing as 'Coincidences' .. for me it implies that if we stay open and connected...then we are! I noticed that, coincidently, when I have a bad hangover or feel low and depressed, coincidences don't happen. COINCIDENCE THAT? I don't think so.
From:	isolani	2001-07-22 09:23:11
Subject:	lawsuits
Comment:	Coincidence: Wife asks me why people on ICC are sometimes 'muzzled' and I tell her that the owner(s) of the Internet Chess Club may fear lawsuits should some chatters become too belligerent toward other chatting members. Just minutes later a chatting member of ICC in channel 103 - MadPole by name - mentions litigation, suing, in conjunction with ICC. Since channel 103 is the 'religion channel' and MadPole is not a lawyer, nor have I ever heard him mention litigious behavior before I then determined it to be yet another coincidence in a long concatenation of coincidences between us.
From:	Declan Chellar	2001-10-01 03:50:40
Subject:	Jackie Chan
Comment:	On 12th September, while still stunned by the attacks committed in the USA, a strange thought popped into my head: What if someone really famous had been in the WTC at the time it was destroyed? Would their death have been followed by the usual frenzied media review of their life and work, or would the event of their death be largely obscured by the terrible loss of those ordinary people whose lives were ended or touched by the atrocity? An example name popped into my head unbidden: Jackie Chan. On 26th September I was browsing the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) when I came across the following article about Jackie Chan... 'Jackie Chan was so disturbed by the terrorist attacks on America's East Coast, he couldn't sleep for a week. The Hong Kong native narrowly escaped death in the World Trade Center disaster when a movie scene he was due to shoot at the center on the day of the attacks, was delayed. And Chan says the disaster left him so shocked he couldn't sleep for days after. The 47-year-old Rush Hour 2 star explains, 'I went home every night and watched the same terrifying images unfold, filled with disbelief, rage, confusion and sadness.''... (http://us.imdb.com/PeopleNews/2001/20010926.html#7)
From:	Charlotte	2001-10-06 21:46:30
Subject:	frightening coincidence
Comment:	The strangest thing happened to me on November 12, 1997. It was a cold morning. I remember it well; the day started in a calm, unobtrusive manner, just like any other day...No one would have guessed something really baffling would happen, something which I have thought about for years and years after, trying to find an answer, trying to make sense of it all...I had never believed in the paranormal. But so strange were the events of this day, and so loaded with an eerie, bone-chilling significance, that I have had to change my stance since. Judge for yourself. It must have been around 11.16 that morning, that I wasn't in any way thinking about an old friend, whom I had not seen in over ten years. I was not thinking about him, and when the phone rang - it was not him. Coincidence....?
From:	seeker	2001-12-08 05:54:48
Subject:	Chapter...
Comment:	Chapter 22 of Eadon's novel was posted on this site on the 22nd of November..
From:	Declan Chellar	2002-12-17 09:57:03
Subject:	Concidence Wrapped in a Happenstance
Comment:	On Sunday, 15th December 2002, I started thinking (for no apparent reason) about a guy called Paul Collier with whom I used to hang around twenty years ago. I wondered where he was and what he was up to but gave it no more thought than that. On Tuesday, 17th December 2002, I got an e-mail from James Eadon in which he forwarded me a message he got via www.eadon.com from Paul Collier the previous day to say that he (Paul) had stumbled across James' web site and had spotted my name. Paul hadn't been looking for my name; he hadn't even been looking for the site. The double coincidence of it is that Paul spotted my name within the 'Coincidences' section of James' site! What are the odds? This is too bizarre for me. I reckon I've used up all my odds now and I'll never win the lottery.
From:	MadPole	2003-05-20 11:27:35
Subject:	Mobile Phone COIN
Comment:	This is ABSOLUTELY TRUE and I will try to keep facts to the bare minimum. Somebody I don't know texted me on my mobie once. I replied and exchanged messages with this person occasionaly. This was going on for AT LEAST a month. I don't know who this person is and it is not important. Important fact here is that nobody rings me on my mobile (apart from eadon once a month when he is drunk enough). What happened was this: On Wednesday few weeks ago I had a day long exchange of messages with this person. It lasted till 2am in the morning next day. Now, at one point this person RANG MY NUMBER - as it happened - I was in the loo briefly (no more than 2 mins) and missed the call. I know the person called because today's technology provides excellent evidence. To sum it up: a) Nobody rings me on my phone b) I spent whole day exchaning messages with this person c) When this person called - I was in the LOO! Just for few minutes - otherwise I spent ALL day with the phone in my pocket. Now - there is no way that this person KNEW that I am in the loo! But few brief exchanges of text AFTER the call convinced this person that he/she doesn't know me and doesn't want to talk to me - i.e. the person DID NOT WANT TO TALK TO ME WHEN SHE/HE CALLED - ONLY SHE/HE DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THAT! BUT SHE/HE STILL MANAGED TO PHONE WHEN I COULD NOT ANSWER.. I think you understand.. it is bloody spooky!
From:	Mechael	2003-06-11 22:44:47
Subject:	great job!
Comment:	I don't know how I express my feeling about this website. It is really thout full. I got a lot of lessons which people posted their communication events around their life situations. In shourt words I wanna to say BRAVO!!!
From:	shelley	2004-04-10 23:06:16
Subject:	color coincidence
Comment:	My husband and I bought a house. We repainted the house in a color chosen by my husband, as it reminded him of the color of many houses in his native Sweden. On a visit to my parents-in-law, in Sweden, I loved the paint technique on the kitchen cupboards so much I copied it in my own kitchen. I selected a different color of paint. Recently, my husband and I bought a cottage. We got busy redecorating and discovered that the last coat of paint on the exterior was EXACTLY the same as our house. I even compared paint chips. As I tore the wallpaper down in the kitchen, I was astonished to see that the layer underneath was WALLPAPER that was IDENTICAL in both color and texture to my kitchen cupboards. I produced the effect by dragging an ashphalt brush across the painted surface.
From:	Solstice	2004-11-30 12:06:27
Subject:	I'm scared now....
Comment:	Well this happened a few days ago. I walked into the local fish and chip shop. And of all the times posible to walk in on a random conversation it was relavent to the point of coincidence. Well first of all I'll just say that my lady friend I had a few years back worked in a fish and chip shop and was a shoter than me. So anyway, I walk into the shop the other day and ste the to counter to make my order. So whilst i wait for service the chick behind the counter start talking to her co-worker. 'Oh i got a new boyfriend. His name's lachy... ' (my name). This is when i really tune in as it being wierd. And the co-worker says 'what's he like' , she replies '... Oh well, his tall (I'm tall) , nice etc ,etc' Then I get asked for my order. What a perfect time to walk in on this conversation, of all the times for me to be in there, and for this girl to be telling her friend about this topic.... Well it freaked me out anyway!!!
From:	Peter Rae	2005-03-28 06:46:20
Subject:	coincedences
Comment:	i trul y beleive in these stories. people say things just happen, but im have a really high esp abilities and these stories are true
From:	lee carberry	2005-10-13 09:08:39
Subject:	what !
Comment:	Hi, i just found your website for the first time after looking for coincidence stories. Now hows this for a coincidence...i notice one of your contributors has the same very unusual surname as me ! It's a name you hardly ever hear of ! Wow. I'm convinced that coincidences are designed ...by whom or what?...no idea !
From:	Maggie Powell	2005-12-28 23:09:06
Subject:	My sons Grandfathers
Comment:	My son Jereme has lost both of his grandfather on the same date. My father passed December 26 2002 and my ex-husbands (Jeremes dad) father has just passed this December 26 2005. Makes me wonder.... Maggie
From:	leanne	2006-01-17 01:24:42
Subject:	coincidence
Comment:	I really like this stuff I met a man called michael i called him mick he died i met another man called paul and pauls name pops up everywhere when i raise my head up or turn side way sharply there will be his name ..... i answered a local lonely hearts ad never done this ever ..... ist man i pick his name is paul .... i thought nahhh second person i call yep michael ......... another one a song kept poppping in my head aga do do pineapples on the tree.... one night couldnt stop singing the fecking song ...... next day in my horoscope the very words appeared i kept the ad. was on a train home from work and i was thinking to my self i gonna get hair dye called shangrilla suits me ......... i hear a voice say the words shangrilla. im walking down the office thinking what a life ,,,,,, i go up to this person theay look up they say what a life .....
From:	lak	2007-04-16 04:29:01
Subject:	Coincidence?!
Comment:	I had to post this other coincidence that happened with me and my husband which i can never forget in my life. My husband used to wear a gold chain with a pendant of an Indian God in whom we believe a lot. One day he comes back from work and i notice that his chain was unhooked and was just barely hanging on his neck. The hook is shaped like an 'S' and it's not very hard for the chain to get unhooked as it had happened earlier a few times. I asked him what happened and he was totally unaware that the chain was almost about to fall off. He took off the chain and i asked him what happened to the pendant. He had no clue and looked for it inside his shirt and everywhere. We could'nt find it and i was a little upset because it meant a lot to me. The next day he goes back to his office and looks everywhere for the pendant and there's nothing. I just felt sad that we had lost it. You will not believe what iam going to say next. After a year and half, one day my husband was at his office taking some printouts and noticed something shiny on the rug below the desk where the printer was and bent down to pick it up and had a shock of his life. The same pendant that he had lost a year and half ago. He immediately called me up and told me about it and i could'nt believe it!!! What do you call these kind of things? Spooky coincidences or what???!!!!
From:	Tina	2007-08-26 16:54:40
Subject:	two babies
Comment:	This amazes me every time i think about it. I have 2 cousins who are brother and sister who were both expecting babies in August. Well 4 days early for one and 4 days late for the other both had there babies one a girl the other a boy but both at exactly 9.30 am on 20th August. What are the chances of that happening?
From:	Justin	2007-11-25 19:02:28
Subject:	Coincidences Constantly Happen to Me
Comment:	I am constantly attacked by strange coincidences. They have come in the form of dreams coming true, or many times just a series of strange events taking place that cannot be of pure chance. For example, when I was at school I would normally wake up at 8 o clock or later, but for some reason one morning I woke up around 6AM! Next thing you know, about 30 minutes later the fire alarm goes off in the building! But there was no fire. So I left the building, with my coat and my cd player inside my pocket, and turned on the radio. The very FIRST thing I hear on the radio is a man saying the words, 'There are No Coincidences'!!! I believe this was a lesson to me on coincidences and I believe that if we all look for them they are there. Guidance is abundant, and especially when you ask for it from the higher power! -Justin miraclecoincidence.blogspot.com
From:	Cliff	2008-11-01 02:46:28
Subject:	Coincidences
Comment:	Hmmmm...I wonder what Jung would say about some of these things... At any rate, I think I can tell ou about my own rather odd bit of synchroninity. In November of 1971, I was at home, playing a game of pool in the back room with my friend, Rick. The phone rang. It was my Uncle Neil from New Brunswick. I answered the phone, and after a few pleasantries, Neil asked to speak to my Father. I gave the phone over to Dad. Going back to the pool game I said to Rick, 'Funny, Neil doesn't usually call until near Christmas.' 'Maybe your Grandmother died.', Rick replied. My Grandmother had been in the hospital for about a week, at this stage. (more to follow soon. business calls.))
From:	abdul	2008-12-21 02:13:17
Subject:	coincedent story
Comment:	3 decades ago a friend of mine was sitting with 4 friends of his. they were chatting and discussing topics of interests, my friend was taping the chat on a cassette recorder , then he wrote his friends names on the tape in a random order with his name the last one , believe it or not his 4 friends died in the same order my friend still have the tape with the names on it. scary aint it ?
From:	morgan	2008-12-27 05:59:27
Subject:	marriage
Comment:	My uncle and my mom went to high school with this girl. My uncle dated her while they were in high school. My uncle wante to join the army and she didn't want to so they broke up. My uncle met another girl and had to kids. Then about 5 years later they divorced. The girl from high school married another guy and had one kid then divorced. Then about 5 years my mom ran into the girl from high school and told my uncle wht happened. So my uncle looked her up on the internet and found out that the girls brother lived in my neighborhood so my uncle strted to become friends with the girls brother. Then the girl and my uncle started to date again and now they are getting married in year.
From:	Annie	2009-03-23 23:29:07
Subject:	Coincidences
Comment:	When I first met Frank (now my husband), I didn’t know much of him when he invited me over to his house. I didn’t know he was going grocery shopping nor did he know I was going grocery shopping that day. When I arrived to his house, we shared our groceries and we each bought pepperidge farm Milano cookies. What coincidence of two people buying the same exact cookies when I rarely buy them and he said he has never bought them, but had the urge to buy them that day…… I am born on the 2nd as well as my sister. My other sister and our dad is born on the 18th. My oldest sister and our mom birthdays are a day apart. I also share a birthday with my daughter, December 2nd. My grandmother on my dad’s side had an older sister, they were 11 years apart. My mom and her baby sister are 11 years apart. My own daughters are 11 years apart. What is the significance of 11?
From:	ribbie	2009-05-17 04:06:34
Subject:	Cornel West Coincidence
Comment:	Here’s one I experienced on the bus last week. To give you some background, I had been reading The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann’s masterpiece (and I have had some strange encounters while reading it on the bus and subway) but I lost the book, midway through – as has happened to me on several occasions with other classics – Dostoevsky’s The Idiot comes to mind. I had to find another book to read for my commute. Looking through the bookshelves, I ran across a book I began reading some months ago, but had misplaced – Democracy Matters, by Cornel West, a must read if democracy matters to you. So I placed it in my book bag and headed off to the bus stop. Got on the bus at the corner of West and Poplar, unzipped my bag, and at the moment I took out the book, the programmed public address system announced: “Next, stop, Cornell Street”. Indeed!
From:	cr	2009-06-24 21:08:00
Subject:	incredible coincidence
Comment:	26 years ago, I went to see a rock group in concert in Canada. The band was huge back then, I was almost in front row seats in at an arena/stadium.(it was a small miracle that we got seats that up-close,because it was sold out,then some seats just 'opened up' for us to buy) I was so in love with the lead singer of the band,& during the concert, he looked at me & was singing directly to me for most of the concert. I couldnt believe it and kind of convinced myself that he really wasn't singing to me directly, b/c there were about 15,000 people at the concert. I had low self esteem at the time, but I was actually very pretty when I was younger, and now I do think that it is possible that he noticed me. 3 wks later, I had arrived off a flight, and I was thinking about how great it would be to run into the lead singer at the airport. I was actually trying to think of what to say if I saw him. About 2 minutes later, when I got out to the area where people were standing in a group awaiting people from my flight, I walked through the automatic doors, and right in the front,the first person standing there waiting was this lead singer. I walked down the pathway directly towards him, we were looking straight at each other. I walked past him and walked around him and did get the nerve to say hi and get his autograph.(I was 17).He said that he was waiting for somone and he thought that I was her. I still wonder who that person was who he was waiting for that day. That is the most incredible coicidence of my life, and as time goes by, I don't think that it was a coincidence. The really strange thing is that there are periods of time when I think about him a lot and have dreams about him, and then years go by where I don't think about him at all.
From:	Adam	2009-11-22 06:37:21
Subject:	strange
Comment:	Here's a couple of coincidences that have bothered me for a while. Lets begin with the fact my birth date is 2/6. And my baby sister's is 6/2. My birth year is 1989. Reverse that is 1998, the year my sister was diagnosed with diabetes. Now with the latest strange coincidence. I found out that my Grandmother dated my Ex-boyfriend's Grandfather years ago. If they had married instead of her marrying my grandfather, my ex and i would have either have been siblings, cousins, or the same person being as we were so close in age. Last year my Ex (who also has diabetes) married someone, who a few months before that had tried to date me. And this year my sister-in-law was six months pregnant with her second son, unfortunatly she lost the baby. They named him Justin. Which is the same name as my ex's. Now i'm working in a plaza where i found out a a couple nights ago that the man i've been seeing worked at two years ago.
From:	M,	2009-12-22 22:24:44
Subject:	coincidence
Comment:	This is a very strange coincidence that happenned lately. I had just gotten an iPod that my brother was very jealous of. That night, I had a dream that my parents bought him a black iPod, although they had said beforehand that they wouldn't buy one. The next morning, my parents gave my brother a black iPod, although they had assured him they wouldn't. Freaky! Also, one day at school, I was talking to my friends in a hallway as I was fiddling with a random locker. After entering a random combination, the locker opened! I tried it again, suspecting that the locker was broken and opened and would open with any combination, but it didn't! I thought that was so weird. Another weird coincidence was that one night, I had a really strange and vivid dream where my mother was carrying me on her shoulders and running through a store where everything was made of gold, trying to escape a burglar that was chasing us. The next morning I tolod her about it, because I thought it was so weird. She told me she had had the exact same dream, where she was carrying me on her shoulders running from a burglar in a store where everything was made of gold. What are the chances of that??