Cambridge Coincidences Collection

I went to visit an old school friend who had recently moved into a flat in a house in Muswell Hill, London. I rang his flat bell, and he buzzed me in to enter the hallway. To my surprise in the hall I saw another old friend - a fellow musician I had played with several years previously and had not seen for several years. </p> <p>It turned out that he was coincidentally visiting the person who lived in the flat next door to the friend I was visiting! </p> <p>The two people who lived in the flats had no other connection other than being neighbours. I did not know my musician friend's friend, and my school friend did not know my musician friend, so there was no possibility of the meeting being other than sheer chance. </p> <p>It is still incredible to me that out of all the flats in London, two people who knew each other could meet, having independently planned to visit separate acquaintances, completely unbeknownst to each other, arriving at adjacent rooms at exactly the same time. (An additional coincidence - though admittedly not quite as staggering is that both of my friends were named Dave)

I was serving a customer in my shop and she looked so familiar I was sure I knew her from years before. She wasn't from the area and after discussing where we'd each lived and when, there was no likelihood of us ever having met. Before establishing this I had told her the area I'd lived in as a child, she told me that her mother and stepfather had just moved to that part of Liverpool. I then went on to tell her the exact address I had lived at, she replied "Yes that's right" which I thought was a very strange response.( In fact she was saying "that's right "as her mother and stepfather were now living in the house I lived in as a child. So although it's highly unlikely that I'd ever met her before we did have a connection.

I was living in Bristol, visited my family in Liverpool, birthday event, went to a night club I only visited that once. Met a colleague I'd worked with in Ipswich 6 years earlier. She never went to nightclubs but this exception was for a special works event. A few days later I visited her home, on the bus on the way there I asked a passenger if she knew the road and when I should get off. She said her closest friend used to live in that road. She went on to tell me how special that friend was and that she spent the last 6 months of her life in a nursing home. It transpired that she lived at No 7, the house my friend now lived in. I arrived at my friend's house, before she even let me through the door she told me she was desperately anxiou. She couldn't sleep and felt afraid in the house because she knew that the woman who lived there had died and she couldn't rest because she didn't know whether the woman died in the house and didn't like to ask any neighbours. I was able to tell her that she died in the nursing home and that she had been a lovely lady. Her whole demeanor changed, it was as if the weight of the world had been lifted from her.

I am one of five children, and my brother, sister and myself all had daughters born in the month of January 1986. My older sister was born on the 13th January and her daughter was born on the 5th January 1986 both Capricorn's. My older brother (born in September) daughter was born on the 18th January 1986, and I was born on the 6th February and my daughter was born on the 28th January both Antiquarian's. Neither one of us knew we were going to have children born in the same month of the same year.