Cambridge Coincidences Collection

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Well I Never!

Professor David Spiegelhalter of Cambridge University wants to know about your coincidences!

More dates

A good friend of mine while growing up, was the next door neighbor in high school. After getting married, my husband and I purchased property and the older sister of that friend was now my neighbor at my new property. Thought it was kinda funny. What’s really strange is that on my grandmas birthday, she gave birth to her son. On my nephews birthday, she gave birth to a daughter. And on my younger brothers birthday, her third child was born. And then I found out a bit later that the youngest sister of my high school friend had a daughter who was born on my birthday. Which is also my mothers birthday.

Bizarre

I am the only girl, in the middle of brothers. Our father died, we were trying to prepare for his funeral- I was putting myself under a lot of pressure to get everything completed by the funeral day. My brothers aren’t inclined to even know what to do in this type of situation so basically, everything was on me. I was rushing around for nearly a full week, getting things printed, picture boardS, cooking and baking, renting the building and setting up tables and chairs and preparing everything there etc. along with grieving for my father. I was exhausted and broken hearted, feeling somewhat defeated and alone. The day before the funeral, I stopped at my dads house and my younger brother was there opening mail. As I pulled up to the house my brother had opened a cable bill of my fathers, and a small brochure fluttered to the ground. He said he saw me getting out of my vehicle as he was bending down to pick up the brochure, when he noticed that my name was on the brochure.

Dated

I have many of the same dates, In my family, of births and deaths that are oddily coinciding with other family members. I was born on my mothers birthday. My mothers mother recieved a phone call in the morning on May 27, 1989 telling her that her mother had died. Several hours later on that same day, my mother’s father received a phone call that his own mother had died as well. So both of my moms grandmas died on the same day, just hours a part in different states. My dads mother and her father died on the same day but she died many years after her father. My moms father died on feb 6. So did my dog. My mom died on feb 22nd, so did my other dog. My father died July 19th- my nephews grandmother, on his moms side, died that day as well. My moms grandmas birthday was dec6, so is my sons birthday and my brothers daughters birthday, as well.

University friend met in London

Hi. I am originally from Kyrgyzstan. When I was 19 I went to study to Turkey and I had the University mate from Uzbekistan. But when our university finished we totally lost our connection. But when I came to London in 2002 I met him the next day on a street in London. What a coincidence?

Life and Death

I have several coincidences... 1) my great nephew and I share a birthday..Oct 2 2) my husband and oldest granddaughter share a birthday..Oct 16 3) my great nephew and oldest granddaughter weighted the same and were the same length..8lbs 10oz 4) my oldest granddaughter was born at the same time of day as her father (my son) was born..2:13 pm 5) my youngest granddaughter and daughter-in-law share the same birthday..Sep 6 6) my step-grandson and my son-in-law share a birthday..Nov 2 7) my mother-in-law died in 1996 8) my mother died in 2006 9) my farher-in-law died in 2016..all 10 years apart

Two Lives Intertwined

My husband & my life intertwined for 38 years before we met... coincidence... We grew up in the same community. We did not attend the same schools but we knew many of the same kids. In high school we had mutual friends and attended the same social events. My best friend dated his work partner for a year after high school. In our twenties we both moved to another city and lived three blocks away from each other. We knew the same people and attended many of the same social events. In our thirties we both moved back to our home town. I lived in his mom’s neighbourhood for a couple of years and we became friends. In our late thirties, early forties we lived in the same area. Our kids attended the same schools and I worked with his ex-wife. My daughter’s best friend is his niece. In our mid forties we worked for the same company. We finally met a year later and got married. My husband died this past summer but the coincidences continued during our marriage and after his death. We separated in 2019. He died suddenly a year later on the exact date we had separated. A week before he died he reminded me of what his final wishes were.

once a pon a dream

My coincidence is a recurring a dream that I'm trying to sort strings and if i get the pattern wrong everything gets messed up and destroyed and i have to restart on everything but the thing is that dream kinda came true i was just going on my life and the same kinda thing happened when i was trying to do this task it was soo crazy

Just sick of them now lol

Having too many specific coincidences lately so in my frustration I had enough and sent out ABC to the universe or whoever. I just watched Beverly Hills cop 2 and the detective said he shouldn’t be working the alphabet case. AlphaBet Case. ??????

the number 3/12 which is my birthday

most extreme of number and now just expect it. Things have actually happened and number appears with it. I told a student of mine about the number 312, we talked about a year later, and for about w0 minutes at the end of a conversation she said, hay do things still happen with that number you told me, I was sitting in my car and told her I'm about to go in to the office for work but yes alot all the time, as I opened my car. Door in parking lot and looked down there was a $100 bill on the ground, I told her and I told her and she said wait, look at the time on your cell it was 3:12 pm and I often wake to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night because I'm diabetic and it's usually 312 Am when I wake up

Most extreme coincidence but many often

I am a great whitler, aas driving from work to walmart and heard the song Africa, tune stayed in my head about 10 minutes I entered Walmart giving to go to restroom. As I sat down on toilet they started playing the same song in store, at end of song came the freaky part, as I got up and song ended i turned around to flush toilet, i saw the name of the toilet brand name and it wax TOTO. That is the same name of group that sang the song Africa. I have many many thing that happen to me. For years I've searched for answers, they are extreme and often Gerardo Huerta please wasd help answe

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