Cambridge Coincidences Collection

My daughter was born in Harold Wood Hospital in 1975 and named Heidi. A nurse mentioned that another baby was born two weeks earlier and shared the same name which was uncommon at the time. In 1978 we moved to Rayleigh and Heidi started preschool. Another little girl called Heidi had also just started and I became friends with her mother. We soon discovered that they both had been born in the same hospital and that Donna had moved house in 1978 and lived 3 roads away. That was not the only coincidence! We both shared the same birthday (03/04/47) and both were married on the same date (06/09/69) and had an older sister with the name Kathleen. I still to this day find it very uncanny. I saw the article in The Mail on Sunday re this study and thought I would like to participate.

Up till September this year we were living in a house in Cheshire, and the day we moved out we were loading the car up and someone pulled up next door and got out. The lady and I stood talking, (I'd never seen her before) she was visiting her brother who lived next door. We didn't know the neighbours very well as we had only lived in the house 6 months. As I got talking to her I was convinced I knew her from somewhere. I asked her if she recognised me, she said I looked familiar but couldn't think where from. I asked her all sorts of questions, no, nothing clicked. Finally I asked her name, and when she told me I realised it was a lady who's husband worked with my husband 5 years previously and we used to meet up and go shopping while our husbands were doing exhibitions for the company they worked for! It turned out we had been living next door to her brother for the last six months not knowing the connection.

My father passed away on the 2.2.2002 at 2.00pm at the age of 66. The day after he died we were going through his briefcase which he had always kept locked. My mother, brother and I found a number of birthday/christmas cards from someone calling him "Daddy". In June 2003 (the following year) a 22 year old girl called Jane managed to track down my brother via the internet, who had previously been in an 80'sboy band, and she confirmed we had a half sister. When we got talking, she told me her birthday was 6th March, exactly the same day as mine! My father had been living a parallel life, and had had another daughter on my 16th Birthday. We soon met up with my half sister, and have now become very close. She had always known about us, my Dad had told her she had a famous brother, and a sister, that one day he would take her to meet us, and that he was separated from his wife, my mum. My Mum and Jane's Mum have also met now, and any animosities have been buried. My Dad unfortunately is no longer with us to defend himself! But we are all sure he is up there somewhere looking down on us and is happy that we have all finally met!

This is really unbelievable, but true.My boyfriend and I were in a part of town we did not know, visiting my cousin.On the way back we stopped at a newsagent to buy something, and the man behind the counter asked my name, he was an old schoolfriend i had not seen for over 20 years.What was amazing was that he then handed me a photo of myself aged five, which was tucked behind his till.Apparently he had been sorting out his stock room that week and found a box of old school photos, and had put that one aside to ask his brother what the name of the girl in the photo was as he could not remember!I did not know the photo had even been taken,it showed me carrying the class register in a corridor at school, presumably taking it to or from class!