Cambridge Coincidences Collection

Well I Never!

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

Scrabble

My son placed a word "naw" on the scrabble board, I pointed out that it should be "gnaw", we checked the dictionary and THEN we discussed using an Apple app that could suggest correct words from his rack. We went to the App store and the first screenshot of the Lexeme app had the word GNAW listed. Freaky. 10 minutes apart.

'same house'

I grew up in Barnsley - a town in South Yorkshire UK and moved to New York eight years ago. I work as a contract attorney on a case by case basis. I started a new project last week with a group of attorneys I didn't know. Yesterday in conversation I found out the guy two seats away from me holds a UK passport. As the conversation transpires I find out he grew up in my home town. I'm struck by the coincidence. I ask him where he lived and he names the street where I lived until I was five. Then the number of the house - it's the same house where I lived until I was five.

Simultaneous email events

A friend and I email each other at the same time 17:19 and for no reason. We had communicated 3 times in the morning but stopped about midday. Then, our email late afternoon emails crossed paths at the same time.

The circle of life

My daughter is living in Sydney with her husband, baby son and small stepson. They have just moved to a new development and my daughter was feeling a bit lonely.

Co Pilot

I used to work for a small Midwestern airport which ran United Express to ORD. It was a small airport and we usually got the same crew of the pilot and co pilot for a week at a time. 15 years later, I am living in the Southwest and haven't worked for the airlines since that one job. I was flying back to Illinois 2 years ago for Christmas on American and when the crew said their names I happened to recognize one of them. I thought it was too random but was curious.

Curious double meeting

Last weekend I was in Berlin and a great coincidence happened. On Friday afternoon I took the tube from a relatively central station to one of the main ones (Alexanderplatz). I sat right in front of a girl of my age and left the tube without talking to her or anything. She stayed in the tube. Then, after dinner, at around midnight, I went to Alexanderplatz station again... and I almost crashed into her! We both realised this, smiled, said hi and went to our respective (different) platforms.

Same words at exact same time

I posted a similar coincidence some months ago (pate as answer to crossword clue at exact same time that it was uttered in a Frasier repeat on TV), but I think this one is better!

My unbelievable but true story...

At the age of 27, pregnant with my first son, my father whom I loved dearly died suddenly of a cardiovascular incident, just one month before my son's birth... </p> <p>The events in my life followed a normal course over the next year : I got pregnant with my second son and my husband and I decided to buy our first house. We wanted to live outside the city, surrounded by nature with more land than the usual suburb.

Past reguards or battle between good and evil..........

Numerous coincidences , with extensive patterns of paranoia like symptoms that are likely due to the fact unresolved issues have surfaced that have either 1. not found love and forgiveness in there heart or 2. my stars are aligning themselves and life is speaking to me through the ways of the world, which is also preparing me for something much greater than life itself, an energy so powerful that every thing can be controlled by. Unforseen sources are

Of Winston Churchill and Wole Soyinka

COINCIDENCES: Between UK and Nigeria: Of Winston Churchill and Wole Soyinka By Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth, There are interesting developments between Britain and Nigeria in respect of one-time British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and renowned Nigerian literary personality Wole Soyinka.

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