Spooky Coincidences

[MusterX]

Alright here is an eyebrow raiser.

This is Anne Hathaway.

Her husband, looks like Shakespeare.

The Punchline: Shakespeare had a wife named Anne Hathaway.

 

[RetiredSlave]

Not so much a coincidence as a case of extreme good fortune.
A friend of my brothers was driving the sea to sky highway to Whistler. On his way a truck was in the ditch
and dude had a winch so he pulled over to help. Upon finishing helping the guy was insistent on giving money but the helper refused. Eventually the helpee got the address of the guy to send flowers to the wife. Shortly thereafter the bank phones dude up to thank and formalize the paying off of their mortgage.
Turns out the guy in the ditch was Bill friggin Gates and paid off the remainder of guys mortgage. Serendipity at its finest.

 

[JaneJanes]

This is a personal one - happened to my father in law


My father-in-law had a really close relationship with his dad, he was a WW2 pilot in the British RAF and lived until the ripe old age of 90-something. When he passed it fractured his relationship with his siblings because his father left all his money/estate to my father-in-law as my father-in-laws dad believed he had earned it.

So anyways - like 5 years or more later my father-in-law and his siblings finally get back to speaking terms, and it is realized that after the funeral it was apparent that someone had taken the ashes and urn, but no one in his family could remember who it was that took them - my father-in-law felt guilty for years because he could never properly honor his dads wishes to have his ashes spread at an airfield.

So it had been like 10 years since his grandpa had passed and one christmas my father-in-law decides to take out his dads dogtags and pass them around and show them, tell his old war-tales of his fathers and shit...then he passed them to this one lady, a family friend who they knew for years.

she touches the dogtags and immediately looks at my father-in-law and says " Thrillhouse-father-in-law....your fathers ashes are at your sisters house...they are up high and covered by something."
my father-in-law is taken aback and like "oh...k?"
so naturally my father-in-law tells his sister to look in her house up high because thats where the ashes are

sure enough a couple months later his sister calls him and says, "Thrillhouse'-father-in-law....i found them....they were up high...and covered with a blanket...next to a box of all our dads war photos"

my father-in-law then went back to the lady and was like "my sister found them....how did you know? or what made you say that?"
and she says, "i touched the dogtags and your father spoke to me and said, Thrillhouse'-father-in-law stop worrying, my ashes are here"

So the dogtags have magic powers that make poeple spill the beans?

 

[choke you]

Yah, I feel badly now.
Sorry, Kick my droogy.

THIRD FUCKING POST in the thread and people gotta post stupid shit like that. Did you read that debunk link? I did. "oh well the last 5 digits are irrelavant, and you gotta add a decimal point to input coordinates, and it has to be in meters to match...." blah blah fucking blah. The same digits put you on the damn pyramid. That's all I give a shit about. Some people need to know when to just enjoy shit and have fun.

Pisses me off.

no it's fine.

No, it's not.
I completely admit to getting my skeptic hackles up, out of place, and it was a dick move on my part.
I sincerely apologize.
On with the thread!

Glad you two made up I hate to see you guys like this!!!

 

[MusterX]

Here is a coincidence I had not heard before. In 1804, Lewis and Clark were traveling with their interpreter Sacagawea and were trying to barter with a local Indian tribe to get 40 horses they needed to continue their expedition. The Indian chief thought they might be a war band and didn't want to give them the horses they needed but they couldn't survive without them. Sacagawea suddenly realizes that the Indian Chief is her long lost brother and she starts crying. Sacagawea had been abducted and made a slave at a very young age and had never saw her family again. The chief was so overwhelmed he gave Lewis and Clark the horses they needed to continue with their historic expedition. That is an incredibly rare coincidence with historic significance.

 

[MusterX]

Video game coincidence.

The developers of the 2000 video game Deus Ex left the Twin Towers out of the New York skyline in game due to texture memory limitations. The developers justified that the towers were destroyed by terrorists early on in the games storyline.

 

[NHB7]

Here is my own:

When I was in 8th grade I asked if I could spend the night at a buddies house. We actually were going to a party at a girls house. My Dad said staying at my friends was fine if I gave him my friends parents number. Knowing that I wasn't going to his house and instead would certainly be doing shenanigans, I switched the last two numbers in his parents phone number. I figured if my parents did call I could claim it was an honest mistake.

Well it turns out they did call the number. And my excuse worked. They said the girl that answered acted really weirded out like, "no, why would he be here."

That Monday in school the girl who sat next to me in Spanish said, "Your NHB7 right?"

"Yeah. Why?"

"How did u get my number and why did your parents call me looking for you last night?"

 

[shanegotu11]

Keep em coming

 

[MusterX]

One more, this is kinda fucked up.

A man named Wilmer McLean got a front row view of two of the most important events in the Civil War. The FIRST land battle happened essentially in his backyard, so to avoid the destruction he moved some miles away to a cottage to wait out the war. But when the end came, Robert E Lee himself showed up at the cottage to request it's use as a formal place of surrender. The war started in Wilmer's backyard, and ended in his parlor.

 

[shanegotu11]

I have had a couple in my life and probably more in sub conscious.

One was a girl abducted when I was 8, and I said she probably dead in dumpster and that became true.

The other was with my grandpa willie. We were really close. I just left a gonzaga game with my mother and I had this feeling come over me that he had passed and i told my mom this. When I got home, there was a message on our machine.

It was his sister saying he had passed about the same time I had this dread and told my mom.

 

[dontsnitch]

 

[gspieler]

 

[MusterX]

Here, I have no place to put this so I'll let you guys enjoy it in this awesome thread.

The caption is, "Hold my beer and watch this."

 

[M3t4tr0n]

Witchcraft imo

 

[Jar of Flies]

Interesting but I have doubts about the validity of most of them.

 

[dontsnitch]

I love this crap.

 

[AWESOMEACE]

Here is my own:

When I was in 8th grade I asked if I could spend the night at a buddies house. We actually were going to a party at a girls house. My Dad said staying at my friends was fine if I gave him my friends parents number. Knowing that I wasn't going to his house and instead would certainly be doing shenanigans, I switched the last two numbers in his parents phone number. I figured if my parents did call I could claim it was an honest mistake.

Well it turns out they did call the number. And my excuse worked. They said the girl that answered acted really weirded out like, "no, why would he be here."

That Monday in school the girl who sat next to me in Spanish said, "Your NHB7 right?"

"Yeah. Why?"

"How did u get my number and why did your parents call me looking for you last night?"

wait so your real name is NHB7 and you use that as your screen name and you frequent an MMA forum, All significant coincidences you didn't mention.

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

One time I masturbated on the same day as the lunar eclipse.

Spooky coincidence?? I'll let you decide.

 

[Metusalemi]

I don't think it's eerie, but it's a neat coincidence that in our sky, the moon is about the same apparent size as the Sun, and that's why we can have total solar eclipses.

It's also crazy coincidence that earth revolves around the sun in exactly one year.

 

[Y2Khaos]

There was a Japanese man who was present and survived both nuclear bomb explosions. He was at work in Hiroshima when the first went off and at home in Nagasaki (close to 200 miles away) during the second. He died at the age of 93 in 2010