What is the most amazing, unbelievable COINCIDENCE that you experienced-?

A persons destiny may come in many forms.

Wife and I were playing the Kentucky Pick Three on a Saturday Night, years ago. She did not look at my numbers and I did not look at hers. We thought this would bring us bad luck, instead of good luck.

Wife was in a drive-in market, when the lottery numbers came out.

She had won and I had won. We both had picked 5–6-7 as our choice of the winning numbers for that night!!

What are the chances of that happening?

Everything we do in our life on earth has a meaning. And, destiny plays a big part in it. Keep looking for other “signs” that someday, you will make that trip to Egypt.

I went through a brief period in adolescence when I dreamed of being a sculptor at Boehm (they make very detailed porcelain sculptures of birds; I was a real crafts and bird geek). Reality got in the way, and decades later I found myself working as a chocolatier in Philly.

One day, a guy came in to work for a day in the chocolate kitchen because he was fascinated by chocolate work. We started talking, and it turned out that his day job was as a sculptor at Boehm. As we continued talking, we discovered that we were both married to librarians, both having the same first name.

It was a real “Twilight Zone” moment for both of us. I never saw him again after that day, but I almost wouldn’t be surprised if he were a Flutherer too.

This is a very interesting episode of Radiolab that deals with stochasticity. It opens with one of the most amazing coincidences I’ve ever heard.

I have had alot of strange coincidences with the same person.I don’t know exactly what they all mean but I can’t shake the feeling that I have known this person for a long,LONG time.;)

@thorninmud clicked on that link and read that most amazing coincidence story of that woman who called the guy to fix the printer. Simply mind boggling! I recommend Flutherers to check it out.

I was inspecting a hotel in Baltimore, MD, and noticed a man in the breakfast area that looked much like a cousin that I hadn’t seen in decades and lives in Seattle. I got up the nerve to approach him, and sure enough, it was him. If I hadn’t gone down at that time to get another cup of coffee, it wouldn’t have happened.

A co-worker was walking through the airport in his home town of St. Louis, and he noticed that a public phone was ringing and no one was around. With time to kill, he decided to answer it and let the caller know that they must have the wrong number. It turns out that it was his cousin who had been paged with the phone as the call-back number.

@mazingerz88 The printer story is astonishing, but be sure to listen to the “A very lucky wind” segment.

A few years back I was best man at my brothers wedding. After the ceremony we had a bash laid on & I got myself changed. I wore my most fetching cocktail dress & would you believe it? Yes, this lady was stood there wearing the identical garment. Ooh, I could have spit feathers, looked better on me though, nicer legs see.

I used to constantly randomly think of someone, then run into them in the next few days. I’m not talking about friends, but just some random dude I knew. I wouldn’t necessarily talk to them, but I’d see them in a store or something.

Other than that, I walked into the breakroom at work a couple days after daylight savings a couple weeks ago and noticed that the time on one microwave read 12:49, and the microwave below it read 1:49. I figured someone must have mistakenly set the bottom microwave forward an additional hour for daylight savings even though it had already been correctly set. I was about to walk out of the room, when I suddenly had the thought, “wait, it is possible, although highly unlikely, that someone stopped the lower microwave at 1:49.” I hit the ‘cancel’ button on the bottom microwave, and the display changed to 12:49.

What is the probability of me walking in the lunch room a couple days after daylight savings in the spring and observing the top clock at a time 1 hour behind the timer display below it? If the microwave had been stopped at a different time, or I hadn’t walked in at 12:49, or it wasn’t near daylight savings in the spring, I never would have reasoned how I initially did.

The next day, I walked in the kitchen breakroom at 8:09am. The microwave on the bottom had the timer set at 9:10. In other words, someone stopped the microwave at 9 minutes and 10 seconds. I thought the 1:49 thing was weird, but this was so unusual, two days in a row, the odds of seeing such things twice in as many days so astronomically tiny, that it just blew my mind and I didn’t really care.

Just so you know, I don’t think there is anything significant about this beyond the tiny probability of observing it. I find it interesting how we can be fooled.

One time we were at a Chinese restaurant and someone got a fortune that said “you will be very happy with your wife.” the person was a girl. Then someone else got a fortune that said ” you will be very happy with your wife.” that person was also a girl. Maybe they’ll get married to each other.

Running through an airport to catch my transfer when a man called out to me by my last name. Turns out he was a brother of my biological and was there with his family to pick up incoming visitors. I didn’t have time but for introductions and promises to keep contact but it was thrilling because up until that time, I didn’t even know what my father or his brothers looked like. The man (uncle) said I looked like “family” and so took a chance.