Strange coincidences that make you go... hmmm!

Candie wrote: »

Life is full of things that can be construed as coincidence if you're interested in looking for them. And if you're looking for them then your confirmation bias will find them. This is what psychics rely on, people willing to join the dots to make something more significant than it actually is.

I was in a supermarket and saw a girl who looked like me.

She was around the same age
She also had dark hair
We were both there on Saturday
We both bought loo roll
She and I both drove there in cars
She and I both wore T-shirts
We queued at the exact same till
We both parked in the same row
Our cars were roughly the same colour
We both pushed shopping trollies

Coincidence??

Some of the 'coincidences' in the OP are fiction anyway.

ThinkProgress wrote: »

I was thinking there are probably lots of people with odd stories or anecdotes etc of strange unexplained coincidences.

I always love reading this kind of stuff, as it really makes you wonder about life and the bigger picture of things. (well it does for me anyways)

(NB: This is not a conspiracy thread - so please try avoid too much speculative theories.)

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Here's my contribution to begin: It's about the similarities between the Lincoln and JFK assassinations.

I'm not speculating on what any of this means. I just thought people might find the parallels quite interesting/amusing/odd?


> Both Lincoln and Kennedy were concerned with civil rights.

> Lincoln was elected President in 1860; Kennedy in 1960.

> Both were killed on a Friday in the presence of their wives.

> Both were shot from behind and in the head.

> Their successors, both named Johnson, were Southern Democrats and both were in the Senate.

> Andrew Johnson was born in 1808 and Lyndon Johnson was born in 1908.

> John Wilkes booth (lincoln's assassin) was born in 1839 and Lee Harvey Oswald (JFK's alleged assassin) was born in 1939.

> Booth and Oswald were Southerners favoring unpopular ideas.

> Both Presidents’ wives lost children through death while in the White House.

> Lincoln’s secretary, whose name was Kennedy, advised him not to go to the theater.

> Kennedy’s secretary, whose name was Lincoln, advised him not to go to Dallas.

> John Wilkes booth shot Lincoln in a theater and ran to a warehouse.

> Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and ran to a theater.

> The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.

> The names Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson each contain thirteen letters.

> The names John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald each contain 15 letters.

> Both assassins were killed before being brought to trial.

> Both Johnsons were opposed for re-election by men whose names start with “G.”


Quite a jaw-dropping amount of coincidences there. lol

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So does anyone else have any stories with some weird unexplained coincidences? Please share!