“All three of my children were born on one of their great-grandparents' birthdays.”
The thread quickly filled with hundreds of eerie, shocking, and highly unlikely stories.
Here’s what people shared:
1.
“I lost my class ring outside of school.
I checked the name inside, and it was mine.”
u/ArcticGurl
2.
“When I was a teen, I had to re-home my cat due to my familys financial problems.
I was gutted and cried for a week.
I re-adopted her, and weve been together ever since.”
u/Secret_Identity28
3.
Everything, and I meaneverything,that could’ve gone wrongdidgo wrong.
It’s a story I will tell my grandchildren.
Our dog escaped the car and was running around in the pitch-black wilderness.
It took forever for us and the local police to find her.
I could go on and on and on.
It’s been 10 years, and we STILL laugh about that god-forsaken trip to Dallas.
We have never visited Dallas again.
u/GadgetQueen
4.
“A full-grown moth went inside my nose while riding my scooter.
I immediately started breathing heavily so it would come out.
I saw the moth fly away from my nose like a launch pad from the left nostril.
I was disgusted and didn’t know what to do, but everything felt back to normal immediately.”
u/Mr_Nags
5.
“I had a summer job looking for uranium in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
The job entailed walking through the woods while using a gamma ray detector to find boulders containing uranium.
I narrowed it down to a piece of moss no bigger than my pinkie finger nail.
So, I bagged it, flagged the location, and went back to camp.
The odds of finding this, given the huge area, really was statistically improbable.”
u/CaptnandMaryann
6.
“My one and only time hitchhiking was in college.
The semester was over, so for the fun of it, I thought I’d try hitchhiking home.
We’re driving for about 20 minutes.
Driver looks like he doesn’t talk much.
Suddenly, he asks me, ‘What’s your name?’
I say, [first name last name].'
He turns his head and stares at me.
‘MY name is [same first name last name].’
Well, we’re off.”
We talked nonstop for two hours.
He lets me out just outside the next town.
We waved goodbye, and I never saw him again."
u/coffeeinvenice
7.
“I lost my driver’s license while on a work trip in a different state.
I then moved from the address and apartment listed on my driver’s license.
u/HoldComprehensive808
8.
“I had my wallet in my apartment, as I had ordered something online.
I walked to the store, and the wallet was not in my bag.
I thought I must’ve left it on my desk.
I walk home, and it’s not on the desk.
I spent an hour tearing the apartment apart.
Later that night, while at a game night with friends, the police call.
They have my wallet.
It was found three kilometers down the way from anywhere I had been since I had last had it.
When I got it back, it was beat to hell, but everything was still there.”
u/Dysan27
9.
I thought they looked pretty cool, but I didnt think much of it again after that.
Fast-forward seven years, and Im in a Costa Coffee in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The SAME couple was drinking coffee at the table next to me.
I couldnt leave without checking, so I introduced myself and told them my story.
Turns out they live in Buenos Aires and were on vacation in Scotland.
Seven years later and half a world away, we bumped into each other!”
u/SubtleRapscallion
10.
I randomly picked a plant.
The person I was with goes, ‘You got a four-leaf clover!’
and I was like, ‘Oh, they must all be like that.’
I assumed it was some random plant cluster that all looked like four-leaf clovers, but I was wrong.
I totally blindly, and while backwards, grabbed a four-leaf clover on a random park bench."
u/OfficialAbsoluteUnit
11.
“I was stationed with a guy in Japan who was originally from Sierra Leone.
u/Danimation65
12.
Fast-forward a few years.
I was about 16 and was sighting in my hunting rifle when I noticed something moving down-range of me.
I went to move it out of the way after I realized it was a turtle.
I went and fed him a few slices of tomato and sent him on his way.”
u/ToasterInYourBathtub
13.
The car bounced between trees all the way down, in a narrow alley of no trees.
That narrow alley without trees meant that none came through the windshield to impale me or crush me.
She did not survive."
u/i_know_tofu
14.
“I bought and moved into a house that was one of seven in a culdesac.
Getting to know the neighbors, I discovered four of the homeowners shared the same birthday as me.
That made me the fifth out of seven in the circle.
u/pureGoldie
15.
“I was driving down a backroad in the middle of nowhere and got a flat tire.
We started talking, and it turns out we knew some of the same people.
Well, turns out the dude was a distant cousin.”
u/BaulsJ0hns0n86
16.
“I transferred within the post office to a new facility after 10 years.
My first night working there, I opened a tray of mail that contained only one letter.
I said something to another clerk, and a letter carrier recognized me.
Turns out it was the friend from college.
He had become a letter carrier eight years prior to that day.
I asked if he had a birthday coming up, and he said it was his birthdaythatday.”
u/PostalMike
17.
“I was a cashier, and a customer coughed on me.
I felt the spittle on my face.
Of course, I got sick.
I wound up in the ER with breathing difficulties.
They did chest imaging and diagnosed me with pneumonia.
I had zero symptoms no weight loss, no pain.
I absolutely had no clue I had a huge tumor in my abdomen.
u/Low-Stick6746
18.
My fortune cookie had an inspiring saying in it, so I kept the little slip of paper.
Exactly 10 years later, I had made a major, life-altering decision, and I was second-guessing myself.
I got the exact same fortune in the cookie at the end of the meal.
I’ve got both little slips of paper together in an envelope.
It’s one of the more interesting things I own.”
u/h2opolodude4
19.
“I was at a Brooklyn art fair when some painting caught my eye.
u/PotatoFrites
20.
“All three of my children were born on one of their great-grandparents' birthdays.”
u/lokeilou
21.
“Im a dude in his mid-40s.
One of the nicest conversations Ive ever had, all thanks to the unlikeliest coincidence.”
u/RabiesInRemission
22.
“I watched my wife get struck by lightning.
We were dating at the time.
She had a summer lifeguard job, but a thunderstorm came up.
I drove over to pick her up and watched the last kid and their mom drive off.
She flew back 10 feet without even touching the ground, then landed on some grass.
I got out of the car, ran over, and helped her up.
She was shaking all over, jittering as she walked to the car.
She shook like that for 10 minutes nonstop.”
u/TheScarletPimple
23.
“I am from Denmark and traveled to the US to do aroadtripon the west coast.
I was in San Diego and found a bar.
At the table next to me sits a girl from my class from elementary/primary school.
My mind refused to believe it.
I simply thought I saw her doppelganger until she also recognized me.
It’s still something than messes with me.”
u/lologblamme
24.
First time I ever bought a scratch-off and first time I was ever mugged.
Needless to say, I never bought another one.”
u/Bigkahunafishfry
25.
“I was waiting for Lyft to assign me a driver for my ride.
Since the wait was too long, I decided to try Uber instead.
At the same time, I got a notification from both apps.
Turns out that I was assigned the same driver on both apps!”
u/ItsLiterallyPK
26.
“I was helping my dad spread new soil on our front yard and plant new grass seeds.
u/Artai55a
27. u/MissHibernia
28.
She bought it and put it back on our shelf.
We could still see my sisters name carved underneath.”
u/KailuaCarpenter96734
29.
“I nearly died three times on August 26th.
u/steve0a3d
30. u/kuruman67
31.
Think like going down to the Jersey Shore from NY.
My buddies and I rented a house for the weekend, and everything was good.
One night, I decided to go for a walk on the beach; it was probably 1:00 a.m.
I haven’t spoken to either of these girls in years.
We ended up all hanging out for a few days, and it was a good time.
I haven’t spoken to either of them since.”
u/forgotmyemail19
32. u/Violet624
33.
“After university, I went on a trip to Europe.
At that exact moment, a friend of mine walked into the lobby.
Neither of us had mentioned to each other that we were going to Europe that summer.
u/delaneycombs
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