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Minor coincidences are a normal part of life. Whether it&#39;s running in to an ex at the corner store when you&#39;re covered in Cheeto-dust, or finding out a childhood friend is staying at the hotel as you, we&#39;ve all had the experience of feeling like the universe is playing a prank on us. But some coincidences are so wild and unlikely that they can challenge everything we believe in (or don&#39;t believe in), since the only explanation seems to be that there is some kind of cosmic force controlling everything... and it&#39;s trolling us?!In a popular Reddit <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/n5t4rn/what_was_the_biggest_coincidence_that_made_you/" target="_blank">thread</a>, someone asked: &quot;What was the biggest coincidence that made you question the fabric of reality?&quot;<h2>These 17 people share stories of mind-bending coincidences that made them question everything:</h2>1.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Pussydestroyer885/">Pussydestroyer885</a>:<blockquote> This guy I went to grade school and high school with, an acquaintance at best. I&#39;ve seen him in 5 different locations in different countries throughout the last 15 years. Disney World when I was a kid. Some beach bar in Thailand. The Bean in Chicago. A pub in Budapest. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> A library in San Jose, Costa Rica. We&#39;ve become friends due our love of traveling, but neither of us post on social media and neither of us communicated with each other our plans to travel. We never talked outside of the random meetings. Now if I see him, its like the world wants us to have a beer together. haha </blockquote>2.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/scientistrock/">scientistrock</a>:<blockquote> My friend and I were on a road trip a few years ago and needed a place to stay. We both told each other we had a friend in the city we were going through, so we figured we&rsquo;d be able to crash with one of them. Turns out our two friends were roommates and had both been telling each other that they had a friend coming to town soon. </blockquote>3.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Ladycat1988/">Ladycat1988</a>:<div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> I was crossing the street after leaving a store and had the strangest feeling I was going to break my ankle, so carefully avoided a vehicle coming my way.That evening I went to pick up Thai food, fell leaving the restaurant on less than a 4 inch step, and shattered my ankle to the point of needing surgery and after a year haven&#39;t fully healed. </blockquote>4.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Hobocop1984/">Hobocop1984</a>:<blockquote> Several years ago I was at a coffee shop with some friends and one of them had an ipad, another friend went to unlock it and asked him what his 4 digit unlock code was, so I just blurted out 4 random digits pretending like I knew it, and it actually worked. I had never unlocked it before or knew of the same numbers being used for anything else, or his phone number, etc. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>5.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MoFauxTofu/">MoFauxTofu</a>:<blockquote> I dialed my mum on my mobile when I was on public transport and accidentally swapped two numbers around. The person I called was on the same carriage. </blockquote>6.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/aalios/">aalios</a>:<blockquote> My dad lives in a national park here in Australia. It&#39;s farmland that&#39;s grandfathered in. It&#39;s the remnants of a volcano that blew itself up very violently, so it&#39;s very hilly terrain. One day we were sitting out on the deck, when we see a hang-glider come down halfway down the valley, and it didn&#39;t look like a nice landing. &quot;Sh*t, we better see if he&#39;s alright, they don&#39;t land anywhere near here&quot; </blockquote><blockquote> So we get in the car, drive for about 10 minutes to reach the spot. We head over to the guy who is standing by a very damaged glider. The pilot is staring at us incredulously, he stammers &quot;F**k, Jack, is that you?&quot;. My dad, who hasn&#39;t seen his childhood friend for 35 years shouts &quot;F**k, Tim, is that you?&quot;. They both grew up in Greymouth, NZ. Found each other randomly after a glider crash in NSW, Australia. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>7.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Leelluu/">Leelluu</a>:<blockquote> I passed out after receiving a flu shot when I was 28. The nurse who helped me up kept asking if I wanted my mom. It seemed like a really weird thing to offer an adult woman - the option to have her mother phoned and brought in - so I was really confused and getting progressively more annoyed at her repeatedly asking... </blockquote><blockquote> ...until my mom walked up to me. She had the appointment after mine to get vaccinated. The nurses assumed we had come together, but neither of us knew about the other&#39;s appointment, and we lived an hour away from each other in different cities. </blockquote>8.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/chooooooool/">chooooooool</a>:<blockquote> One time, me and my dad were discussing his friend while out driving at night without many other cars on the road. As we were talking, we pulled up to a red light, and the car waiting in front was my dad&#39;s friend. He didn&#39;t even live close to there. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>9.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kor_hookmaster/">kor_hookmaster</a>:<blockquote> My wife and I were looking to hire a caterer for our wedding and when we met, my wife and her started talking about their lives a bit. Turns out they had both literally grown up on the same street, in a city of 10 million people, on the other side of the world. Both had left the city around a decade before immigrating to our current country. </blockquote><blockquote> They knew the same people, had hung out at the same coffee place, attended the same church. They even used to grab mangoes off the same large tree that hung over the wall of one of the large houses in the neighbourhood. But they had never met one another until meeting on almost the exact opposite side of the planet, in a small town of about 50,000 people. </blockquote>10.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RedShadowIV/">RedShadowIV</a>:<div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> I had a dream that a friend of mine and I were living in a loft style apartment with exposed brick and told him about it at band practice. He enjoyed the term &ldquo;exposed brick&rdquo; and used it , metaphorically, in a song he was writing. Fast Forward 7 years later, both of us living in separate areas than we grew up in all those years, multiple career changes for both, and by &ldquo;coincidence&rdquo; we both ended up back in the same (different than we grew up in) town. A guy I went to college with showed me his apartment, of which he loved and had a vacancy in their building...but I needed a roommate to help foot the bill...you guessed it, that same guy I had the dream about was looking for a new place to rent...this place had exposed brick and was one of few in the area, at that time </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>11.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/LunchCautious8781/">LunchCautious8781</a>:<blockquote> The Jim Twins. Look it up. Two twins who were given up for adoption at birth, given the same first name by their adoptive parents, took family vacations to the same beach, married women with the same name, divorced, their second wives&#39; names were off by one letter, both served as volunteer sheriffs, both were into carpentry, both smoked the same brand cigarettes and drank the same brand beer. </blockquote>12.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/iowintai/">iowintai</a>:<blockquote> I remember being 6, and my family was driving in rush traffic to my grandmothers house to spend some of our summer. I was really sad because I had just finished kindergarten and my best friend were going to attend another school than me. I was crying and looking out the window when a car tried to overtake us, but the traffic were moving slowly so the car ended up driving next to us for a little while. And there sat my best friend, looking out the window at me. Wierd coincidence, and my parents did not believe me at first, but they recognised the driver, otherwise I would dismiss this memory as a dream or false memory. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>13.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Thereisnoyou/">Thereisnoyou</a>:<blockquote> Once in high school a friend had something valuable in his locker that I jokingly said I was going to take home, he said &quot;well you&#39;ll have to get it first&quot; as it was secured with a combination padlock, I jokingly spun the dial three times and pulled and it opened and both of us just sat there in disbelief for awhile He re-locked it and I tried again after for several minutes and wasn&#39;t able to replicate it but it was still crazy at the time </blockquote>14.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/harpejjist/">harpejjist</a>:<blockquote> I had two friends from two completely different parts of my life. They lived in different cities. Well, little did I know, they were BFFs from gradeschool. For years I had heard them talk about their gradeschool besties, but as the names were not entirely uncommon, I never guessed they were referring to each other. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>15.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Vroomped/">Vroomped</a>:<blockquote> Had a friend who wasnt crazy weird, just did absolutely everything backwards and was hard to get along with quarky weird. He stayed at my school for a year then just up and disappeared. My family traveled a lot and had sometimes been up rooted in short notice I didn&#39;t think anything of it. </blockquote><blockquote> Years later, in A DIFFERENT STATE, he flies by on a bike, a half sub sandwich in one hand, soda in the other, not touching the handle bars, says &quot;Hi [my name], long time no see&quot;.... and then I never saw him again. </blockquote>16.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/axnu/">axnu</a>:<blockquote> Several years back, a good friend of mine pointed out that he, his girlfriend, and I had the same last 4 digits on our phone numbers. One in a hundred million chance. Kinda. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>17.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/smoffatt34920/">smoffatt34920</a>:<blockquote> Last week I am at work doing a job, my coworker strikes up a conversation with the homeowner at the job site and mentions that his parents live across the street from him, he also asks how long he had lived there. Homeowner responds that it has only been a few months, he just moved to the city from small town several hours away. Co-worker laughs and says he was born and raised in that town. Then asks &quot;Do you know the mini-plex at the corner of X street and Y street? I lived right across from that.&quot; </blockquote><blockquote> Homeowner looks confused, &quot;do you mean at 103 X street? That was my house&quot; They talked more, and discovered that my coworkers parents had sold their house to this Homeowner when they moved to the city. He lived there for 15 years, and then sold it to move to the same city, across the street from the previous owners. Small world. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

17 people share the wild coincidence they experienced that made them question reality.

Minor coincidences are a normal part of life. Whether it&#39;s running in to an ex at the corner store when you&#39;re covered in Cheeto-dust, or finding out a childhood friend is staying at the hotel as you, we&#39;ve all had the experience of feeling like the universe is playing a prank on us. But some coincidences are so wild and unlikely that they can challenge everything we believe in (or don&#39;t believe in), since the only explanation seems to be that there is some kind of cosmic force controlling everything... and it&#39;s trolling us?!In a popular Reddit thread, someone asked: &quot;What was the biggest coincidence that made you question the fabric of reality?&quot;These 17 people share stories of mind-bending coincidences that made them question everything:1.) From Pussydestroyer885: This guy I went to grade school and high school with, an acquaintance at best. I&#39;ve seen him in 5 different locations in different countries throughout the last 15 years. Disney World when I was a kid. Some beach bar in Thailand. The Bean in Chicago. A pub in Budapest.  A library in San Jose, Costa Rica. We&#39;ve become friends due our love of traveling, but neither of us post on social media and neither of us communicated with each other our plans to travel. We never talked outside of the random meetings. Now if I see him, its like the world wants us to have a beer together. haha 2.) From scientistrock: My friend and I were on a road trip a few years ago and needed a place to stay. We both told each other we had a friend in the city we were going through, so we figured we&rsquo;d be able to crash with one of them. Turns out our two friends were roommates and had both been telling each other that they had a friend coming to town soon. 3.) From Ladycat1988: I was crossing the street after leaving a store and had the strangest feeling I was going to break my ankle, so carefully avoided a vehicle coming my way.That evening I went to pick up Thai food, fell leaving the restaurant on less than a 4 inch step, and shattered my ankle to the point of needing surgery and after a year haven&#39;t fully healed. 4.) From Hobocop1984: Several years ago I was at a coffee shop with some friends and one of them had an ipad, another friend went to unlock it and asked him what his 4 digit unlock code was, so I just blurted out 4 random digits pretending like I knew it, and it actually worked. I had never unlocked it before or knew of the same numbers being used for anything else, or his phone number, etc. 5.) From MoFauxTofu: I dialed my mum on my mobile when I was on public transport and accidentally swapped two numbers around. The person I called was on the same carriage. 6.) From aalios: My dad lives in a national park here in Australia. It&#39;s farmland that&#39;s grandfathered in. It&#39;s the remnants of a volcano that blew itself up very violently, so it&#39;s very hilly terrain. One day we were sitting out on the deck, when we see a hang-glider come down halfway down the valley, and it didn&#39;t look like a nice landing. &quot;Sh*t, we better see if he&#39;s alright, they don&#39;t land anywhere near here&quot;  So we get in the car, drive for about 10 minutes to reach the spot. We head over to the guy who is standing by a very damaged glider. The pilot is staring at us incredulously, he stammers &quot;F**k, Jack, is that you?&quot;. My dad, who hasn&#39;t seen his childhood friend for 35 years shouts &quot;F**k, Tim, is that you?&quot;. They both grew up in Greymouth, NZ. Found each other randomly after a glider crash in NSW, Australia. 7.) From Leelluu: I passed out after receiving a flu shot when I was 28. The nurse who helped me up kept asking if I wanted my mom. It seemed like a really weird thing to offer an adult woman - the option to have her mother phoned and brought in - so I was really confused and getting progressively more annoyed at her repeatedly asking...  ...until my mom walked up to me. She had the appointment after mine to get vaccinated. The nurses assumed we had come together, but neither of us knew about the other&#39;s appointment, and we lived an hour away from each other in different cities. 8.) From chooooooool: One time, me and my dad were discussing his friend while out driving at night without many other cars on the road. As we were talking, we pulled up to a red light, and the car waiting in front was my dad&#39;s friend. He didn&#39;t even live close to there. 9.) From kor_hookmaster: My wife and I were looking to hire a caterer for our wedding and when we met, my wife and her started talking about their lives a bit. Turns out they had both literally grown up on the same street, in a city of 10 million people, on the other side of the world. Both had left the city around a decade before immigrating to our current country.  They knew the same people, had hung out at the same coffee place, attended the same church. They even used to grab mangoes off the same large tree that hung over the wall of one of the large houses in the neighbourhood. But they had never met one another until meeting on almost the exact opposite side of the planet, in a small town of about 50,000 people. 10.) From RedShadowIV: I had a dream that a friend of mine and I were living in a loft style apartment with exposed brick and told him about it at band practice. He enjoyed the term &ldquo;exposed brick&rdquo; and used it , metaphorically, in a song he was writing. Fast Forward 7 years later, both of us living in separate areas than we grew up in all those years, multiple career changes for both, and by &ldquo;coincidence&rdquo; we both ended up back in the same (different than we grew up in) town. A guy I went to college with showed me his apartment, of which he loved and had a vacancy in their building...but I needed a roommate to help foot the bill...you guessed it, that same guy I had the dream about was looking for a new place to rent...this place had exposed brick and was one of few in the area, at that time 11.) From LunchCautious8781: The Jim Twins. Look it up. Two twins who were given up for adoption at birth, given the same first name by their adoptive parents, took family vacations to the same beach, married women with the same name, divorced, their second wives&#39; names were off by one letter, both served as volunteer sheriffs, both were into carpentry, both smoked the same brand cigarettes and drank the same brand beer. 12.) From iowintai: I remember being 6, and my family was driving in rush traffic to my grandmothers house to spend some of our summer. I was really sad because I had just finished kindergarten and my best friend were going to attend another school than me. I was crying and looking out the window when a car tried to overtake us, but the traffic were moving slowly so the car ended up driving next to us for a little while. And there sat my best friend, looking out the window at me. Wierd coincidence, and my parents did not believe me at first, but they recognised the driver, otherwise I would dismiss this memory as a dream or false memory. 13.) From Thereisnoyou: Once in high school a friend had something valuable in his locker that I jokingly said I was going to take home, he said &quot;well you&#39;ll have to get it first&quot; as it was secured with a combination padlock, I jokingly spun the dial three times and pulled and it opened and both of us just sat there in disbelief for awhile He re-locked it and I tried again after for several minutes and wasn&#39;t able to replicate it but it was still crazy at the time 14.) From harpejjist: I had two friends from two completely different parts of my life. They lived in different cities. Well, little did I know, they were BFFs from gradeschool. For years I had heard them talk about their gradeschool besties, but as the names were not entirely uncommon, I never guessed they were referring to each other. 15.) From Vroomped: Had a friend who wasnt crazy weird, just did absolutely everything backwards and was hard to get along with quarky weird. He stayed at my school for a year then just up and disappeared. My family traveled a lot and had sometimes been up rooted in short notice I didn&#39;t think anything of it.  Years later, in A DIFFERENT STATE, he flies by on a bike, a half sub sandwich in one hand, soda in the other, not touching the handle bars, says &quot;Hi [my name], long time no see&quot;.... and then I never saw him again. 16.) From axnu: Several years back, a good friend of mine pointed out that he, his girlfriend, and I had the same last 4 digits on our phone numbers. One in a hundred million chance. Kinda. 17.) From smoffatt34920: Last week I am at work doing a job, my coworker strikes up a conversation with the homeowner at the job site and mentions that his parents live across the street from him, he also asks how long he had lived there. Homeowner responds that it has only been a few months, he just moved to the city from small town several hours away. Co-worker laughs and says he was born and raised in that town. Then asks &quot;Do you know the mini-plex at the corner of X street and Y street? I lived right across from that.&quot;  Homeowner looks confused, &quot;do you mean at 103 X street? That was my house&quot; They talked more, and discovered that my coworkers parents had sold their house to this Homeowner when they moved to the city. He lived there for 15 years, and then sold it to move to the same city, across the street from the previous owners. Small world. 

Minor coincidences are a normal part of life. Whether it&#39;s running in to an ex at the corner store when you&#39;re covered in Cheeto-dust, or finding out a childhood friend is staying at the hotel as you, we&#39;ve all had the...