10 Amazing Coincidences (And Why They're Not That Amazing Really) | Random Thursday

[@alexkirk9107]

My grandma was traveling through Egypt, got on a bus and started a conversation with another American, it turned out they were in the same kindergarten class together

[@parthsavyasachi9348]

Last year my daughter met her best friend from 1st class in Croatia. They were classmates in Germany until we moved to india. (they met after 5 years)

[@ajax5622]

Please tell me your dads name is james t kirk

[@arctic_desert]

I was doing karaoke at a bar in Puerto Rico and literally bumped into someone there while she went up. It was my childhood neighbor from Pennsylvania

[@davemccombs]

Soooo... two people of age with means to travel, from a country where vacations abroad are culturally popular, bumped into each other in one of the world's premiere tourist destinations? Explains all of your stories in one sweep: things that seem coincidental usually aren't.

[@arctic_desert]

@@davemccombs you just described the definition of a coincidence lol let people marvel at the funny things on earth please, it's a simple joy.

[@amicloud_yt]

"outlawed survival cannabalism" yeah because if i am so desperate that I would eat another person i'd definitely consider changing my mind because it's illegal

[@kamorikioko]

I'd like his source on this though because as far as I can see it's not.... In fact regular cannibalism isn't even illegal.... Weird.

[@melissadavis809]

@@kamorikioko not in itself but it you couldn't do it legally because it's would be murder, theft of a body part, GBH... Idk about self canibalism or if someone maybe have you permission and they didn't die 😅

[@francislee174]

Or just lie abt it lol

[@Rampart.X]

Possibly outlawed "survival cannibalism" as a defence for murder.

[@CivilEngineerWroxton]

@@melissadavis809 A man and a few of his friends here in America ate his amputated foot after it was removed due to injury. There is a video about it here on YT. It broke no laws and the people who ate it said it wasn't half bad. But it is incredibly disgusting.

[@daintygolightly1869]

This is my favourite coincidence story from a tv programme years ago. A man was having a day off work and he decided to go walking in the remote hills of the Lake District. He stopped for a break and a flask of tea near to an emergency phone. (In the days before mobiles these were dotted about in case you got into difficulties in a remote spot) whilst he was there having a sandwich and enjoying the peace, this phone began to ring. Feeling a bit bemused, he answered it and found it was a colleague from the personnel dept of the company he worked for. She was saying ‘sorry to call on your day off but can I just ask about …’ at this point, utterly confused he stopped her and said ‘how are you ringing me on this number?’ And she said ‘I’m just ringing your home phone number from your personal file’ . He explained where he was and when she looked at his file to check, instead of dialling his phone number, she had dialled his employee reference number, which just happened to be the number of that emergency phone, that he had just happened to stop by for a break at that moment!

[@richardgratton7557]

I am hearing the « Twilight Zone » theme in my head…😳

[@amehak1922]

@@richardgratton7557 same here lol

[@kellual]

Haha that literally gave me chills 😂

[@70stunes71]

I honeymooned in The Lakes District while I was stationed overseas. Beautiful area

[@zappababe8577]

That is absolutely crazy.

[@theboi396]

who else found this guy and started binge watching his channel

[@edn9472]

Yes 😂

[@katybug6572]

Yes! That’s why I’m here in the oldie (but still goodie!) section! Ha

[@weirdfish1216]

love this guy

[@ijusthadtobespecial9741]

Meeeee

[@Lin_The_Cat_]

Yep. Been on a multiple day binge lol

[@Eagi85]

My mom had a similar experience to the book one. She borrowed a library book and went on vacation, someone stole her luggage including the book... A year later (wanting to know how the book ended) she buys a copy from a secondhand bookstore, looking inside she finds it has her home library stamp in it!

[@joescott]

That's a good one!

[@jbmoto]

How close was the library to the bookstore?

[@kindlin]

@@jbmoto I think they we're in, like, the same town or so. I'm curious how far away the vacation was for it to come back like that; it's almost stalkerish, creepy.

[@JohannesAmbrosch]

@@kindlin maybe it was already stolen at the airport/station?

[@Eagi85]

Ghost Beef 125miles or 200km.

[@LonSafko]

When I was 15 in upstate New York, my car's wheel fell off on a lonely country road at midnight. I walked to a house to call for help. I met the person who opened the door and he was staying there for the summer from New York City and played the piano. I thanked him and left to wait for the tow truck. 16 years later, I moved to Seattle. The first week there, I went to check out Nordstrom's Department Store and heard the piano. I walked to it and listened to the guy play the piano for 45 minutes. When he took a break, I introduced myself and complimented him on how great a pianist he was. After talking to him for a few more minutes, we realized, he... was the one who opened the door at midnight on the other side of the country to call my tow truck.

[@richardgratton7557]

Wait..what? You were 15 and driving a car? At midnight? Where were your parents? 😂

[@LonSafko]

@@richardgratton7557 Home in bed, where they thought I was. I snuck out the window... LOL

[@amehak1922]

Crazy

[@turtlejeepjen314]

That is VERY interesting- AND the TIMING of when he was playing & you happened to be in the store at the same time…!!l🙂🙂

[@rtmordecai1]

I’m from Virginia. I ran into my next door neighbor while I was walking into and she was walking out of a gift shop in Juneau Alaska.

[@polarisraven5613]

Or both happened to be watching the same tv program, or were together over a discussion, that somehow spurred them both to go to Alaska? I'd imagine experiencing the same weather conditions could certainly take a chunk out of the odds.

[@ikbenlaradetoffe]

There was a marketed advertisement for juneau hotels in virginia.

[@ivyrose5153]

I have also run into a neighbor in a completely different state

[@mattiassvanberg9161]

Gay

[@rossapolis]

I'm from Wisconsin and my parents were shopping at a grocery store in Bullhead City Arizona and ran into one of our neighbors in the check-out line.

[@crystaliskandar1]

Emile: Also Emile: He's here.

[@simplicitylost]

CrystalIskandar This is a wonderful comment and it's a travesty it doesn't have more recognition!

[@angrymario8259]

I never said this

[@simplicitylost]

My favorite coincidence is the one that happened to my grandfather. He was in WWII and he signed a dollar (it was a whole thing; look it up if you're interested). Then 40 or 50 years later, he was at a yard sale in his small hometown. He wrote a check, and the man recognized his signature. He gave him back the bill and I still have it in an album! Yes, it's crazy the bill made its way back to his small town, but what's even crazier to me is that the guy recognized his signature! If he hadn't (or my grandfather hadn't paid with a check), then we would've never known.

[@RabidChild82]

Back in the 1970s, Anthony Hopkins was working on the movie The Girl From Petrovka. He wanted to read the book it was based on, so he hunted for it through numerous bookstores in London. He gave up and sat down on a bench waiting for the train. Right next to him was the book. Not only that but it had the signed name of the author in it with notations all over inside. Years later when working on A Bridge Too Far Hopkins met with the author of Petrovka, George Feifer, and explained about the book he found. It turned out to be the only copy the author had had in his possession. Hopkins gave it back.

[@i_love_rescue_animals]

What a cool story!!

[@joeyknight8272]

Wow

[@cavegoblin101]

His scenes in Thor Ragnarok was amazing and he is one of my favorite actors since long before Thor. Never knew about that story before but I guess a 40 year old person would be pushing the odds of experiencing something like that. I cannot believe he was born in the 30's. We are getting close to the 30's again.

[@SirBeauJangles]

That's a nonsensical statement. "Shouldn't be told", indeed... Rather - that's a remark that shouldn't have been made!

[@the-goat]

Perhaps the author was in town at the same time in order to help with the consultation on the film?

[@merissamakesstuff]

When I was 9 a bully threw my backpack in a tiny creek by my house, and I couldn't catch it. 3-4 years later someone from my tiny town (less than 3,000) just so happened to be at the ocean and saw the tide pull it to shore. She knew me since I was very young and she went to my church. She brought it to me. We live in a tiny town (1 mile sq) hundreds of miles from the ocean. The creek led to a bigger creek which led to the Columbia River which eventually led to the Pacific Ocean. Everything except the candy was still in it unharmed. Crazy!

[@MegaShrooom]

That's insane

[@jesussaves1875]

Wow

[@pledgestone]

The candy was the only thing I would have wanted.

[@thecommunistpartyofvooperi9613]

Hgyvtfygyhuh Ygihvutctvnininnin it's too specific

[@safron2442]

I highly doubt that a backpack would've stayed afloat for 4 entire years

[@handymanhoney-do6881]

My dad was stationed in Tokyo post WWII. He was in a bar and (unusually for 1945ish) stepped outside for a cigarette when a high school classmate walked by. They were from a tiny town of 800 people--25 in his graduating class. Neither knew the other had even joined the army or had any communication in many years. He used to tell that story and say “And THATS why you can never plan a perfect crime…..an unexplainable coincidence will mess the whole thing up”.

[@verticalisland]

I once looked for my first girlfriend on Myspace years ago. We had been separated for 17 years with no contact. I saw a profile unrelated to her but was named ACE with a cartoon character on it. I wrote it, I don't know why, and it was her. (this was 12 pages into my search). I didn't write any other person. She happened to be going through a divorce and we got to talking. We have been together for 10 years, married for 6.

[@justemusicme]

Shawn Lecrone ok....

[@genathing903]

This is lovely.

[@ivyrose5153]

Charles Duvall do you need help with the meaning of that word?

[@Strype13]

@H O N K H O N K Probably. But, who cares? It's still a neat story.

[@iplaygamesyall4017]

Gay

[@korsetmaken]

I've met my doppelganger when I was eleven. Same hair, same hight, both wearing similar glasses, our birthdays are 15 days apart and other funny stuff. We became pen palls and she was a witness at my wedding. She is the oldest friend I have.

[@TankUni]

Plot twist: doppelganger is imaginary.

[@TankUni]

Double plot twist: doppelganger is real, Hepziba is imaginary.

[@bobbyb6053]

Do the two of you still look the same?

[@MyMrRoboto]

triple plot twist... the doppelganger concept itself is in fact imaginary

[@paulgoogol2652]

@@MyMrRoboto quadruple plottwist: the conept of concepts and of existance itself is being questioned and truth as a concept was disproven long ago so everybody is always lying.

[@michaelgasperik4319]

A couple of years ago my wife had a dream that I was cheating on her with her cousin that she had not seen since she was a child. I had never met this cousin. The next day my wife contacted her on Facebook to tell her about the crazy dream and to say hi, see how she was doing and whatever, they hadn't spoken in a few years. The cousin told her about how she had caught her husband cheating on her the night before.

[@lynnewebb4573]

Yesterday I watched this video. A few hours later, I returned to my book: a simple murder mystery set in 19th century England. I had never heard about the cannibal actions of sailors eating their cabin boy until Joe mentioned it in this video. Absolutely at random, a snippet in my novel mentioned the English sailors who ate their cabin boy. Yep! I had to laugh...what a weird coincidence!

[@almightysosa3007]

Lynne Webb the twilight zone doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo

[@danielosuna4980]

Lynne Webb not even fucking around, as I started reading your comment(while watching the vid as I usually do. EAP picture pops up and got up to ‘19th century’ and read ‘cabin boy’ before he said it 😭😭😭

[@chriswebster24]

You wouldn’t have that problem if you didn’t read books, like a nerd, you nerd.

[@MegaShrooom]

@@chriswebster24 funny joke, chris

[@CyanideSun94]

reminds me of one time when I was talking to my friend on the phone and we mentioned a writing game where you pick a random page in a book and the first sentence you have to write your one story based on, so my friend picked up a book and turned to a page at random and the sentence she read I immediately recognized as one i had read just the other day and the book she picked up was the same as i was reading at that time. Was nearly then years ago but I still remember it to this day because the main character was gay and later in that phone call I (finally) came out to my friend

[@NekoChanSenpai]

Plum pudding: is available Mr. French name: "I have been summoned."

[@cindyloutaylor3842]

Hahaha

[@beancanneedstherapy8998]

Lmao

[@lievenvanloo6011]

*Monsieur French name

[@davidtomlinson6138]

I look back on the addresses I've lived in over the years and the number 13 or figures 1and 3, seems to come up , ive lived at -No.s , 113, 31 , 13, 34, 58 - ( 5+8=13 ) 19, 18, 139-( 1+3+9=13) , 123, mmmm 🤔

[@k.i.n.g6668]

Lmfao

[@Nofxthepirate]

The Radiolab podcast has an episode on Stochasticity which is a scientific term for randomness. They actually interviewed the Laura Buxton's and found out that despite all their similarities, they had quite a lot of differences as well. The newspapers and tv stations that reported the story just focused on the similarities. It's a fascinating podcast about how we find order in chaos and focus on the similarities while dismissing the differences when trying to attach meaning to things

[@simonstevens66]

The Tiger in Life of Pi was called Richard Parker...

[@Calliopa_22]

Simon S lol, that’s exactly what I was thinking!

[@Pinko_Band]

That’s because The Life of Pi was based on the second story regarding someone called Richard Parker. If you recall, and iirc, the animals in that movie were all metaphors for actual ppl that survived the shipwreck and Pi only relayed the story that way to the authorities because it made it easier for him to tell it, I believe. It’s been a while since I’ve seen it...

[@tcuisix]

The guy that played Pi was also in the amazing spiderman and mentions Richard Parker, Peters dad.

[@joescott]

That... was probably on purpose. :)

[@pintpot]

@@joescott Yes, the whole co-incidence story is related in the book

[@jameskenihan4466]

"...outlawed survival cannibalism" "Where is the cabin boy?" "Uhhh...shark got him" *BURP*

[@gonun69]

And just a few years later a sailor died. He has already cooked his cabin boy, but just as he wanted to take the first bite he remembered that it was illegal and he could go to jail or even be executed for it. So he rather starved to death.

[@anest-uk]

I thought it was "Roger the cabin boy" it was at my school...

[@digamojones]

Poe was twisted The cabin boys were for eating. “Ima go below decks and eat me some cabin boy” aye aye matey. Richard Parker... you know they called him “Dick” yes that’s him! He’s Dick Parker... and let me tell you he knows how to drive that thing too. So Dick Parker is looking for a parking space so that he can park his.... cause after all he is Dick Parker! Not only a Cabin Boy, but pirate as well!! Him and Richard Wayne Kerr would hang out together. Their friend Wayne Conner was married to a real nice girl. The leader of their little group was Jack Kingman. Eventually they all got off. Now Wayne Conners wife she’s oriental her name is Faye Quans... All of Wayne’s buddy’s want to meet her. Now when Wayne and Faye were dating. He was very hard on her. You see he did not want to come off like a cabin boy. Wayne was very sensitive when it came to Faye. She enjoyed his testy nature. She works hard and comes first with him. Now Richard Wayne Kerr, his buddies called him “dick” for short, and Jack Kingman were just trying to get ahold of them selves and come to grips. You see in taking matters into their own hands they were able to get off. Their buddy Richard “Dick” Parker was eaten at sea. You never think it could, but stay on deck or might you be eaten.

[@brianarbenz7206]

Even if the person was free range?

[@SMunro]

Tales of the Black Freighter?

[@dallasmed65]

My one and only crazy coincidence is one day when I was working at a shoe store, a man walked in with a woman that looked so familiar. It bloomed on me that he looks exactly (and I mean EXACTLY) like my buddy from high school, but older. So I presumed it would be his father. So I waited until he bought shoes because we usually ask for full names and addresses. When he bought shoes, I waited to hear what his last name was and it was my friends last name! I then asked how my buddy was doing in the sense that it was his son. Then he replied that he’s never had kids and didn’t know who I was talking about..... Mind was blown.

[@jeanhopman5659]

he may not know he has a son………..

[@ManjotSingh-sf2ri]

He is your friend

[@dailydoseofreality6070]

@@jeanhopman5659 kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIOamn58etOcbZo

[@themudkip5295]

imagine if he WAS KNOWINGLY his dad and he just wanted to fck with you💀

[@sprintershepherd4359]

It was your friends father but he was having an affair with the woman he was with and hadn't told her he had kids . you nearly blew his cover

[@error_d2c]

*I was born on my birthday.* Explain that one Scott🤔

[@johnb003]

Wow... My birthday seems to happen every year at around the same time.

[@JackLe1127]

Error_D2C. His name is Joe tho

[@samatarsalah8131]

Im not joking today is my birthday

[@rancidbeef582]

I was too young to remember when I was born.

[@leemaples1806]

thats a coincidence. i was born on my birthday too. creepy huh.

[@mattypusplatypus3340]

"Billion-to-one chances happen nine times out of ten" - Sir Terry Pratchett (RIP)

[@Thebrainymonkey]

beat me to it.

[@mattypusplatypus3340]

heheh yeah i love that quote, it really describes this sort of thing perfectly :)

[@rodhiemstra6428]

@Please Complete All Fields brilliant!

[@catbert7]

No, they happen 10 times to the ninth!

[@joescott]

Nice. :)

[@FeralSwift]

This happened to me. My grandma passed away and I had a full on lengthy dream that same night with her telling me goodbye and that I needed to stay in the city I was in for a reason (I was in a horrible situation at the time and considering moving back to my moms and her abusive husband) and not even a week later I met my bf of ten years and I have a MUCH better life.

[@bbd121]

Hey, what an unbelievable coincidence, I am friends with a rich Nigerian prince. All I need to do is send him some money to settle some duty fee for him to give me money... ...Oh, wait

[@supercomputer0448]

What do you mean oh wait! PAY THE MAN!!!! You will be rich soon. :)

[@honkytonk4465]

Take your chance,now!

[@LisaBowers]

Wait... is this the _same_ rich Nigerian prince I'm friends with? What a small world! _Now, if I could just get him to send me the money he promised me..._

[@mickelodiansurname9578]

@@LisaBowers unbelievable... Only today a Nigerian prince introduced himself by email to me.... This is astounding...

[@matthiasnagorski8411]

Man, I thought that prince was MY friend! As soon as I get my life savings back, I'm ditching him.

[@wendybremner918]

When I was in Grade 7, I had a dream about my grade 4 teacher being a construction worker. In that dream, my teacher blew a kiss at me which was so strange that I remembered the dream...that morning on my way to school, I saw a construction worker that was not my teacher but looked very much like him....and as I stared in disbelief, he blew a kiss at me.

[@OnlyIdiotsVote4Kamala]

Wendy Bremner you’re probably psychic

[@ToasterBrain51702]

he wasn't your teacher he was just a predator

[@yellowmelancholy4875]

Sounds like a perv

[@kiraaisling9603]

Wendy Bremner I can see the future in my dreams too. But I only know it’s from my dream when I see it. It’s called a premonition I get them a lot, sometimes it’s hard to tell but I get this feeling and it feels crazy.

[@TheAsj97]

Hmmm, I wonder what what are the odds of a construction worker blowing a kiss at a girl, especially one that's staring at him?

[@paradigmbuster]

I have a weird story. When I was growing up in Pittsburgh PA, my parents bought a house that the original owners left some things. One of them was a mantle clock. This clock would not tick. Then when it was announced that Harry Truman was on his death bed that clock started ticking by itself and would not stop. Finally when His death was announced the clock stopped working never to work again. I was watching a PBS documentary many years later were Harry's son was being interviewed. Behind Him was a mantle clock just like the one We had!

[@SunnySideLove3]

Reading this gave me the chills man.

[@shanehayden726]

Something very interesting is that I'm in Pittsburg right now. And I live here. The fact we both clicked on this video and I seeing your comment has to be a low chance.

[@draggy6544]

@@shanehayden726 lol maybe if Pittsburgh wasn’t a massive city but a tiny remote town of few people but Pittsburgh? Come on

[@shanehayden726]

@@draggy6544 Pittsburg isn't really that big of a city. I mean if I said to name 3 big cities, none of them would be pittsburg.

[@mikehunt3688]

@@shanehayden726 What are the odds? I've heard of the city of Pittsburg before!

[@zaneyates5704]

3:10 something similar happened to my grandma. She was browsing the boxes at some outdoor antique shop when she began to exam some old school newspaper clippings, only to find that they were the articles she'd written probably about half a century earlier or more. The shop owner sold them to her for a reduced price.

[@loiuhuiygny7guyguiygk]

I love how the comment section of Joe's videos are generally fi nd and genuine people! see what you have done Joe! you brought all the nice people together.

[@swftwlly]

True for the most part, but I've already noticed a couple of trolls in this thread.

[@jek__]

the engineer side of the internet is a million times more cordial than the social/entertainment side of the internet. Channels like this lie somewhere in between It's crazy how well people get along when they have real ideas to discuss. I guess people dont feel the need to make up antagonism just to feel heard when they have valid ideas worth listening to

[@Kholdaimon]

I was at my parents house with my wife a few years ago, we traveled by train because our car had broken down the day before. On the last day of our visit I thought about my youth and asked my mom if she knew what happened to one of my childhood friends that lived down the street, I wondered how he was doing, I hadn't seen him for about 12 years. On the train ride back our train hit a person that committed suicide. The day after my mom read in the local newspaper that my friend was the one that had jumped in front of our train... That spooked me...

[@upperleftcoastchelseafan7718]

A few years after leaving high school I had a dream about two close friends and a concert we had gone to. Next day an old friend called and told me those two friends had died in a car crash the previous evening. They were in separate cars, both were the drivers and they hit each other head on. Freaked me the hell out and I don't understand even thirty years later how that happened.

[@drbigmdftnu]

Wow! That's a real woo-woo alert

[@dolebiscuit]

Life isn't all just coincidence. You experienced that first hand.

[@4k-os]

Concert? Gives new meaning to "head-banging".

[@upperleftcoastchelseafan7718]

@@4k-os Most people would be offended, I thought it was hilarious. Good one.

[@swftwlly]

Was the accident in a small town? Did they live close to each other? That would definitely increase the probability, but hardly explain the dream.

[@erinrising2799]

I had heart surgery when when I was 12 and there was another girl in the same hospital room who had the same full name as me, the exact same birthday, and our moms had the same name. The surgeon ended up moving me to a different room, so he wouldn't confuse us and do the wrong procedure on the wrong kid.

[@draektears2794]

Erin Rising that was just you from a different dimension who somehow appeared in this dimension

[@reaperzeero]

That's a pretty dangerous one. I would have even stapled a picture of each of you into your respective charts, just in case, because that's nuts.

[@ErynRenee]

I was able to trace my ancestors and my boyfriend's ancestors back to the same town in Germany, where there was a business by both names (Horne & Bauer). Both families immigrated within 10 years to the same town in Ohio. My boyfriend grew up in Michigan, but moved to Ohio for school. We got an apartment together, and found out that his great great grandparents bought a house 100 years ago just a half block from where we live now. He never knew any of this, since his dad knew almost nothing about his family's ancestry. So weird. Basically, our families knew each other in Germany in the early 1800s, and somehow we met in 2012 at a cookout that neither of us planned on going to.

[@saranshgautam6551]

I could watch an hour long video of Joe saying Monseir De Fontgibu

[@joescott]

Make it happen, internet.

[@ioresult]

@@joescott Except try pronouncing correctly. I the "g" is soft. The "t" is mute. Just found an extract of a German film where they pronounce it perfectly. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHvLnZxrdrhoZrs

[@saranshgautam6551]

@@ioresult Thanks for the info Benjamin LEvaBear.

[@ioresult]

@@saranshgautam6551 yes my name also contains a mute letter and is French. Good catch. The mute letter is the "b".

[@monksmom1]

Ok, i actually just watched your video. Sigh.......

[@gaylemortell296]

One time when I lived in Aspen, I was driving home down a remote road, listening to Simon & Garfunkel & Art Garfunkel passed me while he was jogging.

[@stuslater9506]

He can run really fast.

[@donrobertson4940]

@@stuslater9506 you haven't seen his car.

[@aviuxy]

I was literally just watching colony the movie and Simon & Garfunkel was mentioned-

[@victoralmeida4955]

I spent months without listening to them. Out of nowhere I started singing the sound of silence to myself, and then I see your comment

[@Hollylivengood]

You win. That rules.

[@Darbydootx]

When I was 14 I had a janky laptop, and my wallpaper was of a random Japanese neon sign I had grabbed from somewhere on the internet. No special meaning - it just looked cool. I changed it eventually. The next year, my dad took me on a trip to Tokyo and we were walking around Shibuya. At some point, I noticed a particular neon sign that seemed familiar to me. I took a picture, and back at the hotel I pulled up my library of old wallpapers. It was the same Japanese neon sign, and I just so happened to stumble upon it in Tokyo. Pretty cool!

[@doughboywhine]

But what did it mean?

[@seanriopel3132]

Probably the sign for whorehouse

[@sprintershepherd4359]

@@doughboywhine it was a sign man a sign

[@davidhatred7275]

translated to english it read "mcdonalds" 😉

[@mj.l]

@@davidhatred7275 i saw one of those once too. amazing!!1

[@Jaylf3]

About 15 years ago on the same night my daughter and I had the exact same dream about dozens of moons in the sky.

[@larmoran4885]

Same

[@jasperlufkin]

u were aducted by alans.

[@larmoran4885]

@@jasperlufkin pesky Alans

[@1406house]

Jasper Lufkin god damn Alans

[@seapr6]

@@jasperlufkin You can't trust Alans, but Allens are ok.

[@Xanderfied]

One day in 1930’s, when Joseph Figlock was ambling alone in the street of Detroit, a baby fell off a fourth-story window and luckily landed on him, neither was injured. One year later, in the same street, the same baby fell off the same window and landed on the same person again, fortunately, neither was injured again.

[@crissyolivia3040]

😲😲😲😲 Wooow!

[@utah133]

And yet, no one was arrested for child neglect. USA, 1930'S.

[@MyNameIsRed111]

Snaggle Toothed you’re doing that idiot thing that many KZbin commenters so often do, trying to call someone out on grammar, spelling, punctuation or using a word incorrectly while stumbling around in a paragraph for exactly the same reason. Go get a life.

[@MG-wc6nk]

Michael Crider CALL CPS THOSE PARENTS ARE NEGLIGENT🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@brenduck]

it's literally detroit do you think anyone human actually exists there

[@CAMacKenzie]

In 1965, when I was a teenager, I went with my parents on a driving/camping vacation, stopping in Mesa Verde National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, and Wind Caves National Park, with a day-jog up to Mount Rushmore National Monument. Everywhere we went, there was a woman my mom kept seeing. My mom didn't know her, but there was something identifiable about her so that my mom knew it was the same woman. On the way home, we were going to stop in Zion National Park, but one thing and another delayed us, so we wound up stopping at a National Forest campground near Salt Lake City. There was a tiny postage stamp of a National Monument near it, which we had never heard of before, called Timpanogos Cave, so we decided to go down to the Monument visitors' center and tour the cave. We were going to have to wait for the tour, so we went into a little theater in the visitors' center to watch a slide show. The theater was just darkening as we went in and sat down in the back. When the show was over and the lights came on, and the other family in the front (they were the only others there) stood up, my mom was surprised to see this same woman. My dad was surprised to see her husband, who was his supervisor at work. Yes, they had been at all the same places we had, and had intended to go to Zion, but had been delayed, and had just decided to go to this little Monument they had seen on the map.

[@GoSlash27]

I had a "synchronous dream" once back around 1990. It was extremely vivid and memorable. I dreamed that I was wandering through the wreckage of a giant military transport that had crashed on top of an apartment building. There were screams,bodies, victims crawling around, etc... I woke up from it and learned a couple hours later that a 747 had crashed on top of an apartment building somewhere in Denmark about the same time I had my dream. And the footage on TV looked just like what I had seen in my dream. I've never had another instance like that before or since. Just that one time, but it really weirded me out.

[@phoebexxlouise]

Oh my goodness!

[@imanimaldonado1626]

Yikes that’s trippy

[@Pfsif]

A plane crashed into an apartment building in Holland a couple decades ago.

[@MrPig40]

Was the TV news on while you were sleeping?

[@ManHobbyChannel]

No 747 ever crashed in Denmark. I know, I'm Danish, I live in Denmark, and I was 12 years old in 1990, so I would remember if any plane crashed on a building in Denmark. I think what you refer to is the El Al Flight 1862 747 cargo plane crash in the Netherlands in 1992.

[@kareemarsh2977]

Honestly the only KZbinr who says "love you guys" and it feels sincere

[@billymoody8163]

I always think of all the myriad times I might dream of a loved one or just an acquaintance and.... nothing. Unless their is an EVENT that coincides with said dream would I even notice it or have a memory of it. As someone said, we remember the hits and forget all the misses.

[@Pinko_Band]

Man you’d think they’d have had time to hammer out all these glitches in the Matrix by now...

[@Erin_A_13]

The year leading up to a trip to the UK at age 12 I had a reoccurring dream in which I could see my feet bathing in a rushing stream as I say on the banks, then looked up to survey the rolling water, the trees, the clearing, etc. It was very vivid and specific, including the boulders in the center of said stream. Then one day on our trip, travelling through Wales, we stopped for a picnic, walked a little ways into the forest by the side of the road and there in the clearing we came upon was the exact setting from my dream.

[@Matt-pl5lz]

@Erin A that feeling is called deja vu, it happens to many people but, at least for me, it’s not that specific

[@robinhood6399]

@@Matt-pl5lz It's Deja vu all over again!

[@jesussaves1875]

I had a dream like that.. it saved my life. I was on a horse, there was a vintage car rusted and broken down, a barbed wire fence the horse at full gallop stopped at a cement crib and I fell forward and that was it for me. When it started happening my first thought was; I have been here before - I saw everything in the order I had in the dream although it was my first time - that was when I saw the cement crib, it took all of my strength to get the horse off course. Not deja vu, I had had the dream nearly a year before the incident happened.

[@JIMEWAR2099]

The same thing happened to me that happened to Anne Parrish. When deployed in Afghanistan I picked up a book named "With the Old Breed", in 2008. I read it and turned it back in. In 2020 while stationed in the Phoenix area , there is an annual used book fair. I had been looking for the same book because I had really enjoyed it in Afghanistan, and lucky found 1 copy. After getting home I realized it was the exact same book I had read in Afghanistan. It had the same USO stamp and even had the same piece of paper that I had left in it in Afghanistan. Crazy right?

[@zimtastic1171]

That's cool af.

[@gonun69]

So my parents and I were on a camping at the small river Maggia in Switzerland when I was a kid. I played with a little green and white lego duplo boat and when I didn't watch out it was carried away by the current. the river Maggia leads into the Lago Maggiore then into the river Ticino, the river Po and eventually into the Adriatic sea, that's the ocean EAST of Italy. The boat had my name written on it with permanent marker, a bright yellow piece of cord knotted on the front of it so I could pull it and some very destinctive teeth marks from... when I tried to eat it. A few years later we were on holiday on Sardinia, an island to the WEST of mainland Italy. We went on a little hike along the coast when I found that very same boat in the surf on a beach. It was kinda dirty and pale from the sun, but it had traces of the permanent marker, a piece of the yellow cord and the bitemark. I have no Idea how it got there. I first thought that it was just carried there by the currents, but for that to happen it first needed to travel down about six or seven hundret kilometers down the river and then over 2000 km around mainland Italy. And it somehow had to go through multiple hydroelectric plants on that route. So maybe someone found it somewhere downstream and then proceded to lose it again nearer to Sardinia where it swam in the water long enough to get pale. My friends suggested that my parents made another boat look the same and placed it on that beach for me to find. But that doesn't make much sense either as I didn't play with lego duplo anymore at this point, so it wasn't of much value to me anymore. And as I was the first of us arriving on that beach, putting that boat there without me or my brother noticing would have been pretty tricky. And they somehow would have needed to get a boat that looked like it was already in the ocean for a while. I'll probably never know how it got there.

Did you keep it?

[@gonun69]

@ of course

[@kingjaxon3481]

I love the this!! U still have it?

[@gonun69]

@@kingjaxon3481 yes. Somewhere deep in a box in the basement. But we have a lot of boxes in the basement, gonna take a while to find it.

[@CrazyFunnyCats]

Gonun we did it ✨👽👽👽✨

[@vinyllpreviews9462]

Stephen Tyler while touring someone's house who just moved into his neighborhood, he noticed their piano. Asked them some questions, it was his parents piano, the piano he learned to play on, and the piano he had written dream on.

[@melm4251]

when I first moved out, I was opening the mail the first night after moving in, just some routine tax document. After i read through the document i realised it wasn't addressed to me, it was addressed to the previous tenant with the same first and last name as mine and spelled the same way. I twigged i hadn't changed my address with any accounts yet anyway... that was a very strange coincidence indeed. I'm still finding and untangling weird admin errors 8 years later from the confusion it caused

[@ronjones-6977]

As a former mailman for 32 years, I guarantee that you drove your mailman crazy.

[@radientonee]

I actually have two of these coincidences, though one is secondhand. My high school friends family took a trip to Europe and while travelling in Luxembourg they decided to take a short cut through an alley way. Coming down the opposite end of the alley way towards them were their neighbors from 2 houses down from their hometown. Neither family told the other that they were taking a trip to Europe. (I also knew both families and confirmed both sides of the encounter) The one that happened to me personally was just after high school. I went into the military and after Basic Training I was supposed to go to a base on the Gulf of Mexico. That base was currently being hit by a hurricane, so my transfer was delayed. They had to figure out something for us to do, so we ended up sanding a B-52 (a big plane) by hand for some general's retirement. During this fun stuff, I struck up a conversation with the guy next to me. Turns out he was from the same town as me. Also turns out he lived 1 block from my old home. He lived on one side of a dividing road and I lived on the other so we went to different High Schools. We also had Many of the the same friends but had never met or heard of each other. And there we were, sanding a B-52, by hand, in a different state from our homes, talking about the friends we both knew and the things happening on the street we mutually shared, and having no clue that we even existed to each other until then.

[@0404chrisjz]

radientonee so you lived across the street from each other, had the same friends but he went to a different hs hmm ok

[@booksbymarbles8168]

@@0404chrisjz Literally not even that weird. The dividing line between two different school districts (and therefore two different high schools) is right in the middle of my neighborhood. If it wasn't for the church I go to, I probably literally wouldn't know some people who lived a few houses down from me.

[@chazblank2717]

“We are pattern recognition machines.” Truth

[@rekietabeatslc9980]

Shhh... Careful what patterns you notice, because if it goes against the official narrative...

[@danb1618]

Yup. Processing, predicting and reacting to stimuli. An organic robot.

[@superd9072]

I read this comment EXACTLY as he said it

[@dariaalexandrova386]

Adding these words to my PhD thesis

[@ptt7000]

God, is a God of patterns and certain numbers.

[@zaarpoool]

Years ago I made my first visit to London from Sydney. Not really knowing anyone there I decided to try to locate an old colleague who had moved there years earlier, my only assist being he was a travel agent who I thought had moved to a town called Hove, near Brighton. So I caught the train to Brighton then bus to Hove and visited every travel agency until I found one that knew him but said he'd moved to eastern Europe. So I sadly bus & trained back to London and caught the bus back towards my hotel. As downstairs was crowded I went upstairs and of course who was sitting in the seat immediately facing the stairs? How many buses are in London, and bear in mind I'm legally blind so if he hadn't been in that very seat I wouldn't have had enough vision to spot him anyway. I went with him and had a lovely night staying at his home, back in Hove, where he did still live. He'd only come to London for the afternoon to buy something.

[@kassyrobinson190]

New fan here. You have the most amazing sense of humor. I adore learning through this channel. Thanks for being Joe.

[@subajeza]

Lived in France for a year and at some point a friend went to visit me so we could go backpacking thru Europe for 3 wks. One day, we were sitting on a train on our way from Geneve to Milan and were talking about a guy that we met during our youth in Mexico, but totally lost track of his whereabouts for the past 10+ years. The next day we bumped into him in front of an old castle near downtown Milan. He was living in Russia but went that day to Milan to spend the holidays with a friend he met in college.

[@randomdude3578]

That ship story was just wild! Just imagining both captains looking out to see their ship, that they were still on, just floating right there must have been confusing.

[@darrenkrivit6854]

Of all of the super powers I could aquire, being able to sense plum pudding would not be on the top of my list🙃

[@madderhat5852]

You could have a teen side-kick who could sense custard 👍

[@oxcart4172]

I could understand the need to detect chocolate-but that's almost everywhere!

[@its1110]

What if we were to add that it was to have a rum hard sauce? Yumm.

[@kevinj3680]

@@madderhat5852 I almost spit out my lunch when I read this! :-)

[@Dragon-Believer]

I don't think you get a choice. Do you think aquaman really wanted to talk to fish?

[@nothisispatrick4644]

My birth was also a coincidence. *A very unfortunate coincidence that ruins hopes and dreams*

[@mr.boomguy]

Um... okay 😮

[@monicawarren3678]

So my mother told💃🌹but that's 👌

[@arthurtkachenko4501]

Don't worry. At someday you'll die but this comment will be stored at KZbin for eternity

[@rewindcat7927]

Geez sorry to hear that. Hang in there! Read some Tao.

[@adhityaikrar984]

Accident and coincidence is not same

[@matthewhaines1879]

What about how Adams and Jefferson both passed away the same day Which also happened to be July 4

[@matthewhaines1879]

@Dan Todd It's an amazing coincidence, which is the topic of the video.

[@kayleighlehrman9566]

July 4th, 1826 no less; exactly fifty years after the signing of the declaration of independence

[@bxdanny]

They probably both were both anxious to see that day (50th anniversary of adopting the Declaration of Independence). When it came, they relaxed and nature took its course. At least that's one explanation I've heard.

[@nate_d376]

You got me with that Poe line "one of Poe's heartwarming and life affirming stories" lmao...

[@toddzedwards3998]

Uuu

[@toddzedwards3998]

Nn

[@handylady8015]

It was actually a pretty good book. I listened to it a while back. I also listened to Moby Dick about the same time. I thought the Poe was better. The language of the Poe was not as stilted and “old fashioned”.

[@nate_d376]

@@handylady8015 well everyone knows Melville is just a poor man's Hawthorn.

[@DavidF3]

I live in southwestern Slovakia in a small town called Kolarovo. The majority of the people here is Hungarian (80-85%). When my grandmother died she never told anyone that she wanted to go back to Hungary. Because after ww2 the population of southern Czechoslovakia and Hungary changed. Politicians figured that they want to move forcefully Hungarians out of Czechoslovakia and the Slovaks who lived in Hungary could take thair place(houses, animals, property). So the coincidence begins here. My stepfather is an anthropologist (he researches past culture and traditions) so he went down to the Budapest archives to search for data for his new book. He stumbled on a personal letter from my grandmother that somehow got to Budapest and ended up in the archives. She said that she always wanted to go back to Hungary and that she was in a relationship with the major of another town that she lived in... She probably decided that she would take this information into her grave. And if not to pure coincidence we would never know this. I hope that you could understand this :) Sorry for my bad English.

[@supercomputer0448]

Your English is perfect so stop saying that. There are native speakers who make more mistakes on a youtube comment than you.

[@monumento.f.501]

What is the name of that archive?

[@LadyAmberA]

Yeah your English was better than a lot of English speaking people!

[@InvectivePleasure]

I live in America, you did an amazing job. practice makes perfect, so keep it up. I'm always impressed when someone who isn't a native English speaker learns it. I've heard that English is on the of the more complicated ones to learn too so good job!

[@ThomasTee]

@@InvectivePleasure Na, English is one of the easiest languages on earth (not counting spelling). Try German: Schreibst du "Ziege", sprichst du "Goas" ;) :)

[@davie8906]

"Two girls one balloon" was VERY different frim what i imagined!

[@hebneh]

Fortunately.

[@omergeorge]

Two girls one cup

[@r.ryu.gav7287]

I instantly went to the comments to check comments when he said "two girls one balloon" lmao xD 😂

[@nolongeravailable1840]

Back in 2017 I was at work talking with my wife, it was around 8am, about a movie we watched the night prior. Suddenly I felt a weird feeling and I unknowingly said, “I think someone I know just died”, I brushed it off as just a weird feeling. Later that night, my sister called me and told me my grandfather had slipped and was crushed to death by a desk in his bedroom that very morning. He wasn’t ill or expected to die, it was a freak accident. Those numbers are kinda tough for me to calculate.

[@zimtastic1171]

I've had this happen too many times throughout my life too. Also when bad things/incidents/injuries etc etc were about to happen. That horrendous sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach...just...ugh. I'm sorry for your loss, even though this was written so many years ago. ❤

[@Annihilator2011]

Consider: these coincidences are artifacts of the algorithms that create the imperfect simulation/game we exist in.

[@frostypaws14]

Woah both your icons are brown. And my last name is brown. Also the first letter of all our names are in order: 1.A 2.B 3C. Woah

[@dereinedessennamendunichtk6941]

@@frostypaws14 Make it D

[@shogunate2022]

Un huh

[@ReivecS]

It would only be imperfect if they didn't happen, since math would no longer make sense.

[@SunflowerSpotlight]

I had a guy convinced of this try to date me earlier this week. It was one of the first things he said about himself. It’s odd how many people are at least purporting their belief in a simulation.

[@jaypie0864]

My mom gave my aunt a Precious Moments storybook for my cousin's birthday on Sep 29, 1993. She wrote a note and signed it inside the cover. On the same day in 2018 (exactly 25 yrs later), my wife stopped into a bookstore to buy books for my son and bought the exact same book that my aunt had donated to the bookstore years earlier.

[@benmoran431]

My daily routine is coffee, breakfast, and watching a video from Joe scott 😅

[@joescott]

Now every time you watch me you will crave buttered toast.

[@davidroddini1512]

Joe Scott wow, what are the odds?! I was just sitting down watching the video while drinking a coffee and eating buttered toast with breakfast!

[@Snp2024]

Reads Title "Ten amazing coincidence" Me :-) Reads "Why they are not Amazing" Me :,-)

[@BabsisHere]

I know this post is three years old, but I feel like adding to coincidences. When my daughter was little in the ‘80’s I had bought her some down mittens. 30 years later, she went to a thrift store in another town and found mittens just like hers! When she turned them over her initials were on them in my handwriting!!!!! She immediately sent me a pic of them and YUP! They were hers!!!! It was my handwriting!!! Of course she bought them. Sweet returns! ❤️❤️

[@seanjones1346]

Alright my day can go on now that I’ve had my morning video of Joe.

[@JackLe1127]

Sean Jones a cup of Joe a day

[@thebetterjulien5354]

Facts^

[@joescott]

I don't know how you get by on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday...

[@JackLe1127]

@@joescott Just like you, we entertain ourselves with existential dread

[@thebetterjulien5354]

@@joescott facts^ lol

[@nunya___]

My friend had a cricket in her house keeping her awake. She finally saw it, grabbed her workout shoe and smacked it but it was gone so she looked on the shoe bottom for the cricket. Somewhere, earlier that day she had stepped on a "Jimmy-the-Cricket" sticker and he was smiling back at her. She never found the cricket but she showed me the shoe with sticker the next day.

[@Ron-rs2zl]

Isn't it Jiminey Crickett?

[@IfYouMeetAWolf]

It's almost as if the cricket stuck it on there as a middle finger lol

[@monksmom1]

Thats actually very funny

[@OnlyIdiotsVote4Kamala]

Ron yes it’s Jiminey Cricket lol

[@andyandcallie]

When I was about 12, I had a dream that two small planes took off from the same airport. One of them turned around and crashed into the one behind. I saw them fall from the sky in flames and they fell into a body of water. A few days later, I saw in the newspaper that two small planes had taken off from the same airport in Wisconsin somewhere, one turned around for whatever reason, smashed into the other one and both ended up exploding (both were full of fuel) and falling into a lake, killing both pilots. This accident happened the day after my dream, so it's not like I could've heard it somewhere. I don't think people believe me when I tell this story but I'll never forget it. When I was that age, I had maybe 5 dreams where I saw events that hadn't happened yet. And then just as fast as they had started. They stopped. lol

[@Pushing_Pixels]

I used to have dreams about tsunamis all. the. time. Like one or two a week, for years. Since the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami I haven't had a single one. Weird.

[@zimtastic1171]

Wtf!! I always thought I was alone in this. For an entire summer when I was nearly 12 I dreamt about plane crashes the night before or a few days beforehand. Never failed to end up actually happening. This was the year TWA flight 800 happened too. It used to disturb me so much because I couldn't do anything to stop it from happening or help anyone...in every dream I'd be in the passenger area of the plane. But, exactly like you, it stopped happening after several major incidents that one particular summer. I'm nearly 40 now, not crazy, still am highly intuitive, have told maybe 1-2 people about that time in my life because it all seems so absurd... But it absolutely did happen. Now I just trust intuition to tell me when something's wrong so I don't have to watch plane crashes in my sleep. Although, I can't say intuition has really ever told me anything nice even still. Oh well. 😐 I definitely believe both of you if you say you're being truthful. Wonder why and how the fuck that happened to us in particular? Tf were we supposed to do with that information?! (Especially as children at the time lol)

[@andyandcallie]

@@zimtastic1171 Wow, so it happened to you, too! So weird. And yes, what were we supposed to do with that information?! The only other time it happened to me was with John Lennon's death. I was living in NYC at the time and was taking a nap at the time it occurred at about 10 or 10:30 pm. I had a dream of two people on a dark NYC street. One shot the other and a crowd ran up to them. One guy shouted hyterically at the shooter, "Do you know what you've done?!" The dream woke me up so I turned on the news and there was the story--they had broken into regular programming. And I'm thinking to myself, "I just saw that!" Later, I heard that there was a by-stander who said to Mark Chapman, "Do you know what you just did?!" So creepy. Well, I'm glad I'm not alone in this!

[@michellelewis7665]

When I was 5, I once woke up in tears. When my mom came in to ask me what was wrong, I told her that I dreamed that my great grandmother had died. Later that day, my grandpa called and told us that his mother had died overnight. That has stuck with me for 33 years now and still freaks me out, probability or not.

[@differenttakethanmost]

LOVE that you added actual information to your list rather than simply sharing yet another regurgitation of well-worn tidbits. Love love your humor. Smart channel- I like it 🤓💡

[@jakegrist8487]

Joe's sense of humor is so agreeable to mine that it doesn't even matter what he's talking about - I know I'll find it fun and entertaining. This is a great channel.

[@albertmiller2electricbooga897]

My grandpa was digging up floorboards in his daughter in laws house, in his daughter in laws hometown, which he lived in for a few years. He found a copy of the west Australian newspaper, which had an article from the town of Meekatharra, another town where my grandpa lived. The newspaper was from the 1960s, and was about how my grandpa's friend, who was on the council of the town of Meekatharra, had approved plans for a swimming pool to be built in the town. Not really a coincidence but still cool

[@robinhood6399]

Albatross Wouldn't your Grandpa's Daughter in law, be your Aunt?

[@fieryspy6414]

You could've talked about how Werner Von Braun said that the leader of mars would be called Elon. But you didn't.

[@joescott]

Elon has to become the leader of Mars first. 😉

[@bertjesklotepino]

We never went to the moon. Jay Windley who tried to prove that we did go to the moon actually proved we didnt go to the moon. And Bart Sibrel has a nice video about it on his channel. Its about shadows and the source of light. You might wanna see that video because that is in my opinion one of the most obvious and undeniable and undebunkable pieces of evidence there is.

[@intuitive_soul]

bertjesklotepino light it so tricky, and the thoughts people are able to comprehend are so simple. This explanation is too much like thoughts and doesn’t grasp the complex nature of light.

[@ElijsDima]

@@bertjesklotepino It must be nice, to be as naive as you are. Life is probably a joyous wonder to you.

[@bertjesklotepino]

@@ElijsDima Im sorry that it is a fairy tale. Do not blame me. But instead of attacking me, why not attack Jay Windley. And Intuitive Soul, bullshit. The sun does not cast Parallel shadows. Here, a video to show what i mean: /watch?v=HdGFSsnezvI Now instead of attacking the source, why not attack the claim?

[@garururu8864]

My craziest coincidence was that I was looking for a job a few years back at a mall's Starbucks. Ended up not getting it and was told by the employer that I wasn't "bubbly" enough. 2 years later I was volunteering for a large, city-wide event that had about 10,000 volunteers. There were about 30 different jobs you could potentially take. So I was scheduled one with a specific time, date, floor, and room to start working in. They also randomly picked out partners for us to work with and it turns out the employer who rejected me at that Starbucks was my partner for volunteer work. We kinda just laughed it off and they had apologized while informing me that they didn't stick at that Starbucks for long. But the fact that we both decided to volunteer at this event, we both picked the same job, on the same day, selected for the same time, on the same floor, and that we were both partners was crazy to me.

[@Extrawelt1]

So I went to work today and was listening to music while a woman passed me by. The word BLIND was written on her jacket in big letters. Funny thing is while I looked at her jacket the word blind was also mentioned super clear in the track i was listening to. So i asked myself if that was just a weird coincident or if it had some deeper meaning. And on the same day Joe uploads a video about coincidences. Like cmon universe... (And sorry for my bad english I´m german)

[@pudder68]

Chaos! From infinite probabilities come infinite outcomes!

[@KatanaBart]

Korn?

[@ladychucklefuck]

Corrosion of Conformity?

[@hayliedlr]

That happens to me all the time. I'll be reading and the same word or statement will be on the tv, radio etc.

[@minisingh29]

Wow! You are blind to something in your life. You'll have to think about it.

[@kykk3365]

In 2004 I, living in Scandinavia, was talking to my Dad who lives in Tampa, Fl and he asked me if I had seen a new movie called House of Sand and Fog and he mentioned having met a guy by the same name as the writer (Andre Dubus), most likely his father, at a poetry reading in the 60's. Fast forward to 2013, I've been traveling a couple of months in Kaukasus with my girlfriend. Having just arrived in Yerevan, Armenia I get a cheap SIM card for my phone and find out that calling the US is really inexpensive so I decide I'll call my dad in the evening, as I haven't talked to him since I left home two months earlier. After dinner and before we head back to our hotel for the evening we go into a book store and find they have a small section with foreign language books, probably 50-60 books in English. Nothing of interest except, of course, House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III. So when we get back to the hotel I call my dad, we talk a minute or two before I ask him what he's up to and he tells me he's just started reading a book he picked up in a used book store the day before...and of course the book is House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III.

[@shibolinemress8913]

I attended university in a small US town, and one of my roommates was a Hungarian girl named Eva. We got on quite well, but lost contact after graduation. Over a decade later, I was with some friends at a pub in Germany. A friend of theirs, who I didn't know myself, just happened to walk in, and joined us. In the course of our conversation, I found out that he was Hungarian. When I mentioned I used to know a Hungarian named Eva, he got a strange look on his face and asked what her family name was, and where I'd met her. It turned out that after graduation, Eva had met him at her first job, and they were together for several years before breaking up. So he'd travelled half-way around the world, only to encounter his ex's old roomie in a pub! 😊

[@jeffcolorado]

I have a brother, who is about 11 years older than me. We've never been close, and in my entire life, I've only been around him a handful of times, as he was never interested in hanging out with his birth family, once he had a family of his own. The last time I saw or heard from him was around 1999, or so. Back in the 70's, my wife and I went on a camping trip. It was an isolated campground, and several states away from the state where my brother and I both lived at the time. As I was setting up the tent, in an area I thought we pretty much had to ourselves, I was annoyed to hear some people over a near-by ridge. I walked the 30 feet or so to the top of the ridge, and there was my brother and his family, setting up their tent. We actually had a pleasant day or two hanging out, but then went back to our usual pattern of not interacting.

[@Honky_time]

man...family is tough. Be happy for the time you had

[@wolfzmusic9706]

B H well when you have your own family and you work it’s hard y’know. i feel like not seeing each other often is pretty normal

[@wolfzmusic9706]

Caitlin K how do you miss them if you don’t know them?

[@jesussaves1875]

I pretty much don't really have ties with my brothers either, see them or don't, it doesn't bother at all (also a large age gap)

[@almightysosa3007]

I have a couple of these that happened to me pretty recently, while in my geography class we had to introduce ourselves to the class along with our favorite vacation spot. I said Alaska and then looked at a map and saw Guatemala. While looking at the map I thought to myself “I have to go to Tikal someday” and immediately after that the next 2 students to introduce themselves, who didn’t know each other, both said their favorite spot was Tikal. This left me legitimately shaken because things like this don’t just happen every day

[@almightysosa3007]

If you’re still interested, I work at a tire shop and a guy with a cool looking old school VW bus came in and I got to work on his car. I was basically obsessed with his bus so I tried to remember his name from the receipt. His name slipped my mind until one day at work his name suddenly pops back and I blurt it out loud, next thing I know, the guy is pulling into the parking lot with his bus. I know it sounds fishy but this happened to me and I don’t know how to explain it

[@markstott6689]

One Friday night (about 30 years ago) I walked into a pub (long since closed) looking for friends. They weren't there. However I looked around a corner and sat in a group was someone who looked more like me than felt plausible. The nose, mouth, chin and receding hairline. It was like seeing a twin you've never met or known about. I went cold and left immediately. I never saw them again thankfully. I've never mentioned it before to anyone. I don't know what I was scared of but it spooked me so much that I went straight home.

[@decafdankdoge]

"there are no coincidences" -Master Oogway

[@bobs182]

Everything coincides with something.

[@xiphactinusaudax1045]

The quote is "there are no accidents"

[@error_d2c]

*"2 Girls, One Ballon"* 😂

[@ccharms60]

We're u thinking 2 girls one cup by chance lol

[@gradenhudson4895]

I once interviewed for a job I was really hoping to land. When I didn't get the job, I was pretty disappointed. MONTHS later I dreamt that I bumped into the hiring manager at a grocery store and asked him why I was passed up for the job. I woke up and didn't think much of it. Later that day, I was in a different part of town and needed to pick something up at a grocery store in which I'd never visited before. As I rounded the corner down one of the aisles, I saw the hiring manager! I thought about striking up a conversation before I spotted his young child with him. Rather than create a potentially awkward situation, I decided to leave the man alone. It's one of those crazy stories I sometimes find myself randomly thinking about.

[@ryantwombly720]

I had a childhood object show up 30ish years after I lost track of it. My dad carved a wooden race car for me when I was six or seven. It disappeared in a move soon after and I didn’t see it again until I accompanied my wife to a junk shop decades later. The shop was in the next town over from where I used to live, so it’s not as crazy a coincidence, but the likelihood of my going to the shop was basically zero before I met my wife, so there ya go.

[@wilkinlow]

Did you bought it back though

[@ryantwombly720]

Chrissel L oh, for sure. It sat in my daughter’s room for years. It’s in the attic now.

[@nyctophilic_]

A few weeks ago I was listening to a playlist I made full of about 250 songs. The moment it turned 9:00 pm the song changed. The song that started to play was called “Nine in the Afternoon: by Panic at the disco” Coincidence... no It was the music gods try to relay a message Hmmmmm....

[@nicholaswilley9001]

Or...it's a play list set up for that purpose...

[@emilyharkness9685]

I've had things like that happen before with music- a song perfectly in line with my ticking wall clock or reading a word in a book and hearing it in a song at the exact same time.

[@PBnRay_]

But what if it was a Saturday? Would "Piano Man" by Billy Joel play instead?

[@starrrleafy]

I love watching your videos so much, they generally make me feel better about life and I always learn something new. So glad I found your channel during quarantine

[@gandamack1900]

My buddy was dating a freaky type girl who was into witch stuff...Her grandmother was also but not her mom...Granny had a custom made,personalized Ouija board but Mom tossed it into a dumpster when granny passed....25 yrs later freaky type girl in New Orleans,about 150 miles from the dumpster and went to a flea market and bought an old used Ouija board....turned it over and there was grannys name....it came back to the bloodline....fuuuukk🤦‍♂️

[@NotSoSerious69420]

نقطة نقطة could say the same for most of the things in this video

[@zombiasnow15]

I tell you from experience, Do Not play with Ouija boards. Trust me

[@ahno7573]

Aaron Ginn wish I new what that translates to cause that sounds cold 😂😭

[@NotSoSerious69420]

Ah No that’s just the name of the guy I replied to lmao Arabic names do weird shit.

[@gandamack1900]

Iنقطة نقطة I met her, looked into her eyes...It most certainly did happen exactly the way I described...the board and the girl, still resides in Brookhaven Mississippi....as does the grave crypt where she took my buddy to have sex...she had dug a hole in the side of the crypt to crawl into....

[@charlesbrigman7333]

When l was 18 ( I am 54 ) l had a very vivid dream of walking down a long wooden staircase along the side of a very high cliff down to a beach l walked toward the only person l knew and as l met them it was my girl friend and first love and when me met all she said was that she was breaking up with me. This was Christmas eve 1983. That morning l called my girlfriend to wish her a Merry Christmas and she broke up with me over the phone. 5 years later l was walking home from a store and a girl on a moped stopped me right in front of my old girlfriend's house. We were later married and a few years later l traveled with her to Ausralia where her family owned a sheep ranch near Adolade in N. Australia she asked if l wanted to go to the Ocean we took an old farm truck up to the edge of a cliff that had a long wooden staircase down to the beach. Two months before l met her l had dreamed of working on a sheep farm or ranch. This has always seemed creepy to me.

[@sandysewglo]

This was so interesting!! Apparently King Umberto I was not intellectual or creative, and blatantly kept mistresses while his beautiful wife was highly intelligent, well-spoken, and well thought of by the people. If there is any fact to the twin tale, I bet the mathematics would work there too and maybe the king's assassin mistook the restaurateur for the king earlier in the day. In any case, why isn't this a movie!

[@monicak5504]

Terminator?

[@LeaFsinger74]

This is great! I teach a class on critical thinking framed in parapsychology, and am totally going to add this to one of the wrap up classes where we talk about what is true. Thanks! :D

[@nicolaasliebenberg5312]

Joe saying Danie Du Toit - South Africans be like WHO?!?!?!? Made my day!

[@yola2362]

Hahaha was hilarious. Joe, come to South Africa and we will teach you our accent. Danie du Toit sounds much different to what you said

[@andriesoelofse8821]

You misht think it sounds like a whole other person

[@Anti-socialSocialClub]

I literally know a South African called Daniella Du toit .!

[@yola2362]

@Werner Vos Hahahahaha laat jy my lekker lag

[@Melanie_M]

Back in 2010 I was working at a legal office as a secretary. We were based on a very busy and populated street in an old apartment building close to the city center. I had Friday evening shift alone, went my rounds to make sure everything was in order, turned off and locked. On Sunday that same weekend I had ice cream with my grandma in our local cafe, while enjoying the sun. Suddenly and out of nowhere this urgent feeling hit me over the head, that I had forgotten something VERY important at the office on Friday. My chest became heavy, my hands started to shake, I need to go there right now or something bad would happen. I tried to fight it, because I thought it was ridiculous to go all they way back to the office on a Sunday afternoon, when I had to go back the next day anyway. But I couldn't sit still, I had to leave my grandma there at the cafe and rushed to the inner city district. With every step the feeling got worse. I ended up running to the office like someone's life was on the line. As I swung the old outer door open and entered the hallway, I smelled a little bit of gas. It was enough to get my attention, but not enough to alarm me. A lot of old buildings operate with gas, and sometimes you'd smell it a little bit. My mind was set on the office, I checked everything, but there was no problem. I was puzzled, what the hell was going on? I closed and locked everything and again I smelled gas in the hallway. It was not fleeting, but persistent. My super serious lawyer boss lived in the same building with his family in the upper floor. Hesitantly I called him to alert him about the gas smell. Alarmed, he called the gas distribution company. As the service person arrived to measure the gas concentration and I knew that things were taken care of, I went home. The next day I came to the office in the morning, still puzzled about the previous evening. Before I could sit down I was called into the office of my boss. The service person had detected small, but yet many gas leaks in pipes all over the building. The gas leakage was minor, but it was good that it was discovered, the gas was turned off and a renovation would start immediately. He thanked me several times and shook my hand. I left his room still confused. This horrible urgent feeling I had on the previous day was about a couple of tiny gas leaks? That's it? Still puzzled I continued with my work. The renovation lasted months and soon they started digging up the whole street in front of the building. After two months there were still digging a gigantic hole into the ground and were not working on the building anymore. We still didn't have heating or gas in the building. One day my colleague came to me, pulled me to the side and said "Listen, I talked with the workers. Yes, there were gas leaks in the building, but the real problem was the big gas pipe outside leading to the building. As they renovated the pipes in here, they discovered a gigantic hole in the much bigger pipe outside. The workers said, that if they wouldn't have turned off the gas when you discovered the smell on that Sunday, the whole building block and street corner would have exploded within a matter of days." My heart sank into my stomach. All the families living in this and surrounding buildings, all my colleagues working here in the office, the small businesses on street level, the thousands of cars passing through this street every day. All could have been gone in a matter of seconds. I don't believe in God and am not religious, but for some reason I was alerted that Sunday. Until this day I don't know why I went back to the office or what made me go. But if I wouldn't have gotten that feeling or followed it, I wouldn't be here to write this. Is this coincidence? Is this synchronicity? What is the mathematical probability for this? I don't know.

[@zimtastic1171]

Great story either way. The world is so full of mystery.

[@xXeiSs]

Joe, last night I dreamed that I was helping you to pronounce things in French. How's that for a coincidence ?

[@DonyaLane]

LOL

[@amphibiangoddess]

Last night I dreamed that chocolate syrup in my hair because I thought my husband would find it sexy in the dream. He leaves before I wake up, and this morning we were texting later on and mentions he was going to go on a diet starting today. He doesn’t have some absurd love for chocolate or anything. Just a hilarious coincidence.

[@joescott]

You should have done a better job.

[@ScienceWins]

When you think how many coincidences there could be, it’s amazing that there aren’t more of them.

[@rome8180]

I experience a lot of minor coincidences. For example, I read a short story the other day that was set in Petra, Jordan. I then came to this channel, where you mentioned Petra, Jordan in one of your videos. Because it had been mentioned twice in one day, I thought I'd google some pictures of it. After looking at those pictures, I went on Facebook. One of my friends had just posted a photo album of pictures from....Petra, Jordan. The photos were from seven years earlier. She'd just picked that day to post them for whatever reason. I'd heard of Petra before, but it had never been a place I thought about consciously before. Then suddenly in the span of a few minutes, I encounter it three times. I know this is a very minor coincidence, but stuff like this happens to me constantly. I'll be reading a book and an exact date is mentioned. It turns out to be that same date as the day I'm reading it. Or I'll be watching a movie, and a town I've just visited for the first time two days earlier will be mentioned. My point is that I agree with your thesis: coincidences are constantly happening to us all. It's just a question of whether we notice them.

[@michaelpurvis7324]

Two days ago I learned about the existence of red bananas, then yesterday my wife brought home some red bananas. I thought I was truly special, a clairvoyant talent to rival the likes of Uri Geller...thanks Joe for consistently reminding me of my crushingly mediocre role as an NPC in this ancestor simulation.

[@beckywaytoomuch]

This is the first time I've heard "Anscestor Simulation"...very cool concept and feels/ seems true!

[@beckywaytoomuch]

Pre cognitive dreams are so very real..

[@bethknight4436]

I’ve never experienced a coincidence - I wonder what the odds of that happening are? 🤔

[@polarisraven5613]

You haven't Noticed a coincidence. Experience I suppose relies on your awareness, but as for whether one happened to you or not, let's just say the amount of bugs living within an average square mile will outnumber the number of human beings on this planet something like 10 to 1.

[@JosephFuller]

Almost impossible. That is truly strange...

[@pendoring282]

Beth Knight neither have I. What are the chances of two people on opposite sides of the world not experiencing one!

[@88marome]

@Pendoring 282 lmao!

[@bethknight4436]

Pendoring 282 how do you know we’re on opposite sides of the world? 🤔

[@milublahaa]

I had a very unusual first and last name before (I have changed it now for several reasons). I was working at a hotel a long time ago and just that day I was in the reception and answering calls (had usually other tasks). A woman called and wanted to book a room. Her first and last name was exactly like mine. I got really confused and said "Hey, thats my name too! She was also really surprised. This was in the 90's and I had got my first computer with internet, and I had just some days before searched my name and only one other person in my country had the same first and last name. She lived 600 km away. That it was her that were going to book a room at the small and boring hotel I was working in, when there were also plenty of other hotels in my town was kinda odd. (Sorry for my broken english)

[@Willowsmum]

@user-yl3qf7oe5c Just wanted to say that if you think your English is bad…try making sense of some of the comments by native speakers…. I wish they all made as much sense as you do. Congratulations!

[@probuildconstruction]

Agreed.

[@MickyBlutube]

I really do like this channel. I also like icecream. Coincidence? Yea, probably . .

[@HieronymousCheese]

How do you feel about plum pudding?

[@dariellewheeler423]

Scream