20 Weird Coincidences That Are Almost Too Strange to Believe

These 20 very strange and unlikely coincidences are discussed in this article. They are almost too strange to believe. Some of these events are so strange that they make us question what chance and fate are, while others happen at such perfect times that they look like they came straight out of a movie. These stories will amaze you, whether it’s a case of mistaken identity, a creepy chain of events, or a strange turn of events that connects people from far away.

1. The Titanic’s Sister Ship

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It’s strange that the RMS Olympic, the sister ship of the RMS Titanic, had almost the same thing happen to it just a few years before. Years before the Titanic’s terrible trip, the Olympic crashed into another ship in the same spot and at almost the same time. It made people think that the ships were cursed and made them wonder if the two ships were connected in some way.

2. Mark Twain’s Birth and Death

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Well-known author Mark Twain was born in 1835, not long after Halley’s Comet went by Earth. The famous author Mark Twain said that he would die when the comet came back, and in 1910, he did, the day after Halley’s Comet got as close to Earth as it could get. This strange match between his life and the comet’s path is still one of the scariest examples of how coincidences can happen in the universe.

3. The Duplicated Names of Presidential Assassinations

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Things that happened around the times of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy’s presidencies were eerily alike. Lincoln won in 1860 and Kennedy in 1960. Both were followed by vice presidents named Johnson, but their birth years were different.  Even stranger is the fact that both presidents were killed on Fridays in a place connected to a vice president named Johnson.

4. The Stranger Who Was Born on the Same Day

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The same day, in the same hospital, two people from different parts of the world found out they had the same name. They were alike in more ways than just their birthdate. They had the same hobbies, favorite foods, and job paths, among other things. It looked like they were both following a movie script through life. It was too strange to be a coincidence.

5. The Death of Twins, Separated at Birth

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Two twin boys were separated at birth and adopted by different families. They lived very different lives until they met again as adults without knowing it. One was a fireman, and the other was a police officer. Sadly, they both died in accidents on the same day, in almost similar ways. It seems like their meeting and then parting was meant to be.

6. The Phone Call From the Past

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A man got a call from the number of his late father, even though his father had died several years before. The call came from an odd area code in a different state, which made things even stranger. The man looked into it and found that the number had been given to someone else, but the call happened at an incredibly odd time.

7. The Name Repeated Across Generations

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A man learned that his great-grandfather, grandfather, and father all had the same first name. What was strange was that they had both been born on the same day, 100 years apart.  The family began to wonder if they were destined to follow this road because of the way their names and birthdays kept coming up.

8. The Mysterious Gift Exchange

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Two people who lived thousands of miles apart received the same gift at the same time from people who had nothing to do with each other. One got a very old and rare watch from a friend, and the other got the same watch from a different person. The gifts and the things themselves came at such a strange time that it amazed them.

9. The Library’s Coincidence

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It was by accident that a woman picked up a book in a library. It turned out to be the book she had been looking for years but thought she had lost. After reading it, she found a note inside from someone who had read it before. It was an old friend from youth. Because of an old book, they ran into each other again after being apart for years.

10. The Identical Strangers at the Same Restaurant

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Two people from different countries walked into the same restaurant, sat down at the same table, and ordered the same meal; they didn’t know each other. They discovered they had the same birthday and last name and even worked in the same industry, which was another strange accident. It was so strange that it made both of them wonder about fate.

11. The Missing Purse Found After 10 Years

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After losing her bag on vacation, a woman thought she would never find it again. Ten years later, the bag was found in a thrift store. What was strange was that the family who had found it was selling it. By researching the purse’s past, it was learned that it had been with the family for ten years before ending up in the same city.

12. The Coincidental Flight Delay

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Two people on different planes found out that the same mechanical problem had caused them to be late at the airport. It was strange because they were both meant to meet for a business meeting in a faraway city, and their flights were set to land at the same time. They were able to meet at the airport before their delayed planes because of the delay.

13. The Doppelgänger Encounter

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A woman was shocked to find her twin in a coffee shop in a different country. People in the cafe at first thought they were sisters because they looked so much alike. They met in a strange way because they both had the same unusual name and were born on the same day but in different places.

14. The Poem Found 50 Years Later

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A man found a poem that had never been published, written by his grandfather, in an old box he had acquired. It turned out that the song was very similar to one that a famous poet had written many years before. The two writers had never met or heard of each other’s work. The poems that went together and the time of the finding were too strange to be by chance.

15. The Stranger Who Saved a Life

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A stranger came out of nowhere and pulled a man from the water where he was dying. Years later, they met again in a different part of the world. To their surprise, the stranger saved his brother’s life in a similar situation. Both men were shocked by how it brought their lives together in the strangest way.

16. The Coincidental Meeting of Authors

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By chance, two unknown authors working on similar books who had never met went to a book signing. They realized they were writing about the same people and themes and that their stories were very similar. After the event, they found out that they had thought of their stories around the same time but didn’t know about each other beforehand.

17. The Family’s Shared Dream

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Five people in a family who hadn’t seen each other in years all had the same dream on the same night. Because the dream was so real and similar in every way, they couldn’t ignore the strange link. When they got back together and talked about the dream, they realized it had told them about something that would happen that would change their lives forever.

18. The Calendar Mix-Up

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A man was looking for a certain event on an online calendar but opened one from the year before by accident. It was strange that his grandma had died on that very day, and the calendar showed a note from her funeral on the same day. He began to wonder if the past had been kept alive in some way because of how strange the connection was.

19. The Birthday Message

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One person with the same birthday got the same card from two different people. They didn’t know each other, but they sent cards on the same day for the same reason and talked about their favorite memories in similar ways. The two people who got the birthday cards laughed at how strange it was.

20. The World’s Longest Coincidence Chain

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A man set out on a journey to find a long-lost relative. By a strange series of events, he met not only that relative but also a whole group of people who were related to him through long-lost ancestors. The events were too well-planned for them to have happened by chance, making them wonder how many more shocks the world had in store.

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