One of my hobbies is genealogy or family history research. Hours spent online or in the local history archives searching through microfilms for clues for births, marriages and burials.
Whilst trying to find the location of my x4 great grandmother's grave I spent a good few hours on multiple visits trawling through the many many pages of burials on the microfilm machine to find out which burial ground she may be in. It means scrolling through metres of film to manually find the correct year over a number of different films. Sometimes you have to fast forward the machine at a rapid rate to scroll through the years stopping occasionally to check where you are.
On this occasion I was fast forwarding the machine through to get somewhere near the year of her burial so that I could fine tune it and see if she was listed. When I stopped not only was I at the correct year and month for her burial her name was the top one on the list. The co-incidence and chance of that happening hardly seems real.
She wanted you to find her!
Not a co-incidence but no less weird and related.
This morning I was searching for someone in the burial records. Whilst sat at the computer searching I got a brief whiff of cigarette smoke. I'm on my own today and no-body here smokes anyway, windows and doors are all closed. Thought nothing more of it.
Found the person I was looking for.. 1950 - Cause of death: Lung Cancer... go figure!