coincidences

I couldn't find any references on this stuff in these forums, but anyway in my page http://www.piloton.it/forteana/omen/omen.html I give you another one more (almost a scoop ... perhaps ...). I' can't believe anything of course, but ...:oops:

I just saw a TV commercial featuring a little girl in a deerstalker hat, and it reminded me of an odd coincidence - or was it? Back in my college days I had a lovely wool deerstalker myself. It was a brown houndstooth weave, looked very much like one depicted on a Sherlock Holmes anthology I...

I've reported and commented on previous occasions about being in the unusual position of realising I'm at the mundane and un-fortean end of someone else's amazing coincidence. Today I seem to have found I'm the non magical instigator of what might seem to the people at the end of the sequence...

I was watching said programme last weekend, the one where they're in the Winchester Mystery House, and Dakota asks the spirits what word beginning with "E" has he written on a piece of paper. "Electric" was the first word that came in to my mind, then his Ovilus thing shows that word, and he...

I have noticed that on many occasions, within 10 seconds of starting an important activity, or a task, or sitting down at the computer to do something I had not been able to do until that point on that day, my phone will ring or I will receive a text message. I do not receive too many calls or...

It's happened to us all, maybe more times than we can bother to recall: you're reading with the radio on in the background (for example) and you eye alights on a word as it simultaneously floats from the loudspeaker. A recent example, which made me think about starting a thread, involved a...

Dear Forteans, there is some weirdness happening in my life and I really could use your wonderful, collective wisdom to shed some light on it. Certain details will have to be excluded for privacy's sake, but I will try to explain as clearly as possible. Some years ago now, there was a...

Hi All This is my 1st post on here so please bear with me and be gentle. Has anyone got any info or stories about look-a-likes? My intrest began about 4 years ago when my Granma passed away. We went along to the residental home she had been living in after suffering a stroke and were...

When visiting my old place of employment, after moving up north to 'Thurso' (coincidence it was same basis of name as day?), after an absence of 3 years, I found nobody I recognised at all. Going back a couple of days later, I bumped into someone I knew outside and half a dozen other co-workers...

One of the doctors at my mums surgery is called Dr Cardwell, I also had a music teacher called Mrs Horn. Does anyone know of other people with names connected with their jobs? Now I'm a Christian my full name is funny too. Do you think peoples names determine their careers?

Hello, all! This is my first post on this board - I've enjoyed lurking on it immensely. I've been trying to increase synchronicity in my life lately. So far I've: 1) asked for it, out loud and in writing, 2) done my best to notice and keep a notebook of synchronicities that pop up...

I had a bit of an odd experience involving cars last sunday. How often do you see a silver Ford Sierra these days? They're pretty rare in London, anyway. Me and Mrs Zyg were riding on my motorcycle through London's Smithfield market, where I saw three identical ones at different times on the...

I know many people wake themselves up before their alarm goes off, but my question is, how does this work? And how does it account for this? (Note, not especially creepy, but I can't explain it, so it's weird to me!) The last two nights, The Bloke and I have been on a mini-cruise, a return...

Probably not the right thread but however... I just read Vercingetorix's post about They died too young and when I saw this: It reminded me of a topic I posted either here or somewhere else about this disproportionate number of rock stars whose lives ended at the age of twenty seven...

The website of the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans includes a profile of one Charles Fort, herring biologist. Mr Fort coordinates the annual herring spawn survey. I wonder what insight he could offer into their tendency to fall from the skies? For more information on Charles...

Earlier today, I posted this in the Web Site Issues section: http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3097 Note the post time. Earlier today, Sureshot posted this in the Urban Legend section: http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3098...

Then there is the strange phenom of clocks stopping at the exact moment of someone's death. I wonder how far back these legends go? I remember reading that supposedly a famous French clock stopped at the exact moment of the death of Louis XVI, and has never worked since. Sound familiar to anyone?

This may have been posted already - if so, apologies: Very spooky! From http://www.bizarrenews.com newsletter: Greetings Fellow Bizarros: Every now and then we feel compelled to do some serious work around here. About three years ago, a dossier floated around the Internet that...

Anyone have stories about meeting friends or relatives in a place they least expected to? For example my brother in law lived for two years in England.On his way back to Australia he stopped of in Thailand for a few weeks.While there he got the oppurtunity to go treking into the mountains and...

Twenty Three I seem to have misplaced my issue of FT with the information about the "23" website; I was hoping to have a look while I have access to the internet. Can anyone give me information on the website or the whole twenty three phenomenon its self?

I like coincidences, me. I've read all the well known ones that float about in books and on the web. Does anybody have any good 'uns they want to tell us about? I'll start off. It's not a very good one but I thought it was quite odd at the time. When I was a teenager I used to...