Someone Special Delivered By Coincidences

Is it fate or just a coincidence? Michael Cook and Kristen Reed have just got married. Okay nothing bizarre there until, that is, the coincidences start to stack up.

The couple met at a wedding five years ago in New Jersey. He'd travelled from Virginia and Kristen from Florida. They got talking, as you do, on such occasions. There was an attraction but they had to return to their respective homes. Nowadays, of course, we have emails and even the phone so they kept in touch.

A month went by and the attraction was still there. It was then that they started to notice the coincidences.

Kristen told the Cape Cod Times, "I told him my birthday was March 30, 1978, and he said, 'So is mine.'"

One swallow doesn't make a summer and one coincidence doesn't make a cluster. Michael had, after all, also dated another girl who had her birthday on March 30th.

Kristen asked more questions, "I asked him where he was born, and he said Virginia, and I said, 'So was I.' He said he was born at Fairfax Hospital, and I said, 'So was I.'

"I thought he was just kidding me, so I made him make a copy of his driver's license and fax it to me. It was true!"

There then followed other little things. They had both spent a lot of time at Cape Cod. Kristen's grandparents have a home in Harwich and Michael spent vacations in Harwich Port every year, as did Kristen. They were well and truly inter-linked in all sorts of ways.

They married on October 30, 2010. Standing up for them was Kristen's younger sister and Michael's brother - who just happen to share the same birthday!

This couple were meant to meet at that wedding in New Jersey. It was written in the stars or somewhere.

A final note from Kristen, "I'm the dreamer of the two of us. I always believed that someone special would come into my life, but I never thought it would be something like this!"

Other Coincidence and Synchronicity Stories
(there are well over 100 on this blog)
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Mother And Daughter Unite By Unique Twist Of Fate
Married Couple In The Same Photo As Children

Scrabble Coincidence Story Spells Out Her Name

Scrabble? Yes a Scrabble coincidence from Raine Carosin a South African artist.

Raine was playing the automated version of Scrabble on her computer. The third 'player' placed the word 'rain' - which happens to be how her first name, Raine, sounds (without the e). The letters left on her own grid spelled out her surname: Carosin. She was so impressed by seeing her name that she took a screen shot of the coincidence, as seen above.

Raine sent me an interesting email where she expressed her belief that there is a 'Higher Hand' that can move us to where we should be at any time. She writes, "... the wonderful thing was that I had a vision ... of Eternity, which I painted because God told me to. Anyway, I'm not the best artist, but I did do the paintings."

A selection of Raine's paintings can be seen on South African Artists, picture on right is called Lady.

She continued to say, "... but what amazed me more than anything is that we can be moved to where we must be, like a cloud or a book. I cannot write about all the things that have happened, but synchronicity is a reality.

Just tonight my husband, Pierre, and I, marvelled at how we both were being employed in two separate Internet companies by our two different contacts: his - Jakes, and mine, Jake. We've only been married 4 years, but we are most definitely cosmic twins."

My thanks to Raine for her coincidence and view on life.

Other Coincidence Stories
There are now well over 100 coincidence stories on this Blog including:
Speeding Car Chase Coincidence
He Sees Himself On 40 Year Old Video Coincidence
Coincidence Of Double Exposure On Newspapers Front Page

In Gods Hands: The Creator Of Coincidences

Here's a story that the writer says stopped him believing in coincidences. It's all down to God.

I was living in San Francisco one summer after college (which I attended in my home state of Mississippi) and I was really depressed, praying often that God would show me that He knew my situation and would see me through it.

The woman I was staying with invited her son and his wife, neither of whom I had ever met, over for dinner. Within 10 minutes of their arrival it was discovered that this woman's daughter-in-law had been best friends with my father in high school (North Carolina) and had rocked me at my father's funeral when I was one year old after he died in a plane crash.

I knew then that God knew exactly where I was and what I was going through... and that was also the day I stopped believing in 'coincidences'.

~ Anon

Other Coincidence and Synchronicity Stories:
Bizarre Coincidence Of Her Mum's Phone Call
Philadelphia Taxi Coincidence
Helen Finds Boyfriend's Buried Money By Coincidence

The Double Coincidence Of Want

This is something I came across across, which is called, the double coincidence of want and was first published on my other blog 67 Not Out. It's not about the usual coincidences and synchronicity but I found it quite interesting. What it does is to show us how much easier life is using money as opposed to a bartering system.

The phrase the double coincidence of want was coined by William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882) in his book Money and the Mechanism of Exchange which is now in the public domain. It was published way back in 1876.

This is what Jevons wrote: "The first difficulty in barter is to find two persons whose disposable possessions mutually suit each other's wants. There may be many people wanting, and many possessing those things wanted; but to allow of an act of barter there must be a double coincidence, which will rarely happen."

In other words there have to be coincidences for a barter to take place. He goes on to give examples of the problems with bartering. This is one of them:

"When Mr. Wallace was travelling in the Malay Archipelago, he seems to have suffered rather from the scarcity than the superabundance of provisions. In his most interesting account of his travels, he tells us that in some of the islands, where there was no proper currency, he could not procure supplies for dinner without a special bargain and much chaffering upon each occasion. If the vendor of fish or other coveted eatables did not meet with the sort of exchange desired, he would pass on, and Mr. Wallace and his party had to go without their dinner. It therefore became very desirable to keep on hand a supply of articles, such as knives, pieces of cloth, arrack, or sago cakes, to multiply the chance that one or other article would suit the itinerant merchant.

I won't bore you with too much on the subject but it does show how different kinds of coincidences can affect all parts of life. Jevons spoke of the benefits of money when trading - as coincidences are then no longer required for a transaction to take place:

"Accustomed from our earliest years to the use of money, we are unconscious of the inestimable benefits which it confers upon us; and only when we recur to altogether different states of society can we realize the difficulties which arise in its absence."

Further coincidence and synchronicity stories:
Bizarre Coincidence Of Her Mum's Phone Call
Vietnam Veteran In Tears Following 44 Year Old Coincidence
Finding a £10 Note Coincidence

An Occasional Cluster Of Coincidences

This is about a cluster of coincidences I had recently.

Our son, daughter-in-law and grandson have gone away on holiday to Majorca. We didn't have any idea of how long it would take to get to their destination. My wife said to me, "I wonder when they will arrive?"

As soon as she had finished her sentence the phone rang. It was our son saying, "Hello dad, we've just arrived."

Now that's how quickly all questions should be answered!

Karin and I had to go to the supermarket for a big shop. I usually wander off to look at the CDs and stuff while she fills up the trolley with essentials. I was in a world of my own thinking about something that had happened the previous week and how - out of the blue - the problem was solved. I thought to myself, "Strange how that all worked out so well, wonder how that happened?"

A voice said, "It was divine intervention." It was just like someone was answering the question in my mind. It actually turned out to be an elderly women relating a story to a friend. But, for me, she was answering my question too.

That morning, when the post arrived, there were letters for both myself and my wife from banks, both with new PIN numbers for credit / debit cards. I asked my wife what her four digit number was. Incredibly it was exactly the same as the one I had received. And this was virtually the same thing that had happened to Tom in a post on my other blog, 67 Not Out, see Readers Coincidence Stories.

I was thinking (I seem to do a lot of that recently) about something that Nancy had written as a comment on a blog post about UFO's. She wrote, "... I think they (UFOs) are around quite often and for some reason they are not always visible to everyone."

So why can't everyone see UFOs?

That evening I picked up an old book about Uri Gellerby Andrija Puharich, opened it up at rendom to page 248. This was a supposed conversation with an alien called Hoova about UFO/Alien visits. This is what Hoova is quoted as saying, after being asked if space visitations were from his 'group':

"Most of these reports by humans (about UFOs) are due to hallucinations and aberrations. But some units have landed. But most of the reported landings have been other visitors from space - some of whom we do not see. They are of different vibrations different spaces, different velocities. We are the only ones who are mostly here. The other visitors come and go. We stay.

So seeing UFOs is (perhaps) all down to the old favourite: vibrations.

Okay, so there we have a cluster of small coincidences. It seems true to me that once we start thinking about, or talking about, something important to us coincidences and answers follow - okay sometimes. Wonder why not every time?

Other Coincidence Stories:
Bizarre Coincidence Of Her Mum's Phone Call
Afghanistan War Coincidence With The 1800s
How To Find Lucky Serendipity And Coincidences

The Fruity Coincidence

This is a small personal coincidence story.

I don't eat apples as I don't think they agree me except when cooked in an apple pie. My wife isn't bothered about them either so we never buy them as part of our fruit choice when we go shopping at the supermarket.

However on Friday last week my wife decided to buy two apples along with the normal fruit we wanted. I asked her why she had bought them but she just mumbled something about they might come in useful. So who was I to argue!

On Friday evening my wife ate one of the apples so we had one left.

On Saturday afternoon a neighbour knocked on our door and said that he knew it was a strange request but did we have an apple he could have. It seems he and his wife were holding a kids party for their daughter and were one apple short to give to the children attending.

So funnily enough, or by coincidence or precognition we had a spare apple.

Okay not exactly a world shattering coincidence but it makes you wonder ...

Other Coincidence Stories:
Attracting Birds Coincidence
She Was Topless In Front Of Her Postman
Speeding Car Chase Coincidence

Bizarre Coincidence Of Her Mum's Phone Call

A telephone coincidence story from Valerie today. I've read several that are similar and it does make you wonder how such things can possibly happen.

This is a coincidence that has always stuck in my mind but happened when I was still a teenager.

I was about fifteen and should have been doing a homework project with a friend at her house. Instead we headed for the town centre as this is where a boy we both fancied would likely be hanging out.

At the centre we passed a phone box and it began ringing. My friend, Annie, dared me to answer the phone. I opened the door of the phone box, lifted the phone and said, "Hello." And my mum answered!

Mum said, "Hello Val, what time will you be back from Annie's house, as dinner is nearly ready?"

I was so shocked I told mum where I was and she wasn't very pleased with me as I should have been doing my school work.

By some strange coincidence the phone box number was the same phone number as my friend's house but with one digit different. Mum must have dialled wrongly at exactly the time I was walking past the phone box.

Though I've had lots of coincidences since I think this is the most bizarre one and was the first coincidence I ever remember happening to me.

~ Valerie

Other coincidence stories:
The Birthday Phone Call Coincidence
Classic Coincidence Adoption Story
Mother And Daughter Unite By Unique Twist Of Fate