Spoooky CoincidenceB3ta's very own Fraser was once a cycle courier. On one job out to docklands his radio gave out, so he had to find a public phonebox to ring back to base.
He'd just located one when it began to ring. Picking it up, it was (obviously) a wrong number, but Fraser recognised the voice. Turned out it was a mate of his he hadn't seen for ages.
What spoooky* coincidences have you encountered?
* spoooky should always have three o's. 100% fact
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chthonic, Thu 8 Feb 2007, 14:07)
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WW IMy Grandfather fought, and was killed, in the the Battle of the Somme in the First World War. From a letter he posted on the day before the first big push, we know that he put his wedding ring inside his ration tin and buried it the trench. This way, if he died, the Germans wouldn't steal it from his stiff, dead fingers. Well, he and all of his mates were mown down by German machinegun fire and neither the tin nor the ring were never seen again.
Cue me going on a Historic Battlefields tour with my parents just a couple of years ago. We were very sombre at the Somme, especialy as it was raining hard and very dismal. Then ... what should I see but a ration tin poking from a muddy puddle.
I reached down and pulled it free with a squelch. I prised open the mud-clogged lid and carfully looked inside. There was a piece of newspaper from 1914, and a small object inside it . With shaking fingers, I opened the newspaper and saw ...
... the Action Man helmet I'd lost in 1983. Spoooky? I shat my pants there and then.
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