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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 3:18 pm
Have you ever noticed when you're inthe grocery store or a place like Walmart, that you keep running into the same person as you go up and down the aisles? You don't pay too much attention until you see them in front of you at the check out, then you start going hmmm. Finally you slog out to the parking lot, find your car, put your bags in the trunk, when surprise, there are those people again parked right next to you! I dont know, I find this really weird. Yet it happens a lot--am I the only one?
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 3:29 pm
Ever had a coincidence occur that made your spine tingle? I have. In 1986, I fell on stairs (never run down carpeted stairs with high heels on!) and broke my left leg -- both bones, just above the ankle. When I returned from the hospital a day or two later (it's a fog), I got all propped up on the couch to watch the space shuttle take off and BOOM! Challenger exploded. Fast forward to 2003. I fall again, this time tripping on a stair in the garage in my bare feet, boom! onto concrete. Broken right ankle. Return from surgery and the hospital a few days later and turn on the TV to see the Columbia burning up on re-entry. Now, whenever NASA puts a space shuttle up, I'm VERY, VERY careful!
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Ginger1218
Member
08-31-2001
| Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 7:17 pm
Weird thing happened last night, I think I have ESP - I was dreaming, that I was at a job interview at a Law Firm, needless to say the whole dream was strange, but at the end, I was taken into an office by the HR person and there were 2 attorneys there, and one of them said "Don't you remember me from where you used to work" And I said "Yes, I do, your Brad Allen" Now, I never worked with anyone by that name. Soooo, I wake up a little bit later, and turn on the television, and the movie Pillow Talk with Doris Day and Rock Hudson is on, and what was Rock Hudson's character's name? You guess it, Brad Allen. I was freaked out by that LOL.
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-29-2004
| Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 7:56 pm
In the Movie "Nick of Time" The main character has the same last name as I do.
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 6:17 am
Great stories. Max--very freaky. Ginger--crazy weird, I have never heard that happening to anyone before. Nick--I'd love to have a character in a movie with my name, but with my luck it would be a movie like Revenge of the Nerds.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 12:40 pm
Heard a conversation at a movie once where the gal in front of me says, 'I saw the side view of his profile'. Huh?
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 12:55 pm
I dreamt about 9/11 one month before it happened.
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Weinermr
Member
08-18-2001
| Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 12:57 pm
I always wonder what they're talking about when TV football announcers show the field on "reverse angle". WTF is reverse angle?!!! All it means is that the camera is on the other side of the field pointing the opposite way as usual. What's the big deal about that? Reverse angle! What a bunch of hooey.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 1:22 pm
Weinermr, sounds like another 'side view of the profile' situation, if you ask me.
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Ginger1218
Member
08-31-2001
| Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 1:40 pm
Escapee, what was your dream about? Because, one year before 911, I had a dream that I was working in my office, (I work in midtown manhattan) and there were windows all around me, and it was night, and all of a sudden the lights went out in the office, and then all the lights in the city went out, within 2 seconds, the building started to collapse, and in my dream, I knew it was a major catastrophe, I felt it. When I woke up and I was very very freaked out for about a month after that, and then a year later when 911 happened, it just brought it all back to me.
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Bandit
Member
07-29-2001
| Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 3:20 pm
Speaking of 9/11.... The weirdest thing has started happening, and only since 9/11. Almost every morning and every evening, I happen to look at the clock when it says 9:11. And as if that isn't weird enough, it happens to my DH too. It freaks us out!
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 3:38 pm
These are the exact kinds of things that make me like the movie "Signs" so much. It just speaks to the possibilities that there are no coincidences, that everything is tied to everything else and there's a purpose behind it all that we don't necessarily see.
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Giddygrin
Member
06-27-2005
| Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 5:30 pm
I had to write a story for a creative writing class that I have. My fiancee has always been my favorite critic (bc he's honest) and I thought I could email him the story...Partially to see what he thought and partially to give him something to make him less homesick (while he's on deployment in Iraq). He read the story right away and called like 5 min later. To tell me he liked the story and that my main character was actually the real name of an actor! Mind you, I hate making up names and it took me like 15 min. to crank this thing out...All off the top of my head. Gavin McClowd...Love Boat? Something like that. Anyway, thought that was weird.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 6:16 pm
I've had a lot of things happen over the years. The most recent one happened at work. A lady at work was standing in front of map in the classroom. She points to a very small town in Tennessee and reads the name. My mouth fell open. My biological family is from that same town. It turns out the woman has a granddaughter living there! Anyway, I thought it was a coincedence.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Friday, October 07, 2005 - 4:37 pm
Had a recurring dream for many years, one that was vivid enough to tell my kids and they knew exactly what the surroundings looked like. We went on a trip, and at a point where you wouldn't naturally notice a certain setting because it was so far over the side of the road, we all gasped and knew it was the exact place in my dream. I had never been there before, in this life anyway 
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Buttercup
Member
09-10-2000
| Friday, October 07, 2005 - 8:03 pm
One of my best friends’ father died when she was 15. At the time she was on vacation in England with her mother when they got the devastating news. The long flight back to the states was the worst she’s ever experienced and since then, she’s never flown on that date. Fast forward twenty-some yeas later, and my friend’s oldest daughter is celebrating her birthday with her grandmother shopping and going to Broadway shows in New York over a long weekend. They were due to fly back to California on an early Monday afternoon flight. When they arrived at the airport they found out their flight was delayed for several hours. My friend’s mother decides that it’s a waste of time to wait at the airport all afternoon just to arrive in California after midnight. She figures it’s better to take advantage of another day downtown New York, so she purchases two first class tickets for the following day and books another room at the hotel before she calls back to California to tell of the change of plans. My friend’s husband answers the phone (my friend wasn’t home). This man is a really easy going guy and usually goes with the flow. However, this time he remembered what date it was and how adamant his wife is regarding not flying on that date even though it had been over two decades since her father’s death and her flight back from England. So, my friend’s husband tells his mother-in-law that no way are they to fly the next day—that regardless of how late they arrive at the airport that night, he will be there. Thankfully, they listened. The next day, the flight they had re-booked seats on flew into the twin towers…the date my friend never flies on: 9/11.
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Saturday, October 08, 2005 - 6:15 am
Buttercup--what a story! To think a tragedy that happened two decades ago, kept somebody's daughter and mother alive on 9/11.
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Bookworm
Member
12-18-2001
| Saturday, October 08, 2005 - 8:06 am
That gave me goosebumps Buttercup. What an amazing story!!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, October 08, 2005 - 9:09 am
My friend was babysitting my son (1 1/2 yrs old) because my mom was dying and I was taking her to the beach, her fav place, because I didnt want her to die in hospital (we had dark sunglasses on her and she was basically in coma by time we got there, it was kinda like Weekend at Bernies...gotta laugh in hard times) but she started gasping for air, I couldn't take it so we drove her to hospital, she died a little while later I went and picked up Dylan, I told her my mom didnt make it and she asked what time she died...I said around 5pm and she said Dylan was playing with the kids having a great time and at 5 he got up walked to the door and started bawling, she couldn't get him to stop crying...she said it happened at 5pm.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, October 08, 2005 - 9:15 am
Also..up until my son was 2 I would walk in the room and he would be standing up in his bed looking into the air and laughing, he would jump up and down, just like he did when my mom would walk into the room....I know she was there and he could see her but I couldnt. I have many stories like this, my mom and dad used to 'visit' me all the time. We went to a medium for years and have had contact with the other side, it is amazing..I was a non believer when I first went but the things the medium would tell me were things he would have never known. Since we went to that medium for so long, my mom and I had a code word for whoever died first,,so we would know for sure it was true.....it was Pillsbury doughboy.....after my mom died I went to the medium and he said 'I dont know why but I am seeing all kinds of dough around you, have you been making cookies or bread?" I said no, he said 'well someone is wanting me to see all this dough around you' I said I didn't know why I hadnt been baking........as I was driving home I was like DUH!!!! my mom was trying to tell him doughboy but could only get the image of dough to come thru.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 1:57 pm
Bump..cuz I love hearing stories like these and don't want the thread to go away
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 2:57 pm
me, too!
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Abbynormal
Member
08-04-2001
| Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 5:25 pm
I went into the Air Force exactly one week before my best friend went into the Navy. She got out of the Navy exactly one week after I got out, and neither of us did our full tour. We ended up doing the exact time to the year, month and day. We had lost touch and didn't know this. I had my first son and she had a daughter in 1981. I had second son in 1983 on her daughters b'day and she had a son in 1983 on my first son's b'day. Neither of us knew the other was even pregnant. I find that just weird. Coming home from Nashville I stopped and visited with her and her daughter (my namesake) The daughter's best friend comes over and her name is the same as my friends. Huh!!!
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Wendo
Member
08-07-2000
| Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 10:33 pm
That's rather nifty Abbynormal!
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 2:43 pm
<you must be kindred spirits, AbbyN> A high school friend of my daughter married and had a baby she named after my dd. Coincidentally, now her daughter has the same exact first and last name as my daughter did in high school. How's that for having a namesake?
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Friday, October 28, 2005 - 8:35 pm
I named my son after me. I'm Nicole and my son is Nicholas. He thinks he was named after St. Nick but we all know the truth. Also my dad is G. Joseph, my nephew is S. Joseph and my son is Nicholas Joseph. I love that my sister and I both named our only children, each a son, after our dad. 
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Knightpatti
Member
12-06-2001
| Friday, October 28, 2005 - 9:26 pm
When I was in college, a girl named Patti lived on the floor above mine in our dorm. One day a guy ran after me calling Patti, my name, too. He thought I was her and we did look similar.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, November 01, 2005 - 9:23 am
Ginger: I just read your post from the sixth (dang, where have I been?) At the time, my best friend was in NY on her senior trip. I dreamt that we were sitting together in a park, on a blanket, on the grass. We were dressed in business attire, eating lunch and were getting ready to go back to work. Just as we were getting up to fold up our blanket, there was a huge explosion. The sky filled with dust and smoke and flames, and you could hear the whir of airplanes in the sky. There was screaming and people running. So, we too ran, all the while looking back at the smoke and flames coming from sky. It was complete chaos and I can remember feeling so scared and so much adrenaline wondering who would do this? When my friend returned from NY, I told her of the dream, she thought it was funny, but a month later when the 9/11 attacks happened, and i watched it on TV, it was the same running and screaming and flames and smoke as my dream.
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Wednesday, November 02, 2005 - 10:49 am
Is this the only kind of dream you have had like this. I find these kind of dreams fascinating, but I've never had one.
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