Story List

Rhyothemis Princeps
Weighing Flax
I was watching a video on YouTube in the kitchen while making a snack: oatmeal and flax. I was weighing out the flax at the precise moment the narrator of th...

Kaye Miller-Dewing
Heavenly Bliss Dream
I dream a lot, I always have. And sometimes I know from the dream what will happen. In 2016, I had a dream, which I told to my husband after we’d got up tha...

Angela O'Connell
ECSTASY at Sea
In 1997, I was 29 and was reaching a turning point in my life. I had completed my MBA in May, and my 2.5-year marriage had come to end. What a perfect time ...

George Veazey
A Black Swan to Remember
In 2008, I read the book, The Black Swan. The book uses “black swan” as a metaphor to describe an unexpected significant event, good or bad. I had n...

Justin Blue
My First Meaningful Coincidence
Twenty years later, and my souvenir remains a significant reminder of what I’m alive for. When I cranked the SOBE drink open and none of the ring broke (don...

Rodney Small
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
In January 1979, I was looking at an atlas in my office about mid-morning when a female work colleague walked by and observed what I was doing. We had the fo...

Calista Stuttarad
The Feather and the Leaf
My mother passed away from COVID complications Nov. 4, 2020. She was in an aged care facility, quarantined after requiring fluids in hospital. Soon after, o...

Cheryl Flanagan
Sweet Chance
Years ago, I bought a pony named Sweet Chance, also known as Sweetie, for my daughter. A few weeks later, my mother was cleaning out her garage, and there wa...

Pelin Erel
Reunited with Russian Acquaintance Many Years Later
I have many coincidences. This particular one is unique. When I was a little girl, we lived in Russia for two years. When we came back, I was six years old....

Yvonne P
Same Birthday, Same Day of the Week
My first and second sons were both born on Tuesday, 19th November. The first son at 2.20pm in 1974. The second son at 2.25pm in 1991. They couldn’t be more...

Hugo Marquis
Love Is All Around
Some years ago, after having lunch with a coworker, on every corner of the street between the restaurant and our jobs, everybody was kissing. Young couples,...

Marzena Romanowska
Meeting My Sister
As a young only child, I was always drawn to stories of miraculously-found siblings like the ones often featured on soap operas. My mother would always dismi...

Violet Lastpeace
The Cash Donation
In late 1999, I was very short of money. My partner had lost his job. Debts were building up. We had to leave our home and try to find jobs in a new town. O...

Cal P
A Physician Is Visited in a Dream By a Patient Needing Help
As a Family Doctor since 1998, synchronicity has accompanied me my whole life, even before I became a Physician. One night, I vividly dreamed of my aging fe...

Renée Bostany
How I Met My Husband
In 1979, I was working on the “Mississippi Queen” steamboat and had a vacation coming up. I was 24, had never been out of the country, but wanted to go somew...

Sarah N
Trusted House-Sitters Traveling the World
I have a new friend who teaches Vedic chanting. The two of us were sitting in her beautiful garden and talking about how hard it is sometimes to transition f...

Diana Sims
Spiritual Awakening
I was on the verge of a manic episode when I had a spiritual moment. I had almost a Kundalini experience. I cannot describe the intensity of the closeness t...

Tracey Burke
Thailand to Taiwan
Dissatisfied with our teaching jobs in South Korea in 1997, my partner and I took a midnight train from the town we were in to the airport in Seoul to catch ...

Ovidiu Minciunescu
Two Coincidence Stories
I have around three coincidences per day. I try to ignore them, but I’m happy to find this group after so many years. Hopefully one day we will understand ho...

Ed Crosser
Cynthia Ann Parker
In the early 1830s, the Parker family, along with many others, moved west. Settling about 30 miles from what would become Waco, Texas, they built a fort as p...

B M
Dateful Coincidences
Not every date has obvious coincidences, but what about 5-22-2023? 5 + 2 + 2 +2 + 0 + 2 + 3 = 16 5 + 16 = 21. So: 20, 21, 22, 23 2 + 0 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 ...

Dimitra Vasileiou
A Dream of Betrayal Comes True
In 2020, I had a dream about my ex-boyfriend. First, a bit about him: He was a childhood love, passionate and violent, and we were a couple from 1998–2008. A...

Ingrid Raath
Research in the Morning Pops Up That Night in NDE Video
This was my most recent coincidence from May 3, 2023. I have a file where I record all my coincidences 🙂 For an hour one morning, I was doing research on G...

Sara Sugishita
Coincidence while Watching a Broadcast About Coincidences
I was watching the YouTube video of Dr. Beitman being interviewed on Next Level Soul while I was getting ready in the morning. D...

Marcus Packer
Choking on the Sage
I have thousands of synchronicity stories, but lately I’ve noticed that the TV has been synced to the words I say and even the thin...

Katrin Windsor
Intuitive Hit Won the Prize
What a coincidence! John and I were having dinner in Fort Collins with Dan and his girlfriend Alex, when some high school science kids approached us with a f...

Kim DAgnillo
Worried About a Son
In 1995, I worked for American Airlines and had to transfer to MCI Airport in Kansas City to keep my job. At the time, my mother wa...

Amanda Wade
My Life Was Saved By a Phone Call
A couple of years ago, I was experiencing significant pain near my ear. I went to the dentist, thinking maybe something was wrong with a tooth. It turned ou...

Nella Bokman
Meeting My Future Husband
It was October 1969, Kiev, Ukraine. I was 19, riding the trolleybus, looking out the window. At one stop, I noticed an old acquaintance across the street. He...

Amy Wills
The Social Security Card
My daughter had just started college and moved out for the first time. A few weeks into school, she came home for a visit and broug...

Sharren Kind
Amazing Airport Kindness
I was returning home from a business trip late one night and had parked in satellite parking at Dulles, where there were acres of c...

Trisha Taylor
Caught in a Fierce Snowstorm
I was 16 years old, driving to my aunt’s house in a terrible New York snowstorm. The winds were blowing fiercely, and the snow was ...

Tara Roth
Dreams Do Come True
When I was 16, I lived in New York City. I had a dream one night that I met Paul McCartney and he asked me out on a date.
The n...
Barb Doyle
Wooden Spoon Is More than a Gift
Six months after my husband died, I met a friend for lunch on my wedding anniversary. She gave me a gift in a bag bearing the name of a kitchen store in Seat...

Shawnna Alto
Not Alone: Spirit Speaking Through Signs
I have so many instances of “coincidences” coming about and being profoundly meaningful, but one that blows my mind every time I think about it happened rece...

Pristine Parr
A Miracle Linked to My Daughter’s Death
I lost my oldest daughter in September 2019. A few months before, I kept running across near-death experience (NDE) videos and people who could recall their ...

Shelly Wynecoop
Never Doubt the Fairies
Every Friday in 2006, I cooked large amounts of food to take to my sick aunt’s place. One Friday, I was so exhausted I was barely able to load the car with m...

Kelly Holtman
The Universe Gave Me a Brother
One evening before bed, I lamented to my college-aged son that I wished I were closer to my family. My parents had passed away when I was in my 30’s. Now in ...

Barry Summers
Triggered a Synchronicity Experience through Painting
Years ago, I had multiple (accidental) synchronistic experiences tied to artwork I was doing at the time. I finally decided recently to see if I could trigge...

Toni Ortner
Soups and Breads
I had been thinking about how much I wanted to own a copy of a New York Times cookbook that was about soups and breads, but didn't want to spend mon...

Ellen Jones
Need a Job?
This happened a long time ago, but it stays with me to this day. My family and I had moved out of state, and it didn't work out. We had to make a quick move ...

John Townley
Professor Seward’s Foray from the Beyond
In the 1970s, I was on an astrological lecture tour and spoke to a spiritual group in Pennsylvania. Afterward, the group leaders, ...

Sydney Kravetz
The Coincidence Project Launch Coincidence
I attended the Launch for The Coincidence Project last week. It inspired me to recall and write down the profound coincidences I experienced over many years....

Grant Battison
The Cousin and the Alfa Romeo
After 5 years of marriage to my wife, her father died. At my father-in-law's funeral, I met her father's cousin for the first time. He stood out for me, beca...

Carolyn North
Meeting Lakshmi Again, After 60 Years
I recently moved to Vermont, and was invited to the cabin in the woods of a friend of a friend from California. My friend's friend, Lakshmi, was from India, ...

Kay Chappell Wood
A Last-Minute Rescue: Coincidence or Luck?
My coincidence of note occurred in 1996. I was driving from my home in the suburbs to a downtown Atlanta location. I had to drop off a grant application that...

Robert Magrino
‘Random Number’ 45224 is Anything But…
It was February 2019, and my Mom had suffered a stroke. She was resting in the ICU in Cincinnati. I booked the next available flight from Seattle to Cincinna...

Carolyn North
Chance Meeting Leads to Publishing with Scribners
When my children began going to school in the 1960s, I began writing fiction while they were in class, just for my own satisfaction. I was interested to disc...

Jesse Hawkins
License Plate Coincidence
Recently, I was thinking about my friend Eli on the bus, looking at license plate numbers. With every car that passed by, I would take the letters on the dif...

Rob Sanders
Dancing Perfectly in Time
Busby Berkeley’s first job as a Hollywood musical choreographer was on the film Whoopee! released in 1930. The highly successful film that firmly esta...

Greg Fitting
Artificial Intelligence or Not?
You get into your car to go to your weekly club meeting, and your smart phone automatically tells you what route to take and how long it’s going to take to g...

Mark Dolamore
Synchronicity Used As an Observation Technique
The link here will take you to a short story describing synchronicity events I pursued over years to arrive at something I call "pyramid art"--what I claim i...

John Townley
Dreams of My Father
Despite being born with his Sun in Pisces, my dad was not a religious man. Far from it--he was a quiet agnostic who read wid...

John Townley
Forewarned Is Forearmed
An exercise in forethought/foreseeing for me developed years ago, when I noticed that every time I would find myself stepping into a dream that I had had usu...

Boruch Fishman
My Connection to Dr. Carl Jung’s Synchronicity Essay
In April 1949, I was being conceived into the Fish family. At the same time, Dr. Carl Jung had a series of fish experiences that inspired him to write his fa...

Carolyn North
India, Music, and 50 years of Coincidences
Living in India in the 1960s, I wanted to study the bass bamboo flute but was told that such an instrument did not exist. I knew it did because I had heard a...

Carolyn North
Dublin and the Book of Kells
When I was newly married, my husband and I took a bicycle trip from Cork to Dublin in Ireland. We both were working across the Channel in Oxford that year; I...

Denise Thompson-Slaughter
Perfect Timing in a Crisis
In fall 2001, we moved from New Jersey to Indiana after Notre Dame made a great teaching offer to my husband. What with getting our two kids started in a new...

Rey Blanco
Omen Birds
Of course, that was what it was. I learned that these are Category Two Synchronicities. What happens is that someone, a very good friend, did die when I...

Rey Blanco
Babel-Babble
:March 5, 2023 Just before we arrived home from shopping, we heard a radio commercial for the language app Babbel, which helps people learn a foreign l...

Sue Kientz
A Good Reason to Wait for College
A coworker of mine originally from India related that as a teenager he wanted very much to go to college at the University of Southern California (USC) and t...

Sue Kientz
Runaway and Her Family Welcome 9 p.m.
In 1948 at age 14, Vera ran away from home to New York City. Her strict Mennonite parents highly restricted her life, not allowing movie-going an...

Rey Blanco
No-Name Body
Many coincidences slip by me. A few years ago we enjoyed a tour for seniors hosted by Kendall County, IL near the Abraham Lincoln National Cemeter...

Anne Heleen Bijl
Theater Premiere Thanks to Coincidence
I had done remote coaching for an organisation in Tunisia. When finished I had a debriefing call with a (for me unknown) coordinator of PUM, who did the matc...

Carolyn North
How I Met My Publisher, Etc.
One day several years ago I received a note from a stranger, asking if he might learn about my work with sound and healing. He arrived for the session with a...

Rey Blanco
Landscapes in SynchroniCity –
I have noticed that many times I depend upon news headlines to help determine what I was doing on that date. For example, on Saturday, July 20, 1974, ...

Rey Blanco
Sticky Entanglement
This had to be the first half of the 1970s. Curiously, I had asked a group of friends if it was okay to record while we just sat and talk. We soon forge...

Rey Blanco
Octet Rule
I am not good at chemistry nor science and math. Most of my comprehension about the nature of reality appears to involve a world beyond physical objects...

Rey Blanco
Sacred Heart Icon
The first coincidence I remember had a weird, ominous sort of meaning. It was in the early 1950s, when I was a grammar school kid. I remember crying because...

Rey Blanco
Loving Angels and Wave
Sometime during my teens, around the mid 1960s, three friends and I decided to go to the lake. The water was still as we sat at the edge, enjoying the warm ...

Rey Blanco
Cross in the Sky
It must have been around the middle to latter half of the 1980s. At a little after 2 a.m., a knock at the side door woke me, and I found out...

Sue Kientz
Meaningful Messages on the Highway
When I began experiencing synchronicities in the 1980s--which, not knowing any better, I called "parallel situations"--they ofte...

Joan Walton
The Stolen Tent
When my daughter, Rachel, was about six years of age, we arranged to go on holiday to France with frien...

Rey Blanco
Thinking Earth Sonnet
: In 1981, the idea of composing a sonnet using only names of places and people started with a draft. Each name had to have some kind of ironic sense, ...

Janie McQueen
Hairstylist Plays Serious Hooky
In the late 1980s, a friend, Pat, and I were still attached enough to our college-town hairstylist in Columbia SC that we'd drive an hour and a half from our...

Rey Blanco
Library/Angel type (Ad Aperturam Libri)
This kind of coincidence involves "books, " as the Latin phrase suggests. I seem to have relied upon some of these coincidences without trying to get carried...

Rey Blanco
Reshuffling Time and Events
My better half, Joanne, chihuahua Oreo, and myself, the driver, headed from Yorkville Il to Wood Dale, Il, about an hour's drive. I decided to listen to...

Rey Blanco
A Case of Onomatopoeia: Buzzing Mosquito
Sometime during the 1970s I sat at a card table in the middle of a room about 12 by 12 feet with the door closed. I was trying ...

Rey Blanco
Cutting a Line
I've had my share of coincidences working most of my life on my knees installing carpets and other floor coverings. This one time, after cutting a couple of ...

Sue Kientz
Looking in the Ads, I Found My Dream
I had one dog, Dante, that I adopted a year after my 13-year-old dog Terry passed away in 1995. I began looking at SPCA listings of ...

Sue Kientz
Terry Has the Last Word
I moved to LA from New Orleans with my dog Terry, a sheltie-corgi mix. By 1995, Terry was having problems walking due to age and could not get up by himself ...

ed crosser
“Expect Something Special from Smith”
I was working a Memphis, TN job that had just finished up and I was packing my belongings in my truck, going back and forth from the room I had rented to my ...

Rey Blanco
All You Have to Do Is Ask
During a drive, my life partner Joanne was reminiscing about her first job as part of a high school coop. This is the short version of her story: As diligen...

Rey Blanco
‘E.T.’ Theme Song Defuses Conflict
This happened maybe a year after the release of the movie "E.T." A personal business issue led to a confrontation between myself and Bob, in a courtyard betw...

Rey Blanco
“Watt India Baghdad”
As absurd as one can imagine when playing around with using personal pronouns as if they are regular vocabulary words, this occurred when the senior...

Rey Blanco
Hello, Dolly
It must have been between 1980s - 1990s. Dolly, my friend Joe's mother-in-law was managing a carpet store on 34th place and Western Avenue in Chicago. She...

Lily Hill
Between a Rock and a Coffee Place
One day, a few years ago my husband made a joke about the Hollywood actor The Rock. I had never heard of him and thought I would google him later to see wha...

Lily Hill
A ‘Sole’ful Story
I was in a new relationship with someone but we had to be apart for a few days. During this time I was out on a a walk and noticed that I had started singing...

Rey Blanco
‘Like a Greyhound after a Rabbit’
My stepfather had passed just before my parent's Sleepy Hollow house was up for sale. They had purchased another house a couple of miles further south, two ...

Rey Blanco
Getting What You Asked For, in an Unexpected Way!
This story happened around 1997/1998 when Phillips introduced their first CD Recorder for public market. I was working a computer show at McCormick Place for...

Barry Bragg
We Were Just Talking About You!
Years ago, my friend Eric Wadman and I were in the line to see a movie at Northpark shopping center in Dallas. For some reason, the name Walter Longacre came...

Rey Blanco
Oscar the Carpet Installer
In 2006, I was working in a carpet business and was in Louisville to install carpet for Cover-All. I became involved with the initial hiring of other carpet ...

L D
French Onion Soup
I had been thinking about having French onion soup for dinner. With that in mind, I took a container out of the freezer to leave on the counter so it would d...

Maureen Benjelloun
Karl Jung Connection Through Synchronicities
My name is Maureen, and I live in the UK North East. People's synchronicity stories on their TED talks has gotten me fascinated. Here is my story: My Father...

CATH UNWIN
Harold Is Still With Us
In 2004, I had a horse, Harold. His grand-sire was Luskin Star, a very famous race horse here in Australia in the 1970s. I bought an apartment here in Sydne...

CATH UNWIN
Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend
9 JANUARY: I had a dream that I lost my ring, which has my engagement, wedding and eternity rings remodeled into one ring. I had to get up to see where it wa...

Jerome Houde
The Rabbit
On November 23 2022, I was walking on Mont-Royal mountain in Montreal (Canada) and also listening to the recording of Yvonne Kason’s share about her near dea...

Conal Carswell
Echoes of the Future
In the early 1990s, I had a pen-friend from London who’d contacted me via The Young Archaeologist magazine, whose name was Keeley. I woke up one mor...

Ricardo Escamilla
A Dream and Synchronicity
A few months ago, I had a dream with a colleague and friend. He was driving, I was in the car, there was a big curve, so we went out of the road. Finally we ...

Conal Carswell
The White Stuff
In December 2022, I wrote a letter to a friend who lives in Montana, U.S. I made a bit of a mess of the envelope, with a little scribble on its edge. I opene...

Katrin Windsor
Applying the 9 Keys of Synchronicity – It Worked for Me in Real Time!
In early January 2023, I was reading Philip Merry‘s fantastic book, The 9 Keys of Synchronicity. Specifically, as I read Key #4 on Awe, he mentions ...

Conal Carswell
From Thunder Bay to Wellington
In 2000, I travelled across Canada from Montreal to Vancouver Island, mostly by Greyhound bus. I ended up stopping in Thunder Bay, which the 2021 census tell...

Anne Heleen Bijl
An Impossible Coincidence from Typing Random Numbers!
I was postponing my work, I had to call a professor in mathematics for an interview. I was a little nervous about this. So I put it off a little more by typi...

Mary Kay Landon
A “Once in a Blue Moon” Superbowl Coincidence
I had bought the book, Archetypal Patterns in Fairy Tales by Marie-Louise von Franz, at least six months before I opened it on Sunday, January 31,1999...

Chris Mackey
Propinquity Coincidence: The Connections Between People
A common form of synchronicity is propinquity – a coincidence reflecting the psychological connection between people. A caller to our radio segment at K ROCK...

David Strabala
Meta-Moment: A Synchronicity While Making the Documentary Film “What Is Synchronicity?”
One day, synchronicity played a co-directing role for my documentary film, What Is Synchronicity? When I visited the Institute of Noetic Sciences i...

Juliet Trail
Inner Thoughts Matching Outer Events in Song-writing
In 2022, I was working on the release of a new song, sung in Spanish, “Mi Estrella.” The song is a tribute to two twin daughters who died very young. The lyr...

Katrin Windsor
Manifesting Clients: You Think of a Person You’d Love to Work With, Just As They Call
I’m heading home from visiting my favorite chemistry student, son Daniel, in Durango. My heart is wide open, I’m deeply happy, driving through gorgeous mount...