Jul 8, 2015 06:37 PM
(This post was last modified: Jul 8, 2015 07:26 PM by Magical Realist.)
We've all experienced coincidences in our lives. I view the meaningful ones as little winks from the cosmos. I dedicate this thread to amazing coincidences--either personal ones or ones you've heard of.
"At 10:10 AM on June 25, 2010 in the Oval Office President Obama heard the news that the Supreme Court had supported the continuation of the Affordable Care Act. He and his staff celebrated. At 10:30 AM photographs by the official staff photographer showed that the clock in the office had stopped at 10:10 AM."===http://coincider.com/blog/obamas-clock/
I stayed at the mansion in Washington State they filmed the movie "Rose Red" in based on Stephen King's novel. I had the movie Rose Red in my room but didn't watch it. When I got back home I turned my TV on. Guess what movie was on? Rose Red!
"Dr. Michael Shermer is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, the executive director of the Skeptics Society, and a monthly columnist for Scientific American.
He wrote in his column on Sept. 16, 2014, about an experience that led him to conclude: “We should not shut the doors of perception when they may be opened to us to marvel in the mysterious.”
His fiancé’s belongings were shipped to the United States from Germany, and among them was her grandfather’s 1978 transistor radio. She was very close with her grandfather, who died when she was 16. The radio had been silent for decades, and try as he might Shermer could not get it working again. It continued its silence in the back of a desk drawer in the couple’s bedroom.
Three months later (June 2014), they were married. After the ceremony, his wife asked to talk with him alone. She was feeling lonely, missing her family back in Germany and also wishing her grandfather could have been alive to give her away. The couple walked to the back of the house where they heard music playing, a love song.
They searched in vain for the source of the music, then his wife “shot me a look I haven’t seen since the supernatural thriller ‘The Exorcist’ startled audiences. ‘That can’t be what I think it is, can it?’ she said.” It was the transistor radio in the drawer. “My grandfather is here with us,” she said, tearfully. “I’m not alone.”
Shermer’s daughter had heard music coming from the radio just before the ceremony started, though the couple had been in the room only moments before without hearing any music. The radio continued to work through the wedding night. “Fittingly, it stopped working the next day and has remained silent ever since,” Shermer wrote."===http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1416839-...-skeptics/
"In this video report, Marion Shurtleff tells about how she bought a Bible in a used bookstore. When she got home and opened it, she found inside folded, yellowing sheets of paper. She was astonished when she read what was on them. Immediately she saw her name -- and her own handwriting! It was an essay she wrote 65 years ago when joining the Girl Scouts -- in another city 2,000 miles away!"===http://paranormal.about.com/od/psychicph...-bible.htm
"In 1953, television reporter Irv Kupcinet was in London to cover the coronation of Ellizabeth II. In one of the drawers in his room at the Savoy he found found some items that, by their identification, belonged to a man named Harry Hannin. Coincidentally, Harry Hannin -- a basketball star with the famed Harlem Globetrotters -- was a good friend of Kupcinet's. But the story has yet another twist. Just two days later, and before he could tell Hannin of his lucky discovery, Kupcinet received a letter from Hannin. In the letter, Hannin told Kucinet that while staying at the Hotel Meurice in Paris, he found in a drawer a tie -- with Kupcinet's name on it!"=== (Mysteries of the Unexplained)
http://paranormal.about.com/od/humanenig...nces_2.htm
"Actor Frank Morgan played numerous roles in the iconic film The Wizard of Oz. He was a taxi driver in Emerald City, fortune teller Professor Marvel and the Wizard of Oz himself.
For Professor Marvel, MGM's wardrobe department wanted the look of a down-on-his-luck gentleman. So, Frank Morgan and director Victor Fleming went to a second-hand store and bought a nice looking – but tattered – coat.
While shooting the film, Morgan turned a pocket of the coat inside out and incredibly saw the name L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wizard of Oz! Both Baum's widow and the coat's tailor confirmed that the jacket originally belonged to Mr. Baum."===http://www.oddee.com/item_99043.aspx
When I moved to Austin TX I was looking for an apartment. I drove off the main blvd and chanced upon the intersection of "Prather" and "Victory". Prather is my last name. A few blocks later I come upon this apartment complex that I had dream of a few nights earlier. It was very distinct and enclosed a pool area like a hotel. That's the apartment I got!
"At 10:10 AM on June 25, 2010 in the Oval Office President Obama heard the news that the Supreme Court had supported the continuation of the Affordable Care Act. He and his staff celebrated. At 10:30 AM photographs by the official staff photographer showed that the clock in the office had stopped at 10:10 AM."===http://coincider.com/blog/obamas-clock/
I stayed at the mansion in Washington State they filmed the movie "Rose Red" in based on Stephen King's novel. I had the movie Rose Red in my room but didn't watch it. When I got back home I turned my TV on. Guess what movie was on? Rose Red!
"Dr. Michael Shermer is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, the executive director of the Skeptics Society, and a monthly columnist for Scientific American.
He wrote in his column on Sept. 16, 2014, about an experience that led him to conclude: “We should not shut the doors of perception when they may be opened to us to marvel in the mysterious.”
His fiancé’s belongings were shipped to the United States from Germany, and among them was her grandfather’s 1978 transistor radio. She was very close with her grandfather, who died when she was 16. The radio had been silent for decades, and try as he might Shermer could not get it working again. It continued its silence in the back of a desk drawer in the couple’s bedroom.
Three months later (June 2014), they were married. After the ceremony, his wife asked to talk with him alone. She was feeling lonely, missing her family back in Germany and also wishing her grandfather could have been alive to give her away. The couple walked to the back of the house where they heard music playing, a love song.
They searched in vain for the source of the music, then his wife “shot me a look I haven’t seen since the supernatural thriller ‘The Exorcist’ startled audiences. ‘That can’t be what I think it is, can it?’ she said.” It was the transistor radio in the drawer. “My grandfather is here with us,” she said, tearfully. “I’m not alone.”
Shermer’s daughter had heard music coming from the radio just before the ceremony started, though the couple had been in the room only moments before without hearing any music. The radio continued to work through the wedding night. “Fittingly, it stopped working the next day and has remained silent ever since,” Shermer wrote."===http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1416839-...-skeptics/
"In this video report, Marion Shurtleff tells about how she bought a Bible in a used bookstore. When she got home and opened it, she found inside folded, yellowing sheets of paper. She was astonished when she read what was on them. Immediately she saw her name -- and her own handwriting! It was an essay she wrote 65 years ago when joining the Girl Scouts -- in another city 2,000 miles away!"===http://paranormal.about.com/od/psychicph...-bible.htm
"In 1953, television reporter Irv Kupcinet was in London to cover the coronation of Ellizabeth II. In one of the drawers in his room at the Savoy he found found some items that, by their identification, belonged to a man named Harry Hannin. Coincidentally, Harry Hannin -- a basketball star with the famed Harlem Globetrotters -- was a good friend of Kupcinet's. But the story has yet another twist. Just two days later, and before he could tell Hannin of his lucky discovery, Kupcinet received a letter from Hannin. In the letter, Hannin told Kucinet that while staying at the Hotel Meurice in Paris, he found in a drawer a tie -- with Kupcinet's name on it!"=== (Mysteries of the Unexplained)
http://paranormal.about.com/od/humanenig...nces_2.htm
"Actor Frank Morgan played numerous roles in the iconic film The Wizard of Oz. He was a taxi driver in Emerald City, fortune teller Professor Marvel and the Wizard of Oz himself.
For Professor Marvel, MGM's wardrobe department wanted the look of a down-on-his-luck gentleman. So, Frank Morgan and director Victor Fleming went to a second-hand store and bought a nice looking – but tattered – coat.
While shooting the film, Morgan turned a pocket of the coat inside out and incredibly saw the name L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wizard of Oz! Both Baum's widow and the coat's tailor confirmed that the jacket originally belonged to Mr. Baum."===http://www.oddee.com/item_99043.aspx
When I moved to Austin TX I was looking for an apartment. I drove off the main blvd and chanced upon the intersection of "Prather" and "Victory". Prather is my last name. A few blocks later I come upon this apartment complex that I had dream of a few nights earlier. It was very distinct and enclosed a pool area like a hotel. That's the apartment I got!
