Some people believe that coincidences are nothing more than a series of random events that have no underlying message or meaning, and there’s no supernatural intelligence running the show. Things happen because they just do.
But, others will tell you that there’s no such thing as coincidences! Whether they call it fate, destiny, or the Universe being cheeky, when the stars get all their ducks lined up in a row, it’s more than just a happy accident. It’s a MESSAGE!
No matter which camp you fall under, these photos of 75 weird and strange coincidences, one-in-million-odds, and other rare circumstances are almost too surreal to pass off as mere happenstance.
1) “The mountains and trees lined up perfectly on this camper on the highway.”
2) “Right place, right time.”
3) “Fire breather looks like he’s kissing a fire dragon.”
4) “A dragon fly landed on my friends foot and mirrored its own tattoo.”
But, catching a dragonfly trying to shag a dragonfly tattoo is definitely one-in-a-million! (That’s how they mate, from tail to tail.)
5) “Hometown zip code, t-shirt, race number, finishing time — all 33607.”
6) “Dog gave birth to three puppies, each with their own corresponding number on their back.”
7) “My friend just got this once in a lifetime picture.”
8) This is Fate working her sweet magic!
“Twenty years ago I went to an air show with my Grandpa and Uncle. One of the aircraft I sat in was the OH58 Kiowa. This was the day that I decided that I wanted to be a pilot. Today while looking through some old photos I found the picture below of me sitting in the Kiowa. I thought it was cool because that’s what I’ve been flying the past month. Upon arriving to the airfield today I asked operations if they have ever had a Kiowa with the tail number listed on the aircraft that I sat in when I was eight years old. (What are the chances right?) They looked it up and not only had they once had that aircraft there, but it was sitting on the ramp. I went out and took a picture with it and realized that I had actually been flying that specific Kiowa this past month. Twenty years later I am flying the exact aircraft that helped spark my dream to fly. Wild.”
9) “This bird landed on the page about itself.”
10) “Mosquito killed by a dart.”
11) “What is this I don’t even-“
12) “Managed to catch this balloon popping on my phone…”
13) “Butterfly bro lands on his own picture.”
Or, like @clamberrypie said:
“It’s like a butterfly version of the Sears catalog lingerie section.”
14) “In very rare circumstances it is possible to see a full 360 degree rainbow from an airplane.”
15) “Brother spent a year trying to get a lightning photo. He caught this last night, I just noticed the boat in the bottom left.”
16) Fisherman dad caught the wallet he lost in the lake 20 years ago.
“So my dad, a fisherman at lake “Attersee”, Austria, just fished up his old, lost wallet in one of his fishnets, after he had dropped it into the lake 20 YEARS AGO.”
17) “Triple rainbow.”
@maezel:
“This happens because one (two) rainbow(s) is(are) generated by the sun and the other, with the weird angle, from the reflection of the sun on a lake or body of water. If the reflection was strong enough you would see 4th.”
18) “My brother accidentally wore the same outfit as my daughters birthday present.”
19) “My dog’s white stripe lines up perfectly with the water’s edge.”
20) “Two collided bullets from the Battle of Gallipoli, 1915-16.”
21) These amazing pictures sparked the need for fingerprinting.
Understandably, staff were confused by the men who shared the same name, same hair, and practically the same face (although on closer inspection you can notice the differences.
They are part of the reason why law enforcement now uses fingerprints as identification.
22) “Rare cloud phenomenon over eastern Victoria, Australia.”
“Spotted this rare phenomenon over eastern Victoria. Fallstreak holes, or hole punch clouds, form in clouds that contain supercooled water droplets — at a temperature below freezing point, but not frozen.”
23) “My blind son found a four leaf clover on his own. What are the odds?”
The noble Jedi Knight way:
“The Force is strong with this one.”
Or, the Party Pooper (@Teste_on_Hennes_Chin) way:
“You know how the saying goes: “Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in awhile.” I suppose this is his nut.”
24) “Swedish guy accidentally captures green meteorite while searching for the northern lights.”
25) “What are the odds of this accident?”
26) “An albino deer I spotted in northwestern Wisconsin yesterday.”
According to some Native American traditions, white deer are symbolic of a great shift coming to this world.
27) “Lottery ticket vs. winning numbers.”
28) “The People You May Know section of Facebook Put up these pictures that allign perfectly with unrelated people.”
29) What kind of crazy is this?
“This was taken during a thunderstorm, and that’s the sky lighting up from a lightning strike. Somehow my coworker snapped a pic before the sky fully lit up.”
30) “4 strangers same outfit.”
31) “My friend’s father caught a blue lobster the other day.” Odds are 1 in 200 million.”
32) “We got another rare lobster in at work. This time he’s a 1 in 30 million calico lobster.”
33) “These licence plates.”
34) “Friend tried to toss me his keys at work, they got stuck on piping in the roof like this.”
35) “The print on the lorry in front is in the same spot my wife took her background photo.”
36) “This unbelievable picture is really real.” – Dad
“Almost 12 years ago my Dad caught a picture so rare that no one believed us when we told them. Today I finally found the picture to prove it…”
37) “Once in a lifetime.”
38) “I dropped a plate by accident,and it spilt in half perfectly. No shards or chips.”
anymore, like they did back in the good old days.
39) “Eggsperts say odds are 11 billion to 1.”
40) “My friend captured possibly the rarest thing that’s ever happened.”
And, then there’s this from @therealpixie:
“Looks like squirrel incest to me! Surely two albino squirrels must share DNA.”
She’s got a point!
41) “Perfectly timed speed camera photo.”
42) “Car’s lucky day.”
43) “Today, I think I found the rarest thing I will ever come by and never seen one until this morning on my front tire. An albino fly.”
“That is a pretty fly (for a white guy).”
44) “Sequential license plates.”
45) “If he hands you an apple, run. But not in a straight line….”
“My dad started learning archery a few years ago. He uses a simple recurve bow with no add-ons. He comes back from lessons with this. One arrow shot through the other, and it’s stuck in pretty well.”
46) “How does this even happen?!?”
47) “I saw a gull standing on top of another gull.”
48) Wait, is that my card?
“Aussie currently traveling around Greece, I just found half an Australian bank card out the front of my hotel. The name, valid date and first 6 numbers that are visible are exactly the same as my own card. I ran upstairs and pulled apart my bag and found mine conpletely intact where I’d left it.”
49) “This Lady’s dress.”
50) “2 IN A MILLION”
“Two 16 gauge wood framing nails shot into the space in between my kneecap and femur! Pay close attention neither nail touched ANY bone. If you look close enough you can see where one nail barely scraped some cartilage off of my femur.”
51) “My sister, other sister, and parents accidentally bought me the same birthday card.”
“Or you sisters asked your dad to buy them a card at the store and your dad, being a dad, bought 3 of the same. Sorry-I just call it like I see it. And I have a dad. haha”
52) “I just dropped my bank note on the floor and I thought it had disappeared.”
53) “After having it for 2 years, I accidentally FOUND my phone background the other day near Santa Cristina, Italy!”
54) “She was born for this job.”
55) “Jesus is this way.”
“On our way to an amusement park when we see a man holding a sign saying “Jesus is this way”. Start joking that Jesus is at the amusement park. This is what we park next to.”
56) “Identical License plates but from different states.”
57) “The house my sister is looking at buying has a picture I painted when I was in high school for a history project on their wall.”
“So my sister, her husband, and my mom go to tour a house my sister is considering to buy. My mom calls me saying “you’ll never guess what is on their wall”. It’s the picture I painted for my American History class I took my junior year of high school over two years ago. It’s a ceiling tile, and my teacher placed them all on the ceiling of her classroom. My guess is that she replaces them every few years and lets students take the ones being replaced. “
58) “Both lines at McDonalds had the same cars.”
59) “These two local doctors. Two these doctors local.”
@elephasmaximus:
“A lot of South Indians have this weird tradition were our last names are our dad’s first names. Cherian (a variation on Zachariah) is a pretty common name for Christians from Kerala, a southern Indian state. So these guys may well be father & son.”
60) “‘Beware of death’ sign above an unexploded shell in a tree during WWI.”
Whatever the case, @star_boy2005 nailed it with this comment:
“How’d you like to be the guy who nailed that sign to the tree? ‘Hey, you guys got a softer hammer?'”
61) “Lucky Car.”
62) “Leaf meets crack in the gate.”
@castellar:
“People don’t realize that even though the odds of this occurring with one leaf falling near one fence are infinitesimal there are billions of trees with trillions of leaves falling all over the world.”
63) “The left door perfectly describes the right door’s condition.”
64) “This captcha password.”
65) “I mean, what are the odds?”
66) “What are the odds?”
It also looks like Neville Longbottom and Crabbe are in the back row!
67) “Is this going to be a bad day or a good one?”
68) “My default router password described my rare birthmark.”
69) “My phone captured a card being dealt, total accident but mildly interesting consequence.”
70) “My daughter got a book in the discarded book pile at her HS that my wife and my wife’s mom also checked out in HS.”
@mathead:
“Guess the book chose to retire where it got the most love.”
71) “3 Eggs. All Twins. The odds of this happening are about 0.003%”
72) “My worksheet for statistics said I wouldn’t get the same numbers when I used a random number generator. I did.”
73) “Yesterday I got lucky, I ride again.”
74) “My friends order number was the same as her total.”
75) “This bill is exactly 11111!!!!!”
@I_Have_3_Legs:
“Was about to ask how a crab cake was 400 dollars. That shit better cure cancer.”
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