More Coincidences

[Kat]

Late last week I was driving on a road I haven't driven on in a long time. I had passengers and I pointed out a hiway which dumped into the road we were on and named it and said "Right There." That was where the 2 roads came together, off to the right behind us. I had an old girlfriend who lived nearby and that was the context of my showing where the the roads came together.
The next day, within 12 hours 2 motorcyclists died at that exact spot, hit by a car.

Tonight I wanted to watch the Sam Sheppard case on an old video that I had never opened since I bought it c.1997- and found the anniversary of the death of Mrs. Sheppard was today, July 4th.

I watched the Dateline program on those young boys in Pensacola tonight who were convicted of bludgeoning their father whom they just had come to live with. The youngest boy stepped up and gave his name to the judge and proceeded to give his birthdate which is my own!

Just now I went outside to look at the fantastic sunset and a huge full rainbow opposite- due east. I was in wonderment in my front yard which is raised above the street level. There were no cars. Just as one car went by I was so overcome I got excited and pointed up to the sky at the rainbow and just then a huge jagged bolt of lightening ran across the sky as far as I could see, side to side!

[Tina-Kate]

I HAVE to tell you this one, as it also sort of involves you.

Tonite around 6:30 I was reading in the livingroom after supper & the sky got so dark I had to turn on a light to read. I usually have coffee after supper & was putting off making it as the book was interesting.

For some reason I thought to myself, "I should go make coffee because if we have a storm, the electricity will go out." Just then, I thought about you telling us Stef's computer got blasted. I thought, "I also better wait until the storm is over before going on the computer."

As I made coffee, the rain came down in a torrent.

3 sips into my coffee, the lights went out!

[Kat]

I'm so glad that came as a warning to you!
You are so *sensitive* to these things!

2 people in 2 days died from being hit by lightening here- over the weekend. More were hit (especially at the races) but didn't die.
Yesterday we had 60 strikes in 60 minutes.
......
I found out my VCR was hit too- and got a new one- this time combined with a disc player- yesterday.

I finally got to watch 3 of my American Justice tapes- a LOT of Doctors!:
Dr.Jeffery McDonald
Dr. Crippen
Dr. Sam Sheppard

also Jean Harris (That's a good story)

[stuartwsa]

Sounds like you're on a streak, Kat! Wouldn't it be great to somehow be able to work the lottery into the mix somehow?

[Kat]

Yes I'm on a streak. It really gets activated around PMS time, believe it or not.
Every month.

I've been having odd bits of memory lately too.
Sensory, and pictures in my mind.
Not quite deja-vu.
I don't know what it is.
I'll have to think about it.
It's delightful tho.

I'm a Water-Child and I've been swimming every day for 2 months.
I now can tread water for 45 minutes and lose myself in non-thought. I guess I am now meditating, because there is an absence of thinking.
It seems very easy to do in the water.
I used to struggle for *no thought*, but only get a bit of it.
This is nice.

[Kat]

Last night before I went to bed I picked up de Mille's a dance of death off the shelf to see if Mrs. Churchill was in there. I hadn't read it in a couple of years. I read a while and went to bed about 4 a.m. and got up at noon and went swimming, took a shower, got dressed and ran up to the post office. There was one lady customer at the counter wanting to look at special stamps. They were out of the ones she wanted and so my guy there(with the eyepatch who plays the golden oldies in the background) brought out what he had. I asked if I could approach to look as well. There was one which looked like Vivien Leigh. I asked about that and he said "That is the American Choreographers series, and that is Agnes de Mille." I freaked.
I asked if anyone knew who she was and they all said "No." I said "I am reading her book right Now!"

Did anyone know she was a STAMP?

[Kat]

My Gawdess! I am looking at the 1910 census, trying to find Melvin O. Adams. He has been narrowed down to Boston, Ward 11, District 1413. There are 25 pages in that section. When I got to page 6 I hit Pickney Street. That is on Beacon Hill. I used to live there! I just finished looking at pages 6-10 inclusive, all of Pickney Street, 1910. Adams wasn't there on my street but gee this is too weird! He's certainly close by!
I never would have imagined that when I lived there in 1973, 30 years later I would stumble upon my house in a census studying the Lizzie Borden case!

[Kat]

Well, I now find in a Boston City Directory for 1890, that Melvin O. Adams lived on Pinckney Street, at #75, after all!
I lived at #29,

Then he lived at #36 Beacon Street in the 1910 and 1920 Boston census.
When I first moved to Boston in 1970 I also lived on Beacon Street, but a 4 digit number address!

[stuartwsa]

Kat: My brother lived on Beacon Street in Boston back in 1970. I went to visit him there. I think his street number was 901. Did you by chance shop at the Good Will Store on Boylston Street? That's where he worked at the time.

[augusta]

Neat - an Agnes deMille stamp! A few weeks ago, I went to the P O for a roll of stamps. But when I got up to the counter, I said I wanted to see "pretty" stamps they have and instead of the same old, same old roll of stamps I got a mixture of different interesting ones. The only person featured on one was Mary Cassatt & some of her paintings. So many coincidences happening to you, Kat. I wonder what is going on.

[Kat]

It's just that time. I'm enjoying it for a change.

Stuart, I lived at Cleveland Circle at the very end of the trolly line. Up over the hill across the wide intersection was the resevoir and Boston College.
It was something like 1951 Beacon Street.
I used to go to the Morgan Memorial when I lived in the Back Bay- Cazenova Street. Is that the Goodwill?
Actually I got a lot of free good stuff along the backside of Commonwealth Ave-on the Charles, behind the college kids apartment buildings. When they left in the summer they got rid of clogs and sweaters and useful things. I once found a big thick piece of leather that had a ship burned onto it.
Is that some kind of craft? It was beautiful.

You and I on Beacon Street at the same time in 1970! Cool!

You know what?
My old boyfriend from here had a roommate locally and once while I was driving my roomate's car up Beacon Street I picked up a hitchhiker and it was my ex-boyfriend's roommate whom I had met a couple of years before.
He came home with me, moved in with one of my roommates, and later they got married! (the car and my roommate had lived down my street here).

29 years later our mom was in a nursing facility here trying to get rehabillitation and we had to call the on-site transport van to take us to her Dr. appointment. I got to talking with the driver who was an Englishman. It turned out he married the sister of my roommate -the one who married the roommate of my ex-boyfriend! He came all the way from England to complete this circle!
You never know what you have in common with someone until you talk to them and listen.

[Tina-Kate]

Here's some more weird coincidences for you. Thurs I had a job interview @ an internet publishing co. It's very close to where I live. The place turned out to be located in an 1890s doctor's house...just gorgeous! There were THREE sets of pocket doors downstairs! During the interview, my prospective employer asked me about Lizzie (I have my Lizzie credits on my resume). To my surprise, he was quite knowlegeable & even asked me if I know what that dress burning incident was REALLY all about! So, the next day my neice's boyfriend dropped by & we had coffee. He used to live in what is now my apt. I was telling him about the interview & showed him a sample of the newsprint/magazine the company puts out every week. "I KNOW this guy!" he said. Apparently, they both dated girls who were friends, about 4 yrs ago. He'd been @ the house for a barbecue & knew exactly what I was talking about. They all chummed around together for a while. He also told me that this guy is an amateur film-maker & he filmed part of a movie in what is now MY bathroom!!!

How weird is that?!

[Kat]

That IS weird! Isn't the bathroom spooky to your cat? What exactly did they DO in there? And did you get the job?
Thank you for the cartoon art!

Someone here wrote to me about a birthdate coincidence and it reminded me of one which happened about 3 years ago at the local Art Festival.
I was tired of walking and wanted to sit and people-watch. I joined a young man already sitting on a bench. He was at one end and I the other. I started talking to him and we had a very nice conversation. Astrology was mentioned at one point and he told me his birthday was October 31st. I had never met anyone born on Halloween so I was interested in a few stories he told of that impact on his life being born on that holiday. An older woman came up to sit down next to me and I scooted over. There were 3 of us now and I was in the middle and I started chatting with her. The young man joined in and eventually we discovered that this 75 year old lady's birthday was October 31st! She was absolutely aghast that she met the young man because she said in all her days she had never met another person born on October 31st! I guess it took me to introduce them, and I got up and walked away leaving those 2, 50 years apart in age, happily discovering each other...

[Tina-Kate]

An interview with a guy who filmed a movie in my bathroom -- still not quite over that one! No word as of yet on the job. Mia has since overcome her fear of that room. The birthday coincidence reminds me of being at a party many moons ago. There were about 7 of us in the kitchen & we started talking about astrology. Turned out we were ALL Geminis & our birthdays within a week of each other! My friend & a girl ended up having their birthday on the same day. They dated & ended up getting married (it didn't last).

[Kat]

All the Gemini's were in the kitchen! That's a really good one!

[Robert Harry]

I had been marvelling at all these coincidences. After perusing the Lizzie site during lunch hour yesterday, I decided finally to respond to an appeal from Columbia University seeking info on alums for a directory. As I was answering the questions about job, address, phone number, etc., the gentleman on the phone said, "Tell me the code you received on our appeal--you should see two letters on the bottom right-hand side." What were the letters?....L B

[Kat]

YAY!
It means when you are noticing such things you are in closer touch with the Universe.

I've read 2 books and several articles on Coincidence and it becomes a way to experience life at another level, and be more *aware*.
It's especially cool to do the math/odds.

[Kat]

Reviving a topic here because it's almost Halloween and it's mentioned in past posts.

2 new coincidences. (There's another, newer topic somewhere here about this as well.)

My friends have a house in Charleston, and I was just visiting there. They now have an elavator they installed since the first of this year. I've known they had put it in the house plans when they built several years ago, but it had been converted to a pantry until they were old and gray, as far as I knew.

Well, several months ago I had watched a show on TV about an old hotel that had residents and one lady would send her lap dog down in the dumb waiter for the busboy to walk him for her. I wrote an e-mail to my friends and suggested they install a dumbwaiter in case one of their dogs became lame or ill, as their house living area is built above the garage, about 16 feet above ground. They did not reply.

When I visited last week there was the elavator. Apparently they had it installed about the time I e-mailed them- and their reason was because one of their dogs had a stroke and for a while was blind and lame! (He's recovered now.)

[Kat]

My friend was trying to wade through a Charlotte Bronte book and had started it last week. Last week I borrowed from my Library an oversized picture book on the Bronte family and had just been reading it before I went to visit.

I had not touched a Bronte book in 5 years- but she and I both picked one up at the same time. BTW: we share the same birthday.

[Kat]

A couple more:

3 days ago I was talking to my friend in California and hearing fire stories.
I was just about to ask what I thought would be a stupid question, but the subject changed quickly and I forgot.
It was to ask if the fires might affect an earthquake. I thought, for some reason, that the fires might influence an earthquake. I don't know of any reason why...

But then yesterday there was an earthquake!

[Kat]

Again, in Charleston, we were putting paint sample colors on the bedroom ceiling.
I mentioned overnight that there were probably plenty of people in Charleston lying in bed overnight Friday staring at color swatches on their ceilings.
The next dayat the Ritz Carlton gift shop I got to talking to the saleslady. She had just been divorced, was redecorating and had spent Friday night in bed looking at color swatches on her ceiling!

[Kat]

Yesterday afternoon I called a number locally for someone to come assess my mother's cookbook collection. I hadn't thought of doing that in a couple of years- but decided to get an idea of the value because of an ad in a local magazine. It is one that I never read because I am allergic to the paper and ink. This time, for some reason I sat in the open air on the porch and read the monthly offering. I never do that. In fact, I leave it on the porch when it comes in the mail because I am so allergic to it.

So I went to the den and started looking at what was in there on the bookcases. I pulled out 3 scrapbooks of recipes our mother made, about 400 recipes in all. I brought them out to the living room to look at, as I wanted to see these homey versions of pasted in newspaper bits and cards. Stefani had helped label some and organize them with tabs. I recognized their handwriting. It was nostalgic- circa 1980ish.

One clipping fell out and I put it aside. A bit later I read it and it was a recipe for Burgundy Beef. I was reading it and noticed all the ingredients began with "B"!!

Butter
Beef
Bouillon
Bay leaf
Bacon
Brandy
Burgundy
Bag (of frozen small onions)
Bag (of frozen mushrooms)

oh yea, and salt and pepper. I chuckled. Then I loooked at the top of the clipping and it was from the local paper, The Orlando Sentinel.
Then I noticed the date!
It was May 22nd, 1969.
Then I noticed the day!
It was Thursday!

So on Thursday, May 22nd, 2008, a news clipping of a recipe from my mother fell into my lap dated Thursday May 22, 1969. It was the anniversary of our father's death, May 22nd. Though a different year.

[Kat]

A little Twilight Zone music here!

I should include the recipe!

[Tina-Kate]

Don't you just love when stuff like that happens?!



Actually, having pondered that---kind of another coincidence---as I was biking to work this morning I was thinking about how time can be some what circular or cyclical. (Won't go into this as I tend to babble on & forget that my random thoughts often make sense only to myself!)

But doesn't that kind of also relate to your experience there Kat?

[Kat]

Well, I feel like I was writing just to you, TK!
I had lately been under the impression that my parents were moving closer to me, in this trying time - well, more so my mother. It feels like a sign. I mentioned this to a friendly neighbor of Stefani's and she said the sign is I should make the dish! I love that!
So I posted the recipe.

[Tina-Kate]

I believe loved ones do rally round---no matter where they are.

[Kat]

New Story:
Either way, whether presentiment or precognition, ESP might be involved.
But I do now have proof that I did know what would happen before it did, because I was there and did not figure into the outcome. I mean, it did not revolve around me or depend upon my presence (that witnessed it). It may not be enough for a skeptic- but for me it was big. Big enough to make me very comfortable in what I've been experiencing.

Wednesday I decided to make a run to a flower store. I had not been there before. I got the name, number and address off the internet. I got dressed and upon choosing my pants and blouse in the lamp light of my room, I couldn't quite tell my color combination. But I wanted to wear green pants. My shirt had multiple colors and I thought it would *go together.* Then I thought "It's OK. The person there will probably be color blind." I chuckled at this thought because this was a flower arranging shop. I would think an artist would need to know colors. I don't know where the idea came from. It was like a little joke with myself.
When I got there the girl who first helped me talked to me just a little. I then needed time by myself to concentrate. As I was mulling in another room, she had gone into the office and was talking to 2 guys in there. I overheard her say to them- rather admit to them because their response and further discussion proved they had not known this about her before, one being the owner- that she was color blind.

It's unusual for a female to be color blind, only because it is much more usual for a male to be.

I peeked in at the office and excused myself and asked her in front of her 2 cohorts if she had said she was color blind? She said yes and had been "since birth." Which is kind of cute.
So I told her my thought before I had come there. And color blindness is based on the inability to recognize the colors brown and green.

(My outfit was green pants but the stripe in my shirt I had tried to match up was brown. These are the color blind colors. I believe they look non-color - like a gray.)

So the bottom line is I do think the girl could very well have been having that conversation that day about her color recognition, but that I only knew it ahead and witnessed it. It came to me because of my clothing, but my clothing had not been the reason she told her story in another room. so it can't be coincidence.
Hopefully this will happen more and more if I stay *open* and I will get my own page in The Enquirer!

[Kat]

Ooo I have another one- coincidence.
I visited my friend who has a used bookstore today. She invited me over although she is closed on Mondays.
I brought her some Baum books- The Wizard of Oz series.
Very late in the afternoon a lady came in. The sign said *CLOSED* but I guess she didn't notice, and when she entered I stepped away from the counter so she could make her inquiry.
My friend was in a big hurry at that point, trying to get out to the post office before too late.
The lady pulled out a notation she had made and asked for 2 books. The first title out of her mouth tho was "The Wizard Of Oz_ _ _"

[This title was a modern one with more to it, hence the dashes I put there. But this was a closed shop, and I had been invited up and I had brought 10 "Wizard of Oz" Baum books!]

[Nadzieja]

I can say that sometimes things happen and I usually say wow, that was interesting, but after what happend today I had to write. I used to watch Charlie Chan movies all the time, ever since I was a kid. The last time I visited my mom at the hospital I got home around 3am (the nurses let me in whenever I wanted). I couldn't sleep I had a horrible headache so I turned on the tv. There was a Charlie Chan movie playing. I got a call just before 4:30am to tell me my mom passed on. That was the last time I watched one of those movies. that was in 1997. They were on TCM and I put them on DVR, so this morning I was putting them on tape. Naturally I remembered the last time I watched one. I went to the bank after and I happened to get my cousin who was in customer service. I hadn't seen her in about 2 years. She told me that her mom passed away in Jan. It felt like someone punched me in the stomach. No one called me or my aunt to inform us, and we don't get the newspaper. The person who was actually calling to inform people was an older cousin who didn't have mine or my aunts number. I was so shook up I couldn't do anything but come home. The hard part was calling my aunt to let her know. She was just as stunned as I was. I don't think I can watch one of those movies without now expecting bad news. This is a coincidence that I will never forget.

[Caitlin]

I'm not sure how coincidental this is or not, but to me it seems strange none the less. After writing my Lizzie speech, I had taken time away from the case and such and it had been quite a few months since I've even thought of Lizzie and the case, but recently Lizzie and things about the case have entered into my dreams. I've found that since these dreams have been occurring while driving home from various places at night, street lights will often go out as I pass, so I'm not sure if this is at all connected, but I know it is approaching the anniversary of the murders. About the anniversary last year is when the theater company I work for was performing Lizzie Borden Live, at which time I also started to have these really strange dreams and waking up and seeing these figures outlined in glowing orange in my bedroom just days before the anniversary of the murders....

[Kat]

Wow Nadzieja- that's a sad and sorry tale!
Whew! I hope you feel better soon.

Caitlin, are you saying you are dreaming while driving at night? I'm a bit confused?

[Nadzieja]

I feel ok now. I just was so surprised by the news. The older I get the more I accept these things. If something is suppose to happen it's going to. For some reason I just wasn't suppose to know until this time. I don't know the reason but someday I might.

[Caitlin]

Oops sorry for the confusion Kat! The dreams occur when I lay down to sleep at night and now even if I lay down to take a nap. The lights going out while driving is a separate occurrence, the tie-in being that the lights have only been going out since I have been having the dreams.

[Kat]

Thank you both for your replies. I appreciate the feedback. I'm always full of questions.

[Tina-Kate]

Just a few minutes ago I went into the Sanctuary to do a few things & came back down the aisle with a little basket I use to hold name tags for Sunday.

They are putting in some new stained glass windows behind the altar & a guy had dropped by to have a look at the progress.

My 1st impulse was I wanted to put the basket on the guys head (You know me...weird sense of humor).

To my amazement, when I got within 3 feet of him, he held out his hand for the basket & said, "Here, I need that for my head."

I put it on him.

Not only am I weird, but so are the people whose minds I seem to read!

[Kat]

Wow TK!

[Kat]

I got a new one today. My friend and her sister and I went out to eat. We were talking about sewing projects, because my friend's sister is quitting smoking and I was trying to think of things to keep her occupied and distracted. She told me she likes to sew. So I asked her (out of the blue) if she was going to make Oven Mitts! Now why would I ask her that? I mean, who makes oven mitts?

Well, she actually answered Yes. So I asked her how long ago had she thought of doing that- "Like what was the last pattern you actually bought?" She said "Oven mitts: about 2 weeks ago."



It's Baa--aack...

[Nadzieja]

This is strange. My great-nephew was all excited because he was going to get this car & fix it up after his vacation. Well it's been a few weeks & I haven't heard from him, so I picked up my cell & texted him saying--Well Did you get the car yet. Within 30 seconds I got a text back saying--I'm getting it Right Now!! I texted back saying That's Karma. That was really strange because I hadn't planned it at all.

[Kat]

That's cool. It's ESP. You can develop it.
I get spaced out and get things- other times I am super-attuned to get things. Go figure!

[Nadzieja]

I thought that was something that you either had or didn't have. I didn't think it was something that you could develop. How would you develop something like this?

[Kat]

You can begin by trusting your instincts. Then pay attention and try to get validation whenever possible.
Meaning, check back and find out- ask the right question- to validate your instinct was correct.

Also, you can practice with guessing suits of playing cards, when you have some free time, and with remote viewing with another person. Have them draw a symbol on a piece of paper in another room and concentrate on it. Then you try to tune in to that person's thought picture. These things can help you progress.

[Kat]

I had a productive day yesterday- I guess I was *open*- I talked to quite a few people and maybe that opened things for me:

1. A young man mentioned to me he was going to join "the military." I popped out with "Planes."
He said he was going to join the Marines and I started to wonder, but then he said it was his wish to work on planes- maintenance on planes.

2. I met a man on the street corner downtown and we chatted for a moment. He said he was in town from Las Vegas. I said "You're an entertainer." He said he was a singer. I said "You sing Sinatra songs." He asked me how I knew. I just said he had an air about him of confidence like an entertainer.
(PS: I know people live in Las Vegas and are not entertainers. He could have been a gambler, any kind of worker.)
But I could see how this might not seem such a big guess on my part. I'm just throwing it in to show the tendency I had yesterday.
3. Later on I was talking to someone about the Wal-Mart near me. It was a place in my thoughts that day and I thought I would be going there the next day, maybe. Then last night on the news there had been a shooting there!

[Kat]

Well today I met someone that I was to work with for the day, and was giving her a ride. We talked about where we were from and she mentioned a big city in PA.
I responded that I too was from PA and named where I was born. Turns out she was born the same town as me, but explained that since no one ever heard of it, she just naturally names the closest large city.
So then we found out we were born in the same hospital in the same town!
30 years apart.
Riding in the same car together in the middle of Florida.

[Tina-Kate]

Those things are always so bizarre.

I have a friend who travels all over the world both for work & pleasure. Almost everywhere she goes, she meets someone who is connected to the small mining community up north here in Canada where she grew up. It's freakish.

[Kat]

There's been quite a few incidents lately, but no time to compile them here. I'll have to dig out my notes!

But...

A pretty big one came about last week, this a'way...

I was talking to a friend on the phone. They were invited over, with their friends, some of whom I do not know. I wasn't going to be there, so I said "Everyone is welcome. They can go anywhere in the house- just so no one steals anything."

As soon as I said it I apologized profusely. I had shocked myself in saying that, and possibly insulted my friend! I had no inkling why that came out of my mouth. Sometimes I say things and I don't know why.

The planned get-together did not happen, and within a day, something of mine disappeared at work! It was just gone, and it was a present from a co-worker. I asked around, but we had had a few strangers in applying for jobs so I figured it was stolen. It was a piece of sports memorabilia.

Meanwhile, I had hidden a toy of one of my bosses behind a plant, as a joke. They never asked about it or alluded to its being missing. These 2 things happened within a day of each other- I hid a toy, and then my thing was *stolen.*

This past Saturday at work, everyone was on break and the room was just about empty. I took the chance to un-hide the toy and return it to its place. I had felt bad abut it. Within 1 hour I found my missing souvenir! It was not stolen, but kept put away because no one knew who it belonged to.

Talk about a whole cycle of things related all happening within a week. It started with me blurting out that I hoped nothing would be *stolen*! It is very very odd and I cannot always know why I say things.

[stuartwsa]

This happened to me last week, and I still don't know quite what to think of it...
Last week I was shopping in the local supermarket, as is my daily custom. As I shopped I spotted a woman ahead of me that I have known (but not well) for many years. She is locally rather prominent, and is a friend of my mother's. I have not seen this woman in well over a year, and had heard several months ago that she was terminally ill with cancer and didn't have long to live.
I saw her twice from a distance in the market, but not to say hello to. She looked quite thin and coughed a couple of times, the kind of cough that indicates a problem in the lungs. I finished my shopping and went on my way.
The next night my mother got a call from a friend telling her that this lady had died that afternoon. She was in the care of Hospice.
I have been told by two different people that she couldn't have possibly been in the market the night before, because she was in such bad condition.
If she was not well enough to get out of bed, how could I see her in the market? If she was having some sort of out-of-body experience, why in the world would she be in the grocery store?
Any thoughts or ideas?

[Kat]

I was hoping to generate more stories by relating my most recent one...

There's different ways to view your experience, depending upon how much or how far one believes in the paranormal.

Some may think this lady, as she was dying, might have been experiencing a trip to the store in her mind or as an astral projection- someplace she felt was a mundane,safe, and secure memory- nonthreatening, to ease her mind of the chaos of death.

Actually our mother *saw* the reflection of her dying friend (and physician) in our dining room window standing behind her- not knowing he was in the hospital expiring of a massive trauma. Why would he *visit* her?

Maybe these are mind-to-mind ESP phenomena?
Your mind tapping into her memory as she opens to death?