Coincidence Shows Links In Unknown Ways

Some coincidences make you wonder what the significance is. The following coincidence story is from Mr E.Williams of England. It's short but really quite remarkable. Perhaps it illustrates how we are all linked together in unknown ways.

I've had a strange coincidence.

I often said hello to a woman about fifteen years younger than me, who'd buy her newspaper at the same time.

When I didn't see her for months, I feared the worst.

However, she did reappear and told me she'd been nursing her sister at home in Parr Flats, a district of St Helens.

"Do you know it?" she asked.

"Of course I do. I was born in Parr," I replied.

"So was I! In Newton Road."

"So was I - number 179."

"Me too!"

What a small world.

Click on the 'Coincidence and Synchronicity' tag/label below for lots more coincidence examples.

They Meet Up Again After 67 Years

Here's a coincidence style story I found on the Official Google Blog. I wasn't particularly looking for it but had entered '67' into UK Google News, as a search, and this is what it came up with.

In this story two people meet up again after 67 years.

I won't relate the whole story as you can read this on the Google Blog. I'll just give a quick synopsis.

The story features a WWII B-24 bomber pilot who was shot down over Holland. For five months he evaded capture by staying in a 'safe house'.

In the attic of the house was also a Jewish family who had lived, or rather existed, in there for two years. One of the family was the eight year old daughter, Helen.

Helen and her family were eventually captured by the secret German police and spent the rest of the war in a concentration camp. As for the pilot he was also caught and was sent to Stalag Luft III Prisoner of War camp.

The pilot's son James Keeffe, III has now written a book about his father, also called James Keefe. Two Gold Coins and a Prayer: The Epic Journey of a World War II Bomber Pilot and POW was featured on Google Books and out of the blue an email was received saying:

"..... I am the little girl from the Cohen family who was hidden together with Jim at the Jappe-Alberts family. I was 8 years old ...."

The full email, and also photos, are on the Google Blog but below is a short video of Helen and James (Jim) being reunited after 67 Years.

The Coincidences Of Colin Wilson

The coincidences today are from the author Colin Wilson. His classic books include: The Occult: For Those Who Would Walk with the Gods, Mysteries, and Beyond the Occult.

"I was reading Hawkin's Stonehenge Decoded, the last section on the standing stones of Callanish, which Hawkins describes as a kind of Stone Age computer.

I finished the book and immediately picked up Bell's Mathematics, Queen of the Sciences. It opened at Chapter 6, and I found myself looking at a footnote on Stone Age mathematics.

The chances against coming across it immediately after the piece on Callanish were probably a million to one.

Again, last night I was reading an account of the Domenech murder case at Moher, in Galway, and noted that the victim had been at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where I had lectured recently. Ten minutes later I opened Wanda Orynski's abstracts of Hegel, and saw that the introduction is by Kurt Leidecker at Mary Washington College.

There are nothing startling about these coincidences except the odds against them."

Is This 13th Century Cottage Haunted With Orbs

I don't profess to know much about orbs but when I was going through my photos for yesterday's post I noticed the picture above. This is from the time my wife and I had a holiday in an old 13th century cottage in Rye, England. It was quite a spooky place, as was the town itself.

The wooden trap door, you can see part of in the ceiling, (top left of pic) was the only way to get coffins and large items from the bedrooms above. The stairs were much too steep and narrow. And, as can be seen from the photo at the bottom of this post, the cottage was opposite the church and graveyard - very creepy when it got dark in the late evenings.

Anyway, what I spotted I have marked on the photo below.

There is the white streak, which I have put a box round, as well as lots of orbs - a few of which I have indicated.


I don't know what these are, all I can promise is that the photo hasn't been doctored (other than the red marks) in any way. It's exactly what my camera captured.


Below are two cropped sections, showing the orbs - or whatever they are - in more close up. If interested you should be able to click on any of the photos to get larger versions and click again to make them bigger still.


The white streak which the red box is around is different to the orbs, I have no answer for sure as to what it may be.


I realise that many will simply right all of this off as dirt or damp on the camera lens, or something similar. But others give these orbs a spiritual significance. What I can say is that the photo I took after this one doesn't have any orbs, blobs or other marks. Most odd, to say the least.


See also yesterday's post and Ghostly Rye: The Most Haunted Town In England.

The Mermaid Inn Ghosts And The House Opposite In Rye

When it comes to giving your house a name it's not always easy to come up with something appropriate. This 15th century cottage in Rye decided it should simply be known as The House Opposite. This must surely confuse any new postman or delivery service - opposite what? they may wonder as they look at the address on the envelope.


The buildings of Rye are all very old including the pub on the corner in the photo below. The landlord of the Mermaid Inn - which has parts dating back to the 1100s - came downstairs one morning and discovered a couple of guests sleeping on the couches instead of in their room.

The landlord asked them what they were doing and the guests explained they had seen people 'walk through their bedroom walls.' They refused to go upstairs again.

A previous landlord claims that two ghostly figures appeared, drew their rapiers and started to fight. The landlord watched until the victor ran his sword through his opponent's chest and then removed a floorboard and disposed of the dead man's body.

There are many other such ghost stories.


The streets at the centre of the town are still cobbled ...


... and the very old traditional cottages and buildings take visitors back to another time frame. Who needs a time machine when you have imagination?


Rye is in East Sussex, England on the south coast. It's full of ghosts from another era! See Ghostly Rye: The Most Haunted Town In England.

Pegasus Found On The Beach

I caught Pegasus resting on the beach and was able to snap him with my camera before he took flight or sank beneath the waves.

One Good Tourniquet Deserves Another Coincidence

A classic coincidence story today from the 1930s.

A captain of the El Paso County Highway Patrol was in pursuit of a speeding truck in - well, El Paso County. The captain's name was Allan Falby.

Unfortunately for Falby the truck he was chasing slowed down, to go round a corner, and his own vehicle rammed into it at full speed.

The nasty collision ruptured an artery in his leg. As luck would have it a bystander, Alfred Smith, knew what to do. He rushed over and applied a tourniquet to stop the blood flow. An ambulance arrived in time to save Falby's leg. The paramedic said that, without Smith's prompt action, Captain Falby would have almost certainly died.

Falby recovered and after a few months was able to return to his police job.

Moving forward five years, Falby was working the night patrol and received a message that he had to assist an accident on US80, where a car had crashed into a tree. The passenger was in a critical condition.

Falby got to the accident scene before the ambulance. He found an unconscious man in the vehicle who had severed an artery in his right leg and was bleeding to death. Falby immediately applied a tourniquet and stopped the bleeding. Looking more closely at the victim he realised that it was none other than Alfred Smith, the man who had saved his own life.

Falby later joked, "It all goes to prove that one good tourniquet deserves another."