Tuesday, May 31

A Very Strange Ghostly Happening

Lake Temiskaming
Lake Temiskaming
Mr William J McMillan tells of a strange thing that is alleged to have happened when he was working in the Klock Lumber Company's camp in the Quinze River district.

"Our camp known as the Douglas Farm was situated at Lake Expanse, about 53 miles in from Lake Temiskaming. It was an extremely isolated section of the north country, with only one other camp within miles of us. That was what was known as McLachlin's Ni**er Point Farm, at the mouth of the Lonely river.

"Well, one evening after supper, as was our usual custom, we all set out to feed our horses and bed them down for the night. One of the teamsters who was attending to this duty was Walter Mitchell, who, I think hailed from some little village in Glengarry county. The rest of us had finished our jobs and were just getting settled down in the bunk house for a gab feast before turning in for the night, when the door burst open and in rushed Mitchell, looking as white as a ghost and trembling from head to foot.

"When he had partially regained his composure he told us a story to the effect that while he was on his way to the granary he saw a figure approaching at a rapid rate of speed. When the figure drew even with him he saw that it was his mother. She passed by him without uttering a word and faded into the darkness. For a moment he was too dumfounded to do anything but stare after the receding apparition. Then he rushed back to the shanty to relate the strange story.

"But the strangest part of it all was that three days later, Mitchell received a telegram notifying him that his mother had died at precisely the same time as he claimed to have seen her appear on the path beside him."

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Monday, May 30

A Not Too Serious Strange Happening

UFO size of pe dish

On a Monday evening in March of 1945, at about 8 o'clock, Mr and Mrs Julius Kerkow of St Lawrence saw a strange sight.

When Mrs. Kerkow looked out of the widow she saw a peculiar light. It looked about the size of a pie plate from where she stood and was about the colour of the moon.

It came to earth at a slant and at a rapid rate and landed in a field where there were several inches of snow.

When the couple went to investigate they found a bare patch of ground about one foot wide and four feet long. The edge of the snow was as clear cut as if a knife had been used.

Nothing further was found.

Source: Lafayette Ledger Mar 2 1945

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Saturday, May 28

Josephine Baker, The Black Pearl Coincidence

Josephne Baker

I must admit that I didn't know much about Josephine Baker (1906-1975) but I had read that Ernest Hemingway said she was, "The most sensational woman anybody ever saw." I then, by chance, came across a review from 1981 of a biography of Ms Baker by Lynn Haney - and this in turn led to a coincidence story.

First though, Josephine Baker was an American born French dancer, jazz and pop music singer and actress. She became known as the Black Pearl, Bronze Venus and Jazz Cleopatra. There is much more to her though, which I won't go into here, other than to say she was supposedly the richest black woman in the world and the biggest American star to hit Paris, France.

Anyway, the coincidence:

When Lynn Haney was researching her subject she rented a motorbike and went villa-hopping in order to find people who had lived near Miss Baker when she had Les Milandes, a 15th century chateau in France's Dordogne Valley.

However, she found out more, much nearer home. One of her strangest meetings happened at Nathan's Famous, Brooklyn, New York City. Miss Haney was there having a bite to eat when she noticed an older black man reading some old Broadway handbills. She explained:

"It turned out he had been on the old black vaudeville circuit at one time. I asked him if he had ever run into Josephine Baker. He looked at me and smiled and said, 'Why, I was her manager.'

I don't believe in the occult but that was the most remarkable coincidence. And, of course he gave me lots of stories about her."

That's it! But isn't life strange, how things turn out, I had no idea what to write about today when by 'chance' I came across the story of Josephine Baker and this led me to the coincidence that Lynn Haney was talking about. Funny old world.

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Friday, May 27

She Saw Her Neighbour After She Had Died

Smiling old lady

A short story from my cuttings of how a lady claims to have seen her neighbour - after she had died.

"I once saw a dear neighbour - a lovely, elderly lady, who had been very ill - standing at the edge of the pavement outside her flat and looking towards my house with a big smile on her face.

I remember thinking how well she looked and smiled because it seemed she was now better.

I didn't pull back the curtain to wave because I had just got up and was wearing a tatty nightie and my hair was a mess!

How I wish I had because a few days later her daughter told me that her mother had never recovered from her illness and had died in hospital before the time I saw her.

But I did see her - and I can still see her now. I can't explain it."

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Thursday, May 26

General U.S Grant And The Pumpkin Pie Coincidence

A light and fluffy story today, which I saw in a 1938 copy of a St Petersburg Times newspaper:

GRANT'S PIE ORDER

Lieutenant Wickfield, Union Army Officer, one day in the early part of the Civil War, stopped with a group of friends at a Missouri farmhouse for refreshments.

To impress the housewife, he represented his party as General U.S Grant and Staff. The men virtually stripped the farmhouse of victuals. Only a delicious pumpkin pie remained; the men were too full to eat it.

By coincidence, Grant himself the same day stopped at the same farmhouse - and found the cupboard bare, except for the pie. The housewife told the story of Wickfield's visit, so Grant set out after him.

With the Army at attention Grant read the following order:

"Lieutenant Wickfield, having on this day eaten everything in Mrs. Selvidge's house, except one pumpkin pie, is hereby ordered to return with an escort of 100 cavalry and eat that pie also."

The order was carried out.

AND SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT -

I also saw this in the same newspaper:

"It is a scientific fact that gravitational pull on the earth varies at different latitudes. Accordingly, the pendulum of a cuckoo clock set to run on time at one latitude would swing faster or slower in another, depending on the gravitational variation."

If the gravitation effects clocks, wonder what difference it makes to us humans at different latitudes?

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Wednesday, May 25

A Minute Either Way And This Coincidence Would Never Have Happened

Ryanair plane taking off

It's strange how sometimes we meet up with someone from the past as if it was destined to be. Who knows the reason: closure perhaps or to reignite the friendship? Here's such an event, a coincidence if you like, that brought two people together for a brief meeting. The story is by Cecil Webb.

I met my future wife, Doreen, at Heathrow airport when she was flying with Hunting-Clan Airlines.

I had a great (female) friend who worked for another airline, but when I met Doreen our friendship faded as we found other interests,

I left Heathrow and, after Doreen and I married, I was working at Gatwick airport and Doreen was in the crew rostering office of British United Airways that was formed after Freddie Laker drew various independent airlines together, including HCA.

During the late Sixties I had to travel to Heathrow for a meeting. I stopped at a roundabout to give way to another vehicle and the driver and I looked at each other in astonishment.

It was my old friend from Heathrow and, what was more, we were driving similar vehicles. I followed her into a lay-by and we both got out and, after a friendly hug, we exchanged updates of the past ten years during which we had both married.

I was running late for the meeting and she was rushing to the airport to meet her husband coming off a shift. We said a brief farewell and never thought of exchanging phone numbers or addresses.

If I had arrived at that roundabout a minute earlier, or a minute later our paths would never have crossed.

~ Cecil Webb

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Tuesday, May 24

The Fisherman's Coincidence Of All Coincidences

Fishing boat with colourful floats

Here's a mighty strange coincidence in a story from John Henderson, It all begins on a deep-sea fishing boat as it pulled away from the docks at Calabash, N.C. In his own words:

My two brothers and myself were on the boat when another boat came by, and the gentleman next to me remarked, "That sure is a coincidence." The name of the boat was 'Three Brothers'.

The gentleman, pointing to other gentleman with him said, "We're three brothers."

I said, yes, and pointing to my two brothers with me, explained that we were three brothers too.

I introduced him to my older brother, Bill, and he introduced us to his older brother, Bill.

Then I said my youngest brother's name, Bob and he said his younger brother was Bob.

I said I was the middle brother and he said, "Don't tell me. Your name is John." He was the middle brother and his name was John too.

We got talking about our families, and it came out that the wife of John in that family had suffered a stroke. Well, my wife has suffered a stroke. It's almost too much to believe, but honestly, it's a true story. It has to be the coincidence of all coincidences.

~ John Henderson

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Monday, May 23

A Curious Coincidence About The Warning Of World War 2

Soldiers of the German Wehrmacht at the border
crossing between Poland and the Free City of Danzig, 1 September 1939
Here's a letter I came across that was sent to The Glasgow Herald on July 17, 1939. It is headed "A Curious Coincidence". (As a side note World War 2 began on the 1st of September 1939.) Here's the letter:

Sirs, It is a well known fact that history has a habit of repeating itself. and curious coincidences do occur. I write to draw attention to the fact that on July 20 to 27 1914, the British Medical Association met in Aberdeen. Before the meetings were over doctors were called away for military service in the Great War [World War 1].

Within a week's time the British Medical Association again meets in Aberdeen - the first since 1914. Does this interesting coincidence presage an approaching Armageddon?

The European situation today is far more dangerous for us than in July 1914. The existence of the British Empire is at stake. Within weeks we could be in a life-and -death struggle with Germany, and no mercy will ever be shown us this time. If the dragon's teeth get a grip of this country, those patriotic men and women who say they cannot give time for National Service, as it interferes with their golf, tennis etc. will sing a different tune, it they sing at all.

Many will regret that Mr Churchill's warning went unheeded for years, that conscription was not introduced last September, and that the Minister of Propaganda, to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, was not in being a year ago instead of at the last minute when it seems all too late.

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Saturday, May 21

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Remarkable Coincidence

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

A quite remarkable coincidence story from my cuttings. This one is from Mr V.L Coombes of Devon, England and features his brother.

My brother Murray was in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and fought right through the North African campaign. Subsequently his unit was sent to join the fighting in Italy.

He was riding in a convoy to Monte Cassino when a couple of enemy planes strafed the lorries. Murray threw himself into a ditch at the side of the road.

However, it was already occupied by a soldier lying face down in the mud. When the bullets stopped whizzing overhead, the original resident turned around and said, "Hello Mur, nice of you to drop in!"

Despite the muddy face, Murray recognised him as the lad who, years before when children, had spent years sitting beside him in a double desk in our small school and whom he had not seen since the day they left.

Now, there's a coincidence!

~ Mr V.L Coombes

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Thursday, May 19

My Mallorca Holiday Coincidences

Mallorca

I have been away for just over two weeks in Mallorca - with no Internet and, yes, it is possible to live without it! Usually when I travel there are a few coincidences, or synchronicity moments but I struggled to notice many this time. There were a few like ...

While reading a soul chilling thriller [well, that's what the cover stated] a new person was introduced to the story and she worked for an estate /property company called Perry-Hayes - my surname being Perry and Hayes being the town where I lived as a child and teenager until I left home. I was a slightly impressed by this 'coincidence'. I then notice that the name first appeared on page 169, so 168 and 169 were open when I read this.

1+6+8=15 and 1+5 = 6
1+6+9=16 and 1+6 = 7

So I have my 'magic number' as in the title of this blog i.e. 67.

Perry-Hayes

The book, by the way was The Stolen Ones by Richard Montanari.

One day while away it started to rain first thing, so after breakfast we waited for the rain to stop. It lasted about 90 minutes. I was thinking of numbers again - see what 'useful' things you can do without the Internet! Anyway, I noticed our room number, 405 added up to 9 and that the name of our hotel also had 9 letters.

We arrived at our hotel on 4/5/2016 - 4+5+2+0+1+6 = 18 and 1+8 =9

So 9's seemed to the number for our holiday. "Ah, but what about the book where I read Perry-Hayes," I wondered. I looked at the ISBN number: 978-0-7515-4928-7 ... added the numbers and they total 72 and 7+2 =9.

I won't bore you with any more examples ... there's probably nothing too significant about any of this but it kept me amused for a little while.

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Sunday, May 1

Most Viewed Blog Posts

Top 10 Posts

The following are the most viewed posts on 67 Not Out. Though the blog was started as a vehicle for coincidence and synchronicity experiences it got a little sidetracked. I still can't work out what will be viewed a lot and what won't. At times there is no logic to it. Anyway, here's the list.

1. Married Couple In The Same Photo As Children - 1283743 views
Young newly weds Alex and Donna Voutsinas were looking through some of Donna's old photos from when she was a child and came across one of her at Disney World. Nothing too unusual about this, you may say. Donna is at the front of the photo ... View post

2 Photo Taken Of Father Showed His Missing Daughter - 300654 views
Michael Dick hadn't seen his daughter, Lisa, for over 10 years. This was since he had seperated from his first wife. Determined to make contact with her again Michael travelled to Sudbury, where she was last known to be living, together with his ... View Post

3 The White Dove As A Messenger Of The Dead - 98333 views
One day I came home from work and a white dove was perched on the steps that lead up to the front door of my house. No doves or birds of any kind were ever previously on my steps. This white dove would not ... View Post

4 The Concentration Camp Romantic Coincidence - 84337 views
For the romantics out there - I'm sure there must be a few - this is coincidence story which is also doubles up as a love story. It goes back to 1944. A young man ... View Post

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5 The Red Balloon Coincidence - 77662 views
It seemed the obvious thing to do for a 10 year old. Laura Buxton was at her grandparent's golden wedding anniversary and there was a helium filled balloon going spare. So she wrote on a label her address with the message 'Please return to ... View Post

6 Ghostly Rye: The Most Haunted Town In England - 63549 views
One of the most atmospheric and ghostly places I have visited is the town of Rye on England's south coast. Some claim it is the most haunted place in the UK and on a visit it's possible to see why this is ... View Post

7 The Meaning Of White Feathers As Messages From The Dead - 63152 views
I'm returning to the subject of white feathers today and their meaning. Since first writing about this I think I've had more emails on the subject than anything else. By white feathers I mean how they can often be found following a loved ones death ... View Post

8 The Unusual Contact With Her Dead Mother - 55321 views
I was almost relieved to read your blog posts about white feathers and how they helped you when members of your family died. I was beginning to think my own experience was all in my imagination. In my case it wasn't white feathers but ... View Post

9 The 1939 Boy Using A Mobile Phone - 51991 Views
Surely not. The small boy in the left foreground of the photo looks like he's on a mobile phone! How come he looks a bit different to the other spectators, with their hats and coats, in this 1939 picture of a football (soccer) ... View Post

10 The Ghost Who Chased A Thief - 48024 views
I know you sometimes ask for coincidence stories but after reading your post on Anne Diamond's Ghostly Experience I wondered if this experience of ghostly happenings would be of interest. A few years back, before I lived with my partner, I was living at ... View Post

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