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Originally Posted by kirklancaster
I have always had a fascination with the paranormal and have always been a gambler, and some of the weirdest examples of 'synchronicity' - coincidence - have occurred during my punting on horses and dogs.
When I was younger, I had just finished reading; 'Morte d'Arthur' by Malory, where I learned that Uther Pendragon was Arthur's father. Later in the afternoon of the same day that I had finished reading the book, I called into the bookies for a few hours betting. it wasn't long before the betting for a Chase race at Chepstow opened and there at 33/1 was a horse called Uther Pendragon.
It was trained by Tim Forster, ridden by Graham Thorner, and it's form figures were dismal; Pulled Up, Pulled Up 0000 Fell, etc. but I couldn't ignore the coincidence and backed it each way. It won at 33/1 but never again won another race.
Another time, I was in the bookies and was reading in the Daily Mail, an item about members of the IRA being arrested just as the betting for a race was issuing from the tannoy. I read the words; 'fell swoop' at the identical seconds the betting commentator said 33/1 "Fell Swoop". Again the horse's form was dismal, but again, I couldn't ignore the coincidence and backed it each way. Again, it won at 33/1 but never again won another race.
There have been many other instances of this weird phenomena in my life - too many to list - but I wonder how many of you have had similar spooky experiences?
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...hmmmm....yeah, that is quite spooky in a way/strange coincidences....
..(my thoughts..)..are that, that sort of thing happens to most of us and quite a lot..?..because of your beliefs, you notice it maybe more than some other people would when it happens...I think for some people, these 'coincidences' just kind of go by and are often hardly noticed just because they're not 'looking for them'...kind of oblivious to them, you know...but they still happen and I think with gambling for instance and if it was horses, I know some people bet on 'form' but I think many also bet on 'instinct' and the type of things that you said...'oh, how strange there is a horse with this name and I was just reading/doing that..'..etc...but how many times was there not a horse connected to something they were doing etc...
..that thought made sense in my head but I'm not sure that it does now..
...but yeah, I just think that being attuned to these things, you will connect them because sometimes there will be connections there to make but sometimes there won't....