" You know how when you ’re piffling , your parents take you to a park where you make a friend and never see them again after that ? My hubby is that supporter I made all those old age ago . "

Recently, TikTok user Hindsight Travel (@hindsight_travel)askedpeople to share their strangest stories about what a small world we inhabit, and people responded all over TikTok and Twitter with some truly wild tales. Here are some of the best stories:

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A person and a cat appear in a video overlay. Text: Request for bizarre coincidences, like a "glitch in the matrix" story, seeking shared experiences

One day I was in the city and saw my doppelganger across the street. Where it got glitch in the matrix territory was that she was wearing the exact same dress I was and her hair was styled the same way

Turned down a spelunking date in 9th grade. 15 years later the rejected boy was my tour guide on an 8 hour spelunking tour. My husband and I were the only 2 that signed up

My mom had decided on my name (phoebe) before she gave birth and the nurses who helped deliver me were monica and rachel

you know how when you're little you make a friend at the park and never see them again after that? my husband is that friend I made all those years ago

vacationing in switzerland I asked a guy to take a photo of me and my girlfriends. turns out he and my friend went to kindergarten together and were childhood friends who hadn't seen each other in 18 years

My mom died when I was 8 and the exact day she died 3 years later I saw her doppelganger and she said I looked familiar

I was going through airport security and realized the lady in front of me was the author of the book in my bag. she signed it for me

the night I met my boyfriend we figured out we'd lived in two of the same childhood homes and had the same rooms. my family moved in right after he moved out each time

I traveled several states away went to a flea market and found a one of a kind post card of my grandparents house from 1911

In high school my great uncle passed away. a friend said hers had died too. turns out we were talking about the same funeral and found out we were cousins

my cousin found a single earring she had never seen before at her house. we found the perfect match in the sand on a beach we had never been to before

Tweet by Kim: Her car broke down on Kimberley Road. When she called for a tow, the person who answered was named Kimberley

I'm from America. I had a penpal from the UK. Went on a class trip to Spain and just randomly ran into her

My girlfriend and I were in the same tap dancing class 12 years before we met on hinge and performed together to the song "It's a small world"

One of my students moved halfway through her 8th grade year. I moved over the summer and she walked into my classroom for the first day of her 9th grade year

Summary of tweet: The author had a recurring nightmare about the same house. Later, they found a post on TikTok about it, and many others shared the same experience

2 weeks after my ex and I broke up I took a trip and ran into him with his whole family and a new girl within 15 minutes of getting out of the vehicle

Me and a classmate were born on the same day. We later found out our moms have the same birthday as well

I took a trip to Ireland and met a wonderful local couple at a pub. On a completely different trip I stopped for dinner in London and was sat right next to the same exact couple

In 2017 I travelled to Italy and had a great convo with a cab driver. In 2023, I got laid off and signed up to drive uber. My first customer was that cab driver from Italy

Lost my contact lens in my friend's pool one summer. the next summer after coming to the surface my friend found it stuck to my cheek

My childhood bestie Leslie moved and I was so sad. My family also moved a week later, unexpectedly across the street from Leslie

Comment recounts meeting a kid in an Ottawa museum at age 7, playing together, then meeting him again 2 years later at the same museum

Comment about using a walkie talkie in 4th grade, accidentally connecting with a crush who used her dad's walkie talkie on the same channel

Tweet by Kate Willett recounting a comedic moment when Stephen Jenkins unexpectedly confirmed his presence in the audience during a Third Eye Blind joke