Category Archives: objects
Rita and the Car
This painting, by Odilon Redon, is called Pandora’s Box. It fits this synchronicity. I discovered this artist through Gypsy’s blog, which is a visual feast. So one night I clicked on the artist’s name under one of her entries – … Continue reading
Tied Together
Here’s a short one about a couple of guys who couldn’t seem to keep track of their stuff. Instead, they…well, read it and see what they found in their hotel rooms.*** In 1953, television reporter Irv Kupcinet was in London … Continue reading
Message in a bottle
Jim Banholzer sent this synchronicity to us. It arrived by e-mail within seconds. Some messages take a lot longer, but eventually find their way. Jim’s previous synchronicities were anagrams and a big league omen.***Chunosuke Matsuyama, a Japanese seaman, was wrecked … Continue reading
Tree Trimming Mystery
Sometimes synchronicities can involve very mundane, everyday activities, such as the following one. One afternoon last week, I attempted to lop off about 20 feet of an avocado tree in my backyard. It had grown straight up about 35 feet … Continue reading
Dominoes
Here’s another story from Max Action, the guy now famous for the Magic Teapots story. Max also contributed Chicago Breakfast Bums, and The Little Prince. This synchronicity occurred a couple of weeks after the teapot incident. In the couple of … Continue reading
‘Sorry, I meant sari, not soiree!’
The dreaming mind sometimes plays word games. Here’s a good example of that from Stephanie Ryan, of Kintnersville, Pennsylvania. The dream was precognitive so the synchronicity came into the waking world three days later. *** I had a dream, one … Continue reading
Kimonos?
Objects – like Max’s two teapots – are often involved in synchronicities. But the following story, also from Mysteries of the Unexplained, defies any rational explanation.+++In Japan in 1657, there was a kimono that was successively owned by three teenage … Continue reading
The Magic Teapots
Max, an “urban explorer, has a website called action squad.org (listed under websites of interest), where he writes about his explorations of caves, tunnels, rooftops and basements – “spaces between, spaces forgotten, spaces forbidden.” And he says he loves crawl … Continue reading
Pearls
This one is from Nancy McMoneagle and illustrates how cluster or serial synchronicities work: Nancy recalls a period in her life when she kept finding pearls. Strings of pearls, a pearl bead, a bracelet of pearls. She would come upon … Continue reading
Island Bikes
When we were staying on Sugarloaf Key recently, one of our visitors from the far north (Minneapolis) road a bike around the island that we found in a storage room at the house. The bike was in good condition and … Continue reading