Strange Coincidences — Nobody Believes Me

Hi everyone, I'd like to share something that happened to me and my friend. What started as a harmless joke may have turned into something else entirely. I honestly don't know anymore. Have you ever seen Supernatural? Remember the episodes about the crossroads demon?The ones where people would make some kind of deal with him for ten years of a happy, successful life. Well, here's our story. Lucy and I were roommates in a cheap apartment, always hunting for side gigs. After we graduated, we bombed one job interview after another. And our love lives weren't much better. So one night — after a party, a fight with my boyfriend, and a few too many cocktails — one of us jokingly suggested we try summoning the crossroads demon. Obviously, we weren't serious. We drove out to a crossroads on the edge of town in the middle of the night, set up a few candles, and between fits of giggling, shouted something like, "Crossroads demon, we summon you!" Nothing happened. We didn't sign anything. We had a good laugh, got cold,and went home. We forgot all about it for a while. We only remembered about a year later, at Lucy's birthday party. Everyone was telling her what an incredible year she'd had. She'd landed a great job, met a wondetful guy, she was about to get married, and her career was really taking off. Then she pulled me aside and whispered, "What if that night actually worked?" I froze. Things had been going amazingly well for me too — I was in love and building my own business. But of course I brushed it off. "No one showed up that night," I told her. "We didn't sign anything." That was a little over nine years ago. And a month ago, Lucy was hit by a car. She's still in the hospital. She has everything — a husband and a son she adores, money, success. But she's lying there in critical condition, and she still hasn't woken up. We never signed any deal. We were just messing around. But our lives really did change after that night. We always told ourselves it was just a coincidence. But now… I'm terrified.

You know how in fairy tales they say witches always have a black cat? That cats can see supernatural things? I don't know about the supernatural stuff, but let me tell you about my cat. He's a ginger, no particular breed. The only quirk he really has is that he absolutely hates guests and always hides when someone comes over. He also loves catching toy mice and bringing them to us, but that's a whole other story :) Anyway, back to the guests thing. Over the past year, we started noticing he'd go hide about 20 minutes before guests even arrived. We were baffled — how does he know??? We figured we just had a super smart cat who somehow learned to understand our speech, or at least the word "guests." We were genuinely impressed! But here's where it gets weird. One time, a friend showed up completely unannounced — we hadn't discussed it at all. And yep, the cat had already hidden beforehand. The next time, we deliberately ran an experiment. We arranged a time with friends in advance but said absolutely nothing about it at home, and just watched the cat. Ten minutes before they arrived, he went behind the couch. How??? How does he know??? After that, I read a ton of stories about animals sensing earthquakes and other disasters before they happen. Now I get nervous every time the cat gets alert. One time he suddenly jumped up out of nowhere, completely tense. I'm thinking — what's happening? Is an earthquake coming? What did he sense??! Turns out he spotted a moth. So yeah, I try to stay calm about it now. But still, his ability is genuinely mind-blowing. Do your pets sense things before they happen?

I was 26, working in marketing. I didn't like my job, but I couldn't seem to change anything about my life. There was never any time — barely any days off, and I honestly can't even remember the last time I took a vacation. Then strange little things started happening, things I didn't pay much attention to at first. I think it started when a printer delivered the wrong order to my office — instead of the pizza parlor brochures I'd requested, I got a stack of hotel brochures for the Dominican Republic. I laughed it off: "Oh, my sister will want these — she and her friends are planning a trip there this fall." A little while later, someone randomly handed me a pocket calendar with the Dominican Republic on the cover. Then my favorite blogger posted about the Dominican Republic. And I thought: well, if I ever do take a vacation, at least I know where I'm going. Then my sister, while booking a flight to Punta Cana for herself, somehow entered my name instead of hers. She swears she typed her own. Maybe autofill kicked in somewhere, or maybe she just made a mistake — who knows. Either way, the ticket was in my name. And something clicked. I told her not to bother changing it, just buy herself another one. I paid her back for my ticket and went to my boss to say I needed time off — I just couldn't take it anymore. They didn't want to let me go, even threatened to fire me (though they never did). So I flew out with my sister, and we all checked into the same hotel. That very evening, I met the man who is now my husband. I'm convinced those were signs from fate, nudging me toward him so we could find each other. And I'm so grateful I followed them.

I'm 17. And I'm a medium or something like that. I can't predict anyone's future, I don't get prophetic dreams. But sometimes I have these sudden visions. In class, standing in line, or even just doing the dishes. They only last a couple of seconds. But the feeling that I was definitely somewhere else in that moment — not here — is so vivid. I even remember the smells. Usually it's nothing major. Like, I saw a new girl being brought into our class and introduced. And two days later it happened. Or when I was little, I had a vision of my sister on stage with some hot guy in front of a huge crowd, and I told her she was going to be a superstar. A few weeks later she went to a concert of her favourite band, and when she went up to give them flowers, one of the members hugged her and she actually danced with him on stage for like 10 seconds. I mean, she obviously didn't become a superstar, but it really did happen. And by the way, it doesn't always play out exactly like my vision. For example, once I saw a girl riding a bike on the other side of the street, crashing into something and flying onto the road, right under a car's wheels. Three days later, it almost happened exactly like that, except this time a guy caught her. Not like in a romcom — they both ended up on the ground — but at least not in the road. So I believe fate isn't set in stone, and even someone just passing by can change everything. Maybe I only see one possible version of the future. What really bugs me is that most of the time these visions are completely useless (like, great, I saw myself walking to school or having dinner with my family — so what?). But something like what question is going to come up on an exam, or like a winning lottery number — that's never happened. Not once.

I don't even know if this is worth posting — maybe I'm just losing it. Or something's wrong with my memory and I need to see a doctor. You know when you clearly remember putting something in one spot, but in the morning it's somewhere else? I'm sure we've all been there. And if it only happened once in a while, fine — you just blame it on being forgetful. But this happens to me every single morning. Every night I put my watch on the desk, my notebook on the nightstand, and so on. And in the morning I find one of them in a completely different spot. Now that I'm typing this out, maybe I should just buy a webcam and check the footage... or maybe I really do need that doctor.