Strange Coincidences. 2025_Literally

To many, this might seem like the creations of a very creative or troubled mind. But I assure you, the reason I began writing this is because something very otherworldly is happening to me—and it has been for a decade.

Yesterday, April 3rd 2025, I changed the name of the MC in my book ‘Last Train to Anywhere’ from Raul to Christian. Today, after beginning to write my new book called ‘Waste of Space’—which has a similar plot to the Talented’s Mr. Ripley—I decided to read Riply for the first time. And to my surprise, on the first page? The name Raoul (a bar). Close but spooky.
But that’s not the weird part. I have never read The Talented Mr. Ripley but the plot of my new book felt like it must have been done before. So I asked an AI for clarification and learned it had been—Ripley (similar but not the same). This morning before I read Ripley, I wrote chapter 2 of ‘Waste of Space’ and switched Chapter 2 and Chapter 1 as 2 was better as a hook for an opening chapter. So what? Unlike the original chapter 1, which starts in an apartment, this chapter starts in a bar! 

Where does The Talented Mr. Ripley start? In a bar.
Okay, so nothing major, books start in bars all the time. But in Riply, he looks for friend in Raoul’s bar, and the first thing he sees is his the man’s red hair. And what happens in my book when he first walks into the bar? He sees his friend’s distinctive hair.

Weird? No?

I have never read the book. Never seen the film. Never heard anyone talk about the book. Added to the many other odd coincidences that happen to me, this it just too creepy.