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HobokenMike's avatar

My wife and I got married at City Hall in New York - 1/11/02. We had been looking for an apartment in the city and having a tough go of it -not a lot of money - subpar credit. We looked in Upper Manhattan, Brooklyn etc. Someone I worked with suggested Astoria, Queens. We looked and quickly by chance found a 1 bedroom for $1,000 a month (!). We moved in. About a month later we were lying in bed, and I said to my Wife “our zip code is 11102…same as our anniversary date”. We looked at each other and I remember we felt the weirdest feeling, like this was way past a coincidence. We have been married almost 21 years. I’m a pretty rational guy, but I always believed this was a sign….

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On October 1, 2012, my husband and I were watching Warehouse 13 on tv when the postman knocked on the door. It was a book for my husband, "The Emperor and the Saint," from the History book club, by Richard F. Cassady. I wanted to look at it, as we are both book fiends, and opened it at random to page 317, ch. 13, and saw a photo captioned "Steinerne Bruke," a photo of a bridge in Ratisbon, Germany. At that precise moment, the actress C.C. Pounder said on screen, "Bruke means bridge in German." Well, that got my attention!

It occurred to me then that the word "bridge" suggests "pontiff." Pope Benedict was German, so the "German Bridge" would refer to him. On a hunch, I went to Wikipedia to check out the bridge location and was surprised to learn that it was very near the birthplace of Benedict, he had taught university there, and owned a residence less than a kilometer away. I posted about the synchronicity on Facebook, and commented that since I had noticed that such synchronicities often were meaningful, I was going out on a limb and predicting news about the Pope in the near future.

In February, when Benedict announced his resignation, I mentioned the synchronicity to my husband and said perhaps this was the news I'd "predicted." He was all bah, humbug. I forgot about it again until March 13, when I remembered the "13" connection, and had an intuition that the new Pope would be chosen that day. Once again, my husband said bah, humbug, they're going to pick the new pope any day now anyhow, which I had to admit was true. I came home from work just in time to see that the new pope had been chosen, and had picked the name Francis I, after St. Francis of Assisi. It was only then I thought to go back and look at the book again, and realized that it was about Frederick II and St. Francis of Assisi! At the time, I had handed the book back to my husband and not even glanced at it again. Anyway, he was slightly impressed by this.

I wrote a letter about this series of coincidences to Fortean Times Magazine and they printed it. It was only after that I thought to open the book again and read all of page 317: it discusses the murals in the cathedral at Ratisbon, which show Christ in Glory surrounded by the chosen people of the Great Tribulation. The facing page shows a stone throne, yes, a stone throne (stone=rock= St. Peter) which is, of course, empty. Make of it what you will. I wrote Fortean Times another letter about that but they didn't print it. I probably need to read the whole book this winter now after ten whole years, but I'm almost afraid to.

Oh, during the pandemic in the summer of 2020, I had time on my hands and looked up the episode of Warehouse 13, which I hadn't even bothered to pay attention to either. My husband was the one watching it. I kid you not, it was about a blue flower from China that emits a poison vapor that threatens to carry an epidemic around the world. And invisible nooses that strangle people.

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