We asked listeners to send us their best coincidence stories, and we got more than 1,300 submissions! There were so many good ones we decided to make a whole show about them. From a chance encounter at a bus station to a romantic dollar bill to a baffling apparition in a college shower stall.
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A bunch of teenagers go missing from a town in Long Island.
The quiet bureaucratic war that’s even targeting legal immigrants.
Stories about one person single-handedly taking charge of a situation gone wrong.
Stories about one person single-handedly taking charge of a situation gone wrong.
How a stolen library book got one man into his dream school and changed his life forever. Or at least that's the story he tells himself.
What happens when an astronaut who's not really into outer space goes to the moon.
Which is better: flight or invisibility?
Which is better: flight or invisibility?
A flute player steals a million dollars worth of dead birds.
Every crime scene hides a story.
Former kid magicians Ira Glass and David Kestenbaum dive back into the world of magic.
Three people grapple with the question, “Are we alone?”
Radical change comes to an Argentinian talk show.
Before Democrats slug it out with Republicans, they’re slugging out with each other.
Before Democrats slug it out with Republicans, they’re slugging out with each other.
A story about someone who's desperately trying – against long odds – to make it to the United States and become an American.
A story about someone who's desperately trying – against long odds – to make it to the United States and become an American.
People trying to learn something when no one is clear what the lesson is supposed to be.
A man in retirement tries to start over in a new life with a new venture: a cable channel, with lots of puppies.