I currently prefer when thinking of the possibilities of a situation, to start out with 'infinite possibilities' rather than the limited version of reality that we are typically 'expecting' to be real.. So with that in mind, I take the appearance of these 'odd stories' in our physical reality as a reflection of the willingness to open up to infinity. Regardless of the truth of the situation, I think that the statistical chances of so many synchronicities occurring by pure chance is very tiny indeed.