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    Default Nineteen and other coincidences...

    ...did you find yourself caught up in DT coincedences once you started reading the books? Nineteen started cropping up everywhere you went? You started to notice alot of places locally with Tower in the title? Or otherwise strange, yet related happenings?

    For instance, today is Fete Day in my village, theres loads of stalls selling food, books, crafts etc all up the high street, bands and the like - and for the past couple of years I've had some very bizarre DT/SK experiences at the 2nd hand book stall. The first time it was after reading Drawing of the Three and thinking that I ought to read the Richard Adams book Shardick. Someone also suggested reading Eyes of the Dragon, so I was on the lookout for both. Get to the stall and the first book I lay my eyes on is Shardick - pick it up to read the back cover and EotD was right underneath it!

    Today it happened again - I've been discussing Desperation and Regulators on the forum here, and what are the first two books I spot today?...Freaky!

    Has it happened to you?

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    Ya know, I haven't noticed that about DT but I will keep an eye out. Oddly enough however, I have noticed that the eye of Jupiter (BSG) is all over the place.....
    "See the TURTLE of enormous girth,
    On his shell he holds the earth.
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    for me, it seemed 19 was everywhere when i was reading books 5-7 and for a few months following but, not so much anymore.



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    Where is Patrick? He recently had an experience like this where Stephen King and Dark Tower references started popping up everywhere. Hopefully he'll share.
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    No, it hasn't. There are many things around me that make me remember Roland and his ka-tet and the things that happened to them but just because my fantasy and my mind can run far so easily..

    Roland would have understood.

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    I had some numbers weirdness not attached to 19 during the last run of books. I think the more we think about something, the more likely it is to happen to us.

    Also, I think the fox news satellite is reading my mind.
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    Today, i noticed for the first time a train that leaves from London Waterloo, heading for Rowlands Castle. It departed at 19:45, 1 + 9 + 4 + 5 = 19.
    It left from platform 8 and had 11 stops. 11 + 8 = 19. I found this rather funny!

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    Wow! That sounds just like it came out of one of the books heheh.

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    Sullivan: why the hell do you ever notice such things???

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    Quote Originally Posted by Erin View Post
    Where is Patrick? He recently had an experience like this where Stephen King and Dark Tower references started popping up everywhere. Hopefully he'll share.
    Oh yeah...

    About a month ago, I spent a day with prospective clients. Part of the day was a company tour. The guy they assigned to give the tour introduced himself: Steve King. There were too many people around to ask him if Steve was short for Steven or Stephen, but you get the idea.

    Later this group (sans Steve King) went to dinner. When we ordered, the guy sitting next to me (a regular there) ordered a salad that wasn't on the menu. I didn't hear what it was called, so I just said, "I'll have the same salad he ordered." Apparently he and his friends made up a salad one day and named it after the waiter who was serving them at the time. When the salads were served, the waiter said, "Roland salad." Yep, the waiter was named Roland.

    Oh, and the name of the restaurant they chose? Club 19.
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    my oldest son was born on 19.9.1999.

    oh, and i didn't realize this until many years later, but his first two initials are d.t.

    maerlyn's son has the initials d.t., as well, and the t stands for the same thing.
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    I did pass by Callahan, FL just as I was explaining Callahan's story to my girlfriend while driving.

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    Well, I have witnessed this now. Yesterday I was talking with a friend of mine (a reader but not an SK fan) about the beams and their guardians (I am trying to convert her heheh) when I parked the car in front of my bank. Sitting on a steel pole right in front of me at just about eye level was a plastic turtle.

    I immediately thought about this thread LOL.

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    NFA JJG 42-95

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    19 was common during my reading of Book VII. But it could be a self-made phenomenon.
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    I have had some spooky things happen to me while reading these books.

    1. I live in Chicago, the Sears Tower (Dark Tower) you can see it any where in the city, (its masive)

    2. I came across a mural by my house, It had a Charlie the choo choo looking train on it, a pink crystal ball, and an old westrn looking store on it, (in my mind it looked like Tooks store frome Wolves of the Calla.) I will take pictures of it and post them.

    3. The very day that I was introduced to Mia in the story, I met a girl named Mia, and we started dating a month later.

    pretty spooky I think.

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    Very spooky--I would love to see a pic of that mural SON
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    Me too!

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    "See the TURTLE of enormous girth,
    On his shell he holds the earth.
    If you want to run and play,
    Come along the BEAM today."

    NFA JJG 42-95

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    Will do, next time im by my parents.

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    Not so much coincidence or anything but I find myself looking for 19 in every single Stephen King book I read now, and un-suprisingly there a bloody loads lol. I also look for them in other authors, although ones I find there are conicidence I'm sure. Or are they.....?

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    Well, about the time that I had read the part in The Drak Tower where
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    Susan throws away Rolands gun
    , my house was broken into and the .45 replica of Rolands gun that I got from my grandfather was stolen. Besides being mad, it shocken me that the gun disappeared in two (places?times?)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tvmorbid View Post
    Not so much coincidence or anything but I find myself looking for 19 in every single Stephen King book I read now, and un-suprisingly there a bloody loads lol. I also look for them in other authors, although ones I find there are conicidence I'm sure. Or are they.....?
    In A Game of Thrones, there are 19 dragon skulls mounted on the wall in the Lannisters (?) castle.

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    My first name has 6 letters, my wife's has 7, our last name has 6.

    6+6+7=19

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    Between my first and last name, there are 17 letters. My father's name is also Fernando, so that makes me a Jr.

    19 Letters.

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    If anyone has ever watched to the show So You Think You Can Dance right through to the credits...at the very end there is a very large coincidence. I couldnt find an actually screenshot, but trust me when I say that both these logo's appear at the end of the credits at the same time:






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