I happened to stumble across your website while searching the internet for information related to the number 1111. For several years now, I regularly see or have experiences related to the number 11. When I look at the clock, it's 11:11 or 1:11. Street addresses, license plates, receipts, electronic time stamps, and so many more I could list.

I've been trying for years to rationalize this, to determine if it's coincidence or if it's a message. I am a scientist by nature and training. Although I've always believed in God and consider myself a spiritual person, it's very hard for me to accept things that are not based in science or math. That's why this is particularly difficult for me. I've tried to reason this out using probability, and come up with the same answer - the chance of this occurring with the frequency that it does is just not probable.

For example, over the last three weeks, I have seen the time 11:11, or 1:11 almost daily (but maybe I'm subconsciously conditioned to do this). I have also seen street addresses and phone numbers, etc. with these numbers, but this week some things have happened that are just amazing.

The first happened the other day when I was on my lunch break going to look at some investment property. As I left the office and got on the freeway, I noticed the big traffic information sign over the interstate that gives travel time updates, and it said "11 minutes to 610 at 11:11." I just smiled to myself. After looking over the investment property, I left to go back to the office. I only had a few minute left to get back, so I was looking for a quick place to stop and get something to eat. I had never been in this part of town before so, as I was making my way back to the interstate, I stopped at a neighborhood grocery store I happened to stumble upon. As I left the parking lot of the grocery store and pulled onto the adjacent street, I noticed two city trash cans out by the street with the number 1111 spray painted on them in big white letters. I hesitated in disbelief at the stop sign in front of the trash cans. As I looked up, I noticed a street sign. I was at the intersection of 11th Street and I was sitting in front of 1111 11th Street. In a city the size of Houston with millions of addresses, there's only one property with that number. I thought to myself, What are the chances?

All of this happened within less than an hour while I was on my lunch break. Like many times in the past, I wanted to call someone and tell them what had happened. But if someone told me that story, I would either think they were lying or they were crazy. I did however tell a friend the next day at lunch. What prompted me to tell him was: when the cashier rang up my order it came to $9.11. Not giving it any thought I gave her $20.11 and got $11.00 in change back. Getting $11 in change struck me first, but then I realized that $9.11, the cost of my lunch, added up to 11 (9+1+1).

As I mulled this over last night, I still couldn't make sense of it. What is it that I'm supposed to get from this? I no longer believe that it's just coincidence, but I still have no idea what the significance is. This now brings me to this morning and why I'm writing you. When I got into the office this morning, I had one email message. It was from my company's email system notifying me that I had exceeded my email account size. It was delivered by the system at 11:00 last night and it said that my current email folder size was 111161. To be honest, it didn't even surprise me, but I was immediately compelled to add up the numbers, and the result was 1+1+1+1+6+1 = 11.

That's when I got on the internet and searched "1111 coincidence." Your site came up so I decided to check it out. The first thing that opened was a note pertaining to an 1111 coincidence that happened on January 17 of this year. This coincidentally happens to be my birthday! So with that I was compelled to send this note, thinking maybe it would provide another piece to this interesting puzzle.

D. P. Morgan

Posted April 6, 2004