Home movie shows couple crossed paths, 2 decades before meeting
When Jourdan Barovick and Ryan Spencer met on a blind date in 2004, they assumed that was the first time they had laid eyes on each other.
But the couple, now married with three kids in New Jersey, recently discovered while watching home movies together that they actually crossed paths 16 years before as youngsters.
According to NJ.com, the couple was shocked to see their younger selves in July 1988 at the Sesame Place amusement park in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. Ten-year-old Jourdan was on a water slide when Ryan, then a 13-year-old with glasses, walked by.
"We did a complete double-take," Jourdan Spencer told NJ.com. "We paused, we rewound, we paused, we rewound, over and over again. We told everyone we knew."
But the tape went missing and the couple worried they would never have proof of the amazing near-encounter to show family friends. Luckily it resurfaced at a family birthday party this month, NJ.com reported.
The couple got married in 2007 and have three children. Jourdan Spencer told NJ.com that their 6-year-old daughter Sophie was especially blown away by the video.
"Sophie just keeps saying, 'How did Daddy know you were there?'" she said.