On this publish, I wished to do one thing a little bit bit totally different and share some actually unusual, serendipitous, spooky feeling coincidences which have occurred to us whereas we’ve been touring and dwelling overseas.
Not solely had been they tremendous unusual and virtually too unlikely to be coincidences, however in addition they made us really feel hyperlink the universe was exhibiting us that we had been on the suitable path.
Despite the fact that I’ve a scientific and analytical thoughts, and have a tendency to choose proof for every thing, I can’t assist however really feel like typically there’s a larger energy guiding us within the universe and it feels prefer it’s simply as much as us to learn the indicators.
If we miss them, we miss that path in life, but when we acknowledge them, they usually result in one thing superb.
5 Spooky Coincidences We’ve Skilled On The Street
Earlier than I lose all of the non-believers, let’s get into the article. Listed here are 5 loopy, spooky, bizarre synchronicities which have occurred to us whereas we’ve been touring and dwelling overseas for the previous 15 years.
1. The Spooky Alarm Clock
This one nonetheless provides me chills to at the present time and once we inform our associates about it, we regularly get the sensation that they don’t truly imagine us. However I guarantee you, this one is completely true.
So we had been touring in Malaysia on the time backpacking round and up till that time, we had been utilizing our little Nokia telephone as an alarm clock.
We virtually by no means took flights on this primary journey as a result of we most well-liked to journey by land, however on this explicit day, we had a flight out of KL the following morning early. We wanted an alarm clock!
The morning earlier than the flight we set a aim for ourselves to go discover an alarm clock earlier than the top of the day so we’d be capable to get up on time for our flight.
Properly, because the day went on, we had been having plenty of enjoyable and we fully forgot concerning the alarm clock.
We completed dinner, and we had been strolling house down a darkish alley at about 9 pm once we stopped on the similar time and mentioned “SHIT! We forgot to seek out an alarm clock.”
I’m not kidding. Simply then, we heard ringing from a rubbish bag on this darkish alley. We checked out one another like What the fuck…
I nonetheless get chills telling this story
We walked over to the rubbish bag, peeled it open, and there inside was a crimson alarm clock ringing.
I do know. That’s bizarre. But it surely will get weirder. As a result of we had no different alternative however to get woken up, we took the trash clock again house, set it subsequent to our mattress, and set the alarm to wake us up within the morning.
The alarm went off proper on time, we obtained prepared and had been about to depart the home and I grabbed the alarm clock off the top desk and it had already stopped working. Actually simply 20 minutes after it did its job of waking us up, it shut off. By no means to work once more.
For me, this was probably the most blatant case of the universe telling us both we had been in the suitable place on the proper time, or we completely wanted to get on that flight to be able to maintain following our path.
Creepy sure. A coincidence? I don’t know…
2. Krishna Das
That is one other actually bizarre one and given the percentages on this, I feel that you just’ll agree it’s a bit too spooky to be a coincidence.
Again in 2012, we had been touring in India for round 3 months. You recognize… the nation with 1.4 billion folks.
Throughout that point, we had been listening to this one singer referred to as Krishna Da. We had by no means seen what he regarded like, however we cherished his music. It’s actually calming and nonetheless once we hear it, it brings us proper again to India… the calm elements of India.
Anyway, whereas touring within the nation we determined to do what many younger, misplaced, backpackers do whereas touring in India, we visited an ashram. Our Ashram was in Rishikesh and it was lovely.
Throughout our go to, we went all in. We solely ate the ashram meals, we did 4 hours of yoga per day, 2 hours of meditation, silence, the entire deal.
Properly I can’t lie, there was a morning mantra at 5 am each morning and we might or might not have solely gone to that when. However aside from that… we had been full-on.
After about 3 weeks within the Ashram, one of many leaders of our meditation group talked about that there can be a band coming to play some music on the Ashram.
“Cool”, we thought. “We’ll go test it out.”
A few days later, one of many rooms within the ashram is all arrange for the efficiency, and guess who it was… Krishna Das.
Seems he’s truly a white dude from New York singing among the hottest Indian Kirtan music within the nation, however what makes this even weirder is the percentages of him being at our Ashram.
In India, apparently, there are round 23,000 musicians with report offers. We solely listened to one in all them, on repeat, for our total journey by India. Not solely that however there are additionally practically 13,000 ashrams within the nation.
On prime of that, in keeping with his calendar historical past of exhibits, his busiest yr of performances was in 2010, however even then he solely managed to do 11 exhibits that yr.
The truth that we had been at that Ashram (one in all 13,000), at the moment, to see that present, by that musician out of 23,000 within the nation who solely manages 11 exhibits max in a yr… simply blows me away.
Unusually sufficient, just a few years earlier than we met him, our New Yorker Indian Rock Begin was convicted of Cash Laundering and was sentenced to 2 years of parole and 6 months of home arrest.
Then the yr after we noticed his live performance he was Nominated for a Grammy Award for the perfect New Age Album. Once we noticed him, he was a reasonably unknown artist so far as we knew.
3. Narrowly Lacking a Huge Earth Quake in Indonesia
This one is difficult for me to inform as a result of this explicit earthquake was the second in a collection of earthquakes and aftershocks that ended up taking the lives of 81 folks, injuring over 1,200, and displacing practically 1 / 4 million extra.
It was little question a tragedy, so this story will not be a celebration of us lacking the earthquake, however only a unusual coincidence that seemingly saved us from a really tough and scary scenario, one which we, coming from a low-earthquake-prone space in Canada, would have been ill-equipped to cope with.
That is the way it went down.
We had been touring round Indonesia again in 2009 and had been alleged to take an extended bus experience to Jogjakarta from the small city we had been in. There was just one bus per day and it left early within the morning.
Do not forget that story I instructed you concerning the alarm clock waking us up simply in time to catch our flight, after which by no means working once more?
This story is type of the alternative. We had changed our little Nokia telephone as our alarm clock by this time and for some cause, that we nonetheless don’t know to at the present time, it didn’t go off and we missed our bus.
That bus would’ve taken us to the middle of the 6.2 earthquake that rocked Yogyakarta at a little bit previous midday that day. As a result of we missed our bus, we had been far sufficient away to solely really feel slight tremors.
This occasion is a coincidence, nevertheless it all the time surprises me what number of of those tales there are. We’re positively not the primary folks to narrowly escape a catastrophe by lacking a bus, flight, or experience someplace.
These tales are so frequent that their frequency is spooky in itself.
4. The Remaining Chat With My Grandpa
This story is type of the alternative of narrowly lacking a catastrophe due to a missed flight. On this case, our missed flight granted me the chance to say goodbye to my dying grandpa.
We had been touring in Africa on the time and we had a large flight to get to Nepal, the place we had been set to begin the Annapurna Trek the very subsequent day. A ten-day trek within the Himalayan Mountains which on the time, meant full disconnection from wifi and the surface world.
As we had been boarding the primary lag of our flight, I seen that I used to be lacking my Yellow Fever Vaccine card. On the time, it was a requirement to enter South Africa so I used to be terrified that they weren’t going to let me board the flight in Dar Es Salam Tanzania.
As we slowly made our means up the cue on the airport, I used to be sweating bullets. On the time, we had been funds backpackers and all I stored considering was that there isn’t any means we may afford to overlook this flight.
Fortunately, as we neared the guard, he was a type of border police guys who actually didn’t care a lot about his job, so he simply stamped me and let me move. We had been elated.
Generally, it’s the departing airport that may examine these items and while you arrive, you’re house free.
Once we landed in South Africa, we walked as much as the desk to take our connecting flight and fortuitously she once more didn’t ask for our Yellow Fever Vaccine Certificates. However she was taking an terrible very long time giving us our boarding passes.
All of a sudden she stopped and mentioned to us… Your connecting flight in India goes out of a unique airport than the one you land in. Meaning you want an Indian visa to board this flight.
As a result of we booked this ticket collectively and figured it was only a fast layover within the airport, we hadn’t bothered to get our Visas for India.
Seems this little setback would take 12 days to rectify. We needed to go to Johannesburg to use for the visa.
A couple of days into our keep in Johannesburg I obtained an e-mail from my dad saying that my grandpa was dying of leukemia and would seemingly be gone inside the subsequent few days.
I instantly referred to as my grandpa and obtained to say goodbye to him. It was a present and I can’t even specific how a lot it meant to me.
Had we boarded our flight and never been held up in South Africa for 12 days, we’d’ve been excessive within the Himalayas at the moment and there would’ve been no means for me to get that e-mail from my dad and know that my Grandpa was critically in poor health.
We ended up boarding the flight just a few days later and trekking the Himalayas as deliberate. My grandpa died whereas we had been nearing the Throng La Move.
As a present to my grieving grandma, I made a video of me burying a letter to my grandpa on the prime of the move and I gave my Grandma a replica of that letter once we returned house.
I really feel just like the universe tried to get me to overlook that flight first by me misplacing my Vaccine card, however the backup all alongside was that we had booked the flawed flight.
It’s one time in my life, I couldn’t be happier that we missed our flight.
So first off, as journey bloggers, we get plenty of emails from totally different manufacturers and corporations eager to ship us free stuff in trade for sharing it with our viewers. It’s one of many nice perks of operating a journey weblog.
What’s bizarre for us is how usually these emails are available instantly after we’ve expressed to one another that we would like the factor that finally ends up getting provided to us.
For instance: A couple of years in the past once we had been planning a trekking journey, we seen that our Pocket Rocket range was damaged. We each concluded that we’d must exit and purchase one, however then the following day, we obtained an e-mail from Pocket Rocket providing to ship us one without cost.
Again in 2014, we had been touring round Mexico, and out of the blue Dariece identified that we hadn’t been to a dentist since we left Canada in 2008… I do know… gross.
Then simply 2 days later we checked our e-mail and what did we see? An e-mail from a Mexican dentist firm that caters to expats and vacationers who need us to go to their dentist without cost. The expertise was nice and what made this one bizarre is that we by no means get random provides like a dental go to. It got here on the good time.
One other time we had been planning on touring by campervan for just a few weeks and I used to be researching off-grid photo voltaic batteries and the following day one of many corporations I used to be researching reached out to us to supply us batteries.
And lastly, a fairly large one. We had plans to go to our good friend’s wedding ceremony again in Canada however Dariece and I had been broke and solely had backpacking garments. I imply outdated backpacking garments. We had been about 2 years overdue for a giant store. We had been dwelling in Grenada on the time the place there weren’t any actually large malls or good locations to purchase fits and garments for a marriage.
Then, Mashable contacted us and provided us a visit to Chicago for the weekend. We hopped on the chance and joined another cool bloggers and YouTubers on the journey.
Through the journey, there was a shock go to to Macy’s Clothes Retailer. Macy’s had given all of us bloggers $1500 every to spend on garments of their retailer. We had one hour to get what we wished.
All the time on a funds, Dariece and I obtained a few good, however reasonably priced objects for the marriage, after which tons of different garments that we may use for our future backpacking journeys.
In the meantime, the style bloggers on the journey spent $1500 on two clothes and checked out us like homeless vagabonds as we piled up 2 years’ value of purchasing on the Macy’s checkout counter.
Not solely did this journey get us to Chicago, the place it was straightforward to get clothes given to us, nevertheless it additionally paid for the garments, which was excellent for us broke backpackers on the time. On prime of that, we obtained paid fairly properly for the journey in Money. All in all, it was a large win.
These are only a few situations of sponsors coming on the good time and it occurs so usually that it nonetheless journeys us out. I assume we must always begin speaking about Lamborghinis extra usually!
In Conclusion
Whether or not you’re a believer within the universe and the legislation of attraction or not, there are sometimes these pivotal moments in life the place you’ll be able to virtually really feel that you just’re meant to go in a sure course. These are the indicators we get and in case you keep alert and look ahead to them, superb issues can occur.
Proper now we’re in a spot in our lives that we’re extraordinarily blissful to be. Who is aware of, if every of those little issues didn’t occur alongside the best way, possibly our life trajectory would’ve been rather a lot totally different.
What about you? Have you ever ever had a spooky coincidence occur to you? Whereas touring or whereas at house? Click on right here to look at our video about these coincidences on YouTube and depart us a remark there 😉
