On this put up, I wished to do one thing just a little bit completely different and share some actually unusual, serendipitous, spooky feeling coincidences which have occurred to us whereas we’ve been touring and residing overseas.
Not solely had been they tremendous unusual and nearly 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 best path.
Although I’ve a scientific and analytical thoughts, and have a tendency to favor proof for every part, I can’t assist however really feel like generally 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 residing overseas for the previous 15 years.
1. The Spooky Alarm Clock
This one nonetheless offers me chills to this present day and once we inform our pals about it, we frequently 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 cellphone as an alarm clock.
We nearly by no means took flights on this primary journey as a result of we most popular to journey by land, however on this explicit day, we had a flight out of KL the subsequent 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 of get up on time for our flight.
Properly, because the day went on, we had been having a number of enjoyable and we utterly forgot in regards to the alarm clock.
We completed dinner, and we had been strolling dwelling down a darkish alley at about 9 pm once we stopped on the identical time and stated “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 selection however to get woken up, we took the trash clock again dwelling, 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 bought prepared and had been about to go away 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 best place on the proper time, or we completely wanted to get on that flight with a view 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 believe 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 realize… the nation with 1.4 billion individuals.
Throughout that point, we had been listening to this one singer referred to as Krishna Da. We had by no means seen what he appeared like, however we liked his music. It’s actually calming and nonetheless once we hear it, it brings us proper again to India… the calm components 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 stunning.
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 apart 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 complete journey via India. Not solely that however there are additionally almost 13,000 ashrams within the nation.
On high of that, in keeping with his calendar historical past of exhibits, his busiest 12 months of performances was in 2010, however even then he solely managed to do 11 exhibits that 12 months.
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 12 months… simply blows me away.
Surprisingly sufficient, a couple of 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 12 months after we noticed his live performance he was Nominated for a Grammy Award for the perfect New Age Album. After we noticed him, he was a reasonably unknown artist so far as we knew.
3. Narrowly Lacking a Large 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 individuals, injuring over 1,200, and displacing almost 1 / 4 million extra.
It was little question a tragedy, so this story isn’t a celebration of us lacking the earthquake, however only a unusual coincidence that probably 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 purported to take a protracted bus journey to Jogjakarta from the small city we had been in. There was just one bus per day and it left early within the morning.
Keep in mind that story I informed you in regards to 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 cellphone as our alarm clock by this time and for some motive, that we nonetheless don’t know to this present day, 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 just a little 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 at all times surprises me what number of of those tales there are. We’re positively not the primary individuals to narrowly escape a catastrophe by lacking a bus, flight, or journey someplace.
These tales are so widespread 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 start out 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 skin world.
As we had been boarding the primary lag of our flight, I observed 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 manner up the cue on the airport, I used to be sweating bullets. On the time, we had been price range backpackers and all I saved considering was that there isn’t a manner we may afford to overlook this flight.
Fortunately, as we neared the guard, he was a kind of border police guys who actually didn’t care a lot about his job, so he simply stamped me and let me cross. We had been elated.
Most often, it’s the departing airport that can test these items and if you arrive, you’re dwelling free.
After 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.
Instantly she stopped and stated 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 number of days into our keep in Johannesburg I bought an e mail from my dad saying that my grandpa was dying of leukemia and would probably be gone throughout the subsequent few days.
I instantly referred to as my grandpa and bought to say goodbye to him. It was a present and I can’t even categorical 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 manner for me to get that e mail from my dad and know that my Grandpa was critically ailing.
We ended up boarding the flight a couple of days later and trekking the Himalayas as deliberate. My grandpa died whereas we had been nearing the Throng La Go.
As a present to my grieving grandma, I made a video of me burying a letter to my grandpa on the high of the cross and I gave my Grandma a replica of that letter once we returned dwelling.
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 improper 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 a number of emails from completely different manufacturers and corporations desirous to ship us free stuff in alternate 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 in 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 number of years in the past once we had been planning a trekking journey, we observed that our Pocket Rocket range was damaged. We each concluded that we’d have to exit and purchase one, however then the subsequent day, we bought an e mail from Pocket Rocket providing to ship us one totally free.
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 totally free. The expertise was nice and what made this one bizarre is that we by no means get random gives like a dental go to. It got here on the good time.
One other time we had been planning on touring by campervan for a couple of weeks and I used to be researching off-grid photo voltaic batteries and the subsequent day one of many firms I used to be researching reached out to us to supply us batteries.
And lastly, a reasonably large one. We had plans to go to our pal’s marriage ceremony again in Canada however Dariece and I had been broke and solely had backpacking garments. I imply previous backpacking garments. We had been about 2 years overdue for a giant store. We had been residing in Grenada on the time the place there weren’t any actually massive 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.
At all times on a price range, Dariece and I bought a few good, however inexpensive 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’ price of purchasing on the Macy’s checkout counter.
Not solely did this journey get us to Chicago, the place it was simple to get clothes given to us, nevertheless it additionally paid for the garments, which was superb for us broke backpackers on the time. On high of that, we bought paid fairly properly for the journey in Money. All in all, it was a large win.
These are only a few cases of sponsors coming on the good time and it occurs so usually that it nonetheless journeys us out. I assume we should always begin speaking about Lamborghinis extra usually!
In Conclusion
Whether or not you’re a believer within the universe and the regulation of attraction or not, there are sometimes these pivotal moments in life the place you may nearly really feel that you just’re meant to go in a sure course. These are the indicators we get and when 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 pleased to be. Who is aware of, if every of those little issues didn’t occur alongside the best way, perhaps our life trajectory would’ve been lots completely different.
What about you? Have you ever ever had a spooky coincidence occur to you? Whereas touring or whereas at dwelling? Click on right here to observe our video about these coincidences on YouTube and go away us a remark there 😉
