On this submit, I wished to do one thing a bit of 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 have been they tremendous unusual and nearly too unlikely to be coincidences, however in addition they made us really feel hyperlink the universe was displaying us that we have been on the best path.
Despite the fact that I’ve a scientific and analytical thoughts, and have a tendency to desire proof for every little thing, 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 wonderful.
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 mates about it, we frequently get the sensation that they don’t truly consider us. However I guarantee you, this one is completely true.
So we have 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 well-liked to journey by land, however on this explicit day, we had a flight out of KL the subsequent morning early. We would have liked an alarm clock!
The morning earlier than the flight we set a objective 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.
Effectively, because the day went on, we have been having loads of enjoyable and we fully forgot concerning the alarm clock.
We completed dinner, and we have been strolling house down a darkish alley at about 9 pm once we stopped on the identical time and stated “SHIT! We forgot to search 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 purple alarm clock ringing.
I do know. That’s bizarre. However it 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 have 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 have been in the best place on the proper time, or we completely wanted to get on that flight to be able to hold following our path.
Creepy sure. A coincidence? I don’t know…
2. Krishna Das
That is one other actually bizarre one and given the chances on this, I feel that you simply’ll agree it’s a bit too spooky to be a coincidence.
Again in 2012, we have been touring in India for round 3 months. You understand… the nation with 1.4 billion folks.
Throughout that point, we have been listening to this one singer generally known as Krishna Da. We had by no means seen what he appeared 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 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 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.
Effectively 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 have been full-on.
After about 3 weeks within the Ashram, one of many leaders of our meditation group talked about that there could 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 a number of the hottest Indian Kirtan music within the nation, however what makes this even weirder is the chances of him being at our Ashram.
In India, apparently, there are round 23,000 musicians with document offers. We solely listened to certainly one of them, on repeat, for our total journey via 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 reveals, his busiest 12 months of performances was in 2010, however even then he solely managed to do 11 reveals that 12 months.
The truth that we have been at that Ashram (certainly one of 13,000), at the moment, to see that present, by that musician out of 23,000 within the nation who solely manages 11 reveals max in a 12 months… simply blows me away.
Surprisingly sufficient, a number 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 sequence 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 doubt a tragedy, so this story will not be a celebration of us lacking the earthquake, however only a unusual coincidence that probably saved us from a really troublesome and scary scenario, one which we, coming from a low-earthquake-prone space in Canada, would have been ill-equipped to take care of.
That is the way it went down.
We have been touring round Indonesia again in 2009 and have been purported to take an extended bus experience to Jogjakarta from the small city we have been in. There was just one bus per day and it left early within the morning.
Keep in mind 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 sort of the alternative. We had changed our little Nokia cellphone as our alarm clock by this time and for some cause, 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 a bit of previous midday that day. As a result of we missed our bus, we have 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 Ultimate Chat With My Grandpa
This story is sort 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 have been touring in Africa on the time and we had an enormous flight to get to Nepal, the place we have 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 have 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 approach up the cue on the airport, I used to be sweating bullets. On the time, we have been price range backpackers and all I stored pondering was that there is no such thing as a approach we might 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 go. We have been elated.
Usually, it’s the departing airport that can test this stuff and once you arrive, you’re house free.
After we landed in South Africa, we walked as much as the desk to take our connecting flight and by chance 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.
Just a few days into our keep in Johannesburg I obtained 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 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 might’ve been excessive within the Himalayas at the moment and there would’ve been no approach for me to get that e mail from my dad and know that my Grandpa was critically sick.
We ended up boarding the flight a number of days later and trekking the Himalayas as deliberate. My grandpa died whereas we have been nearing the Throng La Cross.
As a present to my grieving grandma, I made a video of me burying a letter to my grandpa on the prime of the go 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 mistaken 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 loads of emails from completely different manufacturers and firms eager to ship us free stuff in change 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: Just a few years in the past once we have been planning a trekking journey, we seen 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 obtained an e mail from Pocket Rocket providing to ship us one at no cost.
Again in 2014, we have 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 at no 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 excellent time.
One other time we have been planning on touring by campervan for a number 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 buddy’s wedding ceremony again in Canada however Dariece and I have been broke and solely had backpacking garments. I imply outdated backpacking garments. We have been about 2 years overdue for a giant store. We have 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.
In the course of 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 obtained a few good, however reasonably priced objects for the marriage, after which tons of different garments that we might 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 procuring 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 ultimate for us broke backpackers on the time. On prime of that, we obtained paid fairly nicely for the journey in Money. All in all, it was an enormous win.
These are just some cases of sponsors coming on the excellent time and it occurs so usually that it nonetheless journeys us out. I suppose 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 simply’re meant to go in a sure path. These are the indicators we get and in the event you keep alert and look ahead to them, wonderful issues can occur.
Proper now we’re in a spot in our lives that we’re extraordinarily completely happy to be. Who is aware of, if every of those little issues didn’t occur alongside the way in which, 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 house? Click on right here to observe our video about these coincidences on YouTube and depart us a remark there 😉
