On this put up, I needed to do one thing just a little 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 have 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 have been on the correct path.
Though I’ve a scientific and analytical thoughts, and have a tendency to favor proof for all the pieces, 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 Highway
Earlier than I lose all of the non-believers, let’s get into the article. Listed below 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 today and after we inform our mates about it, we frequently get the sensation that they don’t really imagine 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 telephone 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 specific day, we had a flight out of KL the following morning early. We would have liked 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.
Effectively, because the day went on, we have been having plenty of enjoyable and we utterly forgot concerning the alarm clock.
We completed dinner, and we have been strolling residence down a darkish alley at about 9 pm after 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 pink alarm clock ringing.
I do know. That’s bizarre. However it will get weirder. As a result of we had no different selection however to get woken up, we took the trash clock again residence, 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 acquired prepared and have 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 have been in the correct place on the proper time, or we completely wanted to get on that flight with the intention to preserve 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 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 realize… the nation with 1.4 billion folks.
Throughout that point, we have been listening to this one singer often known as Krishna Da. We had by no means seen what he regarded like, however we cherished his music. It’s actually calming and nonetheless after 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.
Effectively I can’t lie, there was a morning mantra at 5 am each morning and we could or could not have solely gone to that after. However aside 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 really 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 file offers. We solely listened to considered one of them, on repeat, for our complete journey by way of India. Not solely that however there are additionally almost 13,000 ashrams within the nation.
On high of that, in line 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 have been at that Ashram (considered 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 exhibits max in a yr… 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 yr after we noticed his live performance he was Nominated for a Grammy Award for the very best 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 specific 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 almost 1 / 4 million extra.
It was little doubt 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 troublesome and scary state of affairs, 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 imagined to take a protracted bus journey to Jogjakarta from the small city we have been in. There was just one bus per day and it left early within the morning.
Do not forget that story I informed 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 form of the alternative. We had changed our little Nokia telephone as our alarm clock by this time and for some purpose, that we nonetheless don’t know to today, 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 have been far sufficient away to solely really feel slight tremors.
This occasion is a coincidence, but it surely at all times surprises me what number of of those tales there are. We’re undoubtedly not the primary folks 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 Closing Chat With My Grandpa
This story is form 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 means up the cue on the airport, I used to be sweating bullets. On the time, we have been funds backpackers and all I stored pondering was that there isn’t any means 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 may examine this stuff and if you arrive, you’re residence 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.
All of a sudden 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 acquired an e-mail from my dad saying that my grandpa was dying of leukemia and would probably be gone inside the subsequent few days.
I instantly referred to as my grandpa and acquired 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 a couple 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 high of the go and I gave my Grandma a duplicate of that letter after we returned residence.
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 plenty of emails from totally 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 working 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 wish the factor that finally ends up getting supplied to us.
For instance: A number of years in the past after 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 following day, we acquired an e-mail from Pocket Rocket providing to ship us one without 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 without cost. The expertise was nice and what made this one bizarre is that we by no means get random affords 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 couple of 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 reasonably large one. We had plans to go to our buddy’s marriage 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 an enormous store. We have 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 supplied 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 needed.
All the time on a funds, Dariece and I acquired a few good, however reasonably priced gadgets 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, but it surely additionally paid for the garments, which was best for us broke backpackers on the time. On high of that, we acquired paid fairly effectively for the journey in Money. All in all, it was an enormous win.
These are only a few 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 legislation 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 route. These are the indicators we get and if you happen to 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 way in which, perhaps our life trajectory would’ve been so much totally different.
What about you? Have you ever ever had a spooky coincidence occur to you? Whereas touring or whereas at residence? Click on right here to look at our video about these coincidences on YouTube and go away us a remark there 😉
