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roughly three times as many vehicles on the road now as in early 70sI suspect that the road would have been busy and the factory noisy in the 1970's too?
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roughly three times as many vehicles on the road now as in early 70sI suspect that the road would have been busy and the factory noisy in the 1970's too?
Which, as long as you don't live in an isolated rural community on a no-through road, is still quite busy!roughly three times as many vehicles on the road now as in early 70s
At the tail end of last autumn, I was walking the dog around the block. I decided to cut a corner to avoid a busy road junction and walked through a street that runs parallel to the main road. The street itself is lined with semi-detached 1970s houses. I got halfway along when everything somehow went silent. The noise of the nearby traffic and the background noise from the factory less than half a mile away faded. There were no cars moving on the street and absolutely no-one about. I looked behind me and saw an old style ladies' bike locked to one of the support poles of the porch of a house. It was a step-through bike from the Seventies and in immaculate condition. For just a brief moment, I was convinced I had somehow looped back to the late 1970s for a few seconds. Nothing untoward happened, but the feeling of spookiness stayed with me for quite a while, even after I had gotten back out onto the main road again.
I wonder whether some time slips can be explained by confused auditory/ visual sensations such as you experienced. I say this after a similar experience myself this year.
To avoid the dreaded M6 we travelled up the A6 and stopped off at Matlock Bath to stretch our legs. Still quite busy despite being well out of season.
Walking down the main street we were attracted by a board advertising a model/craft shop down a short passageway through an archway in the terraced shops. We looked briefly in the window and walked down the remaining 5m or so having seen a courtyard at the end of the passage. I expected to see a (probably closed) bijou café, but what met us was a bit strange. A very old uneven stone flagged floor covered in dried leaves, the whole courtyard being covered at high level by an old wooden/glazed roof structure. There were 4 completely empty and nearly derelict commercial units, the lettering on their frontages being so faded as to be unreadable. Despite the traffic on the A6 outside being busy it was totally silent inside. The sensations were very strange indeed, and I have come to the conclusion that this was because the scene was so unexpected , it defied my sense of logic. Even a couple of months later I still recall the sensation when I think about the trip.
I suspect that the feeling would be similar to a "real" (mine wasn't) timeslip, where senses simply don't make "sense".
Yes, obviously. What I was trying to say was that perhaps some events reported as possible time slips are simply confused sensations resulting from coming across a place or experiencing an incident which somehow seems "out of place". I fully understand that not all reported cases can be explained thusly.However, there is a very distinct difference between simply feeling very strange and actually experiencing something which could be classified as a time slip.
Yes, that is an interesting case, although that account misses out one point, that the witness was a child at the time of the incident, so the "Mrs" might be incorrect.A somewhat vague, but potential time slip account from the 1930s, published on scientificmystery.com on 15th May 2019. Entering a strangely silent zone, the disconnected memory and possibly the thunderstorm too are factors common to several similar accounts.
".. there is a time travel story depicted which claims of a strange incident which happened with Mrs. Edna Hedges on the deserted “Roman” road Ermin Street (Swindon, England).
It was the time of the 1930s, when on one fine day, Mrs. Edna Hedges was cycling to her friend’s house. While she was on the way, she got struck by a violent thunderstorm, leaving her with no option but to knock on the door of a thatched cottage.
As she knocked on the door, she was welcomed by a strange tall and broad-shouldered old man. The man let the woman inside the house which felt very comfy as a hot burning fire in the fireplace kept the house warm. It had low ceilings. While the woman stayed in the house, she was struck by an amazing silence all around. She could not even hear the sound of the thunderstorm from outside. Even the old man did not utter a word to her; however, he was constantly smiling. The woman sat by the fire to warm herself and dry her damp clothes.
After a few minutes, Mrs. Hedges found herself once again on the road, riding her bicycle. She was amazed as she herself did not recall leaving the cottage and getting back on the road. When she arrived at her friend’s place she was completely dry. She explained everything to her friend; however, her friend knew about the old cottage, but was adamant that nobody could be living there. She said the cottage was dilapidated and had been unoccupied for about 50 years.
In an attempt to explain what had happened, Edna decided to retrace her steps. She did locate the old cottage, however, it had acquired totally another form. It now appeared utterly run-down and clearly abandoned.
While it appeared to be a supernatural occurrence, Mrs. Hedges insisted that her experience was real.
How did she magage to arrive at her friend’s home, totally dry, after cycling through a heavy rainfall?
Could it be a phenomenon of a time slip? Did Mrs. Edna Hedges travel back in time for some duration? "
I never read The Unexplained though, so it must be somewhere else. Might even be on this august site.I think it was in The Unexplained part-work, in a chapter on Phantom Cottages.
I've just now been shown a picture of an actual Victorian wheeled coffin carrier. Here it is; this is what the person thought they saw -
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I think I vaguely remember reading something about this experience somewhere...
was there some question that the couple were deaf? Wish I could remember where I read it now...
... the book “Ghosts and legends of the local region”
Wouldn’t mourners be wearing black? Bee keepers tend to wear lighter clothes and veils.Is this the thread where mention is made of someone who mistook people moving beehives for a vision of a Victorian funeral?
There was a letter in t'FT about it. The beekeepers wore long coats and veils to protect themselves from the attentions of confused bees whose houses were being trundled along on a handcart. Someone saw them and completely misinterpreted the incident as described above.
I've just now been shown a picture of an actual Victorian wheeled coffin carrier. Here it is; this is what the person thought they saw -
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Is this the thread where mention is made of someone who mistook people moving beehives for a vision of a Victorian funeral? ...
The Edna Hedges story is related with some different details on page 13 in:
The Journal of Borderline Research
Vol. XLIV, no. 6 (November - December 1988)
This is within a piece entitled "What are Ghosts?" by Vincent Gaddis.
In the paragraph / story preceding his account of the Hedges story, Gaddis refers to the Time-Life series Mysteries of the Unknown. It's not clear Gaddis drew the Hedges story from that same source, but IMHO that would be a good place to start in attempting to trace the Hedges story farther back.
In Gaddis' version of the story:
- Mrs. Hedges took shelter before the thunderstorm struck, and she didn't need to dry her clothing.
- Nothing is mentioned about the man or the cottage interior being unusually silent.
EDIT: Oops! Forgot the URL:
https://www.scribd.com/document/213...Research-Vol-XLIV-No-6-November-December-1988
I have a definite but vague memory of reading elsewhere about a similar incident in which beekeepers moving one or more hives on a handcart were mistaken as ghosts or a time-slip vision. It may have been within Fortean Times rather than here on the forum.
Wouldn’t mourners be wearing black? Bee keepers tend to wear lighter clothes and veils.
I love little stories like that. Leaves so many questions hanging there in the air.As a child my elder brother would regularly take out ‘true’ supernatural books from the library, the Usborne ones and such like. One of the ‘true stories’ in these books always gave me a shiver. It involved a young boy in the 1960’s sat in his living room at home watching TV. Suddenly, in the doorway of the room appeared a man staring right back at him, wearing unusual clothes and looking, very confused. They boy let out a scream for his parents and the man vanished into thin air! Move forward 20 years, and the boy is now a man and still living in the same house. One day he walks into the living room, looks up and sees a young boy who looks familiar sat in a chair and watching an old TV. The boy shouts for his parents then vanished into thin air! The boy/man was the only witness to a time slip 20 years apart.
Though it was claimed to be a real story there was no information on the people involved and I’m sure it was the creation of someone’s imagination, but it always really intrigued me and was my first experience of time slips!
As a child my elder brother would regularly take out ‘true’ supernatural books from the library, the Usborne ones and such like. One of the ‘true stories’ in these books always gave me a shiver. It involved a young boy in the 1960’s sat in his living room at home watching TV. Suddenly, in the doorway of the room appeared a man staring right back at him, wearing unusual clothes and looking, very confused. They boy let out a scream for his parents and the man vanished into thin air! Move forward 20 years, and the boy is now a man and still living in the same house. One day he walks into the living room, looks up and sees a young boy who looks familiar sat in a chair and watching an old TV. The boy shouts for his parents then vanished into thin air! The boy/man was the only witness to a time slip 20 years apart.
Though it was claimed to be a real story there was no information on the people involved and I’m sure it was the creation of someone’s imagination, but it always really intrigued me and was my first experience of time slips!
A friend of ours saw himself on the other side of the street once, they both looked at each other and he swears blind it was him. He always thought one day he would be on the other side of the street for the reverse view, but sadly he died before that happened.Ah, so the boy was the man... and saw himself in the future / in the past... I love stories like that.
A friend of ours saw himself on the other side of the street once, they both looked at each other and he swears blind it was him. He always thought one day he would be on the other side of the street for the reverse view, but sadly he died before that happened.