We appear to have two threads on this subject. Maybe time for a merge.
Many thanks for accepting me into your group,i do appreciate it.
Before you read this i would just like to add that i used to work here as a gardener
Last summer here in the UK my wife and I we were out for our walk in the countryside of Leeds and on our return from our trip we always cross over Roundhay Park and over the arena(This is where the concerts and other events are held)This time upon the arena coming into view we both witnessed what looked like steel framing and a smell of what seemed like gunpowder and the ground was damp,it was a hot day by the way.All the people had disappeared who were there sunbathing and we could see someone banging with a hammer on the framework.Everything around us seemed a little bit different,ie the trees were smaller and lake was visible through the framework whereas today the trees are thick and you wouldn't see the lake.
What you see in the link is what we both wittenesed and as we walked a bit further on the arena was then back to how it would look normally
I did a bit of research and came up with this http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200294_93156070&DISPLAY=FULL
I do hope that all this makes a bit of sense and we both know what we saw on that day.Many thanks
I hope that the link opens ok.
Edit:I just want to say many thanks for reading and understanding what i'm trying to say here as it all happened so quickly.Cheers
Hi all, I decided to join the board after seeing this website get mentioned on other ghostly forums and wanted to share my experiences.
I can totally understand the experience of a timeslip as this user has had above, and I hope I'm not taking over the board with my experience but because the user mentioned how quickly everything went back to normal and how strange this phenomenon is to experience, it tempted me to post my experience. I have written it down on a couple of spooky forums, so some users may possibly pick up and recall my stories.
So almost 5 years ago now, I went to a pub lunch in my local town for my brother's birthday. We are all gathered round at the bar chatting and greeting one another. This paticular pub is a weird layout in which when you walk in, there are benches to sit on but in other areas and rooms of the pub are chairs and tables. As I'm stood infront of the benches next to the bar, everyone is deep in conversation and I happen to glance over directly infront of me at the bench to see an old man sitting on it with an (obviously) modern newspaper and a dog by his side. I don't know how to explain this, but suddenly this man and his dog... Vanished, and instead were two ladies in the big "bushy" Victorian style dresses with the old fashioned hats sat on this bench. There was now a cake stand and they had 2 cups of tea with saucers and were deep in conversation laughing and talking to each other, not once did they acknowledge my existence, it was like I was watching a film. This happened for a good few seconds, 2 very old fashioned newspapers laid out on the bench infront of them and I was obviously thinking "what on earth" to myself, as nobody else was acknowledging this. As soon as these ladies appeared it within a second went back to the old man, his pint, newspaper and dog. When we all got seated from the bar to a side sort of room with actual table and chairs for the meal, the placemats laid out infront of us had the outside of the pub back in the early 1900's with women in the exact same dress as the two I saw minutes before. I was really dumbfounded, although not scared, fascinated.
I don't understand myself, I was 16 at the time so not drunk and had literally just arrived, I am not under any medication at this time nor experienced anything like this before/since. I am convinced that I experienced a timeslip.
This is a quite unusual case, actually. Did the benches look especially old? Is it possible that they had always been there in that position? If so, and if there is evidence that the pub had originally been a tea room in Edwardian times, then it might well be a time slip. The one feature that throws some doubt into the equation is the placemats you describe -- when you say it showed women with the "exact same dress," do you mean exactly identical with the clothing of the ladies you saw, or just the same Edwardian style?Hi all, I decided to join the board after seeing this website get mentioned on other ghostly forums and wanted to share my experiences.
I can totally understand the experience of a timeslip as this user has had above, and I hope I'm not taking over the board with my experience but because the user mentioned how quickly everything went back to normal and how strange this phenomenon is to experience, it tempted me to post my experience. I have written it down on a couple of spooky forums, so some users may possibly pick up and recall my stories.
So almost 5 years ago now, I went to a pub lunch in my local town for my brother's birthday. We are all gathered round at the bar chatting and greeting one another. This paticular pub is a weird layout in which when you walk in, there are benches to sit on but in other areas and rooms of the pub are chairs and tables. As I'm stood infront of the benches next to the bar, everyone is deep in conversation and I happen to glance over directly infront of me at the bench to see an old man sitting on it with an (obviously) modern newspaper and a dog by his side. I don't know how to explain this, but suddenly this man and his dog... Vanished, and instead were two ladies in the big "bushy" Victorian style dresses with the old fashioned hats sat on this bench. There was now a cake stand and they had 2 cups of tea with saucers and were deep in conversation laughing and talking to each other, not once did they acknowledge my existence, it was like I was watching a film. This happened for a good few seconds, 2 very old fashioned newspapers laid out on the bench infront of them and I was obviously thinking "what on earth" to myself, as nobody else was acknowledging this. As soon as these ladies appeared it within a second went back to the old man, his pint, newspaper and dog. When we all got seated from the bar to a side sort of room with actual table and chairs for the meal, the placemats laid out infront of us had the outside of the pub back in the early 1900's with women in the exact same dress as the two I saw minutes before. I was really dumbfounded, although not scared, fascinated.
I don't understand myself, I was 16 at the time so not drunk and had literally just arrived, I am not under any medication at this time nor experienced anything like this before/since. I am convinced that I experienced a timeslip.
I’m interested in the clothes. I wouldn’t call Edwardian style bushy. It was more sleek than earlier Victorian wear.This is a quite unusual case, actually. Did the benches look especially old? Is it possible that they had always been there in that position? If so, and if there is evidence that the pub had originally been a tea room in Edwardian times, then it might well be a time slip. The one feature that throws some doubt into the equation is the placemats you describe -- when you say it showed women with the "exact same dress," do you mean exactly identical with the clothing of the ladies you saw, or just the same Edwardian style?
Hi all, I decided to join the board after seeing this website get mentioned on other ghostly forums and wanted to share my experiences.
I can totally understand the experience of a timeslip as this user has had above, and I hope I'm not taking over the board with my experience but because the user mentioned how quickly everything went back to normal and how strange this phenomenon is to experience, it tempted me to post my experience. I have written it down on a couple of spooky forums, so some users may possibly pick up and recall my stories.
So almost 5 years ago now, I went to a pub lunch in my local town for my brother's birthday. We are all gathered round at the bar chatting and greeting one another. This paticular pub is a weird layout in which when you walk in, there are benches to sit on but in other areas and rooms of the pub are chairs and tables. As I'm stood infront of the benches next to the bar, everyone is deep in conversation and I happen to glance over directly infront of me at the bench to see an old man sitting on it with an (obviously) modern newspaper and a dog by his side. I don't know how to explain this, but suddenly this man and his dog... Vanished, and instead were two ladies in the big "bushy" Victorian style dresses with the old fashioned hats sat on this bench. There was now a cake stand and they had 2 cups of tea with saucers and were deep in conversation laughing and talking to each other, not once did they acknowledge my existence, it was like I was watching a film. This happened for a good few seconds, 2 very old fashioned newspapers laid out on the bench infront of them and I was obviously thinking "what on earth" to myself, as nobody else was acknowledging this. As soon as these ladies appeared it within a second went back to the old man, his pint, newspaper and dog. When we all got seated from the bar to a side sort of room with actual table and chairs for the meal, the placemats laid out infront of us had the outside of the pub back in the early 1900's with women in the exact same dress as the two I saw minutes before. I was really dumbfounded, although not scared, fascinated.
I don't understand myself, I was 16 at the time so not drunk and had literally just arrived, I am not under any medication at this time nor experienced anything like this before/since. I am convinced that I experienced a timeslip.
Hi all, I decided to join the board after seeing this website get mentioned on other ghostly forums and wanted to share my experiences.
I can totally understand the experience of a timeslip as this user has had above, and I hope I'm not taking over the board with my experience but because the user mentioned how quickly everything went back to normal and how strange this phenomenon is to experience, it tempted me to post my experience. I have written it down on a couple of spooky forums, so some users may possibly pick up and recall my stories.
So almost 5 years ago now, I went to a pub lunch in my local town for my brother's birthday. We are all gathered round at the bar chatting and greeting one another. This paticular pub is a weird layout in which when you walk in, there are benches to sit on but in other areas and rooms of the pub are chairs and tables. As I'm stood infront of the benches next to the bar, everyone is deep in conversation and I happen to glance over directly infront of me at the bench to see an old man sitting on it with an (obviously) modern newspaper and a dog by his side. I don't know how to explain this, but suddenly this man and his dog... Vanished, and instead were two ladies in the big "bushy" Victorian style dresses with the old fashioned hats sat on this bench. There was now a cake stand and they had 2 cups of tea with saucers and were deep in conversation laughing and talking to each other, not once did they acknowledge my existence, it was like I was watching a film. This happened for a good few seconds, 2 very old fashioned newspapers laid out on the bench infront of them and I was obviously thinking "what on earth" to myself, as nobody else was acknowledging this. As soon as these ladies appeared it within a second went back to the old man, his pint, newspaper and dog. When we all got seated from the bar to a side sort of room with actual table and chairs for the meal, the placemats laid out infront of us had the outside of the pub back in the early 1900's with women in the exact same dress as the two I saw minutes before. I was really dumbfounded, although not scared, fascinated.
I don't understand myself, I was 16 at the time so not drunk and had literally just arrived, I am not under any medication at this time nor experienced anything like this before/since. I am convinced that I experienced a timeslip.
I don't know why, but I've never researched the history of the building due to already finding out via the placemats that this pub/place was around during the Victorian times (which is the ladies I saw attire era). The pub is called the "Churchill Tavern" in Ramsgate. I've just had a look at the inside of the pub and the layout of the benches seems to have slightly moved from when I was there. I can't remember the exact layout before of the benches, as it was almost 5 years ago now. But if you look, you can actually see how I would have been stood at the bar in close enough proximity to these ladies infront of me;
It can't be exactly that, as the women were moving and having an animated chat. But could the witness's brain have created a kind of movie out of the static image? I wonder if there is any way of finding out who designed the place mat, and whether they might have worked it up from an actual contemporary photo?Since the women appeared only briefly and were supposedly identical to the ones on the placemat, I wonder if you might have experienced some variation of this: http://brainden.com/afterimages.htm
Great idea. Might even be possible to ask someone there who prepared that placemat, and whether they can be contacted.interesting, probably the kind of pub with a ton of old images on the walls, one of the photos on their blog shows this, would be interesting to get someone back in the room, ideally the OP if amenable
I'm guessing that was re-named at some point, after Churchill and so can't do a look up for you in the 19thC newspapers or I would.Hi all, thanks for your responses and interest to my post. I'm going to respond to questions in one message here:
Apologies for using the term "bushy dress", I was typing fast the other night as I was having dinner and I honestly couldn't think of the name for the type of dress worn, I should have researched really. But the types of dress were dating back to the early 1900's for sure.
As for the room, it stayed exactly the same. The temp and weather were the same, it was really odd because I was the only person who experienced it and everyone else didn't notice or were laughing and talking in the background.
I know it's probably hard to believe, what with the transition from the man and his dog to these 2 ladies, back to the man and his dog.. I can't remember in exact detail the transition, just that my eyes didn't move away the whole time it was like a blink of an eye although I didn't blink, if that makes any sense? It was truly fascinating, like someone had put a hologram realistic film on infront of my eyes.
The women on the placemats' dresses were identical to the ones I saw beforehand in this supposed timeslip, which kind of confirmed things for me and made it all more shocking, it kind of delivered me a bit more proof. I don't know why, but I've never researched the history of the building due to already finding out via the placemats that this pub/place was around during the Victorian times (which is the ladies I saw attire era). The pub is called the "Churchill Tavern" in Ramsgate. I've just had a look at the inside of the pub and the layout of the benches seems to have slightly moved from when I was there. I can't remember the exact layout before of the benches, as it was almost 5 years ago now. But if you look, you can actually see how I would have been stood at the bar in close enough proximity to these ladies infront of me;
https://www.google.co.uk/search?authuser=0&sxsrf=ACYBGNQVMVLwjf_mwVp27qCK47lBqIOT7Q:1569320251101&source=hp&ei=O-2JXc-RA4GTlwTGgL_4BQ&q=the+churchill+tavern+ramsgate&oq=the+churchill+tavern&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-hp.1.1.0l6j0i22i30l2.92591.101696..102212...8.0..0.264.2499.22j4j1....2..0....1.......8..35i362i39j35i39j0i228j46i67j0i131i67j46i131j0i67j0i131j46i39i275j46i228j46i39j0i131i10i67j46j0i20i263j46i10i275j0i10j0i13j46i13.6dNCnBsbpXA#imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipOJa-eeyQCGNZ52_45N0dD5k8QgZcr986mAgBCU&lkt=LocalPoiPhotos&trex=m_t:lcl_akp,rc_f:nav,rc_ludocids:2999589734275173426,rc_q:The%20Churchill%20Tavern,ru_q:The%20Churchill%20Tavern&viewerState=im
And to me (like someone said above), it seemed like two friends catching up with each other.
I think some genealogy sites allow you to search by address so if we have the address it should be possible to go back every ten years to 1841.Henry - no, I haven't. Merely walked past it since. I've moved away from the area also.
Ghost In The Machine - thankyou for the info. Perhaps it was a little different in those days and could well have been a hotel or something similar. I wish I had asked for history of the place when I was there. Perhaps if I do go back to that area I will go in and inquire.