This classic 1979 British UFO CE3 case from Normanton which was investigated by Philip Mantle and witnessed by a mother and her six children happened next to a pylon:
It may be that pylons and other structures can play a part in creating a time slip or other event, not because they generate electric fields but because the shape of the pylon plays a part. There is an interesting book by Gay Baldwin, who produced the Ghosts of the Isle of Wight series, called Ghosts of Knighton Gorges, about the amazing activity near an old stately home that had been pulled down 200 years ago. The interesting thing is that most of the more puzzling incidents happen not on the site of the ruin but at the two gateposts that remain in position on the road heading to the house. Not just "ghosts" but orbs, car breakdowns, equipment malfunctions etc. I suggested to Gay that maybe the two posts are acting like the standing stones in a prehistoric site and concentrating the earth energies, and she agreed that was a real possibility.
Added to my wishlist:
There are also no discrepancies in their accounts eg Pauline thought X but Geoff seemed to remember Y. Some discrepancy ought to be expected and I begin to suspect one person or one of the couples was leading the narrative once they got back. For example, possibly only two of them closed and opened the shutters and it might be that one of them has some memory of there being folded back glass windows but felt obliged to go with the agreed narrative.
Good summing up. Great pity the children didn't want to give their views about the matter. Certainly you have raised enough questions about the basic story to make it clear that it needs to be treated with caution. Oddly, I have never rated it that highly even though I never questioned the basic narrative, maybe because the News of the World was involved so early on.
I last went back to France c2007 for the wedding of my ex SIL in a rural village close to where she lived. We landed in Nice airport and drove for about an hour (I can't remember the name of the village!) but it was like driving back several centuries. I've lived in France, but quite close to Paris in the late 70's, when everything was very modern, so even knowing France and having lived there was no proof against this weird feeling of 'dislocation', being in a town with cobbled streets, very old buildings, an Abbey just stuck there in the middle of the village, and very old fashioned methods of doing things. If it hadn't been for the modern day clothes and prices, I could have believed I'd been the subject of a timeslip, so I can easily believe how people unfamiliar with rural France may have felt something 'odd' happened to them.
In fact Liverpool has indeed generated more time slip cases than any other location. The local researcher you mention is probably Tom Slemen, who is something of a Jekyll and Hyde character, having published over 30 books on haunted Liverpool, which include a number of clearly fictional stories. But there is also a local paranormal group that have claimed to have received 100 cases (publishing only 5 or so), plus many independent stories of time and dimensional slips. Liverpool badly needs a genuine time slip research organisation to collate all these data and assess them, because checking on some of the major cases, and publishing detailed reports should be done and might reveal additional evidence that the current researchers have made no serious effort to search for.
I hadn’t realised the NOTW ran the Gisby/Simpson story. Guess they must have picked it up from the local rag. Of course, not everything they printed was untrue or exaggerated but suddenly money comes into the equation. I would love to know if there was ever a book deal in the pipeline that was never followed through…?
Naming no names, but some of these stories are lemons.
Indeed. I get excited when someone. local to an area gets out there investigating paranormal goings-on and interviews witnesses and makes themselves known as the person to talk to as they will uncover a host of new high strangeness reports (see Paul Sinclair in Yorkshire and Nick Redfern during his Cannock Chase years). However, safe to say the plethora of claimed Liverpool time slips with do not fall into this category….
My rough estimate would be around 30 decent cases in Liverpool from all sources, but even that is way ahead of any other location in the country, or the world, for that matter. All the more reason for somebody to do some serious research up there.
The artwork of the book covers and such are great but yes pure fiction.
That is interesting, I need to do some reading up on these
Great find.
True, was a common enough mistake when I worked in hotels.
I have experienced a couple of time slips one being in Liverpool City centre, my partner who was with me also saw it, we could see it but we were not in it, if that makes sense.
