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A furious Coachman in King’s Lynn
Location: King’s Lynn, Norfolk
Date: Late 1990s.
Type: Type 3: A sharp realistic image that surrounds the witness. People in the image seem unaware of the witness's presence, and there is no physical contact with elements in the perceived environment.
Persons Involved: ‘Jack’ - a reader of the blog Uncanny UK, his father and sister.
Number of Persons Involved: 3
Interactions:
Description: Quoted:
I just wanted to report my time slip experience which was experienced by myself, my father and my sister. It happened in the late 1990s (can’t remember exactly when – sorry) in King’s Lynn, Norfolk. My dad, sister and I were in the town to send my sister off on the train and we were passing the time standing by a fence near the railway station from which one could see a road and roundabout ahead. It was about noon and we had no agenda at that time other than to wait before heading to the station and there was a lull in the conversation.
We were all casually looking straight ahead when suddenly the atmosphere changed. The sound of the traffic around us stopped abruptly – as if someone had literally turned the volume right down. The air seemed to change, too; it became very still; spookily still and no sound could be heard. None of us spoke.
Then there came the sound of horse’s hooves on the road and within a few seconds we saw a horse and cart, driven by a large, angry-looking man, dressed in what I estimate to be 18th century clothes. He was of very rough, dirty appearance and his cart was well-used. He drove the cart around in a circle, all the time staring around, sometimes directly at us, sometimes away but looking absolutely furious as though he was looking for someone he wanted to kill. His face was red with hatred and he was a big, rough-looking man – someone you would definitely not want to cross. Eventually, he turned the horse and cart around and drove it off down the same road from which he had appeared and we could hear the horse’s hooves disappearing into the distance.
Immediately the sound had gone, the atmosphere changed back again and the sound of modern traffic and the din of a modern town returned again. We all three looked at each other; shaken and almost disbelieving but once we had asked the inevitable “Did you see that?” and received the answer “yes” we were even more shaken. It was such a peculiar experience and one which I shall never forget.
Was this a time slip? We didn’t notice any other changes; the buildings and road layout seemed the same but that part of King’s Lynn had remained unchanged for many years (although I understand it is quite different now) so I don’t know but it spooked us all for sure!
Notes: It is unclear in the statement “all the time staring around, sometimes directly at us” as to whether that meant that eye contact was made and the driver acknowledged seeing them, or not.
As mentioned by Jack, during this experience none of the surrounding building changed. The cart and its driver appeared out of (seemingly) nowhere and left just as oddly as he arrived.
It is also possible that, odd an experience as this was, this could have simply been somebody in period dress who just so happened to be angrily controlling a horse and cart through the streets of King’s Lynn that day.
Typically this account shares more in common with the experience of a haunting than a traditional timeslip.
Location: King’s Lynn, Norfolk
Date: Late 1990s.
Type: Type 3: A sharp realistic image that surrounds the witness. People in the image seem unaware of the witness's presence, and there is no physical contact with elements in the perceived environment.
Persons Involved: ‘Jack’ - a reader of the blog Uncanny UK, his father and sister.
Number of Persons Involved: 3
Interactions:
- Auditory – Hearing a sudden change in the level of background noise in the area.
- Visual – Change in Environmental Appearance and/or attire of persons in the vicinity.
Description: Quoted:
I just wanted to report my time slip experience which was experienced by myself, my father and my sister. It happened in the late 1990s (can’t remember exactly when – sorry) in King’s Lynn, Norfolk. My dad, sister and I were in the town to send my sister off on the train and we were passing the time standing by a fence near the railway station from which one could see a road and roundabout ahead. It was about noon and we had no agenda at that time other than to wait before heading to the station and there was a lull in the conversation.
We were all casually looking straight ahead when suddenly the atmosphere changed. The sound of the traffic around us stopped abruptly – as if someone had literally turned the volume right down. The air seemed to change, too; it became very still; spookily still and no sound could be heard. None of us spoke.
Then there came the sound of horse’s hooves on the road and within a few seconds we saw a horse and cart, driven by a large, angry-looking man, dressed in what I estimate to be 18th century clothes. He was of very rough, dirty appearance and his cart was well-used. He drove the cart around in a circle, all the time staring around, sometimes directly at us, sometimes away but looking absolutely furious as though he was looking for someone he wanted to kill. His face was red with hatred and he was a big, rough-looking man – someone you would definitely not want to cross. Eventually, he turned the horse and cart around and drove it off down the same road from which he had appeared and we could hear the horse’s hooves disappearing into the distance.
Immediately the sound had gone, the atmosphere changed back again and the sound of modern traffic and the din of a modern town returned again. We all three looked at each other; shaken and almost disbelieving but once we had asked the inevitable “Did you see that?” and received the answer “yes” we were even more shaken. It was such a peculiar experience and one which I shall never forget.
Was this a time slip? We didn’t notice any other changes; the buildings and road layout seemed the same but that part of King’s Lynn had remained unchanged for many years (although I understand it is quite different now) so I don’t know but it spooked us all for sure!
Notes: It is unclear in the statement “all the time staring around, sometimes directly at us” as to whether that meant that eye contact was made and the driver acknowledged seeing them, or not.
As mentioned by Jack, during this experience none of the surrounding building changed. The cart and its driver appeared out of (seemingly) nowhere and left just as oddly as he arrived.
It is also possible that, odd an experience as this was, this could have simply been somebody in period dress who just so happened to be angrily controlling a horse and cart through the streets of King’s Lynn that day.
Typically this account shares more in common with the experience of a haunting than a traditional timeslip.