It was in Australia, the witness and his girl friend were at a public toilet. She went in and he decided to walk through nearby woods. He spent about 10 minutes there and wandered back, leaving the trees slightly farther away. As he glanced over he saw himself just about to enter the woods.
Ten minutes is a VERY long time for a pee. If she didn't need to queue, she would be done and out in a couple of minutes, which leads me to think that his perception of time lapsed may be faulty. Which leads me further to think that some kind of 'Brain Fart' took place (maybe a minor seizure or 'daydream'?). Because otherwise his girlfriend would have been wandering about looking for him for ages.
He returned to the toilet where his girlfriend was surprised as he had only just left her. Presumably he had gone back in time, so this would be a time gained situation..
So did his girlfriend not actually go in to the toilet? If she went in, then he returned to the toilet and she was surprised to see him, presumably she must already have 'been'? In which case he hadn't 'just left her' and they had been apart for a perfectly normal amount of time. Or did he pop up next to her in the Ladies? Which is another type of 'weird'.
I don't mean to be cynical, I LOVE timeslips and am fascinated by them, but I have the kind of brain that goes - 'hang on, how does that work then?' Blame the day job.
Edited: But I still can't get the quote function to work... buggeritmilleniumhandandshrimp
Here's the full story:
enn and a friend were traveling the hills east of Adelaide, South Australia in an area known as Woodside, when they experienced a TWIDDER. His spacetime slip is a complex one, involving a doppelganger AND a slip back in time! (See the original posting at http://paranormal.about.com/od/Doppelgangers/a/tales_11_06_26t.htm.)
We were bored and decided to kill a few hours in a
car. Unfortunately, though, [my
companion] had a much weaker bladder than I, so we pulled up by a local
public toilet cubical so she could go about her business.
Whilst having a few minutes to myself, I decided to get out of the car, stretch my legs a bit and do a small bit of exploring, as I rarely travel to Woodside without a purpose.
There was a group of trees just down the road, and being the immature, supernatural/paranormal obsessed young man I am, I started wondering what kind of evil beasties could lurk amongst the small
forest. Thoughts quickly filled my mind of stories I’d read and heard about forest dwelling witches and ghosts, and at one stage, the
Chupacabras even crossed my mind. I felt a cold chill run down my spine like someone, or something, was watching me.
I decided to venture in to the small forest, and found a small clearing not too far in. My companion was always afraid of my paranormal investigative side, so I’d left her with the keys to the car, so she could get back in when she was finished and I could still have a chance to explore a little bit.
While walking through this clearing, I started to hear the most high-pitched frequency I’d ever heard, and a local farmer along with two of his hunting dogs ran past me, in the direction of it. I tried to get his attention, but he just kept on running, like a man possessed by something.
After this, I freaked out a little bit and turned to run back in the direction I’d come from, to get back to the car where, by now, my companion would have to be waiting for me (I’d been gone for approximately 15 minutes by this time).
Running through the trees and shrubs, it came to my attention that I wasn’t entirely sure I was exactly retracing my steps, and I feared I may have wavered from my original path slightly, causing me to come out of the forest about 30 meters away from where I’d originally entered.
I wasn’t worried that I didn’t come out where I’d entered, as I expected my path to vary slightly, and I could see the car from where I was anyway. Rather, the part that worried me was that standing where I’d entered approximately a quarter of an hour ago, there was another young man, who, to put frankly, was me. He would have been my height, my build. He was wearing the same clothes as me… it couldn’t be coincidence. It was me from 15 minutes ago, about to enter the forest.
I’d somehow traveled back 15 minutes and was now watching myself. I waited for the other me to enter the forest before leaving where I was, as I didn’t want to somehow disturb time and space by meeting myself, and warning myself that strange things were about to happen. The moment he was out of sight, I made a mad dash back to the car; my companion was still not back.
A couple minutes passed and she came back to the car, slightly bewildered that it seemed I had not gone exploring like I said that I was going to. I explained what I’d been through and she froze, as if understanding the extremity I had put on the situation. According to her (and later confirmed by clocks) I’d been gone for just less than a minute. I don’t know whether the farmer and his dogs have any relevance, nor whether the high pitch noise served a purpose, but I’d somehow traveled back in time and almost ran into myself!
I hope that clarifies the situation. My summary was from memory and I did give a link to the post in Spacetime Slips a while back.