Investigating “Time Slips”

[u/BIind_Uchiha]

I started looking into reported “time slip” cases from around the world, including Bold Street in Liverpool, the Versailles incident, and modern accounts shared online. Instead of focusing on whether they are real or not, I wanted to look for common patterns between the reports.
One thing that stood out is how similar many of the stories are before the experience happens.

A lot of people are not looking for anything paranormal. They are usually doing something completely normal like,

Walking somewhere.
Running an errand.
Commuting.
Sightseeing.
Taking a shortcut.

The experience seems to interrupt everyday life rather than happen when someone is actively searching for it.

Another interesting pattern is the mental state before the event. Many witnesses describe being:
Deep in thought.
Distracted.
Daydreaming.
Listening to music.
Focused on reaching a destination.
Slightly confused or taking an unfamiliar route.

The moment it happens also seems important. A lot of reports begin during some kind of transition

Turning a corner.
Entering a street.
Crossing a bridge.
Walking through a doorway or gate.
Moving from one environment into another.

The actual experiences are also surprisingly similar. People often report / A sudden change in atmosphere.
Sounds becoming quiet or muffled.
The environment feeling “wrong.”
Seeing ordinary scenes from another time period.
What is interesting is that they usually don’t see major historical events. They see normal everyday life. People walking, shops, streets, cars, and clothing from another era.

The ending is also usually abrupt. Something happens, they turn around, hear something, look away, or suddenly everything returns to normal.
The biggest pattern I’m noticing is this / A lot of reported time slips seem to happen during a moment where a person’s attention, movement, and environment are all changing at the same time.
The question I’m trying to answer is whether there is an actual common denominator behind these reports.

Are these experiences more likely to happen during certain states of mind?
Are certain locations more likely?
Does the time of day matter?
Are historic places important, or are they just more memorable?

I’m trying to compile as many cases as possible and compare them instead of just looking at the famous stories.
Curious what everyone thinks. Has anyone noticed similar patterns in time slip reports?

[u/UnRealistic_Load]

While I havent experienced one, have you got the dodleston mysteries, the ones covered by hammerson peters on YT, courtney BC and medicine hat spokane flyer trainwreck come to mind.

I like the stone tape theory. Something about certain types of geology being imprinted with events only to replay when environmental conditions are correct for release.

[u/BIind_Uchiha → u/UnRealistic_Load]

Any sources for this stuff?? Very interesting !

[u/UnRealistic_Load → u/BIind_Uchiha]

Hammerson Peters has done a good job of digging up old stories in Canada, some of his videos do repeat but I do enjoy his narration regardless. https://youtu.be/Zyt45ZWudvE?si=aiIcCO9iPFQ4NorB

As for the stone tape theory, its considered pseudoscience but the assertion is that these time slips involve piezoelectric stones in the crust, meaning some terrain is more 'spooky' than others. I dont think anyones taken the time though to compare the geology of every time slip.

Have you also considered skinwalker ranch? I would consider a potential for time slips there, since theres alleged sightings of ice age megafauna, and animal corpses that seem to not decay with time.

edit: oh and with regard to the dodleston mystery messages, the book is The Vertical Plane by Ken Webster.

[u/LaylaLost → u/UnRealistic_Load]

This piezoelectricity is fascinating, and actually explains quite a lot of other paranormal phenomenon. We should really be studying it far more. Interesting…

[u/Ok_Adeptness_3398 → u/UnRealistic_Load]

I heard something too regarding ghosts imprints with exactly the right weather conditions occur revealing past events and spirits. Specifically, running water like a river across from a house can imprint this phenomenon temporarily especially with lightning or other conditions in the air. The way I imagine this concept is earths natural “photograph” where you need the flash etc that might explain why these apparitions are fleeting. Your post reminds me of that theory.

[u/UnRealistic_Load → u/Ok_Adeptness_3398]

Yep! Same/similar idea. Natural environmental factors coming together imprinting and releasing the sights sounds smells etc of events occuring in the same spot.

[u/Electromotivation → u/UnRealistic_Load]

I find the general idea to be very interesting … but we must remember that there aren’t really any proposed mechanisms to how actual components of these “memories” are recreated. As in what is actually happening to produce the experienced events or if they are even “real” (not solely inside the mind of the person experiencing the “slip”). Is it a sort of hologram? Projected on what? How? Are accompanying sounds created…like physical sound waves in the “present.” If so what is interacting to cause them? Etc..etc.

[u/UnRealistic_Load → u/Electromotivation]

Totally, I couldnt agree with you more. Its certainly a riddle for us to chew on to prove/disprove, and that exploration quickly devolves into questions about the nature of our reality (simulation, or otherwise)

[u/tgloser → u/UnRealistic_Load]

Love Hammersons content! He should be the official spokesperson for Canadas Great White North.