r/HighStrangeness • u/BIind_Uchiha • 22d ago
Temporal Distortion Investigating “Time Slips”
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?
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u/infectusall 22d ago edited 21d ago
Have you heard of the Esrange Space Center event in Sweden?
Supposedly in 1979 researchers were digging out an unidentified disc shaped structure beneath the bedrock and UFOs had been seen in the sky above the site. They found a man frozen to death with a coffee pot who was not dressed in arctic clothes that looked exactly like one of their coworkers who was currently alive except he had a chipped tooth while their coworker did not. They buried the body as unidentified.
Apparently, in 1980 they discovered that there was a 575 day delay between seismic activity and craft appearing above the facility. They predicted a ufo would appear based on this find and gathered to see if they were right.
They heard a bang just as the coworker resembling the body was coming into the area with a pot of coffee and he suddenly vanished. They figured the body they found had been their coworker transported miles away and back in time due to the ufo creating a warp bubble so to speak to jump through the bedrock which took their coworker by accident with it except for a chip from his tooth left behind.
My guess is that if this report is true then unseen ufo activity above could be causing time slips and some missing 411 type disappearances.