To ask if you believe in time slips?

The Roman soldiers was in York - famous ghost story rather than a time slip

Was it the one about lift doors opening onto a WW1 operating theatre?

I remember one about someone seeing some Roman soldiers marching, but she could only see them from the knees up. Turned out they were marching at the level of the Roman road.
There was also one on TV a long time back about people going back in time at Versailles.

I'm happy to believe that this is a phenomenon that's rare, but does happen.

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Thank you.

Exactly this.

Well the nearest thing I have experienced to it is when I went for a walk during the Summer with my daughter and son who was on a scooter. My son scootered ahead of us, turning the corner and hid behind the bus stop, waiting to jump out at us! However, my daughter and I passed the bus stop and saw my son about 30 metres ahead rapidly going downhill. It was clearly him; distinguishable in a bright orange jumper, white scooter and patterned helmet. I was so confused! My daughter on seeing the same sight declared “How did he get so far ahead so quick?!” We quickened our pace, only for my son to jump out from behind the bus stop we had just passed! It was so bizarre! We hastily made our way down the road looking everywhere for my son’s doppelgänger only to no avail.

Yep. In 2006. The story goes that a 19-year-old youth - Sean - had been shoplifting in the area when a security guard saw him and chased him down an alleyway - a dead end. Sean said that when he turned around he expected to see the security guard hot on his heels, but he was nowhere to be seen.

On walking back into the street, he said the road had changed entirely with people in strange dress, outdated looking cars and road works he’d seen minutes earlier had gone. He saw a newspaper stand and was shocked to see the date on the newspapers - May 1967. He had his mobile phone with him but when he checked it, it was dead and he said at that point he panicked and ran, and as he did he could make out the streets in front of him beginning to return to normal, but behind him still looked like the old fashioned street. He eventually jumped on a bus and got home.

The local paper picked up his story and interviewed the security guard who chased him. The guard told the journalist that when he was chasing Sean, the pair had headed down the blind alley, and he had witnessed Sean vanish into thin air in front of him. The details Sean gave about 1967 Bold Street were exactly how the street would have looked and both men’s stories remained consistent when retold - and both men said they were profoundly affected by the experience.

People come forward and claim to be Jesus. It doesn't make it any less bollocks.

www.thevintagenews.com/2017/12/08/versailles-time-slip/amp/

The Versailles time slip was the first one I ever read about

Actually, yes, this would work as an explanation. If the universe is real then time slips likely need to be caused by God or similar. There is, though, the possibility that the world around us isn't real, which would avoid the problem of the moving Earth.

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I always find that too simplistic. What if time travel didn’t work like that, what if it’s more a manipulation of light, so what you see is more like a projection, you can’t actually interact with it? Or it could simply exist, but not for public use.

I heard a saying once that if the human race knew one millionth of everything there is to know, we would be twice as smart as we actually are and it is so true. There is so much we don't know or understand. So time slips could quite well exist. I'd be lying if I said that I don't hope to experience one

But the serious answer is if that really happened, I think the more likely explanation is that we're in a simulation that started momentarily glitching.

I think physics makes it near impossible - not least because the Earth is never in the same place twice. If you went back in time 1, 2, 10, 50 or whatever number of years but did not also simultaneously travel millions of miles in the blink of an eye, you'd be in the empty void of space.

So, if this phenomenon is real, not only does it involve time travel but the universe (or whatever force that might cause these slips) would also have to somehow know exactly where Earth was located at the time, teleport you to the exact same location on Earth (instantaneously, without you realizing) and then teleport you back.

Basically I think it'd have to be a deliberately act by God or some other sentient, omniscient and omnipotent being, rather than a natural phenomenon.

I think time is fascinating. If we had the ability to teleport millions and millions of light years into the galaxy and you looked back at earth it would be the time of the dinosaurs. I mean you couldnt see them but that's the age the earth would be at. Then what if you could travel back to be at that same time. I think theoretical physics is so interesting. Before electricity was invented if you told people one day they could light their houses at the flick of a switch or watch other people on a box in their homes they would think you were insane. Everything is impossible until it becomes possible

Are you going to tell us what it was then?!

I've stood in the shop doorway (on bold street) and peered in, hoping! Got nothing. I'm fascinated by the idea of it and by the realms of the universe (and our brains) that we don't yet understand.

No, but I love the show Umbrella Academy if that's any good to you.

We also have no good evidence that timeslips don't exist. 🙄

I love how the naysayers are absolutely determined that they are right. Also they're not content with just saying they don't believe in time slips and the like, they have to add on that it's all 'bollocks' and 'nonsense' and that anyone who believes it is a moron. (Ya know, a bit like people who believe in ghosts, and God, and the paranormal.) 🙄 Anyone who believes in something THEY don't believe in is stupid, and deluded, and deserves derision and mockery.

Just because you don't believe in something, does not make it untrue or unreal.

@midnightmeows I may have experienced time slips. I have experienced a couple of occasions where I was out in the countryside, some 2 miles from my rural cottage, just walking. I was climbing a small hill covered in trees, (same place both time,) and I have 100% felt like I was in the past - around a century or so - for about 3-4 minutes, in a certain place on this hill. The air feels different, and it smells different. It's SO odd.

And I can see an old farmhouse about one third of a mile away, (in that 3-4 minutes) but I can never find it when I leave the tree-covered hill. I walk down to the bottom of the little hill, and across the small field, and back to the little road, and walk in the direction that I saw the old farmhouse. But it's not there. It's not anywhere. Where is it? And why can I only see it from part way up the hill? It's like I'm in a parallel universe for a few minutes. I have even taken a photograph of it, but because it's quite far away it's not massively clear. So when I try to reverse image search it on google images, nothing comes up.

It's so weird, with no explanation, that I have never told anyone in real life about it.

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I do, as the physics of the universe makes it possible. Do I think everyone who says they've had it happen, has - no. Do I think the odds are that a few people have over the course of history, yes.

Dh, brother and I once lost two hours out of nowhere. It only felt like 15 mins had passed. We were driving and missed the junction but only by one stop. Took 2 hours to turn off and regain the motorway. In the middle of the night. We all had terrible headaches.

Fair enough, I guess there is now (as of last year) someone called Julie who claims she is Carol from the Frank and Carol story, although they've been unable to trace Frank (despite the story saying he was her husband...)

ha, ha.