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AIBU to believe FIL time slip experience?

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elsiesbonnet · 15/10/2023 20:06

FIL was round yesterday evening for dinner with his wife. We were talking about the Uncanny podcast & recent TV episode then he told us of two experiences he'd had in the same place a number of years apart. After I went & did some research & asked a couple questions today, he's told us of another experience he had in the same place that was similar to one of the other experiences but that happened when he as a child.

I'm quite sceptical about paranormal type events I guess because I've never witnessed anything myself but am generally quite open minded. I don't believe FIL to be the type to make this sort of thing up & he was almost unwilling to tell us in case we thought he was crazy. He's never told anyone before.

AIBU to think what he experienced could've been real? In one of the instances he interacted with people in the past, his recall was quite genuine & he had some significant detail that you couldn't just make up. Has anyone else experienced a time slip or some other paranormal event they couldn't explain? I'm intrigued!

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ProvisionsOnTheDock · 15/10/2023 20:10

Of course it wasn't real! I mean, I want time travel to be a thing as much as anyone but it is not.

Tatslookawful · 15/10/2023 20:11

@elsiesbonnet can you expand on his experiences?

EmptyWineGlass · 15/10/2023 20:11

What were the experiences??

Maatandosiris · 15/10/2023 20:12

Of course you’re not being unreasonable. There’s nothing to say it’s not possible

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elsiesbonnet · 15/10/2023 20:16

ProvisionsOnTheDock · 15/10/2023 20:10

Of course it wasn't real! I mean, I want time travel to be a thing as much as anyone but it is not.

How do you know it's not? I'm not saying I think it is, but people experience things that can't always be explained. So how do you explain it?

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reallyworriedjobhunter · 15/10/2023 20:17

Can you tell us what he said happened?

Changingplace · 15/10/2023 20:18

What was his actual experience?

Firebug007 · 15/10/2023 20:19

Maatandosiris · 15/10/2023 20:12

Of course you’re not being unreasonable. There’s nothing to say it’s not possible

There's quite a lot to say it's not possible actually 🤣😆🤦‍♂️

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elsiesbonnet · 15/10/2023 20:20

Tatslookawful · 15/10/2023 20:11

@elsiesbonnet can you expand on his experiences?

The two most recent events were connected to his work so I'm not sure I can give too much away without checking with him. But it involved a particular location kind of morphing into how it would've been a long time ago & and in one instance, the people there wondering what his tools were & what he was doing (as they didn't have such tech then!)

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DrCoconut · 15/10/2023 20:23

Time slips are fascinating. I've been reading a series set on Bold Street. I have had a sort of weird experience near where I live but I can't say for sure what it was. Could have been a trick of the light or something.

Pewpewbarneymcgrew · 15/10/2023 20:24

It wasn’t Bold St in liverpool was it ?

IHaveAskedYouThriceNow · 15/10/2023 20:24

There are lots of examples of Bold Street in Liverpool of time slips, one quite recently.

There are theories about time not being what we think it is, and that everything exists in an eternal now (which would explain many paranormal events).

It’s far too simplistic to laugh it off and say things like this don’t exist, because many credible people have unexplainable incidents.

Namechangedagain20 · 15/10/2023 20:25

I think there’s probably a reasonable explanation for these things. If time slips were real more people would have proof of them.

On a trip with a youth centre as a young teen we stayed in a youth hostel type place. Some of us went for a walk on the evening and encountered a group of people dressed in Victorian clothes, in a Victorian village. We went back and told the staff about how it was so bizzare. Turns out we were staying in ironbridge, which has a Victorian village. We had no idea and were quite disappointed.

SecretVictoria · 15/10/2023 20:26

Another one here to ask if it’s Bold St!

Weddingpuzzle · 15/10/2023 20:27

I had a weird experience. I couldn't sleep so I went downstairs and laid on my sofa. I definitely wasn't asleep as I can see, smell and feel every moment but I saw myself (older) stood next to a stove that was built into the chimney breast in a dim room. It was cold, grey and rainy outside. I was stirring homemade potato & leek soup. I was wearing a grey jumper and a long cord skirt. My hair was much more wiry than it is now and was white. I was plumper than I am now. I was talking to DS1 who was wearing baggy trousers and a ripped jumper and boots with the laces untied and no socks, he had his arms folded. He was older, mid to late thirties and thinner. DH was doing something with an oily tool at a wooden kitchen table. It felt cosy and like we lived in a countryside cottage on our own land.

We don't have a big kitchen with a stove in a chimney breast, DS1 has just turned 20 and we live in a small Yorkshire mill town in a terraced house on a street with loads of other houses. I never make soup lol. I am pretty sure I glimpsed a bit of my life in the future.

I'm an NHS health researcher and not very woo at all but I do seem to predict things and knew my Nanna was going to die, my friends brother's house was going to be burgled and my son was getting jumped (I rang him and he was). Very odd, don't like to think about it too much!

Dedsec2023 · 15/10/2023 20:32

its like an epoxide of town called eureka, transiting between war time and modern day due to a device that a scientist made.

these days who knows whats truly possible

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elsiesbonnet · 15/10/2023 20:33

SecretVictoria · 15/10/2023 20:26

Another one here to ask if it’s Bold St!

No it's not here. I've looked online & not found anything else in the same area. It's weird though he's had 3 experiences in the same locations but years apart. I'll have to go back on a recce with him one day lol.

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elsiesbonnet · 15/10/2023 20:35

Weddingpuzzle · 15/10/2023 20:27

I had a weird experience. I couldn't sleep so I went downstairs and laid on my sofa. I definitely wasn't asleep as I can see, smell and feel every moment but I saw myself (older) stood next to a stove that was built into the chimney breast in a dim room. It was cold, grey and rainy outside. I was stirring homemade potato & leek soup. I was wearing a grey jumper and a long cord skirt. My hair was much more wiry than it is now and was white. I was plumper than I am now. I was talking to DS1 who was wearing baggy trousers and a ripped jumper and boots with the laces untied and no socks, he had his arms folded. He was older, mid to late thirties and thinner. DH was doing something with an oily tool at a wooden kitchen table. It felt cosy and like we lived in a countryside cottage on our own land.

We don't have a big kitchen with a stove in a chimney breast, DS1 has just turned 20 and we live in a small Yorkshire mill town in a terraced house on a street with loads of other houses. I never make soup lol. I am pretty sure I glimpsed a bit of my life in the future.

I'm an NHS health researcher and not very woo at all but I do seem to predict things and knew my Nanna was going to die, my friends brother's house was going to be burgled and my son was getting jumped (I rang him and he was). Very odd, don't like to think about it too much!

That's really weird, and quite detailed. I guess with it being a future thing you might find out one day that it was a premonition!

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SecretVictoria · 15/10/2023 20:38

@elsiesbonnet Bold St is known for time slips. I go loads and never experienced one, think it would scare me to death! I have read about other people’s experiences there. My hairdresser is there and I always hope nothing happens when I go to the loo in the shop!

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elsiesbonnet · 15/10/2023 20:40

Namechangedagain20 · 15/10/2023 20:25

I think there’s probably a reasonable explanation for these things. If time slips were real more people would have proof of them.

On a trip with a youth centre as a young teen we stayed in a youth hostel type place. Some of us went for a walk on the evening and encountered a group of people dressed in Victorian clothes, in a Victorian village. We went back and told the staff about how it was so bizzare. Turns out we were staying in ironbridge, which has a Victorian village. We had no idea and were quite disappointed.

How do you get proof if they happen randomly? How can we be prepared for the very rare or very unlikely chance that it'll happen to us?

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NineteenOhEight · 15/10/2023 20:43

What ‘research’ did you do? Do you mean ‘googling’?

Weddingpuzzle · 15/10/2023 20:43

@elsiesbonnet I hope not. It scares the crap out of me. It didn't feel like a dream or daydream. It felt like I was in my life but a different life for 10 seconds then I was back on the couch.

I hope your FIL is okay? You start thinking there's something wrong with your brain when stuff like that happens. I was worrying I had early onset dementia!

ThomasinaLivesHere · 15/10/2023 20:44

What about what he said couldn’t be made up?

boredfuckinsenseless · 15/10/2023 20:44

I remember watching the TV in our small front room. Sat on the floor with neighbours and family watching the Queens Coronation. I was able to describe what happened. I wasn't born until 1966.
I argued with DGM/DM that I was there for many years.

Hidingawaytoday · 15/10/2023 20:44

@Weddingpuzzle, I agree that could be a premonition. I think I had one once, it was the day we moved into our current house, and I just 'saw' this little girl running towards me. It was really weird.

12 days later I find out I'm expecting DD.

I also potentially had one when I met my in laws for the first time - saw two kids running around their house. Can confirm it was yet as we only have the one (currently ttc though so hopeful) 😆