AIBU to believe FIL time slip experience?

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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!

Not a time slip but I had an odd encounter on Bold Street years ago.

I was a student working in town and my walk to work took me down Bold Street.

My parents were no longer with us and I found myself thinking about them on my walk one day as I’d seen a chap going into one of the shops who resembled my dad from behind.

I got a bit further down the street when I noticed a woman stood staring at me. I looked at her and she made a beeline for me, stopped me, touched my arm and said “don’t worry, they’re always with you”. I was stunned and said “sorry?” She repeated it then handed me a small bunch of what I assumed were dried herbs and left.

I didn’t know her and never saw her again. The obvious explanation is it was just a coincidence, me linking her actions with my thoughts at the time. Regardless though it gave me comfort. As a result, I would now never discount anyone’s “woo” experience.

fallible human brain

I have from time to time had hallucinations due I think to strong prescribed pain meds. I have seen old ladies, and various animals. They are very real, part of my brain says they are real and I have got out of bed and tried to touch them, another part of me knows they are tricks of the mind. If I remember to wear an eye mask, it never happens. If I were less of a cynic I could claim to be seeing ghosts as they are so real. The mind is so strange, but there is usually a rational explanation. Accounts on here fascinating

I have experienced a time slip which took two hours from me - driving down a lane I regularly use and it kind of morphed into World War Two with the planes and different landscape and I could also hear the engines and smell the fuel - what is usually a couple of minutes had taken two hours away from me so I definitely know that these can happen

That's fascinating.

Why do you assume this was something external to you (i.e. a complete upheaval of the entire physics of space and time) rather than something internal (i.e. a hallucination)?