I’d like to relate a personal experience that I had when I was an adolescent in the hope that others might be willing to come forward and share any similar experiences that they may have had.
I’ve titled this article “A Missing Time Experience?” – with a question mark, you’ll notice – because it does not necessarily fit the “typical” missing time scenario of which we hear. It did not happen late at night on a darkened rural road; there was no UFO sighting involved (that I recall). It occurred in the afternoon, on a sunny day, on a relatively busy street in a bustling suburban town in northeastern New Jersey. In fact, I’m not entirely sure that there even was a period of missing time. Yet, it was strange in the extreme and something that I contemplate regularly to this day, more than thirty years later.
The time of year was late winter or early spring – around March or April, I believe, of 1978. I was in junior high school, seventh grade, and thirteen years of age. It was a weekday at about 3:00 PM and school had just let out. I left the junior high school, which is located next to a hospital in my home town of Ridgewood, NJ. Ridgewood is located about 20 miles from New York City, in Bergen County, a very populated area of the state. I walked, as I did most days, home from the junior high (now a middle school). My parent’s home was located about 1.5 miles from the school along a very direct route. Most of the walk was on the street on which the school was located, followed by a left and a quick right toward the very end of the walk. So, I’d normally just walk out the front door of the school, take a left, and proceed straight for about 1.4 miles, the last 0.10 of a mile being that left and the right, at which point I was at our house.
That was the route that I would normally take, however, I had a run-in with a group of boys that bullied me on a regular basis, so rather than taking a left out the front door of the school and proceeding due south for that 1.4 miles, I’d go left and then take another left at the very first traffic after leaving the school. I’d then walk to the next street over and take a right onto that street, again walking due south. It wasn’t much of a departure from my normal route, as the street ran parallel to the one I’d usually take to get home. I’d been doing that for at least a couple of months in an effort to avoid walking past the homes of the boys who were bullying me. Therefore, I’m confident of the the fact that there was no way I would have become lost or confused of my whereabouts.
However, one day as I began walking home, I noticed that everything seemed strangely quiet, almost muted. The normal noise and bustle associated with the after-school rush of children walking home from school was oddly absent and the quiet was rather eerie. There were still cars and some pedestrians present as I walked down this busy suburban street, but there was an odd, unreal feeling to everything, along with this disturbing muted silence.
The street that I was walking down was called North Pleasant Avenue, and the intersection that I was approaching was at the corner of North Pleasant and Ridgewood Avenue. After crossing Ridgewood Ave, North Pleasant turned to South Pleasant Avenue and I would pass the elementary school that I’d attended the years prior to entering the junior high in September of ’77. At crossing that intersection and approaching the elementary school, I was approximately 0.8 mile from my home. I mention these facts only to continue to emphasize that this was a route and neighborhood in which I was used to traveling.
As I continued south, from N. Pleasant toward S. Pleasant and toward the intersection of Pleasant and Ridgewood Avenues, I saw the traffic light, the same familiar stores at the corner, and the small parking lot in front of the stores. However, these landmarks appeared to be getting further away as I walked closer to them, and still this odd silence persisted. As I continued to walk toward the intersection, these landmarks continued to appear to recede further into the distance as I approached them. I began feeling very disoriented and anxious – and then, nothing; a complete loss of memory. I simply do not remember anything past the point of approaching this intersection and seeing it recede further into the distance as I walked ever nearer to it.
“Get John. He needs you.”
My next memory was of “awakening” – for a lack of a better description – on another street in a different part of town, a fair distance from where I had started from at the junior high school. I remember feeling very shaken and confused and somewhat frightened. What had happened? And how did I end up in this different area, nowhere near where I’d begun walking, and nowhere near where I’d “blacked out”? This is where things get a bit stranger still: within a couple of minutes of “coming to” my mother pulled up in her car, parking along the curb of the street where I was walking. I opened the door and she looked at me with great concern and said “John, are you alright?” Now, normally my mother did not come looking for me if I was a bit late arriving home from school. Remember, this was the late ’70s and parents were decidedly more relaxed about the comings and goings of their children. My mother never picked me up from school unless the weather was very severe or we had some kind of appointment after school, and as long as I was home by dinner my parents didn’t worry or wonder about my whereabouts. If I didn’t come straight home it was assumed that I was at a friend’s house or had some kind of after school activity.
The fact that my mother knew exactly where to find me was surprising, and I asked her how she knew where I was. She replied that she was home, doing chores around the house when a voice in her head said “Get John, he needs you”. She of course asked me what had happened and I told her about the receding intersection, the strange silence, the memory loss, and of waking up to find myself walking in this other part of town. I had no idea what had happened and to this day I still do not, other than a vague memory or feeling of having been told or shown something significant. Who told or showed me what, and where it happened, I cannot recall, although I feel at some point that I will recall the entire incident. I simply feel that this event was significant for a reason that I can’t explain, but it’s meaning will eventually be made clear to me.
Being that this was over thirty years ago, I cannot accurately recall the time that I “awoke” or what time my mother found me. However, I don’t think it was a great amount of time, certainly not more than hour, and probably less than that. Thirty minutes, perhaps? So the time was maybe 3:30 or 3:45 in the afternoon, I’d estimate. It may have been later than that, but not by much, if I recall correctly. I’ve always felt that the strangeness of this incident is compounded by the fact that my mother was somehow involved and “contacted”. If I had simply blacked out or became disoriented and wandered off, I could accept that as being a possibility – although I had no history of seizures or blackouts. But the fact that my mother was told to “Get John, he needs you” makes me believe that there was some outside design and involvement in this, the nature of which I do not know.
This, I should mention, was not the only strange and unexplained incidents that I had as a child (or as an adult). Perhaps I’ll discuss some of the others in future blog posts. Meanwhile, I’d be very interested in hearing from other people who may have experienced similar phenomena.
I know, I know. I’m actually typing about this. My son’s well one of them urged me to go online and find out more information about this. Here goes…back in 2002 I was a systems admin person or I.T. guy for a law enforcement agency in the mid west, what I’m going to do is shorten this up a little so I don’t sound like a nut job. In short the law enforcement agency was having a parade the next day and the police chief let me and my two friends use his ford expedition police vehicle ( unmarked ) to go to a neighboring town to pick up some flags and keys to some ATV’s it was around 6:30 pm and the neighboring town was about an hour away. Well on the way there since it is in the middle of now where we threw on the flashing red,blue,white strobes for fun which apparently activated the on board cam’s, we then picked up the items, and headed back to our town turned in the vehicle and went home. I got a scolding from the person I lived in because it was so late. I realized it was close to 3 am in the morning, sat had a tea and went to bed and thought no more about it.
a few month later me and the two friends that went with me found we were all having the same dreams about a white-ish light above the ford expedition and how deathly afraid we were in the dream, from what? I don’t know. We all do know that hours were missing from our lives that night and we had the same exact dream from our own perspectives. example: in my dream my buddy luke was trying to hide on the floor in the back seat and was saying “oh oh my god no” while he kept pressing the power lock button, and in his dream he was trying to hide on the floor in the back seat saying ” oh my god no, my god” and was trying to keep the doors locked. where as my third buddy was dreaming exactly what we were dreaming we were doing. Shortly after that I resigned from that agency and moved back to seattle washington.
I bring this up again because I am back in the same town due to my parents death’s and live here now but i work 80 miles away at a restaurant because of the lack of jobs in this town. The highway I travel is desolate especially at night when I return home. Well the other day I left work late around 11:30pm because some of the kitchen help didnt show up that night and i had to go back and help clean up. ( it takes me about 1 hour and 45 minutes one way). I got home at 4:30 ish am that day. I came over the last hill about 29 miles from my town where one can see the city lights and got a feeling like i wanted to faint i noticed my “check engine” light was not on anymore and the clock on the radio say 4 38 am or something. The first incident in 2002 left me and my three buddies with red triangles on our sternum about less then a 16th of an inch, also a weird quirk to this is my check engine light was no longer on, my radio presets were all erased and the H.I.D.s (high intensity discharge) high beam headlights ballasts were melted. That is why at first I thought the reading on the clock was incorrect and it was, but not by much. After that I quit my job there and trying to make sense of this.
I know your probably saying wow another nut job. I have told this to my aunt and my buddies who I mentioned earlier. nobody else but felt i needed to see if there is anyone else out there who have had something similiar.
P.S. I am currently having nightmares about me and a sheriffs deputy for this county on that highway and him telling me something about “around that corner” I look down the highway and a light scares the s**t out of me and the deputy and I try and hide under my car. I know as I started out I sound like a mad nutjob but I know something has happened and as a god fearing person I cant make sense of it. I also think there is a local sheriffs deputy, if Im correct that may be having a similiar dream if i think what happened again on that highway was true from my dreams. I don’t know. but thanks for reading this friends. Dennis. B.
Hi Dennis — Hey, I’m the last guy to think you’re a nutjob. Have you read through all of the comments that people have left on this blog? There are a lot of strange stories on here, and I had an unexplained experience myself, so don’t worry about feeling uncomfortable in sharing your story. I like to think of this website as a place where people can do that without fear of ridicule or judgement.
The incident that you described is definitely more in line with the typical abduction scenario: late at night, deserted road, light in the sky, subsequent nightmares, etc. The fact that two other people were involved and are having similar nightmares and identical marks on their bodies is further evidence that something happened to you and your friends.
Many of the stories shared on this blog and that are emailed to me do not involve any sightings of objects in the sky or physical evidence, but there are some that do and follow the more traditional view of UFO abductions. Yours definitely fits that profile, but I’m always a little hesitant to make that conclusion. I think that whatever is at the root cause of these time phenomena (and there could be more than one cause) is very complex. Some seem to be very random while others indicate that they’ve been orchestrated. And if some (or perhaps all) of them are orchestrated, then we have to ask “by whom”? If these are not all simply cases of mistaken perception by those people claiming to have these experiences, and we don’t dismiss them all as lies, then we have to admit that something is going on. I personally do not think that these are all mistakes or fabrications, and I don’t think people who have had these experiences are all “nutjobs” (being one of them myself — and I don’t think I’m nuts). That means that we’re dealing with something unexplained.
As I’ve said in the last few responses to peoples’ comments, I think that whatever/whomever is causing these missing time anomalies have been interacting with humankind since our beginnings. There are stories going back centuries over all different cultures about strange beings (angels, demons, fairies, ETs are some of the names given to them), mysterious lights and flying objects. I think these are all part of the same thing we’re dealing with today. We just put the UFO/ET label on it because that fits in with our mindset in this day and age.
Please keep in touch and let me know if anything else happens or you recall anything else. If you’d prefer to email me, it’s john@theparanomalist.com. Thanks again for sharing your experience. — John
Sheesh, I just wrote a long reply to your comment, Dennis, and now I can’t find it! Anyhow, I do not think you’re a “nutjob”. Look at all the comments on this blog and my replies. Your story is just one of many that are very, very difficult to explain. Many of them involve missing and unaccounted-for periods of time, and they come from very sane and rational-sounding people. I had an experience like this myself, and I don’t think I’m a nutjob.
Your incidents sound more like the typical abduction scenario: driving on a highway late at night, a bright object seen overhead, subsequent nightmares, etc. The fact that two other people seem to have experienced the same thing and that there was physical evidence in the form of the marks on your body and those of your friends’, and that your vehicle was affected just lends more credibility to your story and points to the conclusion that something definitely did happen to you.
Thanks for sharing your experience. If anything else comes to mind, please feel free to get in touch through this blog or by email at john@theparanomalist.com.
Hi John, It’s been awhile. I see a lot of activity since my last visit. I just want to update a bit. I under went Hypnotic regression and a great deal of info. came up I wasn’t expecting. It appears that there was an abduction in which I saw an orange three to four foot wide beam of light enter through the ceiling of my friend’s parent’s house. In it I saw slow falling large gold snowflake like stuff. I don’t remember walking toward it but the next thing I knew I was laying on my back on an elevated table made of grey metal with a lit top shaped like a “T”.
I saw all sorts of details of the inside of a round space craft. I saw two of the occupants that were on either side of me. They wore plain one color clothes with long sleeves. I thought it looked like metal cloth. Like mesh. I saw instruments come out of the ceiling. They put something up my left nostril that hurt quite a lot. They put a telescopic devise up to my left ear. I was taken into zero gravity. I was presented to some tower shaped machine of the most incredible design. The contents of my stomach was removed. And I was returned to where I started 6 hrs. later. I wasn’t expecting such a maddening story to emerge. But once it did I stopped feeling this anxious feeling in my hands and feet that I’ve been experiencing ever since. It went away at once and never came back. I’ve learned more about our wold and this life in the last six months than I have in the last forty-six years. It’s been extremely relieving to my nerves. I finally feel free to some degree. There dangers out there for anyone going through this process. So be careful on your journey and remember this. There are people and organizations setup to stop you or change your mind about things. Be strong and be careful. Oh by the way the interior of the moon is one hell of a cool place! The design is the inner surface is completely covered every inch by cylindric and dome shaped buildings and there is a structure shaped like a giant rose thorn pointing toward the center of the moon. It’s a giant building whit two huge arm like structures holding a glass geodesic sphere with machines inside it that glow bright blue, green and red. It was a remote view. I seem to have picked up the talent recently. Anyone can do it. It’s been kept a secret from us for a long time but it appears to be coming out again. Thank goodness. We need to wake up. Have a good one more cool and scary stuff later. Take care and if you remote view be careful of the northern Alaska high security area. It attracts hazardous attention to you!!!!
Hi Erik — Wow! I don’t know where to begin. Can you describe what the occupants looked like? Do you feel this was the first and only time this has happened to you, or do you think this is one of a series of similar events?
I’m glad you feel a sense of relief after the regression. That’s the outcome one hopes for, but I’m sure that in some cases these memories can be very upsetting. I’ve got to return to my work in a moment, but I’d like to correspond further by email if that’s okay.
Thanks for relating your experience! — John
Hi, I have had an experience when I was 4 years old, being only 4 I had no recognition of time so I do not know if there was indeed a period of missing time.
My mother had bought me 2 packets of rainbowdrops (candy/sweets), I took a plastic bowl out of the cupboard in the kitchen and went outside to our open shed (it had no door on it, with a tin roof) I proceeded pouring the sweets into the bowl and decided that I wanted a spoon to eat them with.
I quickly looked all around to see if anyone was about before darting back into the kitchen, coast was clear, no one was looking out any windows (we lived in a terraced house in the middle of the row of about 8 houses, there was a driveway at the back of the house for all the houses, more of a narrow lane, the gardens were further back from the lane, with our open shed being next to the lane.).
Not one single human being was about, so I ran into the house as quickly as I could, I got the spoon and forgot was I was doing for a moment, my mother was in the kitchen with my brother.
When I went into the little bit of our concrete garden, I was stopped dead in my tracks, I remember how you said it was eerily quiet, well it was the same for me, no noise was coming from the kitchen even though my mother and brother was there.
It actually felt like I was starting to walk from the little garden instead of the kitchen and I had my first intuitive feeling when I was 4, that my sweets were all gone, indeed they were, with no trace of them anywhere.
I happened to mention this to my then neighbour recently, he said, don’t think about it, think of the good? This really perplexed me.
I know that ufo’s are nothing more than manifested demonic entities, so maybe this is what he meant?
I’ve also been researching monarch programming and subliminal messages and symbolism in films/movies particularly Disney movies and how Alice in wonderland is showing alot of occult symbols.
This type of stuff they don’t teach you in school, you are spoon fed education from a workbook in school and asked to regurgitate that ‘knowledge’ back onto a test paper, hence revising, so in all essence you are ‘programmed’ to ‘their’ way of thinking, which may or may not be the truth.
Fair enough that mathematics is needed in everyday life, but history is a different matter completely, we are made to ‘believe’ what the history books say.
As for what happened when I was 4, I’m left clueless.
Hi Mary — You sent this just as I was listening to author and researcher Dave Paulides talking to George Knapp on Coast to Coast AM about children mysteriously disappearing and (sometimes) reappearing, which was leading me to wonder if this phenomenon is related to these time anomalies. Here’s the link to the interview if you’d like to listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx9ti8uGADc. An interesting segment is at around the 1:20 mark.
Perhaps your neighbor who told you to you to not think about it and “think of the good” had a similar experience. I’m beginning to think that a very large percentage of our species’ population have undergone these…manipulations(?). I’m no longer even sure what to call them or how to label these incidents, but I’ve come to believe that we are being manipulated by something(s) for reasons that are being kept from us or may even be beyond our comprehension. I hope they are not demonic, and I resist making that assumption, but it is certainly a possibility. As much as possible, I try not to associate these phenomena with my religious beliefs — though that’s often challenging. Whatever this is, however, seems to be very pervasive.
Something definitely is going on John, when I posted this on your site, every story was blanked out from a certain date, I never got to see this message also when I clicked on the link this interview has been removed. But I can clearly see your message now, I even checked back on this day to see if you had replied and you hadn’t…. strange.
Email is okay. It’s the most pronounced situation but there is so much more. I’m so amazed at how much is going on and how little the main stream population is tuned into it. It’s a little depressing and stressful, but I believe many are coming around and many more will follow. I’m doing what I can to help with this process. I’ve come up with theories in science about sixteen years ago that recently where proven. I’m really excited about that. I also developed a break through in understanding the structure of light that has been a fantastic spring board into understanding space time and inter-dimensional navigation of physical form. I’ll explain further by email. Take care.
Oh, In answer to describing the occupants, I can tell you in perfect detail, as well as their attire which I made a connection with on the 22nd of this month.
Thanks, Erik. Looking forward to hearing your views and learning more of your experiences.
Great! Thanks again.
I sent you an email but I’m not sure if you got it. If you could let me know that would be great. Thanks, Erik
Hello John,
Hope you are well and glad you keep this site going.
Wrote to you exactly one year ago April 21, 2012 and you mentioned you were going to post a review and your conversations with CK Quarterman and his book ‘Fallen Angels’. I have not seen it on his site so was wondering if you posted anything elsewhere as I am interested. Thanks for your response in advance.
Doug
Hi Doug,
No, I’m sorry, I have not reviewed it. In fact, there are several books to which I owe a review. Other than responding to comments, the site has been largely inactive for the past 18 months. I was taking care of my ailing old father who’s since passed away, along with attempting to run my business and a spend a little time with my family. I’m finally beginning to see daylight after a long, tiring stretch and I plan to completely revamp my site within the next 6-7 weeks and begin contributing new articles (including overdue reviews) on a regular basis. I’m also having a studio built in my basement over this summer and as soon as that’s complete I’m going to set up my audio equipment and start a weekly podcast. So there’s a lot of good things ahead for version 2.0 of the site. It’s just taking me longer than anticipated to get there.
Thanks for checking in. I’ve got your email here and I can let you know when I post the review of you’d like. I thought it was a very interesting book — interesting also because I’ve been hearing quite a few other authors & researchers expressing the same or very similar ideas as C.K. Quarterman’s. Personally, I try not to attach religious precepts to the unexplained, but that’s not to say these ideas are not valid. It does seem to fit some of these more obscure passages in the Old Testament. — John
i have a new email. the other one stopped working.
Thanks, Eric. I’ll make a note of it.
I was in Las Vegas (2013) catching the bus to the airport and asked the bus driver as soon as I stepped on to announce when we were close approaching. I was watching a short clip from the concert I attended during my stay on my iPhone when I looked up and felt out of place. I went to the front and asked the bus driver if we were close. He sayed I missed it twice. He asked if I fell asleep or something. I know I did not. 2.5 hrs unaccounted.
I had a VERY similar experience, also as a child, that I too am trying to decipher still about 20 years later. I grew up in Hazard, KY in the Bonnyman hills of the appalachain mountains… my home was literally about 10 feet from the woods, that I wasn’t allowed to venture into alone. No one would ever take me though, and I was young and became curious, so regardless of my mother’s advice, I began to walk up the mountain into the woods. I remember telling myself to just keep going, there has to be something to see. I walked for what seemed like forever and then everything fell silent as I came into this strange clearing… the birds stopped chirping, the bugs stopped buzzing, the wind stopped blowing… the silence made me realize that I was lost. I stood in the clearing and began to panic because I didn’t know how I was going to get home. Then it goes blank and the next thing I remember is being back in the woods, staring at my home from behind a tree maybe only 50 feet away. I was out of breath as if I’d just ran a marathon and I was extremely confused. I didn’t know how I’d gotten back there. I had no clue what so ever what had happened and the more I tried to decipher the possibilities in my child mind, the more scared and confused I became. I tried to talk to others, no one believed me, saying that I tell ‘good’ stories. I too feel like I was told or shown something significant that I will recall later in time, however, I’m an impatient person and have been practicing meditation to try to recall my memories. Bits and pieces have been coming back to me, but I still have yet to figure it out. Lately the desire to remember has became a lot more intense… almost as if I’m anticipating remembering it because it’s just around the corner, I know it’s about to happen. I notice that you wrote this in 2009, so I was curious if you’re will to figure it out has intensified any either?
Hi Janel — Do you believe that there were any reason that you weren’t allowed in those woods and that no one would take you? Any stories or legends associated with the area? Or was it more a matter of the adults wanting to keep you out of there out of concern for your safety (wild animals, getting lost, etc.)? How old were you when this happened?
Yes, I’d say that my curiosity about my missing time incident has grown over time instead of diminishing. Part of that is probably because I receive so many blog comments and emails about peoples’ experiences as a result of this article. I’m pretty well immersed in it and I’m more fascinated with the subject as time goes on. But I’m no closer to figuring it all out.
One time we were driving around 5 pm, all of a sudden I blinked and it was dark I looked at the vehicle’s clock and it was 8:30 pm! We had skipped over 3 hours. My wife was in shock, I was in shock. We never found out what happened. If you are thinking we were using drugs you are wrong, the kids also knew there was something wrong with the time. A regular trip took 3.5 hours more than usual, we never could figure out what happened between 5 pm and 8:30 pm that day…
Oto — That’s a pretty significant amount of time. Paul — Yours even more so! Many of the missing time episodes that people tell me of are shorter periods of time, but of course it’s much more difficult to account for a several hours or an entire half day. I had one woman tell me that she was missing for several days with no recollection of her whereabouts or what transpired over this time.
about 2 yrs ago at 7pm iwas siting watching outside a very strange feeling came over me and I realized the sun was rising I looked a the clock it was 7:30 in the morning I had lost almost a half day
Hi John, what I have to tell is somewhat strange. I live in Rio de Jnaeiro and the year was 1987 and I was 21. I don’t remember what period of the year it was at that time. One saturday night I went with friends to a night club for a good hang out. We had a lot of fun and I remember i’ve drinked a lot that night. So I was too high and felt bad and the only thing I wanted was to go home but my friends didn’t allowed me to drive back alone (our traffic laws at that time weren’t so hard as the current laws). When they were not aware I managed to get out unseen. I got to my car put the keys on the ignition, turned on the car and the lights AND….. surprisingly I was in front of my home. I don’t remembver even to have changed to the first gear (my car was manual). The most surprising is that only 15 minutes had passed since I left the club as I checked the time when I was geting out; It was 2:45 AM and the time at my arrival was 3:00 AM. It would be ok if the club was arround my neighborhood, but it was 25 kilometers away with a heavy traffic and lots of traffic lights from there. I don’t remember anything between what I said above and my arrival at home. What may have happened? I told my friends and they didn’t believed me, but my mom told them that I got home 3 AM and that made them confused as they left shortly after me and it took about an hour to get to our place.
Hi John,
I’ve been reading your blog off and on since my original post in July of last year and the episodes of “high strangeness” that folks have reported here . Certainly, there are things going on that defy explanation and are far more widespread than I think any of us were prepared to expect/believe. After reading two of the books that you mentioned (authors Jenny Randles, David Paulides) I am just amazed that this has not seen any mainstream media coverage, especially Paulides’ revelations that *lots* of people are disappearing and the media essentially ignores it after an “appropriate” amount of time has elapsed.
Interesting too are the stories that emerge from hypnotic regression. Since I have no memory whatsoever of my singular event of time loss, I wonder if it would be worthwhile after all this time to try a regression session to see what if anything emerges of possibly repressed memories. This makes one wonder how many other people are either unaware that they had an event or wrote it off as feeling a bit oddly and that was it. I have had no related dreams or nightmares or snippets of recall of my event so long ago, other than that the actual loss of time itself occurred, and I feel no apparent angst about the possibility of recovering a repressed memory other than plain curiosity; can’t afford it right now anyway with the economy in its present doldrums.
I am looking forward to your upcoming changes to the site. Something is indeed happening and I am wondering if it happens to *everyone* at some point in our lives and to some multiple times. For something of this magnitude to be occurring without any sort of media coverage makes one wonder if such news is being filtered or censored in some fashion to suit the agenda of ??? Keep putting the word out, there has to be some sort of answer and hopefully we can recognize it if we run across it in our life travels. Thanks, John, for posting your blog.
Thank you, Marc. I also wonder exactly how widespread these time anomaly / missing time phenomena are, and suspect that perhaps a majority (or at least a very large percentage) of the human population have had them. It would not surprise me if the government knew something about this too and the subject is censored in the media.
What I find interesting is that the majority of the stories that I receive from men and women claiming to have these experiences do not the typical “alien abduction” scenario. No little gray men with black eyes or glowing objects in the sky, just a blank spot in their memories and a period of missing time — or sometimes gained time or time slips. I do occasionally receive reports that fit into the kind described in the research of Budd Hopkins and Dr. John Mack or in the works of Whitley Strieber, but those are the small minority. The fact that most of these are less sensational is, in a way, all the more disturbing because it seems that if “they” (whoever they are) want you, they can take you at an time of the day or night and in any location. That is to say, if we’re dealing with some kind of outside intelligence that is causing these phenomena, and they are not due to some kind of natural disturbance or mental aberration.
I might consider doing a hypnotic regression. My own incident has been on my mind quite a bit lately and I think I’d like to see if I can recall anything and get to the root cause of the problem. I’m just wary of hypnosis only because I’ve read so much about alien abduction that I fear my mind could be tainted and I may produce some false memories. Still, it might be worth a try. Maybe I can go under hypnosis live on the air when I get my podcast going. Could be an interesting show!
Thanks for reading, Marc. I’m looking forward to finally updating the site and in the next few months getting the podcast going again too. I’m probably about a month away from finishing and relaunching and re-branding the site, at which point I’ll begin posting new content on a regular basis.
Keep in touch.
In August 1969, I was a senior at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. It was my habit to go to what was then called the computer lab, where I would study at a quiet desk space. On this particular evening, I had a difficult time studying because I felt excited about something, but it was only a routine Friday evening on campus and there was nothing to be excited about. I just felt I should skip the lab and go home early.
The computer lab closed at midnight, and I glanced at the clock before I left. It was 11:45. As I walked outside to return to my dorm just a half block away, I looked up at a wonderful star-studded sky and marveled at its beauty. I paused momentarilly to take it all in and noticed some movement to my left in the sky. It looked like a star was moving slowly across the sky from East to West, just South of me.
I watched it and wondered what it was as it began to slow and lose altitude. At that point, I thought it must be a small plane in trouble and kept an eye on it as I slowly walked South toward it. It slowed and lowered even further as it turned North toward me. It dropped down behind one of the midrise (12 stories) dorms and I momentarilly lost sight of it. At that point I began to wonder why I could not hear an engine.
When it emerged from behind the dorm, it was just barely drifting and then just hung motionless before me, now about a block away. I reasoned that only a helicopter could move like that but there still was no noise whatsoever. It then drifted towards me from a westerly direction as it had passed ahead of me when it descended behing the dorm.
I was awe- stricken and could not believe my eyes and I remember thinking to myself; That’s no plane or helicopter, that’s a UFO! I wondered it “they” knew I was there and could see them. As I stared at the light, I heard in my head the words, “Not only do we know you see us,but we see you”
Still in absolute silence, the light came closer to me until it was about 50 feet away from me and 25 feet off the ground. It’s important to note that there were many buildings in this area of the campus as well as high tension power lines and a railroad overpass that the light easily maneuvered around with ease. The overpass was to my left , south of me, I had to walk beneath it to get to my dorm. As I walked slowly towards the overpass. the light drifted to a point directly over the overpass very close to me and stopped noiselessly in mid air. I stopped to watch it descend towards the overpass in a very peculiar motion. It was as if it were hinged to someting alternately on the left and then right side as seem to came to rest on the over pass. The light was about as big as an full-sized 1960’s automobile.
I just continued to look at the light as it rested there for what seemed to be a few seconds. The next thing I knew it began to drift away from me so that it was out of view behind the over pass. I ran beneath the overpass and look for it on the other side, expecting to find it on the ground, but it was gone.
I looked to see if anyone else was around to see this amazing light, but there wasn’t, nor was there any car traffic. I was now just in front of my dorm and kept looking around for the light and wondering what was going on. I was hoping for confirmation that I had, in fact, seen what I had just seen. I looked towards the sky again. and it was not the starry sky I noticed just a few minutes before. There were fast-moving low level cumulus clouds moving West to East now there was a moon I did not see before.
I was confused! Did this really happen? What had I seen? How could that light disappear so quickly and why was the sky so different on this side of the overpass?
I looked up again and saw another star- like light (or perhaps the same one) now coming from the part of the sky where I first spotted the first one. It moved quickly to a spot high overhead well above the fast-moving clouds. I looked directly up at it and it seemed to drop down quickly, gowing brighter as it did so. It slowed at one point and I could discern for the first time an actual shape rather than just light as before. It seemed to be a flattened sphere.
It was either rotating slowly or it had an incandescence with dark spots that traveled across its surface from right to left. I could not tell which. Inexplicably, I began to feel uncomfortable that I had just seen this. Still noiseless, it grew into a brilliant light form and dropped down to just maybe 30 feet directly overhead. I stared for a few seconds and it again began to drift away from me, but I now I was determined to follow it.
This is when it really got weird! I could not move off the curb towards the light to follow it!
I tried with all my will and strength, but could not do so. In my head I now heard repeated over and over again, like a mantra, “Go home and go to bed.” With my own thoughts I said, “But I wan to follow!” It was futile, I found myself involuntarilly turning away and walking back to the dorm! I felt like a child whose parents were sending him to bed against his will. I rember thinking, I can’t believe this is happening! My body was not doing what I wanted it to do!
I trudged along to my room and saw the time was now 1:20AM! This whole ordeal could not have taken more than ten minutes, so I reasoned that the clocked had stopped at 1:20PM, as it was a manual, wind-up clock. The next morning the clock was at the correct time of 7:00 AM, so it had not stopped. I left the lab at 11:45 and got to my room at
1:20, one hour and 35 minutes later! Even if it took as long as 15 minutes to experience all that I have related, there is no way I to account for this much time.
More strane things happened the next day. For one thing, I have never slept so well and felt so refreshed as I did after that night’s sleep. I was excited the next day and wanted to tell anyone who would listen that I had had a very strange experience, but every time I would begin to say something about what had happened, I heard in my head, “It is not yet time!”, and I would forget what it was that I wanted to say.
This is the strangest experience I have ever had and for some reason, I have always felt that it’s the mosts important thing I’ve ever experienced. I think that it’s strange how I could easily communicate mentally with the light, and not get freaked out when I could hear them tell me it’s not yet time. For many years, I even forgot about it.
Well this is the first time I have told my story, and nothing is stopping me!
In case you are wondering: no, I did not do drugs back then or ever. I am sane, well educated and stable. I do not suffer from any psycological problems or hallucinations.
I do feel uncomfortable admiting that I could “hear them in my head..” telling me something, but that’s the truth and I am not given to “hearing voices”
It’s important to note that I saw only a light,not a solid object. I never heard any mechanical noise or propulsion system. One could argue that it’s been over 40 years since the experience and I may be embellishing or confusing the facts. Such an argument is understandble, but unfounded. One does not forget facts and details about such life-changing experiences and I have no reason to embellish a story 4 decades after the fact.
That’s my story and I would like to know what happened! Thanks for listening.
Ben — Thanks so much for sharing this amazing experience. I get at least a dozen comments in response to my Missing Time article or emails sent to me from people who have had similar occurrences. However, only a small percentage of them fit this “classic” UFO abduction scenario (if that is indeed what happened to you). Many of the missing time episodes that people describe to me are more like mine: often during the daytime hours, in a busy, populated area. Fewer are at night, in a secluded area, or involve a UFO sighting. There’s quite a wide range of variance among these missing time experiences. In fact, I’m hesitant use that term because Missing Time seems to be a subset of what I’ve come to call Time Anomaly Phenomena (TAP). TAP often involves periods of missing time, but it may involve time gain or time “slips”, in which the individual finds themselves in a different time period or even, perhaps, an alternate dimension.
The real question though, is what is the cause of these phenomena? I suppose it would be easiest to attribute them all to some kind of mental aberration or outright fabrication, but having undergone such an experience myself I cannot bring myself to be so dismissive of those who share their experiences with me. Many seem to be like yourself — sane, educated, articulate and with no reason to manufacture such an outlandish story.
I’ve entertained the idea that these episodes could be due to some kind of naturally-occurring phenomena having to do with electromagnetism, but I have a hard time with some aspects of that theory. As much as the rationalist in me resists the idea (and I am pretty conservative in my thinking for a guy who blogs about weird stuff) I believe that these Time Anomalies are being caused by a direct intervention with some sort of outside, non-human intelligence. I’m not quite prepared to say “space aliens” because my thinking is more along the lines that we’re dealing with interdimensional entities. Furthermore, I believe these entities have been interacting with our species since the beginning of our origin — and indeed may be responsible for existence, or at least in our development.
I share your feeling about this incident being the most important lifetime event. And, I also feel that at some point I’m meant to remember what happened to me and what I was told and shown.
Thanks again for telling your story. I really wish I could tell you what happened, but I honestly don’t know! But those are my thoughts on the subject… This seems to be a very widespread phenomenon and I feel quite certain that it’s not simply random or purposeless. There’s a reason that they’re happening, and I can only hope that it’s a positive one.
— John
Thanks, John.
Just after I hit the “submit” button to send in my story, I began to feel really foolish. I worried that I would not be taken seriously or that others would think of me as very strange.
Your response makes me feel more comfortable that perhaps I did not do a foolish thing.
I like your rational approach and conservative thinking as I am much the same.
I have always wondered if this experience was brought about by an agents of good or evil.
There is nothing outwardly good or evil about the experience itself, and I wonder what, if anything I am supposed to do with it our about it.
Strangely, I have had experiences during the intervening years that were more like the TAP you and others relate, so I wonder what the connection may be, if any.
My pleasure, Ben. If this blog of mine has any real purpose outside of just entertainment value, I like to think it provides a forum where people can feel comfortable in discussing strange experiences. I believe that there are quite a lot of people — many more than I’d ever realized before starting this website — that have had some truly bizarre experiences that in no way fit what we perceive as normal reality. For example, I recently interviewed three brothers who all claimed to have received frequent, terrifying visits as children from a small, gnome- or leprechaun-like being. They came across as being very sincere and genuinely uncomfortable when discussing it with me. After speaking with them I didn’t doubt their veracity or their sanity in the least. These men all corroborated each others stories and had nothing to gain by sharing them with me, other than perhaps to unburden themselves (they did seem relieved after telling me).
Honestly though: Gnomes? Aliens? UFOs? Bigfoot? How does a rational person take such tales seriously? Well, I think we need to accept the fact that we do NOT have all the answers and that our understanding of the universe is very flawed and limited. I’ve spoken to and corresponded to far too many people who sound grounded, intelligent and sane who claim to have had all manner of disturbing and inexplicable occurrences. Are they all simply mistaken or liars? I honestly don’t believe so. So where does that leave us if even a small percentage of these stories are true? I believe we live in a multi-dimensional universe and that at times intelligences from these parallel realities interact with us — for what purpose, I don’t know. Or, we simply get a glimpse into these worlds or see these beings as they pass through into our reality. An interesting story about such an encounter is that of the Irish author Herbie Brennan and his sighting of “fairy horses“.
If you have some time, please read through some of the comments above yours in my Missing Time article. There are many, many strange stories that are in the same vein as yours, so you’re not alone at all. I’ve received many more emails from people telling of similar incidents as well. The only conclusions I can make with confident are: 1) The phenomenon is real; 2) It must mean something and have some purpose; and 3) There’s nothing inherently wrong with those individuals who have had these experience. Keep in mind too that tales of faerie folk, little people, giants, individuals being lost in “faerie circles”, glowing objects in the sky, and more are prevalent in the folklore of pretty much every culture in the world for centuries. I think these “folk tales” have a strong basis in reality and that we are simply couching them in our modern terms and perceiving them through our present-day culture lens. These things have been present since our beginnings, and probably before them, and I think they serve some kind of purpose. Perhaps it’s to further our spiritual development. I certainly hope it’s something positive like that anyway.
Like you, I didn’t get a sense of my experience being either negative or positive. And I am unsurprised that you’ve had other TAP experiences since the one you described. These are rarely one-time, standalone episodes. That’s another conclusion that I’ve drawn from the many interactions I’ve had with other experiencers.
I’m all ears if you want to talk about anything else, whether on the blog or privately by email.
My mother has told me about something strange that happening to her as a teen. She would go to Indiana during the summer to visit her older sister and her husband. Every day they would leave to go to work and every day they would wake her to let her know they were leaving and they would always leave ice cream money on the tv. One morning they told her they were leaving and told her that her money was on the tv. My mother says the next thing she remembers is hearing voices and she felt scared. Her next memory was her sister and brother-in-law coming home. She said she was downstairs in the floor and they were asking her why she was in the floor. She had no idea. She said her money was still on the tv and they said the doors were still locked and nothing was out of place. My mother said it had felt like minutes and it had actually been all day.
Hi Amy — These kinds of stories are very familiar to me. I receive at least a dozen of them every month, so you can let your mother know that she isn’t alone. Did she ever mention anything like this happening to her before or after this incident? These are rarely one-time, standalone events.
No, she has only told me about this one. I did ask years later after she told me about it, but she said she did not like talking about it. She said it really freaked her out!!
A lot of people don’t like to speak about these experiences, so I don’t blame her for being reluctant to talk about it. Thanks for sharing your mother’s story.
Hi John,
I see that the responses keep coming in. That’s good, It’s important that the awareness of
a more in depth reality is brought to light. It seems that their’s a lot people in a hypnotic state in which parts of reality appear to be blocked out. The moon may hold a lot of answers to the reasons why that is. I believe that It’s interior is a most amazing place, containing the most incredible artificial structures ever seen. Any remote viewers out there working on it knows this. My personal experience was fantastic. I could never have imagined the spectacular design of it’s interior.
Anyhow, it’s good to see that the info. keeps pouring in. keep up the interest in this subject, you would be amazed how many people this topic has helped.
Take care, I’ll write again when I get a chance.
Erik Warner
Thanks, Erik. Yup, these reports just keep coming in. It’s amazing to me how many people have had these experiences. Looking forward to hearing from you again.
I had a similar experience as an adolescent, about 11. It was summer, I was lounging around in my PJ’s until about 11:30am, EST, when I decided to go get dressed and clean my room. I was home with my brother, who seemed to be absent. My parents were both at work. My brother was home, but it was extremely quiet, whereas normally, he would have been trying his very best to annoy me, boss me, or pick a fight, which was the daily routine for my older brother.
I remember looking at the time on our kitchen stove before walking down the short hall to my room. I remember walking into my room (which was quiet a mess). The next thing I realize is that I was sitting in the Kitchen at our table. It was still very quiet. There were some very odd things that occurred at this point. The first was the sense of “awakening” though I was not asleep. Second, was I had food in my mouth, I realized I was holding a Banana. I remember spitting out the food because I did not like Banana’s. I sat it down on the kitchen table and looked around, and caught my eye on the stove clock that read 2:34pm. I realized that 2 hours had past and I felt disoriented. I walked through the house and checked if my brother was even home. He was sitting quietly in his room. I walked to my room which was a mess before, but now was completely clean. I noticed that the entire house was actually clean. I asked my brother if he had “heard” anything. Hoping that maybe it was some sort of black out where maybe I cleaned the house “subconsciously”. However, he told me the house was quiet, and he had come out only once to get something to drink from our kitchen. He stated he never saw me, and thought I had gone outside or to a friend’s house.
2 hours had lapsed. I was still in my pajamas, eating a food I knew I didn’t like, and I felt as though I had woken up, but in an odd manner, as though the light was turned off and with it my consciousness, and then like a light-switch I was “on” again, but time went by without me.
Hi Mary. Thanks for sharing your experience with me. I don’t have any answers about these incidents, but yours is pretty typical of many that I receive. Like mine, they’re not particularly dramatic, just odd and puzzling. Once in a while someone tells me about an experience that fits the more stereotypical “alien abduction” scenario, where there is a sighting of an unidentified craft or even of humanoid beings. But most of the stories I receive are more like yours — they take place in the day time, at home or in a familiar place, and then lights out: no memory of what happened next and the confusing realization that a period of time is unremembered and unaccounted-for. It’s easy I suppose to explain away these episodes as some kind of blackout that results from a mental or physical issue, but I find that too simplistic and kind of dismissive. Since I wrote this article three and half years ago I’ve received hundreds of these reports, which leads me to believe these time anomaly phenomena are very widespread. Much more widespread than I ever would have imagined. And while I’m reluctant to make any conclusions that are far out and extreme, it’s become difficult for me to think that we’re being manipulated somehow. By whom and for what purpose is the unanswered question.
Thanks again for telling your story. — John
Hey John,
just cruising past this page as I do every few months and had to say how stoked I am to see people are still commenting and even more impressed that you’re still replying! Supercool. Reading all these stories tonight jogged my memory on another incident, or maybe the fact I experienced almost the same again recently brought it forth and I subconsciously searched this page out again. I’ve had two driving experiences, not mammoth ones where hours are lost but definitely experiences.
The first one was was about 20 years ago and I was driving from Melbourne (Australia) to Daylesford on a Friday evening. It was before mobile phones and my parents knew to expect me around a certain time, give or take 30 mins or so. Anyway, I was driving up the highway, it’s about 11/2-2 hour trip and one I’ve been doing since I was tiny, I saw my turnoff sign and then the next thing I knew I was driving into the outskirts of Ballarat, the next big town that was about another half an hour on. I remember having no clue as to how I could have missed so much road and feeling really tired. I called my Dad and it was half an hour later than it should have been even if I had deliberately driven straight ahead, he thought I was just covering my tracks with something until he saw me and then he just made me a cuppa and let it go. Was a wise man my Daddy 😉
More recently, about six months ago, I was driving down a highway in Melbourne (AU) and going to a certain place that is about 25 mins drive away. I know the trip well, do it regularly but this time it seemed to be endless. I was looking out for my turnoff and the next minute I was two suburbs on and again, feeling exhaused and disorientated. It was about 40 minutes longer than I expected it to be. I rang my partner, because I was in his car, and he confirmed that I was as late as I thought and that was before I turned around to go where I actually meant to be!
My last thing (for this visit) was also a recent event, in April, was seeing something in the sky when I was taking my dog for a wee at about 2am. The sky lit up completely green with a blue circle three times for a few seconds each time. This was followed by a crackling microphone kind of noise that seemed to emanate from the sky. I actually thought it was a fire truck megaphone to begin with, the sound, because that was what it was like and then I realised it was above the trees, not down on the road. I have googled and googled and googled and the only thing that comes remotely close to fitting my description is a transformer blowing out but with all the footage I’ve watched of such and all the descriptions I’ve read of it I just can’t say decisively, yep that was definitely it because it just wasn’t like that. I think maybe it was an aurora, there was a lot of that that weekend too and maybe I just got lucky.
I don’t know but I remember reading on this thread someone (maybe you John?) suggesting that people who are more open to experiencing things seem to have more experiences. I can’t describe the green light and people think I’m mental if I talk about it so once again I thank you for allowing people like me to ramble on here and get it all out, knowing it will be read by others who won’t judge. You should start charging us therapy rates. hehehe.
Hi Nicole — Nah, no charge for allowing you guys to vent a bit 😉 but if I decide to write a book about this (and I’m considering it — got some interest from a publisher too) I’m going to be emailing a lot of you to see if we can talk further about these experiences. It’s really fascinating stuff and the more of these stories I hear the more it seems to point to some kind of intervention by something — i.e., I don’t think this is a result of psychological aberration or due to a natural occurrence. My friend and blog contributor Frater Auxilior Arti might disagree because he’s of the opinion that these are due to electromagnetic field disturbances, but I still see evidence that those who have these experiences are being manipulated by some kind of unknown intelligence. That’s my opinion at this point, but I don’t have any answers beyond that.
Yes, it probably was me who made the comment about the possibility that some people might be more receptive to these phenomena. I’m pretty intuitive and I have very vivid dreams that sometimes come to pass, so I think I fall into that category. I’m guessing that you might be the same sort. Whether that’s a blessing or a curse, I’m not sure.
Thanks for checking in. Please keep in touch.
— John
Hi. Can you tell me if it is normal to have large amounts of missing time? For some reason, I can’t remember whole entire yrs of my life, and I don’t know why. This has baffled me for many yrs. Any ideas?
Hi Rachel,
The longest period of missing time that anyone has told me of personally is was several day. I think it was three days that she couldn’t recall (her story is somewhere in the comments section of this article). However, I remember that in Whitley Strieber’s book Communion he describes an extended period of time of life that he had little to no memory of, but recalled some of it while under hypnosis. It’s been a number of years since I read that book, but I have it someplace here at home. I’ll try to find it and re-read that part and let you know what chapter it’s in, if you’d like to pick up the book. I remember that I found that section particularly interesting because it was an entire period of his life rather than just a few hours, as is most typically described.
A couple of questions for you, if I may: Were you an adult when these missing time periods occurred, or did they happen as a child? How long ago was this? Before looking at any kind of paranormal explanation, I think you might want consider the possibility that there could have been some kind of traumatic event (or ongoing events) that might have caused you to suppress any memories of this period of your life. That might be worth investigating with a counselor.
Good luck, Rachel.
I had a loss of time experience while driving in the country with a friend and our children. I wrote to you about it in 2010. More recently my daughter and I experienced a dimensional shift that saved her life. I had taken her to high school and parked the car. After exiting our car she walked in front of my car to cross a street. The street is about 20 feet across and rather quiet. It’s near a larger street which has a cross walk and light. As she was stepping into the street from the front of our car, a car raced around the corner behind me, turned right and directly into Julia’s path. Julia was looking down and did not see the car. I screamed and closed my eyes as I realized she was going to be hit. I did not hear anything – no braking – no impact. Nothing. I opened my eyes not knowing what I’d see and there was Julia, moved 20 feet in a split second, stepping safely onto a curb. The driver of the car was still driving like a bat out of hell. Afterwards I thought I must have been confused about where she was in proximity to the car although the more I thought about it the more convinced I was I had not imagined it. Later that day Julia mentioned the incident to me and how weird it was. She said she remembered seeing the car just as she was stepping into its path but found herself well beyond the car and safely on the other side. She said the driver never saw her – as if Julia had disappeared while being shifted. Also supportive of the sequence, she had heard me scream after she’d reached the other side- when I’d screamed as she was stepping into the path of the car. We believe her guardian angel interceded and saved her life.
Hi Paige — Great story, and thank God your daughter was unharmed. The cynical and the atheistic might chalk up this experience as a simple mistaken perception on your part and your daughter’s, but I don’t discount divine intervention and the miraculous. I think it’s narrow-minded to dismiss these things. There are many tales of people who have had similar experiences where they were suddenly, inexplicably removed from harm’s way. Your daughter’s experience is astonishing, but not unheard-of by any stretch. These reports are what fuel my fascination with the unknown. It cannot be possible that they’re all mistakes or lies; real, credible, sane people like yourself report these kind of incidents all of the time, so there must be something to them. Our understanding of reality is very limited, and there’s a lot more too this universe than we can probably understand and this level of our existence. Maybe we get the answers when we pass on. I hope so. It’s an encouraging thought that your daughter was being watched over and protected. That there’s love out there for us human beings must mean that we’re inherently good and worthwhile creatures, even though it sometimes seems that we are not.
I just had a time loss experience on Sunday June 16/13 that has weirded me out. I planned a mid afternoon meal to celebrate Father’s day with my son and granddaughter, so I would still have time to relax before work on Monday. After my son and granddaughter left and I had tidied the kitchen and when I was done I looked at the clock. It said 7:30 pm, good, I thought, lots of time to relax doing my own thing before retiring for the night. I was fooling around on You Tube as I am prone to do, looking up interesting and all kinds of weird stuff. I got up to go to the washroom and saw the clock said 11:30 pm. I was in shock! I could not believe time had passed so quickly so I called time to make sure my clocks were right…they were. Then I went to ‘history’ on my laptop to see how long I was on You Tube. It revealed that I was only on my laptop for an hour and a half! I was not sleeping and I have absolutely no recollection of what I did during those 21/2 missing hours. As I got ready for bed I noticed a fresh puncture mark about 3 inches below the inner crease of my elbow. I am wearing a cast due to a broken scaphoid bone in my right wrist. The cast ends about a 1/2 inch below the puncture. It was red but not painful unless I put a lot of pressure on it. Then I noticed there was a black dot inside the puncture. When I removed it, I saw a tiny, tiny black metal-ish looking thing. l have no idea how it got there or where the time went.
In 1986 I had another weird time anomaly, but this time I gained an hour and a half. A friend and I were driving from Saskatoon Saskatchewan in Canada to the city of Regina which is 21/2 hours away. We made it there in 1 hour which is impossible. We had checked the time prior to leaving as were were on a time budget. My friend was sleeping as we drove and what struck me when I was reading your story is that I also experienced a strange muting of sound during this experience. It felt as if the car was floating above the road a couple of inches because I could not feel road bumps. I remember the radio went off station and I couldn’t find another so I turned it off. All around me I heard a strange whooshing sound, oddly muting me from the world around me. I felt something weird was happening and I tried to wake my friend but couldn’t.n We got to Regina and I drove into the first gas station to fill up as our next stop was Plentywood Montana and had two shocks. When I heard the time on the radio I couldn’t believe it. Only an hour had passed since we left Saskatoon. My friend woke up when we entered Regina. He too was in shock. My next surprise was my gas bill. I had barely used any gas! To this day I have no idea what had happened. THINGS GOT STRANGER. We went to border crossing near Plentywood but I was not allowed across the border. I have no idea why. My friend was from Detroit and his visa had expired, hence one of the reasons for our trip, so he could not re-enter Canada. We made arrangements to meet in Minot the next day. I went back to Regina and stayed over night at a cousins which seemed uneventful until 20 years later. Eventually I made to Minot, connecting with my friend the next day. WHAT WAS STRANGE WAS THIS: Bothered about the time thing I wrote about it on a paranormal site ( https://paranormal.about.com/library/blstory_july07_20.htm ) in 2007. My cousin was on the computer several years later and by pure fluke ended up finding the story. This was the same cousin with whom I stayed with in Regina. By now she is married and living in Vancouver. We met up in Saskatoon a couple of years later to celebrate the 50th Wedding Anniversary of our Aunt and Uncle. She told me she read the article and asked why I never told her about the time inconsistency. I said I thought she’d think I was nuts. She then told me that the night I stayed with her in Regina those many years ago I was in the bathroom for four hours!!! She was worried but didn’t know what to do and just when she was going to knock on the door I came out as if nothing was amiss. It was quite late as she got off work that night at midnight. I guess I was in her bathroom from about 1 am to 5 am. I have absolutely no recollection of this. In my mind I did not spend that inordinate amount of time in her bathroom and have no idea why I was in there for so long! I have had one other time gain of about an hour when I was in grade 11. I don’t know why it happens but I am glad other people experience time weirdnesses.
Hi my names Vanessa and when I was 14 about two years ago I went to San Felipe in Baja Mexico with my family. It was my whole family, we were out there camping. My aunt, uncle, cousin, dad and I decided to go into town about 20 minutes away for dinner. It was 5 when we left, 5:30 as we sat at our table and we left at 7:00. We were driving on the lonesome road back to our camp site and it was about 7:10 and all of a sudden we get there and its very dark by this time and all our other relatives were saying “what took you guys so long!” and as we were walking in, on the beach to the circle by the trailer everyone looked up above us and their eyes followed something out into the low tide. They were staring. All of them & my family does not joke around like this. We were looking down at the sand because there’s lots of critters and stuff we don’t want to step on in the sand so we didn’t really notice. My uncle said “what do you mean it’s been about three hours!” and they said “no, it’s already 11!” I checked my phone and yup, it was 11:30 pm. After they all said “did you not see that light above you guys!! It was a ball of light that flew into the ocean” they all said practically the same thing and we were all freaked out. Especially after everyone checked their clocks and realized it really was 11:30. Where did the time go? The road was lonely…we didn’t stop anywhere and we were SURE that we left at around 7:10. Maybe if we got there at 8 it would be reasonable but we all lost about 4 hours! We don’t remember anything at all. There was a guy who lived there on a trailer and he said he always sees balls of light floating in the ocean… They were harmless. Anyways, we all went to sleep…. I slept outside in a hammock and at around 3 in the morning my friend called me to talk but I was too late to answer so I didn’t bother even calling her back. I was going to go back to sleep but I noticed a ball of light out in the waters. I was shocked. I thought it was someone out on a boat but that light was going everywhere. Here, there, FAST. there was no way it was a boat or someone walking out there…. I told everyone the next morning but they said it was probably a dream. But when I went to look at the light, I stepped on a seashell and it cut my foot. I showed them that morning and it was there, starting to get hard bcus it was a couple hours old. Till this day we don’t know what happened to us. They say many UFO and alien occurrences happen in Mexico & I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what we encountered that day… Amazing.
Hi John, I wrote to you before about missing time. But this time I have one that is kinda more “proof”. I was training to drive a Haul truck for a mine. These trucks are 250 ton trucks. If you stack 3 semis by 2 semis you would begin to phantom the size of these things. My trainer was a young woman that I found easy to talk to and over our several days together I had told her about my missing time experiences. She jokily asked me to never take her with me when I time jumped. I laughed and told her I would try not to. One night while on graveyards she and I were on a run from the shovel to the dump, we had taken this trip allot over the last few days and we knew having been in the same truck for days that in first gear going 6 miles a hour uphill and then back to the shovel took a hour. Since going uphill so slow it takes about 50 mins to get to this particular dump loaded. So when we arrived to the dump we were surprised to hear the dispatcher demanding from us where we had been. They give you a 7 min leeway on your arrival and we were 7 mins past that and then some he said. so over 15 mins late to the dump. He had been calling us on the radio for over 7 mins and asking other trucks if they had seen us because they couldn’t even pick the truck up on their very high tech GPS system. When the system glitches they loose all the trucks not one. They were sure we had stopped in a dead zone and hung out to be defiant or something. We assured them that we drove the 6 miles a hour and that the truck had no mechanical problems, ( the computer on the truck is hooked to the main dispatch and they can even see how the truck is running clear down the tire temp). They sounded angry with my mentor and told her they had to talk to here after shift. I felt bad. But at the same time was glad that even thou the time was small if was verified that me, the mentor and a haul truck that weighed so much had misplaced time. by proof that no radio, GPS, computer monitoring system, or even human eye (they did send supervisors to the dump to look for us and asked other drivers to look for us.) that this event did occur. Since I would deem the fact the haul truck disappeared as well, not alien abduction. I am going to go with time warp. This is the size of these trucks. https://www.zetamostra.com/home/vehiculos-anti-zombis-reciclando-la-industria-del-ladrillo/
Of course I can remember my name, but honestly, 4 days ago I was up at 6:20 am to get ready for work, wide awake and dressed and sat on the couch to tie my shoe. I had to be at work by 7 am and I’m a 2 min drive but I figured I would get there early and it was 6:30 when I checked my phone’s time. So I start to put my steel toe boots on and last thing I can remember is starting to tie my boot then in a snap I finished tying them both then hopped in the car. Now I usually plug my phone in the car to listen to music so I pressed the power button after starting my car to find out it was 7:30 am !!!! I felt so embarrassed to tell my girlfriend and called my boss who luckily excused my absence but I never felt so lost to not know what happened between tying that lace and getting into my car……
Oh and I’m only 26. No known issues of mental or health issues. Actually one of the best hard workers at my job. Just still can’t account as if I froze and time continued on for an hour.
3 years ago my friend and I were sitting down at the lake on my property. We were just talking when we saw this floating star move slowly across and I pointed it out. I said ” huh. That was weird.” And then saying it again. Now we have not talked about it until this past week and it was like a barrier had broken in our minds. We realized that the memory we had was “off” like it wasn’t natural in our bodies. The more we talked about our experience the more our bodies reacted. We started feeling heavy nausea , violent shaking , and the urge to cry but we live 300 miles away from each other and were feeling the exact same way. Then we realized part of the memory was that the ship slowed to a stop and time slowed down. Then these two figures rolled in our of a fog created on the water. And it was like we were waiting for them. I honest to god don’t remember anything else but I know there was a reason for it and I feel like its going to be answered. I know that the memory will be fully restored. But the memory they put in us was weird because it was basically like watching ourselves have a convorsation on auto pilot. And we could only see the backs of our heads.
Marhea — I think we’re meant to recall these events at some predetermined time. Or perhaps when our subconscious minds need time to process these memories and then they come forth when we’re able to handle them. I have the same feeling, that I was told and/or shown something that I’m meant to remember at some point in my life. It’s interesting to me that you and many others have said the same thing. Maybe that time is coming soon.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Hi John
I was just considering how many of your readers are RH- negative blood type. This means any body who is A-, B-, AB- and O- blood groups.
I have just recently stumbled upon a theory which suggests that the RH- blood types originated from aliens species.
I personally DO NOT concour with this theory, however having read some forums who base their opinions on medical facts, there is definitely a good measure of logic in their argument.
Here is one of the sites which make such claims
https://www.rhnegativeregistry.com/blood-of-the-gods-by-mabel-royce.html
It is interesting because I did multiple searches for “RH Negative” forums and many of them believe that the majority of alien abductees are in fact RH negative blood types.
I was in the 7th grade when I lost 2 hours of time that i cannot account for. I lived in sky valley California in a trailer park. Was about 3:30 in the afternoon and I walked with a friend to his home so he could ask to go to my house. He walked inside and i sat in one of their patio chairs, everything got quiet and felt so distant. He opened the door and asked why I was still there, I said I was waiting for an answer. He then told me that it had been 2 hours ago and that he had been doing chores. I cannot remember anything of that missing time and it still bothers me today. I need to know where it went and what happened
Hi Matt — I can relate. I was around the same age when I had my experience and I want to know too, but as of now I still do not. All I’ve got is some ideas of what could have happened, but no idea what did happen. Nothing certain or conclusive, anyway. If you read through some of my replies to previous comments you’ll get a sense of what I think is at the root of this.
But, as I’ve said many times before, I’m pretty conservative in my thinking for a guy who writes a blog about weird stuff, and I hate to immediately jump to the conclusion that all unexplained events are always of a paranormal/supernatural origin. It could be that both you and I and the majority of people who report these incidents have had some sort of mental lapse or temporary psychological disturbance. It could be nothing more than that, and in a certain percentage of cases I’m sure that’s the case — although I have no idea what that percentage is vs. the percentage that may be truly “unexplained” (paranormal / supernatural / extraterrestrial, what have you).
However, I have received enough reports (literally in the hundred at this point) that are very, very difficult to explain away as being entirely a temporary mental aberration or mistaken perception by the experiencer. I do think that there is an explanation that probably does not fit into the current conventional ideas of what we think of as reality. I suppose that if I believe anything, it’s that we don’t have many answers and there’s much that we don’t know about the universe and our place within it. Human beings by nature hate to admit that they don’t have all the answers, so that point of view is usually attacked by the rationalists and skeptics. I just don’t think we have a real clue about all this, and I’m okay with that. Most people are not.
If this incident is truly eating at you, you might want to consider hypnotherapy. I’m no expert on the subject, but I do think it has some value. I haven’t taken the plunge and done it myself, although one day I might. Somehow I believe that the memory of this will come forth when it’s meant to. But that’s just my point of view, and it’s not as if this is interfering with my day-to-day life or my happiness. If it is to you, then I’d look into seeing if you can uncover what might have happened to you on that day.
I grew up in the Sierra Nevada mountains, near Reno. There are a couple of military bases around there, in the desert. One in Herlong, CA, and another one in Fallon, NV. My experience not only involves missing time, but also the military. When I was about 14, I was riding my dirt bike around Frenchman Lake. It was a ride I had done a number of times. What made this occasion different was that I found myself riding behind two trucks with soldiers in full gear riding in the back. The time was early to mid afternoon, because the sun was a little more than half way across the sky. The two trucks rounded a turn that put them out of my sight for a few seconds, or so it seemed. When I rounded the turn, they vanished. Weird thing is that this left turn was followed by a right turn on the road, so they should have come back in sight, but they didn’t. I was less than 1/8 of a mile behind them. It gets weirder. Right after the disappearance of the the two trucks, I saw that the sun had moved in the sky quite a ways. It was now close to setting. I wasn’t wearing a watch at the time so the only time reference I had was the sun. I estimate that I lost at least 3 hours that day. As soon as I realised it was getting late, I turned back and headed home.
Reading other’s stories, I think I might have an idea of what we might be experiencing. I remember growing up that sonic booms were commonplace in Sierra Valley. I recall a particularly loud one during PE class when I was in the 7th grade. So if supersonic aircraft were being flown in that area, why not faster than light craft. I figure that a faster than light craft might create a “temporal boom”. People who experience missing time are at one end of the “temporal boom”, the end where time is compressed. People who experience a time gain are at the other end of the “temporal boom”, the end where time is stretched. It’s just a theory, and I’m not a physicist, and I’d welcome any opinions any physicists who read this might have. Thanks for reading my long winded post.
John — That’s a very interesting theory, and one I hadn’t considered. I’m not a physicist either, but I’d be curious to know if such a phenomenon is possible. I, like so many others, feel quite certain that our government possesses technology that is far beyond anything known to the general public. If they do have faster-than-light craft, would they produce this “temporal boom”? It sounds plausible from a layperson’s perspective, but again, I don’t have the scientific background to know this for sure. I’d love to get some feedback from the scientific community on this. It’s a question that I think would be worthy of an article dedicated to it. If I write that, can I relate your story? Credit for the idea goes to you, naturally.
Thanks for submitting your experience and your ideas.
Physicists have worked out that faster-than-light travel is possible. One such way is the Alcubierre Drive, a theory worked out by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre Moya. Another one is the Einstein-Rosen Bridge, or wormhole. I’m thinking that possibly someone has worked out an Alcubierre Drive. Whether or not they’re extraterrestrial, I’m not sure. This topic opens up all kinds of philosophical and scientific questions, doesn’t it. I’m of the belief that the universe was created by a divine creator whom I can’t even begin to understand. My questions are, if He created us, why would He stop at us, and who’s to say He even started with us? How deep down into the Rabbit Hole do you want to go?
The fastest form of travel. Using the least amount of energy i would have to say is one that brings the traveler to a stop. Then using a freq. blanket, be able to choose a direction. Great time travel method. There is a kind of 3-D lattice work that is independent of universal movement. It’s rather incredible to think of being in a black bubble slipping through a medium of light in a 3-D lattice work.
I was so happy to find your site. I just had an experience. I am still puzzled by it but glad to see that I am not the only one to have this eerie experience.
It was last Saturday night, September 7 and I was making a drive of 185 miles to go to see my parents. I had planned on leaving my home in North Central Nebraska earlier in the day but it was an oppressively hot day, near l00 degrees and I decided to leave in the late afternoon. It was 5:27 when I pulled out of my driveway to start my three and a half hour drive to the rural home of my parents in North East Nebraska. I stopped at 6:30 to take a break and buy some gas. I also bought some chicken tenders and an ice cream cone to eat on the way. This was in O/Neill, NE. I decided to go straight east of O’Neill to avoid some highway construction that was on my usual route of highway #20. I headed down highway 12. It was light and the road was not very busy. I thought that I should call my parents from my car phone so I check the time and it was about 7:00 p.m. I was close to the area road that lead to Ash Fall State Park. My onstar phone had trouble getting the call to ring through and tried for some time to get their number. I thought that this was odd as I normally have very good luck calling from that phone. It finally rang and there was no answer. I figured that they must have gone to the 6:30 church service. I figured I would see them in an hour to an hour and a half or about close to nine that evening. They would not be ready for bed yet.
I decided to continue to go straight east on highway 12. I knew that since it was getting to be dusk that I might need to watch carefully for deer coming across the road. There was not any traffic to speak of so I could watch the road carefully. The highway really seemed lonesome that night. I figured many people were probably had high school football games. The sun was slowing setting and I was now going through some rugged terrain. The sun had not completely set while I drove through some of the most rugged area. I remember thinking that if I could put it into words I would choose some of those chosen to describe the coach ride on the way to Dracula’s Castle in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I had the feeling that if I had car trouble that I would be less than comfortable in being stopped in this area. I was actually beginning to scare myself a little. Then I got to the top of a plateau and could see rural home ahead. I knew I would have to drive by a little cemetery and decided that I would not glance in that direction when I went by. When I approached the cemetery I saw a pickup during into the area next to it and then noticed that there was already a car there. I figured a couple of people were probably have some type of private meeting. It was light enough at that time for me to see the two vehicles parked there. I intersected with a north south highway there and decided that I would just continue to stay on highway 12 and go further east on it. It was now starting to get dark and I could clouds of evening fog over some of the low areas in the pastures along the road.
The fog would later prove to be obstacle. It was so think at times that I could hardly see the road immediately in front of my SUV. I would have to abruptly slow down. I could no longer use my speed control setting. It wasn’t like the fog was constant though, it appeared to be only in some valleys. I thought that I was continuing to make good time. It was so dark out after the sun set that it almost felt like I was driving in a tunnel.
Eventually I arrived at my destination. The valley on the road to my parents was very foggy. When I arrived at their home I was surprised to find that they were both in bed. i then glanced at their clock and realized that it was now 10:30 at night. It had taken me three hours to make the second half of a normal 3:5 hours total for the whole trip, I know that I was not slowed down by the fog that much. I did not stop or lose consciousness that I am away of. My feet did ache like I had been walking but I knew that I had not or least no recollection of doing so.
Richard — So you had no sense of discontinuity, no memory loss? That’s really not uncommon. Some reports I receive tell of a distinct period where there is no recall of what happens, a blank spot, followed by an awakening or “coming to” sensation. Others are like yours, in that there might be a general eerie sensation, but no feeling of time dislocation or memory loss. Strange fogs in relation to time anomalies is something that I’ve read about recently in an excellent book by British author Jenny Randles, Time Storms. If you can find a copy it would probably interest you. Her take is that these are naturally-occurring phenomena that relate to electromagnetic field disturbances. It’s an interesting idea, although many of the reports that I receive don’t seem to fit that hypothesis.
Has anything like this, or any other strange phenomena, happened to you before this event?
Yes, I had an experience two summers ago. I took a two day trip with my sister’s son. He was about 30 then and had had some unique experience that he wanted to talk over with me. We had some great conversations as we traveled across Iowa. We made a detour from north Iowa into Wisconsin and bought some fresh Wisconsin cheese curds. They are a real treat. We decided to head back through Iowa trough the city of Dubuque. It is an interesting and historic old city but we decided not to stop but go on through and catch highway twenty to go through Northern Iowa. We got on the four lane road without a problem and then became immersed in some more discussion about paranormal type things. My nephew was doing the driving. The next time I looked at a road sign I realized that we had somehow left the four land highway twenty and were now on interstate 80 some 73 miles South of where we though we were. We had only been driving less than an hour and could not have made that distance in that amount of time. We were both really puzzled. It all worked out o.k. though. It just left us in a different spot than we had intended.
That evening at the hotel bordering interstate 80 east of Iowa City was very spooky. We had rooms that were next to each other. We both retired early. I remember that I check my email and then went to bed. I was awakened by the sound of a door bell ringing on the room next to mine, my nephews room. I took me a second to realize that I was in a motel and there were no actual doorbells for the rooms. After the doorbell I was suddenly aware that I was not alone in my room. I could feel a very evil presence in the little hallway just inside my motel room door. I could sense that it was a tall being and bronze in color, dressed in shiny ancient middle eastern garb with gold chains and jewels for adornment and it had evil penetrating eyes that were staring at me. I would not turn in that direction but began to say the Lord’s Prayer. It was so horrible that I do not even like to recall my minds vision of it. I tried to sleep after that and did eventually fall asleep. Next morning I asked my nephew about it and he said that he had not heard anything but he verified that the being that I described was one that he had also seen in a conscious vision.
I forgot to mention in my letter yesterday that my vehicle used less fuel that it normally would have to make that distance. It is the same SUV that my nephew was driving two summers ago. When I arrived at my parents home the vehicle showed that I had only used a quarter of a tank of fuel. The was not a normal amount of fuel usage to go the one hundred and 20 miles that I had gone since I fueled up in O’Neill and also not to have the engine running continuously for 3.5 hours. Maybe my fuel gauge was not giving an accurate reading or something but it sure did seem unusual.
Thanks for sharing your experiences, Richard. I try to make a point to ask people who tell me of these incidents if they’ve had any other strange events happen to them. Much more often they say yes to this question, although the other strange incidents are not always of the missing time/time anomaly type. This leads me to believe that either these folks (like yourself) are being singled out by whatever or whomever seems to be interacting with our species (and I feel quite certain that this is happening); or, the people who describe having time anomaly or other kinds of paranormal experiences are simply more sensitive or “open” to them — i.e., where many people would not consciously notice or even experience anything out of the ordinary, a more sensitive individual might see or experience the otherworldy.
The fact that most people who report having experienced these anomalous time events also claim that they’ve encountered other unexplained phenomena leads me to believe that this can’t be strictly a freak natural occurrence. The likelihood of multiple bizarre incidents happening to the same person would be like getting hit by lightning several times; the odds are very long against this happening. Therefore, I think it must have to do with the individual.
I find it interesting too that your nephew appears to have an interest in the paranormal and that he described seeing the same entity in his room. An interest in the paranormal (usually followed by or preceded by actual experience) between members of the same family is something that is noted frequently in a lot of research, particularly in the are of so-called “alien abductions”. Again, this could be an intentional targeting of a specific family group by…whatever, or it could be that members of the same family may be genetically predisposed to having the ability to pick up on or even interact with the psychic / supernatural / paranormal / inter-dimensional, etc.
I do believe that we live in a multiverse, and modern science supports that idea so it shouldn’t be perceived as wacky fringe science. My feeling is that there may be individuals who have the ability to glimpse into these other dimensions and that there are entities that might move easily between their plane of reality and others, ours included. I think that’s where much or all of these paranormal reports come from. While there is no question that some are cases of mistaken perception, mental illness or outright lies, I simply cannot accept that ALL reports of the unknown fall under one of those categories.
If anything else comes to mind that you’d like to discuss, please feel free to get in touch.
There are several other strange events that have been experienced by me and my family members. The most recent event was recounted to me by my parents the day after my extra long night drive to their home. They said that they had recently looked out over the farm during the early night (about the first week in September I believe) and it was as bright as day on the farmstead. They could look to the distance and see that the normal night becon lights in their area were still shining. They looked to the North from their front door and there appeared to be some light on the old wind break grove across the county road from their lane. It was also a foggy night but not where the light was hitting. I though this was very unusual and tried to get more information. I know that there was a new moon about that time but my parents would know the difference between the moon and some other type of light. They have lived in this same location for since they were married in the 1940’s. It is interesting to note that the area where the saw the light has been an area of other strange events over the past years.
The area behind the trees is a large pasture. The family cow herd is grazing in this area this summer. It is a forty acre pasture, half of which has never been farmed or plowed up. There is a deep ravine with two stock dams on the creek. There is also an underground large natural gas pipeline that runs through this area. It in the made line to the South Sioux City area. It has been in the ground for years. My most recent personal experience with this area happened over five years ago. I have a log on this but it is on a different computer. It happened on a Saturday night just before New Years’ Eve Holiday of early the next. week. I had just came to my parents after a short trip to Omaha to see family.. I remember that I had heard that the weather was going to turn to possible snow or ice and I wanted to get out of the city before I had to drive in those conditions. There was moisture in the air. I was working on my lap top computer on their kitchen table and my parents were in the living room. I heard my mother call to my father to come to the door and look out. She was riveted to some activity in the pasture across the road.
My father joined my mother at the front door in their watch over the pasture. My mother said that there must be someone with blinking lights driving around in the pasture. They called to be to join them and see what I thought was happening. I reluctantly left my work and joined them. It was the early hours of the night, maybe around 7:30. In addition to the lights I could hear the doors on the large metal building down the hill from the farm rattle. They are large doors and take a lot of strength to push open and shut. It is a metal building that is approximately 60 by 40 feet. It seemed like I was hearing loud thunder but it was almost on a regular planned sequence. It was very loud. I looked out in the direction of the lights and it did not look like a pickup driving around in their pasture. The lights were in a triangle shape and were of different colors (blue, yellow, red) and one light would light and then the next would light in a regular pattern. The lights appeared to becoming from just behind the grove but on a level with the tree tops. I told my parents that we should call my brothers and his family, They lived a little over a quarter of a mile away but would not have been able to see the pasture from their position in the next valley. They did however confirm that the window in their almost loo year old house were rattling upstairs. My brother and three of his children drove to my parents home but by that time the lights and noise had stopped. My father wanted to drive across the road to the pasture and see if we could see any tracks.
When we got to the pasture it was obvious that no one had been driving there. The pasture was to rough to drive on with going really slow and bouncing a lot. There were frozen cow pies all over the hill side and no evidence as far as we could tell in the night that any one had driven there. We decided to then drive the roads boarding the pasture on top of a large hill to the West. We saw mo signs of any light or activity. We later visited with my father’s brother who lived in a new home about 3/4ths of a mile to the West and over two hills. His farm is not visible from my fathers. My uncle said that he thought that there must be an earthquake going on from the sound and movement they were feeling. We also visited with another brother who lives about five miles away and up the main drainage valley and over several hill away from my parents. He said that his wife had expressed surprise on seeing balls of different colored lights floated down the Omaha Creek Valley as she was driving home from 6:30 church that evening. My brother explained to us and his wife that what she was probably seeing was a phenomena known as ground lighting with thunder. The weather conditions were right for this he thought. This did not, however fit with what my parents and I saw at their farm. It was interesting to note that the dog did not bark and there was no feeling of foreboding. It just happened. I did find some site to report it to but I never heard back from them.
Triangle-shaped UFOs are reported quite often, although I’m not sure if I’ve read of them emitting loud noises. In fact, they’re often described as being completely silent. Very interesting, though i don’t know how it all fits into the larger context of your experience. But it does support my theory that missing time is rarely a singular event; other strange occurrences often precede of follow them and family members are often involved. Thanks again for sharing your experiences, Richard.
My story is not entertaining….. In summer of 1990 my ex wife and I experienced missing time while my ex wife and I were just sitting in our apartment during a sunny afternoon in Oshkosh WI… I remember telling her I had to go to work in twenty minutes and all of a sudden I realized, I was late for work by one and a half hours….. and it wasn’t like I was preoccupied with anything….. My ex wife and I talked about this experience many times and we came every time to the same conclusion….. Neither one of us remember ANYTHING at all during that period of time…. sorry my story isn’t exciting with aliens probing and stuff but it is ours and we both stick to it.
Jeff — Yours is like most of the reports that I receive. Reports of UFOs and E.T.s are much more rare. Yours is far more typical: just a blank spot in your memory and a period of unremembered time. That’s 90% of the ones that I people tell me of. Not surprising to me though that you and your family have had some sightings and strange occurrences. That’s also very common, and this makes me wonder if these phenomena are attracted to certain people or some individual are more sensitive and better able see and experience them. It’s often reported that some people report seeing UFOs in plain view while other bystanders are unable to see anything at all. I had an experience like that myself while camping with some friend in NY state. I clearly saw a glowing object of unusual shape in the sky and it made several maneuvers that an aircraft simply would not and could not carry out. My friends only saw a light in the sky but were unable to notice any detail or motion, as I did.
Please don’t think I’ m a nut but I HAVE seen Triangle craft I am a Air Force Reserve vet and it was my job to know our countries aircraft up and down since I was a crash / rescue firefighter and at least my sighting were not BS…. as well as my Sons, Their Friends as well as My Aunt who is a Jahova’s Whitness …… (they don’t believe in such things) when I tried to confirm what my Son was saying…… She only said, I saw a triangle… yes I saw what he saw… I’m talking miles long and I agree John, in no case I first hand or second hand…..was there any sound. My oldest Son and his friends were also buzzed by what he described as a amber ball of light while playing baseball with his friends …
and every one of his friends saw it.
Hi there John! After my wife and I had experienced a missing time situation yesterday morning, I did some research on the web and found your blog.
Every morning I always like to wake up to music on the radio and it is always BBC radio 2 (UK).
On September the 02nd 2013 I woke up to the sound of silence, so I turned over to look at the clock and saw it was 07.35am. My DAB radio is set to come on at 06.30am and goes off at 07.30am. I turned on the radio again to listen to some music and at that point my wife had turned over to say good morning and put her arm around me. I heard her say ‘I don’t want to get up yet’
At this point I heard the 08.00am pips and then the news came on the radio. I quickly turned round looked at the clock in disbelief, then looked at my fife and said ‘It can’t be 08.00am. She looked at me with confusion on her face and said ‘It can’t be as I just looked at my clock on my iPhone and it read 07.34am’. We had lost 25 minutes of time and yet we were both clearly awake and have no memory loss.
I know it is a small amount of time to loose, but we can’t account for it and it is as if time itself has just jumped forward 25 minutes in a split second.
I know we will never know the answer to this, but I believe we as human beings are a small part of a very big plan and an even larger universe. This experience has left me very confused and feeling quite vulnerable. None of us feel any different, no clear marks on our bodies, or feeling ill in any way. Saying that my wife has woken up with strange marks on her body in the past and witnessed seeing strange shadowy figures in our bedroom. I must say though, that we have never had any harm come to us what so ever, no matter what has happened in the past.
I was staying in a motel room and walked outside to smoke a cigarette. The time on the t.v. news was 10:37 at night. I was halfway through my cigarette when I looked up at the sky and saw a bright flash of light far off in the distance. I am a firm believer in God and felt it was a sign from him. I suddenly felt the urge to go in my room. I was in my room for less than an hour, when the sun began to rise. I lost over 6 hours of time. I also am aware of things happening before they occur. I would not say I have psychic abilitys, but I am prepared for certain events before they happen. It certainly has made me wonder about the reality of everything. For example, Jesus is with God in the heavens, which I firmly believe, but did satan create intelligent aliens that lack souls which exist in the universe. I have way more questions than answers, but I do know, that I lost a large amount of time, and I have no explanation why. I also know God is there for me. God protects me. I would like to know what happened during that time lapse.
Hello. I’ve been following this forum for quite some time. I’ve had several experiences with time loss, however about a month ago I attributed them to day dreaming or a wandering mind. I would like to share and incident that happened in early September of this year.
-First a brief history: I have had chronic insomnia since I was 6 years old. I am now 31. I’ve seen numerous specialists, doctors, therapists etc. I will stay awake for days at a time and finally exhaust myself and still only sleep a few hours and do it all over. They’ve recently, within the last 3 years, determined my brain doesn’t produce enough melatonin. I have a very strict bedtime routine now. I am finally able to sleep. Now my story.
On an ordinary night in September I was doing my bedtime routine. I took my melatonin at 10pm. The same time I take it every night. I showered, brushed my teeth, fed the cat. At about 10:20 I got in bed. I turned on the tv, watched it for a few minutes then set the sleep timer to shut the tv off in 30 minutes. Which would make it 11:00pm. I do the same thing every single night 7 days a week. At about 10:47 I heard a crash in the living room. I know it was 10:47 because I looked at the clock when I got up to see what it was. My TV was still playing as the sleep timer had yet to shut it off. I thought perhaps the cat had knocked something over. My boyfriend was across the country visiting his parents and he had our child with him. It was just the cat and I. I’m probably providing too many details. Anyway, I went into the living room and the cat had intact knocked a lamp over. I picked it up. Turned off the light and I could still hear the TV in the bedroom playing. I checked the doors again to be sure they were locked and went back to the bedroom. The whole event should have taken 10 minutes or less. I noticed on my way back to the bedroom the TV had shut off. Which didn’t alarm me until I saw the bedroom clock said 2 am. I proceeded to check every clock in the house with the same result. I had lost 3 hours. I had no sense of “awakening” no sense of disorientation. It was like time jumped forward 3 hours from the living room to the bedroom and we live in a tiny two bedroom one story apartment. It’s a duplex and my parents live in the other half. Less than one minute after checking the clocks, my mother was knocking on my front door at 2:00 in the morning. She had awoken from a dead sleep with the feeling that something had happened to me. It’s very odd. I don’t know what to make of it but I would like to know where the time goes. 🙂 .
I too, have had, a “missing time” experience. In February of 2007, I was taking my ‘long lost’ uncle, who I had never met before February 2007, to the airport(he was returning home to California) after a very, very brief visit(he somehow found my phone no. and called to say he was coming-he was actually my grandfathers’ brother who I had never met until a conference in Detroit(which is where I reside)brought him to call me, requesting for a place to stay, overnight, until he could be taken back to the airport. After checking him out with other surviving family members, who actually knew him from growing up with him, I decided to let him stay with my sister, as I was having some personal problems that I didn’t want him to know about at the time. The very next morning, I went to get him and drive him back to Metro airport, near Ypsilanti, Mi. My uncle, upon returning to the airport along I-94 going west, said he had forgot something and that we needed to return to my sisters’ house to get it. However, we found the item before returning to my sisters’ house, at which point, I had to make a u-turn to get back in the direction we had started. I remember being at the entrance to I-94 at Van Dyke, with my hands behind the steering wheel and my foot on the brake, waiting to go down into the freeway again(we were at a stop light), when all of a sudden, next thing I know, I was about 8 miles away from where I was last at, driving along I-94 EAST! about to come up at the Little Mack exit on I-94, which is, as I said about EIGHT MILES away from where I was last at, with my uncle being in the car with me, as all of this was occurring-furthermore-I remember looking at the clock on the dashboard-WE HAD LOST FIFTEEN MINUTES OF TIME for which I, to this very day, have no accounting for-in addition-i was driving at about speed limit when this ‘time’ lapse occurred-which was about 70 miles an hour! In other words, I jumped about eight miles instantly(or for about a missing period of fifteen minutes)-all while still remaining behind the steering wheel and driving at full speed(I consider driving at 70 mph full speed)-my uncle was with me while all of this took place and I remember looking at him-he appeared to be just as astounded as I was- anyway being now fifteen minutes behind schedule, I was now rushing to turn back around and get my uncle to the airport on time-the fifteen minutes lapse in time almost caused us to be late for my uncles’ departure from Metro, but we made it. I just happened to see your website and with what I had experienced, thought I should share my experience with you-I never ever mentioned the incident to my uncle again out of fear as to what he might say or how he might react(he was 75 years old at the time). To this day, I have never experienced another incident like the one which occurred in February of 2007, and I deal w/’paranormal phenomenon daily, but not like what occurred on that day. Furthermore, My uncle from California was a member of the nation of Islam, following Louis Farrakhan and I was a Christian at the time all of this occurred-I still lean towards the doctrine and gospel of Jesus Christ although I do not like designating myself as a Christian,at the present time, for reasons which have evolved into my life, which I deem it not necessary to explain at this time. Suffice to say, every word I have just stated is true to the best of my knowledge and recollection-it is also, the first time I have ever went public about this. Perhaps it will lead to information or knowledge in the future that will be of benefit to myself and to the world at large. Sincerely, Charles Alan Brazell
Many years ago when i was arround 15 yrs old (i’m 31 now), after a teacher missed the class, i stayed at school, instead of going with my friends out of school (because of my beliefs at that time, i did not wanted to go to the place they were going).
So, 50 minuts passed, and during that time i just wondered arround, and took the time to read something. Then the bell rings and i go to my next class… and my friends asked where i have been… fact is, i skiped one class… and i dont remember anything of that.
Part of the 1st 50 minuts, the break between classes (and all the moving arround of people during that time), the call to the next class, and the whole next 50 minuts… blank. I just remember my self walking to the front of school, and then listen the bell to what i believed to be the break after the 1st 50 minuts, but instead, almoust 1,5 hrs had passed.
I do remember a big calm and silence before that… and after, i can still remember a feeling of, some kind of displacement!
I do remember how worried i was after i discovered i missed one class… but my parents never asked me about it (something i’ve found strange, always believed that, as i never done it before, thet did not took it seriously).
When I was in kindergarten I had a missing time experience.
One day my class took a special trip to the school’s newer playground, which was made of mostly wood (as opposed to the mostly metal regular playground that we usually played on for recess). I remember walking up the stairs of the playground with my classmates and the *poof*, next thing I know I’m standing at the playground’s fireman pole. Only none of my classmates were out there. A third grade class was. I remember asking the kid standing at the pole whether it was safe for kindergarteners to use.
In any case, they were getting ready to head back inside and their teacher took me back to my class. Apparently I had been missing. For how long I don’t know. Everyone in my class was inside watching a movie but the two teachers didn’t seem too concerned.
At the time I remember being disoriented. I had (and still have) no idea about what happened. My guess from cobbling things together is that I’m missing somewhere between 20 minutes and an hour of time. But I have no idea what happened during that time.
I’m curious as to what remedy I should seek, if any, to recover that lost time. I’m currently 25 years old, so we’re talking about going back approximately 20 years. Anyway, it’s interesting and I’m curious as to what you think.
Hey everyone — Sorry for being behind in replying. I do try to make a point of responding to everyone who takes the time to comment on my posts. Life’s been getting in the way lately and I’ve fallen behind. My apologies.
I don’t know if I have anything new to add to anything I’ve said previously in response to these reports. It’s still a mystery to me, though one conclusion at which I’ve arrived is that these time anomaly phenomenon are much more widespread than I’d ever previously believed and that they don’t fit into any of the “ET abduction” literature. Only a small percentage of the reports involved seeing any sort of craft or entities. More often they take place at all hours and in various locations, not just in the dead of night at people’s bedsides or while driving down dark, country roads late at night.
I certainly can’t discount that some of these reports are entirely in the person’s mind or could be repressed memories of disturbing or traumatic incidents (not necessarily paranormal ones). However, there are many that don’t fit neatly into any category and have no easy, logical explanation. This leads me to believe that something is going on. What that something is, I don’t know, but I do believe that it involves some sort of intervention by some kind of intelligence. That’s all I’ve got at this point.
Hi John, I posted a while back and have been reading the experiences on the blog. This raised a question, and on something you commented on some time ago. Has anyone that you know of tried going under Hypnosis, and if so are you aware of the results? My curiosity was peaking regarding this and thought I would ask. Hope you are well.
Hi Dana,
No, I’ve received so many reports through the comments section of this article and also emailed to me privately, but I don’t recall a single person telling me of having undergone hypnosis. I’m thinking of doing it myself soon though. I’ll let you know how it goes and probably will post an article on it too. I often don’t think about it all, however it’s been on my mind a lot recently and kind of bothering me. Sort of flares up now and then, if you know what I mean.
–John
I have had missing time recently…twice within 6 months of each other. Both times I was on my laptop, specifically on You Tube and playing scrabble. The first time I got up to use the washroom and realized that it was midnight when I thought it should only be about 9 PM. When I checked my history on my pc I could only account for time up to about 9pm and then my history on the pc started up again a few minutes before midnight as if I resumed after stopping which I did not.I remember only getting up from my pc to use the bathroom and being shocked by the time on the kitchen clock. Six The next time I lost almost 4 hours. Again I was on my computer doing much the same as the last time. Again i got up to use the washroom and this time I could not believe it. The clock said 3:40 AM! I never stay up past 1 AM and I wasn’t at all tired. When I checked my computer history again my activity stopped abruptly at about 11:20 PM and then started up again about 3:20 AM. All I remember is being at my laptop and then going to the washroom.
My other experience is when I GAINED time. It took place in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in the summer of 1986. It was the beginning of August and was one of the most beautiful summers of my memory. Each day had been idyllic. Hot, but not killer hot, and lush, which is not typical for our hot dry prairies. The lushness was due to beautiful thunderstorms occurring almost every evening, which cooled the heat of the day invigorating the night with a magical aliveness. You’d feel the storm approaching by the way hairs on your arms would rise and the perfumed air held the hint of ozone. The storms were spectacular but not dangerous, and this too is atypical for this land of extremes. My boyfriend was an American who I had met when he came to Canada to reacquaint with his son from a previous marriage. To make a long story short, he was unable to stay in Canada and get a working visa so he had to go back to the U.S . Naturally, I was heart broken. He decided he’d return to Minneapolis and continue to pursue a working visa from there. I decided I would take a month’s vacation, drive him to Minneapolis and help get him settled. From Saskatoon we planned to drive to Regina Saskatchewan, which is 250 kilometers (160 miles) away, refuel, have a stretch, then head to Minot, North Dakota, stop for the night, then head to Minneapolis. Michael and I were both exhausted from months of fighting the deportation order and depressed because he lost his case. It hit Michael hardest having to leave both his son and me. The stress gave Michael a nasty case of “walking pneumonia” so as I drove he slept.
I distinctly remember checking the time before we left because I was bugged we were leaving so late. It meant at some point I’d be driving in the dark, which I disliked. As usual as I had the radio on and also heard the DJ confirms the time during his hourly newsbreak. I remember making a quick mental calculation that we should reach Regina between 6 and 6:30 p.m. and that I’d have light until about 10 p.m.
I believe we were only 30 or so miles out of Saskatoon on the Trans- Canada #1 Highway when I started feeling odd. My physical experience inside the car began to change. Everything quieted, sort of muted – even the radio – like being wrapped in a wad of cotton. I looked over at Michael to comment, but he was sleeping soundly. Then I noticed the road noise and bumps one experiences when traveling in a vehicle had disappeared. The car felt as if it were hovering a few inches above the road and were sort of sailing through the air. I saw no other cars on this very busy highway, which was also struck me as odd. I distinctly remember feeling everything was syrupy. The closest thing I can compare it to was when I’d lane swim a mile and be so exhausted until I’d break through it and go into a state referred to as a “runners high” – this whooshy slow motion feeling.
When we got to Regina, I went to refuel and my first shock came when I noticed we had used almost no gas at all. My second shock was when I asked the pump attendant for the time. He said it was 5 p.m.! Even though I already knew the answer, I still felt compelled to ask the attendant if Regina was on the same Central Standard time system as Saskatoon . He looked at me like I was the dumbest blonde he’d ever seen. By this time Mike was awake and he too was as amazed and baffled.
It was physically impossible for me to have made 160 miles in one hour. Even if I had been speeding. What’s more is the very fact that I knew something weird had been going on; it had been physical. The rest of the trip resumed normally, but I will never forget that experience. Sometimes I wonder if our emotional states and my focus to get to where I wanted before the light faded that day, acted like a form of telekinesis – because I had one singular episode of that when I was 15 years old when me and three of my girlfriends were having an intense game of Kaiser and a small plastic ashtray levitated before our eyes then slowly settled back on the coffe table. We all saw it but had no explanation for it.
Sheri Lowe
John, I had lost some time, about 12 hours, in 1979 in South Dakota. One evening a native came in the house and said that there was going to be a huge thunder storm. I waent outside with him to see the two fronts that were in a collision course from horizion to horizion and overhead. Sure enough the fronts hit and a huge thunder storm occured. Lighting went from horizion to horizon lighting up the sky like I was inside a lightbulb. It rained harder than I have ever seen even til this day. I joined my hosts in there home to wait out the storm. It was about one-o-clock when the rain stopped and I was ready for bed. I left the house to go to my tent, took a few steps and stopped and looked up to see a cloud formation that looked like a left hand comming out of the clouds with fingernails, knuckles,all perfict. It seemed there was water built up in the palm that had been made into a crown like that of water. There was a water drop above that and a cloud with 3 puffs and a droplet of water building up. Well I was astounded and wanted to go into the house to get a camera, I trier to turn but was unable to move my body at all. So I thought I’ll yell out and tell them know, but no voice eather. I tried to move to my tent but I was frozen solid. I was waiting for the immage to be blown away but that wasn’t going to happen eather. My next memory I was getting into a car all packed upand had covered some area as well as everything was packed up after a big rain storm. I would like to find out what happened during this lost time by going through hypnosis. I am courious if I met with a UFO or something else. Why did I loose this time and why was I frozen stiff and if anyone got a picture of the clouds.
John, I had lost some time, about 12 hours, in 1979 in South Dakota. One evening a native came in the house and said that there was going to be a huge thunder storm. I went outside with him to see the two fronts that were in a collision course from horizon to horizon and overhead. Sure enough the fronts hit and a huge thunder storm occurred. Lighting went from horizon to horizon lighting up the sky like I was inside a light bulb. It rained harder than I have ever seen even till this day. I joined my hosts in there home to wait out the storm. It was about one-o-clock when the rain stopped and I was ready for bed. I left the house to go to my tent, took a few steps and stopped and looked up to see a cloud formation that looked like a left hand coming out of the clouds with fingernails, knuckles, all perfect. It seemed there was water built up in the palm that had been made into a crown like that of water. There was a water drop above that and a cloud with 3 puffs and a droplet of water building up. Well I was astounded and wanted to go into the house to get a camera, I tried to turn but was unable to move my body at all. So I thought I’ll yell out and tell them know, but no voice either. I tried to move to my tent but I was frozen solid. I was waiting for the immage to be blown away but that wasn’t going to happen either. My next memory I was getting into a car all packed up and had covered some area as well as everything was packed up after a big rain storm. I would like to find out what happened during this lost time by going through hypnosis. I am courious if I met with a UFO or something else. Why did I loose this time and why was I frozen stiff and if anyone got a picture of the clouds.