TIMESLIP PART2

 My experiences possibly brought about by the unsettling of the energies in my home reminded Clive of this gem. He thinks that this story originally came from Carl Jung who had come across it in a local newspaper. Jung subsequently investigated it as far as he could. It happened somewhere in Central Europe.

A man went to visit an address, replying to a newspaper advertisement for the sale of an item. His destination was an old building several stories high. He rapped with the very old fashioned door knocker. After a pause an upstairs window was flung open and an old woman poked her head out asking him whom he wanted. She was dressed in a rather old fashioned way with a shawl round her shoulders. The man gave her the name of the person that he was visiting. There was a pause while the woman seemed to take some time to absorb his request. Eventually she said, “The whole family is out. You may enter and wait if you wish.”

Not having anything better to do, the man said that he would. After a pause the be-shawled woman opened the door and led the man to a room where he was left to himself. He was charmed by the room. It was very old fashioned with a big oak table in the centre, a pendulum clock with roman numerals ticked loudly on the wall. Heavily embossed Victorian wallpaper hung on the walls and other large and dark Victorian furniture was arranged around the room.

 The man sat and waited. The only entertainment that he could think of was to play with his pocket watch to relieve the boredom. After over an hour with no arrivals and with the apparent disappearance of the elderly woman, he gave up his wait and let himself out of the house, closing the door behind him.

After a few minutes and having walked a little away from the house, the man realised that he had left his watch behind. He retraced his steps. Upon reaching the building again, he stopped in shock and his mouth dropped open. In the few minutes since his leaving, the appearance of the house had completely changed. The front of the building was now very dirty, windows were broken, paint was peeling from the previously well maintained door.

The man mounted the steps to the door and raised the now rusty knocker. The noise of the knocks now thundered as though the interior of the hallway was empty of furniture and carpet. No aged crone came to now peeling window and no-one opened the door. The man stepped back down the steps scratching his head in disbelief and puzzlement.

 Confused thoughts were whizzing round his head. He had no idea what was going on. After a few minutes he managed to contact a neighbour and on asking about the occupants of the near derelict house was told, “No-one has lived in this house for sixty years, all the occupants are dead.”

The man was absolutely flabbergasted. He was so out of sorts by this ‘double reality’ experience that he left. After a day or so wrestling with the events, he went to the police and with their assistance was able to regain entry to the house. In the room that he had sat in on his first visit, he found his watch. It was rusted, tarnished and covered in dust as though it had been there for decades. No-one could ever provide an adequate explanation for the man’s experience.

According to Jung this really happened and was reported as an event rather than as a fictional story. Timeslip; fact or fiction?

Before leaving timeslips, the Philadelphia Experiment deserves a mention. It is difficult to really accept it as a fact; nevertheless rumours persist leaving us to wonder. Briefly the story goes something like this. In October 1943, the destroyer USS Eldridge was the subject of a dramatic experiment. It is claimed that while the warship was in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard it became invisible.

Naturally, and reasonably enough, it was claimed to be a hoax. The US Navy certainly denies any such experiment took place. Employing the Unified Field Theory some argue that the combination of electromagnetic radiation and gravity bent light around the ship rendering it invisible to observers. In an earlier experiment observers claimed that the ship almost disappeared and was surrounded by a green fog. In another we are told that while it nearly disappeared, it left an indentation in the water where the keel should have been. However, in the October experiment the observers stated that the ship disappeared completely in a blue flash.

The Navy admits that the Eldridge was engaged on a degaussing experiment at the time. Degaussing was employed by the Royal Navy and the US Navy to demagnetise their ships making them less vulnerable to magnetic mines. The process required that a wire was wrapped around the whole ship.

Another story suggests that in an attempt to render the ship invisible, the surrounding air and sea water was heated sufficiently to cause a mirage. It seems this was thought might confuse observers. There does seem to be little doubt and crew members experienced a range of ailments whatever the cause. Some of the ship’s company became disorientated, others mentally ill and some disappeared entirely. One report even said that crewmen were discovered fused to the hull. Reports tell that Einstein and Tesla were just two of a whole army of scientists working on the Philadelphia Experiment. (To add to the confusion, Tesla was dead at the time.)

But just a moment’s rational thought is bound to deliver the verdict that this story is nothing more that an intriguing hoax. However, there is a problem. Within minutes of the Eldridge being seen in Philadelphia it was also seen 375 miles (604 kilometres) away in Norfolk, Virginia.

Could this be an example of timeslip on a large scale? This event, or non event as the case may be, is well documented and may be researched under its correct name of Project Rainbow.