Story 4: Spontaneous Teleportation
"Beam me up, Scotty." Human teleportation is commonplace in the future world of "Star Trek," where people are routinely "energized" over long distances from one place to another. But they need "transporter" machines to accomplish this feat - technology that is far in advance of what we can create today.
Yet there are accounts of people who have been spontaneously teleported from one location to another without the aid of machinery. These experiences are different from instances of astral projection, where a person's "spirit" or essence is seen in a distant location when his or her body remains in its original space. In accounts of spontaneous teleportation, the experiencer's body disappears from one place and appears in another.
One documented case took place in Dover, New Hampshire in 1966. In August of that year, four year old Holly Flynn was sick - very sick. A few weeks earlier, she began to complain to her parents of feeling very tired and having neck pain. Holly then developed a serious fever and was vomiting, and her parents noticed a pale yellowing of her complexion. When the seizures started, the Flynns knew this was a serious illness and rushed their daughter to the hospital where she was diagnosed with a case of meningitis - a serious but treatable bacterial infection.
Little Holly was administered the appropriate antibiotics, but remained ill for several days - and during those days experienced an unexplained phenomenon.
One night around 10 p.m., a nurse on duty came into Holly's room to check on her and was shocked to see that the little girl was not in her bed. She checked around the room, in the bathroom and around the hallways but could not find her. Meanwhile at the Flynn home, Holly's older brother Mike was in his room when he heard what he thought was his little sister in her room adjacent to his. Puzzled, he went to Holly's room and found her in the middle of the floor playing with her blocks, wearing her hospital dressing gown. He asked what she was doing home. She replied simply that she missed being home and wanted to play with her toys.
Mike rushed down the stairs to get his parents, but when they got back up to Holly's room she was gone. Her blocks were in the middle of the floor. Meanwhile at the hospital, the nurse sought help in searching for the little girl and, returning to her room, found her asleep in her bed, as if she had been there all evening.
It was later confirmed by the Flynn family and the staff at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital that Holly's brief disappearance in the hospital and her appearance in her bedroom at home had taken place at the exact same time.
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