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Highway
to the Past
In October, 1969, a
man identified only as L.C. and his business associate, Charlie, were driving
north from Abbeville, Louisiana toward Lafayette on Highway 167. As they were
driving along the nearly empty road, they began to overtake what appeared to be
an antique car traveling very slowly. The two men were impressed by the mint
condition of the nearly 30-year-old car - it looked virtually new - and puzzled
by its bright orange license plate on which was stamped only "1940."
They figured, however, that the car had been part of some antique auto show. As
they passed the slow-moving vehicle, they slowed their car to get a good look at
the old model. The
driver of the old car was a young woman dressed in vintage 1940s clothing, and her passenger
was a small child likewise dressed. The woman seemed panicked and confused. L.C.
asked if she needed help and, through her rolled up window, indicated
"yes." L.C. motioned for her to pull off to the side of the road. The
businessmen pulled ahead of the old car and turned onto the shoulder of the
road. When they got out... the old car had vanished without a trace. There were
no turnoffs or anywhere else the vehicle could have gone. Moments later, another
car pulled up to the businessmen and, quite puzzled, said he had seen their car
pull off to the side... and the old car simply vanish into thin air. (See "Time
Traveller" for more details on this story.)
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One night in 1972, four coeds from Southern Utah University were driving back to their dorm in Cedar City after spending the day at a rodeo in Pioche, Nevada. It was about 10 p.m. and the girls were eager to get back to their dorm before curfew. They were traveling along Highway 56, which has a reputation for being "haunted." A while after taking a fork in the road that turned to the north, the girls were surprised to see that the black asphalt had turned into a white cement road that eventually ended abruptly at a cliff face. They turned around and tried to find their way back to the highway, but soon became concerned about the unfamiliar landscape - red canyon walls that gave way to open grain fields and pine trees, which they had never encountered before in this part of the state. Feeling completely lost, the girls felt some comfort when they approached a roadhouse or tavern. They pulled into the parking lot and one of the passengers poked her head out the window to get directions from a few "men" coming out of the building. But she screamed and ordered the driver to get out of there - fast. The girls sped off, but realized they were being chased by the men in strange, tri-wheeled, egg-shaped vehicles. Speeding again through the canyon, the girls seemed to have lost their pursuers and found their way to the familiar desert highway. The reason for the scream? The men, she said, weren't human. (See "Utah's Time/Space Warp Canyon Encounter" for more details.)
Hotel
Time Warp
Two British couples
vacationing in the north of France in 1979 were driving, looking for a place to
stay for the night. Along the way, they were struck by some signs that seemed to
be for a very old-fashioned type of circus. The first building they came to
looked like it might be a motel, but some men standing in front of it told the
travelers it was "an inn" and that a hotel could be found down the
road. Further on, they did find an old-fashioned building marked
"hotel." Inside, they discovered, almost everything was made of heavy
wood, and there seemed to be no evidence of such modern conveniences as
telephones. Their rooms has no locks, but simple wooden latches and the windows
had wooden shutters but no glass. In the morning, as they ate breakfast, two
gendarmes entered wearing very old-fashioned caped uniforms. After getting what
turned out to be very bad directions to Avignon from the gendarmes, the couples
paid a bill that came to only 19 francs, and they left. After two weeks in
Spain, the couples made a return trip through France and decided to again stay
at the interesting if odd but very cheap hotel. This time, however, the hotel
could not be found. Certain they were in the exact same spot (they saw the same
circus posters), they realized that
the old hotel had completely vanished without a trace. Photos taken at the hotel
did not develop. And a little research revealed that French gendarmes wore
uniforms of that description prior to 1905.
Preview
of an Air Raid
In 1932, German
newspaper reporter J. Bernard Hutton and his colleague, photographer Joachim
Brandt, were assigned to do a story on the Hamburg-Altona shipyards. After being
given a tour by a shipyard executive, the two newspapermen were leaving when
they heard the drone of overhead aircraft. They at first thought is was a
practice drill, but that notion was quickly dispelled when bombs began exploding
all around and the roar of anti-aircraft gunfire filled the air. The sky quickly darkened
and they were in the middle of a full-blown air raid. They quickly got in their
car and drove away from the shipyard back toward Hamburg. As they left the area,
however, the sky seemed to brighten and they again found themselves in the light
of a calm, ordinary late afternoon. They looked back at the shipyards, and
there was no destruction, no bomb-induced inferno they had just left, no
aircraft in the sky. The photos Brandt had taken during the attack showed
nothing unusual. It wasn't until 1943 that the British Royal Air Force attacked
and destroyed the shipyard - just as Hutton and Brandt had experienced it 11
years earlier. 
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