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By Stephen Wagner, About.com

There’s fog that forms when condensed water droplets swirl in the air close to the ground. And then there’s fog that materializes from dimensions unknown.

Time Storms

A glowing fog bank that transports those who enter it across time and dimensions sounds like the premise of a science fiction thriller. In her book, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, however, author Jenny Randles makes a compelling case that these strange fogs really do exist. She documents many incidents in which unsuspecting people, while either driving, walking or otherwise going about their business, encountered a glowing white mist. In some cases, these people disappeared only to reappear sometime later in a state of bewilderment. One driver was transported over 600 miles from where he entered the glowing fog. (See the article “Time Storms in The Matrix” for a deeper look at Randles’ book.)

One of our readers, calling herself Cher, tells of her own possible encounter with this peculiar fog: “I was leaving my driveway to drive one mile to town. I had just pulled out and there was a thick fog rolling in. I had only gone a half a block at most very slowly when I saw a very bright light through the fog. As I drove closer, I saw a Phillips 66 gas station. It wasn't there the day before. I pulled into it in shock and a man came out. I asked him how a gas station could have been built so fast and he looked at me strangely. He said it had been there for eight years. I asked him where I was and when he told me I began to shake uncontrollaby. I was 300 miles from home!” (Read the entire story.)

Also read “Disappearing Car”

Disappearing Battalion

Three soldiers witnessed the bizarre disappearance of an entire battalion in 1915 when a fog bank seemed to swallow them up. It occurred during the infamous Gallipoli campaign of WWI. Three members of a New Zealand field company watched as a battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment marched up a hillside in Suvla Bay, Turkey into the fog. They never came out. After the last of the battalion had entered the cloud, they said, it slowly lifted off the hillside to join other clouds in the sky. Their disappearance has never been accounted for. (See “Vanished! Unexplained Disappearances”)

Ghosts from the Fog

Ariele D. tells the story of an apparition that came out of a light blue fog: “It was mid-June around 5:00 p.m. and I was riding my stallion back from my neighbor's house. When I got about one mile from my neighbor's home, I thought I saw something a little farther ahead. It looked like a small amount of light blue fog. I slowly got off my horse and walked with him toward the foggy substance. When I got within about eight yards or so of it, I was stuck in my tracks with fear. I was terrified because I had never had an experience quite like this one before (with a ghost). He looked around 25 or maybe a little older. His skin was spotted like he had been burned. He was wearing old clothes; his pants looked sort of like chaps, but it was hard to tell because I was too busy looking at his face. I had just enough time to get a good look and he disappeared, sort of vanishing slowly like the fog he was in was swept away in a gust of wind.” (Read the entire story.)

Also read “Ghost of Iraqi Soldier” and “Spirits in the Woods”

The Fog and The Bermuda Triangle

Is an “electronic fog” responsible for many of the unexplained incidents and disappearances in the infamous Bermuda Triangle? That is the assertion made by Rob MacGregor and Bruce Gernon in their book The Fog (Llewellyn Worldwide, 2005).

Gernon himself is a first-hand witness and survivor of this strange phenomenon. On December 4, 1970, he and his dad were flying their Bonanza A36 over the Bahamas. On route to Bimini they encountered strange cloud phenomena, particularly a tunnel-shaped vortex, the sides of which the planes wings scraped as they flew. For about 10 seconds, Gernon felt as if he were experiencing zero gravity. All of the plane’s electronic and magnetic navigational instruments malfunctioned. The magnetic compass spun inexplicably. As they neared the end of the tunnel, they expected to see clear blue sky. Instead, they saw only a dull grayish white for miles – no ocean, sky or horizon. After flying for 34 minutes, a time corroborated by every clock on board, they found themselves over Miami Beach – a flight that normally would have taken 75 minutes.

MacGregor and Gernon believe that this electronic fog that Gernon experienced may have also been responsible for the famous disappearance of Flight 19, and other vanishing aircraft and ships.

Beware the fog!

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