Time and reality are concepts that are so mind-bending that our perception of them can run wild, while at the same time, we are left grappling for answers as to the construct and nature of both. The fact is, for all our collective understanding of time and reality, both individually and how they relate to each other, is limited at best. When did time begin, for example, and if there is a starting point that marks the beginning of time, what came before that? Similarly, when will time end, and again, what comes after that? Ultimately, what is time? The same questions could be asked of our reality. Is the world how we perceive it to be, actually how it is? What about the many things that are simply not visible to us because of our limitations regarding the visible spectrum (with the same being said for our hearing ability)? Might there be many different realities all around us, invisible for the most part, aside from those rare occasions when they seemingly crash into one another and intersect.  

In an article on the subject of time and reality, I wrote several years ago:

“Many researchers into the notion of alternative dimensions and realities suggest that there is a fantastic array of alternative histories and futures. And according to the Many Interacting Worlds theory, these alternative realities regularly interact with our own. At least “on the quantum level”.

What is perhaps interesting here is that many researchers in the paranormal fields also look to quantum physics to reach entities from “the other side”. Perhaps that other side is actually many other sides – or realities. The fact is, there are many accounts of strange encounters involving anomalies with time and apparent instant journeys into other dimensions. What makes these journeys possible is not known. Perhaps there are vortexes or portals (sometimes referred to as X-points) that allow this transference to another time or location, or perhaps certain convergences of energies are responsible. There are as many possibilities as there are strange cases on record.

Without a doubt, one of the most fascinating accounts involving time and reality is one, generally speaking, that is known as The Man From Taured case, not least as it is not entirely certain if the encounter is a genuine incident or nothing but an urban legend. Most researchers agree that the account first entered the public arena in the book The Directory of Possibilities by Colin Wilson and John Grant. There were, however, no sources referenced for the account, and there have been no known discoveries of newspaper articles detailing the incident. That said, the legend persists, especially with the arrival of the Internet.

According to most versions of the account, one morning in the summer of 1954, a man entered Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan, and made his way to the customs desk along with the rest of the arriving passengers. The man stated he was in Japan on business and had traveled from Europe, something he had done many times before. Although he could speak good Japanese, it appeared his native language was French. When he produced his passport, however, things turned strange. He claimed he was from a country called Taured, a small nation that sat between France and Spain. Moreover, he produced further paperwork that attested to this, including a driving license, bank statements, and official business papers. He continued that Taured had a history that stretched back over a thousand years and was genuinely confused as to what the problem was.

Equally confused were the customs officials, who, despite their best efforts, couldn’t locate Taured anywhere on any of their maps. Fortunately, the man was more than cooperative and agreed to stay in a hotel close to the airport in their custody while they got to the bottom of this strange affair. The customs officials kept hold of the man’s passport and papers so they could investigate further, and with a guard constantly outside of his hotel room door, the man was checked into a hotel.  The following morning, however, things took an even stranger turn.

When customs officials arrived at the hotel to take the man for further questioning, they were shocked to discover the room was empty. The room had only a single window with no balcony or ledge, and was several floors up from the ground, meaning he couldn’t have left via this route without risking almost certain death. Moreover, the guard outside the room was more than certain that the man hadn’t left through the door. He had, essentially, disappeared into thin air. Customs officials had planned to inform the man that the phone numbers on his passport and business papers didn’t appear to be real, with no connection being made when officials had dialed those numbers. Now, though, those papers and passport were also missing, despite being kept in a secure evidence room.

At this point, customs officials contacted the Tokyo police department and reported the situation to them. They conducted an extensive search of the area around the hotel and the airport – there was no sign at all of the mysterious man. Here is where the story differs a little, depending on the source. Some insist that these searches went on for days, perhaps even longer, while others suggest that they were called off relatively quickly. Whatever the truth, no one saw the Man from Taured ever again. The account, though, leaves us with a plethora of questions.

Was this a case of a man attempting to enter Japan with false papers who then disappeared in the most inexplicable and unexplained way? It has to be said that it appears unlikely. Even if we take away the bizarre disappearance of the man, we would have to ask why he would choose to use a country that was unknown to the Japanese customs, and not simply France, Spain, Italy, or any other European country, which surely would have improved the chances of the ruse working? Or perhaps the man in question was from another dimension, one that crossed into ours, if only temporarily. This, though, brings up its own questions, not least, when did this dimension switch occur, and why, as far as we know, did it only affect this particular gentleman? If this speculative dimension shift occurred while the plane bringing the mystery man to Tokyo was in the air, then we expect all passengers on that plane to have been affected. Perhaps they were, and the man in question was the only person in this other dimension who was from a country that didn’t exist in his own. Or perhaps this dimension shift occurred at some point after the mystery man left the plane and entered the airport. There is also the possibility, however remote, that the man in question was a time traveler. Perhaps he had somehow switched timelines, or even altered the timeline, resulting in a world where Taured no longer existed.

We should also consider that the explanation resides somewhere between these different suggestions, perhaps due to the changes in the story as it was retold and circulated over many years, and perhaps, in part, due to the desire of the authorities to quash the account, not least as they had seemingly allowed a man with no official country to escape, his whereabouts unknown, somewhere in Japan, whether he was a conman with a tall story or a gentleman from another realm of existence. At the very least, it showed the authorities had been outwitted; at worst, it displayed their incompetence. This might also explain why there are no official newspaper reports or customs or police records of the incident. Of course, we should be clear, this is pure speculation, with no evidence to back it up. The story of the man from Taured, though, continues to fascinate researchers today. Perhaps one day, proof might surface as to its authenticity. For now, it remains circling in the many urban legends of our modern world.  

A similar case involving different times or dimensions occurred in the early 1970s, and is also one that many researchers insist is more urban legend than actual account. However, this account did have some limited local newspaper coverage at the time, and the witnesses are named. The account in question unfolded in the Gadianton Canyon in southeastern Utah, a place that has many legends of strange disappearances and other strange goings-on taking place, with some local Mormon legends even stating that the location is home to “bad, evil spirits!”

On the night in question, late one evening in May 1972, four Southern Utah University students – Janna North, who was driving, Carol Abbott, Bethany Gordon, and Lisa Rochefort – were making their way back to the university dormitories after spending the evening at a rodeo, and were eager to get back on campus before the housemaster locked the doors for the night. This desire to get back as quickly as possible led the girls to make a decision that would change their lives forever – they decided to take a shortcut through the Gadianton Canyon.

Although it was a dark, moonless night, the road along the canyon seemed normal enough, and certainly not scary or intimidating. Then, however, things changed. Suddenly, the road they were driving on came to an end, a huge rock wall in front of them. With no other option, Janna turned the car around and began back the way they had come. When they came to the end of the canyon, though, only several minutes later, their surroundings were different. Gone was the sagebrush and sand that had lined the road previously – now large fields of wheat lined one side of the road while ponderosa pine trees lined the other. Even stranger, even though there had been no (visible) moon that evening, now, the Moon was full and bright. With an increasing sense of confusion and more than a little fear, the girls continued along the road, hopeful that they had simply made a wrong turn. Eventually, streetlamps along the road brought a sense of relief, suggesting that they were heading back into the main town. That relief, however, was only temporary.

Several moments later, the girls spotted a neon sign ahead of them, a sign that appeared to be attached to what looked like a diner. As they arrived outside the building, the girls noticed that the neon sign contained letters or symbols that none of them had even seen before, and while they couldn’t quite place their finger on it, there was something a little disturbing about this place. Regardless, Janna pulled the car into the diner’s parking lot and swung it around, preparing to bring the vehicle to a stop. As she was doing so, a group of men walked out of the doorway of the building, and Lisa began winding down the window so she could shout over to the men and ask for directions. However, only a second later, Lisa let out a terrified scream and urged Janna to “get them out of there” immediately. Janna immediately pressed her foot on the gas and sped towards the parking lot exit. As the car turned, Carol also got a close-up of the men, and immediately called out that they “were not human!”

Janna set off back down the road they had traveled down only moments earlier, increasing her speed as she did so. She glanced into her rearview mirror, seeing the men were climbing onto strange egg-shaped vehicles, each with three wheels, two at the front and one at the back. Then, even from this distance away, she could hear a “loud, whirring sound” that reminded her of an angry nest of wasps or hornets as the strange egg-shaped vehicles set off in their direction, an extremely bright light shining from the front of each of them. It was clear to Janna that not only were the men in pursuit of them, but they were quickly getting closer. Moments later, with the strange vehicles still in pursuit, Janna could see the opening to the canyon ahead of them. She increased her speed to in excess of 80 miles per hour and headed straight for it. Several seconds later, they entered the canyon, the car’s tires sending a cloud of dust up around them, which blocked their view of their pursuers. Janna kept the gas pedal pressed down. Then, their surroundings changed. Gone were the fields of wheat and ponderosa pine trees, and in their place were the sagebrush and sandy terrain. This sudden change shocked Janna so much that she temporarily lost control of the car. As it veered off the road, however, she managed to regain control, bringing it to a stop in the sagebrush a short distance from the road.

The four young women simply sat in the motionless vehicle, each attempting to gather their thoughts and process the bizarre experience they had just shared. Although they had no idea who the men were, they were definitely not human. Perhaps uncertain as to whether these strange men might appear again, the four girls decided to remain in the car with the doors locked until sunrise. The next morning, with daylight seeming to allay the girls’ fears somewhat, Janna finally got out of the car and went to inspect any potential damage to it. Not only were three of the tires flat, but one of the hubcaps was missing entirely. Moreover, there were several significant dents in the bodywork of the vehicle, likely sustained when they left the road. They locked the car and headed for the main road a short distance away.

Not long after reaching the road, a police patrol car passed them, and the girls managed to flag it down. The officer driving the vehicle was Trooper Vic Lundquist, who was immediately confronted by the four girls and their bizarre account. Lundquist performed some initial examinations of the scene at the time. One of the strangest of his discoveries was that the tire marks began around 200 yards from where the girls’ car had come to a stop, with no tire marks at all leading from the main road, as if the car had suddenly appeared in the middle of the desert-like terrain. Moreover, neither Lundquist or the girls could locate the missing hubcap, perhaps suggesting it had come off long before they had reached the point where the car had come to a stop. Ultimately, while he found the account strange, to say the least, he was positive that something out of the ordinary had happened to the four college students, even if he didn’t know what.

Just what might have happened that night along the Gadianton Canyon remains a complete mystery. Some researchers suggest there are electromagnetic anomalies along the route that somehow open mysterious gateways (sometimes referred to as X-points) that take those who happen to pass through them while they are open to other dimensions and/or timelines (and we should note that mainstream science has studied these X-points for a considerable time). Could this have been what happened that May evening in 1972? And if so, where were they taken – to another time, perhaps somewhere in the future, or maybe to another dimension, one that is inhabited by non-human intelligences? We might even consider, however unlikely it might be, that the four young women were somehow transported to another planet in another part of the universe. Wherever they went, we might consider that their missing hubcap remains in this other dimension or time, perhaps recovered and displayed as evidence of visitors from elsewhere. Of course, if the four college students did somehow travel to another world or dimension and then travel back again, then we might conclude that there is nothing to stop the inhabitants of these other realms of existence from traveling into our world.

A similar encounter, at least according to the post by the witness on a paranormal forum on Reddit, occurred in much more recent times in the early 2000s. The location is unknown, but it is likely somewhere in the United States. According to the online post, the witness was driving in their car, with their dog with them, on their way to a local McDonald’s restaurant. As he was making his way along one particular road, he noticed that the streetlights seemed to flicker off momentarily, before coming back on again. This happened several times before he came to the point where he was about to turn off the road. When he did so, everything became suddenly blurry, and he heard a noise like a feedback sound in his head. At the same time, he had a feeling like he was going through an intense static electricity field. Then, after several seconds, everything came back into focus, and the strange noise and electrical sensation stopped.  

By the time he had refocused, he realized his car had stalled. He reached down for the keys, restarted it, and put the vehicle in motion. He continued along the road, realizing almost immediately that something wasn’t right. He noticed that there were suddenly fewer streetlights along the road. Furthermore, there were several rows of trees at the roadside that he was certain were not there before. He eventually arrived at the complex that housed the McDonald’s restaurant. However, as he searched for the drive-thru, he realized it was now in a different part of the building. He used the restaurant often, and couldn’t recall any such relocation of it. Regardless, he guided his vehicle towards the drive-thru entrance. As he did so, though, he noticed further anomalies.

Many of the other cars, for example, had designs that he had never seen before. Moreover, many of the names and logos were also ones that he was not at all familiar with. When he reached the menu board, the strangeness continued. Every item on the menu was much more expensive than it had been previously, much more than a natural price increase. Even so, as hungry as he was, he placed his order and, upon arriving at the payment window, handed over his card to pay. Moments later, however, the cashier handed back the card and informed him it had been declined. The cashier then produced a strange red device, telling the witness to place his finger on it to pay. Unwilling to do this, the witness handed over cash, despite it being a large amount. The cashier accepted this, but instead of giving him change, he handed over a small piece of paper, claiming it was a “cash voucher!”

At this point, the cashier’s movements suddenly became “sticky” and static-like, as if he was stopping and starting, like a stickman in a book where the pages were being flicked through slightly too slowly. As this was happening, the witness felt the strange buildup of electric pressure, as well as hearing the strange feedback noise in his head. This culminated in a sudden bright flash of light before the witness came to, sitting in his car, with the McDonald's restaurant now back in its usual place.  

It is also worth our time exploring the case of 41-year-old Lerina Garcia, who didn’t travel to another reality, but claims she woke up in the wrong one – ours! According to her online report in 2008, she claims that what she can remember from her past does not match the world history of this reality. She elaborated that she awoke one morning in this reality in her home in Spain, likely having crossed over into this realm during her sleep, and she remains stuck here (we should note there was no explanation for the mechanics of this crossing over of realms).

She stated that she began to notice little differences at first. The date was the same as it was in “her reality”, for example, but it was things such as different bedsheets that she had never seen before that began to cause her to question that something wasn’t right. That morning, she had gone to work as usual. However, when she arrived at her office, she was shocked and confused to find a different name on the office door. She tried to rationalize that she had come to the wrong floor. She returned to the main entrance, now feeling stranger than ever, and looked at the names on the employee list at the front of the building. She found her name; however, she was listed as working in a department she hadn’t worked in previously. Now, more confused than ever, she marked herself as having arrived at work, but then claimed she had felt suddenly unwell and had to return home, which she duly did.

She returned to work the next day, contemplating that she had imagined the changes and she would find her office where it had been previously. It wasn’t. She went to the department she now seemingly worked at, and was even more perplexed by the number of other employees whom she had never seen before but who very much seemed to know her. It was clear to all of them that there was something “not right” with Lerina. She brushed off these concerns as best she could, insisting that she was just a little “out of sorts” and that she was otherwise fine. It was at this point that she decided to keep the bizarre experiences to herself, at least until she learned more about what was happening. There were, though, more complex differences that came to light over the coming days.

One of these revealed itself to Lerina when she went to visit her boyfriend, Augustine. However, not only did someone else live in his apartment, but it appeared, in this reality, he didn’t exist at all. She attempted to find town records of him, and even searched online for posts she knew he had made. There was, though, no trace of him at all. What made all of this even worse was that she discovered not long after that, in this reality, she was still in a relationship with her previous boyfriend, whom she had, in her reality, broken up with six months previously.

Further differences also presented themselves to Lerina. During a visit with her family, for example, she asked how her sister was recovering after her operation (a major operation, incidentally) several months earlier. Both her parents and her sister were completely bemused, unable to recall any such operation. Although she was certain that it had taken place, Lerina dropped the subject, not wanting her family to think she was suffering from some kind of mental breakdown. Ultimately, the more she discovered about her life in this new reality, the more confused she became. It is not known where Lerina is now and if she is still “trapped” in this reality. We might contemplate whether the Lerina from this reality is also trapped in the one that the Lerina who posted in 2008 claimed to have come from.

As well as reports of journeys into other dimensions or realities, there are many accounts of traveling briefly to other times – events usually referred to as timeslips. Without a doubt, one of the strangest locations where there are several of these time-slip events is Bold Street in Liverpool in England.

One of the most thought-provoking of these occurred in 2006 when a self-confessed shoplifter suddenly found himself thrust four decades into the past. According to an article on the Liverpool Echo platform, the man in question – “Sean” – was running from a security guard along the infamous street when he felt a sudden tightness in his chest. He feared he might be having a heart attack and turned down a side street named Brooks Alley. It was then that he realized his surroundings had completely changed. People were going about their business as they had been moments earlier, only now, the clothes they wore were decades older than the contemporary era. As he wandered around these new surroundings, he spotted a newspaper kiosk near Central Station. He walked over to it as quickly as he could, seeing copies of the Daily Post stacked neatly inside. He took a look at the date – Thursday, May 18th, 1967. Now, as bizarre as it seemed to him, it made sense why the clothes and even the cars looked decades old – because they were.

At this point, feeling more than unsettled, Sean turned and headed back to Brooks Alley. As he did so, his surroundings changed back to 2006 once more. He turned and looked back towards the newspaper kiosk, and although he was standing in his own time (2006), he could see 1967 through what appeared to be some kind of invisible gateway or portal. Unsettled and confused, Sean made his way straight home.

Incidentally, the journalist from the Liverpool Echo who spoke with Sean claimed he met with him on four separate occasions. Not once during those meetings did he alter his version of events, despite the journalist discreetly attempting to trip him up. Moreover, the same journalist also managed to track down the security guard who had been chasing Sean on the day in question. He stated that Sean simply “vanished into the air” the moment he turned down Brooks Alley. Just what happened that day on Bold Street remains a complete mystery. This timeslip encounter, though, is just one of many.

Another article from the Liverpool Echo by Tom Slemen, titled Timeslip Redemption, is also worth exploring here. The account unfolded on Renshaw Street, around a five-minute walk from Bold Street. Although Slemen changed the names of those involved, according to the article, in March 2002, not long after being released after serving six years of an eight-year prison sentence for armed robbery, 39-year-old John Kent, despite his girlfriend Alison’s pleas not to, was looking for vengeance against the man who had “grassed him up” – Harry King. Matter-of-factly, as if he was saying he was going to pick up a pint of milk, he told Alison that, “I’ll just give him a good hiding, then I’ll come straight back and we can go out for a drink and some scran!”

Less than half an hour later, John was on Renshaw Street, his knuckleduster at the ready, waiting for Harry King. Moments later, John clocked a policeman heading in his direction, and he discreetly tucked the weapon in his pocket. The policeman glanced toward John, and although he was largely uninterested in him, he smirked a little. This didn’t sit well with John, who suddenly called out to the policeman, challenging him.  He then began walking towards him, causing the policeman to pull out a whistle and blow hard on it. The next thing John realized, several other policemen came running over, and within moments, he was pinned against a wall under restraint. He noticed a group of shoppers had gathered round, eager to see what the fuss was about. Of more concern to John, however, he could hear the sound of trams in the distance – old trams. He managed to steal a glance at the crowd. Instead of them wearing clothing typical of the early 2000s, they were wearing a combination of reserved dresses with long coats, suits, ties, and trilby hats. He suddenly recalled the policeman blowing on his whistle, and came to the startling conclusion that he had somehow walked back in time to the 1920s or 1930s. He also realized that was why the policeman smiled to himself, not out of any malice, but because his twenty-first-century clothing must have appeared like fancy dress to him. The story, though, has one last twist.

Suddenly, John’s surroundings changed once more, and he came to his senses, leaning against a shop window. It was now dark, and when he checked his watch, four hours had passed. He immediately returned home to find Allison waiting for him. She told him that Harry King had been waiting for him with a gun and that the police had arrested him. Had the bizarre event not happened, John would likely have been killed. With all of this in mind, John finally decided he was going straight and convinced Allison that he had finally turned a corner. They married a short time later.

Another account unfolded on Bold Street around half a decade earlier in 1996. On the day in question, “Frank” and his wife “Carol” were enjoying a Saturday afternoon shopping. Frank was looking to purchase some new CDs, and Carol intended to buy some new books. They agreed to meet at the bookshop that Carol planned on visiting a short time later. The couple went their separate ways, with Frank’s route taking him past the Lyceum Building. As he passed it, however, he noticed a sudden eerie silence. He stopped momentarily and looked around. Then, the sound of a car horn brought him back to his senses. He stepped aside and realized he had been standing in the middle of the road, a van only just missing him. Even stranger, the van appeared as though it was a vintage model, straight out of the 1950s. He managed to make the name “Caplan’s” or “Caplin’s” in old-style, vintage lettering. At this point, Frank felt beyond confused and decided to make his way straight to the bookshop, “Dillon’s”, where he had arranged to meet his wife.

When he arrived there, however, he was further perplexed to find the name “Cripps” above the doorway instead of “Dillon’s”, and instead of books, the windows showed ladies’ clothing and handbags. He looked around him and realized that the people walking along the streets were dressed in clothing more akin to the Second World War era than the mid-1990s. As he was looking around, a woman walked past him and into the shop where he was standing outside. Frank hesitated for a moment before following her inside. As soon as he did so, the ladies’ clothing and accessories disappeared, and in their place were rows of books. Stranger still, the woman he had followed looked as confused as he did. He asked her if she had noticed anything strange, and she replied that she had thought this was a new clothes shop, which was why she had walked into it in the first place.

He eventually met up with his wife, but he decided to keep the strange encounter to himself. When he returned home, though, later that afternoon, he began researching the street. He found out that the bookshop had once indeed been a ladies’ clothing shop. Moreover, a shop by the name of “Caplan’s” had operated on the street in the 1950s.

It is also worth our time exploring an incident that occurred in more recent times – some time in the 2000s – when a 17-year-old girl – “Imogen” – experienced a bizarre timeslip episode while visiting a new branch of Mothercare on Bold Street. She was shopping for her older sister’s new baby, and was surprised at how low the prices were for items, putting it down to being some kind of opening day promotion. However, when she attempted to pay for the items using her card, she was informed bluntly that the shop “didn’t take those!” As she only had a small amount of cash on her, she left the goods and headed back home. Later that day, she was speaking with her mother, and she mentioned the bizarre episode. Her mother was a little shocked, informing her that this Mothercare had not been a Mothercare for some time, and had been a bank for several years. When Imogen returned to the same building the following day, it was indeed now a bank.

It isn’t just on Bold Street – or indeed in Liverpool – where these strange time anomalies take place. One of these encounters is detailed in the book Real Time Travel Stories From A Psychic Engineer by Martin Ettington, which details the bizarre experience of 12-year-old Mel Riley in the early 1950s. On the day in question, Mel was exploring the woodlands and countryside close to his home in Racine, Wisconsin. As he was making his way across a field, however, he suddenly felt the environment change around him. Suddenly, the smells of the countryside flowers and vegetation were replaced by the aroma of burning wood and cooked meats. He could also suddenly hear voices coming from somewhere nearby. He looked up and, for the first time, realized that the freshly plowed field he had been walking through a moment earlier was now a vast field that stretched for miles. Moreover, multiple Native American settlements stretched across this vast field. The awestruck child watched the scene in front of him for several moments, seeing several Native American warriors going about their daily duties. Then, without warning, the scene faded away, and the freshly ploughed field returned. When the incident was investigated, the land Mel had been on when the scenery changed had once been home to Native American tribes, tribes, incidentally, that had lived there since the Stone Age.

These encounters don’t always detail a person slipping back in time; however, some of them feature a person or an object coming from the past. According to an account from “LC”, late in the afternoon of October 20th, 1969, he and his friend, Charlie, were driving along Highway 167 on his way to Lafayette. Although their vehicle had been the only car on the road for some time, they soon found themselves behind an “old turtle-type car” that would have seemed more at home in the early twentieth century. Moreover, when LC was close enough to read the number plate, he could see that the date on it was “1940” (something illegal under US law). Eventually, LC passed the vehicle. As he did, though, he was more than shocked to see the driver, a young woman, and her passenger, a young child, dressed in clothing that was straight out of the 1940s. At this point, LC looked at Charlie, who was seemingly equally as confused.

LC looked into the passenger window, attempting to get the woman’s attention. As he did, he could see a look of concern and panic on her face. He then called out, mouthing the words more than anything, asking the woman if she needed help. She motioned that she did, and LC pulled in front of her car and pulled to the side of the road. When he got out, however, and turned to face the oncoming vehicle, it was nowhere to be seen. It had vanished into thin air. We might ask if the car and the woman and her child had gone back to their own time two or three decades earlier.

It is perhaps also worth considering just some of the many bizarre events involving time that have taken place in the air. One of the strangest and perhaps one of the most significant accounts in what it tells us about our reality is that of Bruce Gernon, an experienced pilot who flew over the Bahamas regularly. On the afternoon of December 4th, 1970, at around 3 pm, Gerney, along with his father and an associate, Chuck Lafayette, left Andros Airport from Andros Island on their way to Miami, Florida. To begin with, the flight proceeded as normal. However, not long after they left the runway, they noticed a bizarre “elliptical cloud” around a mile ahead of them, approximately 500 feet above the surface of the water. Uncertain what the cloud was, they immediately contacted the control tower in Miami to ask if there were any adverse weather conditions on their route. The response was that their route was clear.

They continued onwards, ascending to around 3000 feet. All the while, the cloud continued to grow larger and larger. Eventually, at an altitude of 11,500 feet, the Beechcraft Bonanza A36 aircraft emerged from the fog and finally into clear, blue skies. As Gernon looked back, however, he could see that the cloud was beginning to form a strange semi-circle around them. Their plane, though, which was traveling at around 195 miles per hour, outran the strange cloud and left it behind them. As they approached the Bimini Islands, they saw another strange cloud ahead of them, only this one was much larger, at least 60,000 feet across. Even stranger, the cloud, according to Gernon’s recollections, seemed to emanate directly from the Earth’s surface.

At this point, Gernon believed they were about to be engulfed by a huge storm, and when he spotted a “tunnel” in the clouds, he aimed his aircraft straight for it. As he entered the tunnel, he immediately noticed that strange lines formed around their aircraft, and the cloud appeared to swirl around them. As their plane continued through this strange tunnel, they noticed several ”bright white flashes,” and these flashes became brighter and more intense the further into the tunnel they went. Stranger still, Gernon recalled feeling something close to “zero gravity” for a very short period while inside the tunnel. As this was happening, incidentally, the control tower at Miami Airport lost Gernon’s plane from their monitors.  

Gernon later recalled that he suspected the tunnel they had entered was somehow connected to the strange cloud formation they had seen shortly after take-off. After continuing into the tunnel, Gernon suddenly noticed a U-shaped opening ahead. He immediately headed for this opening, believing this could be his only chance to get out of this strange cloud. A moment later, the plane once more emerged into clear, blue skies. As Gernon looked back, he could see the tunnel and the cloud formation “contracting” until it eventually disappeared. Gernon then attempted to establish his location, reasoning that after spending around 30 minutes in the air and then 20 to 30 seconds in the strange cloud tunnel, they should be able to see the coast of Bimini below them. With this in mind, Gernon and the other two people onboard were more than shocked to see the beaches of Miami slightly ahead of them. As confirmation of their position, the control tower at Miami Airport confirmed they were off the coast of Miami on their radar screens. From this confirmation, Gernon realized that he had, essentially, traveled nearly 100 miles in only 20 seconds, and, in total, since leaving Andros Airport, according to the time and the data, he had traveled almost 250 miles in only 47 minutes, something that everything Gernon knew about aviation told him was impossible.

Without a doubt, one of the strangest aviation encounters involving time anomalies also occurred off the coast of Miami, also at some point during the early 1970s, in an encounter that has “never been satisfactorily explained!”. According to an article in the March 24th, 1975 edition of The Desert News, on the morning in question, National Airlines 727 was approaching Miami Airport and preparing to land. The control tower was tracking the plane as they normally would be when it simply vanished from their radar screens. Emergency communications were immediately sent out to all other aircraft in the region, calling on them to be vigilant in the event they might spot the aircraft, or even the wreckage of it. However, there were no visible signs of either. Then, without warning, the plane reappeared on the radar screens in the control tower. Moreover, it was in the same place as it had been when it had vanished, and not a considerable distance away if it had merely disappeared from radar. What made the surreal situation even more so was that several planes had traveled through the exact airspace the aircraft was now in during the 10 minutes it was missing.

It soon became apparent that the pilots – and so, in turn, most likely, the crew and passengers – were completely unaware that anything strange had taken place. At this point, the captain of National Airlines 727 was instructed to land on an isolated runway reserved for “security risks and special situations!” As perplexed as he was at these orders, he did as instructed. Almost as soon as the plane had come to a stop, security forces boarded the aircraft and ushered off the passengers and crew, guiding them to a part of the airport separate from the rest. Writing in the book Ghosts of the Air: True Stories of Aerial Hauntings, Martin Caidin stated that “Federal investigators and officials couldn’t get into that jetliner fast enough” after it landed. We will return to why this might have been shortly.

It was clear to those who had been onboard the plane by the sheer number of emergency vehicles and airport police that something out of the ordinary and concerning had taken place. A short time later, with both the crew and passengers together in a large enclosure of the airport, the head of airport security made the rather candid and bizarre admission that they (their plane) had “disappeared into thin air for 10 minutes!” After being met with confused stares, the head of airport security suggested they “take a look at your watches!” They noticed that the airport clock said 9:30 am – their respective watches, however, declared the time was 9:20 am. Needless to say, a quiet wave of disbelief and shock quickly swept across the room.

Just what happened after this is not really known, as despite the initial story of the incident (itself several years later), the case then all but disappeared, revived following the global rollout of the Internet. And if we recall the statement in Martin Caidin’s book that investigators “couldn’t get onto that jetliner fast enough”, that could have been a very purposeful move on the part of the authorities.

As speculative as this is, we might ask if the reason investigators were eager to get onto the plane (as well as get all passengers and crew off) was because they – or at least those are issued the orders – were aware that there was something on the plane, something that had to be retrieved in secret and away from prying eyes. Could it be that some kind of device was onboard the plane that, as bizarre and outlandish as this might sound, literally took the plane out of existence for 10 minutes? Or, put another way, did this device send the plane forward 10 minutes into the future? Perhaps this device contained valuable data, and it would go without saying that it would need to be secured away from all manner of potentially interested parties, perhaps not least the Cold War nemesis of the era, the Soviet Union. If any of this is true – and once more, this is purely wild speculation – then we might also contemplate whether the location is of importance. Did those behind this speculative experiment somehow tap into the potential power of this infamous part of the Atlantic Ocean - the Bermuda Triangle?

Whatever the truth, if this was some kind of bizarre experiment, this might explain why only one story ever appeared in print about the incident. In the years that have followed, many researchers have made legitimate efforts to reveal details about the encounter (which should tell us something in itself as to its potential credibility), but no information has ever been found – no flight numbers, official flight records, or any witness testimony. Does this indicate that all information – including, it is presumed, the control tower data – was quickly confiscated by investigators? It is certainly a possibility. One thing that is harder to explain away, however, is why not one person in all the years that have followed has come forward to confirm they were on the aircraft that day? And while this certainly isn’t a smoking gun for the skeptics – after all, there could be many reasons for this – it is much more difficult to pass off as “something that was covered up!”

Ultimately, we will most likely find that the truth of the National Airlines 727 encounter will be found somewhere between the two extremes (that it was a completely made-up account on one side and some kind of secret time travel experiment on the other). One thing to note here is that there appears to be debate as to whether only the crew was made aware of the time anomaly or whether the passengers were also told. If the former is more accurate, then it would, of course, be much easier to maintain a secret over many decades, not least as the pilots and crew members would have undoubtedly feared for their careers if they spoke of the incident. Add to that a still-lingering, if diluted by comparison to previous decades, sense of patriotism in the face of the Cold War, and it is even easier to see how such secrecy could be maintained. Whatever the truth, the case still fascinates investigators and enthusiasts of the weird and the wonderful today.

These are, then, just a small collection of hand-picked accounts of time and reality anomalies. There are many, many more on record in various forms and on various platforms and mediums, including official records. Indeed, we just might return with a “More Fascinating Tales of…” article on such matters in the near future. One thing that is clear, though, is that time, as we understand it, is almost certainly incorrect, as is the nature of our reality. Time, for example, is likely not linear and almost certainly more curved or rounded in nature, and maybe this curved or round construct (for want of a better word) sometimes causes such things as timeslips. Our reality is likely made up of multiple different dimensions that perhaps occasionally crash into each other, and so causing, in theory, some of the anomalies we have examined here. There are many suggestions to explain these inexplicable events. For now, though, the questions remain, and such encounters remain as unexplained and still ripe for investigation.  

One outlandish feature of the world of the paranormal is the idea of portals popping up in various places. These portals are said to lead to other locations or nowhere at all, and sometimes are even said to act as doorways to other worlds that sometimes allow things from the other side to come in. Portals seem like something one would be more likely to find out in the wilderness or remote areas, but it seems that sometimes these phenomena can happen right in the safety of our own homes. 

One strange report comes from Reddit user “GilgameshvsHumbaba,” who says this happened as he was living in a small apartment several years before telling his story. One evening, he woke up to feel someone touching his head, even though no one else was there, and when he stepped whatever it was away and looked around, he saw a square or rectangular "hole" in the air. Out of this hole shone a light, and there was a man's arm and hand protruding from it and waving around in the air. The witness says of what happened next:

“The hole" started drifting to the right and revolving toward me and I saw two young men in some other room. One was sitting and working or typing or something, and the other guy was looking at what he was doing and looking at me and looking around at my bedroom. I sat up on one arm watching them, and then I noticed that the light from their room was lighting up my room. I could see the ironing board to the left, my bookcase to the right, the floor, ceiling, and my door, which was closed. That was when I knew was really awake, and I sat up more. I think they were talking to each other, but I don't remember hearing them. I thought about getting out of bed and grabbing my clothes and just stepping through the hole into their room, but I chickened out because I wasn't sure if I would be able to come back or not.

The "hole" started to revolve the other way until it was "sideways" to me again, and then all of a sudden it disappeared and the light was gone and it was dark again. Since I have "night blindness", it was pitch-dark to me. Finally I decided that it had just been a weird dream, so I picked up the covers and lay down and turned on my side to go back to sleep, and that's when I realized I had been sitting up the whole time, so it had to have been real.

Well. that's it. The "hole" had smooth sides and sharp corners, no glow or fog or anything. Looking back on it now, I think the two guys were panicking because they had been seen and were trying to "close the window", or however you want to say it. I've tried to tell people what happened and they just laugh at me. I know it happened!!!! Now I want to know if it happened to other people, and if anyone reported it. I'm sure the two I saw repeated their little "experiment", so there must be more witnesses somewhere.”

Pretty weird stuff, indeed. From Reddit user “FlashyConsequence111” we have a similarly odd tale that supposedly happened back in 2004. This supposedly happened as she and her husband were sitting out enjoying a quiet evening on their veranda, and the witness says;

“There was a fence about 5meters/15 feet away from us. All of a sudden the side of this big tree next to the fence started moving, there was no wind and the other trees were not moving, nor was the otherside of the tree. My husband and I thought an animal was going to come out of it. After about 1 minute a black hole appeared and a man, carrying some box or bag in both hands, came out of the hole, ran accross the fence for 3meters/9feet another hole appeared in front of him and he went through that hole and disappeared. The trees near the second hole were moving and shaking before it appeared and he ran into it and were shaking for about 30seconds after it closed. The man was white, dark short hair, wearing a black and red flannel shirt and black pants and looked like he was running from something, he was in a panic.

I was in shock and amazed. I turned to my husband, he was looking at the fence eyes wide open. I said 'Oh my God! Did you see that?!!' He turned to me and said 'What?' I said 'That man came out of a wormhole and ran along the fence and went into another wormhole!, that's why the tree was shaking!' He said 'when was the tree shaking?' 'Nothing happened, we have just been sitting here'. I was shocked! I was like 'what are you saying? You don't remember?' We had just been discussing how the tree was shaking and what animal we thought was going to come out. To clarify, we had never before or since had different recollections of what we had seen together. I have only told that story to my sister and children. This is the first time publicly, there are definitely technologies we do not know about, I believe in wormholes and portholes.”

What was going on here? Many stories of portals revolve around closets, which makes sense since there has long been the spooky lore gif things in the closet that have haunted children since time unremembered. One account comes from True Ghost Tales and concerns a witness who claims that when she was just a girl, she had been watching TV in the living room with her mother when they heard her father start frantically screaming for help from elsewhere in the house. They tracked the source of the mysterious screaming to the witnesses’ bedroom and found that the door was locked, which was odd considering it was just a plain old doorknob with no lock to begin with. They stood there struggling with the anomalously jammed doorknob while the father shrieked and shouted in terror from within. At the time, they thought he was having some sort of mental breakdown, as he was an alcoholic and had been drinking heavily earlier that night; however, when they finally forced the door open, they were to find it was something altogether more bizarre. The witness says of what they saw in that room:

“My mom struggled for a few minutes trying to open the door. Finally she managed to open the door and we saw my father up in the air like if he was hanging from something then a few seconds later fell feel down. He was so scared that he sounded sober, he told us to get away from there and he ran as far away from my room, when we saw my dad he seemed almost pale looking, he had scratches on his chest as if he got into a fight or something. My mom asked him “What happened to you”? Are you Ok? The only thing that came out of my father’s mouth was, “THE DEVIL, the devil was trying to take me away with him.” At first I thought my dad was only saying that to scare me but he was serious about it, he said that the devil wanted him and was trying to bite his neck. I thought to my self, it sounds more like a vampire than the devil to me, why would the devil want to bite his neck anyways?”

The scared family retreated to the living room, where they eventually fell asleep, and the next day the father explained that when he had been in the girl’s room he had seen the closet door open by itself and heard a man’s voice issue forth from the darkness beyond before the incident, after which something dark had emerged and he blacked out. He took them to the room so that they could take a look at the closet, and this is where things get even stranger still. The witness says:

“We all went to my room then my dad opened my closet door and we saw this figure of a man standing inside my closet as if it was asleep, its arms were on his chest and he was all black, with long finger nails and he had wings. The weird thing about all this is that a few day later I saw it in my room. I was watching TV in the living room. We had the hall light on so that way it could reflect light into my room, but that night the light only reflected half way. I saw a dark shadow standing in the middle of my room, then he took his hand out and started moving his index finger asking me to come to him with his reddish yellow eyes. I was so scared that I couldn’t move at all. I was screaming for my parents but they couldn’t hear me at all, how could this be they were ten feet away from me? Anyway when I turned my head back to see him he was already next to me. All he did to me was he had lifted me up and he kissed my forehead and my neck, then he left, just like that. We never say IT again, but sometimes when I’m in the dark I feel like someone is there with me.”

It is interesting that the whole family seems to have witnessed it, so it seems beyond just a hallucination or overactive imagination. On the site "Phantoms and Monsters," there is another account from 2009 of some sort of menacing beast in a closet. The witness claims that he woke up one night suddenly at around 3 AM, and found that he was covered in sweat and overcome with an inexplicable cold fear that was overwhelming in its intensity, although his brother was still sleeping soundly. There also seemed to be a heavy sense of someone there looming near the bedroom’s rather large walk-in closet, and the witness would say of what happened next:

“I looked around in my room hoping to see my mom watching over us from the door way of the closet (I don't know why I thought it would be her but I did). Since our nightlight was on I could see things pretty clearly. I looked to my left to see a tall figure in our closet, it had an oval like head with small eyes and appendages hanging from it's face almost like a scruffy beard but it made more sense that it would be some type of structure. It looked over the both of us up and down. At first I thought it was my mind playing tricks on me, since I could be very imaginative but what snapped me out of this is when it pushed some of the clothes hangers out the way and the fact that the window was open. It's skin looked rough and pasty almost like it was in a sauna for two years. It caught a whiff of me being awake and almost immediately I lost consciousness and control over my body. All accounts that were had from that night had not been fully remembered the following morning. Besides the fact that my sheets were in my closet instead of on my bed.”

Again, we are left here with a case that seems to be so bonkers that it is beyond an easy explanation. Just what was this thing and why would it be in that closet? Was the closet acting as some sort of a doorway to another realm? Who knows? Outdoing even these outlandish encounters is another one reported on Phantoms and Monsters, this time by a witness who had just about the strangest thing you could imagine come out of his closet when he was a boy, in around the year 1980. The witness, who claims he is now a paranormal researcher, says that when he was very young, he had been trying to get to sleep in the room he shared with his brother, and again, this was a room with a big walk-in closet. As he was lying there, the closet door began to open by itself, and the witness claims:

“One night as I was trying to get to sleep (my brother was already asleep), the door opened and I know this sounds crazy, but out came Big Bird (of the children’s show Sesame Street). I remember being frightened at first, but others came out too and they were very friendly and led me into the closet with them. All I remember at this point is that Big Bird gave me a flavored chap stick (most likely to ease my fear because I loved chap stick), and they brought me back to my bed. I went to sleep very happy over the whole experience and was not afraid anymore. I put the chap stick under my pillow after taking a tiny nibble leaving my teeth marks just to see if it was still there in the morning. The next morning, I checked and low and behold the chap stick WAS there, JUST like I remembered, and at that moment I knew for a fact it was not a dream. If it were not for that chap stick the experience probably would not have stayed with me all these years. I tried to tell my brother, but he laughed it off, as anyone would, it sounds totally crazy. Now, after reading the other accounts of similar experiences, I am wondering if it was an abduction disguised as a friendly interaction.”

What in the world? How do we come to terms with the sheer surreality of this? The witness gives an interesting observation, in that he believes it might have been an alien abduction, with the entities taking a form that would seem nonthreatening to a child. This is a feature of some alien abduction cases, with the beings allegedly able to either shape shift or manipulate perceptions in order to take the form of whatever will best serve their purposes in the eyes of the abductee, for reasons beyond us. Is that what was going on here? How else could we explain an actual character from a children’s TV show emerging from the darkened gloom of a closet? It could have been just the imagination of a child, but the fact that the witness remembers it so vividly all of these years later is notable.

From Your Ghost Stories comes a report of just such an experience, from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The witness claims that as soon as she moved out of her grandmother’s house, where she had lived for some time, she began having extremely vivid dreams of a “spirit or demon” in the closet of the room in which she had stayed. She says that she had never had these menacing dreams while she had lived there, and that they had only started after she left, as well as growing steadily in intensity. She claims that the house had always been haunted, and says of what happened next:

“We just recently moved back in October. Now, I've always known this house was haunted. Everyone has. I have had so many different experiences. (For another story I assure you.) Everything seemed fine and normal. The house is old, it creeks all night long. You hear someone calling your name. For me, it is "Belle..." Nothing unusual. I walked passed the room I used to sleep in, now my uncle's room, the other day, and I instantly felt watched. Chills ran down my spine. I felt in so much danger. I quickly scurried down the stairs and forgot about it not to long after.

 I would walk by all the time (it's en route to my room). Every time I walk by, the door creeks open. Even if it is shut the whole ways, it takes force to open that door. I was carrying my cat from my room to the living room with me one morning last week. As we walked passed my uncle's room, a deep, low, frightening growl came from my cat, then she hissed the meanest hiss, as she kept her eyes locked on the room (the door was wide open, nobody was inside). Recently, my mom has been feeling it too. The door opens slowly when she walks by, and she feels cold eyes watching her.”

Another report from the same site is similar in nature and just as eerie. This particular report comes from the state of Virginia, from a witness who believes an actual demon inhabited the closet of their master bedroom and would use the closet to pass back and forth between worlds. The witness claims that odd activity gravitating around the closet, including loud bangs and murmuring voices at night, was so intense that he put a crucifix up by the closet to try and keep whatever it was away. There was even an incident when he said the entity pushed over his young daughter, and it would later lash out at his wife. The witness says of his experiences with the terrifying demonic force in the closet:

“It did not take long to figure out that the presence was in a large closet area which adjoined the bathroom and faced directly towards the bed in the master bedroom. The closet area never got natural sunlight and was extremely dark at night. I could feel that something was watching. The crucifix seemed to keep it out of the room but it still stared from the closet. So I did the usual "get out, this is my house," "I command you to leave." I felt that this thing was not going anywhere, that it was not scared at all, it was not moving. Not long after that we found a picture of our children on the floor and it had been smashed in the middle of the frame like something was thrown at it. One night while watching TV my wife left for work and I saw a rather large shadow fly out of the bedroom and out towards the car as she was leaving, almost as if it was chasing her. Not long after that she suffered a stroke and a major car accident, both of which left no lasting injuries.”

Was this a demon or just a very powerful spirit? Was it, like other cases we have looked at here, using the closet as some sort of portal between dimensions? In another account from the site Queenies Paranormal Playhouse, there is a report from 2005 from a frightened single mother who had just moved into a duplex in the United States with her young son and niece. Almost immediately, on the very first night, they began experiencing paranormal phenomena, such as the bedroom door opening on its own and the children complaining that “something” had touched their legs as they slept. The witness explains:

“The second night of our stay, my son and I were lying down shootin' the breeze in my room. The bedroom door that was cracked half way open had closed, then re-opened. This happened a couple of times, until we finally worked up the nerve to get up and turn on the light. The next night, my son blacked out after having (what seemed to be) a nervous break down about the ghost living in his room and closet. Now, the thing about it, is my son is a big 15 year old, and he does not scare easily! After 20 minutes, he went back to his normal self and cannot remember the incident.That same night, he went to sleep with me, and I woke up to something pulling back and forth on the door knob of my closet.  I screamed, but my son never woke up!

 Relatives have said that this place gives them bad vibes, and that sometimes, they can hear people talking. Now it is day 28, and last night, my young nephew and I were sleeping, when suddenly, he woke up screaming. He had jumped off the bed, and the bedroom closet swung open in front of him! But this morning, he can only remember standing in front of the open closet... hearing the high pitched scream of a female. I talked to the people who lived in this duplex before me, and they also lived with this ghost. Even after saying prayers and using holy water, the ghost will not leave! I'm a single mother and it took my savings to move into this place. Unfortunately, it seems we're stuck here for a long time...but this ghost is going to drive us insane!”

The United States is not the only place where such encounters have allegedly occurred, and a scary report on Phantoms and Monsters comes to us from Newfoundland, where the witness claims he lived in the late 1960s at an apartment along a place called Blackmarsh Road. He says that he was 9 or 10 years old at the time, and that he had been living there with his mother, grandparents, and three sisters at the time, and that the road had been rather well known in the area as a place pervaded by ghostly phenomena. He says that although he never actually saw anything ghostly, he sure did hear it, and it seemed to originate from a coat closet in the living room. He says:

“Sometimes, due to limited space, I slept on the sofa in the living room. In the living room was a small stove and coat closet. I remember the chimney ran next to the closet. I remember so vividly being woken up between 3-4 a.m. every morning to the sounds of a group of people conversing in the closet. To the best of my knowledge, there were six or seven people. I could not pick out what they were saying, though at the moment I could hear them very clearly. This went on until we moved. I told my mother about this at the time it was happening but, of course, it was dismissed as a child's imagination until many years later.”

He says that after he had moved away and grown up, he heard that his grandmother had also had weird experiences with the voices from the closet, and that she had finally managed to banish them by reciting the Lord’s Prayer aloud. What are we to make of reports such as this? Are these just tall tales or something more? Are these just delusions or the effects of sleep paralysis? Are they aliens, ghosts, demons, or something else? Are these really portals allowing these things to pass through some thin spot between realities? If so, it seems that portals like this can pop up in the most unexpected of places, and it might be something to think about at night when your closet is open just a crack

One outlandish feature of the world of the paranormal is the idea of portals popping up in various places. These portals are said to lead to other locations or nowhere at all, and sometimes are even said to act as doorways to other worlds that sometimes allow things from the other side to come in. Portals seem like something one would be more likely to find out in the wilderness or remote areas, but it seems that sometimes these phenomena can happen right in the safety of our own homes. 

One strange report comes from Reddit user “GilgameshvsHumbaba,” who says this happened as he was living in a small apartment several years before telling his story. One evening, he woke up to feel someone touching his head, even though no one else was there, and when he stepped whatever it was away and looked around, he saw a square or rectangular "hole" in the air. Out of this hole shone a light, and there was a man's arm and hand protruding from it and waving around in the air. The witness says of what happened next:

“The hole" started drifting to the right and revolving toward me and I saw two young men in some other room. One was sitting and working or typing or something, and the other guy was looking at what he was doing and looking at me and looking around at my bedroom. I sat up on one arm watching them, and then I noticed that the light from their room was lighting up my room. I could see the ironing board to the left, my bookcase to the right, the floor, ceiling, and my door, which was closed. That was when I knew was really awake, and I sat up more. I think they were talking to each other, but I don't remember hearing them. I thought about getting out of bed and grabbing my clothes and just stepping through the hole into their room, but I chickened out because I wasn't sure if I would be able to come back or not.

The "hole" started to revolve the other way until it was "sideways" to me again, and then all of a sudden it disappeared and the light was gone and it was dark again. Since I have "night blindness", it was pitch-dark to me. Finally I decided that it had just been a weird dream, so I picked up the covers and lay down and turned on my side to go back to sleep, and that's when I realized I had been sitting up the whole time, so it had to have been real.

Well. that's it. The "hole" had smooth sides and sharp corners, no glow or fog or anything. Looking back on it now, I think the two guys were panicking because they had been seen and were trying to "close the window", or however you want to say it. I've tried to tell people what happened and they just laugh at me. I know it happened!!!! Now I want to know if it happened to other people, and if anyone reported it. I'm sure the two I saw repeated their little "experiment", so there must be more witnesses somewhere.”

Pretty weird stuff, indeed. From Reddit user “FlashyConsequence111” we have a similarly odd tale that supposedly happened back in 2004. This supposedly happened as she and her husband were sitting out enjoying a quiet evening on their veranda, and the witness says;

“There was a fence about 5meters/15 feet away from us. All of a sudden the side of this big tree next to the fence started moving, there was no wind and the other trees were not moving, nor was the otherside of the tree. My husband and I thought an animal was going to come out of it. After about 1 minute a black hole appeared and a man, carrying some box or bag in both hands, came out of the hole, ran accross the fence for 3meters/9feet another hole appeared in front of him and he went through that hole and disappeared. The trees near the second hole were moving and shaking before it appeared and he ran into it and were shaking for about 30seconds after it closed. The man was white, dark short hair, wearing a black and red flannel shirt and black pants and looked like he was running from something, he was in a panic.

I was in shock and amazed. I turned to my husband, he was looking at the fence eyes wide open. I said 'Oh my God! Did you see that?!!' He turned to me and said 'What?' I said 'That man came out of a wormhole and ran along the fence and went into another wormhole!, that's why the tree was shaking!' He said 'when was the tree shaking?' 'Nothing happened, we have just been sitting here'. I was shocked! I was like 'what are you saying? You don't remember?' We had just been discussing how the tree was shaking and what animal we thought was going to come out. To clarify, we had never before or since had different recollections of what we had seen together. I have only told that story to my sister and children. This is the first time publicly, there are definitely technologies we do not know about, I believe in wormholes and portholes.”

What was going on here? Many stories of portals revolve around closets, which makes sense since there has long been the spooky lore gif things in the closet that have haunted children since time unremembered. One account comes from True Ghost Tales and concerns a witness who claims that when she was just a girl, she had been watching TV in the living room with her mother when they heard her father start frantically screaming for help from elsewhere in the house. They tracked the source of the mysterious screaming to the witnesses’ bedroom and found that the door was locked, which was odd considering it was just a plain old doorknob with no lock to begin with. They stood there struggling with the anomalously jammed doorknob while the father shrieked and shouted in terror from within. At the time, they thought he was having some sort of mental breakdown, as he was an alcoholic and had been drinking heavily earlier that night; however, when they finally forced the door open, they were to find it was something altogether more bizarre. The witness says of what they saw in that room:

“My mom struggled for a few minutes trying to open the door. Finally she managed to open the door and we saw my father up in the air like if he was hanging from something then a few seconds later fell feel down. He was so scared that he sounded sober, he told us to get away from there and he ran as far away from my room, when we saw my dad he seemed almost pale looking, he had scratches on his chest as if he got into a fight or something. My mom asked him “What happened to you”? Are you Ok? The only thing that came out of my father’s mouth was, “THE DEVIL, the devil was trying to take me away with him.” At first I thought my dad was only saying that to scare me but he was serious about it, he said that the devil wanted him and was trying to bite his neck. I thought to my self, it sounds more like a vampire than the devil to me, why would the devil want to bite his neck anyways?”

The scared family retreated to the living room, where they eventually fell asleep, and the next day the father explained that when he had been in the girl’s room he had seen the closet door open by itself and heard a man’s voice issue forth from the darkness beyond before the incident, after which something dark had emerged and he blacked out. He took them to the room so that they could take a look at the closet, and this is where things get even stranger still. The witness says:

“We all went to my room then my dad opened my closet door and we saw this figure of a man standing inside my closet as if it was asleep, its arms were on his chest and he was all black, with long finger nails and he had wings. The weird thing about all this is that a few day later I saw it in my room. I was watching TV in the living room. We had the hall light on so that way it could reflect light into my room, but that night the light only reflected half way. I saw a dark shadow standing in the middle of my room, then he took his hand out and started moving his index finger asking me to come to him with his reddish yellow eyes. I was so scared that I couldn’t move at all. I was screaming for my parents but they couldn’t hear me at all, how could this be they were ten feet away from me? Anyway when I turned my head back to see him he was already next to me. All he did to me was he had lifted me up and he kissed my forehead and my neck, then he left, just like that. We never say IT again, but sometimes when I’m in the dark I feel like someone is there with me.”

It is interesting that the whole family seems to have witnessed it, so it seems beyond just a hallucination or overactive imagination. On the site "Phantoms and Monsters," there is another account from 2009 of some sort of menacing beast in a closet. The witness claims that he woke up one night suddenly at around 3 AM, and found that he was covered in sweat and overcome with an inexplicable cold fear that was overwhelming in its intensity, although his brother was still sleeping soundly. There also seemed to be a heavy sense of someone there looming near the bedroom’s rather large walk-in closet, and the witness would say of what happened next:

“I looked around in my room hoping to see my mom watching over us from the door way of the closet (I don't know why I thought it would be her but I did). Since our nightlight was on I could see things pretty clearly. I looked to my left to see a tall figure in our closet, it had an oval like head with small eyes and appendages hanging from it's face almost like a scruffy beard but it made more sense that it would be some type of structure. It looked over the both of us up and down. At first I thought it was my mind playing tricks on me, since I could be very imaginative but what snapped me out of this is when it pushed some of the clothes hangers out the way and the fact that the window was open. It's skin looked rough and pasty almost like it was in a sauna for two years. It caught a whiff of me being awake and almost immediately I lost consciousness and control over my body. All accounts that were had from that night had not been fully remembered the following morning. Besides the fact that my sheets were in my closet instead of on my bed.”

Again, we are left here with a case that seems to be so bonkers that it is beyond an easy explanation. Just what was this thing and why would it be in that closet? Was the closet acting as some sort of a doorway to another realm? Who knows? Outdoing even these outlandish encounters is another one reported on Phantoms and Monsters, this time by a witness who had just about the strangest thing you could imagine come out of his closet when he was a boy, in around the year 1980. The witness, who claims he is now a paranormal researcher, says that when he was very young, he had been trying to get to sleep in the room he shared with his brother, and again, this was a room with a big walk-in closet. As he was lying there, the closet door began to open by itself, and the witness claims:

“One night as I was trying to get to sleep (my brother was already asleep), the door opened and I know this sounds crazy, but out came Big Bird (of the children’s show Sesame Street). I remember being frightened at first, but others came out too and they were very friendly and led me into the closet with them. All I remember at this point is that Big Bird gave me a flavored chap stick (most likely to ease my fear because I loved chap stick), and they brought me back to my bed. I went to sleep very happy over the whole experience and was not afraid anymore. I put the chap stick under my pillow after taking a tiny nibble leaving my teeth marks just to see if it was still there in the morning. The next morning, I checked and low and behold the chap stick WAS there, JUST like I remembered, and at that moment I knew for a fact it was not a dream. If it were not for that chap stick the experience probably would not have stayed with me all these years. I tried to tell my brother, but he laughed it off, as anyone would, it sounds totally crazy. Now, after reading the other accounts of similar experiences, I am wondering if it was an abduction disguised as a friendly interaction.”

What in the world? How do we come to terms with the sheer surreality of this? The witness gives an interesting observation, in that he believes it might have been an alien abduction, with the entities taking a form that would seem nonthreatening to a child. This is a feature of some alien abduction cases, with the beings allegedly able to either shape shift or manipulate perceptions in order to take the form of whatever will best serve their purposes in the eyes of the abductee, for reasons beyond us. Is that what was going on here? How else could we explain an actual character from a children’s TV show emerging from the darkened gloom of a closet? It could have been just the imagination of a child, but the fact that the witness remembers it so vividly all of these years later is notable.

From Your Ghost Stories comes a report of just such an experience, from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The witness claims that as soon as she moved out of her grandmother’s house, where she had lived for some time, she began having extremely vivid dreams of a “spirit or demon” in the closet of the room in which she had stayed. She says that she had never had these menacing dreams while she had lived there, and that they had only started after she left, as well as growing steadily in intensity. She claims that the house had always been haunted, and says of what happened next:

“We just recently moved back in October. Now, I've always known this house was haunted. Everyone has. I have had so many different experiences. (For another story I assure you.) Everything seemed fine and normal. The house is old, it creeks all night long. You hear someone calling your name. For me, it is "Belle..." Nothing unusual. I walked passed the room I used to sleep in, now my uncle's room, the other day, and I instantly felt watched. Chills ran down my spine. I felt in so much danger. I quickly scurried down the stairs and forgot about it not to long after.

 I would walk by all the time (it's en route to my room). Every time I walk by, the door creeks open. Even if it is shut the whole ways, it takes force to open that door. I was carrying my cat from my room to the living room with me one morning last week. As we walked passed my uncle's room, a deep, low, frightening growl came from my cat, then she hissed the meanest hiss, as she kept her eyes locked on the room (the door was wide open, nobody was inside). Recently, my mom has been feeling it too. The door opens slowly when she walks by, and she feels cold eyes watching her.”

Another report from the same site is similar in nature and just as eerie. This particular report comes from the state of Virginia, from a witness who believes an actual demon inhabited the closet of their master bedroom and would use the closet to pass back and forth between worlds. The witness claims that odd activity gravitating around the closet, including loud bangs and murmuring voices at night, was so intense that he put a crucifix up by the closet to try and keep whatever it was away. There was even an incident when he said the entity pushed over his young daughter, and it would later lash out at his wife. The witness says of his experiences with the terrifying demonic force in the closet:

“It did not take long to figure out that the presence was in a large closet area which adjoined the bathroom and faced directly towards the bed in the master bedroom. The closet area never got natural sunlight and was extremely dark at night. I could feel that something was watching. The crucifix seemed to keep it out of the room but it still stared from the closet. So I did the usual "get out, this is my house," "I command you to leave." I felt that this thing was not going anywhere, that it was not scared at all, it was not moving. Not long after that we found a picture of our children on the floor and it had been smashed in the middle of the frame like something was thrown at it. One night while watching TV my wife left for work and I saw a rather large shadow fly out of the bedroom and out towards the car as she was leaving, almost as if it was chasing her. Not long after that she suffered a stroke and a major car accident, both of which left no lasting injuries.”

Was this a demon or just a very powerful spirit? Was it, like other cases we have looked at here, using the closet as some sort of portal between dimensions? In another account from the site Queenies Paranormal Playhouse, there is a report from 2005 from a frightened single mother who had just moved into a duplex in the United States with her young son and niece. Almost immediately, on the very first night, they began experiencing paranormal phenomena, such as the bedroom door opening on its own and the children complaining that “something” had touched their legs as they slept. The witness explains:

“The second night of our stay, my son and I were lying down shootin' the breeze in my room. The bedroom door that was cracked half way open had closed, then re-opened. This happened a couple of times, until we finally worked up the nerve to get up and turn on the light. The next night, my son blacked out after having (what seemed to be) a nervous break down about the ghost living in his room and closet. Now, the thing about it, is my son is a big 15 year old, and he does not scare easily! After 20 minutes, he went back to his normal self and cannot remember the incident.That same night, he went to sleep with me, and I woke up to something pulling back and forth on the door knob of my closet.  I screamed, but my son never woke up!

 Relatives have said that this place gives them bad vibes, and that sometimes, they can hear people talking. Now it is day 28, and last night, my young nephew and I were sleeping, when suddenly, he woke up screaming. He had jumped off the bed, and the bedroom closet swung open in front of him! But this morning, he can only remember standing in front of the open closet... hearing the high pitched scream of a female. I talked to the people who lived in this duplex before me, and they also lived with this ghost. Even after saying prayers and using holy water, the ghost will not leave! I'm a single mother and it took my savings to move into this place. Unfortunately, it seems we're stuck here for a long time...but this ghost is going to drive us insane!”

The United States is not the only place where such encounters have allegedly occurred, and a scary report on Phantoms and Monsters comes to us from Newfoundland, where the witness claims he lived in the late 1960s at an apartment along a place called Blackmarsh Road. He says that he was 9 or 10 years old at the time, and that he had been living there with his mother, grandparents, and three sisters at the time, and that the road had been rather well known in the area as a place pervaded by ghostly phenomena. He says that although he never actually saw anything ghostly, he sure did hear it, and it seemed to originate from a coat closet in the living room. He says:

“Sometimes, due to limited space, I slept on the sofa in the living room. In the living room was a small stove and coat closet. I remember the chimney ran next to the closet. I remember so vividly being woken up between 3-4 a.m. every morning to the sounds of a group of people conversing in the closet. To the best of my knowledge, there were six or seven people. I could not pick out what they were saying, though at the moment I could hear them very clearly. This went on until we moved. I told my mother about this at the time it was happening but, of course, it was dismissed as a child's imagination until many years later.”

He says that after he had moved away and grown up, he heard that his grandmother had also had weird experiences with the voices from the closet, and that she had finally managed to banish them by reciting the Lord’s Prayer aloud. What are we to make of reports such as this? Are these just tall tales or something more? Are these just delusions or the effects of sleep paralysis? Are they aliens, ghosts, demons, or something else? Are these really portals allowing these things to pass through some thin spot between realities? If so, it seems that portals like this can pop up in the most unexpected of places, and it might be something to think about at night when your closet is open just a crack

'Tis the season of prophecies; about monster tsunamis leaving a trail of devastation across multiple countries located along the Pacific Ring of Fire. Two different women psychics – one from Thailand and another from Japan - have revealed bone-chilling prophecies about a Pacific mega-tsunami that could originate somewhere between Japan and the Philippines, and inflict catastrophic damage. While one of them said that it could occur anytime in July or August of 2025, the other was more specific: the date that she saw very clearly in her precognitive dream was July 2025. 

Why should we take these prophecies seriously, one might wonder? Aren’t there enough instances of prophecies of doom and destruction that have failed miserably? Well, yes, but these two psychics are very different. Their track record of accuracy is so surreal that it would put any Baba Vanga to shame. It is only because of the language barrier that they are not as widely known or celebrated outside of their home countries. In fact, many tourists from East Asia have already paid heed to their warnings and canceled their travel plans to Japan, Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries this summer. The word has now got out to the rest of the world through YouTube and other social media channels, and that is how I came to know about it as well.

When I started digging a bit deeper in order to get to the “real information” about these prophecies, I realized that most of the original sources were YouTube videos and interviews in the Chinese, Thai, and Japanese languages. The videos that were being made in English contained scant and often incorrect information, and left out a lot of the relevant details that I was interested in. So I did a lot of YouTube research to identify the genuine and informative videos, and used YouTube’s auto-translate feature to jot down the information. And, of course, I had to make minor grammatical adjustments to the text in order to make it reader-friendly.

Mor Plai, the Thai Prophet

Let’s start with the fortune teller from Bangkok who calls herself Mor Plai, but whose real name is Navaracha Pinitlokakorn. She is a doctorate, and, after she acquired the gift of prophecy sometime around the year 2010, she made some uncannily accurate predictions about major events, which gave her celebrity status in Thailand. Since then, she has been frequently interviewed by Thai TV channels and newspapers. However, it was only after she had accurately predicted the recent Myanmar earthquake that she turned into an internet sensation, and people all over East Asia frantically tried to find out more information about her life and her prophecies. 

The most informative video about Mor Plai’s life and prophecies was published in the Chinese language by a popular YouTuber named Wen Zhao. In his video titled, “Thai female prophet: 95 days left before the 2025 global catastrophe, the way it will happen is chilling” (published April 27, 2025), he refers to Mor Plai as “Pura” or “Mor Pura”. In Thailand, the generic term for a fortune teller is “Mor Pra” (or “Mor Doo”), which could be why Wen Zhao used the term “Mor Pura” to refer to her. Initially, this caused me some confusion because I could not find any famous Thai fortune teller named “Mor Pura” using Google search, and it was only after using some more keyword-based searches that I figured out that the name she went by was Mor Plai. 

Now that the little confusion about the name has been cleared up, let me share some of the interesting stuff that Wen Zhao said about Mor Plai’s bizarre childhood experiences, how she acquired her special prophetic abilities, some of her amazing predictions till date that have come true, and what she foresees for the future. 

“Pura is very different from the prophet that everyone imagines. She looks like an ordinary Thai modern girl. She will post all kinds of beautiful photos on her social media platform…Pura claims that she has had psychic abilities since she was a child. In 2014, Pura was interviewed by Thairath Talk, a TV station under Thairath Newspaper, one of the largest media in Thailand...Pura said that, since she was a child, she was able to see spirit beings that other people couldn’t see. Sometimes they were ghosts, and sometimes they were gods. But she had assumed that everyone else must be seeing these entities as well, just as she was…

Opposite Pura’s house was an abandoned house, which looked empty from the outside. But little Pura could see people coming in and out from time to time. During these times, little Pura would stand under the eaves of her house and wave and say hello to these people, but they usually ignored little Pura. Family and friends thought that little Pura was a strange girl, for they would see her waving and saying hello to the empty air. But they felt that she was just being childish or naughty, and did not give it much importance. 

One day, Pura saw a strange old man walking out of the abandoned house. As usual, Pura waved to him. This time, the old man also waved to Pura. Little Pura was very happy, and she ran across the street to talk to the old man. Pura’s family and neighbors were unnerved to see her standing alone in the front yard of the abandoned house, dancing and talking to herself, and laughing from time to time. Everyone thought that the little girl must have finally gone crazy. The family hurried to take Pura back home, but Pura struggled and refused, saying that she was playing games with her uncle…Some of the neighbors got curious and went into the abandoned house to check. They were shocked to find an old man’s body in the house. While the adults were panicking, little Pura ran into the house, pointed at the body, and said that it was this uncle who was playing with her. 

From then on, the news spread in the neighborhood that little Pura could interact with ghosts, and no child dared to come to her house to play. Of course, no one dared to bully her, either. As Pura grew up, she realized that she could not only see spirits, but also different gods. She even saw the Hindu god Krishna and communicated with him. When Pura told her family about these things, her parents were shocked and scared…So, when she was a teenager, her parents took her to see a psychiatrist. Pura passed all the tests, and the doctor told her parents that Pura was not mentally ill. While her parents were relieved to hear this, they also warned their daughter that, in the future, she was not to blurt out what she had seen in front of outsiders. As a result, the older Pura grew, the fewer friends she had, and the more she kept her special abilities a secret.

But a change occurred when Pura was about 20 years old. A spirit who looked like Yama, the King of the Underworld in Buddhism (and Hinduism), came into contact with Pura and taught her how to read faces and tell fortunes. He also gave her the ability to predict the future, and the spirit asked her to use the name “Mor Pura”. After that, Pura began to tell fortunes for people around her and would occasionally post her predictions for the coming year on her social media channel. 

The scope of her predictions is wide, ranging from politics, economy and society, to natural disasters. Pura calls herself the “medium of the gods” because, every time, before something big happens, the gods come to tell her about it, sometimes using voice and sometimes with the help of images. Some pictures appear very clear to her, while others are blurry. Although Pura does not understand some of the information she receives, she feels that her duty is to be a faithful messenger to convey the will of God. So, she simply says what she has heard or seen.

It so happened that, in 2014, Thairath Newspaper started its own multimedia platform called Thairath Talk. In order to attract viewers, it invited various people to interview. Mor Pura was also chosen. The program team wanted to do a simple interview, but Pura did not follow the guidelines and talked about her predictions for the future in the program. She made two strange predictions. The first was that a major aviation accident would happen in Southeast Asia, which would shock the world. The strangest thing about this accident would be that it would be a mysterious disappearance without any clear clues. Before the reporter could come to his senses, Pura made a second prediction. She said that she saw a boat carrying children, which would disappear at sea…

Just two months later, both of her predictions came true. In March 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 mysteriously disappeared on its way to Beijing. More than ten years have passed and it is still missing. And then, in April 2014, a Korean passenger and cargo ferry named Sewol sank. Sewol is a 6825-ton ferry. On the morning of the 16th, it sank while carrying passengers and cargo from Incheon to Jeju Island. A total of 780 passengers and crew members died, including 250 high school students. It was, indeed, a ship full of children. This was the worst maritime accident in South Korea’s history. It attracted great attention not only in South Korea but also around the world. Only then did the audience suddenly realize that Pura was, indeed, a prophet. 

From then on, many media outlets came to interview her. But Pura did not accept interviews every time. She would only show up when something big was about to happen. In June 2015, Pura made another shocking statement when she was interviewed by “Women’s Magazine”. She looked at a map on the wall and pointed her finger towards the location of Malaysia. Talking about the possibility of a disaster in Malaysia, she pointed to Kuala Lampur, the capital of Malaysia, saying that a famous building in the city would catch fire. Around 20 days later, a fire broke out on a small hill called Bukit Aman in Kuala Lampur. The building that caught fire happened to be the headquarters of the Royal Malaysia Police. So, this matter became the focus of new reports for several consecutive days. Pura’s accurate prediction shocked the Thais yet again…

In the second half of 2024, Pura was interviewed by Thairath Talk again, and in course of the discussions she suddenly said that, a few months later, probably between March and April 2025, an earthquake would occur in the Myanmar area, and would affect the northern part of Thailand, but the impact would not be great. After saying this, she paused, thought for a while, and added, “Bangkok will be affected by the earthquake, and the buildings will shake.” The host didn’t quite believe this when he heard this. He looked at Pura with suspicion because earthquakes are not common in Thailand…But an earthquake occurred in Myanmar in March 2025 and many high-rise buildings in Bangkok also shook. These scenes confirmed Pura’s prediction, and everyone was shocked…

In April 2025, Pura appeared again. She first appeared on the popular talk show of GMM, the largest entertainment media group of Thailand, and then on the live broadcast room of Woody, a well-known Thai host. In both shows, Pura made even more terrifying predictions. Let’s look at them one by one. Let’s start with Pura’s prediction on the GMM program. She said that, before August 2025, that is, from June to July, a province in Thailand that begins with K or Kai should pay attention. It will be affected by floods, but this flood is not caused by rainfall, but by the fluctuations of the sea or the earth. In other words, a disaster like a tsunami will occur, and tsunamis are caused by earthquakes. This statement shocked all Thais. The word tsunami also reminded all Thai netizens of the tragic consequences of the 2004 tsunami, and they couldn’t help but shudder…

Pura explained the disaster more clearly in the live broadcast room of host Woody. Pura said that this was almost like a global disaster. The volcano is about to erupt. The places Thai people like to travel to would be affected, and tourists would die. To be specific, it would be Sashimi (i.e., Japan) and Indonesia. Sashimi means “raw fish,” and Japan is famous for eating raw fish. Japan is also a favorite tourist destination for Thais. Pura said that there is a ring of volcanoes on the seabed that had been dormant for a long time. The big one has not exploded yet. The smaller volcanoes will erupt first, followed by the big one, which will cause a tsunami.”

With that, we come to the end of Wen Zhao’s narration of Mor Plai's bizarre life and remarkable prophetic powers, and needless to say, he has done an excellent job of pulling together information from many different sources to give us an illuminating account of this enigmatic Thai psychic. The account is also quite accurate, since I have listened to many YouTube interviews of Mor Plai where she essentially repeated the same things. The unreal accuracy of her prophecies so far is quite amazing to say the least, which kind of gives you an uneasy feeling of inevitability about her tsunami prediction in the July-August timeframe this year. 

There’s one correction that I would like to make to Wen Zhao’s presentation. Wen Zhao said that, according to Mor Plai, the undersea volcanic eruption and tsunami will occur “before August 2025, that is, from June to July”. That is not entirely correct.  In the GMM interview, she had said that the tsunami will occur “by August”, by which she meant, “by the end of August.” We can be certain of this, because on Woody’s live broadcast she spelt it out even more precisely: “The time is in July and August,” she told Woody. 

As Wen Zhao mentioned, once netizens realized that Mor Plai had successfully predicted the Myanmar earthquake, she became eagerly sought after by social media podcasters. In an interview with a Chinese YouTube channel published on April 12, 2025, Mor Plai was forthcoming about some of her childhood experiences. When asked what kind of spirits she used to see as a child, she replied, 

“When I was a child I saw many spirits. For example, there were some spirits under some lamp posts, some were wearing school uniforms, and some were in different colors, either black or white, and their eyes were either black or white. I saw many, many of these…sometimes spirits asked me for help but I could not do it when I was a child.” 

When asked to describe how the King of the Underworld, Yama, (who taught her how to read faces and tell fortunes) looked like, she replied, “When you first see him, he appears very big, and you will feel very hot because there are a lot of fires around him.” So, “big and fiery” seems to be the keywords. Not surprising, because in many sacred texts we find that, whenever a person gets a vision of God, he seems to appear enveloped in flames. For instance, when the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel saw Yahweh on the throne above the cherubs, he saw a human-like figure, glowing like fire, and enveloped in a brilliant light. (Ezekiel 1.26 28) 

Regarding the mysterious disappearance of Flight 370, when she was asked if there was any chance it may be found later, she said, 

“The Golden Triangle (possibly referring to the Bermuda Triangle), the mysterious delta, some of the aura and magnetic field of the mysterious delta changed, causing it to fall…many years later, they may see its wreckage, but not the entire thing. The people inside are no longer here. All you will see is the wreckage of the plane. This may happen in another forty or fifty years.” 

While some people may feel hopeful to know that the wreckage of Flight 370 might be found some day, if you are one of those who had expected that all the passengers will walk out of a time portal without aging a single day in all those years, you are likely to be disappointed.

In a video published by the YouTube channel Kiinthailand in the Thai language on March 30, just a few days after the Myanmar quake on March 28, Mor Plai was asked how she had known that the disaster would occur. Mor Plai replied, 

“The earthquake was more serious than I had expected. At the time of making the prophecy, I saw a map of Thailand, and around Bangkok there were multiple branching cracks. That’s why I made the prophecy. I also saw images of buildings collapsing, but I thought they were in Burma (Myanmar).” She went on to add that Bangkok will experience aftershocks in 2025, and this is just the beginning.

In an interview with the YouTube channel CD Chai published on April 7, Mor Plai clarified that she acts as a “spokesperson” of the spirit realm. This is what she said: 

“When I first mentioned the earthquake (Myanmar), it was not directly related to this matter…it was just a conversation. We just continued to talk and continued to visit (other topics) and then I accidentally said it. I can hear some whispers. I tell everyone what I hear, and say it in the gentlest way. It often says it. It often repeats. I have to say it because I act as a spokesperson. If I don’t speak out, I am afraid of being scolded. I was afraid of being scolded at that time.”

I found this really interesting. I can’t recall any other channel or medium saying that he or she is afraid of being scolded by spirits. It almost sounds like a family. But how exactly do the spirits scold her? What if they come down too hard on her and she starts feeling sad or depressed? Would it be a good idea for her to go to a psychiatrist and say, "My spirit family is acting unusually mean with me"? I would really like to be able to chat with her one day about these things.

In this video published by the YouTube channel Kiinthailand on April 3, we can listen to what Mor Plai had actually said in the GMM and Woody interviews, following the successful prediction of the Myanmar quake. During the GMM interview, she had made additional predictions: “During the Water Sprinkling Festival (i.e., Songkran Festival from April 13-15) this year, there will be flooding and fire accidents.” And when the host asked, “How can there be rain in summer?” she replied, “It’s going to rain!” 

And guess what? That’s exactly what happened. There was heavy rain in Bangkok during the Songkran festival, and a flash flood in Chiang Mai washed away the temporary furniture set up by the food vendors along the riverbank. However, no tourists were injured in this incident, since they had left by then, thanks to an early warning. Once again, Mor Plai does not cease to amaze with her incredible predictions.

Mor Plai had made another interesting prediction during the GMM interview. She said that one of the buildings in Bangkok, which had been damaged by the recent earthquake, will collapse. But she did not specify which building it is, and when exactly it will collapse. “It’s the damaged building. It will collapse. Everyone is running out again from that building. It’s a big building. The interior space is empty. I feel this building is not for people to live in.” On Woody’s live broadcast, she continued on this theme. Regarding the future of Bangkok, she said, 

“Wealthy people who live in tall buildings will sell their residence and relocate to different places. The tall buildings will start having problems, and later it will not be possible to sell these flats, and they will be discarded. Government offices may be relocated to other provinces. Stay away from tall buildings. Many people in Bangkok will quit their jobs and move to other provinces. There will be many foreigners taking over their jobs. People from Burma, Laos, Cambodia etc. The Thai economy shall face severe problems.”

One can imagine that if a person living in a Bangkok high-rise listens to these scary predictions, he might start shivering and trembling long before the next earthquakes arrive. Mor Plai is clearly foreseeing a lot of difficulty for Thailand in the coming years, and, understandably, the Thais who follow her prophecies could be feeling jittery. If her dire prediction about the volcanic eruptions and tsunamis in July-August also materializes, it could, potentially, trigger a sell-off in the real estate market in Bangkok. Those of you who are reading this – don’t get conned into buying a high-rise apartment in Bangkok at throwaway prices right now.

Let me touch upon one final apocalyptic prediction made by Mor Plai, which reminded me of some of the prophetic utterings of Edgar Cayce. More than ten years ago, on a Woody broadcast, Plai had made a stunning prophecy about a global apocalypse in the coming decades that would completely alter the geological profile of our planet. She said,

“In another 78 years, the map of the Earth will be completely changed. There will be very little land left. There may be less than a third of the land left.”

In a reading given in 1934, Edgar Cayce had said that large portions of many continents would sink under the oceans in the period from ’58 to ’98, which, as I have argued in my book Yuga Shift, refers to the period from 2058 to 2098. 

“As to the changes physical again: The earth will be broken up in the western portion of America. The greater portion of Japan must go into the sea. The upper portion of Europe will be changed as in the twinkling of an eye. Land will appear off the east coast of America. There will be the upheavals in the Arctic and in the Antarctic that will make for the eruption of volcanoes in the Torrid areas, and there will be shifting then of the poles - so that where there has been those of a frigid or the semi-tropical will become the more tropical, and moss and fern will grow. And these will begin in those periods in '58 to '98, when these will be proclaimed as the periods when His light will be seen again in the clouds. (Reading 3976-15, January 19, 1934)

The fact that Cayce had prophesied that the “greater portion of Japan must go into the sea” and there will be “the eruption of volcanoes in the Torrid areas,” brings additional context to Mor Plai’s prediction of a volcanic eruption and tsunami close to Japan. A lot of things seem to be adding up and falling into place, and the eerie alignment in prophetic utterings across centuries, in combination with the ongoing changes in the environment, geopolitics and human consciousness, is making it increasingly evident that we are now living in the times of the greatest shift in recorded human history. 

What makes Mor Plai’s prediction even more ominous is that an almost exact scenario was foreseen by a clairvoyant Japanese manga artist named Ryo Tatsuki in one of her precognitive dreams. And the date that she saw clearly in her dream for this mega disaster was July 2025!

The Prophecies of Ryo Tatsuki

Ryo Tatsuki is a Japanese manga artist who has been having vivid, precognitive dreams since she was young, starting sometime in the 1980s. Her dreams varied from mundane, private matters to incidents of global importance. For years, she kept notes and made sketches of her dreams in her "dream diary". Then she began to notice a pattern. Some of her dreams came true, maybe days, months or even years later. Later, she realized that her dreams came true at times that are multiples of 5: such as after 5 days, 15 days, 5 years, 15 years, and so on.

In 1999, she published a manga book titled “The Future I Saw”. The comic book contained illustrations of 15 precognitive dreams that she had between 1980 and 1995, with brief notes in the margins. At first, her book received a lukewarm response. After all, by the time the book was published in 1999, many of her dreams had already come true. People are more interested in predictions about the future, and not about events that have already happened. 

But things changed dramatically after Japan was hit by the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. Some people remembered that, on the cover of her book, Ryo Tatsuki had included the phrase, “A great disaster will occur in March 2011”. That immediately sparked off a nationwide interest in her book, and it flew off the shelves. People began to dig into her older predictions and found a few others that matched up with major events. However, some of her dreams related to mundane matters or were too cryptic to be interpreted. 

The reason why Ryo Tatsuki’s dream prophecies have once again come into the limelight is because, in the year 2021, Tatsuki came out with a reprint of her manga, in which she added a new, terrifying prediction: a catastrophic undersea volcanic eruption would occur somewhere between Japan and the Philippines in July 2025, which would make the ocean boil and trigger a tsunami three times larger than the one in 2011. She believes that Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia and the Northern Mariana Islands will be in the direct path of this immensely destructive wave, although many other countries are likely to be affected as well. She wrote in the book, "The future version of me said: 'It’s not over. The real beginning is from 2025.'"

I became aware of Ryo Tatsuki’s work while researching Mor Plai. In the comments section of the videos, many people said how the tsunami prediction made by Mor Plai was remarkably aligned with what Ryo Tatsuki had seen in her dreams. Once again, I had to hunt down the informative videos, which were mostly in Japanese or Chinese, and I used YouTube’s auto-translate feature to note the interesting points. If I were to recommend a video in English, I would say this one contains the most detailed information about the prophecies of Ryo Tatsuki that have already come true. However, when it comes to the new prophecy about the disaster of July 2025, I will refer to a different source when I get to it. 

Here’s a summary of what I managed to find out about the prophecies of Ryo Tatsuki that have already materialized and have been included in her 1999 manga, “The Future I Saw”.

1. Freddie Mercury's Death (1991)

Tatsuki had a lucid dream on November 24, 1976, when she saw a clear image of Freddie Mercury dying while performing on stage. She took note of the dream, but at the time, she did not think much of it, of course. Freddie Mercury passed away on November 24, 1991, exactly 15 years later. That was when Tatsuki started taking her dreams a little more seriously and began to think that maybe these dreams are precognitive.

2. Princess Diana's death (1997)

In 1992, Tatsuki had a dream in which she was walking down a long corridor inside a palace. At the end of the hallway hung a portrait of a blonde woman holding a baby. The name written on the painting was "Diana". In her diary, she drew the lady who appeared in her dream and scribbled a note, “Diana? Died?” 5 years later, Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris.

3. 1995 Kobe Earthquake

In January 1995, Tatsuki had a dream in which an old man led her to a place with cracked ground, and she got the feeling that it was the city of Kobe. She jotted the dream down, thinking that something might happen there later. 15 days later, the Great Hanshin earthquake struck Kobe on January 17, 1995, resulting in over 5000 deaths, and the city was left in ruins. It was Japan's second-deadliest earthquake of the 20th century.

4. 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami

On the cover of her 1999 manga "The Future I Saw", Tatsuki had written, "A great disaster will occur in March 2011". Almost like clockwork, the devastating undersea Tohoku earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011. The enormous waves devastated Japan's coastline, killing nearly 20,000 people and causing the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant. This 9.1 earthquake was the most powerful ever recorded in Japan. In the Sendai area of Japan, the tsunami waves traveled at 700 km/h and reached up to 10 km inland. More than 100 evacuation sites were washed away by the waves. 

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'Tis the season of prophecies; about monster tsunamis leaving a trail of devastation across multiple countries located along the Pacific Ring of Fire. Two different women psychics – one from Thailand and another from Japan - have revealed bone-chilling prophecies about a Pacific mega-tsunami that could originate somewhere between Japan and the Philippines, and inflict catastrophic damage. While one of them said that it could occur anytime in July or August of 2025, the other was more specific: the date that she saw very clearly in her precognitive dream was 

5. Covid-19 Pandemic (2020)

Tatsuki’s 1999 manga contained a prediction about a virus causing global disruption in the year 2020. One of her entries stated that, "in 25 years, an unknown virus will come in 2020, disappear after peaking in April, and appear again 10 years later." This is an obvious reference to the COVID-19 virus, and her timing of the event is eerily accurate as well, for it was around April 2020 that many countries started experiencing their first wave.

Now we come to the more interesting part – the prophecies of Ryo Tatsuki that are yet to pass. The one about the July 2025 tsunami was included in the reprint edition of the manga that came out in 2021. She also has a prophecy about an earthquake and a tsunami that could occur between June and September 2026. This was mentioned in the 1999 edition of the book itself.

While searching around for an informative video that would explain the newly included prophecy about the July 2025 mega-tsunami, I came across this YouTube video titled, The prophetic dream manga "The Future I Saw", what's the catastrophe that will happen in July 2025? This was published on a Japanese YouTube channel called the Naokiman Show on October 3, 2021, just one day after the new edition of Tatsuki’s manga came out. Interestingly, the podcaster personally knows Ryo Tatsuki and had a conversation with her about her new precognitive dream. So, the explanation in this video is about as informative and authentic as it can possibly get. Here’s what he said:

"I was able to meet up with her (Ryo Tatsuki) a few times and got to hear her stories. Just yesterday, on October 2nd, a new comic book about her dreams were published. Tatsuki san (“san” is a common honorific suffix in Japanese) says that she still sees precognitive dreams, and all of her dreams are recorded in her dream diary. Tatsuki san has shared with us her new dreams, which might come into reality....

Tatsuki san had travelled to India in the past (in 1998), and her experience on this trip became the turning point in her life. I will explain in detail later, but she saw this particular dream in India. Using her expression directly...” You know how bubbles come up when you're stirring a thick soup, right?” She saw that in a vision of the Pacific Ocean near Japan. It was bubbling up. It was hard for her to understand what it meant. Did it indicate an explosion? Or maybe a submarine eruption?

Surprisingly, Tatsuki san recently saw the same dream again (July 5, 2021). The same thing happened, but this time with two dragons in the area. And a date was clearly indicated in this dream. July 2025. In her dream, Tatsuki san was looking down on the earth, and the patterns on the below image shows the two dragons she saw. It was like seeing the earth with Google Earth, and there was a sudden eruption in the water between Japan and the Philippines. This caused waves to spread out in all directions, causing huge tsunamis hitting the Pacific Rim...

However, this is not the end of Tatsuki san's dream. In her dream, the submarine eruption not only triggered tsunami waves but pushed the lands to rise, resulting in the lands of Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Philippines to be connected as one big land. I know, it’s hard to understand. But she said that an island emerged from the ocean floor, which connected all the lands...

Tatsuki san says that she sees a bright future. People are not depressed from the disaster, but were cooperating to create a stable future. She says the "age of spirit" will arrive..."

So, that’s what we know about Ryo Tatsuki’s new prophetic dream, and it seems to clearly hint at a huge undersea volcanic eruption in July 2025 that would make the waters boil and trigger a mega-tsunami, which Tatsuki believes could be much bigger than the 2011 tsunami. The enormous quantities of magma released from this eruption could create new “islands” in the sea, connecting other landmasses. And what about the dragons she saw in her dream? My guess is that those shapes could be formed by the ash clouds coming out of the ocean. 

It goes without saying that a massive undersea eruption of the kind Tatsuki saw in her dream, would inflict catastrophic, widespread, damage, not only from the tsunami waves and earthquakes, but also from the ash clouds, and gases such as sulphur dioxide that would be released from the eruption, which could block out the sun partially, thereby lowering global temperatures and causing famine-like conditions. 

Since the same scenario was prophesied by the Thai prophet Mor Plai, there is a high likelihood of this disaster happening in the July-August timeframe, as the earth goes through its own cleansing process at the time of this shift into the ascending cycle of consciousness, which Tatsuki called the “age of spirit”. The inner-earth spirit beings, who are the true caretakers of our planet, and have the ability to foresee catastrophic earth changes, may be trying to warn us by transmitting these messages through these two mediums.

Some people have been saying on YouTube and elsewhere that the tsunami predicted by Tatsuki is going to occur precisely on 5th July, 2025. This is an online speculation that has garnered momentum, and now many people are repeating it without checking for facts. Tatsuki said July 2025, and the date 7/25 is also displayed on the cover of the reprint edition of her manga. However, Tatsuki saw this dream for the second time on July 5, 2021, exactly at 4:18 am (as per a note in her book), and there have been instances in the past when her precognitive dream was fulfilled many years later on the exact same date. This must have been the reasoning that gave rise to this rumor.

As innocuous as this rumor might sound, I am getting a bad feeling about it, maybe due to years of watching Hollywood thrillers. Imagine what might happen if July 5 passes uneventfully. Many people across Japan and East Asia will be relieved and start celebrating, they will say that the prophecy was a dud, scientists will come out bravely and admonish people for believing baseless rumors, the government will organize fairs and festivities on the promenade, and families will bring out their swimsuits and barbeque sets and rush to the beaches. And then, one day, they will hear the ocean roar, see the waters boil, and, just maybe, an enormous, fiery dragon will emerge from the ocean, look at the people with angry, bloodshot eyes, and say in a rasping voice, “Why don’t you guys ever listen?” 

For the moment, however, many tourists have taken these two prophecies seriously, because of which there have been lots of cancellations of travel bookings to Japan, particularly from East Asia. Travel agencies in Hong Kong and China have reported that nearly 80% of bookings to Japan for late June and early July have been canceled, and overall bookings for the region are down 50% year-on-year. CNN has also picked up on this news, and as per their report,

“CN Yuen, managing director of WWPKG, a travel agency based in Hong Kong, said bookings to Japan dropped by half during the Easter holiday and are expected to dip further in the coming two months. The speculations have scared off mostly travelers from mainland China and Hong Kong, which are Japan’s second and fourth-largest sources of tourists, respectively. But the fear has also spread to other markets such as Thailand and Vietnam, where social media platforms are overflowing with posts and videos warning people to think twice before traveling to Japan.”

While tour operators in Japan may be ruing their misfortune, and Japanese government officials and scientists are urging people not to believe in “unfounded speculations”, tourists to the region are unwilling to take their chances against a tsunami, especially since the memories of the devastation wrought by the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 and the Tohuku tsunami of 2011 are still fresh in the minds of many. 

Besides, the possibility of underwater volcanoes erupting in the Pacific is going up by the day. Japan, Philippines and Indonesia are located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, which is the most active volcanic and seismic zone of our planet. It contains between 750 and 915 active or dormant volcanoes, around two-thirds of the world's total. About 90% of the world's earthquakes occur within the belt. 

Although most of the volcanoes on land have been identified, many more remain hidden under the ocean. The NOAA estimates that “80 percent of the volcanic eruptions on Earth take place in the ocean.  Most of these volcanoes are thousands of feet deep and difficult to find.” The topography of the Pacific sea floor is very complex and contains a number of subduction zones and volcanic arcs. Subduction zones are places where tectonic plates collide and the heavier plate gets shoved (or subducted) under the lighter plate, forming deep ocean trenches. The subduction zones are places of high volcanic activity and powerful earthquakes.

The “Submarine Ring of Fire” program of the NOAA has identified some of the undersea volcanic arcs of the Pacific, such as the Mariana Arc, NE Lau Basin, Kermadec Arc and Explorer Ridge, all of which contain many submarine volcanoes. The Mariana Arc extends along the seafloor between Japan and Indonesia and is, therefore, of more interest to us in the context of these prophecies. NOAA has found that “the Mariana region contains 9 volcanic islands and more than 60 submarine volcanoes, of which at least 20 are hydrothermally active.” It is not difficult to imagine that, if the submarine volcanoes of the Mariana Arc start exploding one after the other, they could precipitate the kind of scenario foreseen by Ryo Tatsuki and Mor Plai. 

Besides, there has been increased magma movement and volcanic activity across the world in recent months. New volcanic eruptions in the Pacific Ring of Fire have occurred in Russia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Japan, and on the other side of the Pacific in Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico. Even the entire Mediterranean region is showing signs of increased magma activity and earthquake swarms in places like Santorini, Crete and Campi Flegrei, and recently, Mount Etna unleashed its most powerful eruption in a decade. Scientists are warning that Mount Spurr, a volcano close to the town of Anchorage in Alaska, is likely to erupt soon, and a large underwater volcano off the coast of Oregon, known as Axial Seamount, is showing signs of impending eruption. It wouldn’t be surprising, therefore, if submarine volcanoes near Japan or the Philippines start erupting as well. 

Ryo Tatsuki, in her 1999 manga, had foreseen another catastrophe that could occur in 2026. She said that an earthquake and tsunami will affect the Kanagawa Prefecture between June and September 2026, and she believes that it will be a Nankai megathrust earthquake that will be the culprit. In an interview with Japan Today, she said, “But in the case of the Nankai earthquake, I was also washed away by a tsunami. As shown in my illustrations, extensive parts of Kanagawa Prefecture are inundated, including the area around Aokibashi in the Kinko-cho area of Yokohama's Kanagawa Ward.”

Not leaving anything to chance, Tatsuki says she plans to move out of Kanagawa Prefecture before June 2026. Asked if she had a message for Friday readers, Tatsuki replied, “If a major earthquake occurs, even if you are living in a place that was never hit by a tsunami back to your grandparents' generation, evacuate at once!”

What are Nankai megathrust earthquakes, you might be wondering? These are powerful earthquakes that occur along the Nankai Trough, a subduction zone off the coast of southeast Japan, where the Philippine Sea Plate subducts beneath the Eurasian (or Amur) Plate. The immense pressure and friction between these plates can cause them to lock up, and when the stress becomes too great, they rupture, resulting in a megathrust earthquake of magnitude 8 or greater.

This BBC report provides more details about these powerful quakes that occur periodically every 100 years or so.:

“Earthquakes along the Nankai Trough - an area of seismic activity which stretches along Japan's Pacific coast - have already been responsible for thousands of deaths. In 1707, a rupture along its entire 600km length caused the second-biggest earthquake ever recorded in Japan and was followed by the eruption of Mount Fuji. These so-called "megathrust" earthquakes tend to strike every hundred years or so, often in pairs: the last ones were in 1944 and 1946. Experts say there is a 70% to 80% chance of a magnitude 8 or 9 quake striking somewhere along the trough in the next 30 years, with worst-case scenarios suggesting it would cause trillions in damage, and potentially kill hundreds of thousands.”

That’s all I have for the astonishing prophecies of these two lady prophets: Mor Plai of Thailand and Ryo Tatsuki of Japan. Both of them have made some stunningly accurate predictions till now that defy all rational explanations, and they seem to be acting as intermediaries between the human and spirit realms, as our planet goes through its purification rites in preparation for a new cycle of the ages. Whether or not their terrifying prophecy of a volcanic eruption and tsunami sometime in July or August this year comes to pass, we will be better off by keeping our ears and minds open to new thoughts and possibilities, as we navigate this period of epochal shift.

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