Five Chilling Instances of Slips In Time
Urban Legend, Nonsense, or Something More?
Time Anomalies
Time Anomalies, otherwise known as temporal distortions or time slips, have long been an interest of mine.
The first time I remember taking a definite interest was when I was writing a book called The Ghostly Guide to the Lake District. As well as collecting local folklore and well-known legends, I wanted to bring the material up to date and demonstrate that people continued to have paranormal experiences.
I wrote the book in 1998, and I put a notice in the local newspaper asking people to get in touch. A woman called Angela Charlton got in touch. At the time, I was living in a town called Penrith, Cumbria, England, and this story happened to Angela in Penrith. Stranger still, at the time she had the time slip experience she lived in the same house I was living in when I wrote the book.
Penrith, Cumbria
Angela reported a strange experience as she walked on a steep path between pine trees up to the top of Beacon Hill that overlooks Penrith. At the time, she was a teenager. Angela would often climb the Beacon when she wasn’t at school, and it’s still a popular local walk.
