Misplaced time

On December 22, 2004, around 7 p.m., Mark and his girlfriend Julia set off in a van F150 to explore the road behind the Catskill Mountains near Magalittville, New York. Mark recounts his adventure: "I was confident that even though I chose my route at will, I could always go back the same way, but this time I was completely lost after 30 minutes of driving. At this point, it started to snow, and it was getting heavier and heavier, and I was vaguely scared, and I was in the snow for almost an hour. Julia looked at the gas gauge and we got nervous all of a sudden, oh my gosh, the gas tank is almost bottomed out. Getting lost in a snowstorm in the mountains, and the car has no gasoline, the more we think about it, the more scared we are. "

　　 An hour after departure, the young couple finally noticed that there were lights in front of the road, and determined that it was a gas station, which was indeed a country shop with a "grocery store" sign. Completely relieved, Mark drove the car to the tanker. The gas pump looked a bit old, like a 1940s device, and Mark thought to himself: maybe it was a show. A man walked up to them and asked: "The decoration of the car suits the lad, do you want gas?" As the man refueled, Mark asked him how to get back to Magalitville, and the man "gladly showed the way."

　　 By this time Julia had entered the store to look around, and Mark followed her in, and he noticed a brand new sedan parked in the yard, but they were all 1940s. When he entered the house, Mark saw Julia talking to a woman behind the counter. There are post office boxes on the walls, and fruit candy containers made of glass. Mark greeted the hostess and looked around.

　　 "There is no modern food here. Most gas stations or grocery stores have fast food like corn chips, but not here, there are Coke and Hershey strips, the Coke is in glass bottles, and the strips are oddly packaged. That's what the store is really like."

　　 When they paid for gas, something even more surprising happened: "My car usually costs $50 for a gas refill. But the owner of the shop said the full gas cost was $2.85. I looked at him and thought, did I hear it wrong, or is he kidding? So I asked him, how much is a gallon? He said, '10 cents a gallon. I know it's a little more expensive, but it's all the effects of the war.' I silently handed him the money, got in the car, rolled down the window, and after thanking him, I set off in the direction he pointed."

　　 Mark said: "What my girlfriend and I went through during that time was real, I'm not going to lie, I remember we were on our way back and the lights went down and we ran into a weird gas station."

　　 The young couple overcame the obstacles of weather and darkness and finally returned to Julia's house, but they found another strange thing: according to the clock in Mark's car, they had been traveling for 4 hours, and it should be around 11 pm when they came back, but Julia's clock pointed to 9 o'clock in the evening.

　　 In addition, Mark claims to have a habit of filling up his gas tank every time he arrives at his destination. He also filled up in time (about 19 gallons) after driving from Pennsylvania to Magaliteville. He calculated that the oil would allow his F150 to run 250 miles on mountain roads. The tank was full when Mark and Julia set off, but nearly empty when they arrived at the 1940s gas station and grocery store. "There's no way I could have driven 25 miles an hour on a mountain road," Mark said.

　　 Two days later, Mark and Julia decided to search for gas stations and grocery stores. They asked everyone along the way, but never found it. There's no reason to think Mark is lying, as such phenomena have been reported before. Although rare in the chronicle of bizarre phenomena, experts still classify such phenomena as "the passage of time", and some experts classify such phenomena as ghosts and haunted phenomena. Mark's experience is even more special among strange phenomena. From the perspective of spirituality and supernatural attributes, it has two characteristics: first, Mark is not alone, but he and his girlfriend enter "another world" together; second, Mark and Julia Interact with the inhabitants of another world.

　　Foresee the future

　　 In 1935, Air Force Colonel Victor Goddard was flying a Hawk Hart biplane from Andover to Edinburgh, and on the way he glanced at the old Drem military airfield in East Los Angeles. Landed here because it was so close to his final destination. But the situation was not good, the airport was destroyed and there were grazing cows everywhere.

　　 On the way back to Andover, Goddard encountered bad weather and the plane began to swirl. How to deal with stalls and swirls is one of the most basic teaching contents when learning to fly. Therefore, it is a mystery why Goddard was caught in a swirl and could not cope, and fell from an altitude of 2,500 meters to 30 meters.

　　 As the plane approached the Forth Creek, just 6 meters above the ground, Goddard began to level off, and then he "recognized the way to Edinburgh and was soon able to break through the hazy hangar of Drem Airport ahead. Shadows and landed, this is the military airport he saw yesterday. It's raining rain in the sky, the sky is getting darker, the turbulence is shaking the plane violently, and the plane is flying towards the hangar..."

　　 But suddenly the clouds and rain cleared, and the weather suddenly cleared. In the bright sunlight, Goddard saw the Dram miraculously changed: the hangar and the gravel asphalt road seemed brand new. The three Avro 504N biplane trainers parked at the end of the runway with a monoplane were all painted golden yellow and painted with RAF (Royal Air Force) graphic markings. The ground crew in blue work uniforms were busy with their work, and no one noticed Goddard at the right altitude and crossed over the hangar. He then ascended again, flew back to the storm zone, and landed safely in Andover.

　　 Aside from the overnight refreshment of Drem Airport, Goddard was amazed by the ground crew in blue, the golden yellow of the biplane and the monoplane he could not identify. In 1935, the uniforms of ground staff serving in the Royal Air Force were made of khaki khaki, and no aircraft were painted yellow, when only biplanes were in service in the Royal Air Force. After 1937, the Mills McGist monoplane began to roll off the assembly line as a trainer for the new Hurricane (first shipped to the RAF in December 1937) and Spitfire fighter jets. It was only at the beginning of World War II that the costumes of the RAF ground crew were changed to blue, and the trainers were painted gold. Apparently, on this flight in 1935, Goddard flew into "future" time and space while the plane was out of control, albeit for only a few seconds. Goddard has not made the experience public since, and did not mention it until 1951 in an article published in the Saturday Evening Post. In 1975 he revisited the experience in Flying to Reality magazine.

　　Surprise each other

　　 At first glance, Goddard's experience is beyond reproach, but it is not. A witty and well-informed blogger calling himself a "BS historian" believes that Goddard got lost in a storm and flew through another airport, not Drem. Aerial navigation in the 1930s still relied on maps and compasses for dead reckoning, and required landmarks to be visible and correctly identifiable. Otherwise, pilots would quickly veer off course. If Goddard didn't see Drem Airport, which airport did he see? I think it's probably Renfrew Airport, which later became the Flying Club of Scotland. Not only did the club use Avro 504 aircraft at the time, but the airport also had many civilian aircraft that visited regularly. Most of these planes are painted bright colours, and monoplanes are also commonly used. In fact, Goddard thought the monoplane he saw was a predecessor to the McGist monoplane, as evidenced by photos taken in 1935. The difference between the two models is not discernible in the air. Since the aircraft maintenance personnel are not part of the army, the statement that they saw the blue uniforms in advance cannot be established. Although Renfrew Airport and Drem Airport are 115 kilometers apart, such a deviation is entirely possible for Goddard's 645-kilometer flight. Especially the flight climatic conditions described by Goddard.

　　 It seems that people don't pay much attention to Goddard flying the plane very close to the airport to take a closer look at "his" airport, but people who experience time dislocation are not all bystanders in past and future scenarios. John Forman, who first collected the events of time dislocation, heard interesting stories that surprised each other.

　　 In the early 1980s, members of a British family were traveling on a West German highway. There were not many vehicles on the road, so it was natural for them to notice a separate vehicle approaching at high speed in the opposite lane. The car was oddly shaped, they had never seen it before, it actually looked like a UFO. The wheels were invisible anyway, the shape of the vehicle was similar to a cylinder, and there were four circular windows inside the car. When encountering the "future" vehicle, they saw four terrifying faces staring at them from the window. If the Brits do see ghosts of the future, they will also be surprised to see cars from a distant past. Maybe a bit like seeing a beheaded knight near Salzbury.

　　 Think again and see what questions remain unasked. Extra-long limousines were indeed trendy in the 1980s. What was the weather like at the time? If there is enough rain on the road and the speed of the vehicle is fast, the water curtain splashed by the vehicle can completely cover the shape of the vehicle. Perhaps it was the oncoming British vehicle that seemed particularly strange to the other party: the passengers in the future vehicle had not seen such a quaint foreign car for a long time.

　　 Occasionally, people can be seen turning to quantum mechanics, string theory, etc. to exploratively explain the phenomenon of time dislocation. One of the problems is the scale of the object being studied. The above theory only applies to very tiny particles, not to behemoths like cars and airplanes. According to our calculations, even relatively small objects, such as frogs or fake beards, require an astonishing amount of energy (where does the fuel come from?) to jump from one time series (or a similar universe) to another time series (or universe), and the two universes are about to collapse or explode.