Time Slips – Stories in Time

Understanding Time Slips An author witnesses a scene from over 400 hundred years ago and an off-duty policeman relives 1950’s Liverpool. Do people really time slip as easy as entering a room? “Ghosts” are a multi-faceted phenomenon that deserves to be classified as a range of different events. Many ghost sightings are readily explained as individuals who appear out of their normal location or time; often the ghost also seems to change the surroundings of the witness, giving the impression of a “time slip”. What is open to question is whether these are glimpses into another time or does the witness or ghost does actually travel time? What causes Time Slips? Ghost hunter and author, Joan Forman collected many reports time slips from around the UK. One example concerns a Warder who was on duty in the Byward Tower, at the main entrance to the Tower of London. One night, he looked up to see five or six Beefeaters from a much earlier time, seated around a log fire, smoking pipes. Not only that, the whole room had altered in appearance. The room reverted back to its original state when the warder left the room and returned moments later. Forman […]

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