10 Additional True Tales of Interdimensional Travel · 9:57pm Apr 28th, 2017

10 Additional True Tales of Interdimensional Travel

Today I am going to share some interesting true stories I found about interdimensional travel. You can read the first journal entry I posted on this subject here. You can read the second journal entry I posted on this subject here.

Throughout the ages there have been stories of strange people appearing out at sea or in random towns/ cities across the world. We may never know who these people are or where they came from. But one thing is for sure; their stories will continue to mystify the people who learn about them for years to come.

There are also stories of people who have somehow found themselves transported to another dimension and lived to tell the tale. This is a collection of true stories about interdimensional travelers of all sorts. They are stories that show us that planet earth is still a mysterious place and we still have a lot to learn about the multiple universes, alternate realities, alternate timelines, and dimensions around us.

So join me on this journey as I talk about twelve true tales of interdimensional travel. And if you know of any other true stories about interdimensional travel feel free to leave them in the comment section below.

First True Account: Michael’s Encounter With Interdimensional Beings

Some cases of supposed inter-dimensional travel are almost surreal and dreamlike in their sheer bizarreness. One man known only as Michael had just such an experience while driving from the Australian Capital Territory to New South Wales, in Australia. He was traveling along a series of roads that cut through rugged territory that alternates between thick forests and scattered remote plains, on a route that should have taken him to his destination in around 2 or 3 hours. As he drove, watching plains give way to forests which would melt back into plains again, Michael claims he began to get the distinct feeling that he had been driving far longer than 3 hours, and he stopped the car to take a rest and look around. It was a mild, clear night, and at the time nothing seemed to be particularly out of place, but things would take a turn for the weird quite quickly.

It started when he looked up at the moon and noticed that it seemed far lower and brighter than it should have been. Amazed by this perplexing phenomenon, he went out to search for a field where he could get a better look at this strange, bight moon. After trudging through underbrush, he came to an open field that looked as if it had recently been plowed, and when he looked up to see the moon again he says it became evident that it was not the moon at all, but rather a blindingly bright spotlight, so bright in fact that he had to put his hands up to shield his eyes from its intensity. Then, he was suddenly immersed in darkness as the spotlight cut off, only to be bathed in light again as another spotlight switched on facing from another direction. Illuminated within the spotlight’s beam, Michael claims that he could see the form of what looked to be a scarecrow, which seemed to be moving, either from the wind or some power of its own.

Unsettled, Michael hurried back to his car and started the engine. Before leaving, he took one more look back at where the spotlight had been only to find it was not there anymore and yet the whole field was awash in light as if being illuminated by it. More bizarrely, there was no sign of the trees and brush he had had to slog through to reach the field, and the field was there in the open in full view. As the startled Michael looked on, he claims that the light of the field began to shrink and contract until it became a bright beam focused on what appeared to be a man standing in the center of the field. In the man’s hand was a gun, and every time Michael moved, the stranger moved the gun up little by little until it was pointing at his own head, as if he planned to shoot himself. In reaction to this, Michael froze, not knowing what to do next.

This went on for a time, both him and the stranger frozen there, but as Michael grew tired, his hands and legs began to shake, which prompted the mysterious stranger to inexorably move the gun up until it was aimed squarely at his own head. It was then that the strange man began to cry, and even though he was far away, Michael could make out what appeared to be cuts on his body that oddly did not bleed. As he cried, the man raised his other hand and pointed to his left before pronouncing in an ear piercing wail: “THERE!” At this point the gun went off and Michael threw his hands up to block the macabre sight. When he pulled his hands away to look, he realized that he was in his car and that the car had somehow been teleported to the center of the field, and there was no sign of the stranger who had been standing there. Disoriented and confused, Michael drove off.

Curious about the bizarre, dream-like incident, Michael returned to the spot a few days later in the daytime. When he arrived he found the field, but it was once again ringed by forest. He ventured out into the spot where he remembered seeing the stranger, and looked out to where he had been pointing. As he looked out into the distance he claimed that he could see a house, and through the window of the house he could make out the form of a man who for some inexplicable reason was upside down. Michael claims that he sped home at “a million miles an hour” and never took that route again. It is hard to wrap one’s head around this case. Is this an example of traveling to another dimension or just a particularly potent and bizarre hallucination? Just what in the world does any of this mean? It is a case wrapped in true oddness for sure.

Second True Account: The Mandela Effect

One type of memory glitch that has generated a lot of Internet buzz in recent years is called the “Mandela Effect.” In simplest terms, the Mandela Effect is an instance of collective misremembering. Examples include lines from famous movies that everyone gets wrong (e.g., Humphrey Bogart’s saying “Play it again, Sam” in Casablanca), erroneous dates and numbers (apparently many people answer “52” when asked how many states there are in the U.S.), and historical misconceptions (are you among those who recall learning in school that cotton gin inventor Eli Whitney was black?).

The term “Mandela Effect” was coined by self-described “paranormal consultant” Fiona Broome, who has written on her website that she first became aware of the phenomenon after discovering that she shared a particular false memory — that South African human rights activist and president Nelson Mandela died in prison during the 1980s (he actually died in 2013) — with many other people. Then she began noticing other examples:

One of the most recent and prevalent is the death of Billy Graham. Though some claim that people are confusing that with Mr. Graham’s retirement, or perhaps the televised funeral of Mr. Graham’s wife, those who clearly remember the events disagree heartily.

Many people recall a painted portrait of Henry VIII holding a turkey leg in one hand.

People remember that it was a classic painting of Henry VIII, in the Holbein style, but Henry was shown enjoying a hearty meal. They recall something that looked like a turkey leg in one hand. (People thought it was his left hand — on the right side of the canvas).

However, apparently, the “turkey leg” portrait doesn’t exist. It never did… not in this time stream, anyway.

Do you recall the fast food chain as McDonald’s or MacDonald’s?

This is an especially odd alternate memory, since the “golden arches” are such a familiar symbol, most Americans can describe the brand icon, Ronald McDonald, without having to look him up, online, and so on.

History in this reality: The original restaurant was started in 1940 by Dick and “Mac” McDonald. The restaurant was always McDonald’s.

“These aren’t simple errors in memory,” Broome observed (rightly or wrongly). “They exceed the normal range of forgetfulness. Even stranger, other people seem to have identical memories.”

The Berenstain/Berenstein Bears

No single example of the Mandela Effect has generated more online buzz than that of the children’s book series and animated TV show The Berenstain Bears. Quite a few people who grew up with the series, it turns out, remember the title being The Berenstein Bears, with the name ending in “ein” instead of “ain” (with some even going to go so far as to maintain that the fictional bears’ surname was changed along the way to make it “less Jewish”).

A page on Broome’s web site cites a number of testimonials:

“I too clearly remember it as ‘Berenstein’ even though I never read the books. Why would anyone change that? Seems irrelevant.”

“Does anyone remember the Berenstein Bears? I do. Although somewhere along the line the name has changed to the Berenstain Bears. No record of “stein” which is definitely how it was when I was younger. No question about it.”

“I would like to say that I VERY CLEARLY remember “Berenstain Bears” being Berenstein Bears. I very specifically remember it being pronounced “STEIN” on the show.”

“Didn’t it used to be the Berenstein Bears? Now, suddenly it’s the Berenstain bears? Is this some sort of anti-Semitic cover-up? Or have those of us who grew up in the 1980’s been misinformed, misread, and mispronounced?”

Clearly, something of interest is going on here, but what? How to explain the fact that many different people can share the same false memory? There have been many theories put forward to try to explain this phenomenon. Here are just a few.

Parallel Universes and Virtual Realities

One theory based on principles of quantum mechanics holds that people who experience the Mandela Effect may have “slid” between parallel realities (à la the science fiction TV series Sliders). After growing up in a universe where it was “Berenstein” Bears, for example, some people one day woke up to find themselves in an alternate universe with “Berenstain” Bears.

Another theory posits that unbeknownst to ourselves, we all exist within something resembling a “holodeck” (a device in the world of the Star Trek series that creates a virtual reality experience for recreational purposes). On this model, apparent memory glitches are actually software glitches that cause inconsistencies in our perception of reality. Can you prove this isn’t the case?

There’s nothing inherently wrong with this sort of speculation — it’s fun, in fact — but it yields no practical explanation or testable hypotheses. Nor is it necessary. We don’t have to conduct thought experiments about the ultimate nature of reality to explain why we misremember things — or even why we misremember some of the same things the same way.

The Glitch Is in Your Memory, Not the Matrix

A leading psychological theory holds that memory is constructive, not reproductive — i.e., the brain builds memories out of various bits and pieces of information on the fly as opposed to playing them back like a recording. Memories aren’t pure. They can be distorted by any number of factors, including bias, association, imagination, and peer pressure.

Getting back to the Berenstain vs. Berenstein quandary, one explanation for the variant spelling is that names ending in “stein” are far more common than those ending in “stain.” People’s recollections are distorted by prior associations and expectations.

Why do some people remember Nelson Mandela dying 30 years before he did? Perhaps it’s simply a case of two isolated bits of knowledge — that Nelson Mandela spent a long time in prison and that he’s dead — being pieced together into a false memory in the absence of an actual recollection of the announcement of his death.

Memory is fallible — have we said this enough? The list of psychological and social factors that can disrupt and distort recollection is very long indeed. It’s to these we should look first for an explanation of the Mandela Effect.

For more, see “The Seven Sins of Memory” by cognitive scientist Daniel Schachter and the list of common explanations for the Mandela Effect on the Debunking Mandela Effects web site.

For more information about the Mandela Effect and to see if it has affected you personally, check out the official website here: http://mandelaeffect.com/

Here is the Reddit about the Mandela Effect: https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/

And here is a really great YouTube channel that talks about different Mandela Effects in some detail: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNRGr4VqH3pRFMG23_iMPGJNTDzfwT9Fe

Third True Account: Resurrected From Death

There are plenty of tales of people who believed that they died, only to blink and find that nothing had happened.

Here is one from Reddit user Neurotrace.

“About 4 or 5 years ago I worked at a Little Caesars Pizza. Usually I would work inside on the pizzas but we had just started up this Monday Madness deal where pizzas were only $4 on Monday so we needed someone to advertise. I was a wild and weird metal head so I took up the position on Mondays of just going out there, throwing around a sign to get attention, and bring people in for pizza. Not exactly glamorous but I had fun.”

“One day while I was out there doing my thing I see a van coming straight at me. It jumps the curb and slams in to me and I feel it crush me against the electrical box controlling the street lights. I see a quick flash as the traffic lights flick off then black out.”

“I gasp and I’m still on the corner and nothing has happened. No van or anything. Well, I was a little shaken up so I decide to pack it up and walk back to the store for a break. I walk no more than 15 feet away from the corner when I hear a crash. I look back and a van just hopped the curb in to the electrical box and I watch the traffic lights flick off.”

“Needless to say, I took the day off. Still think about that from time to time.”

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Here is another personal account from Reddit user confusedxx3.

“So just three days ago I was at a party with my girlfriend and some of our friends and we were standing around outside of the house when this car rolls up and these really scary guys get out of the car.”

“They started asking for the person who was throwing the party ( I think they were mad because they weren’t invited) and someone pointed out our friend who was the host standing with us. Then they started getting in his face and me being me, I jumped in the middle of it all and tried to get them to back off. Then things got crazy and one of them pulled a gun and I guess, shot me.”

“I don’t really know how the hell it happened but the guy shot me and it was so WEIRD! I felt a very odd sensation in my chest that was almost painful but then everything was just suddenly bliss. It’s probably the best high I’ve ever felt!”

“It gets even weirder though because as soon as this feeling started to settle in I started seeing myself from third person. As in I could see everyone screaming and running into the house, the guys fleeing, my girlfriend and my friends cradling my body! I looked AWFUL! It was scary! I think I might have actually been shot in the chest but everything went by so quickly so I wasn’t really able to tell.”

“All of a sudden I felt this really quick pulling sensation like I was being pulled forward and then bam! I’m right where I was before the guys even came, standing around and talking to my friends.”

“No one even seemed to notice what I just experienced so after seeing all that, I suggested everyone outside should go in the house so we did.”

“Then soon enough, the same guys roll up to the house! Except when my friend hosting the party looked out the window, he decided they looked fishy and advised everyone to stay inside until they leave and eventually they did.”

“I honestly don’t know how to even explain what just happened and haven’t even bothered telling anyone I know because I just don’t know how to tell without sounding like a crazy person! Anyone got any ideas how this could have happened?”

Fourth True Account: Cosmologist Says He’s Found Possible Signs Of A Parallel Universe

Ranga-Ram Chary from the California Institute of Technology believes he may have discovered proof of our universe “bumping” into a different universe, like giant bubbles in space. He has discovered a “bump” or “bruise” in the universes background radiation, which he believes could have come out of making contact with another universe. While the burden of proof is on Chary to show that this isn’t something in the foreground that is altering his view, he isn’t backing down. Chary told Jennifer Ouellette at Gizmodo that he hopes to have more comprehensive results within a couple of years, though his ideas might not be proved one way or the other until the next generation of space scanning technology comes online (estimated at 15 to 20 years).

There are still an infinite amount of mysteries out there, but the idea that many versions of you could exist is certainly an interesting one.

Fifth True Account: New Age Belief On Interdimensional Travel

People who practice New Age or esoteric belief systems view crossing into other dimensions on a regular basis as something that is quite normal. The thought is that the closer a person comes to enlightenment through meditation and other spiritual devotion, the more they start leaving the old, chaotic reality behind and start journeying into a better reality. This cycle continues throughout their entire lives until they die and reach the highest state of perfection/ ultimate bliss. These beliefs are loosely borrowed from the Buddhist or Hindu religions which teach that reincarnation after death is a normal part of existence that happens cycle after cycle until a person reaches enlightenment and is finally able to cross over into the highest state of consciousness.

Sixth True Account: Stella Lansing - Photographs From Beyond

Stella Lansing was a middle-aged housewife from Massachusetts who in 1961 began experiencing strange and otherworldly events. Over time, these paranormal occurrences led her down a bizarre path of UFOs, strange humanoid creatures, Men In Black, and visions of other worlds; most of which she managed to capture on different types of film.

It all began in a cool September day in 1961 when Stella noticed a bright hovering orb outside her home in Northampton, Massachusetts. The object hovered at tree line level, off in the distant sky, before zooming closely to her and stopping in mid-air between her house and her neighbor’s garage. That terrifying incident, although short, marked the beginning of Stella’s journey.

During the great Northeast Blackout of 1965, Stella was driving to deliver candles to a friend whose house had also been swallowed up by the rolling darkness that swept through the neighborhoods. En route via Flynt Street, Stella noticed a bright light overhead. She saw the same glowing object that visited her four years before. This time however, it was traveling through the telephone poles along the highway she was driving down. Her terror and confusion was temporarily hijacked by a strange dark car that seemed to suddenly appear on the highway. The black car was a few feet ahead of Stella and appeared to be “driven” by the light.

The black car then rolled off the highway, down a hill to a standstill. As Stella slowly drove past it, she got a sense that the occupants of the car were looking as the bright orb suddenly dipped below the telephone wires and into a nearby field. From there, Stella saw the light fly northwest before flaring up into the dark sky. She kept her car moving until she reached the safety of her friend’s house.

Two years passed and Stella continued to see strange lights in the sky that at times would follow her. Her children were no exception to the eerie events. There were incidents in which they were present when Stella saw the orbs of lights. She had mentioned her experiences only to her family and close friends by the mid to late sixties. Still unaware of what these lights were or what they wanted, she would never imagine what horrors would soon come to visit her.

It was on the night of Halloween of 1966 when Stella had a terrifying encounter with a strange, grotesque creature. Around 7:20 P.M. she parked her car facing the water of a nearby lake. Just as Stella was about to cut off the headlights, she saw a head bobbing up and down the dark and frigid waters of the lake. Her eyes stuck to the emerging figure from the water. Stella described it as “…wearing a black skullcap.”

Scared out of her mind, Stella punched her car in reverse and pulled away from the shoreline that was uncomfortably close. In the panic of things, she managed to see that that humanoid-looking thing had crawled its way onto shore and began running towards a peninsula that was about sixty meters away from her house.

As Stella adjusted her car and headlights to shine towards the location the creature scurried off into, she saw, a basketball-sized orange orb of light. Surrounding it was a fuzzy mist. The light glowed dimly and the hairs on the back of her neck stood on end. Without warning a large, brighter orb of light suddenly swooped down behind her house and then flew low across the water. The red bright object was seen by Stella’s two teenage neighbors who had seen the bright light come from the sky above and swoop down by the lake. Not far behind them was Stella’s family. They were completely oblivious to the bizarre phenomena happening just up the road.

It was apparent that by 1967 — six years after her initial contact — Stella was having heavy, traumatic experiences that seemed to surround her. As the strange phenomena continued, it took a dramatic twist once Stella acquired a silent 8mm film camera.

Stella had already been photographing the strange lights that haunted her, however with the 8mm film camera, she began capturing strange images that seemed to be from somewhere else in space and time. She shot countless ominous images of blurred figures and structures not seen by Stella’s naked eyes or those of many witnesses.

Stella happened to once again see strange lights. It was on the night of February 18, 1967, that Stella stopped her car on Route 32, near the intersection of Warren Road and Flynt Street. She got out of her car to get a better look at the light. She noticed that another passenger car had pulled off the road and the driver too had gotten out due to the odd nature of lights.

“They were two yellowish lights.” Stella recounted the events that night.

“[They were]…silently walking from east to west. Toward the old cemetery.”

Stella asked the man if he too had seen the lights to which the unnamed man responded with a dumbfounded “Yes.”

Stella then ran home to fetch her 8mm camera and headed back to the place. As she neared the intersection, she noticed two lights like before however this time she saw two bigger lights ascend from in-between the power lines above. They silently joined the other two lights. One of the red lights stopped and “bounced like a rubber ball.”

Stella remained out in the middle of the lonely road catching glimpses of these strange lights. The bright lights bounced, traveled, and flew around her giving Stella enough time to carefully observed and film them. At one point she was joined by a cashier and friend of Stella who was on her way home from a long shift. The two cars were parked next to each other as the women watched in stunning wonder.

Shortly thereafter the lights vanished. A blueish light then appeared off in the distance and slowly approached Stella and her friend. She kept her camera pointed steadily at the nearing object. To their relief, it stopped about 150 feet away from them before flying away.

Just then a bright burst of white light blinded the two as another object also took off at incredible speeds up into the sky. All the while Stella’s camera kept rolling.

It took Stella some time and effort to find a projector to show her film. At first, she had taken her film of the object she dubbed “The Red Bug” to a laboratory in Springfield, Massachusetts for developing. That’s when she learned that her 25 foot film segment had been incorrectly spliced. Out of the 50 feet of film loaded onto the camera, the last 25 feet were of her jeweler friend’s daughter and her fiancé in an outdoor setting. However the first 25 feet of film did contain Stella’s recording of the lights.

It was on April of 1968 that Stella finally purchased a Bell and Howell projector of her own. A new piece of technology that allowed her to slow down the footage she shot that fateful night to two frames a second. Revealing unnerving images she had failed to see before.

The bright object she filmed on that desolate road that night in 1967 contained a few frames of the heads and torsos of strangers. Strange men in what Stella believed to be a craft of some sorts.

“I never saw the people when filming it. I can’t tell you what object they came out of or what they were in. The only thing I could think of is that they must have come from the soft white object…that was hovering while I was filming.”

By the late 1960s, with the support of her husband and family, Stella Lansing continued her research into the phenomena that was becoming more and more mysterious and unnerving.

By 1970 she had been already taking photographs that contained strange lights or structures superimposed on them. A mysterious clock-like pattern also began to appear on her films and photographs. Strangely enough, they geometric patterns appear on the film itself, overlapping the frames of the footage.

However remarkable these images appear at first glance, no official investigation was done on Stella’s claims and impressive evidence. There had been no real interest until one day in 1971 when Stella walked into a UFO conference and told her story to a Dr. Berthold Eric Schwarz, M.D.

When Dr. Schwarz met Stella Lansing he had already built a large following in the UFO community. Schwarz was a psychiatrist with a keen interest in spirituality, Ufology, and the paranormal. A well rounded researcher you could say.

Dr. Schwarz had just finished his lecture when a friend introduced him to Stella. As she poured her story and heart out to the men in the now emptied auditorium, the doctor’s doubts began to grow. However upon hearing that Stella had brought with her evidence on film his curiosity forced him to stay longer to examine the evidence.

Dr. Schwarz first examined Stella. He performed a physical examination, a neurological examination, as well as electroencephalographic (EEG) exams. Her central nervous system also checked out fine. Stella passed her examinations with flying colors. However when the psychiatric sessions began, Dr. Schwarz learned the extent of Stella’s claims of the abnormal activity that followed her.

Stella told the doctor that in 1967, six years after initially coming in contact with strange lights, she had checked herself into a state hospital. For years the sightings of unidentified flying object and strange beings began to take a toll on Stella Lansing. She was admitted to the hospital and was under the care of the hospital’s director of Clinical Psychiatry.

Under his examination, the doctor labeled Stella as a Paranoid Schizophrenic who suffered from hallucinations about seeing UFO crafts. Although not overly religious, Stella spoke of strange communications she was receiving telepathically about supposed UFO-related communications from Beelzebub, the devil himself.

Stella stayed under the doctor’s care for an initial 10 days before checking herself out. However not a month later she had returned to the hospital, this time checking in for 5 weeks total. She completed treatment and was released on the basis that she had no further recurrences.

It was Dr. Schwarz who believed that Stella could have gone a temporary psychosis brought on by the phenomena she was experiencing. Although Stella was Roman Catholic during her stay in the hospital, she was never described as someone overly pious. In fact, she rarely talked about religion or scriptures of any kind.

This was just Stella’s mind trying to make sense of the voices, images and visitations that had plagued her for years.

It was in 1971, when Stella met Dr. Schwarz that her story moved away from the incredible to the credible. But this is only because the doctor himself would end up becoming one of the many witnesses to Stella’s claims.

For the past decade, Stella kept meticulous records of her encounters with the strange phenomena. She kept journals of times and dates of when she saw bright lights or strange creatures. In one instance, Stella claimed that her entire left hand had suffered some type of paralytic shock when she had photographed a “Shimmering figure”.

Dr. Schwarz began with the treasure trove which was Stella’s films. The spools of film depicted strange, blurry flashes of lights zooming in the sky. Or more interestingly the images of strange, out of place, structures or things.

On the night of April 15, 1971, Dr. Schwarz, Stella Lansing, and a lady friend of Stella’s all drove down to a spot in Massachusetts in which Stella claimed to have a lot of encounters. The trio drove to a secluded area, killed the engine and the headlights and stepped out of their vehicle and into the silent, still night. Within minutes two yellowish glowing discs were seen up in the sky. The objects appeared to glide silently alongside each other, often times merging into themselves before splitting up again. They watched the lights uninterrupted for quite some time.

As the three observed the craft, they were completely unaware of an approaching black car that had its headlights off.

The car stopped about a hundred feet from where the three stood. It suddenly blasted its bright headlight beams in their direction. Dr. Schwarz wrote about the unnerving encounter:

“While Ms. Lansing and I were filming these strange lights, an automobile suddenly seemed to appear out of nowhere. It stopped approximately one to two hundred feet ahead of our car. We were shocked to see its headlights illuminate our dark area and flicker alternately left and right (and vice versa) in a manner reminiscent of semaphore signals, and then dim out to a pink, and come on again. At the height of the excitement, the lady friend panicked, and screamed to us to get back in the car, which we did. Fortunately, I photographed most of this bizarre incident, and for several film frames, the flaming disc can be seen gliding in the background, above and then just over the glaring headlights. The latter part of the event was filmed from the interior of Ms. Lansing’s car, and showed reflections from her windshield. The mystery car then suddenly turned up its lights, started its engine, and barreled past us at great speed. Because of the blinding headlights we could not make out the license plate, but the auto seemed to be a rather large, nondescript General Motors model of several years ago. The mystery car was noisy and sounded as if its muffler [silencer] was defective. It was impossible to see if there were any occupants in the car. Ms. Lansing, her friend, and I were completely surprised by this weird incident.”

This appeared to be classic Men In Black incident like those cataloged by the famous researcher John Keel.

The incident that night lead Dr. Schwarz to believe that something unexplainable was happening to Stella and that it was in no way a cleverly done hoax since the distant UFO lights had no way of being projected onto the night sky. Dr. Schwarz even refuted claims by many that they were subjects of a mass hallucination, which is an explanation that is often used to explain multiple witnesses sighting the same phenomena. An impossible hypothesis since there exists no such thing as mass hallucinations.

As the scientific community began hearing about Dr. Schwarz research into Stella Lansing’s phenomena the interest in her “abilities” grew. Many researchers tried to explain the bizarre photographs of crafts, lights, and the clock-like patterns infused in Stella’s film as technical glitches. That somehow light had filtered in the camera causing the anomalies. They also entertained the idea that her 8mm film had been superimposed, which is something that would have been easy to do at the time.

However not one of them ever managed to prove exactly how Stella captured those images. They were not able to explain how these images appeared on different types of cameras with different types of film. All showing the same patterns and ghostly images.

Stella never regressed to the state of mind she was in 1967 when she checked-in to a state hospital. After the psychiatric help from Dr. Schwarz, she managed to keep her head together and continue her exploration into the strange phenomena that surrounded her.

It wasn’t until 1991 that the television show Sightings got ahold of Stella and Dr. Schwarz and ran a lengthy and concise segment on the phenomena. During the show’s investigation, the exported Stella’s silent 8mm film of ‘the occupants’ onto VHS. When they did this, the investigators were shocked when they heard undistinguishable voices from the film.

It was clear that the strange phenomena that had been following Stella for over three decades was partially captured on different mediums.

Stella continued to jot down dates and notes every time she had an unnerving experience. A curiosity turned obsession. Stella Lansing passed away in 2012, never knowing the truth behind her haunting phenomena.

For more information about this fascinating case, watch the Sightings 1991episode with Stella. It includes Stella’s evidence of ‘the occupants’ as well as the unidentified voices heard when they transferred the silent 8mm film onto VHS for the television show.

Seventh True Account: The Philadelphia Experiment

Serious books have been written about it. It’s the subject of a 1984 movie in the same vein as Back to the Future. It’s even given its name to a new-millennium jazz fusion combo. But the Philadelphia Experiment is one thing that nobody seems to agree upon. To some, it’s a bizarre figment of an eccentric imagination. To others, it’s a hoax, plain and simple. But to a core of firm believers, it’s the story of one of the strangest scientific experiments of all time—an exercise in bending energy waves that ripped a hole in space-time and pushed an entire naval vessel through it.

As the true believers have it, the story goes this way: In 1943, with the Second World War fully under way, the Germans had the upper hand on the high seas. Their fleets of U-boats were wreaking havoc upon Allied military and merchant vessels in the Atlantic. But the United States had a secret weapon under development—a device that could cloak vessels from being picked up on radar. And a small vessel called the USS Eldridge docked at the Philadelphia Naval Yard was poised for the first trial of the device.

That summer, the Eldridge was equipped with generators and coils capable of enveloping the destroyer in a powerful electromagnetic field. This field would be so strong, its inventors believed, that it could bend the light and sound waves around the ship, making it virtually invisible. At 9 A.M. on July 22, 1943, the equipment was put to the test. When the generators were turned on, a green fog briefly surrounded the ship, before vanishing—and making the ship vanish with it. The trial lasted for fifteen minutes, and when the generators were turned off, the Eldridge reappeared. The crew was disoriented, in a state of physical shock, and violently nauseated. The test was considered a qualified success—but the effect on the crew was too severe for the device to be deployed.

A second trial was set for late October. Once again, the ship disappeared, this time leaving an impression upon the water. Suddenly, with a blinding flash of light, all evidence of the ship disappeared.

Here’s where the story gets really weird: Meanwhile, hundreds of miles south in Norfolk, Virginia, a crewman serving aboard the Liberty ship USS Andrew Furuseth saw a destroyer materialize in the waters nearby. Carlos Allende later described the ship sailing for several minutes shrouded in a conical green mist before disappearing again. Back in Philadelphia, the U.S.S. Eldridge had reappeared.

The scene on board was stomach-churning. What was left of the crew was violently ill and some of them were permanently deranged. Some had gone missing, and five of them had been fused to the walls of the ship. Clearly, the Experiment was much too powerful and dangerous to control. The Navy could not handle the forces it had unleashed, and so the project was abandoned and the government quickly covered up as much of the evidence as it could. The war went on to be won with blood, sweat, toil, and tears—not quantum leaps in scientific experimentation. And that would have been the end of the story of the Philadelphia Experiment, but over the years, tales of those mysterious happenings on board keep floating to the surface.

The Story Behind The Philadelphia Experiment

When considering a tale this fantastic, you have to consider the sources. And to be frank, the drama behind the story is almost as intriguing as the tale of teleportation. In 1955, a copy of The Case for the UFO by Morris Jessup came in the mail to the Chief of the Office of Naval Research in Washington D.C. Its sender was anonymous, but the postmark placed the origin as Seminole, Texas.

The book had been heavily annotated in three different handwriting styles, rambling on about vortices, statis fields, and magnetic nets—and mentioning a now-familiar 1943 experiment at the Philadelphia Naval Yards. Three special projects officers contacted the book’s author as a matter of routine. Jessup recognized the annotations, because he had received letters from Pennsylvania that looked and read just like them. Jessup’s correspondent went by the name Carlos Allende—a name he later changed to Carl Allen. His letters were semi-coherent at best and filled with eccentric punctuation and capitalization, but the special projects officers had Jessup’s publisher reproduce a short run of the annotated version of Jessup’s book, along with some of Allende’s letters. How odd was Allende’s writing? You be the judge:

"Your invocation to the public that they move en Masse upon their Representatives and have thusly enough Pressure placed at the right & sufficient Number of Places where from a Law demanding Research into Dr. Albert Einstein’s Unified Field Theory May be enacted (1925-27) is Not at all necessary. It May Interest you to know that The Good Doctor Was Not so Much influenced in his retraction of that Work, by Mathematics, as he most assuredly was by Humantics."

Jessup initially shrugged this off as harmless eccentricity, but later personal problems drove him into a deep depression. He began to obsess over Allende’s letters, sending them to the naval researchers he had met. He fell further into depression, and four years after the whole affair began, he committed suicide in Florida.

At this point, Allende came forward and claimed that his letters were a prank intended to scare Jessup—in retaliation for the scary stories Jessup had written in his book. He signed a confession to that effect, allegedly sought psychiatric help, and once again vanished from the scene. He was always an elusive character, and little has been heard of him since. In the late 1960s, he began writing to another UFO writer, Jacques Vallee. In the early 1980s, a science writer Linda Strand interviewed him in person. According to the Social Security record, a Carlos Allende—most likely the Carlos Allende—died in 1994.

To skeptics and non-believers, an eccentric like Allende hardly makes a reliable source in the first place, especially when he later retracted his story. That’s reason enough to dismiss the whole story as a fabrication, isn’t it? Perhaps so, but then again, why would the Navy be so interested in the ramblings of such an eccentric figure, unless he was on to something?

Eighth True Account: The Montauk Project

World War II saw the advent of many top-secret projects aimed at developing new forms of weaponry and technology. Obviously, the most famous of these was the Manhattan Project, which yielded the nuclear bombs used to end the war with Japan. Others have either been forgotten, or more sinisterly, have been covered up due to their dangerous implications and unexpected results. One of these darker experiments, according to some, took place right here in New York, in the town of Montauk on Long Island’s eastern end. The effects of the evil experiments that took place there are still being felt—in fact, some say they are still going on.

The events on Long Island have come to be known as The Montauk Project. This phrase refers to a series of top-secret experiments in mind control, time travel, psychotronics, and the creation of black holes. These experiments were based out of an old Air Force radar station, or more accurately, in a vast complex hidden in the earth beneath this radar station. How could this come to be? How could such radical experiments be hidden beneath a town just a stone’s throw from the largest city in the world? The story of the Montauk Project begins not on Long Island, but in Philadelphia in 1943.

The Philadelphia Experiment was the informal name of the Rainbow Project, which was an attempt by the United States military to create technology that would allow vessels to achieve radar-invisibility—in other words, this was an early attempt at developing what we know these days as stealth technology. These experiments came to be focused on the USS Eldridge, a navy destroyer based out of Philadelphia Naval Yard. According to legend, the ship was bombarded with electromagnetic energy, and it did become radar-invisible. Much to everyone’s surprise, it also became literally invisible, vanishing from sight. For just a few scant seconds, the ship materialized off of the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, before reappearing miles away in Philadelphia. Initially the ship seemed fine. Unfortunately, things were much worse than they seemed.

A number of crew members of the Eldridge had died horrible deaths in the process of the teleportation. They were literally fused to the metal parts of the ship. Those who didn’t die were driven to the point of insanity by this terrible ordeal. Obviously, government officials and military brass were horrified by the results of their experiments. Official funding was quickly pulled from the Philadelphia Experiment and the Manhattan Project took focus as far as secret military weapons spending went.

But there were those, both scientists and military officials, who wanted to continue exploring the possibilities created by the results of the experiments in the Philadelphia Naval Yard. True, the dangers were great, but the potential for new types of super-weaponry were even greater. Congress, however, refused to fund any further endeavors by those who wished to expand upon the results of the Philadelphia Experiment. So these scientists and military men went over the heads of Congress.

It was decided that a secret military installation would be created where scientists could conduct experiments on these new technologies away from prying eyes. An old, obsolete air force station on the eastern tip of Long Island, known by the code name of Camp Hero, was decided upon as the perfect site. The site had recently been decommissioned because new satellite technologies deemed its radar capabilities obsolete. Montauk, a quiet, upscale, and at that time sparsely populated spot, was considered the perfect location—it was relatively secluded, and yet was still close to New York City.

Construction began on a huge subterranean complex that would house the newly formed alliance of scientific and military minds known as the Montauk Project. This base went into operation sometime in the early 1960s. By the 1970s, the experiments being conducted under the surface of Montauk had reached epic proportions, and seemed like something more apt to exist in a comic book or science fiction novel than in a sleepy Long Island beach town.

The military focused the efforts of the Montauk Project primarily on mind control experimentation. They gathered young males with psychic sensitivity, and in some cases, they supposedly even kidnapped these test subjects. These boys would sit in a specially developed chair aimed at enhancing their latent psychic abilities. This chair was being blasted with energy waves that allowed scientists to control their young subjects’ minds. Amazingly, it was discovered that the most adept of these young psychics were able to focus on objects so intensely that the objects would momentarily physically materialize. Legend says that the most noteworthy wielder of this power was a young man named Duncan Cameron.

Experiments on the powerful Mr. Cameron led scientists to realize that their efforts allowed them to manipulate reality not just spatially, but temporally as well. In other words, they had become masters not just of physical space, but also of time.

At this point, many involved in the Montauk Project began to feel that it was reeling out of control. Scientists were creating wormholes on the premises of the base, which could then be used to further test time travel. This was viewed as maniacal and dangerous by many. The base itself was also physically growing out of control; by this point its subterranean layers had grown so expansive that they laid directly beneath the town center of Montauk itself. Time was being tampered with, and civilians were being endangered. Many thought the project was growing too big to control and would meet with a disastrous end. In August of 1983, they were proved correct.

It was determined that those involved in the Montauk Project would travel exactly forty years into the past to establish contact with their predecessors aboard the USS Eldridge in the Philadelphia Experiment. Those who wished to end the project saw their chance. They got Duncan Cameron to envision a large, angry, powerful Sasquatch-like creature at the exact moment the two experiments came together in time. This beast materialized at Montauk and began destroying the base in a rage. It utterly decimated the place, tanking the project and disconnecting it from the past. As soon as the equipment harnessing people’s psychic power was destroyed, the beast disappeared and the time tunnels maintained by the scientists collapsed upon themselves.

It had become obvious that the Montauk Project was impossible to support further. The project was dismantled. Many of the participants were brainwashed into forgetting what they had witnessed. Others swore oaths of secrecy, vowing never to reveal what they had witnessed out on the eastern tip of Long Island. The base was closed and abandoned. Some say minimal activity does still occur there and is tied to the activities of nearby institutions such as Brookhaven Labs. Some conspiracy theorists have claimed that these ongoing experiments helped inadvertently cause the tragic crash of TWA Flight 800 off of the coast of Long Island in 1996.

These days, the surface of the supposed site of the Montauk Project, where the radar station is located, is officially a state park. However, the United States military still owns all of the property underneath the surface of this area. And police and military officials have been said to patrol the entire area—even that which is on paper listed as a publicly accessible park. Tales are told from time to time of suburban families looking to experience nature being chased off of the grounds of the former Camp Hero by gun-toting military men who offer very little explanation in regards to their actions.

Who knows if the Montauk Project is still ongoing? Who knows how deep these cavernous laboratories stretch? Who knows what vast secrets they hold? The world may never know the full truth of what has gone on beneath the sandy soil of Montauk.

Lasting Reminders of Montauk Project Still Keep Us Wondering

There is an old military base at the eastern-most tip of Long Island in Montauk. The base is all the way at the end of the island if you follow Route 27 to the end. During World War II it was named Camp Hero. It was used for coastal defense and had some large guns and bunkers. After World War II was over, the Army gave the base to the Air Force and it became known as Montauk Air Force Station. Reportedly, it was used as a radar station during the Cold War.

According to legend, the base actually lost its funding in the late 1960s because the radar technology was obsolete, but was open until 1983. The area is now a New York state park, but the buildings are intact and radar equipment remains standing. What is really strange is that while the government gave the land to the state, it still owns the land beneath the base.

Apparently there are many levels beneath ground that were used for research and the base was really a cover-up. Some people say that is absolutely documented that there is a subterranean city beneath the base that is still being used today by secret branches of the military. People say that the radar equipment was built as a cover up so that the military could conduct experiments in time travel and mind control and this is what all the electronics equipment was for. The Montauk Air Force Station was said to have carried out numerous terrible experiments in cooperation with many research laboratories on Long Island. Apparently, this base was also in cooperation with Mitchell Air Force Base on Long Island.

There are a lot of really weird stories about this place. The base and the "Montauk Project" was said to have something to do with the "Philadelphia Experiment” and the “Rainbow Project.” These may all be related.

Ninth True Account: The Truck That Disappeared

Frank was about 14 years old when this event took place. He, his mother, and his father were in upstate New York for the day at his father’s property (in the town of Arkville to be exact). They spent all morning and afternoon maintaining his dad’s land and decided to pack up and head home around 4 pm. The road they traveled on to get to his father’s property was dirt and wide enough for 2 vehicles to comfortably pass. They would pass 2-3 cars a day on this road quite often, and that would be considered busy.

Upon heading home they (all three of them) noticed a red pickup truck moving very fast toward them that was approximately 2/10 of a mile away. Since the roads were all dirt the dust trail was hard to miss. There was an old barn hardly standing off to the side of the road that they were about to pass when Frank’s father decided to slow down by this barn to move out of this guy’s way since he really was hauling ass. As they got to the other side of the barn to look out for this truck, they saw that is had disappeared. It was gone as if it had just vanished into thin air (Frank still gets chills thinking about it now).

There were no side roads or ditches; just a short cut field of goldenrod. The dust cloud stopped as if it hit a ten inch invisible wall and was slowly pouring its way over the top (curling like). The three got scared, thinking that the driver was dead off the road somewhere, so they got out of their car to see if he was ok. Where the truck disappeared was an area where the road would bend slightly. They figured that the driver went straight into the field of goldenrod. Upon looking, they saw no evidence of tire tracks in the field. There wasn’t any more dust and oddly there weren’t any tire tracks on the road either. THE TRUCK WAS GONE! It was as if it met a dimensional porthole or something and drove right through. The ride home from there was a quiet one. They had puzzled looks on all of their faces. Frank is 29 now and will never forget what he and both his mother and father witnessed that day.

Tenth True Account: A Trip To Cooperstown

It was the Summer of 1989. Louis was driving down from Montreal (QC, Canada) to The Great Chazy Marina (closed up now, the 'Great' part is a joke) in Chazy NY (upstate, really close to Canada). He did not take the usual route, but instead took a shortcut that the skipper had shown him a few weeks earlier. He was to pick up the skipper and his friends at the marina; they were coming back from Atlantic City, through the intracoastal waterways.

So Louis was driving through the fields of northern NY State, just a couple of kilometers south of US customs. The whole trip from the border to the marina was about 20-25 minutes, a bit faster if you took the shortcut.

Louis just entered a field that he knew, from charting the course two weeks before, to be the right one for the shortcut. But he did not remember much else. He just figured that he was going south. It seemed to be the right way, and he thought it would be pretty hard to get lost on the country roads in upstate NY. Louis joked that being of the male gender, he did not stop to ask around.

A bit passed that field, on a secondary road, he saw the sign for Cooperstown which is the place where the Baseball Hall of Fame is located. Now, Louis knew Cooperstown was in NY state, but if it had been that close to the border, he wondered why baseball fans in Montreal didn’t go there more often. Anyway he entered Cooperstown and the town seemed dead. There were some cars parked here and there, but all of the shops were closed. There was not a soul to be seen. He drove a little further into town and lo and behold there was the Baseball Hall Of Fame, looking like a small white stucco chapel with wide front steps and "Baseball Hall of Fame" inscribed on an arch above the doors.

“Well, ok,” Louis told himself. “This must be it. Maybe there's a big party and everybody is out of town. No big deal.”

He kept driving on that same road, telling himself that he would hit Lake Camplain, and drive north if he was lost. But no, after a few minutes he saw the road that he knew led directly to the marina, and he found that his friends were also just arriving (which was great timing).

When he met up with his friends, Louis told the skipper about the Baseball Hall of Fame, and the burly man started laughing. He said there was no way Louis could have seen the Baseball Hall of Fame because Cooperstown was 300 miles south. Louis checked the map and saw that the skipper was right.

Louis still wonders what happened to him on that day. His timing was on the nose, he arrived at the exact time he had planned. Yet somehow he went into a 600 mile loop around NY state in a few minutes. Perhaps he never visited the Cooperstown of our reality but ended up visiting the same town in a different dimension where the town had been abandoned long ago.

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