The Source Field Investigations (56 page)

Dmitriev’s model has almost everything we’ve been looking for—except that I have not yet found a paper from him that associates these luminous, spherical vortexes with any time-related anomalies. However, in her vast, encyclopedic and wonderful book
Time Storms,
veteran paranormal researcher Jenny Randles independently validates everything in Dmitriev’s model.
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The main difference is that she is reporting what happens to people who enter into these vortexes—and cites a truly staggering number of different, documented cases where time slips, typically of up to five days, occur.

I was thrilled to find this book, because it was a prodigious research effort that tied together many cases—some of which had been written off as “UFO abductions” with missing time. There is far too much data in her book to cover it all here, but she has definitely broken new ground in identifying many common elements of “time slip” cases that other researchers had not noticed. These include glowing mist, spherical vortexes on the move, strong tingling sensations in the people near them, and in some cases, aching in the joints and/or painful skin rashes after exposure—as well as longer-term nausea, muscle pains and significant loss of motor coordination, where people cannot even grab a door handle and open it properly. Some people also emerge from these experiences covered in water—even though there was no visible water in the area they left from. So yes—it probably rains in time-space just like it does here sometimes.

Other characteristics include the powering-down of running cars and their batteries, strange increases in heat—as in the case of the falling rocks—and a very curious series of changes in human consciousness Randles calls the “Oz Factor.” Typically this involves an eerie silence, as if the entire world has stopped. One witness said it felt as if her mind had been “sucked out.” Others report numbness, heaviness, a sense of being caught in slow motion, and very real time distortions.

In one case from Kent, U.K., in 1966, a witness named David reported a variety of these effects all at once. As he reached a bridge over a stream, in a wooded area near his girlfriend’s house, he saw a group of teenage boys running in terror from something that seemed to be chasing them. David then felt everything become very quiet, as if his ears had become closed off. There was numbness and a strange depression, accompanied with a sense of heaviness and moving his head in slow motion. His girlfriend felt giddy, and the voices of the teenagers now sounded like they were coming through an echo. A white mist then swirled around them, and time seemed to slow down. When David tried to move his body, it seemed to “take forever”—and his cigarette smoke spiraled upward far too slowly. Sounds traveled too slowly and seemed hollow. His girlfriend clung to him in hysterics, and the teenage motorcycle gang now appeared to be moving in slow motion. The heaviness eventually left, causing their ears to pop—like in an airplane that was landing. Even though the whole process seemed to take hours, his cigarette had not burned down any farther when it finally stopped.
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Obviously, it would seem that the ancients learned how to manage and control these experiences—so as not to have such unpleasant effects. However, if you can’t create coherence within your own mind, body and energetic duplicate, then you may have a bit of a rough ride.

In chapter 7, Randles then goes on to report that many of these cases also feature gravity-shielding effects—as we’ve already discussed in cases like Tibetan Acoustic Levitation, tornado anomalies, fish falls, alleged technological breakthroughs that have been suppressed, and Dmitriev’s scientific model of vacuum domains. On pages 51–52, there is a case of hay levitating out of a field. It condenses into a lens shape, then hovers at 150 feet—where it begins moving across the sky slowly, easily mistakable as a “flying saucer” by this point. As it passed over the heads of the crowd, the witness reported feeling a soft pressure on his shoulders—and some of the children felt tingling sensations. Eventually the cloud thinned out and separated into pieces that looked like a spiral galaxy. Much of the hay fell at this point and was dropped on a golf course, while the rest drifted away in a “strange cloud.” This occurred on June 15, 1988, in Marple Ridge, Peak District, U.K., and a variety of strange events have been reported in this area—including a car that mysteriously lost electrical power and stopped running in 1968, and many local legends of strange glowing lights—including blue glows that caused tingling sensations.
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In a 1971 event in Cuers, France, a man’s car was levitated fifteen feet off the road inside an orange glow, after the engine failed and the radio filled with static. Once he realized he was levitating and became astonished, the glow disappeared and his car smashed to the road—causing heavy damage. He also found that he somehow had jumped three hours forward in time. (This may have been caused by the car drifting east while it was levitating.) The event happened at about one thirty A.M., and it should have been no later than three A.M. when the tow truck brought him home—but it was actually six A.M. when he arrived.
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Beginning on page 70, Randles reports a case from the Isle of Mull, U.K., in 1987, where a mist “appeared out of nowhere” and attached itself to a car. It caused a heavy feeling of downward pressure and a vibrating sensation, which made it feel like the car was moving sideways and upward. The fog was now too thick to see through, though it had a swirling movement within it. When the mist disappeared, they found their car trunk had popped open, even though it had been locked—and all of its contents were now scattered across the road. Randles says this is a frequently recurring theme in many cases. As I have said before in our tornado discussion, this could be caused by a temporary softening of the metal in the lock that opened the trunk—followed by gravity-shielding effects that emptied out its contents.
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In another example, Peter Williamson experienced an event like this on July 28, 1974, in Somerset, U.K. A heavy electrical storm moved through and caused their dog to cower under a tree. As Peter went to rescue the dog, there was a huge flash—and as far as everyone else was concerned, Peter had vanished. Police explained away the disappearance as simply a lightning flash. Peter was found three days later in a nearby locked garden at eight A.M.—and there was no way he could have gotten in, as the gardener had the only key. He spent several days recovering in a hospital, and began having dreams where he remembered standing in an unfamiliar garden—covered in water. In his dreams, he wandered around in a daze and was eventually found and taken to a hospital. He could remember the names of a doctor, a sister and various nurses, as well as the name of the ward—though he did not know any of these details in his waking life. He began suspecting the dreams might be real, because they were long and mundane.

He noticed that the hospital would sometimes “shimmer” around him in these memories, and furniture appeared where it hadn’t been before—only to have the ward then snap back to its usual state. All of this fits with the idea that this took place in time-space, not space-time. He also noticed that when he tried to speak, his voice sounded like it was in “slow motion.” As he improved, he was allowed to walk the grounds, and he began to feel normal again as he walked down a lane outside. This was the last of his memories before waking up in the garden. A researcher named Colin Parsons stayed with the family for three days, and was able to confirm that a nearby cottage infirmary had a ward with that name—as well as the doctor and the sister with the same names. However, the doctor did not recognize Peter—and there were no records of him having stayed there.
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Three cases jumped out at me when I read
Time Stories
. In the first example, a videotape from Florida was submitted anonymously to a TV station in 1996. Several investigators explored this case, including psychiatrist John Carpenter, physical scientist Ted Phillips, criminologist Dr. William Schneid and Dan Ahrens, a computer analysis expert—most of whom worked for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). They all felt this was a genuine video recording of something that really happened, and could not have been a hoax. The tape was from the security camera footage of a small factory in Florida, showing multiple camera feeds all together. In one frame, at 11:16 P.M., a worker walks toward the rear gate, apparently to look at something. A fuzzy white glow arrives in the area where the man is standing, while electromagnetic interference briefly disrupts the picture.

The glow lasts a few seconds, and when it goes away, the cameras are all working normally but the man has disappeared. When the film was analyzed one frame at a time, the man is seen to vanish almost instantly. The glow came back at 1:06 A.M., after a search for the man had found nothing. The factory lights all went out, and the man was again seen within the light—in only a fraction of a second. He was now in distress, on all fours, and began throwing up. The security guard rushed out to help him, but he could remember nothing of what happened—he had lost those two hours. He went home in shock, said he was too sick to work the next day, and never returned to the factory.
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The second case is very intriguing. A man named Bernard, from the north of England, reported a bizarre incident that occurred in Pennines, U.K., on a hill east of Manchester in the summer of 1942, while he was a child. Later on, he was concerned about reporting this case, as he was happily married and had risen to a prominent level in his work as a nurse. He described his experience to several psychologists at work, but no one could explain what had happened to him. On that day in 1942, he and a female friend felt a sudden, overwhelming sense of calm and quiet on the hill. They felt like their minds were drifting off. They sat by a tree and enjoyed the strange sense of deep relaxation. Gradually, they began hearing two voices, and when they sat up to see what was going on, two men were now standing over them—discussing their observations as if they did not expect the children to be able to hear them. One man said, “Here they are.” The other man held some sort of device in his hand, and kept reading off numbers from it. The men were discussing time as if it were a landscape that you could navigate through—and they occasionally paused to say something positive about the children.

The two men were entirely human-looking and were wearing unusual, bright suits that looked synthetic—totally out of place for wartime Britain. Eventually the two men started talking to the children directly, and described events that were going to happen in their lives as if they had already happened. When Bernard asked them who they were and where they were from, one of them smiled, looked up at the sky and said, “From a long way away.” They also told the children not to say anything, as it was a secret. When the children then went to the foot of the hill, they were greeted by a farmer who asked them who they were. When they told him their names, he said they should rush home as soon as possible. Once they arrived, their relatives had gathered and were very worried about them. The children felt like the experience had only lasted two hours, when in fact they had been gone for more than a day. Although they said they had been on the hill the whole time, it had been thoroughly searched and no one could find them.
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The third and final case I want to discuss from
Time Storms
opens up a whole new area of investigation. It concerns an area on the M56 motorway in the U.K., between Dodleston and Altrincham, known as Helsby Hill—a quartz-rich outcropping of sandstone. A remarkable number of unusual events have occurred in this area—including green glows, curtains of light, poltergeists, missing time, car blackouts with spontaneous travel through time and space, an odd white powder scattered on the ground after a white glow and high-pitched humming noise filled the area, as well as the disappearance of a one-hour block of time—and there were also six other cases of glowing lights with similar distortions of time and space. A woman who was driving on the slip road off the M56 between Preston Brook and Daresbury lost six hours of time in March 1988 after seeing a glow overhead.

Three months later, Randles discovered that at the exact same time this six-hour time slip happened, two TV reporters, Steve Winstanley and Fred Talbot, were filming a local news story about canal barges when they heard a strange noise. Then, to their amazement, two tin cans rose up off the boat, hovered for a short time and then fell into the water. They were actually passing under the very same vortex where the other time slip case had just occurred. The owner of the land, Bill Whitlow, described many cases of people hearing strange noises in the canal, which created the legend that it was haunted. Then, in August 1990, a crop circle appeared on Whitlow’s land within a hundred yards of where the previous event had occurred two years earlier. Witnesses heard a high-pitched wailing noise on the night the circle appeared—and Randles photographed it before Whitlow harvested the crop. Then, while she stood there taking photographs, a car lost control on the road. The driver claimed he was pulled across the road toward the field—even though he could not see the crop circle. Police could find nothing wrong with his car, even though he felt it was from a flat tire—and no evidence of dangerous driving. Sadly, Randles’s parents had parked their brand-new car off the side of the road, and this stray car slammed into them—causing serious injury to Randles’s mother, who had to be cut free from the wreckage. Other events occurred in this same area since this time.
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That brings us to the mystery of crop circles, which have been reported since at least A.D. 815—when Agobard, the Archbishop of Lyons, in France, had to issue a formal decree prohibiting the locals from taking crops out of circles that had formed in the fields. The locals wanted to use them for fertility rituals—probably because of the exceptional energetic effects they felt from them. The farmers were clearly upset by this loss. The interesting part about this story is that Agobard never denied the circles existed—he only went after the townspeople because they were removing all the crops inside of them. In his book
Dimensions,
Jacques Vallée draws from a ninth-century French text that gives further detail behind this story.