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Paranormal Phantom places/Islands that people swear they visited

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Always fun how Wikipedia on this topic feels very "House of Leaves" like & In the extreme case fit's Chris Chan's current fantasy. The 1975 ~ 1999 seems to be decades where this peaked as a phenomenon early forums were littered with people questioning reality, Even Reddit had a 4k thread about this topic.



The creepiest comment In that thread was someone stating on visiting a otherworldly town where they felt unwelcome. Then leaving there harassed by a ghost pretending to be doing Road works or a Cop, The off topic chatting was enough for them to just speed off after realising the situation. What odd Is It hard to tell If the cop/worker was part of the town or just some random spector.
 
I love House of Leaves.
My own experiences with phantom places is a bit different and probably a little more practical.
I live coastal. There is at least one, if not probably a small handful, of Disappearing Islands around the area.
There certainly isn't any kind of development on the islands however, as they tend to be much too small for that.
And the entire reason why they are called "Disappearing Islands" in the first place is because they are only visible and accessible during low and normal tides. Once the rainy seasons come in however, the tide rises and totally swallows the islands up for a few weeks to a couple months, give or take depending.
Some old fishermen here actually, when the tide is lower they will go out to those islands and fish off of them.
They really aren't even big enough to call islands, in that the whole of the visible land on each of them is only about the size of a few small, middle-class suburban houses.
That's why there has never been any development on them. The land is actually not high enough or safe enough during the stormy seasons to protect any kind of building or infrastructure there from being eventually destroyed or drowned.
But yeah, sometimes local fishermen will head out there and fish off of the islands because it's further out on the water, but also further away from both the pier as well as the main fishing holes in the area.
As I understand, it's not really legal to go out to them, either...namely just due to risk factors.
But I mean, legalities have never stopped seamen before so, I don't think it will with these islands, either.
Some years ago, a large amount of the tide was dragged out during an oncoming storm, and some general debris was found around them but nothing particularly interesting: A boat motor, a tacklebox, some beer bottles, all thought to have just been drunkenly and carelessly left there by fishermen at some point and time or another.
 
interesting stuff --- the man from ahh crap I forget but I think it starts with a T(aurez?) a place that does not really exist, detained by TSA or w/e had an ID (and map I believe showing where he was from) --- dude claimed to be a time traveler than straight vanished from custody! (Someone correct me if I messed that up and help me with the name of the place to save me a Google! lol)

NullVoidxxlll nailed the the anomaly I believe you are speaking of. (Or at least the logic certainly tracks!)

Some of the Mandela effect stuff I do genuinely remember differently --- including thinking he died of aids in the 80s (like was sure, before the 'mandela effect' was a thing even -- use to ask my parents "Wait I learned he died in prison"(?))

But alot of it is prone to confirmation bias -- it just makes more sense the way you remember it than the way it was. (Personal example Mourning Star -- never a u in there, coulda swore there was and it makes more sense (to me) spelled like that so I am prone to believe it)

Baranstein/stain bars. Froot/fruit loopp etc -- some of them Idk memory is weird -- but why would I think Mandela died of aids in prison and be sure I learned it in school? (Possibly I heard it from a student who was incorrect and not a teacher? Idk)

"Observation effect" is truly interesting to me as well -- and (In my strange mind) is kind of a bridge between science and religion.

Rough definition -- things behave differently when observed than when not observed --- particularly the 'higson-boggs' particle I believe they can predict which way it is going to spin unobserved with 100% accuracy -- when it is observed that drops to 50% ish or just luck......even with cameras. Run a Google on it if you are interested.

Sorry I got off topic a bit there with some fun theoretical stuff not involving disappearing islands
 
notsmokeymcpot42088 said:
interesting stuff --- the man from ahh crap I forget but I think it starts with a T(aurez?) a place that does not really exist, detained by TSA or w/e had an ID (and map I believe showing where he was from) --- dude claimed to be a time traveler than straight vanished from custody! (Someone correct me if I messed that up and help me with the name of the place to save me a Google! lol)

NullVoidxxlll nailed the the anomaly I believe you are speaking of. (Or at least the logic certainly tracks!)

Some of the Mandela effect stuff I do genuinely remember differently --- including thinking he died of aids in the 80s (like was sure, before the 'mandela effect' was a thing even -- use to ask my parents "Wait I learned he died in prison"(?))

But alot of it is prone to confirmation bias -- it just makes more sense the way you remember it than the way it was. (Personal example Mourning Star -- never a u in there, coulda swore there was and it makes more sense (to me) spelled like that so I am prone to believe it)

Baranstein/stain bars. Froot/fruit loopp etc -- some of them Idk memory is weird -- but why would I think Mandela died of aids in prison and be sure I learned it in school? (Possibly I heard it from a student who was incorrect and not a teacher? Idk)

"Observation effect" is truly interesting to me as well -- and (In my strange mind) is kind of a bridge between science and religion.

Rough definition -- things behave differently when observed than when not observed --- particularly the 'higson-boggs' particle I believe they can predict which way it is going to spin unobserved with 100% accuracy -- when it is observed that drops to 50% ish or just luck......even with cameras. Run a Google on it if you are interested.

Sorry I got off topic a bit there with some fun theoretical stuff not involving disappearing islands
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Just like how the Summerwind mansion case got more unhinged when their recorded proof It was used a rental home from 1930 ~ 1950, Before It was scrapped from the landlords refusing to step in. Then It was found out the house can shapeshift like the one In House of leaves.
 
I gotta do some reading on those; new and strange shit is fun haha

We DO HAVE the random staircases to no place in the middle of the woods where I live ---- I always just figured like "Rich guy deer blind?" but that doesn't really add up
 
Don't all the cry babies start their bullshit.
Crazy mofo's don't know they are crazy.

Liars.

Drugs.

The paranormal. Usually not; the last one, but still often enough, yes. There is more than what we see.

I can't see, I don't believe it. Really. How about germs, atoms, electrons ect...and no I don't mean any past BL members.
 
I tend to agree this is a 'looking at a cloud' situation as I can make a profile out of that facing either direction. The human brain is also prone to see faces - often where they are not. Pareidolia is the name for this.

Than there is the meth which certainly leads towards paranoia.

I guess the question was "are we clearly seeing the same demon thing as him" --- and the answer seems to be no.

Dude sent me some pics but the link didn't work (Creeeeepy!) lol

Yea 99.8% chance nothing paranormal is happening but dismissive people as crazy is how that .02% ALWAYS gets through. Have you read about any of these things or are you just being dismissive? *Edit* sorry friend shitty reading comprehension and that is on me -- I thought you said you DONT believe in things you can't see.

(Speaking of which -- anyone seen autotracer? (I think was his handle, had some interesting experiences than vanished)
 
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idk if this counts as "mandela effect" or if i am just stupid or perceive myself to be or if this is normal not just a me thing but how i expect stuff to be is often slightly different to how it actually turns out to be, in unexpected ways.
 
^ Hmm idk if that is Mandela affect. The one that sticks out to me was I was absolutely positive Jon Lovitz died -- of course he did not. (or if he did it was recent not in the mid to late 90s)

I also could have sworn I read Mandela died of HIV in prison but I was not a great student so ....
 
I've experienced a lot of paranormal stuff in my life, including ghosts, but I've never experienced phantom places or the physical layout of a place inexplicably changing.

I don't believe the Mandela effect is real either. I read the Bernsteen/Berenstain bears as a kid and never paid attention to the book title. But everyone pronounced it Bernsteen and that might simply be because English speakers weren't saying it right all along.

Most of the changes people are talking about are not major. You would think genuine temporal distortions would change bigger features of the timeline that we would notice, since allegedly, according to the Mandela effect, humans must be at least partially immune to time changes and can notice differences.

Instead it's freaking out about book titles, logos, etc.

Collective memory can be flawed especially when groups of people reinforce the flawed memory for each other.
 
Also, liminal spaces are weird. Sometimes I think about a hallway at my old high school as a sort of memory point. I use it to figure out where I am and where I'm going in memories.

I live in Michigan and the story of the ghost town of Singapore is pretty interesting.

The story of Centralia, Pennsylvania is pretty interesting, too.
 
abefourth said:
Also, liminal spaces are weird. Sometimes I think about a hallway at my old high school as a sort of memory point. I use it to figure out where I am and where I'm going in memories.

I live in Michigan and the story of the ghost town of Singapore is pretty interesting.

The story of Centralia, Pennsylvania is pretty interesting, too.
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Summerwind Is proof that you can't directly trust anything about a building. It fits the True liminal space as the whole surrounding area near the house & house Itself look's odd In photos like lots of foreshortening on the house.

Something really dosen't add up with Singapore, Michigan. Why would no woods near the town suddenly cause It become buried under sand?, It almost like something didn't want people there. It also In the same state that near the one where Summerwind case happened.

I still view the burning mines In Centralia are from a supernatural force they used the skeptic claim It was a disaster as to not freak people out, As no one knows what actually started the fire?.
 
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