by Terrence Aym

Created on: September 16, 2009

A time shift can be defined as an occurrence where a current era is briefly supplanted by another era in the time line. Most cases involve a short return to the past, though there have been recorded cases of people somehow jumping into a future world.

Evidence of time shifts abounds throughout history. Beneath the incidents and anecdotal tales lies the shimmering possibly for a new branch of physics.

Time shifts, also called time slips, have been recorded back to the days of the ancient Sumerian. We need not travel back as far as 6,000 years to scrutinize the records of ancient cylinder scrolls, however, to unravel the mysteries surrounding these astounding vagaries in the time stream.

Time shifts can be documented as three distinctly different types of temporal anomalies:

1.A person (or persons) actually passes through some type of eddy, loop or portal in time and experiences a past or future environment that exists briefly before they re-enter their current time stream.

2.A person (or persons), snatched by a time vortex or time cloud, are never seen or heard from again. These are not normal missing persons cases of the kind found on every police blotter. But that they were, for the people disappearing often vanished before astonished witnesses. Sometimes massive manhunts and search parties have been mounted, all to no avail.

3.A third type of time shift involves objects or animals out of time. Impossible artifacts or extinct animals that have no business existing in our modern world. A subset to that is a contemporary animal suddenly appearing in an odd place and then vanishing again without a trace.

Now that we have outlined the types of time shifts that are most common, let us turn to some actual events.

Slipping into the Past

An Australian woman named Lyn related this strange experience that happened not once, but six times during her stay in a small Australian town:

In 1997 Lyn lived in a small outback town that was built in 1947 and had changed little since that time.

"'I was driving toward the main intersection of the town, when suddenly I felt a change in the air. It wasn't the classic colder feeling, but a change, like a shift in atmosphere. The air felt denser somehow. As I slowed at the intersection, I seemed to be suddenly transported back in time to approximately 1950. The road was dirt, the trees were gone and coming toward me to cross the intersection was an old black car, something like a Vanguard or old FJ Holden. As the car passed through

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