This week’s episode explores stories from individuals who have mysteriously experienced unexplainable lapses in time or space while driving. Samantha and her kids set out on their usual 3-hour drive, only to discover it had inexplicably taken 9 hours. Meanwhile, Nora and Marissa traveled down a familiar alley that should have taken just 30 seconds, but it felt like they were driving for hours. Check out our Merch Follow us on: Instagram, TikTok, Twitter For business inquiries contact: [email protected] If you have experienced something paranormal or unexplained, email us your story at [email protected] To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What happened to Samantha during her drive?
So it's about a three hour drive. And this was a Sunday. I went and picked my children up from my husband at the time's parents' home. Und es fing an zu schneien. Wir bekommen hier nicht oft Schnee. Und sie sagten, oh, geh nicht. Es kommt ein Schneesturm. Du wirst nicht fahren können. Du wirst die Kinder im Auto haben. Und ich sagte, ich habe morgen Arbeit. Ich kann nicht aus der Armee ausruhen.
Also muss ich gehen. Ich stoppte an meiner Mothers Haus. Und meine Mutter wusste, dass ich auf der Straße war. Und ich habe immer meine Mutter angerufen, wenn ich nach Hause kommen würde, weil das war, bevor alle Telefonen hatten. Also, außerhalb ihres Hauses, wahrscheinlich 25, 30 Minuten, vielleicht, gibt es eine Rettungszone.
Es gibt keine andere Rettungszone, bis direkt außerhalb Kolumbiens, was die 2-Hour-Dreieck-Marke ist. So I got my children, got on the road and I left in the morning. So it's daylight, but it's snowing. So it's kind of like it almost looks like it's becoming evening. It's just like kind of a weird light outside, not bright sun.
I wasn't driving very long, but I started getting sleepy like as soon as I started driving. So I'm like, okay, I'm gonna stop at this rest area, get a cold drink and So I get to the rest area. I got out the car. It was snowing outside. It was really cold. My children were sleeping in the back. So I got a cold Dr. Pepper and I stood outside in the cold and I smoked a cigarette.
I'm trying to wake myself up. Und das war's. Es gibt nichts Besseres, was ich erinnere. Ich glaube nicht, dass jemand im Restbereich war, um ehrlich zu sein. Weil ich glaube, als ich da war, war ich der einzige Auto. Ich bin zurück in den Auto gegangen, habe angefangen zu fahren. Ich bin wach geworden. Ich bin nicht mehr schlau. Ich habe mich eigentlich gut gefühlt und ich habe mich erfrischt.
Und ich habe angefangen zu fahren. I think I drove for maybe five more minutes and then I saw a sign that said Columbia, next six interchanges. And the next sign that I saw was the Columbia sign. I feel like I had only been on the road for 20 or 30 minutes. I'm like confused because how did I get here? I just started driving. I have not been driving for two hours. I have not. I had just left.
When I saw the sign, I realized that I'm at my two-hour mark. And I looked at my clock in the car, and it said what I thought, where I knew I was. The time, I didn't drive for two hours. So I was so confused of how I got there, because my clock in the car stayed the same. My clock still reflected that it's just a little after 9 a.m. in the morning. And I left at 8.30. I didn't drive two hours.
So when I got home, my husband came out to the car and was upset and yelling and where have you been? They were wondering if I had gotten into an accident or where did I go? I'm really baffled by what happened. I don't understand. My husband was freaking out and where have you been? And I was like, what do you mean? So when I get home, it's still like this kind of dusk outside.
Usually this drive takes me three hours. It took me nine. I don't know how I got from Charleston to Columbia. And I don't know where six hours of my time went. And he was really upset, like really upset, saying, you know... You've been gone all day and where have you been and where did I take his kids and that kind of thing. But I was like, my children are in the car and they're sleeping.
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Chapter 2: How did Samantha's experience defy explanation?
I have no explanation for where I've been. I don't know why I was missing. I didn't know I was missing at the time. I think after like laying in bed that night and kind of after the argument has all settled down and I'm kind of thinking, like going through this, like this is so bizarre. I don't know what happened. Where did I go? I talked to my father on the phone because they had been worried.
They thought maybe I got into an accident. I'm on the side of the road somewhere. And then as I'm talking to him, he was like, well, what happened? And I told him, I was like, no, I got really sleepy and I stopped at, you know, that rest area that's like right at, you know, right outside Charleston. I stopped there and got a drink.
Und, du weißt, ich habe draußen geblieben, ich habe die Zigarette getrunken, ich komme zurück in den Auto, ich bin in Kolumbien. Ich weiß nicht, wie ich nach Kolumbien, Südamerika, gekommen bin. Und ich war so, die Zeit in meinem Auto sagt, dass ich nur 30 Minuten fahren musste. Und das ist, wie ich mich fühle. Und jetzt habe ich all diese Zeit verpasst.
Und als ich zurückkomme, habe ich gemerkt, dass es neun Stunden gedauert hat. Und mein Vater hat gesagt, dass das Gleiche mir passiert ist. Das ist das Gleiche, was mir passiert ist.
Okay, so I'm just going to jump in and go over this again because it's very confusing. In fact, the whole point of this story is that it's confusing. Samantha was driving from Charleston, South Carolina to Augusta, Georgia. Taking the interstates because of the snow and passing through Columbia, South Carolina on the way. This normally takes her about three hours and she does this all the time.
On this day, she left her mom's house in Charleston around 8.30 a.m. with her kids in the car. She felt a little sleepy shortly into the drive and she pulled over at a very familiar rest stop to get a Dr. Pepper and smoke a cigarette. Sounds wonderful. This rest stop is only about 15 minutes away, so she's barely began her drive.
She finishes the cigarette, drinks the Dr. Pepper, gets back on the highway and starts her drive. She says that she's only just gotten back on the road, starting to begin this big drive, had maybe driven about 20 minutes or so and then all of a sudden, Sie ist in Kolumbien, die zwei Stunden weg ist. Samantha ist offensichtlich sehr überrascht und überrascht.
Sie checkt ihre Uhr und die Uhr sagt, dass es etwas nach 9 Uhr ist, was für sie Sinn macht. Sie fühlt sich, als hätte sie nur 30 oder 45 Minuten gefahren, aber plötzlich ist sie in Kolumbien, die zwei Stunden entfernt ist. Also, an diesem Punkt ist die Zeit für Samantha korrekt, aber der Raum ist nicht.
Sie scheint sich vorbeiziehen zu haben und sich dann plötzlich viel weiter entfernt zu finden, als sie sein sollte, basierend auf der Menge Zeit. Es fühlt sich so aus, als hätte sie gefahren. Das being said, I think it's easy to probably brush it off and say, okay, maybe my clock is broken or something. I zoned out when you're by yourself and one little weird thing happens.
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Chapter 3: What did Samantha's husband think about her experience?
So, what should have been a 3-hour drive felt roughly like an hour and 30 minutes for Samantha, but in reality, it took her 9 hours. At first, space was not lining up, but time was. Now, time and space are not lining up in a very major way. I talked to Samantha about all this for a very long time.
We went over it over and over again because it's so confusing and there are so many variables of what could have happened. I ran so many ideas and explanations past her. I think for me... The most important detail of all of this is that her two kids were sleeping in the back seat the entire time.
If she had been driving around in a fugue state aimlessly for nine hours, surely these kids would have woken up at some point and had something to say when they got to the dad's house. But they were asleep the entire time. They pulled into the house and woke up like nothing had happened. Kinder schlafen nicht für neun Stunden, besonders nicht in der Morgenzeit, nachdem sie aufwachen.
Ich denke, das ist ein sehr, sehr seltsamer Detail und es macht es schwer, das weg zu erklären. Außerdem hat ihr Gas mit drei Stunden gedreht. Wenn sie für neun Stunden fuhr, würde sie aus dem Gas geraten. Und in Bezug auf das Füllen, hat Samantha mir gesagt, dass sie damals wirklich auf Geld festgestellt war. Also würde sie definitiv bemerkt haben,
My father had a similar experience happen two or three years before this happened to me. And it really happened the same way.
So my father lives in Charleston, South Carolina. He was retired military. He used to work on the weapons station. Dieser Mann hatte es immer zusammen. Er hatte immer einen Zeitraum. Er hat immer, weißt du, auch wenn er aus dem Militär kam, war er immer noch Militär. Er hat zwei Touristen in Vietnam als Marine gemacht. Und dann ging er in die Luftwaffe und verabschiedete sich aus der Luftwaffe.
Aber das Militär hat ihn nie verlassen. Also war er immer zusammen. Er hatte es immer zusammen. Aber er arbeitete im Zivilservice auf der Waffenstation. Und ich würde sagen, es ist wie ein 20-Minuten-Dreh von seinem Haus zur Waffenstation. So he got in his car to do his 20-minute drive to work. And he said soon after he got in the car and started driving, he got really, really tired.
He said he rolled down the windows and he turned the air conditioner on. It was also winter time. It was cold outside. And he was trying to wake himself up because he got really sleepy while he was driving. He said it just kind of came on all of a sudden. So when he gets to work... They're asking him, where have you been, because you're late.
He ended up being like three hours late to work that morning. They said, we've already called your wife. You know, she said that you were on the way to work, that you left on time. So she's worried. So he called my mother and my mother's like, where have you been? And he said, no, I just drove straight to work. When he got to work, he said he didn't remember driving there.
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Chapter 4: How does Samantha's story relate to her father's experience?
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Chapter 5: What are the effects of unexplained time lapses?
Aber die Geschichte, die ihr jetzt hört, ist eine, die ich so sehr mag, dass ich dachte, dass ich sie in die Episode inkludieren musste.
Ich bin 1994 im Militär rausgekommen. I moved back to Charleston. One of my really, really good friends. She ended up living with me for a while. I rented this big house. And this starts the beginning of going down this long rabbit hole that I have. So she and I were really, really close and her name was Brittany. And she lived with me for probably six months. And then she got her own place.
And she moved out. We still remained really, really close. Brittany was a wild child. There was nothing you could tell me that she did that would surprise me ever. So, she went out with some of our common friends.
I think she was supposed to come over the next day, but my friend called me and said, yeah, you know, we were at this bar and she met this truck driver and she got in his truck and she left. I was like, what? Okay, well, you know, she's probably at home. Well, she wasn't. And the next day, later on that afternoon, she called me and she said, yeah, I'm in Florida.
I have five dollars to my name and I lost my shoes. I was kind of like, what? So I went and I bought her a bus ticket and it was for the following day and she would just get a bus back to Charleston. I went to the bus station the next day for the bus she was supposed to be on, waited. The bus got there. As people were getting off, I'm realizing I don't see her. And she was not on the bus.
I sent her the bus ticket. She did not get on the bus. I called the number back that she had called me from. And this guy answered the phone. And, you know, hey, you know, my name is Sam. My friend Brittany called me from your number. She didn't get on the bus. So he told me, yeah, she didn't want to wait till tomorrow. She wanted to leave right now.
So she made me take her to a rest area on the interstate so she could hitchhike. Und das ist nicht aus Charakter für Britney. Britney war eine wunderschöne blonde Bombshell. Sie war definitiv eine Reise bekommen, wenn sie geklopft hat. So from that point, then now we don't know where Brittany's at, because I'll say now it's been like two or three days that have passed and Brittany's not back.
So now that's unusual, because even when, you know, she was wild and kind of would go off and do these things, we always knew she would always come back. So the roommate that she ended up having was a girl that used to work with us named Chris. Und Chris hat mich angerufen. Jemand wurde auf dem Interstate getötet.
Und sie kamen nach Hause, um zu fragen, ob sie ihre Fingerprinten aus ihrem Auto nehmen könnten. Also war es so, dass sie von einem Auto getötet wurde. Und dann hat das Auto sie in die nächste Länge getötet. Und sie wurde von einem 18-Wheeler getötet. Und es hat sie gedrückt. Und sie konnten sie nicht identifizieren. At this point it's been a couple of days.
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Chapter 6: Why did Samantha feel confused after her drive?
Und ich habe meine Augen sofort geschlossen, und ich war so, Brittany, du hast mich erschreckt, bitte geh. Und dann, nach ein paar Minuten, habe ich meine Augen geöffnet, und sie war weg. Ihre Augen waren so weit, und es war einfach furchtbar. Und das ist nicht ein guter Erinnerung. Das ist meine erste Erfahrung mit jemandem, der mich aus meinem Leben genommen hat.
Ist sie zurückgekommen, um mir zu sagen, dass sie okay ist oder dass sie noch da ist? Aber dann, warum hat sie so einen Blick auf ihren Gesicht? Also es war wirklich, wirklich schrecklich für mich. Aber das war meine erste Paranormale, die mir passiert ist. Well, I'll tell you, my husband can probably attest to this as well.
For years and years and years, and I do want to say that it started after this episode with Brittany. I wake up between 2 and 3 o'clock every night for no reason. I just wake up. So, this gets kind of crazy. I have dreams about people I don't know. Missing people a lot. Mein Mann ist Polizist. Und wir reden auf dem Telefon, während er auf Arbeit ist.
Er hatte Momente Zeit, um zu reden, weil er Nachtschiff arbeitet. Und wir reden auf dem Telefon. Und er hat einen Anruf bekommen. Und er war so, hey, ich muss gehen. Ich rufe dich später wieder an. Und ich so, okay. Es ist Nachtzeit. Ich ging schlafen. Und dann habe ich diesen Traum. Ich wache auf meinem normalen 2 Uhr morgens auf. And I felt this overwhelming urge to call my husband.
And I called my husband and he was like, hey, everything okay? Because, you know, he told me he was on a call and he couldn't talk. So if I call him back, something's wrong. He was like, hey, everything okay? And I was like, I just had this dream that there's a kid in water. There's water somewhere where you're at. That's where that kid went. I can't explain it.
And then there was like a moment of silence and I was like, hello? And he said, yeah, we just pulled his body from the water. I was like stunned. And this was a little kid. I think he was like six or seven. He was at his grandmother's house and she didn't lock the door. And he walked out and he walked right into a pond and he drowned.
And then when my husband gets home the next day and he was like, what was that even about? I don't know. I had this dream. And then there's this kid and he's next to water. And I woke up all of a sudden and I just had to call you and tell you. I don't know. Ich glaube, dass ich über die ganze Zeit, dass all diese verschiedenen Dinge zu mir geschehen sind.
Ich kann nicht enttäuschen, dass es etwas auf der anderen Seite gibt. Es ist etwas da, das wir nicht hinterher sehen können. Aber mein Mann wurde religiöser, wurde einfach anders als ich. Aber er war sehr skeptisch über solche Dinge, wie einen Geist oder so etwas. Aber er erklärt mir, dass ich mir Zeit verpasst habe. Und er kennt mich. Und er kennt, dass ich es nicht mache. Er kennt mich.
Und er hat keine Erklärung, was mir passiert ist. Er sagt, das ist einfach wirklich seltsam. Und ich habe ihm gesagt, mein Vater denkt, ich sei abduktiert. Er sagte, vielleicht warst du es. Aber ja, er ist definitiv ein Glaubwürdiger in dieser Sache. Nun, es gibt noch keine Erklärung dafür, aber er zählt nie etwas, was ich ihm sagen werde.
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Chapter 7: What insights can we gain from Samantha's story?
I was working at a diner that stayed open until 3 a.m. All the bars closed at 2. So we were open after the bars. We would get a lot of the downtown rush. I worked at this restaurant for close to six years. This happened probably in the fourth or fifth year that I worked there. It was a small town restaurant.
Alle kamen raus, viele Bras aus der nahen Militärbasis, viele Punks, viele Kinder aus der Schule, die Nachbargruppe. Es war eine ziemlich wilde Umgebung. Es gab viele Kämpfe, die Polizisten mussten manchmal angerufen werden, die Leute wurden jede Nacht ausgeschlagen. Nicht manchmal, sondern jede Nacht. Und die Wochenende waren besonders verrückt.
Und zusammen zu schließen war immer wie der Ressentiment am Ende eines verblüffenden Abends. Und alle anderen, die dort gearbeitet haben, haben dort auch für einen langen Zeitraum gearbeitet. Also war jeder sehr fest. Also schlugen wir zusammen, es würde ein paar Stunden dauern. Count your tips, mop, sweep. Und dann würden wir draußen sitzen und waschen und alle zusammen nach Hause fahren.
Damals lebte ich neben einem meiner Mitarbeiter. Wir fuhren alle auf der anderen Seite der Stadt. Dann kamen wir zurück in unser Haus, weil ich fuhren musste. Es war der schönste Teil des Abends. Nach all dem Verrückten kriegst du mit deinen Freunden nach Hause, um ein paar Minuten zu reden. Wir erzählten uns über alles, was an dem Tag passiert war. Everyone would pile in my little car.
We would start with the farthest away. It's a small town. Really the farthest you can get is 15, 20 minutes away.
I am Marissa. A lot of us would either walk downtown from our neighborhoods and then, you know, work and like grab a ride with one person or two people or whoever, like kind of cram in the car. Nora was always the one who drove, because she lived in a different part of Olympia. So she always drove downtown versus, I guess, like walking to downtown to work.
And she would take us home most of the time. We like valued that too, because it's like that time to decompress. Ich lebte auf Rogers Street, auf der westlichen Seite von Olympia. And our other coworker lived, I think it was Foot Street. And it was like not even two blocks down south of Rogers Street.
And so we would like go up to the west side of Olympia, like drop one person off and like just scoot around. And it was when I could walk to this person's house in five minutes. We're really, really, really close. And we would just kind of scoot around. And we've done that a bunch of times.
Mein Freund Mike lebt am weitesten weg. Er war auf der Westseite, was noch vielleicht 10-15 Minuten ab 5 Uhr war. Es gibt keinen Verkehr. Hinter diesem spezifischen Haus war ein großer Abfall auf der Hauptstraße. Viele dieser Straßen haben Schutzrahmen, aber es ist ein großer Abfall. Und er lebt am Ende des Todes.
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