I had seen this thread a few times, but it didn't really tickle my fancy, until today. Anyhow I'm glad I decided to have a look at it because it is really interesting! I noticed something during the week which may fall into this category.

I distinctly remember replying to a post in a thread called "Chances are no Aliens are visiting Earth" or something like that. Yesterday I went and had a look at the thread to see if anyone had replied to my specific comments and I was amazed to see that there was no record of me posting on that thread. I brushed it off as perhaps I didn't press the post reply button or something like that, but reading this thread makes me think maybe it fell victim to this timeshift thing. Who knows, but it's exciting though.

Also someone mentioned Fidel Castro before. As far as I'm aware he did die in the last year or two, didn't he? I remember him being gravely ill and his death seemed imminent. Perhaps that's still the case?

hmm I think it must be due to the fact we are all so busy.

But I had a very strange thing happen to me recently.

A local guy had died outside the pub in his car. I drove past the pub and I was like, omg that is such and such. I told another local, like omg, did you see that? and he confirmed that this local had died.

Well, two weeks later he walks past me.

I thought at first, oh wow, perhaps I am seeing a ghost? But I asked my friend... can you see that guy?
She said, yes. I said, well I don't know how it is possible, cos he was dead in his car 2 weeks ago.

How do we explain something like that?

I have been in other timelines, some are bad while others are..I wish I stayed in that timeline. Is there a psychic skill to "know" or even to "change" a timeline event?

A long time ago, before the Danny Devito/Arnold Swartznegger movie "Twins" came out, I was driving in my car and heard a radio news report say that Danny Devito had died. They didn't say what caused his death, only that he died at a hospital in California. I forget the name of the hospital they said, but I thought it was in California. So I was really surprised to see him a couple of months later, on tv and in the news doing promotions for his new movie. I was really ticked at the radio station for giving out fake info! I think some of us DO hear that So And So has died, but it is just people in the media messing with us!

Originally posted by SunFireBlue

A long time ago, before the Danny Devito/Arnold Swartznegger movie "Twins" came out, I was driving in my car and heard a radio news report say that Danny Devito had died. They didn't say what caused his death, only that he died at a hospital in California. I forget the name of the hospital they said, but I thought it was in California. So I was really surprised to see him a couple of months later, on tv and in the news doing promotions for his new movie. I was really ticked at the radio station for giving out fake info! I think some of us DO hear that So And So has died, but it is just people in the media messing with us!

Media messing with us, yes, but not an such a large scale as what happend over here with Patrick Swayze. All the news networks reported his death, all the glamour/celebrity shows reported his death, some networks broadcasted Dirty Dancing and Ghost and our version of American Idol had a Swayze theme, with his image on the screen all of the time and only songs from movies he was in were being performed.

He really did die...

Wouldn't it be freaky if you like saw Curt Colbane on the late night show talking about his music? Then learning the next day that he died like years ago, but before that day everyone was talking about how he was making a new album. This freaked me out!

Originally posted by speaker

I distinctly remember replying to a post in a thread called "Chances are no Aliens are visiting Earth" or something like that. Yesterday I went and had a look at the thread to see if anyone had replied to my specific comments and I was amazed to see that there was no record of me posting on that thread. I brushed it off as perhaps I didn't press the post reply button or something like that, but reading this thread makes me think maybe it fell victim to this timeshift thing. Who knows, but it's exciting though.

conversely i don't remember posting in this thread the other night. looks like i certainly did though. (being pissed at the time might have something to do with the memory loss)

kidding - maybe after reading the thread you later dreamed you posted in it?

OP i still haven't seen anything posted here that couldn't be explained by conventional logic. i've thought people dead only to find they're not which is easily explained that i was mistaken or heard wrong.

i've lost things and turned the house upside down looking for them ... only to have lost item turn up right in plain sight. it's hardly indicative of any time warping or whatever you want to call it.

as another poster asked - how come it's always celebrities, well known people or those not in our lives at the time that mysteriously come back to life? why not our dead brothers, mothers, friends etc?

I'm happy that a thread on this has re-emerged. I have had a few interesting experiences lately that made me buy into this shifting timeline paradox to some degree.

There is a family that lives next door to me, never really got to know them, but I am familiar with each family member, or at the very least I thought I was. Anyhow the family consist(ed)s of:

Mother: Tall Blond, blue eyes, fair skin, drives a Toyota Avalon.
Father: Heavy set guy with light color hair, seems to be fond of hats, and
sports t-shirts, drives a VW Pasaat.
Daughter: approx 14 yo, thin, has braces, light brown hair, walks dog often
without bothering to put on pants that cover her butt.

This is how it remained for about a year. The parents would party almost every Friday and Saturday night, which earned them the nickname "The noisy people." Then about six months ago everything about this family changed. First the noise stopped. Not too strange, the neighbors do tend to complain. Then I noticed something else.

Mother: Now a medium height asian woman, with shoulder length hair.

Same car, same husband, same child. A few weeks go by, and suddenly:

Daughter: Now a shorter girl, no braces, and much older, also with obvious
asian heritage.

She still walks the same white dog, and doesn't bother to put on appropriate clothing.... ever. Yet the husband was still the same guy.

Few weeks later. The husband changed. Very obviously the same guy. Except he was suddenly a good forty pounds lighter, and shed the football jerseys and t-shirts for wide variety of suits.

Approx. a month later, the original daughter is back.

Few weeks later.... the husband is suddenly back to his original weight, and back to his former style of dress.

Presently the husband and daughter remain the same, yet, there is yet another woman that is "mom" over there. Dark hair, slender, medium height, with greenish eyes.

My bro-in-law swears that it's gotta be some type of witness protection thing happening over there, but it's just extremely strange. My wife has also noticed the changes, yet we are all at a loss for any real explanation.


As far as other changes a local newscaster died about five years ago. They had a special memorial service for him on air. About a year past and I had forgotten he had passed on. I was at my parents house watching the news and I didn't see him, my parents reminded me that he had died some time ago, and I left it at that. Presently, he is alive and well, and on the news once more.

There are few others that I swear have died in the past, but I dunno what to make of some of them.

What really bothers me is the family next door, anyone have any thoughts?

Originally posted by pieman
how come this only ever happens with minor celebrities, how come it's never a case of "i swear my brother has been dead for the past 3 years but he just turned up on my doorstep for thanksgiving"? i say it is because we mistake wishfull thinking for reality.

I bet it does but the whole world does not know your brother. Celebrities are known by so many people when things happen to them a lot more people notice it.

Hah... I like this thread because it is philosophical in nature and really gets one thinking outside of the box. Right now I still am of the opinion that what an individual thinks was a past event can certainly be inaccurate.

My memory stinks. I forget things. So when I hear about Patrick Swayze being alive I say "gee, I thought he was dead!"

What really happened was that I was going about my business and suddenly the media starts blabbering all about how Swayze is terminally ill and on and on and on. Well, my mind will take this popular character, change the status from 'doing fine' to 'deathbed' and then I don't hear about him for several months or years. Over time, the 'deathbed' label my brain used to classify him turned to 'dead'. Is he dead? No. Is it reasonable for me to think he was? Sure.

It may just be that we are becoming more aware of things thanks to having so much information around us all the time. We will place memories in where we feel they should reside in our mind when the 'classification' or imprint of the memory will more or less reflect how the memory was presented (by the media) rather than by fact.
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Now sure, there are some timeline things that seem to not add up, and I like pondering them. For instance, I had never really drawn attention before. Then out of the blue a hobby of mine becomes popular and a certain large television network wants to make a prime-time show with me as one of the 3 lead roles. Well, we film some pilots but then the hobby falls out of popular fascination and the project gets put on hold.

The thing is that ever since then, I can be walking down the street and people will look at me as if they know or recognize me. Sometimes I get unusually preferential treatment from waiters/bartenders, sometimes I get that "I know you" knod as I am walking down the street, other times it is just a stare or people look at me and whisper to their companion. It gets so odd that often I will ask my girlfriend if I have something on my face or something because I become self-conscious about it.

Sure, I could just be picking up on something that was always there yet I had ignored until now, or another theory is that in another timeline the show aired and became even mildly popular and people are picking up on a little of that. Who knows!

There have been other changes in my life in the past 4 years or so that I cannot explain. I never recall these things happening before then. Things like unintentional weight loss, physique changes, attitude changes, lack of memory of my childhood... I just saw an aunt and uncle for the first time in 2.5 years and they had no idea who I was. Once they realized it was me, they could not stop talking about how I was a different person and they would have never recognized me if I walked up to them in public. On a similar note, much of my past seems in my mind to be like I had watched a movie or read a book versus personally experiencing the events. At the same time, the sequence of events seems to match up with where I am at now and in retrospect it appears as though "random" events which changed my life in the past had happened with very direct and deliberate consequences.