Parallel Universes Are Real — And People Fall Into Them
6/6/202646 min
Sign up for therapy and get 10% off at https://betterhelp.com/whyfiles . #ad Ready to reach your goals? Visit https://hims.com/THEWHYFILES to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. Gather round, because this happened. A woman drives through her hometown and the cemetery is gone — replaced by a dirt lot. A man is found behind a fast food restaurant with no name, no history, and no record of existing for twenty-one years. A woman wakes up to discover her boyfriend never existed and her own life has been quietly rewritten. These are three real accounts from real people. None of them involve UFOs or hauntings. They don't fit neatly into any category. What they share is stranger than any single explanation: the sense that reality shifted without warning, and that the world kept moving like nothing happened. Each person was left holding a version of events that no one else could confirm. These stories don't have clean endings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsAJ Gentile· Host0:00
[birds chirping] [suspenseful music] Gather around. This happened in Madrid in July 2008. When Lorena woke up, the first thing she noticed were the sheets. They weren't hers. She put new beige sheets on the bed last night, but these were blue. She didn't own blue sheets. She was still half asleep. Maybe she got the colors mixed up. She didn't have time to worry about it. She had to get to work. Lorena didn't know the sheets were just the first clue that her entire reality was about to unravel. [upbeat music] [crickets chirping] [owl hooting] Lorena got up and started her morning routine on autopilot, but small things kept catching her attention. Her favorite shirt wasn't in her closet. A coffee mug was in the wrong cabinet. The bathroom towels were folded differently. She found it odd but didn't give it much thought. Maybe she put the mug in the wrong place. Maybe the shirt's still at the cleaners. Everything else seemed fine. She finished her coffee- [sighs] ... showered, and headed out for work. In the parking lot, her car wasn't there. Someone else was in her space. She clicked the car alarm and heard a beep from the other side of the lot. She never parked on that side of the building. So either someone moved the car or she... Stopped herself from thinking about it.