Time Travel Urban Legends

[Catsmate]

While looking for something completely different I found this wiki page: Time Travel Urban Legends
Some interesting possibilities for Who gaming. In addition to the well known hoaxes (Philadelphia experiment, Titor, the Chronovisor) thee are a few minor incidents that could be the trigger for adventures.

[sirkalon]

interesting, you should link time slip one too,

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Nov 2, 2014 17:43:44 GMT sirkalon said:

interesting, you should link time slip one too,

Well the wiki page mentioned the Versailles one and I've done a post on Goddard but there are plenty more stories like this and this.

[cigarman]

Lot of high weirdness on Bold Street.

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Nov 18, 2014 23:12:13 GMT cigarman said:

Lot of high weirdness on Bold Street.

True, there are several stories of time-slips in that part of Liverpool. And ghosts too.
You could construct various Doctor Who campaigns, from SJA to Torchwood, around them.

[Catsmate]

Timeslips and related oddities.
I'm doing some research for an article on these odd happenings and their use in Who gaming; is anyone aware of any interesting cases not listed below?

1. Versailles.
The best known incident is that of Charlotte Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain on 10 August 1901 at the Petit Trianon at Versailles, where the two academics seemingly dropped back to ~1789. Almost certainly not real but fascinating.
Though there at least two other incidents at Versailles Ann Lambert and her tutor Clare Burrow in 1928 and Robert Philippe in 1933.

These have a lot of potential to be tied into "The Girl in the Fireplace". And Versailles is spooky enough anyway.


2. Otterburn
In November 1960 a number of people on 'The Old Corpse Road' claimed to see a phantom army, near the site of the Battle of Otterburn in 1388.


3. Ghostly shellfire.
I've found two cases of (apparently) WW2 shells falling from the sky decades later. One in Naples on 7 February 1958
and the other in someone's back garden in Lakewood, 35km from Los Angeles, on 1 January 1984.


4. Missing Hotels.
The best known of these is the 1979 case of Geoff and Pauline Simpson and their friends Len and Cynthia Gisby who stayed in a rather old-fashioned hotel in France overnight (being charged 19 Francs) but couldn't find it on the return trip. Again close scrutiny suggests a prosaic explanation for this.
I have two other cases, both explained quite easily.


5. Bolt Street.
This part of Liverpool seems to have a number of claimed, and very poorly documented, incidents of people dropping back in time or seeing ghostly temporal echoes.


Anyone have any similar incidents?