Welcome back everyone to Most Amazing Top 10.
Today were gonna talk about Parallel universes.
If youre a bit of a sceptic, you may lump this in with the supernatural - parallel universes
arent real and if people think theyve been to one, theres probably a very rationale explanation,
right?
Sound familiar?
Heres the thing though, if were being technical, there is nothing that says parallel universes
cant exist - in fact a leading scientific theory promotes the concept of the multiverse,
where infinite versions of reality exist side by side in another dimension.
On top of that, these stories are pretty creepy - absolute bonus - my name is Danny Burke
and this is the Top 10 Scary Parallel Universe Stories.
Starting off at number 10 we have The Man from Taured[a].
This is one of my favourite stories, I remember hearing about it as a kid - and now here I
am telling it.
In July 1954, a bearded man got stopped during customs at Tokyo airport.
He looked nervous and caught the attention of a customs officer.
When interviewed, his native tongue was French but he spoke fluent Japanese.
When they asked where he was from - he replied -Taured- … they had never heard of that
place and asked him to tell them more.
He was confused that they had never heard of his country - but he obliged.
He said that Taured was inbetween France and Spain and had been a country for a thousand
years.
The customers officer called him out and said he was lying - no such place existed.
The man from Taured became so irate that he pulled out his passport - sure enough, the
passport looked valid - but it said he was from Taured.
They asked him to point to Taured on a map - he said he couldn't see Taured on the map
but it should be right there - he pointed at the real place of Andorra on the map.
At this point, everyone was confused.
The authorities chose to to investigate things further the next day.
They got him a hotel room and placed a guard outside for the night.
The next morning, they opened the door to find he had vanished - there was no trace
of him - he couldn't have escaped out the window as they were many floors up.
To make matters even stranger, the mans documents such as his cheque book, passport and drivers
licence - had also disappeared from the airports security room.
What a great story to start us off, what do you guys think?
Any theories?
Moving on to number 9 we have The Missing Boyfriend[b].
This is a story I found online about a woman called Lenia Barcia from Madrid.
One morning she woke up in her apartment and things just seemed - off.
It was the same place she knew, but items were out of place and didnt belong there.
Before she had time to figure that out though - there was a more pressing issue - her boyfriend
was gone.
She looked for his phone number but that was gone too.
In a panic, she asked her friends and to her horor - they didnt know who she was talking
about.
She called the police to file a missing persons report but they told her there were no records
of that person.
A psychiatrist told her that she was hallucinating due to stress but Lenia disagreed.
When she talked to her family, they didnt remember the same things as she did - like
her sisters recent shoulder operation - they said it never happened.
At work, she was in the same company but a different department.
She told her supervisor, who shed never met before, that she felt ill and needed to go
home.
Eventually, Lenia was declared mentally ill.
She had no history of substance abuse.
By all accounts, her experience was a mystery - Lenia maintains that believe she slipped
from her own universe to a very slightly different one …
Moving on to number 8 we have Carol Chase McElheney[c].
In March 2006, Carol Chase McElheney was driving from San Bernardino to California to take
her dog to some sheepdog trials.
On the way, she visited Riverside, somewhere her family had lived for years and her grandparents
were buried in the local cemetery.
As soon as made the decision to go there, she smelt cigar smoke in the car - it was
just like the only memory of her grandfather who died when she was a young child.
Strange.
After the sheep dog trials, she headed back to Riverside - but something wasnt right.
The cemetery where her grandparents were buried was just an overgrown patch of weeds.
She couldn't find her childhood home or any of her familys homes - the houses were different
but their numbers were still correct.
The main road was different too, full of scary looking people and with different buildings.
On the other hand, the local school and college looked the same.
Carol left Riverside convinced that she had slipped into a parallel universe.
A few years later, Carols father died and was buried in the Riverside cemetery.
When she went for the funeral, she found the town had returned to the one she remembered
as a child and she never encountered the alternate dimension Riverside again.
At the number 7 spot now we have The Castle[d].
This is a story that was shared to the Glitch In The Matrix subreddit by user John 30859.
He said -Me, my cousin, and my aunt were all outside on the front porch playing.
We were all the same age, around 4-5.
Two teenagers approached us and asked if we wanted to see a castle.
I knew this was bad news but my cousin had to go see it so we both agreed to follow.
We went into the woods and walked along a trail for what felt like an eternity.
Probably twenty minutes or so realistically.
We arrive to find a beautiful, gleaming, majestic castle in the distance.
I'm talking something you would see in the movies.
This place was made of heaven, it literally shined as if we entered a city of wealth.
We excitedly look at each other and sprint home to tell our parents.
The teenagers stayed behind, never chased or followed.
Our run back was instantaneous, as if it took a few seconds compared to the walk there.
We go and tell my mom and obviously she is freaked out and tells us no more playing outside
for the day.
Here's the thing.
My mom was so incredibly strict on me that she would have never let me out of her sight
for longer than a minute.
The door to the front porch was open so there's no way two random teenagers could've actually
taken us into the woods let alone anywhere without one of our parents seeing.
My mom and my cousins mom were the two adults home at the time.
I've spoke to my mom about this multiple times.
There's no church or anything nearby that we could've mistaken to be a castle.
I've even looked as an adult.
No luck.
All three of us remember this phenomenon.
I'm 25 now so it's been 20 years but we've spoke about this at the age of 6, 8, 12, 15,
etc., essentially every time we see each other.
We all remember.
Always have.
I know some will chalk this off as kids imagining but I swear to you that this was real-
Moving on to number 6 now we have The Second Chance[e].
This one came from Reddit user Red Leaders.
Its been one of the most popular stories posted to the Glitch in the Matrix Subreddit - and
youre about to see why.
It starts with him walking along a trail, he said -the trail leads up to a set of abandoned
train tracks on the other side, which sit about 15 feet above the path and a pond below.
I was crossing the train tracks when I decided I wanted some ice cream.
The fastest way to get to the ice cream shop was to take the path below the train tracks,
but there isn't any way to cross the pond without going all the way back around, and
being 14 years old, I decided that I could just jump from the tracks onto the path below
and keep walking.
Looking down from above, it didn't seem to be that far of a jump, so that's what I did.
The next thing I remember after that was being half-conscious in an ambulance.
Everything was extremely blurry and the paramedics sounded slightly panicked.
I wasn't able to move either of my legs, so I think they were both broken.
This scene continued on for a few minutes, until we arrived at the hospital and I was
wheeled into the emergency room on a stretcher.
I only had a few minutes in emerg before I eventually lost all consciousness, and that
was the last thing I saw.
After I'd been unconscious for what felt like about an hour, I opened my eyes and I was
on the ground.
I'd just hit the ground after jumping, but this time I was fully conscious.
I hadn't noticed this before I jumped, but there had been a car parked watching me (I
think they thought I was attempting suicide, but it probably looked that way), and the
people in it had jumped out and called an ambulance for me.
The ambulance ride had been the exact same as it was 'the first time', and I was put
into the same emergency room that I had 'died' in before.
The only difference between the two events were that I was fully conscious this time,
and my injuries were much more minor.
I was discharged from the hospital the same night, with only stitches in my lip, a slightly
fractured jaw and a mild concussion.
For a while after this, I assumed that the first scenario had just been a weirdly coincidental
dream that I'd had while I was unconscious, so I didn't consider it anything abnormal.
It wasn't until a few weeks after, when my mom told me that the people who had helped
me said that I had been conscious the entire time - I hadn't been knocked out after hitting
the ground or anything.
Next up at number 5 we have The Philadelphia Experiment[f].
According to rumours, in 1943 - the US Navy made a ship phase out of existence and reappear
somewhere else entirely.
They were exeperimenting with the use of large electrical generators to bend light around
objects so that they would become completely invisible - clearly a huge advantage in any
military situation.
They tested it on the USS Eldridge and reportedly made the ship dissapear in front of dozens
of witnesses - but it wasnt just a trick of the light - the story goes that they not only
made it disappear, they teleported it.
The ship vanished in a flsh of blue light and then reappeared over 200 miles away in
Norfolk Virginia before returning to Philadelphia soon after.
Some of the crew suffered horrific side effects though.
There were reports of sailors who had become fused to the metal on the ship - some disappeared
forever and others went insane.
Moving on to number 4 we have The Scolding[g].
This is one I found on Reddit from Cassy Cuppy Cake.
This is a short one but it caught my eye and I wanna hear your thoughts.
She said -My Husband works 3rd shift, graveyard if you will.
We have two girls, 7 and 3.
They usually wake up to say goodnight to Dad before he heads to work.
My Husband had just left for work and I was in the kitchen, cleaning up before bed as
it was around 10:45 PM.
I hear the girls arguing and messing around, the little one cries and I’m thinking, I
want to finish the dishes before I break this up.
I hear “STOP IT NOW” in my Husband’s distinct tone and the girls stop right away.
I think, that’s really weird?
Maybe he forgot something and slipped in and I didn’t hear because the water was running.
So as I turn the corner to check and see what he’s doing home, I’m met by two girls
that both are expecting to see their Dad around the corner.
“Where’s Daddy?”
I don’t know what to say, I freeze.
I say, “Well, let’s get to bed and stop fighting like Dad said!”
So I tuck them in and then look outside, the car isn’t in the driveway.
He’s not home.
I text him and he was at work-
Moving on to number 3 we have have Gadianton Canyon[h].
Were going back to May 1972 for this one when four girls were driving across the border
from Utah to Nevada one night.
A fork in the road appeared - they went left and through Gadianton Canyon.
After a while, the road changed to white cement - they thought they had gone the wrong way
and so turned around.
On their way back to the fork though, the scenery was totally different - the desert
was goen and in its place were lush trees and fields all around them.
Suddenly, one of the girls screamed - a group of egg chaped vehicles with 3 wheels and blaring
lights started chasing after them.
They managed to escape and get back to the familiar desert but had to stop when they
got 3 flat tires.
They were picked up by a state trooper the next day who was skeptical about their story
until he found that the girls tyre tracks had just stopped at one point and he couldn't
see any further.
Had they slipped into another world?
Next up at number 2 we have The Third Floor[i].
This one came from reddit user Zushiba who shared their story on a thread discussing
the existence of parallel universes.
I once went to a conference held at Portland state university.
There was a few floors to the building we were in.
My teach had assigned us buddies we were to stick with.
I was paired with a guy named Jacob.
It's important to note that at the time of the conference PSU was undergoing a modernization
of the building.
So new paint.
New rugs new doors remodeling of various rooms etc.
Jacob and I were on the second floor and our next meeting was on floor 3.
So instead of taking the stairs we took the elevator.
We were the only 2 on the elevator.
When we arrived on floor 3 the doors opened on a dark floor.
No lights were on.
The horde of people, gone, it was silent.
Jacob and I stepped off the elevator onto the floor and looked for our room.
We found it but it was closed, locked and dark.
All the doors that left that wing were locked and it was dark beyond them.
Looking out the windows there were no cars on the streets.
No one playing hacky sack on the grass the whole world outside was still.
The doors to the stairs were closed and the floor hadn't been renovated yet.
Old carpet.
Old wallpaper from the 70s or some forgotten era.
The elevator doors stayed open the entire time Jacob and I explored the floor.
We decided we must be in the wrong area so we hopped back into the elevator and went
back to floor 2.
Upon arriving we found ourselves back in the thick of things.
People everywhere, doors open, lights on, renovation going on.
We found our teacher and told her that we tried to find the room but floor 3 was dark.
She said that she was just on floor 3 and it was fully engulfed in activities.
Jacob and I looked towards the stairs and saw people going up and coming down as if
nothing was wrong.
So we took the stairs to floor 3.
What we found fully confused the hell out of us.
It was exactly the floor we were just on.
But it was fully renovated, new carpet, new paint.
The whole floor was lit up and abuzz with activity.
Rooms were open, people milling about.
Doors to other wings open with people passing in and out.
Outside cars were zooming by, people were reading on the grass.
Playing frisbee, kicking around hackie sacks (late 90s here).
We found our room.
The very same room that moments ago was closed, locked and dark.
Only now it was open, lit and had people chatting at tables.
To this day I'm not sure what I experienced.
Perhaps they were renaming the floors European style and hadn't updated the elevator yet?
Not sure.
And finally at number 1 we have Pedro Ramirez.
Thats the name of this Spanish man who was driving from Seville to Alcala de Guadaira.
It was late at night on November 9th 1986.
Pedro had done this drive before and was famaliar with the scenery - thats why he bolted upright
in his chair when everything around him had changed.
He found himself on a 6 lane highway - that wasnt normal - on his left was a huge industrial
complex that hed never seen before - on his right he saw new houses - there was dense
grass on either side.
A feeling of heat came over him and he heard a choir of distant voices.
One of these ethereal voices specifically told him that he was now in another dimension.
He continues his drive until he finds a sign and before he knows it, he's at his home in
Alcala.
Theres a parallel universe out there where you are presenting this video and im watching
it - how mad is that.
In that universe, youre telling me right now to give the video a like if I enjoyed it and
let you know which story was your favourite - I would definitly do that - so you should
do that right now - its only fair - thanks for watching as always guys, my name is Danny
Burke and Ill see you all in the next video!