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Today, we bring you just a few examples of a person randomly
Vanishing Into Thin Air while doing seemingly normal and everyday things.
Let us know what you think is going on here in the comments below.
A man we will call “Sam” for the sake of anonymity explains he was driving along
one day and was stopped at a 4-way intersection.
There was a high school to his right, a single car in front of him,
and a kid on the corner waiting to cross at the crosswalk.
It was a perfectly normal scene;
that is until the moment the kid who was waiting to cross did something very out of the ordinary.
The man says he just felt like he should keep
his eyes on this kid and was watching him very intently.
He recalled the kid crossing the street once but
then turning around and stepping into the street to cross again.
Sam assumed the kid had dropped something on his way across and was turning to go and retrieve it.
He lost sight of the kid, who he had assumed had bent down and his
view was now blocked by the car in front of him.
However, once traffic started moving again the kid was nowhere in sight.
He had seemingly turned to cross the street the way he had come and
disappeared right in the middle of the road.
There were no other people around so it wasn’t possible he had disappeared into
a crowd and the car in front of him hadn’t picked him up so that
left only the strange conclusion that the kid simply vanished.
Sam turned and looked all around.
There was absolutely nowhere for this boy to have gone.
Sam said once the light turned green he was looking in the road to see if
maybe the kid fell and had gotten hurt, possibly needing some sort of assistance.
It’s like his mind simply could not grasp what he had just seen.
Sam looked up and down every single street in the area and stated that
if he hadn’t been driving to work at that particular time he would
have made rounds on all the nearby streets and gotten out of his car to investigate.
He didn’t know what it had looked like to the car in front of him but he was sure it was just as
eerie and strange as it was to him, possibly even more so as they had a front-row seat.
However, it seemed to Sam that somehow the car in front of him hadn’t seen any
of it because there was no reaction like stalling or riding the brakes or anything.
They just took off when the light turned green and that was that.
A Canadian man named “Bill” was living in Serbia at the time of
his strange encounter and says he was simply walking his dog.
He was walking down a street near his home on a bright and sunny day and this
was a route he had taken dozens if not hundreds of times before at this point.
He said there was an elderly woman walking on the same side of the street and coming towards
him and she was approximately 8 meters (26 feet and 2.96 inches) away from him.
He describes what she was wearing and says she had on an old brown dress,
had her graying black hair in a messy bun atop her head and a walking stick.
She was moving very slowly and carefully and Bill
thought it was obvious that she was having difficulty walking at all.
Bill continued walking and looked down at his dog for what he said
was a split second and when he looked up the woman was gone.
He said in his confusion all he could think to do was run ahead a couple of feet to where he
had last seen her and see if maybe she had fallen into a hole in the ground.
Another example of I’m sure many we will come across involving these encounters,
of how sometimes we will see something so incredibly bizarre
and unbelievable that we simply cannot allow ourselves to believe our own eyes.
We can’t wrap our heads around it!
He said there is now way she walked anywhere else in that split second
he had looked down and that years later he is still haunted by this experience.
He looked all around the other streets and even
in the streets but never saw a single sight of her again.
Our next report comes from a man in an unnamed location who says that
he was randomly looking out of the front window of his house one night.
It was a new house and he was enjoying the view of the beautiful and quiet neighborhood
which was very relaxing and comforting compared to the city he had just moved from.
Suddenly he saw a man wearing a white cap riding in the street,
close to the sidewalk right in front of his house.
This wouldn’t have been strange at any other time and our witness still isn’t
sure why he was seemingly so captivated by this ordinary, somewhat elderly man riding this bike.
It was almost dark.
There was enough light for him to see clearly and this is when
he said something rather confusing and somewhat frightening happened.
He explained that there were flashing blue lights on the man's bicycle tires
and that as they went around and around he kept staring at them,
almost to the point of not blinking, for at least a full minute.
However, eventually, he DID blink and when he opened his eyes again - the man
on the bike was gone. Our witness looked up and down the street and even went outside.
He said there is no reasonable or logical explanation for where the man could have gone.
After all, it had only been literally the blink of an eye and the man was gone.
The lights on his bicycle should have become
easier to see the darker it got but they were nowhere in sight.
Again, years later, our witness says he is still
creeped out every time he looks out of his front window at dusk and is afraid,
for whatever reason, if he sees this man again he will be in some sort of trouble.
He doesn’t know what causes this feeling of absolute doom and pure fear,
he only knows it’s there and it’s very real.
Perhaps more real than the bicycle riding stranger.
Our witness goes on to explain that the community he lives in now,
where all of this happened, is a very small and close knit one.
Everyone knows everyone else and most treat each other like family.
Several times a year there is a block party where people come from the entire town,
which is a one square mile area, onto one long street to hang out and get to know each other.
He claims that he has never seen the old man who was riding the bicycle and that,
at first, he would ask people if such a man lived in the area but
he was always given a strange look and told no.
He said he has an underlying suspicion that the people in the town know more than they
are letting on but he decided not to push the issue as he didn’t want to become an outcast.
He insists to this day that it wasn’t a slow fade but a total
blinking out of existence and that there is possibly a portal there on his street.
He tried to steer clear of the spot where the man vanished…. Just in case.
It must be strange and confusing enough to witness one person disappearing in
this way - blinking out of existence like some puff of smoke but how much
worse when a person witnesses this in their lifetime not once but twice.
Our next encounter comes from a woman who explains that the second event
triggered the long-since-forgotten first event she had witnessed.
It’s odd enough in and of itself that someone would forget such a thing
in the first place but let’s see what she had to say about her experiences.
The first one happened when she was a little girl of an unnamed age and
out to lunch at a restaurant on a main street in the small town she lived in.
The street wasn’t busy on that particular day and she says she “Spaced out”,
lost in her own thoughts for a minute or two.
She was absentmindedly watching the people pass by when she was
struck by something very strange happening right before her eyes.
A little girl was directly across the street from
her who was wearing a beige sweater and had blonde hair.
Our witness liked how the little girl looked and focused on her.
The little girl walked past a street sign,
not a thick pole or anything like that but your average, thin street sign.
She never came out the other side though.
This other little girl seemed to vanish into some sort of portal that was located in the
middle of where the street sign was as once she should have passed the sign, she was gone.
There were no stores around where the girl could have gone and no cars had
stopped or people had passed who could have picked her up or left with her.
The writer says three years later and she is still
baffled and somewhat terrified by what she witnessed that day.
She somehow had completely forgotten about this event until she was just a bit older
and driving home from a soccer game with her two children who were 8 and 10 at the time.
The road they were driving on was desolate but fairly well-lit.
It had a street light every mile or so on both sides of the road and even though it was around
ten o’clock at night, the woman says she and her children are absolutely sure of what happened
next and they all agree that they weren’t having some kind of joint or hysterical hallucination.
The only person around was a man who was randomly crossing
the middle of the road with woods on both sides.
The woman assumed the man was going to his mailbox as sometimes they are
all grouped at the end of the road in this area of where she lived.
However, the man stepped directly in front of the vehicle.
The woman panicked and immediately slammed on her brakes.
As soon as the car came to a screeching halt right there in the middle of the road the man was gone.
Our witness doesn’t remember if she closed her eyes or not as she and
her kids braced for impact or if the man just disappeared before her eyes
but she knows one thing is for sure he was gone in the time it took for her to blink.
When she turned to her children they were both staring into the road where the man
should have been, wide-eyed and seemingly stunned.
They both said they watched as the man simply blinked out of existence right before their eyes.
This is another instance where the witnesses describe the vanishing and
explain that it was not a slowly fading away but an instantaneous vanishing.
Here one moment and POOF!
gone the next!
This is when the woman flashed back to that day so long ago when she was innocently people-watching
and saw the little girl walk behind a pole and never come out the other side.
Our next witness explains that as a kid he always walked the exact same
route home from school every day and it was on one of these trips home that
he had his strange and mystifying encounter with a vanishing human.
On his right side there was nothing but trees and on the left,
there were apartment buildings and homes.
Several of the apartment buildings had large parking
lots to accommodate the vehicles of its residents.
It was winter and the leaves had already fallen off the trees and
they were completely bare of any foliage at all.
It was very easy to see far into the woods because of this.
The kid insists there was no way anyone could have been hiding
amongst the branches and trees and that he would have seen anyone who was out there.
As he continued on his way, what he described as,
“a large man” was walking towards him carrying a couple of grocery bags.
The man all of the sudden seemed to try and hide
behind one of the trees right there at the edge of the wilderness area.
The kid said he got very nervous and thought that as he passed,
the man would jump out at him and try to kidnap him or something.
Maybe he was about to be attacked.
Sure, he had never heard of anyone being mugged in
his little town but this was the 80s and he figured anything was possible.
For reasons unknown the kid didn’t cross the street and kept right on
walking next to the wooded area where the trees were all lined up next to
him and towards where this “large man” had, or so he thought, hidden behind.
Once he reached the tree in question he braced himself for whatever was about to happen next.
Only to his shock and horror, the man was gone.
There was no way for him to have walked through the woods, taking some sort of shortcut,
because they went on for miles, and also - the kid insists he would have seen him.
There were no paths and the trees were very dense.
It would be hard to walk even a foot into them and due to the absence of leaves and foliage,
as we already stated, he would have no doubt seen the man.
Especially with how large the witness claims the man was.
There was a large and narrow river down a ditch that our witness thought perhaps the
man had fallen into but he quickly realized he would have heard the sound of this man and his
groceries splashing or the man calling out. He feels as though he would have heard SOMETHING.
When he looked however all he saw was the rolling river itself.
There was no man, no groceries, no bags. In fact,
there was no sign that the man ever existed at all.
The young kid says he wasn’t using drugs or drinking alcohol and insists he knows what he saw.
From that day on he always walked on the other side of
the road and kept an eye out for the large man.
That seems to be a bit of a theme in most of these experiences - the person revisits the scene more
than once to try and either put together what happened, see the person in question again,
maybe to ask them what in the world happened, or simply to see if it would happen again.
He never saw the man or anyone else blink out of existence again and has
been scouring the internet for more than 30 years looking for an experience similar to his.
He stated that he isn’t looking for people to believe him as he knows for a fact what
happened that day, so long ago as he innocently walked home from school.
He just needs comfort and reassurance that he
isn’t the only one who has ever experienced something like this.
So what is going on here?
Could it be that there are random portals that open up, for whatever reason,
at random times where people simply step into them and never return?
Where do the people who vanish actually end up?
Why does it happen at the particular times when it does?
Do the people who vanish know that they are going to vanish?
These are all really difficult questions to answer and we would love to know your thoughts in the
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