An open record of things people cannot explain

Three in the morning

What the record actually holds from the dead of night


The internet calls it the witching hour and tells stories about it. This page is not a story: it is every account in the record where the witness said it happened at three. Some of what follows has an ordinary explanation. The hour itself has one too, in sleep cycles and empty roads. What remains is what people were awake for, and wrote down.

1,010
accounts in the record touch this. Each one was written by somebody who decided not to let it go.

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When people reported it

1950s2
1960s15
1970s41
1980s26
1990s192
2000s504
2010s230

Counts follow reporting rather than the world. Why that matters

Where

San Antonio, TX (5) · Sacramento, CA (5) · Seattle, WA (5) · Los Angeles, CA (5) · Arlington, TX (4) · Denver, CO (4) · Chico, CA (4) · Sedona, AZ (4)

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Other kinds of experience

21

The same dream, the same place, or the thing before it happened.

2,673

The moment the forest goes quiet.

43

Hours that cannot be accounted for.

9,039

The oldest phenomenon in the record, and the most often explained.