An open record of things people cannot explain

The room

The rest of this site is a record: one person, one thing that happened, filed and matched. This is the other half. Somewhere to ask whether anybody else has had it, to compare notes, and to tell us when the engine has got something wrong.


Nobody has said anything yet, so here is what the record is currently unable to answer. Any one of these is worth arguing about and none of them is settled.

24

Several strangers in different towns described the same thing on the same day, wrote it in their own words, and no earthquake, fireball, planet or fireworks date accounts for any of it. Nobody has written a single one of them up.

5

Two separate sources, different subjects, no overlap by design. Five clusters came back containing both, sharing characteristics. One is a triangular object with knocking. Nobody has a theory and neither do we.

0

Zero accounts out of 43,684 describe waking unable to move with a weight on the chest. It is one of the most described experiences on earth and there is no archive of it anywhere.

51%

Of the accounts that found a match, 51% found it in an account written later than their own, with a median wait of ten years. What does that say about the ones sitting unmatched right now?

70

It extracts 70 characteristics, and that list came out of what two archives happened to ask about in the nineties. What is the small odd detail you would only mention if somebody asked?

Every one of those is a real number from the record rather than a prompt somebody wrote to fill the page. Start a thread about any of them, or about something else entirely.

The rules here, which are short

Nobody gets mocked for what happened to them and nobody gets diagnosed. Disagree with an explanation as hard as you like, and with the engine hardest of all. Do not post anybody’s name, address or phone number, including your own.

Posting here needs an account, which is the only place on this site that asks. Writing down what happened to you still needs nothing at all and never will. That is over here.