Not my main area but I do find the railroad connection interesting. Old rail lines often follow really ancient routes - paths that were used for centuries before the trains ever came.
Never had it with a death specifically but my gran passed in 2019 and for about a week after, a photo of her kept ending up face-down on the shelf. Put it back up twice, third time I just left it.
Cornfield sightings are interesting because crops act almost like a canvas for whatever's going on - you get displacement, flattening, sometimes scorching depending on the event.
My hypothesis is that the solstice - and the longer nights - create some kind of processing strain on whatever system we're in.If we're in a simulation, then yeah, the geometry of Earth relative...
Right, I've been reading Quirk Reports for about three years without actually posting anything, but I figured it was time to properly join the community.
Underground tunnels have weird electromagnetic properties. It's possible the Northern Line's power systems created a brief field that affected your temporal perception.
Professor of archaeology here (well, retired). The short answer is: we think it was primarily for calendar-keeping and seasonal agriculture, but we don't really know for certain.
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