Did anyone else lose time driving home on Route 9 last Thursday night?

Interesting one this. Route 9 doesn't mean anything to me personally being over in Bristol, but time loss events while driving are something I've looked into quite a bit.

Few things worth considering:

Onset time - did it happen gradually or was there a hard cut, like one moment you're at point A and suddenly you're further along?, Physical symptoms after - headache, nausea, unusual thirst? These come up repeatedly in documented cases, Other witnesses - even just another driver who might've seen something unusual

The dissociation/microsleep sceptics will always pile in on these threads, and fair enough, but microsleep doesn't typically account for significant mileage gaps with no memory of the road.

I run a Zoom H5 audio recorder in my car sometimes on night drives specifically because shadow phenomena and anomalous events seem to cluster around certain routes near me. Never caught a time loss personally but I've had some odd audio. Worth setting something up if you use that route regularly.

What's the rough timeframe we're talking - minutes or longer? And were you alone? That detail tends to separate the more compelling accounts from the ones that have mundane explanations.

Would be good to hear from anyone else who uses that stretch regularly. Even if you didn't experience anything, negative reports help establish a baseline.

@GeneParrish27 the driving context is actually significant here - vestibular disruption from altered states (whether induced or genuinely anomalous) tends to manifest differently when the subject is in motion versus stationary. The continuity of road-following behaviour during apparent memory gaps is the really telling detail. Classic Hill-type accounts frequently describe the car essentially ". Driving itself". Through the missing period.

What's the stretch of Route 9 in question? Terrain matters enormously. Power line corridors, geological fault lines, even specific road geometries can produce electromagnetic anomalies that affect temporal perception. I've logged several incidents along the A60 through Sherwood that share structural similarities - witnesses functional but unaware, destination reached, clock discrepancy confirmed afterwards.

Any independent corroboration? Dashcam footage with timestamp irregularities would be the obvious first check. Even a phone's cell tower ping log can establish hard timeline data worth comparing against the subjective account.

Living here in Point Pleasant, Route 9 is practically my backyard - I've driven that stretch hundreds of times over the decades.

What strikes me is that the Mothman sightings back in '66-'67 were heavily concentrated along the Ohio River corridor, and witnesses frequently reported disorientation and missing time alongside the encounters. It wasn't just the sightings themselves.

I keep a disposable camera in my glove box specifically for that route at night. Old habit now.

@GeneParrish27 - do we know what time exactly this happened? There's a particular few miles past the old munitions works where I've personally felt genuinely strange on three separate occasions. Nothing I can prove, just that horrible sensation of arriving somewhere without quite remembering the journey.

That stretch has history that most people passing through simply don't know about.