The Bodmin Moor walk that went wrong - missing time and no explanation

This happened on the 8th of October and I've been thinking about whether to post it. But I need to talk about it to people who might understand without immediately dismissing me.

My mate Ben and I went for a walk on Bodmin Moor - just a standard afternoon hike, maybe 2-3 hours round trip. Decent weather, sunny, good visibility. We left his car at around 1:30pm. That's what we thought, anyway.

What happened: We hiked for what felt like maybe 45 minutes, chatting, taking photos, standard stuff. The moor was quiet - didn't see anyone else out. At some point - and here's where it gets odd - we both kind of... lost focus? It's hard to explain. Like we weren't exactly asleep, but we were in a state where we weren't really thinking clearly. Could've been ten minutes, could've been longer. I honestly couldn't say.

When we "snapped out of it," we were still on the moor, in roughly the area we remembered, but our phones had died (both of them, despite being charged), and when we made it back to the car and checked the time, it was 6:15pm.

That's a gap of nearly five hours from when we left. We'd only planned for a 3-hour walk. When I think back about those five hours, I can account for maybe 60-90 minutes of actual memory. The rest is just... blank.

Ben doesn't want to talk about it. He's acting like it didn't happen, which honestly freaks me out more. Has anyone else experienced missing time? I'm not jumping to alien abduction or anything, but I need some kind of explanation.

Missing time on Bodmin is documented. There are several historical reports from that specific location. The "lost focus" state you describe is consistent with what other experiencers report. The dual phone death is interesting though - suggests electromagnetic interference rather than just memory confusion.

Have you checked if there's any geological anomaly on that part of the moor? Some areas have mineral deposits that create weird EM fields. But I won't lie - missing time is one of the harder anomalies to explain rationally.

This could genuinely be temporal lobe seizure or some kind of dissociative episode. Both can cause missing time and memory gaps. If it happens again, you should see a neurologist. That's not dismissing your experience - but ruling out medical causes is important.

Ben doesn't want to talk about it

The simultaneous phone death is the thing that interests me. How charged were they? Because phones don't just die at the same time unless there's a common external cause - electromagnetic pulse, extreme temperature change, something like that. Did they work again once you got back?

Missing time is one of the hardest things to investigate because there's so many possible causes and no objective way to prove what happened. All I'd say is: keep a record of any other unusual experiences, especially if you return to Bodmin. Sometimes these things happen in clusters.

Bodmin's got a reputation for this stuff. There's decades of reports. You're not alone in this experience. The rational explanations (temporal lobe episode, shared confabulation) are possible but they don't explain the phone thing or why both of you have the same memory gap.