Temporal Anomalies

Temporal anomaly investigator Plbmak spotted this time warp at the Majestic cinema in Kings Lynn, England.  The anomaly, of course, is courtesy of the timelessness of film.  As film critic Vertigo's Psycho has said, "due to the timelessness of film, I can still pass many hours transfixed."

It's three pyramids o'clock twice a day.  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1989 yearbook.

Temporal anomaly investigator Grifmo encountered the timeless Reschen clock tower, submerged in a lake in Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy.

Temporal anomaly investigator ML Ayers shares these mismatched clocks from Malta, designed to confuse the Devil but with the bonus of telling the day of the week and day of the month.

Time unwinds in Westminster College's 1943 yearbook.

Great news for those with too few hours in a day: "Time is not important."  From Dark Shadows episode 43.

We tracked down a temporal anomaly in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and were reminded of how John Steinbeck wrote of "the hour of the pearl ... when time stops and examines itself" (Cannery Row).

Temporal anomaly investigator Ewan Nicholas spotted these mismatched clocks in Aberdeen.  He determined that the clocks aren't wrong.  Rather, "time takes five minutes to travel between them."

Temporal anomaly investigator William Murphy notes that he 1867 Tait clock tower in Limerick does not keep time ... but we might prefer to say that the clock is "stuck" on an eternal four thirty and that it is indeed correct twice a day.

The mismatched clock faces on the tower caught our eye right off.  From Saint Francis College's 1976 yearbook.

Temporal anomaly investigator Nat Hudson shares these mismatched clocks in Malta, designed to confuse evil spirits.  Note also that the weathervanes don't match, either.

Temporal anomaly investigator Ambernectar 13 spotted this rift in time in the Bishopsgate district of London.  Don't be fooled by the bright sky -- the clock on the right is displaying midnight, not noon.

We presume that only the hourglass is correct.  From Texas State College for Women's 1953 yearbook.

Temporal anomaly investigator Shelmac spotted this ancient-looking clock that tells the wrong time at a Seattle bus stop (the photo having been snapped at 7:16 p.m.).  We like how Shelmac included this photo in a gallery of Thailand/Cambodia imagery, in keeping with the rift in the fabric of space/time.

"He turned the hands of the clock back."  From The Sandman: His Animal Stories by Harry Whittier Frees, 1916.

From Shadowchild by P. F. Thomése, 2005.

From Official UFO, 1977.

We tracked a temporal anomaly to the Simmons Bank in Bolivar, Tennessee.  It's difficult to make out, but the clock doesn't say 4:20.  "An hour that never passed: as if time were broken there and were opening a window: a hole through which to slide us toward the deep" (Pablo Neruda, "Enigma for the Worried").