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Temporal Anomalies –
September 29, 2020 |
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Temporal anomaly investigator Norman Walsh shares these mismatching clock faces in Cairo, Egypt. We've not yet explored the tower and its environs to pinpoint the cause of the weirdness.
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Temporal Anomalies –
June 2, 2020 |
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Temporal Anomalies –
April 7, 2020 |
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It's simultaneously 12:20 and 12:07 in this temporal anomaly at the University of Guelph, documented by David Allan Barker. Though we weren't on location to discover the exact cause of the timely weirdness, we offer this photo to help hone the insights of would-be investigators of temporal anomalies. The more clocks one sees that are "on the fritz" (Fritz being the German clockmaker who first went "cuckoo"), the better attuned one will be to time warps in the wild.
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Temporal Anomalies –
March 17, 2020 |
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We spotted a temporal anomaly at "the crookedest church in the world." This Greek church, in the village of Ropoto, became wonky due to a landslide. There are two clock towers (bravo!) with faces that don't agree. (The guys from Exploring the Unbeaten Path venture inside the church for a mind-warping experience.) You'll likely have already diagnosed this temporal anomaly: as David Miller has said, "when space is folded, time is folded." Yet profound mysteries yet abound: how is this church intact, resting as it does at that incredible angle?
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Temporal Anomalies –
March 5, 2020 |
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We encountered and determined the cause of a temporal anomaly in the quaint Victorian downtown of Van Buren, Arkansas. The courthouse clock tower displays two times, only one of which is correct. As constant investigators of such phenomena, we traced the source of the problem almost immediately. Directly below the clock face that announced the wrong time, and next to the 1820 schoolhouse where the prominent Freemason Albert Pike first taught, there is a sundial with a broken pointer. That is the cause of the clock tower's divergence, magnified by the sundial's proximity to one of the oldest standing buildings in Arkansas. Though the cause is simple enough, great mysteries yet abound, for the nature of time itself is shrouded. And what, perchance, do the Freemasons have to do with this particular enigma?
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Temporal Anomalies –
February 12, 2020 |
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We encountered and determined the cause of a temporal anomaly in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. The clock tower of the Chestnut Hill Baptist church (whose motto, ironically, is "a historic church with a timely message") displays faces with three incorrect times. As constant investigators of such phenomena, we diagnosed the source of the problem at a glance. An oculus window replaces the clock face on the fourth side of the tower and is the cause of the trouble. The architect presumably sought to save a quarter of the cost of clockwork, and while three-quarter time may keep waltzes spinning, such an imbalance in a clock tower is its own death knell. Though the cause is simple enough, great mysteries yet abound, for precisely why does a window into the nature of time trigger a standstill?
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Temporal Anomalies –
February 5, 2020 |
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It's both 4:10 and 4:25 in this Michiganian temporal anomaly captured by Josh May at Flickr. Though we weren't on location to discover the exact cause of the timely weirdness, we offer this photo to help hone the insights of would-be investigators of temporal anomalies. The more clocks one sees that are "on the fritz" (Fritz being the German clockmaker who first went "cuckoo"), the better attuned one will be to time warps in the wild.
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Temporal Anomalies –
January 28, 2020 |
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"A decrepit clock tower told the Byzantine hours" (Colin Thubron, Night of Fire, 2017).
We encountered a temporal anomaly in the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. All four sides of the clock tower at St. Paul's Episcopal in Elkins Park told a different, frozen time. As constant investigators of such phenomena, we carefully searched the church grounds for the source of the problem, sidestepping slippery acorns and dodging a fallen electrical wire by the graveyard. The entire property is frankly decrepit, with the cemetery unkempt and the overall impression being one of abandonment. As historic preservationists ourselves, the state of this 163-year-old church was painful, to put it mildly. With so much disorder, it was difficult to pinpoint a specific cause for the temporal anomaly, so we looked within the name of the church itself. "St. Paul's Episcopal" is an anagram of "as collapses tip up." You will no doubt recognize that last phrase as a twist on the great Hermetic axiom, "as above, so below." The collapsing physical structure of the church, having slowly fallen into decrepitude over time, is reflected above, in the clock tower. "It is time for Episcopalians across the country to rise up" (Ruy O. Costa).
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