13 Glitch In The Matrix Stories From May 2023

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The time traveler:

“I think we saw a time traveler. So, this happened about a week ago but my memory is still pretty fresh. My boyfriend and I were in the car on the way to get dinner and chatting casually, everything was normal. As we pulled up to a red light, somebody caught my attention. There was a guy, I’d say between 15 and 18 years old, walking on the sidewalk across the street. I noticed him because he looked like he was straight out of 2004. Baggy jeans, grey beanie, and a black t-shirt over a long-sleeve white shirt. I thought it was funny, figured he was some kind of skater, and pointed it out to my BF and made some joke about the guy being from the 2000s. We both agreed he looked out of place and that’s when we started joking that he must be a time traveler. I said something like, ‘He’s probably thinking, Woah, dude, where am I?‘ and as soon as I said it, the guy started to look around like he was confused. (We were in a car and across a busy street from him, no way he heard us.) We remarked that it was weird as we watched the guy look around confused for a few moments. Then, we both looked away for no more than half a second, I don’t remember why, and when we turned back the guy was GONE. 

At first, we laughed and thought it was funny but the more we looked the more we realized he had nowhere to go and he really just completely disappeared. I can’t stress this enough, we BARELY looked away and had NOWHERE to go that we wouldn’t be able to see him. We both freaked out and drove most of the rest of the way in silence while we thought about time travel. We haven’t really talked about it since, but we agree that it was obviously really weird.”

—u/Shana24601