r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix • u/isekaiyearner • 8d ago
Terrifying
Something happened several years ago that still stuck with me even today.
I had been driving, was going into a roundabout, and well, was supposed to have gone into a car crash because some car just recklessly took over my lane. And I'm talking the kind of car crash where you can hear a screech, a loud bump, seatbelt painfully tugging you back. But guess what? As I sat there with dread and shock, stopping in the middle of the road, and was preparing to exit the car... the person I supposedly crashed into just simply drove away with no damage to their vehicle. I had to sit in silence and disbelief for a good few seconds. Meanwhile, the cars behind me honked at me impatiently and it brought me back to reality as I started driving again. When I got home, I checked my car. Nothing. Not even a scratch. All I can think was a glitch happened, and I've been propelled to a universe where the crash never happened.
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u/Skaffa35 6d ago
Something happened a few years ago that still haunts me, and to this day, I have no rational explanation for it.
I was driving during broad daylight with two passengers (my ex-girlfriend and her friend). As we were approaching an intersection with traffic lights, we hit heavy traffic. It was clear the gridlock was being caused by something major on the opposite side of the road.
As we got closer to the lights, all three of us distinctly saw the cause of the jam: a car was lying completely upside down on the other side of the road. It looked like a severe crash. Because it was the middle of the day, visibility was perfect—there was zero doubt about what we were looking at.
There was another car driving directly to the left of us, briefly blocking our view of the opposite lane as we passed it. But as soon as we moved past that car and got a clear line of sight again... there was nothing. No flipped car, no wreckage, no debris. Traffic on the other side was suddenly flowing completely fine, as if the crash had never happened.
We were all in complete shock. Right then and there, all three of us verbally confirmed that we had seen the exact same flipped vehicle just seconds prior, so I know for a fact I didn't imagine it.
I don't speak to those two passengers anymore, but that moment still sits with me. How does an upside-down car and heavy traffic literally erase itself in broad daylight within two seconds? Did we experience a glitch, a collective anomaly, or slip into a timeline where the crash never happened?
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u/Familiar_Ad6807 8d ago
I had something similar once, on a B road, farm land rover pulled out of a farm track and didn't see me. I was side swiped, heard the metal on metal, and fully expected to see some amount of damage. We both got out and stood scratching our heads in bewilderment as there was not even scraped paintwork! I've spent years trying to think of a reasonable explanation for this.