As The Raven Dreams Podcast - 5 TRUE Glitch In The Matrix Stories (Vol. 53)

Starting point is 00:00:00 Do you have a true story you want to send my way? Go to ashtheravendreams.com slash submit or check out the links listed down below in the description. Thank you. I work in human resources for my local government. I've been here for 13 and a half years. Because we're a government entity, we are driven by policies and procedures. We have tons of standard operating procedures, SOPs. We even have an SOP on how to write an SOP.

Starting point is 00:00:49 Every employee is given a copy of our agency's personnel policy and procedures manual. Herein referred to simply as the manual. It is meant to stay with you during your entire tenure here. Most employees probably only look at their manual if there's a major update or if they feel their manager has misinterpreted a policy. But, in HR, the manual is our Bible. We refer to it often. It's not something that we throw on a shelf somewhere and glance at periodically.

Starting point is 00:01:26 There's probably not a week that goes by that one of us in the department has not had to pull our manual out to look at something. I have handwritten notes and sticky notes in mind for quick reference. All of us do. The way I'm going on about this manual, you would think it was some kind of special book. It's just a white three-ring binder. When I started, we used to separate each chapter with blue paper, but we haven't done that in many years. My particular manual is a little worn, not crisp like the newer ones.

Starting point is 00:02:04 I keep it on the right side of my desk, next to an organizer where I keep non-confidential files for quick access. I've kept it in the same spot for the entire time that I've worked here. I'm not a neat nick, but I have a quirky, almost photographic memory. I know exactly where everything is, even if things are disorganized. Three weeks ago, I met with my boss about something in the manual that needed clarification. I brought mine into her office, and when our meeting was over, I was sure that I put it back in its place on my desk. A couple days later, an employee came in to ask me about a policy.

Starting point is 00:02:49 I reached from my manual, and it wasn't there. Strange? I looked in a couple places in my office, but I couldn't find it. I grabbed one from the stack we used for new hires and carried on. After the employee left, I looked for my manual again. On my bookshelf, in all of my desk drawers, In my various cabinet drawers, in the recycling bin under my desk, nothing. I took a look at my boss's table in her office to see if it was there.

Starting point is 00:03:22 No? She is only in once a week, so the next week when she was in, I asked her if I had left it in her office. She didn't recall, but she looked all over her office, in her drawers, etc. She even looked for it later when she got home. She even remarked about how she has so many notes in hers, so she would be lost if she misplaced it. I hated that I had lost my manual, but I had the new one. I put it in the same spot where the old one used to be. As weird as it sounds, it just didn't feel right.

Starting point is 00:04:00 I felt off every time I looked at it. It was weird. Yesterday I had some downtime, so I cleared some files in my organizing. As I said before, the new manual was right next to the organizer, and it was the only notebook on my desk. I come into work this morning, and I happened to turn around to get something from my organizer, and my old manual is right there next to the new one. It was not there previously. I haven't seen it for three weeks.

Starting point is 00:04:33 I feel like I'm going nuts. I know it sounds stupid to be this worked up over a dumb manual. But it's thrown me for a loop. There are 11 of us on staff, but only four of us in the office every day. It is possible that someone moved it from my desk, but unlikely. We do not, as a practice, go into each other's offices. And if someone had seen it elsewhere, they would have told me. We're pretty cohesive here.

Starting point is 00:05:05 Even though we have cleaning staff, they rarely touch our desks, and there would be no reason for them or for anyone else to move it. Maybe it was there the whole time, but I couldn't see it. I think there's a phenomenon like that. I don't know what it's called, but maybe. Or maybe I'm going senile. I don't know. Maybe this isn't a glitch, but it sure feels like one.

Starting point is 00:05:40 I live in a town with several 19th century era buildings, including a few Napoleonic forts. Four known ones, and they're all well known to urban explorers, and have been thoroughly explored and mapped, including one with several tunnels. When I was 16, me and my friends decided it would be a fun day out to go there. We had done this many times, and we knew the fort by heart, including all exit-slash-entry points that had not been closed up by the council yet. We went in as usual and all seemed normal. We climbed around and had some fun before moving on to the tunnels. We decided to go through the most popular tunnel there, as it was the easiest to navigate,

Starting point is 00:06:32 and one of my friends was a bit claustrophobic. We had gone through this tunnel several times before, and so did many others, so it is very well mapped and usually opens up to just a big empty room. with windows looking into the center of the fort. This tunnel, it does fork off in two directions, but both lead to similar rooms. However, this time for some reason, after taking a left at the fork like we usually did,

Starting point is 00:07:07 as the room on that side was in a less decayed state, the tunnel opened up to something that, to this day, me and my friends cannot explain nor arrest, replicate. We entered what at first seemed to be the usual room, but we quickly noticed that it was in a near-perfect state. No graffiti, no vandalism, no empty beer cans or charred floor from a campfire, nothing. It was like the place hadn't been touched since it had been converted into a hospital in World War II. We were very confused, but decided to look around, we quickly noticed

Starting point is 00:07:49 that this was a completely different fort. We all thought that we had stumbled our way in and that it had somehow gone unnoticed by urban explorers in the area, and that we had found it by pure accident. With little hope,

Starting point is 00:08:06 I tried looking up the coordinates for it, but unfortunately, as was often the case in these areas due to the forts essentially being buried, I couldn't get any GPs signal, which didn't surprise me. We explored and speculated on the position of the untouched fort for the rest of the day,

Starting point is 00:08:28 thinking that we had scored gold, having found ourselves the dream hideout hangout area. The tunnel was roughly one kilometer long, so we knew it couldn't be too far from the known location. After a great day of exploring this urban explorer's wet dream, we packed up and left without any problems. We went through the tunnel and popped out the other end in the expected place. This is where it struck us. We took great care in noting our way back through the tunnel in order to find the fort again on our next visit.

Starting point is 00:09:08 The route we took was the same as we always did. We had not accidentally deviated or anything. This was the exact same. route we usually took. Me and a mate decided to quickly run back to it, just to make sure. We arrived at the opening, and, as usual, the tunnel opened up to the room that we had earlier expected. Since then, my friends have tried numerous times to find the fort again.

Starting point is 00:09:39 Unfortunately, I cannot take part in the search at the moment for personal reasons. I have, however, tried to find signs of it. it on Google Earth, but unlike its supposed neighboring fort, it doesn't appear there at all. All research I have done related to this does not seem to indicate the existence of this fifth fort that we saw. To this day, that fort remains some sort of glitch in the Matrix, and I'm not posting this here to be solved. I just think it's an interesting and mysterious event.

Starting point is 00:10:15 I've been reading the story. in the sub for a few years now as a bit of light entertainment. I never put much stock in them until it happened to me. For context, I work at a petrol station and this happened on Tuesday afternoon

Starting point is 00:10:40 and around 1 p.m. A generally quiet period before the school pickup rush from 2 to 4. A car pulls into pump 1 and fills up. A huge business vehicle with the logo, and much bigger fuel tank pulls into pump two.

Starting point is 00:10:59 Pump two starts filling, and pump one comes into pay. Another car pulls into pump three and starts filling while two is still filling, and one is paying. Pump three finishes and comes into pay, as pump one is leaving and walking back to his car. He stops when he sees the guy from pump three, and they start chatting. They're standing in the middle of the road, but it isn't been to the car. busy in their two grown men. I figure they'll move if someone drives by. They keep chatting as they obviously know each other. I go about some other general behind the counter jobs when number two comes in to pay. One and three are still chatting in the driveway area between the pumps and the shop. Pump two comes in wearing a uniform for the same business as is on his truck and pays for some $200 worth of fuel. I give him his receipt, and he leaves.

Starting point is 00:11:58 He gets back in his truck, and people from Pump 1 and 3 have to move for him to drive away. They do then move off to the side to keep talking. Eventually, they finish, and Pump 1 goes back to his car and drives away. Pump 3 comes into pay, just as the same business truck pulls into Pump 2 again. He starts filling again, and I'm a little confused, but I think that may be Maybe he may be going for a long drive and wants to fill his second fuel tank or something. I let him keep filling and serve Pump 3. Our conversation goes as follows.

Starting point is 00:12:37 Customer. I'm so sorry about that. I hope you don't think I was going to drive away or anything. Me. No, that's all good. We've got cameras and your license plate anyway. Was it just the fuel on Pump 3 today? Customer.

Starting point is 00:12:52 Yeah, thanks. I was just chatting to an old friend. who I haven't seen in about five years. Me. Well, that's nice to run into each other, at the petrol station of all places. Though it must have been annoying to have to move out of the way for that business name truck. He gave me a funny look and said that they never had to move and let no one drove by. I was stunned for a bit, but didn't really think much of it.

Starting point is 00:13:18 I gave him his receipt and he left. A while later, Pump 2 comes in to pay for some. some $200 worth of fuel again. It's the same guy in the same uniform from the same company. The interaction goes like this. Me. Hey, how are you today? Going on a long drive?

Starting point is 00:13:40 Him. No, just filling up the company car. Me. Twice in one day? You must be busy driving. Him. What? This is my first time in here today.

Starting point is 00:13:53 I'm thinking. What the hell? I know what I saw, but I don't push it. Oh, sorry. It must have been someone else I served today from business name. Would you like the receipt? He seemed satisfied with my answer, yet said no to the receipt this time. I thought this was weird because usually companies wanted for tax purposes.

Starting point is 00:14:17 Anyway, I wished him a good day, and he left. I went through the past few transactions in the system to find his initial receipt. and it wasn't there. Pump one, then three, then two were the last transactions. I was so confused. I guess I could ask my manager to look at the security footage from that day, but I'm just at a loss as to what happened. I know what I saw.

Starting point is 00:14:46 So, does anyone have any thoughts on this experience? This happened yesterday. I'm a part-time college student that lives, lives with my grandma, and her house is fairly old. It was built anywhere between the 50s and the 70s. Most of the outlets in the front section of the house are only two-prong outlets, a neutral and hot opening with no third opening,

Starting point is 00:15:23 so no ground opening, I think it's called. The back room for the house, which acts as the main living room, is an extension of the house that was built about 15, years ago or so. So, those outlets on the sidewall have that three-prong outlet. I've lived with her since 2019, and I've always had an extension that connects three-prong to two-prong outlets on the plug for my laptop, which has a three-prong plug.

Starting point is 00:15:55 Last night, I came home from work and was going to use my laptop, but I noticed the battery was low. I went to plug it into the plug right by my bed with the extension, and I noticed the outlet was now suddenly three prongs. I was in shock, and I just stared. I wondered if it had always been like that, but I'm near certain it hasn't, because why else would I go out of my way to look for an extension to plug my laptop into that outlet in the past? I even remember losing the the extension earlier this year and being unable to plug my laptop in in my room because all the outlets only had two-prong openings. I was in disbelief, so I go to my grandma's room and tell her and my mom.

Starting point is 00:16:49 My mom was also shocked. She told me that she knows it was only two openings because when she came to bug me one day, she went to plug her phone in by my bed and plugged it into my extension cord. that had my three to two-prong extension plugged into it. It's chunky, so you really can't miss it. We were talking about it for a little while, and went to the kitchen to eat. I wondered if the other outlet under the breakfast nook was still the same,

Starting point is 00:17:19 so I went to check. I pulled a chair out and was frozen. The outlet that I knew for a fact only had two prongs had changed too. I felt like I was hyperventilating. I didn't know what was going on. I was freaking out and I told my mom to come look at it. She was equally shocked. She said that she had tried to plug a big fan in there about two months ago,

Starting point is 00:17:48 but couldn't because it only has two prong openings, so she had to move a couch to plug the fan in. For the past two years, I have, near Daly, sat in the same chair at the brinket of the brink. breakfast nook, and I plug my laptop into it using the prong extension. I remember first moving in here and asking my aunt if she had one of the extensions that I could borrow since I was unable to plug my laptop in. I asked my grandma if anyone had come by to change just two outlets, and no one has, of course,

Starting point is 00:18:23 and for what purpose? I could barely sleep last night because I kept staring at the outlet by my bed, wondering what the hell had happened to both of them. I've heard other people with similar stories, but here is my glitch. A few years back, I was playing video games in the wee small hours of the morning. It was one of those nights where time really flies, and it was suddenly 4 a.m. Around 2.30 to 3 o'clock, I became aware of a background noise in my brother's room. Now, me and my brother live in separate identical rooms, separated with a loose, thin wall.

Starting point is 00:19:18 The wall was constructed for the option of removing it, if one would ever want to make the room larger. So, at 3 a.m., I take my headphones off to investigate the constant idle noise, like an extractor hood that isn't turned off. I turned down the volume, and it is now. apparent what the strange noise is. From my brother's room, it clearly sounds like a male panting. Deep, heavy, quick breaths. I stood up and become completely silent, and the noise continued with differing speeds. I stood still not knowing what to do, but at the same time not alarmed at the sound.

Starting point is 00:20:02 I knew for a fact that my brother was not home, as he would frequently spend. in the city, or sleeping with his friends or his girlfriend. After a while, I decided to ignore the sound and put my headphones on again, and I waited until it would be over. I was slightly scared, but more worried and completely shocked, I still made sure to lock the door and postpone any toilet visits. I stayed awake for probably around two hours more, and decided to go to the bathroom. I looked into my brother's room where the door was open, but I didn't see anything, and I went to bed and kept this event to myself.

Starting point is 00:20:48 The explanations I have are not very realistic and pretty improbable. One theory I could make was that my dad somehow had decided to do push-ups in my brother's room. He tries to do a hundred every day, and he pants in a similar rapid way. I really don't believe that he would have sleepwalked or something across the house and through the hallway and then into my brother's room to then just do push-ups. If anyone entered or left, I would have heard one of the two doors being opened, even if I was wearing headphones. So this remains my sole unexplained event in my life that creeps me out. So that was this week's glitch in the Matrix collection of stories. And I really do hope that you enjoyed it.

Starting point is 00:21:53 This is officially the 53rd Glitch Collection, so moving right along with these, right? I plan to keep doing them, so hopefully you do enjoy them. Well, that said, friends, if you did enjoy this video, please do hit that thumbs up button. You can also subscribe to the channel if you're new, and leave me a comment letting me know what your thought. There's also the join button and Patreon, where you can see. support the channel further, and for a dollar a month get early access to all of my content like this up to 24 hours early. All that said, let's move forward with the Word of the Week.

Starting point is 00:22:27 Last week, we had three entries, and I would like to personally thank 242 Reeds, glow in the dark spider web hat, which I like that name, and psychosomatic for their entries into the Word of the Week. Thank you. Really do appreciate it. All that said, let's move on to this week's word of the week, which is limited. L-I-M-I-T-E-D, it's an adjective. It means a confined within limits.

Starting point is 00:22:57 Or characterized by enforceable limitations prescribed upon the scope or exercise of power. So basically, my time here is limited, and I don't want to overdo the outro or overstay my welcome, so... Have a nice day. And of course, sleep well.

As The Raven Dreams Podcast - 5 TRUE Glitch In The Matrix Stories (Vol. 53)

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