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4. Beatles - Everyday Chemistry - Sick to Death
The following is an actual account of my experiences as of
recently. Because of the nature of what has happened I must remain
anonymous until I feel it is safe to reveal my real name, but for now
you can refer to me as James Richards.
On Sept. 9, 2009 I
experienced something that I still am having trouble believing happened
to me. I came into the possession of a cassette tape containing a
Beatles album that was never released. In fact, not only was it never
released but it was recorded many years after they broke up (and no I'm
not talking about Klaatu).
Now this is where the story becomes
slightly more unbelievable and it is almost embarrassing to attempt to
explain the incident to you for fear of viewing me as completely absurd.
I must assure you, I am not insane or on drugs, and hopefully the audio
from this tape will be enough proof that there is more than we think
out there...
I live in Livermore California but on Sept 9 I was
driving home from Turlock after visiting a friend for a few days. I had
my dog with me and I didn't have any plans for the day so I decided to
take a drive through a place called Del Puerto Canyon just west of
Turlock. There is a scenic road that is a fun drive and actually goes
through to Livermore. I hadn't taken a cruise through it for a while so I
thought i would take this way home. It was about 2pm.
A ways
into the canyon my dog starting acting like she needed to use the
restroom. So I pulled over to the first available parking area to the
side of the road and let her out while I stretched. At first I didn't
notice, but then I heard the barking from 30 yards away...my dog was
chasing a rabbit. Now my dog is a pretty good dog but if she is chasing
something then there is no stopping her so the only thing I could do was
become part of the chase.
They already had about a 40 yard head
start so I had to really book it. The uneven ground and soft dirt
patches made it difficult to run and it wasn't very far into the chase I
had stepped in a rabbit hole, fell and knocked myself unconscious.
When
I woke up I was in a room with some furniture and electronics in it. I
was taken care of with a bandage on my head but I still felt uneasy
about the situation because where I fell and hit my head was in a very
rural unpopulated area with no houses, and outside the window of the
room I was in I could hear traffic.
I wasn't near the window in
the room, it was actually on the other side next to a unusual looking
electronic machine that i didn't recognize from anywhere I've seen
before. The only reason this stood out was because it seemed out of
place in a person's home, which most of the room resembled. I decided to
get up and look out the window but the door opened and in ran my dog,
who was pretty excited to see me. When I looked up there was a man
standing at the door. He was about 6 ft tall, had medium long black hair
and was dressed casually nice but gave me a "greasy" vibe, if you know
what I mean. He introduced himself as Jonas and asked me if I was ok,
which I said yes. He said he found me unconscious in a field with my dog
barking at me. So I thanked him for helping me and my dog out, and that
I was surprised my dog even came back to me. I then asked him the
question that would make me start wondering if I in fact had gone
crazy... I asked him "where am I?".
"About 20 feet away from
where I found you" he replied. I told him that couldn't be possible
because there were no houses within at least 20 miles from where I last
remember being. He then told me that what he was going to say next will
be very shocking and unbelievable, and that if he didn't actually
experience it himself then he wouldn't believe it. He took a look at the
machine near the window and looked back at me and said he transported
me into parallel Earth. He said he traveled to our Earth dimension and
found me knocked out in the blazing heat with nobody around to help me
out. Normally he said he doesn't take outsiders through a portal but in
my case he thought I needed urgent help.
I immediately started
asking questions about traveling to parallel worlds, since all I knew
about the topic was you tube videos of Michio Kaku. He told me to slow
down and that he would explain himself. Apparently in his world a
Parallel Travel machine can be purchased quite easily, while not cheap,
its pretty popular even though the machine can be dangerous enough to
cause death. In the 1950's of his dimension, the government was faced
with the decision to continue to fund a space program (I'm guessing
NASA) or a parallel dimension program called ARP-D (i can't remember
what he said it stood for, I'm pretty sure the P-D is Parallel
Dimensions, and i remember the acronym because I noticed it on a lot of
the electronics in the room I was in.)
He then explained that the
real danger of using one of the machines was exploring new dimensions.
Since there are an infinite amount of Earths in other dimensions, only a
small amount have been explored.The problem with exploring unknown
dimensions is the chance you will die somehow once you walk through the
portal doorway. He told me that people die from falling (if the ground
isn't close enough to where the portal opens), die from drowning (there
are worlds covered in water, hard to reopen a portal underwater), die
from fire, atmospheric issues...he said in order for people to avoid
this they would have to know that there would be similar ground in the
dimension they were traveling to. So his government began to research
worlds that were "safe" to transport to, even creating public spots
where people could choose a menu of worlds to go to that were all safe.
Many
of these worlds were lush vegetation worlds that were never ruined by
man, only to be invaded by the large overcrowded population of the
travelers world. He said something about new industries that opened up
because of this, one of them being something like dimensional life
brokers, these people offered the chance to live as someone new in an
already established similar world that doesn't know of dimensional
travel, nor that there are people crossing the dimensional border to.
Jonas said he was an explorer for one of the dimensional travel agencies
and was looking in new uncharted dimensions and came up my Earth.
We
talked about a lot of things, it was interesting to see what
similarities and differences we had between worlds. Foods, culture, TV,
technology... we covered a lot. We also started talking about music,
which was an interesting topic because there were many of the same bands
between our worlds that existed, including The Beatles. When their name
got brought up Jonas mentioned that his brother just got back from
seeing them perform at a concert recently, which I gave a weird look to
and said "you mean they are still together?", and he said yea. I then
told him about how they broke up in our world and that John & George
passed away, apparently in his world they are all alive, healthy and on
tour still.
Jonas then had me follow him into another room that
had a bookshelf looking thing with some cassette tapes (yes the music
ones, apparently CD's never caught on in his world) and a tape
player/radio/record player, though it didn't quite look like the type of
radio's we have, the speakers looked more like crinkled cardboard but
sounded pretty good. I didn't get too good of a look at the speakers
but they certainly weren't round, they almost looked like a tall
accordion.
The only Beatles album he had that was store bought
and had real cover art was Sgt Peppers, which the cover looked slightly
different then the one we have, but the songs were all the same. The
other 6 Beatles tapes he had were all like somebody recorded them onto a
blank cassette for him and wrote the song titles on a card slipped in
the case. A couple of the album titles written on the tapes I recognized
but there were about 4 that I had never heard of before. He played a
few songs from one of them, which was totally surreal to hear Beatles
music that was never made (at least in our world). We talked about it a
little bit, he said a girl made the tapes for him while he was in upper
school (what they call high school). She was a huge fan of them and
wanted him to listen to them.
He popped out the first tape and
was putting in the second one when I told him he should record me a copy
of one so I could take it back with me, thinking it wouldn't be a big
deal. Well the look Jonas gave me when I said this is part of the reason
I am remaining anonymous. Not only did it sort of scare me but it had a
very serious almost creepy look to it followed by the phrase (not word
for word, i can't remember what he exactly said) "No, you are not to
take anything with you back to your world. No pictures, no souvenirs, no
tapes, NOTHING." I asked him why and he wouldn't really say except that
for my safety I wasn't to take anything back.
Of course I am not
the type of person to go through all of this parallel world stuff and
not grab something to prove the outrageous story of my experience. So
for the moment I told him I wouldn't take anything and changed the
subject. About an hour later after some more talking I heard a doorbell
ring and he left the room to check the door. I knew that I may not have
another chance to take something so I grabbed one of the tapes and put
it in my pocket, and then shuffled the tapes around to make it look less
obvious that something was missing.
When he came back inside I
said I was kind of hungry (to just get us out of the room, i mixed the
tapes up a little so it was hard to tell one was missing but I didn't
want to be there when he found out), so he then took me in the other
room and fed me. For the most part the food tasted like ours but was
different product names and colors. The purple ketchup was the
strangest. We talked a little bit more and then I expressed the notion
that I should be going because it was getting late (the time of day was
identical to ours, as is all worlds).
We went back in the room
with the machines in it, I grabbed my dog and shook Jonas' hand for
taking care of me after I was knocked out. I thanked him again and
stepped through the portal (which felt like getting wet but staying dry
the entire time, really weird... when i put my dog on the ground she
even shook herself like she thought she was wet).
Back in our
world I could see my car on the road still and there was straight line
burn mark on the ground from where the portal had shown up. It was dark
outside and the only reason I noticed the burn was because it was still
smoking from the heat. I walked back to my car (didn't run this time)
and drove home. The worst part was I couldn't even listen to the tape on
the way home because I didn't have a tape player in my car. I actually
wasn't even able to listen to it at home either for the same reason and
had to go to Wal-mart to buy a tape player just to listen to it.
Unfortunately
I don't have any information about the tape other than what is written
on the card sleeve. The track names were written, as well as the album
title "Everyday Chemistry" . Everything else about it is as mysterious
to you as it is to me. It also wasn't like I could have asked the guy
anything about it, especially after taking it from him.
I'll post
some more about my experience in the coming days, but I have to go to
work right now and this post is already long enough. If anyone has any
questions they want to ask me about this incident then I've set up an
email address that you can contact me at:
thebeatlesneverbrokeup@yahoo.com. I'll try and answer every one's questions as best as possible.
Lastly,
if there is ANYONE out there that has experienced anything like this
then please contact me, some of the things this guy said to me almost
make me wonder if this isn't the first time dimensional travelers have
been here.
- James Richards