The Disappearance of Peter Williamson | Lightning Pants from Another Dimension

[Music] it was the summer of 1974 in Somerset England Peter Williamson was flipping burgers on the grill when a storm rolled in his wife kids and guests ran to the patio to stay dry and keep the party going Peter packed up the grill as the rain came down harder when the thunder and lightning started everyone laughed nervously when a lightning bolt split a tree next door people stopped laughing it was then that his kids noticed their dog was still out in the yard cow in under a bush Peter told them to stay put and ran

out to get the dog he was halfway across the lawn when lightning hit again this time even closer Peter's friends and family saw his silhouette against the flash then he was gone he just vanished 3 days later he reappeared in his backyard but everything was [Music] wrong please no souvenirs in the SE CH yeah human uh where's the teapot that we keep the blus in why do you need a teapot I'm recreating Wonderland is that why there's playing cards all over my house my wife nearly slipped and broke her neck she's fine it's immersive Decor

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make whoever proposed this in 1957 with his many worlds theory of Quant mechanics picture an electron spinning in every direction at once superp position traditional view says measuring it forces it to choose One Direction Everett disagreed he said the electron keeps spinning in all directions but in different universes each measurement splits reality creating infinite parallel worlds that means there are infinite versions of you out there and every version of you results from the billions of choices that you make so there's a reality where you're the president of the United States there's one where you're movie

star there's one where you're on death row so there's a universe out there where I didn't get married yep that lucky son of it okay take it easy a few months ago Google unveiled project Willow a 105 cubic quantum computer that solves problem problems in 5 minutes that would take the world's fastest supercomputer 10 septian years that's the one with 25 zeros following it or a time scale way longer than the age of the universe how does it do that because quantum computers might be combining computing power across parallel universes it sounds like science fiction

but the math works then in 2014 the many worlds Theory got an upgrade physicists from Griffith University said that parallel universes not only exist they interact through gravity that electrons spinning up and down it's two universes merging briefly each with its own version of that electron this is the many interacting worlds Theory again the math works and this Theory could explain everything from Quantum tunneling to 0 point energy to human consciousness and I've been thinking about doing a video on Quantum Consciousness but it's a Buster so let me know if you want me to cover

it or I should just stick to aliens yeah stick with the aliens [Music] poter but here's where the many interacting worlds Theory gets dark the Griffith team warns that when parallel worlds get too close Quantum effects intensify electromagnetism becomes unpredictable entangled particles become unentangled superp position breaks down this could cause other realities to cross into hours where things could exist in two places at once there's only one known natural phenomenon that can produce enough energy to do this lightning Mary Williamson screamed her husband vanished in a flash of lightning no burn marks no Footprints no

body Peter was just gone the police searched everywhere the house the property and the neighborhood at first they thought the lightning had thrown him from the yard but it was surrounded by high walls the only exit was a locked gate the key never left Mary's pocket 16 people gave the same eyewitness statement Peter was struck by lightning and disappeared yes some people would do anything to get out of a dinner party I know I would the police insisted Peter climbed over the 8ft wall they said the lightning flash blinded Witnesses longer than they remembered the

officer said If Peter had been hit by lightning he might have a concussion or Amnesia he'd eventually show up at home or the hospital but he didn't Mary's friends watched the house all night no Peter no hospitals reported anyone matching his description an alert went out on National Television still nothing at this point the police told Mary she should probably prepare for the worst she didn't take this well but on the third day at about 8:00 a.m. she heard the gardener frantically calling for her Mary ran outside Peter was sitting on the grass near the

bushes in a [Music] days she hugged him through tears of joy and then she noticed something strange it rained in Somerset for 2 days everything was wet but Peter's clothes were completely dry and then she noticed those weren't his clothes [Music] Mary took Peter to the hospital immediately aside from Amnesia he was perfectly fine he barely remembered the barbecue he didn't remember the lightning and he had no idea where he was during the past 60 hours Mary asked him where he got the new green corduroy pants he was wearing he didn't remember that either now

you go missing for Tre days and show up in the wrong pants uh the wife is going to have some questions she did but she believed was telling the truth so did the doctors this was just Amnesia yeah what the cops say well the police were pleased with themselves Peter was struck by lightning and had Amnesia just like they said all right just another case of the mysterious corduroy lightning that staps you with new pants yeah the police didn't explain it Peter was home and they considered the matter closed Peter stayed in the hospital for

about a week and went home feeling perfectly fine but he still had no memory of where he was but a few days after returning from the hospital Peter started having strange dreams at first he saw only brief glimpses of scenes he was in the rain frightened and walking down a road someone stopped to help then the images started coming to him while he was awake at first he thought he was hallucinating but they felt like Memories he just couldn't piece it together he remembered a kind doctor the doctor found him on the side of the

road he almost remembered his name but not quite then he was in a hospital a different hospital the hospital staff asked his name but he didn't know his clothes were torn there was another patient in his room then he remembered pants pants the other patient loaned him the corduroy pants because his jeans were torn apart that memory hit and Peter jumped up and ran to his bedroom to see if the pants were there he didn't expect them to be but there they were the label inside said the tailor was Herbert Fox who had a shop

a few Towns over the label also had the letters JB sewn into it inside the pockets he found a pack of cigarettes he didn't smoke the brand was senior service the same brand that James Bond smoked he knew the brand but the logo was wrong he found a handkerchief also monogrammed with the letters JB Peter finally had a lead if he could find this JB he would have answers JB wasn't much to go on that's pretty common inue ials but a Tor named Herbert Fox a few miles away there would be only one of those

so the next day Peter decided to pay him a [Music] visit Peter Williamson didn't sleep at all that night finding the clue inside the label of the corduroy pants caused his memories to come rushing back by the time the sun came up Peter had pieced together everything well almost everything he remembered waking up in a yard or a garden but he didn't recognize it he just knew it felt wrong he didn't know where he was he didn't even know who he was soaking wet he stumbled around until he found a road and decided to rest

he didn't know how much time had passed but eventually a car stopped the driver offered him a ride he was a nice man A Doctor Dr nent the no right Dr nett was concerned and took him to theal hospital it wasn't Somerset General it was a small local hospital he was admitted to a section called Pritchard Ward it was a nice place but something felt off sometimes Peter would see a shimmering in the air like heat waves Rising off the pavement and through the waves he'd see different Furniture different walls even different people a nurse

would walk past and for a split second she'd be a completely different person the clock on the wall showed 3:15 then 245 then 3:15 again his voice voice sounded strange too it was sluggish where everyone else was speaking quickly and crisp when Peter tried to keep up with their Pace his words just sounded garbled Peter mentioned these symptoms to Dr nent who ordered concussion tests they found nothing wrong this is what the doctor ordered this is what the doctor ordered what was that he somebody out there gets it the following day Peter wanted to go

for a walk but the nurses told him his genes were too damaged to salvage so the man in the next bed offered his spare pair of brown corduro the lightning pair exactly I thought they were green they were but in Peter's memory the pants were light brown not light green anyway the pants fit and Peter remembered the label clearly Herbert Fox with the initials JB sewn into it Peter spent the day exploring the hospital grounds the place felt familiar although he knew he'd never been there before the next morning feeling stronger but no less confused

Peter decided to retrace his steps he walked back along the road where Dr Nan had found him everything felt familiar but he didn't know why then he saw it the yard where he first woke up as soon as he touched the gate everything went dark when he opened his eyes he was lying in his own back yard The Gardener was shouting for help the grass was soaking wet but his clothes were dry in his pocket he had a pack of senior service cigarettes he'd never bought and a silk handkerchief with unfamiliar initials when Peter was

admitted to the hospital his wife brought brought him clean clothes from home he hadn't thought about those corduroys since then but here he was driving to the town of the tailor who made them Herbert Fox Peter would finally get some answers when Peter arrived he asked some of the locals if they knew the tayor Herbert Fox they said they knew him well but there's no way those pants were from his shop why not because it burned down over 20 years ago Peter arrived back home bewildered he couldn't explain the cordory trousers it is frustrating when

you can't explain your pants now about this time Colin Parson an investigator and writer connected with Peter the story comes from him he interviewed Peter and Mary personally he also spoke to the witnesses who saw Peter disappear Colin took an interest because to him it sounded like Peter had slipped into an alternate reality Peter had trouble believing this but the evidence started to mount researchers were able to track down the monogram JB the initials belonged to John Blackwood a regular customer at Herbert Fox's shop in Peter's reality John Blackwood died in a mining accident in

1953 but JB's pants were new in the other reality JB was still alive and Herbert Fox's shop didn't burn down and there was more Colin was able to track down the manufacturer of the pants who agreed to take a look they confirmed that Herbert Fox's shop did exist but it burned down in the 50s and never reopened they said the Zipper was designed in 1968 14 years after the tayor shop was gone they said the stitching was authentic it used their production techniques though they had no record of this design they confirmed the material was

new they even asked to be notified if Peter ever found Herbert Fox they'd never seen that color green before and wanted to use it in production oh easy just get hit with lightning and travel to another [Music] dimension Peter didn't believe in the multi ver theory he was sure there was a reasonable explanation for what happened he just needed to find someone who knew him from the hospital but Peter was at a dead end the weeks went on and his memories of the other Hospital came back he could remember every detail of the experience the

layout of the hospital the sounds and smells of prer ward he knew the price of tea in the cafe he remembered Dr nent taking care of him he remembered all the tests he knew all the nurses names but at this point he didn't know if he was losing his mind after learning he had clothes from a tailor who didn't exist he was afraid to tell anyone what he was going through he tried to forget about it then about a month later he was talking to a friend who just had a minor surgery the name of

the doctor came up wait was it yep the Peter's friend's doctor was Dr nent Peter was so excited and relieved he was almost moved to tears he started peppering his friend with questions was Sister Charles there was the cafe there was there a pricard ward Peter caught himself and apologized and then he grabbed his car keys the small hospital was less than a mile from Peter's house though he never heard of it as he pulled up everything felt familiar it was like deja vu but much stronger he knew he was here at the front desk

Peter asked for Dr nen he half expected the receptionist to say there was no such person but instead she said wait here a few minutes later Dr Nan appeared looking exactly like Peter remembered Peter jumped up to greet him but the doctor didn't recognize him Peter explained his disappearance and his memories of the hospital Dr nent was patient and listened but he said he hadn't had an Amnesia case in 5 years he said Peter's subconscious might be creating memories to fill the gaps caused by his Amnesia Peter probably learned about the hospital from overhearing conversations

after all Dr nent was his friend's Doctor Peter insisted he knew too many details the building layout Pritchard Ward everything the doctor saw how frustrated and upset Peter was he showed Peter the intake forms from the night he was admitted his name wasn't on it his name wasn't anywhere Peter left the hospital and got back in touch with Colin Parsons he wanted to know more about this alternate reality Theory Colin was convinced it was no Theory Peter was at that hospital just in another reality transported there by lightning there is no doubt that Peter did

disappear in full view of his guests and that he walked into another dimension an alternative Universe whatever name you choose I stayed with the family over a weekend and we went through the whole experience together with some of the witnesses to the original Vanishing to Colin the strongest evidence was the cigarettes anyone could sew an old label onto new pants but it's much harder especially in 1974 to create a fake pack of cigarettes from a well-known brand like senior service the evidence was the senior service logo it was a little bit off what Peter and

Colin are describing is a Mandela effect these are shared memories that are wrong oh like how everyone remembers the moon landing we're not doing this now big moonlanding linked down in your loot shoot the name comes from Nelson Mandela Millions remember him dying in prison and watching his funeral but that never happened link to all kind of episodes about that down in your SAA underneath the nudie bags there are theories of quantum physics that say parallel universes are real and they can interact and we know lightning is powerful enough to disrupt Quantum systems so next

time you hear thunder pay attention make sure everything looks right and that your memories are the truth remember there are infinite versions of you out there who just ask the same question infinite versions of you looking into the same storm and imagining that lightning is the doorway to another dimension and of those infinite versions of you that exist in the Multiverse there's at least one of them out there who wants to steal your [Music] pants the story of Peter Williamson is perfect for paranormal forums and YouTube channels a man vanishes during a lightning strike he

returns 3 days later with impossible evidence the story is often attributed to Jenny randles who mentions it in her 2002 book time storms no primary sources are cited but I found the primary sources Before Time storms the Peter Williamson story appeared in the book Supernatural vanishings by Rodney Davies that was 1996 he got the story from Colin Parson's book encounters with the unknown true accounts of modern paranormal experiences Parson said he interviewed Peter and Mary Williamson and the witnesses he said he Tracked Down the clothing company Parsons does a great job of mixing hard science

and quantum theory with the Peter Williamson disappearance it's the perfect mystery but is it true well despite the claim that there was national news coverage no newspapers from Somerset in 1974 mention his disappearance no police records no property records or censes show up Peter Williamson living in the area some YouTube videos and podcasts have added to the story like JB standing for John Blackwood who allegedly died in 1954 that's not mentioned in the original story I searched everywhere for more information about Colin Parsons all I could find is that he wrote 18 Crossroad puzzle books

no other investigative journalism if that's what you want to call call it his book like the others I mentioned rehashed the same urban legends over and over they just put their own spin on it ah wait isn't that what we do uhhuh shut up but here's where it gets interesting the physics behind the story is real the many worlds interpretation and the many interacting worlds concept are legitimate scientific theories they have math to support them there's no direct evidence to prove the Multiverse exists but it would explain things like Bell's theorem which shows entangled particles

influence each other other instantly no matter how far apart they are science can't explain that we know particles appear and disappear and reappear they have to go somewhere Google really did post about project Willow saying that and this is a quote it lends Credence to the notion that Quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes in line with the idea that we live in a Multiverse that statement got them a lot of attention it also drew a lot of criticism now I don't know if they're right but I don't know if anybody does rich Fineman famously

said I think I could safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics he said that in 1964 we're no closer to understanding how quantum mechanics works we just know that it does I think quantum mechanics could answer every question about the universe and our reality but it's possible even likely that we're not meant to understand it verer Heisenberg said the universe is not only stranger than we think it's Stranger than we can think in other words it's beyond our ability to comprehend now that might be frustrating to some people they want answers they want to know

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