Mystery at the Train Station
Reddit user Necrorider and their friend knew exactly how long it took for their train to take them to the station nearest to their home, or so they thought. But one day, they realized they had missed their stop by a couple of stations and have no explanation for the missing time.
“Where I live, there’s a train that goes from my school to my home. The distance between those stations is about 15 minutes. One day, my friend and I left school together and boarded the train. We were both getting off at the same stop. Let’s just say the station at the train is Station 1 and our home is Station 5. The distance between each station is about 3 minutes.
Anyway, we board at 3pm and chat. We’ve taken this train more than a hundred times before, meaning we know how long it takes, what our stops look like etc. Even the train announcer announces the station as well. We constantly look outside for scenery to tell us its our stop and check out watch and stations we’re at.
We continue chatting, and then, as usual, we get off the train. We exit, turn right to take the escalator down and… it’s not there. Confused, we give a quick look around and notice we’re not at station 5, we’re at station 8. No problem, we just sat past right? So we checked out watch. 3:15. Both him and I have never been able to deduce what happened.
The time needed to reach station 8 could not just take 3:15, it would at least be 3:25. The train itself is automated and so the distance and time needed never changes. We take the opposite train and discuss what just happened. We both saw that the last station the train announced was Station 4, as was the scenery we saw a million times over, passing by a school we always use as our landmark. Up to this day I can’t find a reasonable explanation of what happened. And still creeps me out to this day.”