Hey all, I have a burning question regarding a story I heard many moons ago from a friend. The story takes place early in the 1900’s. A man and woman are in front of their house when the man decides to cross the street. Since this was back in horse and buggy times, the man has to wait to cross. When he does, he literally disappears right in front of his wife’s eyes. She runs to where he was and she can hear him calling out for help but cannot find him. For days people searched for him and yet could’nt find him. I’m guessing the poor bastard fell into a well however he kept saying he was right there and not underground. Is this an urban legend? A plot from some old TV show? Anyone heard of this?
Thanks!
~E. 
Wow, thats amazing. Thanks for the link. Do you (or anyone else here) really think or believe that theres an alternate “reality” that co-exists on a different plane than ours? Perhaps some poor unfortunate soul that taps into this without knowledge of it could be trapped and starve to death. It might make for interesting Sci-fi…however one might say it could be possible.
The story of David Lang used to spook me out as well. I don’t know if I was disappointed or relieved when I found out that he never existed at all. From here:
“A Nashville librarian by the name of Hershel G. Payne spent many years attempting to validate the story. He could find no evidence whatsoever of a Lang family or an August Peck ever living in the area. He concluded that the tale was a journalistic hoax created by a traveling salesman named Joseph M. Mulholland. Mulholland was well known to have contributed many far-fetched stories to various papers under the pseudonym Orange Blossom. It is believed that Mulholland based his story on a science fiction story titled “The Difficulty of Crossing a Field,” by Ambrose Bierce. The story told by Ambrose Bierce was complete fiction also.”
Sounds like that one Twilight Zone episode, and later a Simpsons Tree House of Horror episode, where a character falls into an alternative universe through a rip in the fabric of time and space in their home.
“Oh, there’s so much I don’t know about astrophysics. I wish I’d read that book by that wheelchair guy.”
Or by Beam Piper. He actually wrote a ‘man hits alternate universe’ story about Benjamin Bathurst called ‘He walked around the horses’.
I first read of this exact and many other stories (spontaneous combustion, etc.) in a book by Frank Edwards called Stranger Than Science.
I had a paperback of it that my father got, probably sometime in the 1950’s.