A time slip is what is a term used to describe another kind of experience we know little about - a sighting not only of an anomalous figure or figures, but of their entire surrounding environment too. Although less common than ghost sightings, these experiences are not that rare.

The most famous 'time-slip' case concerns two women who, in 1901, visited the Petit Trianon gardens at the palace of Versailles and claimed to have encountered both an altered landscape and people in period dress.

George Russel, a friend of the poet W. B. Yeats, had a similar experience in the ruins of a chapel: around him, he suddenly saw the chapel in fine repair, with a small service taking place. And in 1988, there was a report froma woman holidaying in Burra, Australia, who returned from dinner to find the lights of her rented cottage on. She peered through the window, the room appeared quite different and a woman was clearly visable sitting on a couch, smiling and talking to someone out of sight. Once inside the cottage, however, everything was back to normal.

Are these experiences a more elaborate recording? A glimps into another time or dimension? Momentary transportation into the mind of someone present at the original scene perhaps? A hallucination or some other trick of the brain?

One interesting point raised by this catagory of experience, are referred to as 'Phantom Scenery' cases - where only buildings, trees and other presumably none-living structures are encountered, along with numerous reported cases of spectral trains, ships and cars, suggests there is undoubtedly something else going on.

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