Anomalous zone. United States

Date: May 2013 
Location: Exit Mile Marker 199 in Moriarty, New Mexico to Oklahoma City Mile Marker 143.
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Summary: Joe in Arizona called in to Darkness Radio to tell his story. “I’m a long haul truck driver. Let me preface my story by saying my truck has a GPS and a computer that monitors all my driving so that I always maintain legal. So I roll out one night at approximately 7 o’clock out of Moriarty, New Mexico headed eastbound. I gotta get to Springfield, Missouri. So I’m just driving along, putting along, next thing I know, I’m getting fuel in Oklahoma City and it’s about 5 o’clock in the morning. Now that drive usually takes, approximately 7 hours. I didn’t think nothing of it. I was just like I was driving at night, I was probably tired, you know. And I’m thinking about it and it doesn’t feel like I drove, it feels like I watched me drive. It was just a really weird experience and I just didn’t think nothing of it. I continued driving because I had a few hours left on my clock. I get a phone call from my boss at 8 AM that morning asking me what I did to my truck. Not understanding the question, I said, ‘What do you mean what I did to my truck?’ He goes, ‘Your truck went off GPS about 40 miles east of Moriarty, New Mexico and re-appeared on GPS at 5 AM in Oklahoma City.’ Now, he tells me, ‘You had to have done something to your truck. Did you pull a fuse to run illegal?’ I said, ‘No, I never ran illegal before in my life.’ Still not quite understanding what is going on, he sends me over to another one of my bosses who is in charge of being legal in the trucking industry and we’re talking and she looks it up in the computer and she goes, ‘Yeah, your log book’s wrong too. It says that you were shut down and didn’t drive for 4 hours during that 9 hour period.’ I’m like, ‘No, what could have done it because I don’t know what could have done it?’ She’s like, ‘Oh, this happens occasionally.’ I was like, ‘What do you mean occasionally?’ She said, ‘It usually happens to truck drivers two or three times a week, I see.’ So I said, ‘What can do this, I don’t want this to happen again?’ She said, ‘Computer systems – the computer company just calls it a glitch.’ I was like, ‘You know, I’ve seen glitches in the computer and it’s not glitching for 9 hours at at time.’ Usually computer glitches are 4 or 5 minutes. Under normal circumstances, I wouldn’t think of it but I’m looking back on my own attitude about it and it’s like, that’s really weird because, here’s me, I’m not, I just realized I’m in Oklahoma City… I shouldn’t be here. And as I try to recall it, again, it’s like I wasn’t actually there, it was like I watching it happen.” Host Dave Schrader asks if he just zoned out, which happens to people who drive the to the same places all the time. “Under normal circumstances I would say you’re absolutely right but it just happened to be at the exact same time that my computer glitches out. It shows that I drove around 500 miles and my GPS doesn’t match my log book and my log book shows that I stopped the truck for 4 hours. That’s another thing, I’m asking her… she says it happens 2 or 3 times a week. We have a fleet of 5000 trucks, 2 or 3 times a week, it could be just computer glitches. In all reality, it could just be computer glitches and we are just muscle memory it. But it just doesn’t feel right because I’ve muscle memoried it a lot and I can still recall where a tire was in the road at mile mark so and so and what road but with this, I can’t recall anything in detail. It seems like a fog.” Dave offers to pay for a hypnotic regression and Joe reluctantly agrees. Not sure if there was any follow up on a later episode. Transcribed by Jamie Brian
Source: Darkness Radio – August 4th 2015