Weird Man From Laboratory Waiting For His Father's Ship Just Disappeared
I rarely, if ever, post or comment on Reddit, but I’ve been reading r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix and similar subreddits for a while now because I vividly remember experiencing 3–4 strange “glitches” myself.
I’m really curious if anyone here has experienced anything similar, so I decided to post all of the glitches I remember.
Here is the oldest glitch I remember:
This happened around 2015–2016. I experienced this strange event with my best friend on an evening before school was unexpectedly canceled because of snow the next day.
We lived in a small city that basically had one main avenue you could call the town center. We were walking down that avenue toward our homes, which were next to each other. While walking, we were passing a plastic bottle cap back and forth between us. The streets were mostly empty except for a few shop workers smoking cigarettes outside their stores.
At some point, either I or my friend accidentally kicked the bottle cap across the avenue, and it rolled under a staircase. I’m not sure if it happened right at that moment or shortly after we gave up on the cap and kept walking, but then a strange-looking man in his late 40s or early 50s approached us and asked how to get to the main coach station.
We were already heading in that direction, and the highway leading to the station was close to our homes, so we told him he could walk with us and we would show him the way. At that time, the road was closed to traffic, and he didn’t seem like someone who would take a taxi or bus anyway.
As we walked, we started talking with him, and it became one of the weirdest conversations we’ve ever had. Since this was about 10 years ago, I can’t remember every detail, but I clearly remember two strange things he said.
One was a weirdly poetic sentence about roses. That was the moment we realized something was seriously off about him. We started wondering if he needed mental help, but at the same time we were scared because of how strange he acted. After a while, my friend and I silently nodded to each other, thinking we should politely get away from him.
One thing I can never forget is that he kept saying he was “waiting for the ship” — specifically, his father’s ship.
At one point, we asked where he was from, and he literally answered, “Laboratory.”
We said, “What do you mean? Where were you born?”
He replied again, “I am telling you — laboratory.”
When we reached the highway intersection, we told him to keep walking straight for about 5 kilometers and that the coach station would be on the right side. We said goodbye and left.
About 20–30 seconds later, we decided to look back to see if he was still walking there, but he had completely disappeared.
To this day, we still can’t explain what kind of person he was, where he was heading, or what he meant by “laboratory.”
Edit 1: He actually said "Laboratuvar" meaning "Laboratory" in Turkish. We were talking in Turkish.